Language, Media and Culture: The Key Concepts is an authoritative and indispensable guide to the essential terminology of the overlapping fields of Language, Media and Culture. Designed to give students and researchers ‘tools for thinking with’ in addressing major issues of communicative change in the 21st century, the book covers over 500 concepts as well as containing an extensive bibliography to aid further study. Subjects covered include:
- Authenticity
- Truthiness
- Structures of feeling
- Turn-taking
- Transitivity
- Validity claims
With cross referencing and further reading provided throughout, this book provides an inclusive map of the discipline, and is an essential reference work for students in communication, media, journalism and cultural studies, as well as for students of language and linguistics.
Introduction
Acknowledgements
How to use this book
List of key concepts
The key concepts
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Martin Montgomery is Emeritus Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Macau, China, where he was formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Head of the Departments of English and of Communication. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde, UK, where he served as Head of the Department of English Studies and Director of the Scottish Centre for Journalism Studies.
"An invaluable interdisciplinary guide to the language of a range of closely related disciplines in the age of the internet by a leading sociolinguistics scholar. Language, Media and Culture: The Key Concepts will be of great use to students of media and communication, sociology, literature, and linguistics."
Paddy Scannell, University of Michigan, USA
"This book is a rare find. Its clear entries on a range of key ideas and analytical terms in the study of language, culture and communication will help students and scholars from many disciplines navigate an often confusing set of fields. And for that reason, it’s not just a useful book but an important one."
Donald Matheson, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
"This splendid volume interweaves the fields of language, media and culture to considerable advantage for enriching our conceptual toolkits. It succeeds in capturing the subtle nuances of key terms with analytical precision while, at the same time, furthering our understanding of their theory-building significance for empirical enquiry. Highly recommended."
Stuart Allan, Cardiff University, UK
