Language and Media Dictionary of Key Terms (April 2016) Martin Montgomery

intrapersonal communication media n. communication that takes place within the self, rather between the self and another. Day-dreaming, interior monologue and talking to oneself are all examples of intrapersonal communication. mmo

Jakobson’s model of communication media n. recognised six key components of a communication situation: an addresser, an addressee, a message, a code, a channel, and a context (or referent). From these components, the Russian born linguist Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) derived six functions or communication -- the emotive, the conative, the poetic, the metalingual, the phatic, and the referential -- each function related to a corresponding component. For instance, the phatic function is related to the channel component (or means of contact) of the communication situation: it is the function orientated to making contact or keeping open the channel of communication. Jakobson’s account has been widely influential across the communication sciences, though it is interesting to note that his fullest statement of the model was designed to define and illustrate the poetic function – communication that calls attention to the form of the message for its own sake. mmo

jouissance (fre) media n. ‘enjoyment’, ‘delight’, ‘bliss’, used as a term by both the French psychoanalytic thinker, Jacques Marie Émile Lacan, (1901-1981) and the French semiotician, Roland Gérard Barthes (1915-1980), in both of whose work it stands in contradistinction to ‘plaisir’ (pleasure). For Barthes the activity of literary reading is broadly of two kinds depending on a distinction between two types of text, the readerly and the writerly. A readerly text is one whose meaning is relatively accessible to the reader and which thereby makes less demand of him or her, the reward for which is plaisir. A ‘writerly’ text, on the other hand, is one whose meaning is more uncertain and which thereby requires greater involvement and effort from the reader, the reward for which is jouissance. => closed and open text. mmo

journalese media n. clichéd style of writing associated with journalism. The term is pejorative and refers particularly to the use of standardized phrases (e.g. “war-torn”, “military strongman”, “not available for comment”) rarely found outside journalism itself. mmo

journalism media n. the recording or reporting of current events deemed to be of interest to a wide public. The term may be used to designate the professional institution of those who report events, or as a collective name for the reports themselves. => NEWS. mmo