Media linguistics

Media linguistics is the linguistic study of language use in the media. It studies the functioning of language in the media sphere, or modern mass communication presented by print, audiovisual, digital, and networked media.

Media linguistics is being formed in the process of the differentiation of linguistics as a general theory of language, and is a sub-field of linguistics similar to other fields such as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, developmental linguistics, legal linguistics, political linguistics, etc.

Object

Modern media linguistics examines not only the written language of media, but also media speech. Media linguistics includes media speech studies that examine (1) the speech behavior of mass communication participants and (2) specific areas, textures, and genres of media texts. Media linguistics analyses texts, as well as their production and reception.[1][2]

Thus, in principle, media linguistics seeks to explain the particular case of the functioning of language—in mass communication with its complex structure and changing properties—amid the overall trends of language and speech culture.[3] It studies language in relation to medium-specific aspects, such as the specific properties of media texts or platforms, and sometimes includes analysis of multimodality.[1] Media linguistics is closely related to contemporary media practices and intends to impact on them, in particular, by means of media education. Studying language use in the media can be used to help develop critical media literacy, for example in relation to stereotypes.[2]

Media linguistics includes the study of traditional mass media texts (typically, print or broadcast news) as well as social media and other digital media.[1] The study of fictional film and television has recently emerged as an important area of media linguistics.[4]

In different countries
  • In English-speaking countries the terms media study and media discourse analysis are used, while interdisciplinary approaches such as Critical Discourse Analysis are often used to study news media. See, for example, Teun A. van Dijk's book News as Discourse.[5] Some scholars have recently started using the term media linguistics,[2] while others prefer the more narrow term media stylistics.
  • In Germany-speaking countries the term Medienlinguistik is used,[6] and the field is regarded as "one of the most dynamic fields of applied linguistics".[1]
  • In Russia, active usage of the term Медиалингвистика is associated with the publications of T.G. Dobrosklonskaya, where English media speech is investigated. Russian media linguistics is the successor of different linguistic fields, which were designated as and called "the language of newspaper", "the language of radio", "the language of media".[7]

See also

References
  1. Luginbühl, Martin (2015). "Media Linguistics: On Mediality and Culturality" (PDF). 10Plus1. 1: 9–26.
  2. Bednarek, Monika (2018). "Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue". Cambridge Core. doi:10.1017/9781108559553. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  3. Hult, F.M. (2010). Swedish Television as a mechanism for language planning and policy. Language Problems and Language Planning, 34(2), 158-181.
  4. Bednarek, Monika; Zago, Raffaele (2019). "Bibliography of linguistic research on fictional (narrative, scripted) television series and films/movies". Academia.Edu. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  5. Teun A. Van Dijk (1988). News as Discourse. Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum. ISBN 0-8058-0828-0. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
  6. de:Medienlinguistik
  7. "Media Linguistics": a scientific web site: http://medialing.spbu.ru/world_of_medialinguistics/ and an international journal of the same name https://medialing.ru
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