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The Language of Money and Debt
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This book analyses the language that ordinary people employ when discussing money, debt and financial behaviour. It documents and critiques this language from an array of disciplinary perspectives, with chapters on children’s books, government infomercials, television poverty porn, the emotional...
Interpreting and the Politics of Recognition
The IATIS Yearbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Interpreting and the Politics of Recognition investigates the historical, ethical and professional dimensions of this, arguably, most widespread form of intercultural communication. Covering key topics from colonialism to representation, ethics and power, itlooks at the different linguistic modalities...
International Sign
Linguistic, Usage, and Status Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
International Sign (IS) is widely used among deaf people and interpreters at international events, but what exactly is it, what are its linguistic features, where does its lexicon come from, and how is it used at interpreted events? This groundbreaking collection is the first volume to provide answers...
Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments
Corpora and Digitally-driven Critical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments: Corpora and Digitally-driven Critical Analysis presents a new and practical approach in Critical Discourse Studies. Providing a data-driven and ethically-based method for the examination of arguments in the public sphere, this ground-breaking book:
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Corpora and Discourse Studies
Integrating Discourse and Corpora
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
This edited collection brings together contemporary research that uses corpus linguistics to carry out discourse analysis. The book takes an inclusive view of the meaning of discourse, covering different text-types or modes of language, including discourse as both social practice and as ideology or representation.
The Language of Fear
Communicating Threat in Public Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This book investigates linguistic strategies of threat construction and fear generation in contemporary public communication, including state political discourse as well as non-governmental, media and institutional discourses. It describes the ways in which the construction of closeness and remoteness...
Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry
The Cognitive Poetics of Desire, Dreams and Nightmares
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Text World Theory and Keats' Poetry applies advances in cognitive poetics and text world theory to four poems by the nineteenth century poet John Keats. It takes the existing text world theory as a starting point and draws on stylistics, literary theory, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
The volume constitutes an attempt to capture the intricate relationship between individual learner differences and other variables which are of interest to theorists, researchers and practitioners representing such diverse branches of applied linguistics as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics...
Codeswitching in Igbo-English Bilingualism
A Matrix Language Frame Account
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Codeswitching occurs when multilingual speakers embed elements of more than one language into the dominant (or Matrix) language within individual utterances of conversation. Codeswitching in Igbo-English Bilingualism explores the syntax of bilingual codeswitching between the Benue-Congo African language...
by Robert Stalnaker
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Robert Stalnaker explores the notion of the context in which speech takes place, its role in the interpretation of what is said, and in the explanation of the dynamics of discourse. He distinguishes different notions of context, but the main focus is on the notion of context as common ground, where...
by Norman Fairclough
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language and Globalization explores the effects of language in the processes of globalization. Norman Fairclough adopts the approach of combining critical discourse analysis with cultural political economy to develop a new theory of the relationship between discourse and other dimensions of globalization....
Landmarks In Linguistic Thought Volume I
The Western Tradition From Socrates To Saussure
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
By introducing the reader to the main issues and themes that have determined the development of the Western linguistic tradition, an evolution of linguistic thought quickly becomes apparent. Each chapter in this accessible book contains a short extract from a `landmark' text followed by a commentary...
by Luis Fernández Moreno
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This book deals with the main proponents of the causal and descriptivist reference theories on natural kind terms. The two main types of contemporary reference theories on natural kind terms are the causal and the descriptivist theories. The author analyzes the main versions of these two types of...
by Susan Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
On 8.6.12 this ebook hit #1 in Amazon's Caribbean UK & Germany stores!
Hilarious and thoughtful tales of bus rides in corporate Kingston and rural Jamaica with a glossary of Jamaican words and phrases. Short and easy reading. Of interest to people seeking a humourous read, budget travellers, fans...