Style, Mediation, and Change: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Talking Media (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics)

Mediated talk is organised around familiar styles - styles of person, relationship and genre. But media also consistently remake and re-style these familiar patterns. This book brings together original research of media styling in different national contexts and languages. It highlights and theorises how creative acts of mediated styling can promote social and sociolinguistic change.

Janus Mortensen is Associate Professor at the Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Nikolas Coupland is Emeritus Professor, Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, Wales and Honorary Professor, Department of Nordic Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is an elected Fellow of both the UK Academy of Social Sciences and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Jacob Thøgersen is Associate Professor at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.