Dec 19
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Halliday in the 21st Century
Subtitle: Volume 11
Series Title: Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://bloomsbury.com/uk/halliday-in-the-21st-century-9781623564513/
Author: Michael A. K. Halliday
Editor: Jonathan J. Webster
Electronic: ISBN: 9781623567156 Pages: 320 Price: U.K. £ 89.99 Comment: PDF eBook
Electronic: ISBN: 9781623565879 Pages: 320 Price: U.K. £ 89.99 Comment: EPUB eBook
Hardback: ISBN: 9781623564513 Pages: 288 Price: U.K. £ 90.00
Abstract:
This is the eleventh volume in Professor M.A.K. Halliday’s Collected Works. First published as a ten volume set from 2002 to 2007, they have shown the sizeable and growing international interest across a number of disciplines in the systemic functional linguistics framework.
Halliday’s powerful theoretical approach to the study of language has contributed significantly not only to advances in our knowledge of how language works but also how linguistic insights may be practically applied across a wide spectrum of social concerns.
Dec 18
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Communicating Beyond Language
Subtitle: Everyday Encounters with Diversity
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415503389/
Author: Betsy Rymes
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415503389 Pages: 134 Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780415503402 Pages: 134 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Abstract:
This new book offers a timely and lively appraisal of the concept of
communicative repertoires, resources we use to express who we are when in
dialogue with others. Each chapter describes and illustrates the communicative
resources humans deploy daily, but rarely think about – not only the multiple
languages we use, but how we dress or gesture, how we greet each other or tell
stories, the nicknames we coin, and the mass media references we make – and
how these resources combine in infinitely varied performances of identity.
Rymes also discusses how our repertoires shift and grow over the course of a
lifetime, as well how a repertoire perspective can lead to a rethinking of
cultural diversity and human interaction, from categorizing people’s
differences to understanding how our repertoires can expand and overlap with
other, thereby helping us to find common ground and communicate in
increasingly multicultural schools, workplaces, markets, and social spheres.
Dec 18
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: The Language of War Monuments
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://bloomsbury.com/uk/the-language-of-war-monuments-9781623563332/
Author: David Machin
Author: Gill Abousnnouga
Hardback: ISBN: 9781623563332 Pages: 248 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Abstract:
This book analyses war monuments by developing a multimodal social-semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as three-dimensional objects. The book provides a practical tool-kit approach to how critical multimodal social semiotics should be done through visual, textual and material analysis. It ties this material analysis into the social and political contexts of production. Using examples across the 20th and 21st century the book’s chapters offer a way of analysing the way that monument designers have used specific semiotic choices in terms of things like iconography, objects, shape, form, angularity, height, materials and surface realisation to place representations of war in public places across Britain.
This social-semiotic approach to the study of war monuments serves three innovative purposes. First, it provides a contribution to the work on the ideological representations of war in Media and Cultural Studies and in Critical Discourse Analysis applied specifically to more banal realisations of discourse. Second, it responds to calls by historians for innovative ways to study war commemoration by providing an approach that offers both specific analysis of the objects and attends to matters of design. Thirdly, following in the relatively recent tradition of multimodal analysis, the arguments draw on the ideas of Kress and van Leeuwen (1996, 2001), adapting and extending their theories and models to the analysis of British commemorative war monuments, in order to develop a multimodal framework for the analysis of three dimensional objects.
Dec 18
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis
Subtitle: 2nd Edition
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415519748/
Editor: Carey Jewitt
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415519748 Pages: 544 Price: U.K. £ 125.00
Abstract:
The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis, Second Edition provides a comprehensive ‘research tool kit’ for multimodal analysis, with 34 chapters written by the leading figures in the field on a wide range of theoretical and methodological issues. It clarifies terms and concepts, synthesizes the key literature with in-depth exploration and illustrative analysis, and tackles challenging methodological issues. This second edition includes 12 new chapters on new theoretical and methodological developments and multimodal research on digitally mediated texts and interaction.
Dec 18
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Discourse of Twitter and Social Media
Subtitle: How We Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web
Series Title: Bloomsbury Discourse
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://bloomsbury.com/uk/discourse-of-twitter-and-social-media-9781472531544/
Author: Michele Zappavigna
Electronic: ISBN: 9781441123039 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 74.99 Comment: PDF eBook
Electronic: ISBN: 9781441138712 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 74.99 Comment: EPUB eBook
Hardback: ISBN: 9781441141866 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781472531544 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Abstract:
Social media such as microblogging services and social networking sites are changing the way people interact online and search for information and opinions. This book investigates linguistic patterns in electronic discourse, looking at online evaluative language, Internet slang, memes and ambient affiliation using a large Twitter corpus (over 100 million tweets) alongside specialized case studies. The author argues that we are currently witnessing a cultural movement from online conversation to what can be termed ‘searchable talk’ – online talk where people affiliate by making their discourse findable (for example, via metadata such as Twitter hashtags) by others holding similar interests. This cutting edge text will be of interest to all scholars and students dealing with electronically mediated discourse.
Dec 18
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse
Series Title: Routledge Studies in Multimodality
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415624718/
Editor: Emilia Djonov
Editor: Sumin Zhao
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415624718 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Abstract:
This volume brings together contributions by prominent and emerging scholars
that address the critical analysis of multimodality in popular culture texts
and semiotic practices. It connects multimodal analysis to critical discourse
analysis, demonstrating the value of different approaches to multimodality for
building a better understanding of critical issues of central interest to
discourse analysis, semiotics, applied linguistics, education, cultural and
media studies.
Dec 17
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Discourse in Context: Contemporary Applied Linguistics Volume 3
Series Title: Contemporary Applied Linguistics
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://bloomsbury.com/uk/discourse-in-context-contemporary-applied-linguistics-volume-3-9781623563059/
Editor: John Flowerdew
Editor: Li Wei
Electronic: ISBN: 9781623562359 Pages: 400 Price: U.K. £ 99.99 Comment: EPUB eBook
Electronic: ISBN: 9781623563011 Pages: 400 Price: U.K. £ 99.99 Comment: PDF eBook
Hardback: ISBN: 9781623563059 Pages: 360 Price: U.K. £ 100.00
Abstract:
Featuring internationally renowned academics, this volume provides a snapshot of the field of applied linguistics, and illustrates how linguistics is engaging with the idea of ‘context’. The book treats discourse as language in the contexts of its use in and above the level of the sentence and as systems of knowledge and beliefs.
In using the term context(s), the book understands this as different situations in which discourse is produced and, on the other, how analysts construe context in their work. The volume is thus concerned with language in its context of use (little d discourse), but at the same time, more specifically, in individual chapters, with particular discourses as they are manifested in particular contexts (big D discourses.
Well known discourse analysts contribute chapters focussing on different contexts with which they are familiar, viz. business, education, ethnicity and race, gender and sexuality, history, intercultural contexts, lingua franca contexts, media, place, politics, race, and the virtual world. It brings together researchers from different approaches, but all with a commitment to the study of language in context. The contributors themselves represent different approaches to discourse analysis: conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, ethnographic discourse analysis, mediated discourse analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics. Readers are invited to compare and contrast these different contexts and approaches.
“John Flowerdew presents us with an update and upgrade of discourse studies, much needed when a discipline is exploding with new ideas and approaches. The perpetual renewal of what counts as adequate analysis is the task of any science; Flowerdew offers us the cream of the crop here.” – Jan Blommaert, Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands,
“The papers in this welcome volume collected and edited by John Flowerdew show the complex configurations and the pervasive influence of many types of context in the production, structures and interpretation of many genres of text and talk as well as the urgent need for continued theoretical exploration of the nature of contexts and the context-discourse interface.” – Teun A. van Dijk, Professor of Discourse Studies, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain,
Dec 14
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Towards an Ecology of Language, Communication and the Mind
Series Title: Interfaces
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
http://www.peterlang.com
Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?262873
Author: Marta Boguslawska-Tafelska
Hardback: ISBN: 9783631628737 Pages: 121 Price: U.S. $ 31.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9783631628737 Pages: 121 Price: U.K. £ 19.40
Hardback: ISBN: 9783631628737 Pages: 121 Price: Europe EURO 24.30
Abstract:
This book discusses an ecological approach to communicational processes. Raising consciousness about being green is not the only concern of present-day ecological linguistics. Ecolinguistics, with its attention focused on ecosystems as well as contexts of language and communication, probes deep into the core of not only modern linguistics but modern science in general, while relating to conceptions of the world as well as to the scientific method itself. Thus, when ecological thinking is applied to science, it eventually will incite a methodological and philosophical rethinking. This study reports the fundamental shifts occurring after ecological views had been infused into the Social Sciences and Humanities. The substance of various qualities, from the very dense and tangible, to subtle mental or cognitive non-matter, becomes an ecosystem for human language on both a very direct, material plane, as well as on the non-material plane. In fact, human language, as perceived by !
an ecologically-minded linguist today, is a life process, operating within the pulsating grid of other life processes.
Contents: Ecolinguistics – New linguistics – New paradigm in language and communication studies – Mind – Meaning as a process – Cognitive processes – Communication – Interdisciplinary linguistics.
Dec 10
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Discourse Studies Reader
Subtitle: Essential Excerpts
Series Title: Bloomsbury Discourse
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discourse-studies-reader-9781441179821/
Editor: Ken Hyland
Electronic: ISBN: 9781441172693 Pages: 360 Price: U.K. £ 19.99 Comment: EPUB
Electronic: ISBN: 9781441192653 Pages: 360 Price: U.K. £ 19.99 Comment: PDF
Hardback: ISBN: 9781441179821 Pages: 360 Price: U.K. £ 65.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781441154972 Pages: 360 Price: U.K. £ 19.99
Abstract:
Since 2005, the Continuum Discourse series, under the editorship of Professor Ken Hyland, has published some of the most cutting-edge work in the field of discourse analysis.This edited collection offers a showcase of the work produced by its authors and reads as fully-functional book in its own right. The work of Paul Baker, Frances Christie and Greg Myers features, amongst others.
With an introduction by Professor Hyland, the chapters are organized thematically to provide a look a research methods, examine at the various types of institutional discourses covered by the series, and finally, a look to arguably the future of the field – electronic discourses in an electronic medium, for example Twitter, SMS and Blogs.
This is an essential purchase for those involved in discourse analysis in any capacity.
Dec 10
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Studies of Laughter in Interaction
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/studies-of-laughter-in-interaction-9781441164797/
Editor: Phillip Glenn
Editor: Elizabeth Holt
Electronic: ISBN: 9781441183477 Pages: 312 Price: U.K. £ 74.99 Comment: PDF
Electronic: ISBN: 9781441162809 Pages: 312 Price: U.K. £ 74.99 Comment: EPUB
Hardback: ISBN: 9781441164797 Pages: 312 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Abstract:
Laughter is pervasive in interaction yet often overlooked in the research. This volume presents a collection of original studies revealing the highly-ordered, complex, and important phenomenon of laughter in everyday interactions. Building on 40 years of conversation analytic research, the authors show how the design and placement of laughs contribute to unfolding sequences, social activities, identities, and relationships. In this revealing study leading experts investigate laughter in a range of different contexts and across a variety of languages. The research demonstrates that laughter is not simply a reaction to humour but is used in a fascinating array of different ways. Findings reported here include its use in clinics, employment interviews, news interviews, classrooms, the discourse of children with severe autism, and ordinary conversations. The acoustics of laughter and its relationship to movement, gaze and gesture are also explored. The volume brings together new and influential research into this phenomenon to present the state-of-the-art. It will be invaluable to anyone interested in the study of interaction, conversation analysis, humour and laughter.
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