Message and medium : English language practices across old and new media / edited by Caroline Tagg, Mel Evans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tagg, Caroline, editor.

Evans, Mel, editor.

Series:

Topics in English linguistics ; Volume 105.

Topics in English linguistics ; Volume 105

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--History.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIII, 385 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Studies of digital communication technologies often focus on the apparently unique set of multimodal resources afforded to users and the development of innovative linguistic strategies for performing mediatised identities and maintaining online social networks.This edited volume interrogates the novelty of such practices by establishing a transhistorical approach to the study of digital communication. The transhistorical approach explores language practices as lived experiences grounded in historical contexts, and aims to identify those elements of human behaviour that transcend historical boundaries, looking beyond specific developments in communication technologies to understand the enduring motivations and social concerns that drive human communication.The volume reveals long-term patterns in the indexical functions of seemingly innovative written and multimodal resources and the ideologies that underpin them, and shows that methods are not necessarily contingent on their datasets: historical analytic frameworks can be applied to digital data and newer approaches used to understand historical data. These insights present exciting opportunities for English language researchers, both historical and modern.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of contributors

Introducing transhistorical approaches to digital language practices

Introduction to rethinking perspectives

1 The rise of the Pragmatic Web: Implications for rethinking meaning and interaction

2 Interpreting “historicisation” in the digital context: On the interface of diachronic and synchronic pragmatics

3 Spelling in context: A transhistorical pragmatic perspective on orthographic practices in English

4 Reflections on historicity, technology and the implications for method in (historical) pragmatics

Introduction to historicising discourses

5 Towards a transhistorical approach to analysing discourse about and in motion

6 “New” media and self-fashioning: The construction of a political persona by Elizabeth I and Donald Trump

7 From Rest in Peace to #RIP: Tracing shifts in the language of mourning

8 Digital literacies and the long history of the academic article

9 Reflections on historicizing discourses: Connections, linkages, continuities

Introduction to media trajectories

10 Unstable content, remediated layout: Urban laws in Scotland through manuscript and print

11 Visual pragmatics of an early modern book: Printers’ paratextual choices in the editions of The School of Vertue

12 Paratextual presentation of Christopher St German’s Doctor and Student 1528–1886

13 Reflections on visuality and textual reception

Introduction to new to old

14 Information design and information structure in the Middle English prose Brut

15 Disruptive practice: Multimodality, innovation and standardisation from the medieval to the digital text

16 “It makes it more real”: A comparative analysis of Twitter use in live blogs and quotations in older news media from a reader response perspective

17 New methods, old data: Using digital technologies to explore nineteenth century letter writing practices

18 Transhistoricizing multimodality: Reflections on the how-to

Postscript: You say you want a revolution? Histories and futures of researching the digital, a view from the south

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Current Copyright Fee: GBP20.00 0.

ISBN:

3-11-067083-6

OCLC:

1158151853