Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- 1.Language in the media: theory and practice -- PART I Metaphors and Meanings -- 2.Metaphors for speaking and writing in the British press -- 3.Journalistic constructions of Blair's 'apology' for the intelligence 48 leading to the Iraq war -- 4.Crises of meaning: personalist language ideology in US media discourse -- PART II National Identities, Citizenship and Globalization -- 5.The iconography of orthography: representing German spelling reform in the news magazine Der Spiegel -- 6.A language ideology in print: the case of Sweden -- 7.Global challenges to nationalist ideologies: language and education in the Luxembourg press -- PART III Contact and Codeswitching in Multilingual Mediascapes -- 8.Corsican on the airwaves: media discourse in a context of minority language shift -- 9.'When Hector met Tom Cruise': attitudes to Irish in a radio satire -- 10.Dealing with linguistic difference in encounters with Others on British television -- PART IV Youth, Gender and Cyber-Identities -- 11.Fabricating youth: new-media discourse and the technologization of young people -- 12.Dreaming of Genie: language, gender difference and identity on the web -- 13.Of chords, machines and bumble-bees: the metalinguistics of hyperpoetry -- Commentary -- 14.Language in the media: authenticity and othering -- References -- Index.