Language and media : a resource book for students / Rodney Jones, Sylvia Jaworska and Erhan Aslan.

Revised edition of: Language and media : a resource book for students / Alan Durant and Marina Lambrou. 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents A. Introduction: Key topics in the study of language and media:
1. Language and mediation
2. Media, modes, and materialities
3. Media, genre, and style
4. Media storytelling
5. Media and discourse processes
6. Audiences, interaction, and participation
7. Media and the attention economy
8. Truth, lies, and propaganda
9. Media, censorship, and resistance
B. Development: Approaches to language and media:
1. Language, mediation, and sites of engagement
2. Making meaning with modes and materialities
3. Analyzing genres and styles in media
4. Telling and retelling stories
5. Production formats and discourse representation
6. Participation frameworks
7. Virality and memetics
8. Persuasive discourse and media rhetoric
9. Censorship and semiotic democracy
C. Exploration: Analyzing language and media:
1. Media uses and users
2. Analyzing intersemiotic relations
3. Analyzing news stories and media interviews
4. Analyzing narratives in the media
5. Analyzing media production
6. Analyzing participation in media
7. Analyzing spreadable media
8. Detecting biased, fallacious, and fake news
9. Offensive language and tactics of resistance
D. Extension: Readings in language and media:
1. Media, mediation, and mediated discourse (Ruth Finnegan; Sonia Livingstone; Ron Scollon)
2. Global modes and future modes (David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen; Astrid Esslin)
3. Media talk and media genres (Martin Montgomery, Paola Catenaccio)
4. Media storytelling and the shaping of reality (Michael Toolan; Ruth Page)
5. Media production (Colleen Cotter; Eva Gredel)
6. Participation frameworks and surveillant media (Anne O'Keeffe; Rodney H. Jones)
7. Spreadability: From news language to internet memes (Monika Bednarek and Helen Caple; Piia Varis and Jan Blommaert)
8. Political rhetoric and fake news (Martin Montgomery; Johan Farkas and Jannick Schou)
9. Resistance and citizen journalism (Paolo Peverini; Rodney H. Jones and Neville C.H. Li)

"Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings - all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible 'two-dimensional' structure is built around four sections - introduction, development, exploration and extension - which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained. This revised second edition of Language and Media: provides students with a comprehensive and accessible overview of the field of Language and Media; covers traditional as well as emerging digital media genres and introduces a range of theoretical frameworks and analytical tools for analyzing them; includes genre analysis, sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, mediated discourse analysis and multimodality; acquaints readers with the ways in which mediation and its materialities affect language use, explores what linguistic theories can teach us about media production and reception, and the ways different media formats are structured and used. The book emphasises the increasingly creative ways ordinary people are engaging in media production. It also addresses a number of urgent current concerns around media and media production/reception including fake news, clickbait, virality and surveillance. Written by three experienced teachers and authors, this accessible textbook is an essential resource for all students of English language and linguistics"--

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