Linguistics category: 5616 books
Taking Offence on Social Media
Conviviality and Communication on Facebook
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
This book explores communication on Facebook, developing the new theoretical concept of context design as a way of understanding the dynamics of online interaction. Against a backdrop of fake news and other controversies surrounding online political debate, the authors focus on inadvertent acts of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies offers a comprehensive view of the field of language and literacy studies. With forty-three chapters reflecting new research from leading scholars in the field, the handbook pushes at the boundaries of existing fields and combines with related fields and...
by Christopher N. Candlin, Jonathan Crichton, Stephen H. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This book combines an authoritative examination of the field of discourse-based research with practical guidance on research design and development. The book is not prescriptive but instead invites expansive, innovative thinking about what discourse is, why it matters to people at particular sites...
Critical Discourse Analysis and Cognitive Science
New Perspectives on Immigration Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
This study advances a model for Critical Discourse Analysis which draws on Evolutionary Psychology and Cognitive Linguistics, applied in a critical analysis of immigration discourse. It will be of special interest to students and researchers with which to explore new perspectives in CDA.
Language Investment and Employability
The Uneven Distribution of Resources in the Public Employment Service
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
This book provides a unique insight into negotiations around language investment for employability in the context of public employment services. Drawing on extensive ethnographical research carried out in Regional Employment Offices in Switzerland, the authors follow the stories of various job seekers....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Reflecting a multitude of developments in the study of language change and variation over the last ten years, this extensively updated second edition features a number of new chapters and remains the authoritative reference volume on a core research area in linguistics.
A fully revised and expanded...
The Social Psychology of English as a Global Language
Attitudes, Awareness and Identity in the Japanese Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
This ground-breaking work is a detailed account of an innovative and in-depth study of the attitudes of in excess of 500 Japanese learners towards a number of standard and non-standard as well as native and non-native varieties of English speech. The research conducted refines the investigation of...
Language Matters
Reflections on Educational Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
"This book addresses a timely and very important topic: language in education. Language, apparently, is a very tricky business. On the one hand, everyone uses language, and virtually everyone has strong views about language. In the educational domain this seems to be especially true. Language is not...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
The Routledge Handbook of English Language Studies provides a comprehensive overview of English Language Studies. The book takes a three-pronged approach to examine what constitutes the phenomenon of the English language; why and in what contexts it is an important subject to study; and what the chief...
Intercultural Communication
Critical Approaches and Future Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Drawing on interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives, this book critically examines intercultural theory and its interrelations with globalisation, education and dialogue in multicultural societies. Applying the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, the author repositions intercultural communication within...
Authority in Language
Investigating Standard English
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Authority in Language explores the perennially topical and controversial notion of correct and incorrect language.
James and Lesley Milroy cover the long-running debate over the teaching of Standard English in Britain and compare the language ideologies in Britain and the USA, involving a discussion...
Critical Sociolinguistic Research Methods
Studying Language Issues That Matter
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Critical Sociolinguistic Research Methods is a guide to conducting concrete ethnographic and discourse analytic research projects, written by top scholars for students and researchers in social science fields. Adopting a critical perspective focusing on the role of language in the construction of...
by David Machin
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Introduction to Multimodal Analysis is a unique and accessible textbook that clearly and critically explains this groundbreaking approach to visual analysis. Each chapter outlines the tools for analysis and takes the reader through examples of analysis, providing a model that can then be followed....
Routledge Revivals: Pandora and Occam (1992)
On the Limits of Language and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
First published in 1992, this book evokes Pandora and Occam as metaphoric corner posts in an argument about language as discourse and in doing so, brings analytic philosophy to bear on issues of Continental philosophy, with attention to linguistic, semiological, and semiotic concerns. Instead of regarding...