Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies

Sixteen academics and researchers from England, Ireland, Wales, the U.S., and Sweden contribute 14 chapters to an analysis of language in the media and the nature of language, communication and meaning-making processes more generally. The text evolved from a September 2005 conference of the same title held at the U. of Leeds, UK. The authors draw on a wide range of media text types, including print media sources (both written and visual), radio and television broadcasts, and new media genres such as blogs, email, and hyperpoetry. Coverage includes the representation of language issues in print media in the UK and the U.S.; national identities, citizenship, and globalization, and language ideological debates in three non-English speaking countries--Germany, Sweden, and Luxembourg; contact and codeswitching in multilingual mediascapes, specifically radio and television; youth, gender, and cyber-identities in the new media; and discursive patterns of authentication and othe ring. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Sally Johnson is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at University of Leeds, UK. Astrid Ensslin is a Lecturer in New Media at the University of Wales Bangor.