Thematising multilingualism in the media / edited by Helen Kelly-Holmes, Tommaso M. Milani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kelly-Holmes, Helen, 1968-

Milani, Tommaso M.

Series:

Benjamins current topics ; v. 49.

Benjamins Current Topics ; v. 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism--Social aspects.

Multilingualism.

Mass media and language.

Discourse analysis--Social aspects.

Discourse analysis.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This chapter takes as a point of departure the website of the "Voices" project, a large media enterprise on languages in the UK conducted by the BBC in 2003-2005. With the help of the notions of language ideology and the analytical tools of multimodal critical discourse analysis, the paper shows how representations of languages on the website are a discursive terrain on which negotiations of national identities are played out. Essentially, the argument is that there is a constant tension between centripetal (unifying) and centrifugal (particularising) forces which strive for the

Contents:

Thematising Multilingualism in the Media

Editorial page

Title page

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Table of contents

Thematising multilingualism in the media

1. Introduction

2. What does it mean to talk about multilingualism?

3. What does it mean to talk about thematising?

4. The current volume

Acknowledgements

References

Media representations of multilingual Luxembourg

2. Multilingual Luxembourg in late modernity

3. The print media as a language policy mechanism

4. Thematizing multilingualism: Language as resource, problem, right, and duty

4.1 Individual multilingualism as capital, societal multilingualism as Babel?

4.2 Linguistic rights, duties and territoriality

5. Conclusion: Language politics and media representations of multilingualism

Notes

Sex, lies and thematising Irish

2. Brief overview of sociolinguistic and language-ideological situation in Ireland

3. The Leaders Debate as Gaeilge on TG4

4. The forum: Boards.ie and the thread: "Three way Leaders Debate as Gaeilge"

5. The "truth" discourse

6. "Them" and "us" - othering "speakers of choice"

7. "Sexy Irish" - bilingualism as added value

8. Constraining and enabling effects of the forum on the discussion

9. Discussion - the old and the new?

"What an un-wiki way of doing things"

2. Web 2.0 and the Globalisation Controversy

3. Wikipedia and its sociolinguistic and discourse analytical significance

4. Wikipedia's multilingual ideology: Metalinguistic practice and implicit metapragmatics

4.1 Explicit metalinguistic practice

4.2 Implicit metapragmatics

5. Concluding remarks

Sociolinguistic diversity in mainstream media

1. Introduction.

2. Mediation, mediatization, authenticity and authority

3. Media realisms vs. media verisimilitudes

3.1 Definitions of verisimilitude

4. Five scenes from a documentary

4.1 Chicano English speakers and a sociolinguist

4.2 The Spanglish entertainer

4.3 Teenage slang speakers

4.4 Surferdude

5. Conclusions

Unity in disunity

2. The BBC Voices project: Contextual background

3. Nation-state and language ideology: A critical multimodal approach

4. Multilingual nation: The view from the BBC

5. The "perspective of bilingual Britain": The case of the discussion board on Welsh

Concluding remarks

References.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027271907

9027271909

OCLC:

838201958