Style, Mediation, and Change: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Talking Media

ISBN-13: 9780190629496 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 280 str.

Janus Mortensen; Nikolas Coupland; Jacob Thogersen

Opis

Technologically mediated talk is organized around familiar styles-styles of person, relationship and genre. But media also consistently remake and re-style these familiar patterns. This book brings together original research on media styling in different national contexts and languages, written by authors at the forefront of sociolinguistic research on mediated talk. It highlights and theorizes how creative acts of mediated styling can promote social and sociolinguistic change. The globalized world is already massively mediatized-what we know about language, people and society is necessarily shaped through our engagement with media. But talking media are caught up in wider currents of rapid change too. Creative innovations in media styling can heighten reflexive awareness, but they can also unsettle existing understandings of language-society relations. In reporting new investigations by expert researchers this book gives an original and timely account of how style, media and change need to be integrated further to advance the discipline of sociolinguistics.

Recenzje

offers a new and culturally diverse perspective on style as a sociolinguistic concept, and how style in particular can be used to study mediated discourses.

O autorze

Janus Mortensen is Associate Professor at the Center for Internationalization and Parallel Language Use (CIP) at the University of Copenhagen. He is a founding member of the Research Centre for Cultural and Linguistic practices in the International University (CALPIU, Roskilde University), and co-editor of Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, the journal of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen. Nikolas Coupland is Emeritus Professor, Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, Wales and Honorary Professor, Department of Nordic Research, University of Copenhagen University, Denmark. He is an elected Fellow of both the UK Academy of Social Sciences and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He was founding editor, with Allan Bell, of the Journal of Sociolinguistics. Jacob Thøgersen is Associate Professor at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics the University of Copenhagen. He has previously held positions at the LANCHART Research Center (working on the LARM audio research archive), Center for Internationalization and Parallel Language Use (CIP), both University of Copenhagen, as well as the University of Iceland and the Danish Language Council.