Book description
This is the first volume to focus on the role of media in processes of linguistic change, one of the most contested issues in contemporary sociolinguistics. Its 17 chapters and five section commentaries present cutting-edge research from variationist and interactional sociolinguistics, media linguistics, language ideology research, and minority language studies. The volume advances our understanding of linguistic change in a mediatized world in three ways. First, it introduces the notions of sociolinguistic change and mediatization to create a broader theoretical framing than the one offered by ‘the media’ and ‘language change’. Second, it takes the discussion beyond the notions of ‘influence’ and ‘effect’ and the binary distinction of ‘media’ vs. ‘community language’. Third, it examines the relation of sociolinguistic change and mediatization and from five complementary viewpoints: media influence on linguistic structure; media engagement in interaction; change in mass and new media language; language-ideological change; and the role of media for minority languages. Bringing these strands of sociolinguistic scholarship together, this volume examines their shared references and common lines of thinking.
Table of contents
- linguae & litterae
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
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Section I: Framing the issues
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Mediatization and sociolinguistic change. Key concepts, research traditions, open issues
- 1 Introduction
- 2 From language change to sociolinguistic change
- 3 The ‘media’ in sociolinguistics
- 4 From media to mediation and mediatization
- 5 Media influence on language change: Theme I
- 6 Media engagement in interactional practice: Theme II
- 7 Change in mass-mediatized and digitally mediated language: Theme III
- 8 Enregisterment of change in media discourse: Theme IV
- 9 Mediatized spaces for minoritized languages: Theme V
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Mediatization. A panorama of media and communication research
- Sociolinguistic change, vernacularization and broadcast British media
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Mediatization and sociolinguistic change. Key concepts, research traditions, open issues
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Section II: Media influence on language change
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Does mediated language influence immediate language?
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Direct influence from writing on speech in Denmark?
- 3 Direct influence from writing on speech in Norway?
- 4 Indirect influence from writing on speech in Denmark?
- 5 Indirect influence from writing on speech in Norway?
- 6 Direct influence from broadcast media on speech?
- 7 Indirect influence from broadcast media on speech in Denmark?
- 8 Indirect influence from broadcast media on speech in Norway?
- 9 Summary and conclusion
- References
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Media models, ‘the shelf’, and stylistic variation in East and West. Rethinking the influence of the media on language variation and change
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Language variation and change and the influence of the media
- 3 What is media influence? The view from mass communicationstudies
- 4 Extrapolating models of media influence to sociolinguistics
- 5 Hearing features “on the shelf”? Phrasal pitch in Kagoshima Japanese and Tokyo Japanese media models
- 6 Indexical fields and social meaning of pitch patterning in Japanese
- 7 Taking features “right off the shelf”? Rapid consonant change in Glasgow and “Mockney” media models
- 8 Emerging themes on speech in the community and speech on the (media) “shelf”: Perspectives from East and West
- 9 Concluding remarks
- References
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The media influence on language change in Japanese sociolinguistic contexts
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Evidence from survey results: The apparent-time paradigm and the real-time paradigm
- 3 Similarity beyond geographical distance: De-standardization in lexical accent and sentential pitch trajectory
- 4 Stylized performance based on the media models
- 5 Discussion and conclusion
- References
- Commentary: Television and language use. What do we mean by influence and how do we detect it?
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Does mediated language influence immediate language?
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Section III: Media engagement in interactional practice
- ‘Girlpower or girl (in) trouble?’ Identities and discourses in the (new) media engagements of adolescents’ school-based interaction
- Multilingualism, multimodality and media engagement in classroom talk and action
- Commentary: ‘Agents’ or ‘participation’. Sociolinguistic frameworks for the study of media engagement
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Section IV: Change in mass-mediatized and digitally mediated language
- Semiotic economy, growth of mass media discourse, and change of written language through multimodal techniques. - The case of newspapers (printed and online) and web services
- Genre profiles and genre change. The case of TV news
- Tweets in the news. Legitimizing medium, standardizing form
- Commentary: Mediality, mediatization and sociolinguistic change
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Section V: Enregisterment of change in media discourse
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Revising the “journalist’s bible”. How news practitioners respond to language and social change
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Locating language in the media
- 2.1 Journalists and language
- 2.2 Sociolinguistics and journalism
- 2.3 The complaint tradition and news practice
- 3 The AP Stylebook as journalistic tool and sociolinguistic resource
- 4 Responding to language change
- 5 Behind the metatalk: Conclusions
- References
- The media on media-induced language change
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The objectification of ‘Jafaican’. The discoursal embedding of Multicultural London English in the British media
- 1 Introduction: Mediatization of new urban youth varieties
- 2 The London multiethnolect: what it is and what people think about it
- 3 London’s multiethnolect: A short history
- 4 Entries referring to the multiethnolect in theUrban Dictionary
- 5 The multiethnolect in the newspapers: A quantitative analysis of mentions
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6 The multiethnolect in the newspapers: evolving discourses and metaphors
- 6.1 Jafaican as agent: The cuckoo in the nest, pushing out the natives
- 6.2 Jafaican as a problem (1): Inappropriate in formal contexts
- 6.3 Jafaican as natural linguistic development
- 6.4 The enregisterment of Jafaican by the media: Are you ‘in the know’?
- 6.5 Jafaican as ‘foreign’, but not (yet) a threat
- 6.6 Jafaican as a problem (2): A cultural threat to gender equality
- 6.7 Jafaican as norm: The British music industry
- 6.8 Cockney as a museum piece
- 6.9 Enregisterment – again
- 6.10 Jafaican as a problem (3): Bad language, challenging dress style and bad behaviour
- 6.11 Jafaican as a problem (3): Hindering educational achievement and social mobility
- 6.12 ‘Jamaican’ (or Jamaican slang) as fashion
- 7 Conclusion
- References
- Commentary: Sociolinguists and the news media
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Revising the “journalist’s bible”. How news practitioners respond to language and social change
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Section VI: Mediatized spaces for minoritized languages
- Súil Eile. Media, sociolinguistic change and the Irish Language
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Sites of struggle and possibility in cyberspace. - Wikipedia and Facebook in Africa
- 1 Introduction – empowerment through technology?
- 2 Who has access to digital technology? Who can speak and act in cyberspace?
- 3 Measuring the multilingual internet – where are we now?
- 4 Wikipedia – “one of online multilingualism’s greatest successes”?
- 5 Facebook – Indlu ka Xhosa (‘the house of Xhosa’)?
- 6 Conclusion
- References
- Circulation of indigenous Sámi resources across media spaces. - A rhizomatic discourse approach
- Commentary: Mediatized spaces for minoritized languages. Challenges and opportunities
- Notes on contributors
- Index
Product information
- Title: Mediatization and Sociolinguistic Change
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2014
- Publisher(s): De Gruyter
- ISBN: 9783110383935
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