Language, Media and Culture: The Key Concepts is an authoritative and indispensable guide to the essential terminology of the overlapping fields of Language, Media and Culture. Designed to give students and researchers ‘tools for thinking with’ in addressing major issues of communicative change in the 21st century, the book covers over 500 concepts as well as containing an extensive bibliography to aid further study. Subjects covered include: Authenticity Truthiness Structures of feeling Turn-taking Transitivity Validity claims With cross referencing and further reading provided throughout, this book provides an inclusive map of the discipline, and is an essential reference work for students in communication, media, journalism and cultural studies, as well as for students of language and linguistics.
First published in 2004. A collection of the pioneering work from The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies.
This book engages with key theoretical and analytical issues in the field of media, communication and cultural studies.
A stimulating, eclectic accountof new media that finds its origins in old media, particularly the cinema. In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media.
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"This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the consideration of aspects of Europe's linguistic and cultural heritage.
Using data from cultures and languages throughout the world to highlight both similarities and differences in human languages this text explores the many interconnections among language, culture, and communicative meaning.
Brings together researchers analyzing a wide variety of communication media - blogs, email, fax, IRC, chat, IM, text messaging (SMS), loveletters, post- and e-cards, telephone, radio, television, and website literacies such as homepage ...
Brenda Danet, Cyberpl ... y (2001), and the concept of play has beenproductiveina range of publications (e.g. Rao, 2008; Chayko, 2009; McIntosh, 2010; an important early study is Baym, ...
This book explores indigenous African language media about media representations, media texts and contents, practice-based activities, audience reception and participation, television, popular culture and cinema, peace and conflict ...
This collection brings together contributions from both leading and emerging scholars in one comprehensive volume to showcase the richness of linguistic approaches to the study of pop culture and their potential to inform linguistic theory ...