Thematising Multilingualism in the Media
Edited by Helen Kelly-Holmes and Tommaso M. Milani
[Benjamins Current Topics, 49] 2013. v, 151 pp.
Helen Kelly-Holmes
List of John Benjamins publications for which Helen Kelly-Holmes plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Language policy | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Thematising Multilingualism in the Media
Edited by Helen Kelly-Holmes and Tommaso M. Milani
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 10:4 (2011) v, 153 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
2013 Sex, lies and thematising Irish: New media, old discourses? Thematising Multilingualism in the Media, Kelly-Holmes, Helen and Tommaso M. Milani (eds.), pp. 43–66 | Article
Thematising Irish in the media reflects the complex and contradictory sociolinguistic and language-ideological situation in Ireland. This chapter explores some of that complexity by investigating a thread on an online discussion forum on the subject of the first ever party leaders’ debate in Irish… read more
2013 Thematising multilingualism in the media Thematising Multilingualism in the Media, Kelly-Holmes, Helen and Tommaso M. Milani (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article
The focus of this volume is on the opportunities presented and challenges posed by the thematisation of multilingualism in the media. A number of case studies from a variety of linguistic, media, political, social, economic and educational contexts are presented, with the objective of addressing… read more
2011 Sex, lies and thematising Irish: New media, old discourses? Thematising Multilingualism in the Media, Kelly-Holmes, Helen and Tommaso M. Milani (eds.), pp. 511–534 | Article
Thematising Irish in the media reflects the complex and contradictory sociolinguistic and language-ideological situation in Ireland. This article explores some of that complexity by investigating a thread on an online discussion forum on the subject of the first ever party leaders’ debate in Irish… read more
2011 Thematising multilingualism in the media Thematising Multilingualism in the Media, Kelly-Holmes, Helen and Tommaso M. Milani (eds.), pp. 467–489 | Article
The focus of this special issue is on the opportunities presented and challenges posed by the thematisation of multilingualism in the media. A number of case studies from a variety of linguistic, media, political, social, economic and educational contexts are presented, with the objective of… read more
2006 Linguistic normalisation and the market: Advertising and linguistic choice in El Periódico de Catalunya Language Problems and Language Planning 30:3, pp. 239–260 | Article
Language planning and policy in Catalonia has been a focus of much interest and discussion over the past three decades. In this article we go beyond issues of policy in order to examine what happens when an influential constituency in the linguistic landscape of Catalonia, namely advertisers, have… read more
2006 Irish on the World Wide Web: Searches and sites Languages of the Internet, Menezes, Claudio (ed.), pp. 217–238 | Article
This paper reports on the process of searching with Irish words on the Irish language version of the Google Internet search engine. Five words from ‘typical’ and ‘non-typical’ domains for Irish are used, and the results are analysed in terms of the “authenticity” of the search process and results,… read more
2004 “The spoilt children of Europe”: German press coverage of the Nice Treaty referenda in Ireland Journal of Language and Politics 3:1, pp. 81–116 | Article
Ireland’s rejection of the Nice Treaty in a referendum in June 2001 led to intense media discourse about this “no” vote and speculation about the outcome of the second referendum to ratify the Treaty in October 2002. The German media, traditionally positive in their portrayal of Ireland, were… read more