Neuphilologisches Institut
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg


HAUPTSEMINAR:
THE LANGUAGE OF MEDIA

Oliver M. Traxel

WS 14/15
Wd 8-10

Room: ZHG 1.005


BIBLIOGRAPHY


Here is a bibliography dealing with media and their language. The publications may be consulted as a starting point for your presentations though you are required to use further sources. Where indicated they may be found in my semester apparatus within the UB or the TB. Some publications are available in e-book format.

Contents:


1. General Publications / Publications Covering More Than One Topic

Aitchison, J., and D. M. Lewis, ed., New Media Language (London, 2003). (TB)

Bednarek, M., and H. Caple, News Discourse (London, 2012).

Bell, A., The Language of News Media, Language in Society 17 (Oxford, 1991).

Branston, G., and R. Stafford, The Media Student's Book, 5th ed. (London and New York, 2010). accompanying website

Budra, P., and C. Burnham, ed., From Text to Txting: New Media in the Classrom (Bloomington, IN, 2012).

Conboy, M., The Language of the News (London, 2007).

Durant, A., and M. Lambrou, Language and Media: A Resource Book for Students (London, 2009). (UB)

Gane, N., and D. Beer, New Media: The Key Concepts (Oxford and New York, 2008).

Giddings, S., and M. Lister, ed., The New Media and Technocultures Reader (Abingdon and New York, 2011). (UB)

Hauser, S., and M. Luginbühl, ed., Contrastive Media Analysis: Approaches to Linguistic and Cultural Aspects of Mass Media Communication (Amsterdam, 2012). (TB)

Johnson, S., and A. Ensslin, Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies (London, 2007). (TB)

Levinson, P., New New Media, 2nd ed. (New York, 2012).

Linke, G., New Media: New Teaching Options ?! (Heidelberg, 2006). (TB)

Lister, M., et al., New Media: A Critical Introduction, 2nd ed. (London and New York, 2009).

Manovich, L., The Language of New Media (Cambridge, MA, 2001). (e-book)

McKay, S., 'Media and Language: Overview', in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics Vol. 7, 2nd ed., ed. K. Brown (London, 2006), pp. 597-602. (e-book)

Robinson, C. L., and P. Clements, ed., Neo-Medievalism in the Media: Essays on Film, Television, and Electronic Games (Lewiston, NY, 2012).

Rowe, C., and E. L. Wyss, ed., Language and New Media: Linguistic, Cultural, and Technological Evolutions (Cresskill, NJ, 2009). (TB)

Watson, J., Media Communication: An Introduction to Theory and Process, 3rd ed. (Oxford, 2008).

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2. Internet & Computer-Based Media

Baron, N. S., Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World (Oxford, 2008). (UB)

Baym, N., 'Language in Computer-Mediated Communication', in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics Vol. 6, 2nd ed., ed. K. Brown (London, 2006), pp. 523-529. (e-book)

Crystal, D., Language and the Internet, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 2006). (e-book)

Crystal, D., Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide (Abingdon, 2011). (UB) (e-book)

Frehner, C., Email, SMS, MMS: The Linguistic Creativity of Asynchronous Discourse in the New Media Age (Bern, 2008).

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3. Newspapers & Magazines

Bednarek, M., Evaluation in Media Discourse: Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus (London, 2006).

Conboy, M., The Language of Newspapers: Socio-Historical Perspectives (London, 2010). (UB)

Cotter, C., News Talk: Investigating the Language of Journalism (Cambridge, 2010). (UB)

Facchinetti, R., N. Brownlees, B. Bös and U. Fries, News as Changing Texts: Corpora, Methodologies and Analysis (Newcastle, 2012).

Fowler, R., Language in the News: Discourse and Ideology in the Press (London, 1994).

Fries, U., 'English and the Media: Newspapers', in Historical Linguistics of English Vol. 1, ed. A. Bergs and L. Brinton, Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science / Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 34.1 (Berlin, 2012), pp. 1063-1075. (e-book)

Google Magazines (database)

Google Newspapers (database)

Keeble, R., The Newspapers Handbook (London, 2006). (UB)

LexisNexis (database, only available on university network)

Library PressDisplay (database, only available on university network)

Reah, D., The Language of Newspapers (London, 1998).

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4. Advertising & Marketing

Cook, G., The Discourse of Advertising (London, 1992). (TB)

Goddard, A., The Language of Advertising: Written Texts, 2nd ed. (London, 2007). (UB)

Vestergaard, T., and K. Schrøder, The Language of Advertising (Oxford, 1985).

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5. Radio

Chignell, H., Key Concepts in Radio Studies (London, 2009). (TB)

Crisell, A., Understanding Radio, 2nd ed. (London, 1994). (TB)

Fitzgerald, R., 'Radio: Language', in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics Vol. 10, 2nd ed., ed. K. Brown (London, 2006), pp. 348-354. (e-book)

Schwyter, J. R., 'English and the Media: Radio', in Historical Linguistics of English Vol. 1, ed. A. Bergs and L. Brinton, Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science / Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 34.1 (Berlin, 2012), pp. 1089-1104. (e-book)

Tolson, A., Media Talk: Spoken Discourse on TV and Radio (Edinburgh, 2006).

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6. Music & Pop Lyrics

Frith, S., 'Songs as Texts', in his Performing Rites: On The Value of Popular Music (Oxford, 1996), pp. 158-182.

Kreyer, F., and J. Mukherjee, 'The Style of Pop Song Lyrics: A Corpus-Linguistic Pilot Study', Anglia 125 (2007), 31-58. (e-book)

McQuinn, J., ed., Popular Music and Multimedia (Farnham, 2011).

Werner, V., 'Love Is All Around: A Corpus-Based Study of Pop Lyrics', Corpora 7 (2012), 19-50. (e-book)

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7. Television

Bednarek, M., The Language of Fictional Television: Drama and Identity (London, 2010). (TB)

Bonner, F., 'Television: Language', in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics Vol. 12, 2nd ed., ed. K. Brown (London, 2006), pp. 548-554. (e-book)

Lorenzo-Dus, N., Television Discourse: Analysing Language in the Media (Basingstoke, 2009). (UB)

Marshall, J., and A. Werndly, The Language of Television (London, 2002).

Stewart-Smith, J., 'English and the Media: Television', in Historical Linguistics of English Vol. 1, ed. A. Bergs and L. Brinton, Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science / Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 34.1 (Berlin, 2012), pp. 1075-1088. (e-book)

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8. Sports & Games

Beard, A., The Language of Sport (London, 1998). (TB)

Crawford, G., V. K. Gosling and B. Light, ed., Online Gaming in Context: The Social and Cultural Significance of Online Games, Routledge Advances in Sociology 56 (Abingdon and New York, 2011).

Ensslin, A., The Language of Gaming (Basingstoke, 2012). (UB)

Scannell, P., 'Sports Broadcasting', in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics Vol. 12, 2nd ed., ed. K. Brown (London, 2006), pp. 112-114. (e-book)

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9. Movies

Forchini, P., Movie Language Revisited: Evidence from Multi-Dimensional Analysis and Corpora, Lingue e Culture Series (Bern, 2012).

Piazza, R., ed., Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the Language of Films and Television Series (Amsterdam, 2011). (TB)

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10. TV & Movie Genres 1: Comedy

Brock, A., Blackadder, Monty Python und Red Dwarf: Eine linguistische Untersuchung britischer Fernsehkomödien (Tübingen, 2004).

Knop, K., Comedy in Serie: Medienwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf ein TV-Format (Bielefeld, 2007). (UB)

Mills, B., The Sitcom, TV Genres Series (Edinburgh, 2009).

Mundy, J., and G. White, Laughing Matters: Understanding Film, Television and Radio Comedy (Manchester, 2012).

Quaglio, P., Television Dialogue: The Sitcom 'Friends' vs. Natural Conversation (Amsterdam, 2009).

Weitz, E., The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy (Cambridge, 2009).

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11. TV & Movie Genres 2: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Adams, M., From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages (Oxford, 2011). (UB)

Barr, J., and C. D. G. Mustachio, ed., The Language of Doctor Who: From Shakespeare to Alien Tongues (London, 2014). (TB)

Mandala, S., Language in Science Fiction and Fantasy: The Question of Style (London and New York, 2010). (TB)

Meyers, W. E., Aliens and Linguists: Language Study and Science Fiction (Athens, GA, 1980). (TB)

Peterson, D., Living Language Dothraki (New York, 2014).

Stockwell, P., The Poetics of Science Fiction (Harlow, 2000).

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