ABSTRACT

New Media Language brings leading media figures and scholars together to debate the shifting relations between today's media and contemporary language.
From newspapers and television to email, the Internet and text messaging, there are ever increasing media conduits for news. This book investigates how developments in world media have affected, and been affected by, language. Exploring a wide range of topics, from the globalization of communication to the vocabulary of terrorism and the language used in the wake of September 11, New Media Language looks at the important and wide-ranging implications of these changes. From Malcolm Gluck on wine writing, to Naomi Baron on email, the authors provide authoritative and engaging insights into the ways in which language is changing, and in turn, changes us.
With a foreword by Simon Jenkins, New Media Language is essential reading for anyone with an interest in today's complex and expanding media.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

PART I Modern media discourse

chapter 1|11 pages

Poles apart

Globalization and the development of news discourse across the twentieth century

chapter 2|9 pages

Modern media myths

chapter 4|9 pages

The new incivility

Threat or promise?

chapter 5|10 pages

Parochializing the global

Language and the British tabloid press

part |2 pages

PART II Modes of the media

chapter 7|10 pages

Speaking to Middle England

Radio Four and its listeners

chapter 9|10 pages

Why email looks like speech

Proofreading, pedagogy and public face

chapter 10|10 pages

Online news

A new genre?

part |2 pages

PART III Representations and models

chapter 11|9 pages

Wine language

Useful idiom or idiot-speak?

chapter 12|10 pages

Rhetoric, bluster and on-line gaffes

The tough life of a spin-doctor

chapter 13|10 pages

Politics is marriage and show business

A view from recent Taiwanese political discourse

chapter 15|11 pages

Language and American ‘good taste’

Martha Stewart as mass-media role model

part |2 pages

PART IV The effect of the media on language

chapter 16|10 pages

Noun phrases in media texts

A quantificational approach

chapter 18|5 pages

Newspapers and neologisms

chapter 19|6 pages

Reliable authority

Tabloids, film, email and speech as sources for dictionaries

chapter 20|11 pages

From Armageddon to war

The vocabulary of terrorism