Aug 18
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Children’s Literature and the Avant-Garde
Series Title: Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 5
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/clcc.5
Editor: Elina Druker
Editor: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268389 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268389 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268389 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027201591 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027201591 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027201591 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 104.94
Abstract:
Children’s Literature and the Avant-Garde is the first study that investigates the intricate influence of the avant-garde movements on children’s literature in different countries from the beginning of the 20th century until the present. Examining a wide range of children’s books from Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the USA, the individual chapters explore the historical as well as the cultural and political aspects that determine the exceptional character of avant-garde children’s books. Drawing on studies in children’s literature research, art history, and cultural studies, this volume provides comprehensive insights into the close relationships between avant-garde children’s literature, images of childhood, and contemporary ideas of education. Addressing topics such as the impact of exhibitions, the significance of the Bauhaus, and the influence of poster art and graphic design, the book illustrates the broad range of issues associated with avant-garde children’s books. More than 60 full-color illustrations demonstrate the impressive variety of design in avant-garde picturebooks and children’s books.
Jul 08
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Meaning Making in Text
Subtitle: Multimodal and Multilingual Functional Perspectives
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
http://www.palgrave.com
Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?K=9781137477293
Author: Sonja Starc
Author: Carys Jones
Author: Arianna Maiorani
Hardback: ISBN: 9781137477293 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 63.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9781137477293 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 95.00
Abstract:
Meaning Making in Text extends the notion of text as a vehicle for ever-changing and complex forms of communication. Based on recent developments in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), it proposes a range of analytical tools for accessing a variety of discourses in different contexts. The book presents studies of linguistic and multimodal phenomena concerning English and minority European languages that, until now, have received very limited attention, and offers proposals for analysing text in terms of their application to pedagogy. The contributors demonstrate the increasingly rich potential of SFL to provide a refreshingly powerful account of human nature and the ways it can be applied that go well beyond those to do with language itself.
Jul 08
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Multimodality in Writing
Subtitle: The State of the Art in Theory, Methodology and Pedagogy
Series Title: Studies in Writing
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Brill
http://www.brill.com
Book URL: http://www.brill.com/products/book/multimodality-writing
Editor: Arlene Archer
Editor: Esther Breuer
Hardback: ISBN: 9789004296572 Pages: 332 Price: Europe EURO 115
Hardback: ISBN: 9789004296572 Pages: 332 Price: U.S. $ 149
Abstract:
Multimodality in Writing attempts to generate and apply new theories, disciplines and methods to account for semiotic processes in texts and during text production. It thus showcases new directions in multimodal research and theorizing writing practices from a multimodal perspective. It explores texts, producers of texts, and readers of texts. It also focuses on teaching multimodal text production and writing pedagogy from different domains and disciplines, such as rhetoric and writing composition, architecture, mathematics, film-making, science and the newsroom.
Multimodality in Writing explores the kinds of methodological approaches that can augment social semiotic approaches to analyzing and teaching writing, including rhetoric, Systemic Functional Linguistics, ethnographic approaches, and genre pedagogy. Much of the research shows how the regularities of modes and interest of sign makers are socially shaped to realize convention. Because of this, the approaches are strongly underpinned by social and cultural theories of representation and communication.
Jul 02
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Interpersonal Prominence and International Presence
Subtitle: Implicitness Constructed and Translated in Diplomatic Discourse
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
Book URL: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/interpersonal-prominence-and-international-presence
Author: Junfeng Zhang
Hardback: ISBN: 9781443877008 Pages: 195 Price: U.K. £ 41.99
Hardback: ISBN: 9781443877008 Pages: 195 Price: U.S. $ 71.99
Abstract:
Interpersonal Prominence and International Presence focuses on the construction and translation of diplomatic discourse (DD) for conveying a message suggesting uncertainty and capable of being read in a number of ways. After a summary and an analysis of its characteristics, the book provides a definition of DD, showing that implicit DD is marked with an interpersonal prominence among its three meta-functions from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The book then gives a definition of implicitness, proposes a lexical model and identifies Lexicogrammatical Metaphor (LGM) as the linguistic mechanism of generating implicitness in DD via intralingual translation, and if necessary, interlingual translation. After this, a case study of DD generated around the 2001 Sino-US Air Collision incident is provided, which is used to establish a descriptive and explanatory three-dimensional model that is capable of providing textual accounts of translational treatments in intralingually configuring implicitness in DD and interlingually re-expressing it. This model consists of three components, namely linguistic composition, interactional dynamics, and perlocutionary imaging. Among them, perlocutionary imaging prevails over the other two in constructing and translating implicitness in DD.
Jun 24
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Multimodal Analysis in Academic Settings
Subtitle: From Research to Teaching
Series Title: Routledge Studies in Multimodality
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://bit.ly/1eEyHY3
Editor: Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli
Editor: Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez
Hardback: ISBN: 9781138827103 Pages: 252 Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Abstract:
This volume presents innovative research on the multimodal dimension of discourse specific to academic settings, with a particular focus on the interaction between the verbal and non-verbal in constructing meaning. Contributions by experienced and emerging researchers provide in-depth analyses in both research and teaching contexts, and consider the ways in which multimodal strategies can be leveraged to enhance the effectiveness of academic communication. Contributors employ both quantitative and qualitative analytical methods, and make use of state-of-the-art software for analyzing multimodal features of discourse.
The chapters in the first part of the volume focus on the multimodal features of two key research genres: conference presentations and plenary addresses. In the second part, contributors explore the role of multimodality in the classroom through analyses of both instructors’ and students’ speech, as well as the use of multimodal materials for more effective learning. The research presented in this volume is particularly relevant within the context of globalized higher education, where participants represent a wide range of linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Multimodal Analysis in Academic Settings contributes to an emerging field of research with importance to an increasing number of academics and practitioners worldwide.
Jun 11
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: The Semiotics of Clowns and Clowning
Subtitle: Rituals of Transgression and the Theory of Laughter
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-semiotics-of-clowns-and-clowning-9781472532787/
Author: Paul Bouissac
Electronic: ISBN: 9781472525086 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 24.99 Comment: EPUB
Electronic: ISBN: 9781472531117 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 24.99 Comment: PDF
Hardback: ISBN: 9781472521736 Pages: 232 Price: U.K. £ 75.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781472532787 Pages: 232 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Abstract:
During the last 300 years circus clowns have emerged as powerful cultural icons. This is the first semiotic analysis of the range of make-up and costumes through which the clowns’ performing identities have been established and go on developing. It also examines what Bouissac terms ‘micronarratives’ – narrative meanings that clowns generate through their acts, dialogues and gestures.
Putting a repertory of clown performances under the semiotic microscope leads to the conclusion that the performances are all interconnected and come from what might be termed a ‘mythical matrix’. These micronarratives replicate in context-sensitive forms a master narrative whose general theme refers to the emergence of cultures and constraints that they place upon instinctual behaviour.
From this vantage point, each performance can be considered as a ritual which re-enacts the primitive violence inherent in all cultures and the temporary resolutions which must be negotiated as the outcome. Why do these acts of transgression and re-integration then trigger laughter and wonder? What kind of mirror does this put up to society? In a masterful semiotic analysis, Bouissac delves into decades of research to answer these questions.
May 01
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: The Interactive Stance
Subtitle: Meaning for Conversation
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198722991.do
Author: Jonathan Ginzburg
Paperback: ISBN: 9780198722991 Pages: 430 Price: U.K. £ 27.99
Abstract:
This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a precise, grammatically rooted, theory of conversation motivated by data from real conversations. The theory has descriptive reach from the micro-conversational – e.g. self-repair at the word level – to macro-level phenomena such as multi-party conversation and the characterization of distinct conversational genres. It draws on extensive corpus studies of the British National Corpus, on evidence from language acquisition, and on computer simulations of language evolution. The Interactive Stance challenges orthodox views of grammar by arguing that, unless we wish to exclude from analysis a large body of frequently occurring words and constructions, the right way to construe grammar is as a system that characterises types of talk in interaction.
Apr 10
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Producing and Managing Restricted Activities
Subtitle: Avoidance and withholding in institutional interaction
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 255
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.255
Editor: Fabienne H.G. Chevalier
Editor: John Moore
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269096 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269096 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269096 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256607 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256607 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256607 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 104.94
Abstract:
This book examines the kinds of talk that service providers working in various
settings (e.g. doctors, healthcare providers, helpline call takers, tourist
officers) seek to avoid in their interactions with clients, when such talk may
be expected or due in some way. The studies utilise Conversation Analysis to
demonstrate how participants use the interactional practices of avoidance and
withholding to construct specific activities as restricted. The various
authors also show how, in contributing to the restricted character of certain
activities, withholding and avoidance in turn contribute to both the
accomplishment of the particular work of the specific organisations and to the
construction of the specific institutional identities of the professionals.
Overall, the collection offers an authoritative account of restriction and
avoidance in workplace interaction.
Apr 10
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: A User’s Guide to Thought and Meaning
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198736455.do
Author: Ray Jackendoff
Paperback: ISBN: 9780198736455 Pages: 288 Price: U.K. £ 11.99
Abstract:
A profoundly arresting integration of the faculties of the mind – of how we
think, speak, and see the world. Written with an informality that belies the
originality of its insights and the radical nature of its conclusions, this is
the author’s most important book since his groundbreaking Foundations of
Language in 2002.
Mar 17
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Language and Neoliberalism
Series Title: Language, Society and Political Economy
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://bit.ly/1GJwu8u
Author: Marnie Holborow
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415744553 Pages: 152 Price: U.K. £ 105.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780415744560 Pages: 152 Price: U.K. £ 29.99
Abstract:
Language and Neoliberalism examines the ways in which neoliberalism, or the
ideology of market rule, finds expression in language. In this groundbreaking
original study, Holborow shows at once the misleading character of ideological
meaning and the underlying social reality from which that meaning emerges.
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