Here is a bibliography dealing with media and their language. The publications may be consulted as a starting point for your presentations though you are required to use further sources. Where indicated they may be found in my semester apparatus within the UB or the TB. Some publications are available in e-book format.
Contents:
Aitchison, J., and D. M. Lewis, ed., New Media Language (London, 2003). (TB)
Bednarek, M., and H. Caple, News Discourse (London, 2012).
Bell, A., The Language of News Media, Language in Society 17 (Oxford, 1991).
Branston, G., and R. Stafford, The Media Student's Book, 5th ed. (London and New York, 2010). accompanying website
Budra, P., and C. Burnham, ed., From Text to Txting: New Media in the Classrom (Bloomington, IN, 2012).
Conboy, M., The Language of the News (London, 2007).
Durant, A., and M. Lambrou, Language and Media: A Resource Book for Students (London, 2009). (UB)
Gane, N., and D. Beer, New Media: The Key Concepts (Oxford and New York, 2008).
Giddings, S., and M. Lister, ed., The New Media and Technocultures Reader (Abingdon and New York, 2011). (UB)
Hauser, S., and M. Luginbühl, ed., Contrastive Media Analysis: Approaches to Linguistic and Cultural Aspects of Mass Media Communication (Amsterdam, 2012). (TB)
Johnson, S., and A. Ensslin, Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies (London, 2007). (TB)
Levinson, P., New New Media, 2nd ed. (New York, 2012).
Linke, G., New Media: New Teaching Options ?! (Heidelberg, 2006). (TB)
Lister, M., et al., New Media: A Critical Introduction, 2nd ed. (London and New York, 2009).
Manovich, L., The Language of New Media (Cambridge, MA, 2001). (e-book)
McKay, S., 'Media and Language: Overview', in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics Vol. 7, 2nd ed., ed. K. Brown (London, 2006), pp. 597-602. (e-book)
Robinson, C. L., and P. Clements, ed., Neo-Medievalism in the Media: Essays on Film, Television, and Electronic Games (Lewiston, NY, 2012).
Rowe, C., and E. L. Wyss, ed., Language and New Media: Linguistic, Cultural, and Technological Evolutions (Cresskill, NJ, 2009). (TB)
Watson, J., Media Communication: An Introduction to Theory and Process, 3rd ed. (Oxford, 2008).
Baron, N. S., Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World (Oxford, 2008). (UB)
Baym, N., 'Language in Computer-Mediated Communication', in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics Vol. 6, 2nd ed., ed. K. Brown (London, 2006), pp. 523-529. (e-book)
Crystal, D., Language and the Internet, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 2006). (e-book)
Crystal, D., Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide (Abingdon, 2011). (UB) (e-book)
Frehner, C., Email, SMS, MMS: The Linguistic Creativity of Asynchronous Discourse in the New Media Age (Bern, 2008).
Bednarek, M., Evaluation in Media Discourse: Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus (London, 2006).
Conboy, M., The Language of Newspapers: Socio-Historical Perspectives (London, 2010). (UB)
Cotter, C., News Talk: Investigating the Language of Journalism (Cambridge, 2010). (UB)
Facchinetti, R., N. Brownlees, B. Bös and U. Fries, News as Changing Texts: Corpora, Methodologies and Analysis (Newcastle, 2012).
Fowler, R., Language in the News: Discourse and Ideology in the Press (London, 1994).
Fries, U., 'English and the Media: Newspapers', in Historical Linguistics of English Vol. 1, ed. A. Bergs and L. Brinton, Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science / Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 34.1 (Berlin, 2012), pp. 1063-1075. (e-book)
Chignell, H., Key Concepts in Radio Studies (London, 2009). (TB)
Crisell, A., Understanding Radio, 2nd ed. (London, 1994). (TB)
Fitzgerald, R., 'Radio: Language', in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics Vol. 10, 2nd ed., ed. K. Brown (London, 2006), pp. 348-354. (e-book)
Schwyter, J. R., 'English and the Media: Radio', in Historical Linguistics of English Vol. 1, ed. A. Bergs and L. Brinton, Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science / Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 34.1 (Berlin, 2012), pp. 1089-1104. (e-book)
Tolson, A., Media Talk: Spoken Discourse on TV and Radio (Edinburgh, 2006).
Bednarek, M., The Language of Fictional Television: Drama and Identity (London, 2010). (TB)
Bonner, F., 'Television: Language', in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics Vol. 12, 2nd ed., ed. K. Brown (London, 2006), pp. 548-554. (e-book)
Lorenzo-Dus, N., Television Discourse: Analysing Language in the Media (Basingstoke, 2009). (UB)
Marshall, J., and A. Werndly, The Language of Television (London, 2002).
Stewart-Smith, J., 'English and the Media: Television', in Historical Linguistics of English Vol. 1, ed. A. Bergs and L. Brinton, Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science / Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 34.1 (Berlin, 2012), pp. 1075-1088. (e-book)
Beard, A., The Language of Sport (London, 1998). (TB)
Crawford, G., V. K. Gosling and B. Light, ed., Online Gaming in Context: The Social and Cultural Significance of Online Games, Routledge Advances in Sociology 56 (Abingdon and New York, 2011).
Ensslin, A., The Language of Gaming (Basingstoke, 2012). (UB)
Scannell, P., 'Sports Broadcasting', in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics Vol. 12, 2nd ed., ed. K. Brown (London, 2006), pp. 112-114. (e-book)
