POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LANGUAGE: MASS MEDIA ON THE LANGUAGE MARKET
Affiliation
Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
Issue 14
Pages
7-10
The article considers the attempt to apply the theory of political economy of language to study the way media texts are used to define characters and personalities. It is postulated that language ideology is a means of media institutions control. Media products are often regarded as a resource or a sort of cultural capital, from which individuals can borrow speech patterns. In the multitude of similar texts a manner of speaking becomes that distinguishing feature which could make the media text commercially successful.
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Bakulev, G.P. (2015). Political economy of language: mass media on the language market. Issues of Applied Linguistics, 14, 7-10.