ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Media provides an accessible and comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research in media linguistics. This handbook analyzes both language theory and practice, demonstrating the vital role of this research in understanding language use in society. With over thirty chapters contributed by leading academics from around the world, this handbook:

  • addresses issues of language use, form, structure, ideology, practice, and culture in the context of both traditional and new communication media;
  • investigates mediated language use in public spheres, organizations, and personal communication, including newspaper journalism, broadcasting, and social media;
  • examines the interplay of language and media from both linguistic and media perspectives, discussing auditory and visual media and graphic modes, as well as language and gender, multilingualism, and language change;
  • analyzes the advantages and shortcomings of current approaches within media linguistics research and outlines avenues for future research.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Media is a must-have survey of this key field, and is essential reading for those interested in media linguistics.

part I|104 pages

Research frameworks and methods

chapter 1|18 pages

Medialinguistic approaches

Exploring the case of newswriting

chapter 2|17 pages

Sociolinguistic approaches

Variationist frameworks

chapter 3|18 pages

Discourse approaches

Language in use and the multidisciplinary advantage

chapter 4|15 pages

Critical approaches

Media analysis in/and critical discourse studies

chapter 5|16 pages

Cognitive approaches

Media, mind, and culture

chapter 6|16 pages

Corpus approaches

Investigating linguistic patterns and meanings

part II|97 pages

Media contexts and domains

chapter 7|23 pages

Mediation, technological change, and discourse

The case of television talk

chapter 8|15 pages

Politics and framing

How language impacts political thought

chapter 9|13 pages

Media, markets, and political economy

Examining and analyzing power

chapter 10|14 pages

Journalism and public discourse

Navigating complexity

chapter 11|12 pages

Organizations and corporate communication

Linguistic ethnography in the newsroom

chapter 12|16 pages

Social media and community building

Creating social realities through linguistic interaction

part III|118 pages

Media and modes

chapter 13|19 pages

Auditory media

Sound studies and the political components of the auditory

chapter 14|14 pages

Visual media

The importance of visuals as partners in the news

chapter 15|19 pages

Surveillant media

Technology, language, and control

chapter 16|14 pages

Linguistic modes

Dimensions of news language in print and broadcast

chapter 17|19 pages

Graphic modes

The visual representation of data

chapter 18|13 pages

Combining modes

Multimodality across communicative contexts

chapter 19|16 pages

Future modes

How ‘new’ new media transforms communicative meaning and negotiates relationships

part IV|117 pages

Language in focus

chapter 20|14 pages

Language policy and the media

Planning, globalization, and perspective

chapter 21|14 pages

Media, language, and gender

Identities, practices, affects

chapter 22|16 pages

Media and minority languages

Sociocultural and geopolitical considerations

chapter 23|15 pages

Multilingualism and media

Reconsidering practices and ideologies of media-linguistic research

chapter 24|15 pages

Media and translation

Adapting traditional concepts to news-centered multimedia

chapter 25|21 pages

Media and language change

Expanding the framework

chapter 26|18 pages

Media and quoting

Understanding the purposes, roles, and processes of quoting in mass and social media

part V|95 pages

Operationalizing media practice

chapter 27|16 pages

Interacting to mediatize

The case of broadcast interviews

chapter 28|14 pages

Routinizing communication

Text production and cultural significance in media genres

chapter 29|14 pages

Schematizing information

The macrotypographic framing of text

chapter 30|16 pages

Transforming knowledge

Cooperation with journalism’s stakeholders

chapter 31|18 pages

Participating with media

Exploring online media activity

chapter 32|15 pages

Tracing and tracking impact

Media content and the effect of its metrification