Oct 16
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Antagonism on Youtube
Subtitle: Metaphor in Online Discourse
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/antagonism-on-youtube-9781472566690/
Author: Stephen Pihlaja
Electronic: ISBN: 9781472566690 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 74.99 Comment: PDF: 8/28/2014
Electronic: ISBN: 9781472566683 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 74.99 Comment: EPUB: 9/11/2014
Hardback: ISBN: 9781472566676 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 75.00 Comment: 10/23/2014
Abstract:
Similar to many sites on the Internet, interaction on YouTube often features confrontational, antagonistic exchanges among users. YouTube comments threads in particular are known for their offensive, conflagratory content. This books looks at this form of discourse. The term ‘drama’ (or ‘flame wars’) appears often as a label for a phenomenon that is easily recognisable. In these cases, serious disagreements can become entangled with interpersonal relationships and users take positions for themselves in relation to others and social controversies.
The focus of this book is on the ways in which metaphor contributes to the development of Internet drama, particularly on YouTube. Although a growing body of research into YouTube social interaction continues to develop descriptions of user experience on YouTube, empirical studies of the YouTube video page are rare, as well as close discourse analysis of user interaction on the site. This research specifically focuses on the interaction of a group of users discussing issues of Christian theology and atheism on the site, analysing how discourse facilitates to antagonistic interaction among users.
Since YouTube drama occurs publicly, the book focuses on actual YouTube video pages rather than user reports of their actions and responses. It investigates how and why YouTube drama develops through a systematic description and analysis of user discourse activity. Through close analysis of video pages, this study contributes to a greater academic understanding of Internet antagonism and YouTube interaction by revealing the factors which contribute to the development of drama over time.
Oct 16
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Circus as Multimodal Discourse
Subtitle: Performance, Meaning, and Ritual
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://bloomsbury.com/uk/circus-as-multimodal-discourse-9781472569479/
Author: Paul Bouissac
Paperback: ISBN: 9781472569479 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Abstract:
Now available in paperback, this volume presents a theory of the circus as a secular ritual and introduces a method to analyze its performances as multimodal discourse.
The book’s chapters cover the range of circus specialties (magic, domestic and wild animal training, acrobatics, and clowning) and provide examples to show how cultural meaning is produced, extended and amplified by circus performances. Bouissac is one of the world’s leading authorities on circus ethnography and semiotics and this work is grounded on research conducted over a 50 year span in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas.
It concludes with a reflection on the potentially subversive power of this discourse and its contemporary use by activists. Throughout, it endeavours to develop an analytical approach that is mindful of the epistemological traps of both positivism and postmodernist license. It brings semiotics and ethnography to bear on the realm of the circus.
[Not to be confused with Multimodal Discourse As Circus]
Oct 14
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Researching Identity and Interculturality
Series Title: Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://bit.ly/1sMatQJ
Editor: Fred Dervin
Editor: Karen Risager
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415739122 Pages: 246 Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Abstract:
This volume focuses on advances in research methodology in an
interdisciplinary field framed by discourses of identity and interculturality.
It includes a range of qualitative studies: studies of interaction, narrative
studies, conversation analysis, ethnographic studies, postcolonial studies and
critical discourse studies, and emphasizes the role of discourse and power in
all studies of identity and interculturality. The volume particularly focuses
on critical reflexivity in every stage of research, including reflections on
theoretical concepts (such as ‘identity’ and ‘interculturality’) and their
relationship with methodology and analytical practice, reflections on
researcher identity and subjectivity, reflections on local and global contexts
of research, and reflections on language choice and linguacultural aspects of
data generation, analysis and communication.
Oct 10
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Royal Society Publishing has just published Language as a multimodal phenomenon: implications for language learning, processing and evolution, compiled and edited by Gabriella Vigliocco, Pamela Perniss, Robin L. Thompson and David Vinson. This content can be accessed at http://bit.ly/PTB1651 and is freely available online until 26 October (from now until 19 October content is accessed by: User name: language Password: tb1651 (case sensitive)).
Oct 03
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: A Multimodal Analysis of Picture Books for Children
Subtitle: A Systemic Functional Approach
Series Title: Discussions in Functional Approaches to Language
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
http://www.equinoxpub.com/
Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=553&keyword=multimodal
Author: Arsenio Jesus Moya Guijarro
Hardback: ISBN: 9781908049773 Pages: 316 Price: U.S. $ 100 Comment: £70
Paperback: ISBN: 9781908049780 Pages: 316 Price: U.S. $ 37.95 Comment: £24.99
Abstract:
A Multimodal Analysis of Picture Books for Children goes beyond the relation
between the representation of reality and language alone; instead, it aims to
analyze the intersemiosis between verbal and visual elements in a sample of
nine picture books. The chapters included in this book take the most relevant
systemic-functional and visual social semiotic theories a step further from
previous studies and apply them to the genre of children’s tales. Within the
frameworks of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics and Kress and van
Leeuwen’s Visual Social Semiotics, the aim is to identify the verbal and
visual strategies available to the writer and illustrator (i) to convey
representational meanings, (ii) to set up interpersonal relationships within
the tale itself, as well as external relationships between writer and reader
and, finally, (iii) to create coherent tales. This is achieved by analyzing
and identifying the ideational, interpersonal and textual choices available to
the writer to make meaning in picture books, and comparing them with the
corresponding representational, interactive and compositional choices made by
the illustrator. The analysis reveals how the verbal and visual modalities
contribute to each other’s meaning and makes the potential of combining verbal
and non-verbal language in picture books evident.
Sep 26
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements, semantics
Schmid, Ulla
Moore’s Paradox
A Critique of Representationalism
Representationalism grasps the meaning and grammar of linguistic expressions in terms of reference; that is, as determined by the respective objects, concepts or states of affairs they are supposed to represent, and by the internal structure of the content they articulate.
As a consequence, the semantic and grammatical properties of linguistic expressions allegedly reflect the constitution of the objects they refer to. Questions concerning the meaning of particular linguistic expressions are supposed to be answerable by investigating the metaphysics of the corresponding phenomena. Accordingly, questions of the meaning of psychological concepts, are turned into questions of the nature of psychological states. Concerned with Moore‘s Paradox, representationalist approaches lead into an investigation of the state of affairs supposedly described by Moore-paradoxical assertions, and thus eventually into investigations concerning the metaphysics of belief.
This book argues that this strategy necessarily yields both a wrong solution to Moore‘s Paradox and an inadequate conception of the meaning of the expression I believe. Turning to the metaphysics of belief is of no use when it comes to understanding either the meaning of the expression ‘I believe’ or the logic of avowals of belief. Instead, it proposes to focus on the role they play in language, the ways in which they are used in practice.
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/431094
Sep 12
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: True Emotions
Series Title: Consciousness & Emotion Book Series 9
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/ceb.9
Author: Mikko Salmela
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269812 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269812 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269812 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027241597 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027241597 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027241597 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.40
Abstract:
True Emotions discusses several key problems in emotion research. The question
about the true nature of emotions focuses on the role of cognition in human
emotions at different levels of analysis: functional role, types of processes
and representations, and neural implementation. Truth to the self, or
authenticity, has two meanings, psychological and normative, where the latter
is analyzed as coherence between the evaluative content of an emotion and the
subject’s internally justified beliefs and values. Truth to the world is
argued to be a matter of correct evaluative representation of the emotional
object on the one hand, and the existence of the object, or the actuality or
accurate probability of the represented situation on the other hand. Finally,
authenticity and truth are applied to analyses of the authenticity of
occupational emotions and the constitution of sentimental values,
respectively. Recommended reading for philosophers, psychologists,
sociologists, and gender researchers.
Sep 10
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Intersubjectivity and Intersubjectification in Grammar and
Discourse
Subtitle: Theoretical and descriptive advances
Series Title: Benjamins Current Topics 65
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.65
Editor: Lieselotte Brems
Editor: Lobke Ghesquière
Editor: Freek van de Velde
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269782 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 85.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269782 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 128.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269782 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 71.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027242532 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 128.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027242532 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 71.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027242532 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.10
Abstract:
Recent years saw a growing interest in the study of subjectivity, as the
linguistic expression of speaker involvement. Intersubjectivity, defined by
Traugott as “the linguistic expression of a speaker/writer’s attention to the
hearer/reader”, on the other hand, has so far received little explicit
attention in its own right, let alone systematic definition and
operationalization. Intersubjectivity and seemingly related notions such as
interpersonal meaning, appraisal, stance and metadiscourse, frequently appear
in cognitive-functional accounts, as well as historical and more applied
approaches. These domains offer (partly) conflicting uses of
‘intersubjectivity’, differ in the overall scope of the concept and the
phenomena it may cover. This book brings together contributions from a variety
of different approaches, with the aim of disentangling the current web of
intertwined notions of intersubjectivity. Rather than focusing on the
potentially conflicting views, the volume aspires to resolve some of the
conceptual puzzle by cross-fertilization between the different views, and
spark discussion on how to operationalize ‘intersubjectivity’ in linguistic
research. Originally published in English Text Construction 5:1 (2012).
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