Lingue e culture dei media

Aims & Scope

A field in continuous and very rapid evolution, that of the media, to which linguists have dedicated important studies, often availing themselves of the fundamental contribution of sociologists and mass media scholars: the study of media language first invested newspapers and radio, then cinema, television, and finally the web. The extraordinary expansion that this medium is undergoing, and its ever-closer connection with others, determine a situation of cross-media and interweaving between media that is disrupting the research and analysis methods followed in the past by linguists. If it was once appropriate, indeed necessary, to study and analyze each medium according to specific parameters and methods, starting from the placement of the medium on the diamesic scale, now the interweaving and cooperation of media among themselves impose an analysis that starts from this connection. The diamesic scale remains decisive in the transmission of media, but requires continuous passages and comparisons between written, spoken, and mixtures thereof. And the dialogic dimension becomes central, as in the network itself, in its interaction with newspapers, radio, television. The journal's objective of contributing to the study of media from a linguistic perspective, in the complexity of the present and the past, is accompanied by a transversal and interdisciplinary aim, which is reflected in the necessary attention to a more strictly mass-media perspective and in the openness to the contribution of historical, literary, and philosophical disciplines attentive to the fields of communication, and also well represented by the members of the Scientific Committee.

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