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Thematising multilingualism in the media /

This chapter takes as a point of departure the website of the "Voices" project, a large media enterprise on languages in the UK conducted by the BBC in 2003-2005. With the help of the notions of language ideology and the analytical tools of multimodal critical discourse analysis, the paper...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kelly-Holmes, Helen, 1968- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.
Colección:Benjamins current topics ; v. 49.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Thematising Multilingualism in the Media; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents; Thematising multilingualism in the media; 1. Introduction; 2. What does it mean to talk about multilingualism?; 3. What does it mean to talk about thematising?; 4. The current volume; Acknowledgements; References; Media representations of multilingual Luxembourg; 1. Introduction; 2. Multilingual Luxembourg in late modernity; 3. The print media as a language policy mechanism; 4. Thematizing multilingualism: Language as resource, problem, right, and duty.
  • 4.1 Individual multilingualism as capital, societal multilingualism as Babel?4.2 Linguistic rights, duties and territoriality; 5. Conclusion: Language politics and media representations of multilingualism; Notes; References; Sex, lies and thematising Irish; 1. Introduction; 2. Brief overview of sociolinguistic and language-ideological situation in Ireland; 3. The Leaders Debate as Gaeilge on TG4; 4. The forum: Boards.ie and the thread: "Three way Leaders Debate as Gaeilge"; 5. The "truth" discourse; 6. "Them" and "us"
  • othering "speakers of choice."
  • 7. "Sexy Irish"
  • bilingualism as added value8. Constraining and enabling effects of the forum on the discussion; 9. Discussion
  • the old and the new?; Acknowledgements; References; "What an un-wiki way of doing things"; 1. Introduction; 2. Web 2.0 and the Globalisation Controversy; 3. Wikipedia and its sociolinguistic and discourse analytical significance; 4. Wikipedia's multilingual ideology: Metalinguistic practice and implicit metapragmatics; 4.1 Explicit metalinguistic practice; 4.2 Implicit metapragmatics; 5. Concluding remarks; Notes; References.
  • Sociolinguistic diversity in mainstream media1. Introduction; 2. Mediation, mediatization, authenticity and authority; 3. Media realisms vs. media verisimilitudes; 3.1 Definitions of verisimilitude; 4. Five scenes from a documentary; 4.1 Chicano English speakers and a sociolinguist; 4.2 The Spanglish entertainer; 4.3 Teenage slang speakers; 4.4 Surferdude; 5. Conclusions; References; Unity in disunity; 1. Introduction; 2. The BBC Voices project: Contextual background; 3. Nation-state and language ideology: A critical multimodal approach; 4. Multilingual nation: The view from the BBC.
  • 5. The "perspective of bilingual Britain": The case of the discussion board on WelshConcluding remarks; Acknowledgements; Notes; References.