Frontmatter -- Contents -- Section I: Framing The Issues -- Mediatization And Sociolinguistic Change. Key Concepts, Research Traditions, Open Issues -- Mediatization. A Panorama Of Media And Communication Research -- Sociolinguistic Change, Vernacularization And Broadcast British Media -- Section II: Media Influence On Language Change -- Does Mediated Language Influence Immediate Language? -- Media Models, 'The Shelf', And Stylistic Variation In East And West. Rethinking The Influence Of The Media On Language Variation And Change -- The Media Influence On Language Change In Japanese Sociolinguistic Contexts -- Commentary: Television And Language Use. What Do We Mean By Influence And How Do We Detect It? -- Section III: Media Engagement In Interactional Practice -- 'Girlpower Or Girl (In) Trouble?' Identities And Discourses In The (New) Media Engagements Of Adolescents' School-Based Interaction -- Multilingualism, Multimodality And Media Engagement In Classroom Talk And Action -- Commentary: 'Agents' Or 'Participation'. Sociolinguistic Frameworks For The Study Of Media Engagement -- Section IV: Change In Mass-Mediatized And Digitally Mediated Language -- Semiotic Economy, Growth Of Mass Media Discourse, And Change Of Written Language Through Multimodal Techniques -- Genre Profiles And Genre Change. The Case Of Tv News -- Tweets In The News. Legitimizing Medium, Standardizing Form -- Commentary: Mediality, Mediatization And Sociolinguistic Change -- Section V: Enregisterment Of Change In Media Discourse -- Revising The "Journalist'S Bible". How News Practitioners Respond To Language And Social Change -- The Media On Media-Induced Language Change -- The Objectification Of 'Jafaican'. The Discoursal Embedding Of Multicultural London English In The British Media -- Commentary: Sociolinguists And The News Media -- Section VI: Mediatized Spaces For Minoritized Languages -- Súil Eile. Media, Sociolinguistic Change And The Irish Language -- Sites Of Struggle And Possibility In Cyberspace. Wikipedia And Facebook In Africa -- Circulation Of Indigenous Sámi Resources Across Media Spaces. A Rhizomatic Discourse Approach -- Commentary: Mediatized Spaces For Minoritized Languages. Challenges And Opportunities -- Notes On Contributors -- Index