Introduction: Routledge Handbook of Language and Media

Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK)

“…The operational conception of 'media' must be opened towards "an inclusive approach that encompasses institutions, technologies and practices of mediation as elements of the sociolinguistic condition of late-modern societies" (Androutsopoulos 2014: 247). Introducing the term "media linguistics", Cotter, Perrin, and Whitehouse (2017: 3) argue that "language and media research … is necessary and essential to understanding language in its role in society and in terms of its creative-and limiting-potential". Among the many different functions that media/language dynamics can perform, Androutsopolous (2017) points to the particular ideological influence of the media on motivation(s) for minority language use, and to theoretical models and frameworks for understanding said influence.…”

AILA Research Networks: Call for Applications

“…This development of media linguistics is summarized in the first handbook in the field, published just in time for the AILA World Congress (Cotter & Perrin, 2017). Most of the chapters of this handbook are authored by members of the AILA Research Network on Media Linguistics.…”

AILA Matters

“…The Routledge Handbook of language and media (Cotter and Perrin), available in , is meant to provide an attractive, accessible, and comprehensive overview of state‐of‐the‐art research in what can best be termed media linguistics. In the handbook, internationally known authors and researchers draw on and develop inter‐ and transdisciplinary research approaches to: survey, explain, and critically discuss frameworks and questions of leading research in which communication is investigated as a socially relevant situated activity in the contexts of media and mediatization; contrast the durability and change, and the local and global relevance, of the media linguistics research agenda in order to identify the potential and the shortcomings of current approaches as well as outline promising roadmaps for future research; explain how media linguistics interacts with other disciplines – within linguistics as well as beyond, for example with media studies, psychology, and sociology – and identify the added value that it brings to disciplines and fields such as English Language studies, (Applied) Linguistics, rhetoric and composition – and the practical domains it investigates. …”