New Media Language

by Aitchison, Jean; Lewis, Diana M.

• ISBN13: 9780203696965
• ISBN10: 0203696964
• Copyright: 2003-05-22
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

"New Media Language" brings leading media figures and scholars together to debate the shifting relations between today's media and contemporary language. From newspapers and television to email, the internet and text messaging, there are ever increasing media conduits for the news. This book investigates how developments in world media have affected, and been affected by, language. Exploring a wide range of topics, from the globalization of communication to the vocabulary of terrorism and the language used in the wake of September 11, "New" "Media Language" looks at the important and wide-ranging implications of these changes. From Malcolm Gluck on wine writing to Naomi Baron on email, the authors provide authoritative and engaging insights into the ways in which language is changing, and in turn, changes us. With a foreword by Simon Jenkins, "New Media Language" is essential reading for anyone with an interest in today's complex and expanding media.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Modern media discourse

Poles apart: globalisation and the development of news discourse across the 20th century

Modern media myths

Globalizing 'communication'

The new incivility: threat or promise?

Parochialising the Global: language in the British Tabloid Press

Modes of the media

Reporting, reportage and literature

Speaking to Middle England: Radio Four and its listeners

Literacy and the new media: vita brevis, lingua brevis

Why email looks like speech: proofreading, pedagogy, and public face

Online news: a new genre?

Representation and models

Writing wine columns

Rhetoric, bluster and on_line gaffes: The tough life of a White House 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

Economy vs. explicitness: the evolution of increasingly dense nominal styles in newspaper language

Newspapers and neologisms

Reliable authority Tabloids, film, e-mail, and speech as sources for dictionaries

From Armageddon to War: the vocabulary of terrorism

Index

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