Sally Johnson is Professor and Head of the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Leeds. Astrid Ensslin is a Lecturer in New Media at the University of Wales Bangor

• Introduction; PART I Metaphors and Meanings; PART II National Identities, Citizenship and Globalization; PART III Contact and Codeswitching in Multilingual; Mediascapes; PART IV Youth, Gender and Cyber-Identities.

"...consistently reflects its authors' ability to meld fresh empirical study to thought-provoking analytical and theoretical insight vis-à-vis the intersections between media representations of language issues and larger societal understandings of these issues...Adam Jaworski concludes the volume with a reflective chapter (Chapter 14) entitled ‘Language in the media: Authenticity and othering'. Jaworski notes the ways in which many of the volume's chapters display a growing self-reflexivity among researchers of language. Given the clear critical orientation of most of the volume's authors, the seems an apt observation with which to conclude Language in the Media." Journal of Sociolinguistics 13/4. 2009

Sally Johnson is Professor and Head of the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Leeds. Astrid Ensslin is a Lecturer in New Media at the University of Wales Bangor

• Introduction; PART I Metaphors and Meanings; PART II National Identities, Citizenship and Globalization; PART III Contact and Codeswitching in Multilingual; Mediascapes; PART IV Youth, Gender and Cyber-Identities.

"...consistently reflects its authors' ability to meld fresh empirical study to thought-provoking analytical and theoretical insight vis-à-vis the intersections between media representations of language issues and larger societal understandings of these issues...Adam Jaworski concludes the volume with a reflective chapter (Chapter 14) entitled ‘Language in the media: Authenticity and othering'. Jaworski notes the ways in which many of the volume's chapters display a growing self-reflexivity among researchers of language. Given the clear critical orientation of most of the volume's authors, the seems an apt observation with which to conclude Language in the Media." Journal of Sociolinguistics 13/4. 2009

Sally Johnson is Professor and Head of the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Leeds. Astrid Ensslin is a Lecturer in New Media at the University of Wales Bangor

• Introduction; PART I Metaphors and Meanings; PART II National Identities, Citizenship and Globalization; PART III Contact and Codeswitching in Multilingual; Mediascapes; PART IV Youth, Gender and Cyber-Identities.

"...consistently reflects its authors' ability to meld fresh empirical study to thought-provoking analytical and theoretical insight vis-à-vis the intersections between media representations of language issues and larger societal understandings of these issues...Adam Jaworski concludes the volume with a reflective chapter (Chapter 14) entitled ‘Language in the media: Authenticity and othering'. Jaworski notes the ways in which many of the volume's chapters display a growing self-reflexivity among researchers of language. Given the clear critical orientation of most of the volume's authors, the seems an apt observation with which to conclude Language in the Media." Journal of Sociolinguistics 13/4. 2009