Voices in the Media opens a French window for the Anglo-Saxon world ... It is an inspirational contribution at a time when identities seem to be perceived as increasingly binary ... Anyone interested in contemporary debates on identity will find food for thought in this book.
Discourse & Society
This book provides its readers an in-depth and insightful ... Read morestudy of the performances of voices in different media and language ideologies behind the performances of voices. By doing so, it demonstrates a new approach to linguistic and discursive analysis of performed voices in the media.
Functions of Language
Interesting and original ... a valuable contribution to understanding how performed voices in the media reflect and shape social norms and linguistic ideologies.
Contemporary French Civilization
This book could serve as a solid basis for a sociolinguistics course focusing on media, or as supplemental material for a course on French cinema or other aspects of French language or culture ... Planchenault makes a convincing and thorough argument about the use of `Frenchness' in the media ... Her work could serve as a springboard for further investigation into the topic, and in fact she suggests several follow-up research projects for interested scholars.
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