Language and Canadian Media Representations, Ideologies, Policies

Language Ideologies and Canadian Media explores how French and English Canadian media discuss languages and language issues, which language ideologies predominate in English and French, and whether language ideologies in traditional news media are tr

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Representations, Ideologies, Policies

k RACHELLE VESSEY

Language and Canadian Media

Rachelle Vessey

Language and Canadian Media Representations, Ideologies, Policies

Rachelle Vessey Newcastle University Newcastle Upon Tyne United Kingdom

ISBN 978-1-137-53000-4 ISBN 978-1-137-53001-1 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53001-1

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Acknowledgements

Some material from Chap. 3 was originally published as “Vessey, R. (2015). Corpus approaches to language ideology. Applied Linguistics, by permission of Oxford University Press”. http://applij.oxfordjournals.org/ Material from Chap. 5 was originally published in the following article: Vessey, R. (2013). Too much French? Not enough French? The Vancouver Olympics and a very Canadian language ideological debate. Multilingua, 32(5), 659–682. http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/mult Some material from Chap. 7 was originally published in articles in the following articles: Vessey, R. (forthcoming 2016). Language ideologies in social media: the case of Pastagate. Journal of Language and Politics, 15(2). https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/jlp/main Vessey, R. (2015). Food fight: moral panic in news and social media concerning ‘Pastagate’. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 10(2), 253– 271. www.tandfonline.com

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Contents

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Introduction 1.1 An Introduction to Language Ideologies and the Media 1.2 Language Ideologies and News Media 1.3 Language Ideologies in New and Social Media 1.4 Research Question