LINGUIST List 22.2507 Thu Jun 16 2011 TOC: Special Issue: Mediatized Communication in Complex Societies Editor for this issue: Justin Petro <justinlinguistlist.org> Directory         1.     Christopher Tancock , Special Issue: Mediatized Communication in Complex Societies Message 1: Special Issue: Mediatized Communication in Complex Societies Date: 13-Jun-2011 From: Christopher Tancock <c.tancockelsevier.com> Subject: Special Issue: Mediatized Communication in Complex Societies E-mail this message to a friend Publisher: Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Journal Title: Language & Communication Volume Number: 31 Issue Number: 3 Issue Date: 2011 Subtitle: Language & Communication Special Issue: Mediatized Communication in Complex Societies Main Text: 1. Editorial Board / Publication information Page IFC 2. Meet mediatization Pages 163-170 Asif Agha 3. Large and small scale forms of personhood Pages 171-180 Asif Agha 4. Stenography and ventriloquism in late nineteenth century Japan Pages 181-190 Miyako Inoue 5. Homies in the New Latino Diaspora Pages 191-202 Stanton Wortham, Katherine Mortimer, Elaine Allard 6. The “message” in the (political) battle Pages 203-216 Michael Silverstein 7. On virtual epidemics and the mediatization of public health Pages 217-228 Charles L. Briggs Highlights * Examining the mediatisation of a largely phantom health crisis in the local news media in southern California. * Using both ethnography and textual analysis of an example to explore biocommunicability. 8. Overhearing Ireland: Mediatized personae in Irish accent culture Pages 229-242 Robert Moore 9. Echoes of the teashop in a Tamil newspaper Pages 243-254 Francis Cody 10. Race and the re-embodied voice in Hollywood film Pages 255-265 Mary Bucholtz 11. Media authenticity and authority in Mauritius: On the mediality of language in religion Pages 266-273 Patrick Eisenlohr Highlights * I explore how language as a medium interacts with media technologies of other kinds. * The empirical example is Mauritian Muslims’ uses of sound reproduction technology in performing devotional poetry. * Mediality is the overarching analytical frame for the analysis of such interaction. * The oscillation between the foregrounding of the medium and its phenomenological disappearance is the comparative dimension for examining the interplay of different kinds of mediality. For more information on this Special Issue, please visit: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5918-2011-999689996-3317759 Or visit the journal homepage: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/langcom Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis                             Philosophy of Language                             Pragmatics                             Sociolinguistics                             Text/Corpus Linguistics Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)                             English (eng)                             Japanese (jpn)                             Tamil (tam) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 16-Jun-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.