Jun 29
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Creating Worldviews
Subtitle: Metaphor, Ideology and Language
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
http://www.euppublishing.com
Book URL: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748679096
Author: James W. Underhill
Paperback: ISBN: 9780748679096 Pages: 312 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Abstract:
“Underhill’s book is simultaneously a breath of fresh air and a rich source of
stimulating insights, advancing and giving emphasis to new perspectives in
critical metaphor analysis.” Professor Andrew Goatly, Lingnan University, Hong
Kong
Encouraging readers to reflect upon language and the role metaphor plays in
patterning ideas and thought, this book first offers a critical introduction
to metaphor theory as it has emerged over the past thirty years in the United
States. James W. Underhill then widens the scope of metaphor theory by
investigating not only the worldview our language offers us, but also the
worldviews which we adapt in our own ideological and personal interpretations
of the world.
This book explores new avenues in metaphor theory in the work of contemporary
French, German and Czech scholars. Detailed case studies marry metaphor theory
with discourse analysis in order to investigate the ways the Czech language
was reshaped by communist discourse, and the way fascism emerged in the German
language. The third case study turns metaphor theory on its head: instead of
looking for metaphors in language, it describes the way language systems
(French & English) are understood in terms of metaphorically-framed concepts
evolving over time.
Including a multilingual glossary of key terms and concepts, this is an ideal
volume for anyone new to the topic, as well as those already interested in
metaphor theory and the analysis of worldviews.
Jun 28
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Discourses of War and Peace
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: http://global.oup.com/academic/product/discourses-of-war-and-peace-9780199937271?q=9780199937271&lan
Editor: Adam Hodges
Hardback: ISBN: 9780199937271 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 74.00
Abstract:
Given the prevalence of war around the world, it is vital to understand the
way discourse contributes to the promotion and positioning of war as a natural
or inevitable response to international problems. In addition, it is equally
necessary to examine the way discourse impacts projects of peace, which seek
to displace discourses of war with alternative visions of the world. This
volume examines specific contexts around the world in which discourse operates
in the service of war or to build alternative visions of peace. Contributors,
who have backgrounds in linguistics, anthropology, rhetoric, and communication
studies, draw upon discourse analytic and ethnographic methods to examine the
discourse used by politicians and social actors in societies across the globe,
including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Morocco, Ireland, the
Palestinian territories, and Japan. The book is divided into four sections
that foreground the political effects of discourse on issues of war and peace,
including the way discourse is harnessed to justify war (part I), negotiate
military deployment (part II), respond to armed conflict (part III), and
promote peace (part IV).
Jun 27
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: A Buddhist Theory of Semiotics
Subtitle: Signs, Ontology, and Salvation in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/a-buddhist-theory-of-semiotics-9781441161963/
Author: Fabio Rambelli
Hardback: ISBN: 9781441177773 Pages: 280 Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781441161963 Pages: 280 Price: U.K. £ 27.99
Abstract:
One of the first attempts ever to present in a systematic way a non-western
semiotic system. This book looks at Japanese esoteric Buddhism and is based
around original texts, informed by explicit and rigorous semiotic categories.
It is a unique introduction to important aspects of the thought and rituals of
the Japanese Shingon tradition.
Semiotic concerns are deeply ingrained in the Buddhist intellectual and
religious discourse, beginning with the idea that the world is not what it
appears to be, which calls for a more accurate understanding of the self and
reality. This in turn results in sustained discussions on the status of
language and representations, and on the possibility and methods to know
reality beyond delusion; such peculiar knowledge is explicitly defined as
enlightenment. Thus, for Buddhism, semiotics is directly relevant to
salvation; this is a key point that is often ignored even by Buddhologists.
This book discusses in depth the main elements of Buddhist semiotics as based
primarily on original Japanese pre-modern sources. It is a crucial publication
in the fields of semiotics and religious studies.
Jun 20
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Silence and Concealment in Political Discourse
Series Title: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 48
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/dapsac.48
Author: Melani Schröter
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027272102 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027272102 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027272102 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206398 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.40
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206398 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206398 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Abstract:
This book constitutes a significant contribution to political discourse analysis and to the study of silence, both from the point of view of discourse analysis as well as pragmatics, and it is also relevant for those interested in politics and
media studies. It promotes the empirical study of silence by analysing metadiscourse about politicians’ silence and by systematically conceptualising the communicativeness of silence in the interplay between intention (to be silent), expectation (of speech) and relevance (of the unsaid). Three cases of sustained metadiscourse about silent politicians from Germany are analysed to exemplify this approach, based on media texts and protocols of parliamentary inquiries. Ideals of political transparency and communicative openness are identified as a basis for (disappointed) expectations of speech which trigger and determine metadiscourse about politicians’ silences. Finally, the book deals
critically with the role of those who act as advocates of ‘the public’s’ demand to speak out.
Jun 15
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Writing and Society
Subtitle: An Introduction
Series Title: Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://us.cambridge.org
Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item6898383/Writing%20and%20Society/?site_locale=en_US
Author: Florian Coulmas
Hardback: ISBN: 9781107016422 Pages: 192 Price: U.S. $ 90.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107602434 Pages: 192 Price: U.S. $ 27.99
Abstract:
How does writing relate to speech? What impact does it have on social
organisation and development? How do unwritten languages differ from those
that have a written form and tradition? This book is a general account of the
place of writing in society. Drawing on contemporary and historical examples,
from clay tablets to touchscreen displays, the book explores the functions of
writing and written language, analysing its consequences for language,
society, economy and politics. It examines the social causes of illiteracy,
demonstrating that institutions of central importance to modern society are
built upon writing and written texts, and are characterised by specific forms
of communication. It explores the social dimensions of spelling and writing
reform, as well as of digital literacy, a new mode of expression and
communication posing novel challenges to the student of language in society.
Jun 14
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Health and Risk Communication
Subtitle: An Applied Linguistic Perspective
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415672603/
Author: Rodney H. Jones
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415672597 Pages: 212 Price: U.K. £ 90.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780415672603 Pages: 212 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Abstract:
Health and Risk Communication provides a critical and comprehensive overview
of the core issues surrounding health and risk communication from the
perspective of applied linguistics. It outlines the ways applied linguistics
differs from other methods of understanding health and risk communication,
assesses the benefits and limitations of the approaches used by different
scholars in the field, and offers an innovative framework for consolidating
past research and charting new directions.
Jun 08
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Full Title: CLAVIER 13 – Discourse in and through the Media
Short Title: CLAVIER13
Date: 06-Nov-2013 – 08-Nov-2013
Location: Modena, Italy
Contact Person: Silvia Cacchiani
Meeting Email: clavier13@unimore.it
Web Site: http://www.clavier.dslc.unimore.it/site/home.html
Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2013
Meeting Description:
CLAVIER (http://www.clavier.unimore.it/site/home.html) is a research group based in Modena and including a network of Italian universities (Bergamo, Florence, Milan State, Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Siena and Trieste) with an interest in combining two complementary strands of linguistic investigation – corpus analysis and discourse analysis – for a quantitative and qualitative study of language variation in English in terms of diachronic, geographic and socio-cultural dimensions. Within this research framework, CLAVIER is pleased to announce its 2013 International Conference:
CLAVIER 13
Discourse in and through the Media. Recontextualizing and Reconceptualizing Expert Discourse.
Modena, 6-8 November 2013
Recontextualizing and reconceptualizing expert discourse has become increasingly important in modern society. Yet although Knowledge Dissemination (KD) is now receiving increasing attention, the discursive strategies and the pragmatics of KD in and through the media have not received serious consideration. Knowledge dissemination can be seen as a form of ‘asymmetric’ communication between experts and lay-people, or ‘mediation’ of knowledge and intercultural and ‘inter-discourse communication’ (Scollon, Scollon 1995) between members of different cultures, discourse communities and communities of practice. This amounts to re-contextualization (Calsamiglia, Van Dijk 2004) and inclusion of types of ‘intralinguistic’ translations. Here, simplification, explicitation, reformulation (Mauranen 2006), reconceptualization of terms in the subject field ‘translate’ exclusive expertise into ‘comprehensible’ knowledge, suitable to the background of the addressee.
In this context, the aim of the conference is to stimulate the debate on a variety of aspects related to the representation of specialised discourse in and through the media, e.g. voice and point of view, argumentative practices, knowledge construction, multimodality, re-contextualization and re-conceptualization of knowledge, and peer-to-peer communication within genres aimed at knowledge dissemination and popularization. The conference is intended to encourage cross-generic and cross-disciplinary investigations, in an attempt to advocate integrated approaches to the study of media discourse with a view to both theoretical background and practical applications. More specifically, the key-issues of the conference include (but are by no means limited to) the following:
– Web genres and web-mediated knowledge dissemination
– Register variation and knowledge representation across media
– Re-contextualizing knowledge in and through the media
– Genres of knowledge dissemination, from both a synchronic and a diachronic point of view
The following plenary speakers have confirmed their participation:
Colleen Cotter, Queen Mary University of London
Anna Mauranen, University of Helsinki
Cornelius Puschmann, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Oxford
Members of the scientific committee will also be presenting their current research.
The conference will start early in the afternoon on the first day and close around lunchtime on the third day, with a roundtable in which participants and invited speakers will discuss theoretical and methodological issues emerged from the papers presented in the previous sessions.
Organizing Committee:
Marina Bondi
Silvia Cacchiani
Giuliana Diani
Davide Mazzi
Annalisa Sezzi
Anna Stermieri
Call for Papers:
Please send your anonymous abstract totalling no more than 300 words (including references) by July 15, 2013 to the following address: clavier13@unimore.it. Please do not include any self-identifying information on the abstract; indicate only the title and the abstract itself. On a separate cover sheet include:
Title:
Format: (paper/ poster)
Author(s):
Affiliation(s):
Postal mailing address:
Email:
Important Dates:
July 15, 2013: Deadline for receipt of abstracts
July 31, 2013: Notification of acceptance/rejection
September 10, 2013: Programme
September 1 – September 30, 2013: Early-bird registration
October 1 – October 31, 2013: Standard registration
For any additional information, please contact us at clavier13@unimore.it or visit us at http://www.clavier.dslc.unimore.it/site/home.html.
Scientific Committee:
Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Nicholas Brownlees (University of Florence)
Marina Dossena (University of Bergamo)
Giuliana Garzone (State University of Milan)
Giuseppe Palumbo (University of Trieste)
Rita Salvi (Sapienza University of Rome)
Elena Tognini Bonelli (University of Siena)
Silvia Cacchiani (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Davide Mazzi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Jun 07
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Perspectives on Interaction
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
http://www.c-s-p.org
Book URL: http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Perspectives-on-Interaction1-4438-4465-9.htm
Editor: Elena Bonta
Hardback: ISBN: 1443844659 9781443844659 Pages: 205 Price: U.K. £ 44.99
Hardback: ISBN: 1443844659 9781443844659 Pages: 205 Price: U.S. $ 67.99
Abstract:
Interaction is a prominent part of our everyday life and experience; daily
reality is constructed within the interactions that individuals establish with
those around them, with whom they share experiences in a concrete context.
Objects, phenomena and individuals permanently influence each other through
this dynamic process. The authors of this volume engage in an on-going
interpretative process of defining this influence, giving considerable
attention to the way participants to interaction try to understand each other,
to interpret each other’s activity and prove this in an explicit or implicit
way through a variety of semiotic codes (verbal, nonverbal or paraverbal). The
authors, implicitly, address the question: how do social actors (in their
quality of translators, writers, painters or teachers) see the world around
and the interactions between its constituent parts/activities/processes?
The primary goal of Perspectives on Interaction is to bring together concerns,
approaches, interpretations and analyses on the proposed topic. The authors,
members of a young research group (“Cultural Spaces”), have examined various
aspects through which interaction manifests itself in social practices,
linguistics, translation studies, didactics and literary discourse. This has
made possible the gathering of the material under four headings which
constitute the chapters of the book: Translation as Interaction; Aspects of
Social Interaction; Texts and Representations in Interaction; Interactive
Practices in Literary Discourse. Ideas have been organized around some
important key points: communication, action, interaction, competence,
performance, linguistic and nonlinguistic signs.
The volume will appeal to researchers and students working within the fields
of translation, education, arts, discourse and literature, and offers
inspiring topics and relevant research.
Jun 06
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: The Communicative Mind. A Linguistic Exploration of Conceptual Integration and Meaning Construction
Author: Line Brandt
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Date of publication: June 2013
Audience: College/higher education, Professional & scholarly, Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly, Professional & Vocational
Type of publication: Monograph (pp. 636)
Format: Hardback
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-4144-3
Isbn: 1-4438-4144-7
E-book expected September 2013
Advancing a research approach to meaning construction connecting linguistics, philosophy, literary studies, neurophenomenology, cognitive science and semiotics, The Communicative Mind presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the various ways in which the intersubjectivity of communicating interactants manifests itself in language. The book supports its view of the mind as highly conditioned by the domain of interpersonal communication by an extensive range of empirical linguistic data from fiction, poetry and everyday discourse. Among recent theoretical advances in what Brandt refers to as thecognitive humanities is Fauconnier and Turner’s theory of conceptual integration which, offering a bridge between pragmatics and semantics, has proved widely influential in Cognitive Poetics and Linguistics. With its constructive criticism of Fauconnier and Turner’s “general mechanism” hypothesis, according to which “blending” can explain everything from
the origin of language to binding in perception, Brandt’s book brings the scope and applicability of Conceptual Integration Theory into the arena of scientific debate.
The Communicative Mind takes on a host of interrelated theories in cognitive linguistics and based on its in-depth critique of the examined ideas proposes a multifaceted outlook on how language is shaped by the intersubjectivity of interacting cognizers:
* semantics & pragmatics: the grounding of language in a context of dialogue
* fictive interaction in rhetoric and grammar
* fictive motion & change
* the concept of mental spaces in relation to philosophy, neural binding, metaphor, syntax
* a typology of conceptual integration
* the notion of relevance in meaning construction
* cognitive approaches to literary studies
* reading and interpretation of literary text
* semiotic iconicity in poetry: a typology
Preview available: http://www.amazon.com/The-Communicative-Mind-Exploration-Construction/dp/1443841447
Jun 01
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Clusivity
Subtitle: A New Approach to Association and Dissociation in Political Discourse
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
http://www.c-s-p.org
Book URL: http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/Clusivity–A-New-Approach-to-Association-and-Dissociation-in-Political-Discourse1-4438-4403-9.htm
Author: Anna Ewa Wieczorek
Hardback: ISBN: 1443844039 9781443844031 Pages: 250 Price: U.K. £ 44.99
Hardback: ISBN: 1443844039 9781443844031 Pages: 250 Price: U.S. $ 67.99
Abstract:
Dealing with the concepts of inclusion and exclusion encoded linguistically,
both implicitly and explicitly, this book develops an original framework for
the analysis of these phenomena in political discourse. The approach taken
situates political discourse in a broader context of social and psychological
relations between groups and their members which influence the manner in which
the speaker’s message is constructed and construed by individuals. The present
study proposes a pragmatic-cognitive model which underlies and explains the
discursive representation of belongingness and dissociation in terms of the
conceptual location of various discourse entities in the Discourse Space (cf.
Chilton 2005). The model in question is concerned with three mechanisms which,
combined, form a fully-fledged apparatus for the analysis of the legitimising
power of association and dissociation in political discourse through positive
self and negative other presentation tactics.
The study is a theoretical enterprise which, however, includes a comprehensive
empirical part whose aim is to evaluate and confirm the theoretical
assumptions made. The focus is essentially on the relationship between the
speaker and the addressees and the speaker’s attempt to maintain it
discursively. Thus, Clusivity: A New Approach to Association and Dissociation
in Political Discourse will appeal to discourse analysts, pragmaticians, and
cognitive analysts, as well as to political and social sciences analysts,
social psychologists, journalists and speechwriters.
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