Language Ideologies and Media Discourse Texts, Practices, Politics

by Johnson, Sally; Milani, Tommaso M.

• ISBN13: 9781441155863
• ISBN10: 1441155864
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-24
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This book considers how, in an era of global communication technologies, the media - by which we understand the press, radio, television, cinema, the internet and multimodal gaming - help to disseminate preferred uses of, and ideas about, language.

Author Biography

Sally Johnson is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Leeds, UK. Tommaso M. Milani is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction
Critical intersections: language ideologies and media discourse	p. 3
Standards and Standardization in National and Global Contexts
Prescriptivism in and about the media: a comparative analysis of corrective practices in Greece and Germany	p. 17
Globalizing standard Spanish: the promotion of 'panhispanism' by Spain's language guardians	p. 41
Language games on Korean television: between globalization, nationalism and authority	p. 61
Planning and Policy in Media Programming
Planeta Brasil: language practices and the construction of space on Brazilian TV abroad	p. 81
Circularity in the reproduction of language ideology: the case of Greek Cypriot TV series	p. 101
Language ideologies and state imperatives: the strategic use of Singlish in public media discourse	p. 121
Media, Ethnicity and the Racialization of Language
Lost in translation? Racialization of a debate about language in a BBC news item	p. 143
Metadiscourses of race in the news: the Celebrity Big Brother row	p. 162
Ideologizing ethnolectal German	p. 182
Language Ideologies and New-Media Technologies
'Black and white': language ideologies in computer game discourse	p. 205
Language ideological debates on the BBC 'Voices' website: hypermodality in theory and practice	p. 223
'It's not a telescope, it's a telephone': encounters with the telephone on early commercial sound recordings	p. 252
Epilogue
Media, the state and linguistic authority	p. 277
Index	p. 283
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