Language in the Media Representations, Identities, Ideologies

by Johnson, Sally; Ensslin, Astrid

• ISBN13: 9780826495495
• ISBN10: 0826495494
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-19
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

This book examines the ways in which the media represents language-related issues, but also how the media's use of language is central to the construction of what people think language is, could or ought to be like. The chapters examine issues of identity, gender, youth, citizenship, politics and ideology across a range of media, including television, radio, newspapers, magazines and the internet. The result is a multilingual survey of the construction of language in and by the media that will be essential reading for students and researchers of sociolinguistics or language and communication. >

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Notes on contributors	p. viii
Introduction
Language in the media: theory and practice	p. 3
Metaphors and Meanings
Metaphors for speaking and writing in the British press	p. 25
Journalistic constructions of Blair's 'apology' for the intelligence leading to the Iraq war	p. 48
Crises of meaning: personalist language ideology in US media discourse	p. 70
National Identities, Citizenship and Globalization
The iconography of orthography: representing German spelling reform in the news magazine Der Spiegel	p. 91
A language ideology in print: the case of Sweden	p. 111
Global challenges to nationalist ideologies: language and education in the Luxembourg press	p. 130
Contact and Codeswitching in Multilingual Mediascapes
Corsican on the airwaves: media discourse in a context of minority language shift	p. 149
'When Hector met Tom Cruise': attitudes to Irish in a radio satire	p. 173
Dealing with linguistic difference in encounters with Others on British television	p. 188
Youth, Gender and Cyber-Identities
Fabricating youth: new-media discourse and the technologization of young people	p. 213
Dreaming of Genie: language, gender difference and identity on the web	p. 234
Of chords, machines and bumble-bees: the metalinguistics of hyperpoetry	p. 250
Commentary
Language in the media: authenticity and othering	p. 271
References	p. 281
Index	p. 304
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