CONTENTS

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Acknowledgements

A Introduction: Key topics in the study of language and media

1 Language and mediation

2 Media, modes, and materialities

3 Media, genre, and style

4 Media storytelling

5 Media and discourse processes

6 Audiences, interaction, and participation

7 Media and the attention economy

8 Truth, lies, and propaganda

9 Media, censorship, and resistance

B Development: Approaches to language and media

1 Language, mediation, and sites of engagement

2 Making meaning with modes and materialities

3 Analyzing genres and styles in media

4 Telling and retelling stories

5 Production formats and discourse representation

6 Participation frameworks

7 Virality and memetics

8 Persuasive discourse and media rhetoric

9 Censorship and semiotic democracy

C Exploration: Analyzing language and media

1 Media uses and users

2 Analyzing intersemiotic relations

3 Analyzing news stories and media interviews

4 Analyzing narratives in the media

5 Analyzing media production

6 Analyzing participation in media

7 Analyzing spreadable media

8 Detecting biased, fallacious, and fake news

9 Offensive language and tactics of resistance

D Extension: Readings in language and media

1 Media, mediation, and mediated discourse (Ruth Finnegan; Sonia Livingstone; Ron Scollon)

2 Global modes and future modes (David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen; Astrid Esslin)

3 Media talk and media genres (Martin Montgomery, Paola Catenaccio)

4 Media storytelling and the shaping of reality (Michael Toolan; Ruth Page)

5 Media production (Colleen Cotter; Eva Gredel)

6 Participation frameworks and surveillant media (Anne O’Keeffe; Rodney H. Jones)

7 Spreadability: From news language to internet memes (Monika Bednarek and Helen Caple; Piia Varis and Jan Blommaert)

8 Political rhetoric and fake news (Martin Montgomery; Johan Farkas and Jannick Schou)

9 Resistance and citizen journalism (Paolo Peverini; Rodney H. Jones and Neville C.H. Li)

Glossarial index

References

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