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Janus Mortensen - Style, Mediation, and Change: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Talking Media - 9780190629496 - V9780190629496
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Style, Mediation, and Change: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Talking Media

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Description for Style, Mediation, and Change: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Talking Media Paperback. "The present book is one of two edited collections to appear from a Round Table held at the University of Copenhagen in June 2014 on Sociolinguistics and the Talking Media: Style, Mediation and Change." Editor(s): Coupland, Nikolas; Thogersen, Jacob; Mortensen, Janus. Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
When talk circulates through technological media - through television or radio and through the activities they support, like the dissemination of news, product advertising or entertainment - it takes on distinctive characteristics, functions and styles. The talking media have developed their own ways of styling individuals (often as celebrities of different types, but also as 'ordinary people'), and ways of styling relationships (such as constructing informality or trust or authority). Media also style their own ways of communicating (how to read the news, how to conduct interviews, how to entertain or educate others, and so on). ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
Condition
New
Weight
388g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190629496
SKU
V9780190629496
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99-11

About Janus Mortensen
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Style, Mediation, and Change: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Talking Media
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.
Katie Ward, Language in Society

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