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New media language / edited by Jean Aitchison and Diana M. Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--Terminology.
- Mass media.
- Mass media--Semiotics.
- Language and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Modern media discourse; Poles apart: globalization and the development of news discourse across the twentieth century; Modern media myths; Globalizing 'communication'; The new incivility: threat or promise?; Parochializing the global: language and the British tabloid press; Modes of the media; Reportage, literature and willed credulity; Speaking to Middle England: Radio Four and its listeners; Literacy and the new media: vita brevis, lingua brevis
- Why email looks like speech: proofreading, pedagogy and public faceOnline news: a new genre?; Representations and models; Wine language: useful idiom or idiot-speak?; Rhetoric, bluster and on-line gaffes: the tough life of a spin-doctor; Politics is marriage and show business: a view from recent Taiwanese political discourse; Emotional DIY and proper parenting in Kilroy; Language and American 'good taste': Martha Stewart as mass-media role model; The effect of the media o
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-45685-9
- 1-134-45686-7
- 0-203-69799-5
- 1-280-07280-6
- 0-203-69696-4
- 9780203696965
- OCLC:
- 122929480
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