ISBN:
0203696964
,
0415283035
,
0415283043
,
9780203696965
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 209 p)
Edition:
1. publ.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version New Media Language
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Mass media Terminology
;
Language and culture
;
Mass media Semiotics
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Massenmedien
;
Sprache
;
Geschichte 1980-2002
;
Englisch
;
Massenmedien
;
Sprache
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Modern media discourse; Poles apart: globalization and the development of news discourse across the twentieth century; Modern media myths; Globalizing 'communication'; The new incivility: threat or promise?; Parochializing the global: language and the British tabloid press; Modes of the media; Reportage, literature and willed credulity; Speaking to Middle England: Radio Four and its listeners; Literacy and the new media: vita brevis, lingua brevis
Description / Table of Contents:
Why email looks like speech: proofreading, pedagogy and public faceOnline news: a new genre?; Representations and models; Wine language: useful idiom or idiot-speak?; Rhetoric, bluster and on-line gaffes: the tough life of a spin-doctor; Politics is marriage and show business: a view from recent Taiwanese political discourse; Emotional DIY and proper parenting in Kilroy; Language and American 'good taste': Martha Stewart as mass-media role model; The effect of the media on language; Noun phrases in media texts: a quantificational approach
Description / Table of Contents:
Compressed noun-phrase structures in newspaper discourse: the competing demands of popularization vs. economyNewspapers and neologisms; Reliable authority: tabloids, film, email and speech as sources for dictionaries; From Armageddon to war: the vocabulary of terrorism; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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