Vox Popular by Robin Queen - 9780470659915

Vox PopularThe Surprising Life of Language in the Media\nAuthor(s): Robin Queen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9780470659915, 978-0470659915\nSynopsis\nOur favorite movies and TV shows feature indelible characters who tell us about themselves not just in what they say but in how they say it. The creative decisions behind these voicessuch as what accent or dialect to useoffer rich data for sociolinguistic study. Ideal for students of language variation as well as general readers interested in media, Vox Popular is an engaging tour through the major issues of sociolinguistic study as heard in the voices from mass media.\n\n Provides readers with a unified and accessible picture of the interrelationships between language variation and the mass media\n\nPresents detailed original analyses of multiple audiovisual media sources\n\n Includes a broad methods chapter covering quantitative and qualitative methods in a sd