Message and Medium: English Language Practices Across Old and New Media
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1612239
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1515/9783110670837
- Publisher
- De Gruyter Mouton
- ISBN
- 978-3-11-062039-9
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Tagg was involved in the leadership of this volume from its inception, in 50/50 partnership with Evans at each stage of its development. Many of the chapters were initially presented at a research seminar funded by the British Association of Applied Linguistics and Cambridge University Press in June 2016. The edited volume was conceptualised by Tagg and Evans to break new ground in designing and exploring a transhistorical approach to the study of language and technology, challenging accounts of the novelty of digital media and establishing continuities in human communication over time. The volume was grounded in Tagg’s expertise in the study of language and digital media, and her comparative research with Evans, a historical linguist. The editors provided direction and leadership throughout the process by providing a space for initial discussion amongst potential contributors; commissioning chapters which adopted one of three identified approaches: contrastive or comparative work; a diachronic approach, and the application of new concepts to old data and vice versa; and providing detailed and comprehensive feedback on successive drafts. The volume contains a 5,000-word editors’ introduction in which the new approach, its aims and contributions to existing literature are laid out, written equally by Tagg and Evans. Tagg took the lead on providing critical editorial feedback on 50% of the chapters and steered authors towards addressing key concerns. The volume is organised by the editors into four emergent areas of interest: Rethinking perspectives, Historicising discourses, Media trajectories and New to old, and each section is prefaced with an editors’ section introduction in which the key themes and implications are drawn out. The editors also commissioned leading experts to write a reflection on each of the four sections, as well as an overall postscript to the volume, designed to further challenge and extend the emerging line of enquiry.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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