Investigating how changes to the world's media have affected, and been affected by, language this book explores a wide range of topics looking at the important and wide-ranging implications of these changes on the world - and our world-view.
Investigating how changes to the world's media have affected, and been affected by, language this book explores a wide range of topics looking at the important and wide-ranging implications of these changes on the world - and our world-view.
List of contributors Foreword by Simon Jenkins Acknowledgements Introduction Jean Aitchison and Diana Lewis I. Modern media discourse 1. Poles apart: globalisation and the development of news discourse across the 20th century Allan Bell 2. Modern media myths Raymond Snoddy 3.Globalizing 'communication' Deborah Cameron 4.The new incivility: threat or promise? Robin Lakoff 5. Parochialising the Global: language in the British Tabloid Press Martin Conboy; II. Modes of the media 6. Reporting reportage and literature John Carey 7. Speaking to Middle England: Radio Four and its listeners David Hendy 8. Literacy and the new media: vita brevis lingua brevis Angela Kesseler and Alexander Bergs 9. Why email looks like speech: proofreading pedagogy and public face Naomi Baron 10. Online news: a new genre? Diana Lewis; III. Representation and models 11. Writing wine columns Malcolm Gluck 12. Rhetoric bluster and on_line gaffes: The tough life of a White House spin_doctor Alan Partington 13. Politics is Marriage and Show Business: A View From Recent Taiwanese Political Discourse Jennifer Wei 14. 'Emotional DIY' and Proper Parenting in Kilroy Nuria Lorenzo-Dus 15. Language and American 'good taste': Martha Stewart as mass media role model Catherine Evans Davie; IV. The effect of the media on language 16. Noun phrases in media texts: a quantificational approach Yibin Ni 17. Economy vs. explicitness: the evolution of increasingly dense nominal styles in newspaper language Douglas Biber 18. Newspapers and neologisms John Ayto 19. Reliable authority. Tabloids film e-mail and speech as sources for dictionaries John Simpson 20. From Armageddon to War: the vocabulary of terrorism Jean Aitchison Index
List of contributors Foreword by Simon Jenkins Acknowledgements Introduction Jean Aitchison and Diana Lewis I. Modern media discourse 1. Poles apart: globalisation and the development of news discourse across the 20th century Allan Bell 2. Modern media myths Raymond Snoddy 3.Globalizing 'communication' Deborah Cameron 4.The new incivility: threat or promise? Robin Lakoff 5. Parochialising the Global: language in the British Tabloid Press Martin Conboy; II. Modes of the media 6. Reporting reportage and literature John Carey 7. Speaking to Middle England: Radio Four and its listeners David Hendy 8. Literacy and the new media: vita brevis lingua brevis Angela Kesseler and Alexander Bergs 9. Why email looks like speech: proofreading pedagogy and public face Naomi Baron 10. Online news: a new genre? Diana Lewis; III. Representation and models 11. Writing wine columns Malcolm Gluck 12. Rhetoric bluster and on_line gaffes: The tough life of a White House spin_doctor Alan Partington 13. Politics is Marriage and Show Business: A View From Recent Taiwanese Political Discourse Jennifer Wei 14. 'Emotional DIY' and Proper Parenting in Kilroy Nuria Lorenzo-Dus 15. Language and American 'good taste': Martha Stewart as mass media role model Catherine Evans Davie; IV. The effect of the media on language 16. Noun phrases in media texts: a quantificational approach Yibin Ni 17. Economy vs. explicitness: the evolution of increasingly dense nominal styles in newspaper language Douglas Biber 18. Newspapers and neologisms John Ayto 19. Reliable authority. Tabloids film e-mail and speech as sources for dictionaries John Simpson 20. From Armageddon to War: the vocabulary of terrorism Jean Aitchison Index
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