Linguistics category: 5616 books
Symptom, Symbol, and the Other of Language
A Jungian Interpretation of the Linguistic Turn
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Every statement about language is also a statement by and about psyche. Guided by this primary assumption, and inspired by the works of Carl Jung, in Symptom, Symbol, and the Other of Language, Bret Alderman delves deep into the symbolic and symptomatic dimensions of a deconstructive postmodernism...
From Elvish to Klingon
Exploring Invented Languages
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
How are languages invented? Why are they invented? Who uses them? What are the cultural effects of invented languages? This fascinating book looks at all manner of invented languages and explores the origins, purpose, and usage of these curious artefacts of culture. Written by experts in the field,...
Unspeakable Sentences (Routledge Revivals)
Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
First published in 1982, this title grew from a series of essays on various aspects of narrative style; the result is a finished product that melds literary theory with linguistic methodology. It is argued that, where linguistic theory intersects with literary theory, it is narrative that provides...
Multimodality
A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The 21st century is awash with ever more mixed and remixed images, writing, layout, sound, gesture, speech, and 3D objects. Multimodality looks beyond language and examines these multiple modes of communication and meaning making.
Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication...
by Carey Jewitt, Jeff Bezemer, Kay O'Halloran
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
This accessible introduction to multimodality illuminates the potential of multimodal research for understanding the ways in which people communicate. Readers will become familiar with the key concepts and methods in various domains while learning how to engage critically with the notion of multimodality....
by Rodney Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Discourse and Creativity examines the way different approaches to discourse analysis conceptualize the notion of creativity and address it analytically. It includes examples of studies of creativity from a variety of traditions and examines the following key areas, how people interpret and use discourse,...
Multimodality, Learning and Communication
A social semiotic frame
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This state-of-the-art account of research and theorizing brings together multimodality, learning and communication through detailed analyses of signmakers and their meaning-making in museums, hospitals, schools and the home environment.
By analyzing video recordings, photographs, screenshots...
by Julian Granberry, Gary Vescelius
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
A linguistic analysis supporting a new model of the colonization of the Antilles before 1492.
This work formulates a testable hypothesis of the origins and migration patterns of the aboriginal peoples of the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico), the Lucayan Islands...
How to Analyse Texts
A toolkit for students of English
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
How to Analyse Texts is the essential introductory textbook and toolkit for language analysis. This book shows the reader how to undertake detailed, language-focussed, contextually sensitive analyses of a wide range of texts – spoken, written and multimodal. The book constitutes a flexible resource...
by Alfred Marleku
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, University of Prishtina, course: Constructivism and Semiotics, language: English, abstract: Human beings created a world of messages and meanings and continue to create new ones to look for the meaning of life. In order to communicate...
Impoliteness
Using Language to Cause Offence
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
When is language considered 'impolite'? Is impolite language only used for anti-social purposes? Can impolite language be creative? What is the difference between 'impoliteness' and 'rudeness'? Grounded in naturally-occurring language data and drawing on findings from linguistic pragmatics and social...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture presents the first comprehensive survey of research on the relationship between language and culture. It provides readers with a clear and accessible introduction to both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies of language and culture, and addresses...
Exploring Intercultural Communication
Language in Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Exploring Intercultural Communication investigates the role of language in intercultural communication, paying particular attention to the interplay between cultural diversity and language practice. This second edition increases and updates the coverage on emerging key topics, including symbolic power,...
Key Debates in the Translation of Advertising Material
Special Issue of the Translator (Volume 10/2, 2004)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Much has been written about the marketing aspects of promotional material in general, and several scholars (particularly in linguistics) have addressed questions relating to the structure and function of advertisements, focusing on images, rhetorical structure, semiotic functions, discourse features...