Publications
Publication details [#53699]
Gieve, S.N. and Julie E. Norton. 2010. The erasure of linguistic difference in media representations of encounters with others on British television. Language Awareness 19 (3) : 205–225. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
Annotation
Drawing on critical discourse analysis and language awareness to reveal otherness constructions in broadcast talk, this study states that the representation of 'foreigners' on British television involves ideological work, potentially strengthening the idea hat it is not (so) meaningful to acquire foreign languages as everyone speaks English nowadays.