pt. 1. Modern media discourse. Poles apart: globalization and the development of news discourse across the twentieth century / Allan Bell
Modern media myths / Raymond Snoddy
Globalizing 'communication' / Deborah Cameron
The new incivility: threat or promise? / Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Parochializing the global: language in the British tabloid press / Martin Conboy
pt. 2. Modes of the media. Reportage, literature and willed credulity / John Carey
Speaking to Middle England: Radio Four and its listeners / David Hendy
Literacy and the new media: vita brevis, lingua brevis / Angela Kesseler and Alexander Bergs
Why email looks like speech: proofreading, pedagogy, and public face / Naomi S. Baron
Online news: a new genre? / Diana M. Lewis
pt. 3. Representations and models. Wine language: useful idiom or idiot-speak? / Malcolm Gluck
Rhetoric, bluster and on-line gaffes: the tough life of a spin-doctor / Alan Partington
Politics is marriage and show business: a view from recent Taiwanese political discourse / Jennifer M. Wei
Emotional DIY and proper parenting in Kilroy / Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
Language and American 'good taste': Martha Stewart as mass-media role model / Catherine Evans Davies
pt. 4. The effect of the media on language. Noun phrases in media texts: a quantificational approach / Yibin Ni
Compressed noun-phrase structures in newspaper discourse: the competing demands of popularization vs. economy / Douglas Biber
Newspapers and neologisms / John Ayto
Reliable authority: tabloids, film, email and speech as sources for dictionaries / John Simpson
From Armageddon to war: the vocabulary of terrorism / Jean Aitchison.