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New media language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2005

Lily Chen
Lily Chen
Affiliation:
School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, lili.chen@sheffield.ac.uk
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Jean Aitchison & Diana M. Lewis (eds.), New media language. London & New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. x, 209. Pb $25.95.

In recent decades, say Jean Aitchison and Diana M. Lewis in their introduction to this volume, the media have seen an unprecedented amount of change. New media modes have appeared; newspapers and radio have been joined by television and the Internet. The speed of transmission has increased, and many more readers/viewers participate both actively and passively in the ongoing process that is the dissemination and consumption of news.

Yet while a flood of publications has attempted to analyze the changing nature of the media – exploring underlying aims and attitudes, or examining ways in which the media might be misleading its readers/viewers – relatively few, Aitchison & Lewis say, have investigated the language of the media in any depth.

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BOOK REVIEW
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Language in Society , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , October 2005 , pp. 646 - 649
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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