Language Ideologies and Media Discourse Texts, Practices, Politics

by Johnson, Sally; Milani, Tommaso M.

• ISBN13: 9781441129673
• ISBN10: 1441129677
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-24
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

An exploration of the relationship between language ideologies and media discourse, together with the methods and techniques required for the analysis of this relationship.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Tommaso M. Milani & Sally Johnson (University of Leeds, UK)Part I: Standards and Standarisation in National and Global Contexts2. Metalinguistic discourse in and about the media: some recent trends in Greek and German prescriptivismSpiros Moschonas (University of Athens, Greece) & Jürgen Spitzmüller (University of Zurich, Switzerland)3. Globalising standard Spanish: the promotion of ‘panhispanism' in the Spanish press, Darren Paffey (University of Southampton, UK)4. Language games on Korean television: between globalization, nationalism and authority, Joseph Sung-Yul Park (National University of Singapore, Singapore)Part II: Planning and Policy in Media Programming5. Planeta Brasil: language practices and the construction of space in Brazilian TV abroad, Iris Bachmann (University of Manchester, UK)6. Sociolinguistic practices, media politics and Greek Cypriot TV series: reproducing language ideologies, Vasiliki Georgiou (University of Southampton, UK)7. Language ideologies and state imperatives: the strategic use of Singlish in public media discourse, Michelle M. Lazar (National University of Singapore, Singapore)Part III. Media, Ethnicity and the Racialisation of Language8. Lost in translation? Racialisation of a debate about language in a BBC news item, Adrian Blackledge (University of Birmingham, UK)9. Metadiscourses of race in the news: the Celebrity Big Brother row, Bethan Davies (University of Leeds, UK)10. Ideologising ethnolectal German, Jannis Androutsopoulos (King's College London, UK)Part IV: Language Ideologies in New-Media Commentary11. ‘Black and white': language ideologies in computer game discourse, Astrid Ensslin (University of Bangor, Wales)12. Whose voices? A hypermodal approach to language ideological debates on the BBC ‘Voices' website, Sally Johnson, Tommaso M. Milani & Clive Upton (all University of Leeds, UK)13. ‘It's not a telescope, it's a telephone': encounters with the telephone on early commercial sound recordings, Richard Bauman (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)Commentary14. Monica Heller (University of Toronto, Canada)IndexBibliography