New media language /
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London :
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2003.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Modern media discourse. Poles apart: globalization and the development of news discourse across the twentieth century / Allan Bell
- Modern media myths / Raymond Snoddy
- Globalizing 'communication' / Deborah Cameron
- The new incivility: threat or promise? / Robin Tolmach Lakoff
- Parochializing the global: language in the British tabloid press / Martin Conboy
- pt. 2. Modes of the media. Reportage, literature and willed credulity / John Carey
- Speaking to Middle England: Radio Four and its listeners / David Hendy
- Literacy and the new media: vita brevis, lingua brevis / Angela Kesseler and Alexander Bergs
- Why email looks like speech: proofreading, pedagogy, and public face / Naomi S. Baron
- Online news: a new genre? / Diana M. Lewis
- pt. 3. Representations and models. Wine language: useful idiom or idiot-speak? / Malcolm Gluck
- Rhetoric, bluster and on-line gaffes: the tough life of a spin-doctor / Alan Partington
- Politics is marriage and show business: a view from recent Taiwanese political discourse / Jennifer M. Wei
- Emotional DIY and proper parenting in Kilroy / Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
- Language and American 'good taste': Martha Stewart as mass-media role model / Catherine Evans Davies
- pt. 4. The effect of the media on language. Noun phrases in media texts: a quantificational approach / Yibin Ni
- Compressed noun-phrase structures in newspaper discourse: the competing demands of popularization vs. economy / Douglas Biber
- Newspapers and neologisms / John Ayto
- Reliable authority: tabloids, film, email and speech as sources for dictionaries / John Simpson
- From Armageddon to war: the vocabulary of terrorism / Jean Aitchison.