Style, Mediation, and Change: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Talking Media
Janus Mortensen, Nikolas Coupland, and Jacob Thogersen
Abstract
Mediated talk is organized around familiar styles—styles of person, relationship, and genre. But media also consistently remake and restyle these familiar patterns. This book brings together original research on media styling in different national contexts and languages. It highlights and theorizes how creative acts of mediated styling can promote social and sociolinguistic change. The globalized world is already massively mediatized—what we know about language, people, and society is necessarily shaped through our engagement with media. But talking media are caught up in wider currents of rap ... More
Mediated talk is organized around familiar styles—styles of person, relationship, and genre. But media also consistently remake and restyle these familiar patterns. This book brings together original research on media styling in different national contexts and languages. It highlights and theorizes how creative acts of mediated styling can promote social and sociolinguistic change. The globalized world is already massively mediatized—what we know about language, people, and society is necessarily shaped through our engagement with media. But talking media are caught up in wider currents of rapid change too. Creative innovations in media styling can heighten our reflexive awareness, but they can also unsettle our existing understandings of language-society relations. In reporting new investigations by expert researchers, situated in relation to relevant theory, the book gives an original and timely account of how style, media, and change need to be integrated further to advance the discipline of sociolinguistics.
Keywords:
style,
styling,
stylization,
talking media,
mediation,
mediatization,
sociolinguistic change,
reflexivity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780190629489 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2017 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190629489.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Janus Mortensen, editor
Associate Professor, Center for Internationalization and Parallel Language Use (CIP), University of Copenhagen
Nikolas Coupland, editor
Emeritus Professor, Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University and Honorary Professor, Department of Nordic Research, University of Copenhagen
Jacob Thogersen, editor
Associate Professor, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen
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