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New media language

Author: Jean Aitchison; Diana M Lewis
Publisher: London : Routledge, 2003.
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
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Additional Physical Format: Print version:
New media language.
London : Routledge, 2003
(OCoLC)51668207
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Jean Aitchison; Diana M Lewis
ISBN: 0203696964 9780203696965 0415283035 9780415283038 0415283043 9780415283045
OCLC Number: 51668207
Description: 1 online resource (x, 209 p.) : ill.
Contents: pt. 1. Modern media discourse. Poles apart: globalization and the development of news discourse across the twentieth century / Allan Bell --
Modern media myths / Raymond Snoddy --
Globalizing 'communication' / Deborah Cameron --
The new incivility: threat or promise? / Robin Tolmach Lakoff --
Parochializing the global: language in the British tabloid press / Martin Conboy --
pt. 2. Modes of the media. Reportage, literature and willed credulity / John Carey --
Speaking to Middle England: Radio Four and its listeners / David Hendy --
Literacy and the new media: vita brevis, lingua brevis / Angela Kesseler and Alexander Bergs --
Why email looks like speech: proofreading, pedagogy, and public face / Naomi S. Baron --
Online news: a new genre? / Diana M. Lewis --
pt. 3. Representations and models. Wine language: useful idiom or idiot-speak? / Malcolm Gluck --
Rhetoric, bluster and on-line gaffes: the tough life of a spin-doctor / Alan Partington --
Politics is marriage and show business: a view from recent Taiwanese political discourse / Jennifer M. Wei --
Emotional DIY and proper parenting in Kilroy / Nuria Lorenzo-Dus --
Language and American 'good taste': Martha Stewart as mass-media role model / Catherine Evans Davies --
pt. 4. The effect of the media on language. Noun phrases in media texts: a quantificational approach / Yibin Ni --
Compressed noun-phrase structures in newspaper discourse: the competing demands of popularization vs. economy / Douglas Biber --
Newspapers and neologisms / John Ayto --
Reliable authority: tabloids, film, email and speech as sources for dictionaries / John Simpson --
From Armageddon to war: the vocabulary of terrorism / Jean Aitchison.
Responsibility: edited by Jean Aitchison and Diana M. Lewis.

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