"Pretty Liar" explores the rise of language and gender politics on Lebanese television to tell the untold story of the co-evolution of Lebanese television and its audiences and how the civil war of 1975-1991 affected that co-evolution. The shift in public interest in television has been widely ackno
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wledged and interpreted within an institutional context as a victory of the neo-liberal entrepreneurship of a new, agile brand over the government inefficiency of Lebanon's national station, Télé Liban. Yet, the role of the Lebanese Civil War in reshaping national television and broadcasting in Arab media following the emergence of the Lebanese Broadcasting Company in 1985 has been unexplored. Based on empirical data and grounded in theory by Arab and global researchers, "Pretty Liar" offers textual analyses of five Lebanese fictional series, three major and several additional periodicals, and nine literary works, and provides context from unscripted interviews with television administrators, anchors, actors, and freelance contributors, print journalists, and audience members. Khazaal seeks to offer new insight into how entertainment television became a site for politics and political resistance, feminism, and the cradle for post-war Lebanon due to the shift in practices and standards of legitimacy." (Publisher description)
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"Children, defined internationally as under-18s, account for some 40 per cent of Arab populations and the proportion of under-fives is correspondingly large. Yet studies of children's media and child audiences in the region are as scarce as truly popular locally produced media content aimed at child
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ren. At the very time when conflict and uncertainty in key Arab countries have made local development and diversification of children's media more remote, it has become more urgent to gain a better understanding of how the next generation's identities and worldviews are formed. This interdisciplinary book is the first in English to probe both the state of Arab screen media for children and the practices of Arabic-speaking children in producing, as well as consuming, screen content. It responds to the gap in research by bringing together a holistic investigation of institutions and leading players, children's media experiences and some iconic media texts. With children's media increasingly linked to merchandising, which favours US-based global players and globalizing forces, this volume provides a timely insight into tensions between differing concepts of childhood and desirable media messages." (Publisher description)
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"Langues et médias en Afrique noire francophone est une contribution très précieuse qui se focalise sur cet aspect tout à fait négligé de l'analyse des mutations médiatiques africaines contemporaines : les transformations de la langue. Elle ouvre une réflexion sur ce que la manipulation de l
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a langue, par les journalistes actuels, révèle quant aux évolutions sociales. Ce qui est passionnant dans le recueil de textes proposé, c'est justement que les différentes contributions s'étendent sur près de 25 ans : elles balayent ainsi un quart de siècle d'histoire de la presse camerounaise, s'intéressant tantôt aux médias publics, tantôt à la presse privée, évoquant les radios ou encore touchant à des thématiques voisines comme celle des TIC. La presse écrite, qui est au centre de cet ouvrage, constitue le reflet de la société qui lui donne naissance. Dès lors, que révèle la langue qu'elle emploie sur l'état de la société camerounaise aujourd'hui, et plus largement sur celles de l'Afrique francophone ? L'auteur démontre avec méthode et rigueur scientifique que la mutation des identités et des pratiques professionnelles transparaissent dans les usages et formes verbales des journalistes africains francophones, tout autant que les évolutions globales des sociétés dont ils sont issus. C'est à ce décryptage fascinant que nous convie, depuis plus de vingt ans, le travail de Louis Martin Onguéné Essono, qui propose, à travers ce recueil, de nombreuses pistes de réflexion stimulantes." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"The ability to access Media Arabic – the language of printed or broadcast news items – has become increasingly important in the light of recent developments in the Middle East. Consequently, the need for a ‘quick-fix’ vocabulary of Media Arabic is greater than ever. Arabic dictionaries are
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not equipped to deal with Media Arabic, which involves many new coinages to express contemporary concepts (for example, drone, no-fly zone, financial bailout, multi-culturalism). While English-speaking students can deduce some terms from Arabic to English by thinking laterally (for example, ministerial straightening equals cabinet reshuffle, the falsification of elections equals electionrigging), this is a much more hit and miss process when attempted from English to Arabic. Until now, getting to know the Arabic for common contemporary media terminology has necessitated a long period of familiarisation with the Arabic media. This book is designed to help undergraduates, postgraduates, governmental, military, diplomatic and business personnel bypass this lengthy process. This book aims to supply the core vocabulary of Media Arabic in a logical format to provide easy reference and easy-to-learn lists testing both Arabic to English and English to Arabic. Familiarisation with this book will furnish the reader with an invaluable knowledge of the key vocabulary components essential to comprehend, translate, write and speak contemporary Media Arabic." (Introduction)
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"Topics covered include the ongoing linguistic processes, controversies, and implications of language modernization; the functions of South Asian languages within the legal system, media, cinema, and religion; language conflicts and politics, and Sanskrit and its long traditions of study and teachin
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g. Language in South Asia is an accessible interdisciplinary book for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language planning and South Asian studies." (Publisher description)
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"Featuring a wide range of exercises, examples, and images, this textbook provides a practical way of analyzing the discourses of the global media industries. Building on a comprehensive introduction to the history and theory of global media communication, specific case studies of lifestyle and ente
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rtainment media are explored with examples from films, global women's magazines, Vietnamese news reporting and computer war games. Finally, this book investigates how global media communication is produced, looking at the formats, languages and images used in creating media materials, both globally and in localized forms." (Publisher description)
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"1) Notas sobre a linguagem política da imprensa a) Importância de um estudo sistemático da linguagem política dos jornais - b) Novas palavras do vocabulário - c) Algumas características da linguagem política atual 2) Palavras emprestadas do exterior - 3) Notas - 4) Dicas de vocabulário." (J
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ean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2525, topic code 110.5, 110.30)
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