Language and Media: A Resource Book for Students

by Durant,Alan

• ISBN13: 9780415475747
• ISBN10: 0415475740
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2013-12-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.

Author Biography

Alan Durant is Professor of Communication at Middlesex University Business School, London, UK. Marina Lambrou is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Communication at Kingston University, London, UK.

Table of Contents

Contents cross-referenced	p. x
List of figures	p. xiii
List of tables	p. xiv
List of transcriptions	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xvi
Introduction: key concepts in language and media	p. 1
Media as language use	p. 2
Register and style	p. 7
Mediated communication	p. 13
Media discourse genres	p. 20
Media rhetorics	p. 26
Media storytelling	p. 34
Words and images	p. 40
Boundaries of media discourse	p. 43
The future of media language	p. 48
Development: studies in media language	p. 55
Speech, writing and media	p. 56
Different styles of media language	p. 60
Mediated participation	p. 68
Schema and genre theory	p. 77
Persuasion and power	p. 84
Telling stories	p. 97
Anchoring visual meanings	p. 102
Coarseness and incivility in broadcast talk	p. 109
Looking into the future	p. 117
Exploration: analysing media language	p. 123
Messages and media	p. 124
The case of the blog	p. 130
Listening to pop lyrics	p. 136
Comparing kinds of studio talk	p. 143
Purposes of persuasion	p. 148
Media fiction and fact	p. 159
Soundtrack and multimodal discourse	p. 163
Media language and acceptability	p. 170
Media change in the future	p. 180
Extension: language and media readings	p. 187
The meanings of 'media1'	p. 189
Varieties of media language	p. 194
Media and modernity	p. 197
Broadcast talk	p. 200
News and advertising angles	p. 206
Narrative strategies	p. 217
Windows on the world	p. 222
Media trouble	p. 230
Media language and social change	p. 233
Key dates in the history of media	p. 238
Further reading	p. 249
References	p. 252
Index	p. 261
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