The SLICE Round Table meeting on Sociolinguistics and Talking Media held at University of Copenhagen last June with generous support from the Department of Nordic Research and the LANCHART Centre, is being reported in two edited books which are now contracted to publishers and in active preparation. The provisional titles, schedules and contents of the books are as follows:
Language (De)standardisation in Late Modern Europe: Style and media studies
Edited by Jacob Thøgersen, Nikolas Coupland and Janus Mortensen
To be published early 2016 by Novus Press as the third volume in the SLICE book-series.
Contents (main chapters listed in alphabetical order according to author surname):
Editors’ introduction
Allan Bell
‘An evil version of our accent’: Changing ideologies and media stylization
of the neighbouring Other
Leonie Cornips, Vincent de Rooij, Irene Stengs and Lotte Thissen
Local language and local media: Reproducing the multi-dialectal space
of Limburg (the Netherlands)
Spiros A. Moschonas
Changes in language standards as changes in standard languages:
The case of media norms
Agnete Nesse
Kallemann & Amandus: The use of dialect in children’s programmes on
early Norwegian radio
Pia Quist
Representations of multiethnic youth styles in Danish broadcast media
Jane Stuart-Smith
Bridging the gap: The role of style in language change linked
to the broadcast media
Jacob Thøgersen
The style and stylization of old news reading in Danish
Sarah Van Hoof and Jürgen Jaspers
Negotiating linguistic standardization in Flemish TV fiction around
1980: Laying the grounds for a new linguistic normality
Jan-Ola Östman
Styling street credibility on the public byways: On the gradual
glocalization of dialect music performances
Commentary
Style, Mediation and Sociolinguistic Change – Sociolinguistic perspectives on talking media
Edited by Janus Mortensen, Nikolas Coupland and Jacob Thøgersen
To be published in the beginning of 2016 by Oxford University Press, in the book series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics.
Contents (main chapters listed in alphabetical order according to author surname):
Editors’ introduction
Monika Bednarek
Recirculating popular television: Audience practices and corporate practices
– with special focus on Big Bang Theory fan T-shirts
Nikolas Coupland
Styling the (in)authentic Welsh bilingual: MadamRygbi
Adam Jaworski
Television as art: Style, individualism and mediatization of engagement
Helen Kelly-Holmes
Indexical credibility in advertising: Styling brands as authentic speakers
Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
Small changes in Spanish political broadcasting? Incisive interviewing
and the news show Salvados
Martin Montgomery
Talking for fun and talking in earnest ‘on the air’
Tereza Spilioti
Media Stylisations of English: Staging conflict in Greek satirical radio talk
Joanna Thornborrow
Styling the ‘ordinary’: Tele-factual genres and participant identities
Theo van Leeuwen
Vocal style in newsreading
Commentary