Jul 11
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Voice in Political Discourse
Subtitle: Castro, Chavez, Bush and their Strategic Use of Language
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/voice-in-political-discourse-9780567003584/
Author: Antonio Reyes
Paperback: ISBN: 9780567003584 Pages: 208 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Abstract:
Politicians enact three main roles in political discourse – narrator,
interlocutor and character – to achieve specific goals. This book explains
these roles and how they constitute discursive strategies, correlating with
political aims. In short: politicians evoke voices in discourse to
strategically position themselves in relation to social actors and events. The
book describes these strategies and analyzes the manner in which they are
employed by three very different politicians – Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and
George W. Bush. The roles are studied cross-culturally and from different
ideological backgrounds.
This book explains how political ideologies are constructed, defined and
redefined by linguistic means, showing specific ways in which politicians
manipulate language to achieve the goals on their political agenda. It applies
new methodological approaches to the analysis of political discourse and also
contributes to the sparse literature on political discourse analysis of
Spanish-speaking politicians.
Jul 11
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: The Sociolinguistics of Writing
Series Title: Edinburgh Sociolinguistics
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
http://www.euppublishing.com
Book URL: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748637508
Author: Theresa Lillis
Hardback: ISBN: 9780748637485 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 70.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780748637508 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Abstract:
Brings the study of writing to the heart of sociolinguistic inquiry
This book puts writing at the centre of sociolinguistic inquiry drawing on a
range of academic fields including New Literacy Studies, semiotics, genre
studies, stylistics and new rhetoric. The key question the book explores is-
what do we mean by ‘writing’ in the 21 century? Using examples from across a
range of contexts the book argues that writing, involving both old and new
technologies, is a pervasive and complex communicative feature of contemporary
life.
The book is organised around the following areas:
– The multimodal nature of writing
– The verbal dimension to writing
– Writing as everyday practice
– Writing as a differentiated semiotic and social resource
– Writing as the inscription of identity
A range of analytic tools for analysing writing as text and practice are
illustrated including genre, register, discourse and metaphor, as well as
notions which emphasise the mobile potential of writing such as genre chains,
networks, literacy brokers and text trajectories. This book seeks to redress
the neglect of writing in the field of sociolinguistics by introducing readers
to the nature and consequences of what it means to do writing in a globalised
world.
Jul 07
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Communication in Humans and Other Animals
Series Title: Advances in Interaction Studies 4
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/ais.4
Author: Gisela Håkansson
Author: Jennie Westander
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027272010 Pages: 242 Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027272010 Pages: 242 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027272010 Pages: 242 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027204578 Pages: 242 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027204578 Pages: 242 Price: Europe EURO 104.94
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027204578 Pages: 242 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9789027204585 Pages: 242 Price: Europe EURO 38.16
Paperback: ISBN: 9789027204585 Pages: 242 Price: U.K. £ 30.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9789027204585 Pages: 242 Price: U.S. $ 54.00
Abstract:
Communication is a basic behaviour, found across animal
species. Human language is often thought of as a unique
system, which separates humans from other animals. This
textbook serves as a guide to different types of communication,
and suggests that each is unique in its own way: human verbal
and nonverbal communication, communication in nonhuman
primates, in dogs and in birds. Research questions and
findings from different perspectives are summarized and
integrated to show students similarities and differences in the
rich diversity of communicative behaviours.
A core topic is how young individuals proceed from not being able to
communicate to reaching a state of competent communicators,
and the role of adults in this developmental process.
Evolutionary aspects are also taken into consideration, and
ideas about the evolution of human language are examined.
The cross-disciplinary nature of the book makes it useful for
courses in linguistics, biology, sociology and psychology, but it
is also valuable reading for anyone interested in understanding
communicative behaviour.
Jul 07
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Multimodality and Active Listenership
Subtitle: A Corpus Approach
Series Title: Corpus and 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/multimodality-and-active-listenership-9780567175151/
Author: Dawn Knight
Paperback: ISBN: 9780567175151 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Abstract:
Current corpora are invaluable resources for generating accurate and objective
analyses of patterns of language use. However, spoken corpora are effectively
mono-modal, presenting data in the same physical medium – text. The reality of
a discourse situation is lost in its representation as text. Using multimodal
data sets when conducting corpus-based pragmatic analyses is one solution.
This book looks at multimodal corpora in some depth, using backchanneling as
the conversational feature to be analysed. It provides a bottom-up
investigation of the issues and challenges faced at every stage of multimodal
corpus construction and analysis, as well as providing an in-depth linguistic
analysis of a cross section of multimodal corpus data. The collaborative and
co-operative nature of backchannels is highlighted in this book and an adapted
pragmatic-functional linguistic coding matrix for the characterisation of
backchanneling phenomena is presented. Dawn Knight also looks at possible
directions in the construction and use of multimodal corpus linguistics.
Jul 07
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Humboldt, Worldview and Language
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
http://www.euppublishing.com
Book URL: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748668793
Author: James W. Underhill
Paperback: ISBN: 9780748668793 Pages: 176 Price: U.K. £ 19.99
Abstract:
With the loss of many of the world’s languages, it is important to question
what will be lost to humanity with their demise. It is frequently argued that
a language engenders a ‘worldview’, but what do we mean by this term?
Attributed to German politician and philologist Wilhelm von Humboldt
(1767-1835), the term has since been adopted by numerous linguists. Within
specialist circles it has become associated with what is known as the
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis which suggests that the nature of a language influences
the thought of its speakers and that different language patterns yield
different patterns of thought.
Underhill’s concise and rigorously researched book clarifies the main ideas
and proposals of Humboldt’s linguistic philosophy and demonstrates the way his
ideas can be adopted and adapted by thinkers and linguists today. A detailed
glossary of terms is provided in order to clarify key concepts and to
translate the German terms used by Humboldt.
Jul 05
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Introduction to Peircean Visual Semiotics
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/introduction-to-peircean-visual-semiotics-9781441109408/
Author: Tony Jappy
Hardback: ISBN: 9781441151636 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781441109408 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Abstract:
Contemporary culture is as much visual as literary. This book explores an
approach to the communicative power of the pictorial and multimodal documents
that make up this visual culture, using Peircean semiotics. It develops the
enormous theoretical potential of Peirce’s theory of signs of signs
(semiotics) and the persuasive strategies in which they are employed (visual
rhetoric) in a variety of documents.
Unlike presentations of semiotics that take the written word as the reference
value, this book examines this particular rhetoric using pictorial signs as
its prime examples. The visual is not treated as the ‘poor relation’ to the
(written) word. It is therefore possible to isolate more clearly the specific
constituent properties of word and image, taking these as the basic material
of a wide range of cultural artefacts. It looks at comic strips, conventional
photographs, photographic allegory, pictorial metaphor, advertising campaigns
and the huge semiotic range exhibited by the category of the ‘poster’. This is
essential reading for all students of semiotics, introductory and advanced.
Jul 03
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Interviews with M.A.K. Halliday
Subtitle: Language Turned Back on Himself
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/interviews-with-mak-halliday-9781441190819/
Editor: J. R. Martin
Hardback: ISBN: 9781441154873 Pages: 288 Price: U.K. £ 70.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781441190819 Pages: 288 Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Abstract:
This volume gathers together 14 interviews with M A K Halliday, the founder of
systemic functional linguistics (SFL), recorded over four decades – the most
recent of which was conducted in 2011 and published here for the first time.
In these engaging conversations with colleagues Halliday explores his own
development as a student of language in Britain and China, the evolution of
SFL theory around the world, its place in the field of general linguistics and
its many sites of application.
The dialogic mode enacted here allows Halliday to touch on many points of
personal history and intellectual challenge that have not been addressed in
formal publications (in his books or collected papers), including answers to
the many thought-provoking questions his colleagues had waited sometimes years
to ask. Accordingly each chapter offers a fresh illuminating window on the
innovative thinking and assured convictions of this towering figure in
linguistics.
Jul 03
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 10:10:56
From: Tamás Eitler [eitler.tamas@btk.elte.hu]
Subject: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines
Full Title: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines
Short Title: CADAAD
Date: 01-Sep-2014 – 03-Sep-2014
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Contact Person: Tamás Eitler
Meeting Email: cadaad2014@gmail.com
Web Site: http://cadaad.net/cadaad_2014
Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2013
Meeting Description:
CADAAD conferences are intended to promote current directions and new developments in cross-disciplinary critical discourse research.
We are glad to announce that the 5th CADAAD Conference will take place 1-3 September 2014 and will be hosted by ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary.
Reflecting the diversity of topics and approaches in critical discourse studies, the following distinguished guests have confirmed their participation as plenary speakers:
Professor Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University)
Professor Theo Van Leeuwen (University of Technology Sydney)
Professor Lilie Chouliaraki (London School of Economics)
Professor Andreas Musolff (University of East Anglia)
Professor Crispin Thurlow (University of Washington)
2nd Call for Papers:
We welcome papers which, from a critical-analytical perspective, deal with contemporary social, scientific, political, economic, or professional discourses and genres. Possible topics include but are by no means limited to the following:
– (New) Media Discourse
– Party Political Discourse
– Advertising
– Discourses of War and Terrorism
– Power, Ideology and Dominance in Institutional Discourse
– Identity in Discourse
– Education Discourses
– Environmental Discourses
– Health Communication
– Business Communication
– Language and the Law
– Discourses of Inequality, Discrimination and Othering
– Global Economic Discourses and Discourses of the Financial Crisis
– Discourses of Political Protest and Civil (Dis)order
– Neoliberalism and the New Divides
– Anti-EU Discourses
Papers addressing the highlighted topics are especially welcome. In giving weight to these topics we wish to call to attention some of the most pressing problems currently facing Europe. We hope that CADAAD 2014 will provide a publically visible forum for critically reflecting on these issues.
We welcome papers which approach topics such as listed above from theoretical and analytical perspectives sourced from anywhere across the humanities, social and cognitive sciences, including but without being limited to the following:
– Sociolinguistics
– Multimodality
– Media and Mass Communication Studies
– Functional Linguistics
– Cognitive Linguistics
– Corpus Linguistics
– Pragmatics and Argumentation Theory
– Conversation and Discourse Analysis
– Ethnography of Communication
– Discursive Psychology
– Political Science
We especially welcome papers which re-examine existing theoretical frameworks and/or which highlight and apply new methodologies.
All papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English.
Abstracts of 250-350 words excluding references should be sent as MS Word attachment to cadaad2014@gmail.com before 1 December 2013. Please include in the body of the email but not in the abstract itself (1) your name, (2) affiliation and (3) email address. Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by 1 March 2014.
In addition to individual papers, panel proposals may also be submitted. Further details are available at: http://www.cadaad.net/cadaad_2014.
We are planning to offer a small number of bursaries to be applied for by delegates who come from disadvantaged circumstances. Application information will be provided on our website in autumn.
Selected papers will be published in a thematically constrained volume to be submitted to an international publisher. Other selected papers will appear in a proceedings issue of the CADAAD journal.
For further information please visit the conference webpages at http://cadaad.net/cadaad_2014 or write to the local organising committee at cadaad2014@gmail.com.
Jul 02
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Spoken and Written Discourse in Online Interactions
Subtitle: A Multimodal Approach
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/9780415523165/
Author: Maria Grazia Sindoni
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415523165 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Abstract:
Common patterns of interactions are altered in the digital world and new
patterns of communication have emerged, challenging previous notions of what
communication actually is in the contemporary age. Typical modes of online
interaction encompass speech, writing, gesture, movement, gaze, and social
distance. This is nothing new, but here Sindoni asserts that all these modes
are integrated in unprecedented ways, enacting new interactional patterns and
new systems of interpretation among web users. These “non verbal” modes have
been sidelined by mainstream linguistics, whereas accounting for the
complexity of new genres and making sense of their educational impact is high
on this volume’ s agenda. Sindoni analyzes other new phenomena, ranging from
the intimate sphere (i.e. video chats, personal blogs or journals on social
networking websites) to the public arena (i.e. global-scale transmission of
information and knowledge in public blogs or media-sharing communities),
shedding light on the rapidly changing global web scenario.
Jul 01
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Call for Papers /Information for contributors
The International Journal of Language and Culture (http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/ijolc/main) welcomes authoritative, innovative articles. Topics of interest to the Journal include, but are not limited to the following:
a. Culture and the structure of language,
b. Language, culture, and conceptualisation,
c. Language, culture, and politeness,
d. Language, culture, and emotion,
e. Culture and language development,
f. Language, culture, and communication.
Professor Farzad Sharifian
Editor: International Journal of Language and Culture (John Benjamins Publishing)
http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/farzad-sharifian/
School of Languages, Cultures, and Linguistics
Monash University
Building 11
Melbourne, Victoria, 3800
Australia
Email: Farzad.Sharifian@monash.edu
Phone: +61 3 99024898
Fax: +61 3 99055437
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