New Media Language

by Jean Aitchison (Editor), Simon Jenkins (Foreword), Diana M. Lewis (Editor)

New Media Language brings leading media figures and scholars together to debate the shifting relations between today's media and contemporary language.
From newspapers and television to email, the Internet and text messaging, there are ever increasing media conduits for news. This book investigates how developments in world media have affected, and been affected by, language. Exploring a wide range of topics, from the globalization of communication to the vocabulary of terrorism and the language used in the wake of September 11, New Media Language looks at the important and wide-ranging implications of these changes. From Malcolm Gluck on wine writing, to Naomi Baron on email, the authors provide authoritative and engaging insights into the ways in which language is changing, and in turn, changes us.
With a foreword by Simon Jenkins, New Media Language is essential reading for anyone with an interest in today's complex and expanding media.

Genres: Linguistics

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Jean Aitchison is a Professor of Language and Communication in the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.

Her main areas of interest include:

Socio-historical linguistics
Language and mind
Language and the media

Reviews

[Akbar Madan]

Jean deals with linguistic discourse in its relationship with the modern media, in updating how the new discourse in language arose in the twelfth century, especially after the global communication that made the language global, which then made distortion in the language a factor to enter the manipulation and lack of literature in the language and newspapers contributed to Promoting specific languages ​​and linguistic formulations, whether academic or populist, as well as the radio channels did in creating a linguistic climate, some of which contributed to the dismantling of the linguistic discourses spread in all discourses from the press to political discourses.