Language ideologies and media discourse : texts, practices, politics / edited by Sally Johnson and Tommaso M. Milani

"This volume has its origins in a conference of the same name, which was held at the University of Leeds in September 2007"--P. xi

Includes bibliographical references and index

Critical intersections : language ideologies and media discourse / Tommaso M. Milani and Sally Johnson -- Prescriptivism in and about the media : a comparative analysis of corrective practices in Greece and Germany / Spiros Moschonas and Jürgen Spitzmüller -- Globalizing standard Spanish : the promotion of "panhispanism" by Spain's language guardians / Darren Paffey -- Language games on Korean television : between globalization, nationalism and authority / Joseph Sung-Yul Park -- Planeta Brasil : language practices and the construction of space on Brazilian TV abroad / Iris Bachmann -- Circularity in the reproduction of language ideology : the case of Greek Cypriot TV series / Vasiliki Georgiou -- Language ideologies and state imperatives : the strategic use of Singlish in public media discourse / Michelle M. Lazar -- Lost in translation? : racialization of a debate about language in a BBC news item / Adrian Blackledge -- Metadiscourses of race in the news : the Celebrity big brother row / Bethan L. Davies -- Ideologizing ethnolectal German / Jannis Androutsopoulos -- "Black and white" : language ideologies in computer game discourse / Astrid Ensslin -- Language ideological debates on the BBC "Voices" website : hypermodality in theory and practice / Sally Johnson, Tommaso M. Milani and Clive Upton -- "It's not a telescope, it's a telephone" : encounters with the telephone on early commercial sound recordings / Richard Bauman