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  2. Media linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Media linguistics is the linguistic study of language use in the media. The fundamental aspect of media linguistics as a new systematic approach to the study of media language is that media text is one of the most common forms of language existence today. [citation needed] It studies the functioning of language in the media sphere, or modern ...

  3. Transmediation - Wikipedia

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    Transmediation. Transmediation is the process of translating a work into a different medium. The definition of what constitutes transmediation would depend on how medium is defined or interpreted. In Understanding media, Marshall McLuhan offered a quite broad definition of a medium as "an extension of ourselves": "In a culture like ours, long ...

  4. The medium is the message - Wikipedia

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    "The medium is the message" is a phrase coined by the Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan and the name of the first chapter in his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, published in 1964. McLuhan proposes that a communication medium itself, not the messages it carries, should be the primary focus of study. He showed that ...

  5. L'Équipe (TV channel) - Wikipedia

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    L'Équipe, often called La Chaîne L'Équipe (English: L'Équipe Channel) to distinguish it from its newspaper namesake, is a French sports television channel.It launched as a basic subscription channel in 1998, under the name L'Équipe TV.

  6. F110-class frigate - Wikipedia

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    Project history A simplified drawing of the pre-design made by Navantia. The origins of the F110 class project are in the planned replacement for the Spanish Navy's Santa María-class frigates, as contemplated in the ALTAMAR Plan, a Spanish naval white book to modernize the Spanish Navy, with five frigates originally to be built as an enlarged version of the Álvaro de Bazán-class frigates.

  7. Understanding Media - Wikipedia

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    Understanding Media. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man is a 1964 book by Marshall McLuhan, in which the author proposes that the media, not the content that they carry, should be the focus of study. He suggests that the medium affects the society in which it plays a role mainly by the characteristics of the medium rather than the content.

  8. Police tactical unit - Wikipedia

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    Osaka Prefectural Police Riot Police Unit officers arresting a suspect during training. A police tactical unit (PTU) is a specialized police unit trained and equipped to handle situations that are beyond the capabilities of ordinary law enforcement units because of the level of violence (or risk of violence) involved.

  9. Kalamkari - Wikipedia

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    Kalamkari (Persian: قلم‌کاری) is a type of hand-painted cotton textile produced in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.Only natural dyes are used in Kalamkari, which involves twenty-three steps.