Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 Language in the Media: Theory and Practice.
Sally Johnson (University of Leeds) and Astrid Ensslin (University of Wales, Bangor)
PART I            Metaphors and Meanings
Chapter 2 Metaphors for Speaking and Writing in the British Press.
John Heywood and Elena Semino (Lancaster University)
Chapter 3 Journalistic Constructions of Blair's ‘Apology' for the Intelligence Leading to the Iraq War.
Lesley Jeffries (University of Huddersfield)
Chapter 4 Crises of Meaning: Personalist Language Ideology in US Media Discourse.
Jane Hill (University of Arizona)
PART II           National Identities, Citizenship and Globalization
Chapter 5 The Iconography of Orthography: Representing German Spelling Reform in the News Magazine, Der Spiegel.
Sally Johnson (University of Leeds)
Chapter 6 A Language Ideology in Print: the Case of Sweden.
Tommaso M. Milani (University of Stockholm)
Chapter 7 Global Challenges to Nationalist Ideologies: Language and Education in the Luxembourg Press.
Kristine Horner (University of Leeds)
PART III          Contact and Codeswitching in Multilingual Mediascapes
Chapter 8 Corsican on the Airwaves: Media Discourse in a Context of Minority Language Shift.
Alexandra Jaffe (California State University, Long Beach)
Chapter 9 ‘When Hector met Tom Cruise': Attitudes to Irish in a Radio Satire.
Helen Kelly-Holmes and David Atkinson (University of Limerick)
Chapter 10 Dealing with Linguistic Difference in Encounters with Others on British Television.
Simon Gieve and Julie Norton (University of Leicester)
PART IV          Youth, Gender and Cyber-Identities
Chapter 11 Fabricating Youth: New-media Discourse and the Technologization of Young People.
Crispin Thurlow (University of Washington)
Chapter 12 Dreaming of Genie: Gender Difference and Identity on the Web.
Deborah Cameron (Oxford University)
Chapter 13 Of Chords, Machines and Bumble-bees: The Metalinguistics of Hyperpoetry.
Astrid Ensslin (University of Wales, Bangor)
Commentary
Chapter 14 Language in the Media: Authenticity and Othering.
Adam Jaworski (Cardiff University)