Language Ideologies and Media Discourse: Texts, Practices, Politics (Advances in Sociolinguistics) - Hardcover

Sally Johnson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1441129677 ISBN 13: 9781441129673

Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation, 2009

Synopsis

This book presents an exploration of the relationship between language ideologies and media discourse, together with the methods and techniques required for the analysis of this relationship. The study of language ideologies has become a key theme in sociolinguistics over the past decade. It is the study of the relationship between representations of language, on the one hand, and broader aesthetic, economic, moral and political concerns, on the other. Research into the particular role played by media discourse in the construction, reproduction and contestation of such ideologies has been widely scattered - this book brings together this emerging field. It considers how, in an era of global communication technologies, the media - by which we understand the press, radio, television, cinema, the internet and multimodal gaming - help to disseminate preferred uses of, and ideas about, language. The book is tightly focussed on the relationship between language ideologies and media discourse, together with the methods and techniques required for the analysis of that relationship. It also places emphasis on television and new-media texts, incorporating and expanding upon recent theoretical insights into visual communication and multimodal discourse analysis. International in scope, this book will also be of interest to students from a wide range of fields including linguistics (particularly sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology), modern languages, education, media studies, communication studies and cultural theory. "The Advances in Sociolinguistics" series seeks to provide a snapshot of the current diversity of the field of sociolinguistics and the blurring of the boundaries between sociolinguistics and other domains of study concerned with the role of language in society.

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About the Author

Sally Johnson is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Leeds, UK. Tommaso M. Milani is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441129677
• ISBN 13: 9781441129673
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Sally Johnson, Tommaso M. Milani