Style, mediation, and change : sociolinguistic perspectives on talking media / edited by Janus Mortensen, Nikolas Coupland and Jacob Thøgersen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mortensen, Janus, editor.

Coupland, Nikolas, 1950- editor.

Thøgersen, Jacob, editor.

Series:

Oxford studies in sociolinguistics

Oxfrod studies in sociolinguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis--Social aspects.

Discourse analysis.

Radio broadcasting--Social aspects.

Radio broadcasting.

Television broadcasting--Social aspects.

Television broadcasting.

Mass media and language.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

ix, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Technologically mediated talk is organized around familiar styles-styles of person, relationship, and genre. But media also consistently remake and re-style these familiar patterns. This book brings together original research on media styling in different national contexts and languages, written by authors at the forefront of sociolinguistic research on mediated talk. It highlights and theorizes how creative acts of mediated styling can promote social and sociolinguistic change. The globalized world is already massively mediatized-what we know about language, people, and society is necessarily shaped through our engagement with media. But talking media are caught up in wider currents of rapid change, too. Creative innovations in media styling can heighten reflexive awareness, but they can also unsettle existing understandings of language-society relations. In reporting new investigations by expert researchers, this book gives an original and timely account of how style, media, and change need to be integrated further to advance the discipline of sociolinguistics. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Conceptualizing style, mediation, and change / Janus Mortensen Mortensen, Janus, Nikolas Coupland Coupland, Nikolas, Jacob Thøgersen Thøgersen, Jacob 1

Part I Sociopolitical Change and the Emergence of New Styles and Genres

2 Style, sociolinguistic change, and political broadcasting: The case of the Spanish news show Salvados / Nuria Lorenzo-Dus Lorenzo-Dus, Nuria 27

3 Radio talk, pranks, and multilingualism: Styling Greek identities at a time of crisis / Tereza Spilioti Spilioti, Tereza 51

4 Styling syncretic bilingualism on Welsh-language TV: Madamrygbi / Nikolas Coupland Coupland, Nikolas 77

Part II The Business of Style: The Style of Business

5 Brand styling, enregisterment, and change: The case of C'est Cidre / Helen Kelly-Holmes Kelly-Holmes, Helen 101

6 (Re)circulating popular television: Audience engagement and corporate practices / Monika Bednarek Bednarek, Monika 115

Part III The Art of Mediated Style: Blurring the Boundaries between 'Ordinary' and 'Elite'

7 Styling the 'ordinary': Tele-factual genres and participant identities / Joanna Thornborrow Thornborrow, Joanna 143

8 Art on television: Television as art / Adam Jaworski Jaworski, Adam 165

Part IV Styles of Technologically Mediated Talk: What's New Anyway?

9 Talking for fun and talking in earnest: Two styles of mediated broadcast talk / Martin Montgomery Montgomery, Martin 199

10 The meaning of manner: Change and continuity in the vocal style of news reading and information announcements / Theo Van Leeuwen Leeuwen, Theo Van 223

Part V Postscripts and Prospects

11 Style, change, and media: A postscript / Jannis Androutsopoulos Androutsopoulos, Jannis 239

12 Style as a unifying perspective for the sociolinguistics of talking media / Nikolas Coupland Coupland, Nikolas, Janus Mortensen Mortensen, Janus 251.

Notes:

"The present book is one of two edited collections to appear from a Round Table held at the University of Copenhagen in June 2014 on Sociolinguistics and the Talking Media: Style, Mediation and Change."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0190629495

9780190629496

OCLC:

953222521