Description:
This book not only examines the ways in which the media represents language-related issues, but also how the media's use of language is central to the construction of what people think language is, could or ought to be like.
Brief description: Astrid Ensslin is Professor of Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces at University of Regensburg, Germany.
Review Quotes: ."..consistently reflects its authors' ability to meld fresh empirical study to thought-provoking analytical and theoretical insight "vis-a-vis "the intersections between media representations of language issues and larger societal understandings of these issues...Adam Jaworski concludes the volume with a reflective chapter (Chapter 14) entitled 'Language in the media: Authenticity and othering'. Jaworski notes the ways in which many of the volume's chapters display a growing self-reflexivity among researchers of language. Given the clear critical orientation of most of the volume's authors, the seems an apt observation with which to conclude Language in the Media." Journal of Sociolinguistics 13/4. 2009