Helen Ringrow is Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies and Applied Linguistics at the University of Portsmouth, UK.Stephen Pihlaja is a Reader in Stylistics at Newman University, Birmingham, UK.

• 1. Introduction, Helen Ringrow (University of Portsmouth, UK) and Stephen Pihlaja (Newman University, UK)2. "Beautiful masterpieces": metaphors of the female body in modest fashion blogs, Helen Ringrow (University of Portsmouth, UK) 3. Wolfing down the Twilight series: metaphors for reading in online reviews, Louise Nuttall (University of Huddersfield, UK and Chloe Harrison (Aston University, UK) 4. The language of citizen science: short strings and 'we' as a group marker, Glenn Hadikin (University of Portsmouth, UK) 5. The pragma-stylistics of ‘image macro’ internet memes, Jane Lugea (Queen's University Belfast, UK) 6. The stylistics of emoji: an interactional approach, Dwi Noverini Djenar (The University of Sydney, Australia) and Michael Ewing (The University of Melbourne) 7. Rape victims and the law: Victim-blaming and victimisation in reports of rape in the British press, Alessia Tranchese (University of Portsmouth, UK) 8. Changing media representation of Gina-Lisa Lohfink as the icon of the “Nein heißt nein” (no means no)-movement in Germany, Ulrike Tabbert (University of Huddersfield, UK) 9. Child victims of human trafficking and modern slavery in British newspapers, Ilse Ras (University of Leeds, UK) 10. Reader Comments and Right-Wing Discourse in Traditional News Media Websites, Tayyiba Bruce (Newman University, UK) 11. Straight talking honest politics: rhetorical style and ethos in the mediated politics of metamodernity, Sam Browse (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 12. The aura of facticity: the stylistic illusion of objectivity in news reports, Matt Davies (University of Chester, UK) 13. The style of online preachers, Stephen Pihlaja (Newman University, UK) 14. Conclusion, Caroline Tagg (The Open University, UK)Index

Contemporary Media Stylistics provides a view of the field that is both impressively wide-ranging and, through the individual contributions encompassed in the collection, in-depth. Experts and newcomers alike are certain to gain new insights about the language and other modalities that shape media discourses today. The studies give a clear sense of the complexity of contemporary media and the social and emotional lives in which these texts and practices are entangled.