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Language in the media : representations, identities, ideologies /

This book examines the ways in which the media represents language-related issues, but also how the media's use of language is central to the construction of what people think language is, could or ought to be like. The chapters examine issues of identity, gender, youth, citizenship, politics a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Johnson, Sally A., Ensslin, Astrid
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2007.
Colección:Advances in sociolinguistics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Language in the media : theory and practice / Sally Johnson, Astrid Ensslin
  • Part I. Metaphors and meanings
  • Metaphors for speaking and writing in the British press / John Heywood, Elena Semino
  • Journalistic constructions of Blair's 'apology' for the intelligence leading to the Iraq war / Lesley Jeffries
  • Crises of meaning : personalist language ideology in US media discourse / Jane H. Hill
  • Part II. National identities, citizenship and globalization
  • The iconography of orthography : representing German spelling reform in the news magazine Der Spiegel / Sally Johnson
  • A language ideology in print : the case of Sweden / Tommaso M. Milani
  • Global challenges to nationalist ideologies : language and education in the Luxembourg press / Kristine Horner
  • Part III. Contact and codeswitching in multilingual mediascapes
  • Corsican on the airwaves : media discourse in a context of minority language shift / Alexandra Jaffe
  • 'When Hector met Tom Cruise' : attitudes to Irish in a radio satire / Helen Kelly-Holmes, David Atkinson
  • Dealing with linguistic difference in encounters with others on British television / Simon Gieve, Julie Norton
  • Part IV. Youth, gender and cyber-identities
  • Fabricating youth : new-media discourse and the technologization of young people / Crispin Thurlow
  • Dreaming of Genie : language, gender difference and identity on the web / Deborah Cameron
  • Of chords, machines and bumble-bees : the metalinguistics of hyperpoetry / Astrid Ensslin
  • Language in the media : authenticity and othering / Adam Jaworski.