Contemporary media stylistics / edited by Helen Ringrow and Stephen Pihlaja.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ringrow, Helen, editor.

Pihlaja, Stephen, editor.

Series:

Contemporary studies in linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and language.

Discourse analysis.

Mass media--Language.

Mass media.

Language and languages--Style.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

xi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

Media discourse is changing at an unprecedented rate. This book presents the most recent stylistic frameworks exploring different and changed forms of media. The volume collates recent and emerging research in the expanding field of media stylistics, featuring a variety of methods, multimodal source material, and a broad range of topics. From Twitter and Zooniverse to Twilight and Mommy Blogs, the volume maps out new intellectual territory and showcases a huge scope, neatly drawn together by leading scholars Helen Ringrow and Stephen Pihlaja. Contributors write on topics that challenge the traditional notions and conceptualisations of "media" and the consequences of technological affordances for the development of media production and consumption. There is a particular focus on the ways in which contemporary media contexts complicate and challenge traditional media models, and offer new and unique ways of approaching discourse in these contexts.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Stephen Pihlaja

2. `Beautiful masterpieces': Metaphors of the female body in modest fashion blogs / Helen Ringrow

3. Wolfing down the Twilight series: Metaphors for reading in online reviews / Chloe Harrison

4. The language of citizen science: Short strings and `we' as a group marker / Glenn Hadikin

5. The pragma-srylistics of `image macro' internet memes / Jane Lugea

6. The stylistics of emoji: An interactional approach / Michael C. Ewing

7. Rape victims and the law: Victim blaming and victimization in reports of rape in the British press / Alessia Tranchese

8. Changing media representation of Gina-Lisa Lohfink as the icon of the `Nein heißt nein' (no means no) movement in Germany / Ulrike Tabbert

9. Child victims of human trafficking and modern slavery in British newspapers / Use A. Ras

10. Reader comments and right-wing discourse in traditional news media websites / Tayyiba Bruce

11. Straight-talking honest politics: Rhetorical style and ethos in the mediated politics of metamodernity / Sam Browse

12. The aura of facticity: The ideological power of hidden voices in news reports / Matt Davies

13. The style of online preachers / Stephen Pihlaja

14. Conclusion: Contemporary media stylistics

The old, the remediated and the new / Caroline Tagg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Ebook version :

ISBN:

1350064084

9781350064089

OCLC:

1090830336