Contemporary Media Stylistics
Published on 16. April 2020
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-1-350-06408-9 (ISBN)
Description
Media discourse is changing at an unprecedented rate. This book presents the most recent stylistic frameworks exploring different and changed forms of media. The volume collates recent and emerging research in the expanding field of media stylistics, featuring a variety of methods, multimodal source material, and a broad range of topics. From Twitter and Zooniverse to Twilight and Mommy Blogs, the volume maps out new intellectual territory and showcases a huge scope, neatly drawn together by leading scholars Helen Ringrow and Stephen Pihlaja.
Contributors write on topics that challenge the traditional notions and conceptualisations of "media" and the consequences of technological affordances for the development of media production and consumption. There is a particular focus on the ways in which contemporary media contexts complicate and challenge traditional media models, and offer new and unique ways of approaching discourse in these contexts.
Contributors write on topics that challenge the traditional notions and conceptualisations of "media" and the consequences of technological affordances for the development of media production and consumption. There is a particular focus on the ways in which contemporary media contexts complicate and challenge traditional media models, and offer new and unique ways of approaching discourse in these contexts.
Reviews / Votes
Contemporary Media Stylistics provides a view of the field that is both impressively wide-ranging and, through the individual contributions encompassed in the collection, in-depth. Experts and newcomers alike are certain to gain new insights about the language and other modalities that shape media discourses today. The studies give a clear sense of the complexity of contemporary media and the social and emotional lives in which these texts and practices are entangled. * Chantelle Warner, Associate Professor of German Studies, University of Arizona, USA * Offers a new collection of chapters on different media formats and platforms using stylistic approaches. Written by experts in the field, the volume engages in a broad range of contemporary media texts to provide exciting new insights into their language and style and challenge our understanding of the rhetorical functions of both old and new media genres. * Marina Lambrou, Associate Professor in English Language and Linguistics, Kingston University, United Kingdom * This exciting new collection applies the methods of stylistics to a range of media texts. Very much the logical next step in the development of the discipline, the innovative essays which comprise this volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in stylistics and in contemporary forms of media discourse. * Paul Simpson, The Baines Professor of English Language, Liverpool University, United Kingdom *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 169 mm
Weight
740 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-06408-9 (9781350064089)
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Persons
Helen Ringrow is Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies and Applied Linguistics at the University of Portsmouth, UK.
Stephen Pihlaja is a Reader in Stylistics at Newman University, Birmingham, UK.
Stephen Pihlaja is a Reader in Stylistics at Newman University, Birmingham, UK.
Content
1. Introduction, Helen Ringrow (University of Portsmouth, UK) and Stephen Pihlaja (Newman University, UK)
2. "Beautiful masterpieces": metaphors of the female body in modest fashion blogs, Helen Ringrow (University of Portsmouth, UK)
3. Wolfing down the Twilight series: metaphors for reading in online reviews, Louise Nuttall (University of Huddersfield, UK and Chloe Harrison (Aston University, UK)
4. The language of citizen science: short strings and 'we' as a group marker, Glenn Hadikin (University of Portsmouth, UK)
5. The pragma-stylistics of 'image macro' internet memes, Jane Lugea (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
6. The stylistics of emoji: an interactional approach, Dwi Noverini Djenar (The University of Sydney, Australia) and Michael Ewing (The University of Melbourne)
7. Rape victims and the law: Victim-blaming and victimisation in reports of rape in the British press, Alessia Tranchese (University of Portsmouth, UK)
8. Changing media representation of Gina-Lisa Lohfink as the icon of the "Nein heisst nein" (no means no)-movement in Germany, Ulrike Tabbert (University of Huddersfield, UK)
9. Child victims of human trafficking and modern slavery in British newspapers, Ilse Ras (University of Leeds, UK)
10. Reader Comments and Right-Wing Discourse in Traditional News Media Websites, Tayyiba Bruce (Newman University, UK)
11. Straight talking honest politics: rhetorical style and ethos in the mediated politics of metamodernity, Sam Browse (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
12. The aura of facticity: the stylistic illusion of objectivity in news reports, Matt Davies (University of Chester, UK)
13. The style of online preachers, Stephen Pihlaja (Newman University, UK)
14. Conclusion, Caroline Tagg (The Open University, UK)
Index
2. "Beautiful masterpieces": metaphors of the female body in modest fashion blogs, Helen Ringrow (University of Portsmouth, UK)
3. Wolfing down the Twilight series: metaphors for reading in online reviews, Louise Nuttall (University of Huddersfield, UK and Chloe Harrison (Aston University, UK)
4. The language of citizen science: short strings and 'we' as a group marker, Glenn Hadikin (University of Portsmouth, UK)
5. The pragma-stylistics of 'image macro' internet memes, Jane Lugea (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
6. The stylistics of emoji: an interactional approach, Dwi Noverini Djenar (The University of Sydney, Australia) and Michael Ewing (The University of Melbourne)
7. Rape victims and the law: Victim-blaming and victimisation in reports of rape in the British press, Alessia Tranchese (University of Portsmouth, UK)
8. Changing media representation of Gina-Lisa Lohfink as the icon of the "Nein heisst nein" (no means no)-movement in Germany, Ulrike Tabbert (University of Huddersfield, UK)
9. Child victims of human trafficking and modern slavery in British newspapers, Ilse Ras (University of Leeds, UK)
10. Reader Comments and Right-Wing Discourse in Traditional News Media Websites, Tayyiba Bruce (Newman University, UK)
11. Straight talking honest politics: rhetorical style and ethos in the mediated politics of metamodernity, Sam Browse (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
12. The aura of facticity: the stylistic illusion of objectivity in news reports, Matt Davies (University of Chester, UK)
13. The style of online preachers, Stephen Pihlaja (Newman University, UK)
14. Conclusion, Caroline Tagg (The Open University, UK)
Index