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Author:   Anthea Irwin-Turner
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781119669142

ISBN 10:   1119669146
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   04 May 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables viii Preface ix Acknowledgements xi About the Companion Website xii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 What the Book Is About 1 1.2 Three Tips for How to Use This Book 2 1.3 Three Tips for How to Approach This Book 3 1.4 The Three Main Areas of the Study of Language That Are Important to This Book 5 1.5 The Three Main Areas of the Study of Media That Are Important to This Book 7 1.6 The Three Main Concepts in the Study of Sociology That Are Important to This Book 9 1.7 An Overall Approach: Textual Analysis 11 1.8 The Structure of the Book 12 2 The Relationship between Language, Media, and Society 13 2.1 Illustrating the Relationship between Language, Media, and Society 13 2.2 Accents, Dialects, and Society 14 2.3 Theorising Attitudes 18 2.4 Why Do We Stereotype? 23 2.5 ‘Taking It to the Next Level’: Theorising Ideology 25 3 Producing and Consuming Media 28 3.1 Defining Media Producers and Media Consumers 28 3.2 Producers and Consumers in Mass and Social Media 28 3.3 The Mainstream and the Alternative in Mass and Social Media 30 3.4 Construction in Mass and Social Media 31 3.5 Different Categories of Media Producers 32 3.6 Activity and Passivity in Mass Media Consumption 35 3.7 Theoretical Models of Media Audiences 38 4 Reading Media Messages 42 4.1 The Media’s Relationship to Reality 42 4.2 Exploring Methods of Language and Media Analysis 44 5 Language, Media, and Age 62 5.1 Constructing Age and Life Stage 62 5.2 Theorising Age and Designing Research to Explore Language, Media and Age 63 5.3 Life Stage and Media Consumption 66 5.4 Representations of Age in TV Comedy 67 5.5 Age-related Language Use 69 5.6 Interaction between People of Different Ages 74 5.7 Analysing Spoken Language 76 5.8 Analysing Child-directed Language 80 5.9 Elder-directed Language 81 6 Language, Media, and Gender 83 6.1 Defining Gender 83 6.2 Gendering Each Other through Language and Media 84 6.3 Performing Gender 90 6.4 Gender and Media 92 6.5 Women, Men, and Language 95 6.6 Gendered Representation in the Press 99 6.7 How Women and Men Use Language 101 6.8 Exploring the Construction of Gender Activism 108 7 Language, Media, and Sexuality 109 7.1 Putting Sexuality into Words 109 7.2 LGBTQ+ (In)visibility 110 7.3 LGBTQ+ Representation in the Media 120 8 Language, Media, and Ethnicity 133 8.1 A Reflexive Note 133 8.2 Defining Ethnicity 133 8.3 Theorising Ethnicity 138 8.4 Attitudes to Language and Ethnicity 142 8.5 Linguistic Creativity Related to Ethnicity 146 8.6 Representations of Race and Ethnicity in the Media 150 9 Language, Media, and Social Class 157 9.1 Defining Social Class 157 9.2 Forms of Capital in the Construction of Social Class Identity 159 9.3 Accent, Dialect, and Social Class 162 9.4 Perceptions of Linguistic Varieties 165 9.5 The Relationship between Region and Social Class in Language Use 172 9.6 Linguistic Identities 174 9.7 Researching Language and Social Class 176 9.8 Constructing Workers 180 10 Language, Media, and Disability 181 10.1 Definitions and Constructions of Disability 181 10.2 Representing Disability 183 10.3 Disability and Identity: Who Does the Defining? 186 10.4 Disability and Language 187 10.5 Media Representations of Disability 191 10.6 Social Media and Disability 205 10.7 Final Thoughts 207 A Concluding Word 208 References 210 Index 218

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ANTHEA IRWIN-TURNER is a Lecturer in Communication at Ulster University, UK. She applies her main research interest of power and identity in (media) discourse to a range of fields including adolescent interaction, and media constructions of young people, asylum seekers, poverty, minority languages, and political events. She has published chapters in edited volumes, papers in such journals as Language in Society, and reports for third sector organisations across these subject areas.

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