ABSTRACT

Worlds in Common? examines the newly emerging forms of language used in satellite television programmes, exploring a wide range of genres including twenty-four hour news broadcasting, culture channels, talk shows, local TV and European news.
Focusing on the experiences of British and German viewers, the authors discuss these new forms of communication brought about by the technological and economic upheavals in Europe in the late 1990s.
This interaction between media theories and media discourses, makes the book highly relevant for researchers in media and cultural studies as well as linguistics, and provides an important and innovatory link between these different approaches.

chapter |21 pages

Introduction

part |42 pages

The semiotics of time in the third age of broadcasting

chapter |11 pages

Timeliness

Textual form and the beef crisis story

part |51 pages

The semiotics of space in the third age of broadcasting

chapter |18 pages

Constructing Europe

chapter |15 pages

Narrowcasting

part |51 pages

Trash and quality