Media Discourse
Title | Media Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Talbot |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2007-09-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0748630074 |
This lively and accessible study of media and discourse combines theoretical reflection with empirical engagement, and brings together insights from a range of disciplines. Within media and cultural studies, the study of media texts is dominated by an exclusive focus on representation. This book adds long overdue attention to social interaction. The book is divided into two sections. The first outlines key theoretical issues and concepts, including informalisation, genre hybridisation, positioning, dialogism and discourse. The second is a sustained interrogation of social interaction in and around media. Re-examining issues of representation and interaction, it critically assesses work on the para-social and broadcast sociability, then explores distinct sites of interaction: production communities, audience communities and 'interactivity' with audiences.
Investigating Media Discourse
Title | Investigating Media Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | ANNE O'KEEFFE |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 193 |
Release | 2006-09-27 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1134219075 |
Investigating Media Discourse explores spoken interactions in the media, drawing on contemporary sources from the English speaking world including chat shows, radio phone-ins and political interviews with leaders such as Tony Blair and George W.Bush. The main theoretical framework used in this work is influenced by Goffman, where each media encounter is viewed as a three-way participation framework involving the broadcaster, interviewee and audience, all of whom shape the interaction. The spoken media interactions are analysed from this viewpoint to illustrate how they are managed, how pseudo-relationships are established and maintained and how ‘others’ are created. O’Keefe brings together methodologies of discourse analysis, conversation analysis and corpus linguistics allowing the media extracts to be explored from different perspectives whilst providing multiple insights. Investigating Media Discourse will appeal to students and researchers of applied linguistics, english language and media. Anne O’Keeffe is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the Department of English Language and Literature, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland.
Media Discourse
Title | Media Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Fairclough |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 1995-09-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780340588895 |
The study of media language is increasingly important both for media studies and for discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. In Media Discourse, Norman Fairclough applies the "critical discourse analysis" framework he developed in Language and Power and Discourse and Social Life to media language. Drawing on examples from TV, radio, and newspapers, he focuses on changing practices of media discourse in relation to wider processes of social and cultural change, particularly the tensions between public and private in the media and the tensions between information and entertainment.
Language Ideologies and Media Discourse
Title | Language Ideologies and Media Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Sally Johnson |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 309 |
Release | 2009-12-24 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 144118273X |
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.
Social Media Discourse, (Dis)identifications and Diversities
Title | Social Media Discourse, (Dis)identifications and Diversities PDF eBook |
Author | Sirpa Leppanen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 330 |
Release | 2016-12-08 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1317230132 |
This volume serves as an in-depth investigation of the diversity of means and practices that constitute (dis)identification and identity construction in social media. Given the increasing prevalence of social media in everyday life and the subsequent growing diversity in the types of participants and forms of participation, the book makes the case for a rigorous analysis of social media discourses and digital literacy practices to demonstrate the range of semiotic resources used in online communication that form the foundation of (dis)identification processes. Divided into two major sections, delineating between the (dis)identification of the self across various social categories and the (dis)identification of the self in relation to the "other", the book employs a discourse-ethnographic approach to highlight the value of this type of theoretical framework in providing nuanced descriptions of identity construction in social media and illuminating their larger, long-term societal and cultural implications. This volume is a key resource for researchers, and students in sociolinguistics, discourse studies, computer-mediated communication, and cultural studies.
Discourse, Media, and Conflict
Title | Discourse, Media, and Conflict PDF eBook |
Author | Innocent Chiluwa |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 369 |
Release | 2022-04-28 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1009075446 |
Bringing together contributions from a team of international scholars, this pioneering book applies theories and approaches from linguistics, such as discourse analysis and pragmatics, to analyse the media and online political discourses of both conflict and peace processes. By analysing case studies as globally diverse as Germany, the USA, Nigeria, Iraq, Korea and Libya, and across a range of genres such as TV news channels, online reporting and traditional newspapers, the chapters collectively show how news discourse can be powerful in mobilizing public support for war or violence, or for conflict resolution, through the linguistic representation of certain groups. It explores the consequences of this 'framing' effect, and shows how peace journalism can be achieved through a non-violent approach to reporting conflict. It will therefore serve as an essential resource for students, scholars and experts in media and communication studies, conflict and peace studies, international relations, linguistics and political science.
Approaches to Media Discourse
Title | Approaches to Media Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Allan Bell |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | 287 |
Release | 1998-03-16 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780631198871 |
This collection brings together in one volume current leading approaches to the study of media discourse. Its focus is on the media text (spoken, written or visual), but it also addresses issues of the production and reception of media discourse. Chapters provide a brief outline of the authors approach to media discourse and then demonstrate how the approach works in practice by close analysis of sample texts. The applicability of the frameworks is discussed, and guidelines are offered on how to use them.