Thematising multilingualism in the media / / edited by Helen Kelly-Holmes, Tommaso M. Milani

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (156 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.44/6
• Soggetto topico: Multilingualism - Social aspects; Mass media and language; Discourse analysis - Social aspects; Sociolinguistics
• Altri autori: Kelly-HolmesHelen <1968-> MilaniTommaso M
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Thematising Multilingualism in the Media -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Thematising multilingualism in the media -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What does it mean to talk about multilingualism? -- 3. What does it mean to talk about thematising? -- 4. The current volume -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Media representations of multilingual Luxembourg -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Multilingual Luxembourg in late modernity -- 3. The print media as a language policy mechanism -- 4. Thematizing multilingualism: Language as resource, problem, right, and duty -- 4.1 Individual multilingualism as capital, societal multilingualism as Babel? -- 4.2 Linguistic rights, duties and territoriality -- 5. Conclusion: Language politics and media representations of multilingualism -- Notes -- References -- Sex, lies and thematising Irish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Brief overview of sociolinguistic and language-ideological situation in Ireland -- 3. The Leaders Debate as Gaeilge on TG4 -- 4. The forum: Boards.ie and the thread: "Three way Leaders Debate as Gaeilge" -- 5. The "truth" discourse -- 6. "Them" and "us" - othering "speakers of choice" -- 7. "Sexy Irish" - bilingualism as added value -- 8. Constraining and enabling effects of the forum on the discussion -- 9. Discussion - the old and the new? -- Acknowledgements -- References -- "What an un-wiki way of doing things" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Web 2.0 and the Globalisation Controversy -- 3. Wikipedia and its sociolinguistic and discourse analytical significance -- 4. Wikipedia's multilingual ideology: Metalinguistic practice and implicit metapragmatics -- 4.1 Explicit metalinguistic practice -- 4.2 Implicit metapragmatics -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Sociolinguistic diversity in mainstream media -- 1. Introduction. ; 2. Mediation, mediatization, authenticity and authority -- 3. Media realisms vs. media verisimilitudes -- 3.1 Definitions of verisimilitude -- 4. Five scenes from a documentary -- 4.1 Chicano English speakers and a sociolinguist -- 4.2 The Spanglish entertainer -- 4.3 Teenage slang speakers -- 4.4 Surferdude -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Unity in disunity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The BBC Voices project: Contextual background -- 3. Nation-state and language ideology: A critical multimodal approach -- 4. Multilingual nation: The view from the BBC -- 5. The "perspective of bilingual Britain": The case of the discussion board on Welsh -- Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References.
• Sommario/riassunto: This chapter takes as a point of departure the website of the "Voices" project, a large media enterprise on languages in the UK conducted by the BBC in 2003-2005. With the help of the notions of language ideology and the analytical tools of multimodal critical discourse analysis, the paper shows how representations of languages on the website are a discursive terrain on which negotiations of national identities are played out. Essentially, the argument is that there is a constant tension between centripetal (unifying) and centrifugal (particularising) forces which strive for the
• Titolo autorizzato: Thematising multilingualism in the media
• ISBN: 90-272-7190-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812980803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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