28.64, Books: Style, Mediation, and Change: Mortensen, Coupland, Thøgersen (eds.)
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Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 14:24:17
From: Carolyn Napolitano [Carolyn.Napolitano at oup.com]
Subject: Style, Mediation, and Change: Mortensen, Coupland, Thøgersen (eds.)
Title: Style, Mediation, and Change
Subtitle: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Talking Media
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/style-mediation-and-change-9780190629496
Editor: Janus Mortensen
Editor: Nikolas Coupland
Editor: Jacob Thøgersen
Hardback: ISBN: 9780190629489 Pages: 280 Price: U.S. $ 99.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780190629496 Pages: 280 Price: U.S. $ 39.95
Abstract:
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).
Media invest heavily in style and styling, drawing on semiotic modes well
beyond speech itself. 'Style' therefore needs to be theorised carefully in
sociolinguistics and neighbouring disciplines. Episodes and fragments of
mediated styles commonly take on new lives when they are re-circulated via
interactive 'new' media platforms. Style therefore points to both stability,
where ways of speaking and ways of being have become culturally familiar, and
to instability, in the talking media's persistent dynamic reworking of
stylistic norms. This book explores a wide range of normative structures and
creative media processes of this sort, in many different national contexts and
in different languages.
The globalised world is already massively mediatised - 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 our reflexive awareness,
but they can also unsettle our existing understandings of language-society
relations. In reporting new investigations by expert researchers, situated in
relation to relevant theory, the book gives an original and timely account of
how style, media and change need to be integrated further to advance the
discipline of sociolinguistics.
Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Written In: English (eng)
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