Robin Queen

Vox Popular

The Surprising Life of Language in the Media

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Our favorite movies and TV shows feature indelible characters who tell us about themselves not just in what they say but in how they say it. The creative decisions behind these voices-such as what accent or dialect to use-offer rich data for sociolinguistic study. Ideal for students of language variation as well as general readers interested in media, Vox Popular is an engaging tour through the major issues of sociolinguistic study as heard in the voices from mass media.

- Provides readers with a unified and accessible picture of the interrelationships between language variation and the mass media

- Presents detailed original analyses of multiple audiovisual media sources

- Includes a broad methods chapter covering quantitative and qualitative methods in a style not available in any other textbook

- All theoretical terms are accessibly explained, with engaging examples, making it suitable for non-academics as well as undergraduate students

- Incorporates pedagogical textboxes throughout and includes sections dedicated to developing practical skills for the field

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780470659915
• ISBN-10: 0470659912
• Artikelnr.: 41522034

Autorenporträt

Robin Queen is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Linguistics, English Languages and Literatures, and Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. In addition to her research on language variation in the mass media, Queen has extensively researched language, gender, and sexuality; intonation and prosody; and contact-related language change. She is the co-author of Through the Golden Door: Educational Approaches for Immigrant Adolescents with Limited Schooling (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments vii A Note on the Linguistic Conventions Used
in Vox Popular x Keywords Found in Each Chapter xiv 1 Language in a
Mediated World 1 Mad Men in a Modern Family World 1 Why Does a Linguist
Care about Mad Men or Modern Family? 3 Narrative Media as a Site for
Linguistic Exploration 12 Language Variation in the Narrative Media 20 2
Exploring Language and Language Variation 25 Introduction 25 Languages and
Dialects 27 The Components of a Grammar 32 All the Systems Work as a System
34 Systems of Variation 40 Language Change 47 3 Studying Language Variation
in the Media 55 Introduction 55 Formulating a Research Question 56 Turning
Narrative Media into Data 57 Analytic Orientation 58 Transcribing Your Data
61 Coding Your Data 66 Constructing a Corpus 69 Quantitative Methods 70
Qualitative Methods 75 Triangulating Your Evidence with Different Analytic
Approaches 82 4 Dimensions of Variation 85 Introduction 85
Non-Linguistic/Linguistic 90 Spoken/Written 93 Non-Standard/Standard 97
Informal/Formal 101 Unplanned/Planned 104 Local/Global 107 Private/Public
110 Putting It All Together 114 5 Making Language Variation Meaningful 119
Introduction 119 Meaning 120 Indexical Meaning 124 Ideology 130 Ideology
about Language 133 Ideology, Indexicality, and Power 138 6 Language
Variation and Characterization 154 Introduction 154 Characterization and
Language 156 Realness and Authenticity 160 Identity and Identification 163
Relational Identity 164 Norms and Types 168 Social Personae 172 Indexical
Authenticity 176 7 Language as Narrative Action 183 Introduction 183
Performance and Speech Acts 185 Language as a Plot Device 193 Switching as
Action 196 Taboo Language as Action 205 8 Connecting to the Audience 221
Introduction 221 Audiences 222 Audience Design 226 Setting Expectations for
Viewers 230 Enregisterment 236 Stylization 242 Interacting with Audiovisual
Media 246 The End 253 Index 258