Overview

The study of media, texts and culture(s) and especially the analysis of interdependent relationships between them has become a major concern. This volume brings together linguistic mass media studies with intercultural, intermedia and interlingual perspectives. It illustrates the complexity of the growing field of contrastive media analysis.

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Author:   Stefan Hauser (University of Zurich) ,  Martin Luginbühl (University of Zurich)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   226
Weight:   0.615kg
ISBN:  

9789027256317

ISBN 10:   9027256314
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   13 November 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Approaching contrastive media analysis (by Hauser, Stefan); 2. Section 1. One language - one culture?; 3. Crosscultural perspectives on advice: The case of French and Cameroonian radio phone-ins (by Drescher, Martina); 4. Global and local representations of Cambodia: Two tales of one country (by Moore, Stephen); 5. Contrastive news discourse analysis from a pragmatic perspective: Context, ideology and representation in press coverage about Kenya's crisis (by Coesemans, Roel); 6. Section 2. Culture in communication - culture as communication?; 7. Film subtitles and the conundrum of linguistic and cultural representation: A methodological blind spot (by Guillot, Marie-Noelle); 8. Linguistic, intercultural and semiotic contrasts of obituaries (by Spillner, Bernd); 9. Language and culture in minor media text types: A diachronic, intralinguistic analysis from fanzines to webzines (by Gaballo, Viviana); 10. Section 3. Does nation matter?; 11. Italianicity goes global: National and transcultural strategies in advertising discourse (by Wyss, Eva L.); 12. What defines news culture?: Insights from multifactorial parallel text analysis (by Luginbuhl, Martin); 13. Genre matters: Theoretical and methodological issues of a genre-based approach to contrastive media analysis (by Hauser, Stefan); 14. Index

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The chapters in this volume make an excellent contribution to our understanding of media discourse by providing evidence of a range of contextual features that can influence linguistic, discursive and multimodal choices. [...] this book would be of interest to researchers from any field examining media discourse, and particularly those interested in the impact of context on media discourse. [...] the volume would also be useful for those interested in the relationship between genre and register. -- Kieran A File, Victoria University of Wellington, in Discourse Studies Vol. 17:3 (2015)

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