Jamie Oliver is a celebrity TV chef who is known for his food-based programmes and range of cookery books educating the nation how to cook simplistic meals in a matter of minutes. In contrast to those in the same profession, Olivers style of speech is rather unique. Through his idiolect, he comes across as a genuine, unpretentious and friendly TV personality. Oliver adapts his style of language in ways such as adopting personal elisions , for instance, “gonna” rather than the verb going to, “wanna”
Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver are both well known TV chefs who cook and present different meals which people enjoy to watch. However, both chefs use a range of different language devices and style of speaking to inform how to cook meals and entertain their viewers using their individual personality. Their spoken language reflects upon their image, audience, aim and social attitudes. Jamie Oliver uses many language techniques to help him communicate with his viewers. He has a very laid-back and
radio news. In Britain alone, every week over 12 million listen to news bulletins from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on five radio networks. The language of the news media, especially of radio news, offers a number of areas which are worth researching and investigating. An investigation of the linguistic features of the language in radio news - similar to any other investigation - needs a definition of what is to be studied. I will start by providing some background information to the
Using examples of organisational communication, discuss what the four main approaches to media research explained by McQuail (2005, ch 3) offer to an understanding of company media communication. Communication is the exchange or transfer of information. It covers just about any interaction between people. It is described by McQuail as, “a process of increased commonality or sharing between participants, on the basis of sending and receiving ‘messages’.” As communication is the sending and receiving