New Media Language

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Foreword......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Modern media discourse......Page 20
Poles apart: globalization and the development of news discourse across the twentieth century......Page 22
Modern media myths......Page 33
Globalizing 'communication'......Page 42
The new incivility: threat or promise?......Page 51
Parochializing the global: language and the British tabloid press......Page 60
Modes of the media......Page 70
Reportage, literature and willed credulity......Page 72
Speaking to Middle England: Radio Four and its listeners......Page 80
Literacy and the new media: vita brevis, lingua brevis......Page 90
Why email looks like speech: proofreading, pedagogy and public face......Page 100
Online news: a new genre?......Page 110
Representations and models......Page 120
Wine language: useful idiom or idiot-speak?......Page 122
Rhetoric, bluster and on-line gaffes: the tough life of a spin-doctor......Page 131
Politics is marriage and show business: a view from recent Taiwanese political discourse......Page 141
Emotional DIY and proper parenting in Kilroy......Page 151
Language and American 'good taste': Martha Stewart as mass-media role model......Page 161
The effect of the media on language......Page 172
Noun phrases in media texts: a quantificational approach......Page 174
Compressed noun-phrase structures in newspaper discourse: the competing demands of popularization vs. economy......Page 184
Newspapers and neologisms......Page 197
Reliable authority: tabloids, film, email and speech as sources for dictionaries......Page 202
From Armageddon to war: the vocabulary of terrorism......Page 208
Index......Page 219