Description
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This important book includes a number of contributions by big names in media including Raymond Snoddy, John Carey and Malcolm Gluck
Includes major academic names, especially Jean Aitchison and Deborah Cameron. Aitchison is well known for her accessible writing
Explores a wide range of issues, including the globalization of communication, the dominance of English on the internet, and and language in the wake of September 11
Language and the media is a popular area for students
This will be used by students on a number of modules within linguistics media and communication studies
Table of Contents
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
