Language, Media and Culture: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides) - Softcover

Montgomery, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138047074 ISBN 13: 9781138047075

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

Language, Media and Culture: The Key Concepts is an authoritative and indispensable guide to the essential terminology of the overlapping fields of Language, Media and Culture. Designed to give students and researchers ‘tools for thinking with’ in addressing major issues of communicative change in the 21st century, the book covers over 500 concepts as well as containing an extensive bibliography to aid further study. Subjects covered include:

• Authenticity
• Truthiness
• Structures of feeling
• Turn-taking
• Transitivity
• Validity claims

With cross referencing and further reading provided throughout, this book provides an inclusive map of the discipline, and is an essential reference work for students in communication, media, journalism and cultural studies, as well as for students of language and linguistics.

About this title

About the Author:

Martin Montgomery is Emeritus Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Macau, China, where he was formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Head of the Departments of English and of Communication. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde, UK, where he served as Head of the Department of English Studies and Director of the Scottish Centre for Journalism Studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1138047074
• ISBN 13: 9781138047075
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 180