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New media language /

Investigating how changes to the world's media have affected, and been affected by, language this book explores a wide range of topics looking at the important and wide-ranging implications of these changes on the world - and our world-view.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Aitchison, Jean, 1938-, Lewis, Diana M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, 2003.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Modern media discourse. Poles apart: globalization and the development of news discourse across the twentieth century / Allan Bell
  • Modern media myths / Raymond Snoddy
  • Globalizing 'communication' / Deborah Cameron
  • The new incivility: threat or promise? / Robin Tolmach Lakoff
  • Parochializing the global: language in the British tabloid press / Martin Conboy
  • pt. 2. Modes of the media. Reportage, literature and willed credulity / John Carey
  • Speaking to Middle England: Radio Four and its listeners / David Hendy
  • Literacy and the new media: vita brevis, lingua brevis / Angela Kesseler and Alexander Bergs
  • Why email looks like speech: proofreading, pedagogy, and public face / Naomi S. Baron
  • Online news: a new genre? / Diana M. Lewis
  • pt. 3. Representations and models. Wine language: useful idiom or idiot-speak? / Malcolm Gluck
  • Rhetoric, bluster and on-line gaffes: the tough life of a spin-doctor / Alan Partington
  • Politics is marriage and show business: a view from recent Taiwanese political discourse / Jennifer M. Wei
  • Emotional DIY and proper parenting in Kilroy / Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
  • Language and American 'good taste': Martha Stewart as mass-media role model / Catherine Evans Davies
  • pt. 4. The effect of the media on language. Noun phrases in media texts: a quantificational approach / Yibin Ni
  • Compressed noun-phrase structures in newspaper discourse: the competing demands of popularization vs. economy / Douglas Biber
  • Newspapers and neologisms / John Ayto
  • Reliable authority: tabloids, film, email and speech as sources for dictionaries / John Simpson
  • From Armageddon to war: the vocabulary of terrorism / Jean Aitchison.