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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825171903321

Titolo

Language ideologies and media discourse : texts, practices, politics / / edited by Sally Johnson and Tommaso M. Milani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2010

ISBN

1-282-87643-0

9786612876431

1-4411-8273-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Collana

Advances in sociolinguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

JohnsonSally A

MilaniTommaso M

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Mass media and language

Mass media - Influence

Discourse analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; PART I: STANDARDS AND STANDARDIZATION IN NATIONAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXTS; PART II: PLANNING AND POLICY IN MEDIA PROGRAMMING; PART III: MEDIA, ETHNICITY AND THE RACIALIZATION OF LANGUAGE; PART IV: LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES AND NEW-MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES; EPILOGUE; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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