Dear SLICE friends
Here are the End of October news:
(1) On the very first day of the month, we had the pleasure in Copenhagen to discuss with visiting SLICE colleagues from Vilnius who reported from some of their many projects:
Aurytė Čekuolytė – on the results of an ethnographic study on the social dynamics of Vilnius youth: social categories and language.
Loreta Vaicekauskienė – on experimental research of pop-girls and social meanings of [s]
Ramunė Čičirkaitė – on experimental research of social meaning of vowel lengthening as stigmatised feature of Vilnius speech
Inga Vyšniauskienė – on corpus analysis of Russian and English features in Vilnius youth speech
(2) Stephen Pax Leonard did not only write poetry in the polar north (if you got that impression from the previous newsletter). See the attached flyer, or also http://www.francisboutle.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=112
(3) Jannis Androutsopoulos sends the 1st Call for Papers for the next "Language in the media" conference, which he will host in Hamburg next September. See attached flyer.
(4) I would also like to mention that Jannis recently published a volume which I feel certain will be of interest to many SLICE members. See reference data and contents list below.
Best wishes from Copenhagen
Tore
https://lanchart.hum.ku.dk/research/slice/
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Jannis Androutsopoulos (ed.)
Mediatization and sociolinguistic change. De Gruyter, linguae & litterae 36
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/247657
Contents
Section I: Framing the issues
Jannis Androutsopoulos
Mediatization and sociolinguistic change.
Key concepts, research traditions, open issues 3
Andreas Hepp
Mediatization. A panorama of media and communication research 49
Nikolas Coupland
Sociolinguistic change, vernacularization and broadcast British media 67
Section II: Media influence on language change
Tore Kristiansen
Does mediated language influence immediate language? 99
Jane Stuart-Smith and Ichiro Ota
Media models, ‘the shelf’, and stylistic variation in East and West.
Rethinking the influence of the media on language variation and change 127
Ichiro Ota and Shoji Takano
The media influence on language change in Japanese sociolinguistic contexts 171
Isabelle Buchstaller
Commentary: Television and language use. What do we mean by influence and how do we detect it? 205
Section III: Media engagement in interactional practice
Alexandra Georgakopoulou
‘Girlpower or girl (in) trouble?’
Identities and discourses in the (new) media engagements of adolescents’ school-based interaction 217
Vally Lytra
Multilingualism, multimodality and media engagement in classroom talk and action 245
Ben Rampton
Commentary: ‘Agents’ or ‘participation’. Sociolinguistic frameworks for the study of media engagement 269
Section IV: Change in mass-mediatized and digitally mediated language
Ulrich Schmitz
Semiotic economy, growth of mass media discourse, and change of written language through multimodal techniques.
The case of newspapers (printed and online) and web services 279
Martin Luginbuhl
Genre profiles and genre change. The case of TV news 305
Lauren Squires and Josh Iorio
Tweets in the news. Legitimizing medium, standardizing form 331
Jurgen Spitzmuller
Commentary: Mediality, mediatization and sociolinguistic change 361
Section V: Enregisterment of change in media discourse
Colleen Cotter
Revising the “journalist’s bible”. How news practitioners respond to language and social change 371
Spiros A. Moschonas
The media on media-induced language change 395
Paul Kerswill
The objectification of ‘Jafaican’. The discoursal embedding of Multicultural London English in the British media 427
Barbara Johnstone
Commentary: Sociolinguists and the news media 457
Section VI: Mediatized spaces for minoritized languages
Mairead Moriarty
Súil Eile. Media, sociolinguistic change and the Irish Language 463
Ana Deumert
Sites of struggle and possibility in cyberspace. Wikipedia and Facebook in Africa 487
Sari Pietikainen
Circulation of indigenous Sami resources across media spaces. A rhizomatic discourse approach 515
Helen Kelly-Holmes
Commentary: Mediatized spaces for minoritized languages. Challenges and opportunities 539
Notes on contributors 545
Index 550