May 20
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Translating for Singing
Subtitle: The Theory, Art and Craft of Translating Lyrics
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/translating-for-singing-9781472571885/
Author: Ronnie Apter
Author: Mark Herman
Electronic: ISBN: 9781472571915 Pages: 288 Price: U.K. £ 19.99 Comment: EPUB
Electronic: ISBN: 9781472571908 Pages: 312 Price: U.K. £ 19.99 Comment: ePDF
Hardback: ISBN: 9781472571892 Pages: 312 Price: U.K. £ 65.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781472571885 Pages: 312 Price: U.K. £ 19.99
Abstract:
Translating for Singing discusses the art and craft of translating singable
lyrics, a topic of interest in a wide range of fields, including translation,
music, creative writing, cultural studies, performance studies, and semiotics.
Previously, such translation has most often been discussed by music critics,
many of whom had neither training nor experience in this area. Written by two
internationally known translators, the book focusses mainly on practical
techniques for creating translations meant to be sung to pre-existing music,
with suggested solutions to such linguistic problems as those associated with
rhythm, syllable count, vocal burden, rhyme, repetition and sound. Translation
theory and translations of lyrics for other purposes, such as surtitles, are
also covered.
The book can serve as a primary text in courses on translating lyrics and as a
reference and supplementary text for other courses and for professionals in
the fields mentioned. Beyond academia, the book is of interest to professional
translators and to librettists, singers, conductors, stage directors, and
audience members.
May 07
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Case Studies in Discourse Analysis
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Pragmatics 29
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
http://www.lincom-shop.eu
Book URL: http://bit.ly/23vcDAW
Editor: Marcel Danesi
Author: Sara Greco Morasso
Hardback: ISBN: 9783862887095 Pages: 428 Price: Europe EURO 162.80
Abstract:
Discourse permeates human life, manifesting itself in all kinds of speech
acts, from conversations to clinical dialogues between a patient and
practitioner. While discourse has been studied within specific disciplines,
including linguistics, anthropology, and psychology, over the last few decades
an autonomous approach, known as Discourse Analysis, has emerged to develop
its own theoretical and research agendas aimed at penetrating the nature and
role of discourse in human life. This collection of case studies in discourse
aims to examine these agendas in specific situations, and thus to contribute
to the growing significance of this exciting field of inquiry. It thus
presents a composite picture of what discourse analysis is and what it allows
us to do in the area of speech analysis. The chapters deal with the kinds of
discourses that characterize medical communication, media and public
discourse, conflict resolution and reconciliation, juridical communication,
gastronomical language, text messaging, education, and others. Written by
active researchers in the fields of discourse analysis proper and its
correlative field of argumentation theory, both the expert and the neophyte
will be able to glean from the various chapters how this new discipline is
evolving and what it can achieve in shedding light on the complexities of
human interaction.
Apr 26
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive
Interaction
Subtitle: Multimodal and cross-linguistic perspectives
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 262
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.262
Editor: Manuela Romano
Editor: Maria Dolores Porto
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027267221 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027267221 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027267221 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256676 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256676 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256676 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 100.70
Abstract:
This volume offers readers interested in Discourse Analysis and/or
Socio-Cognitive models of language a closer view of the relationship between
discourse, cognition and society by disclosing how the cognitive mechanisms of
discourse processing depend on shared knowledge and situated cognition. An
inter- and multidisciplinary approach is proposed that combines theories and
methodologies coming from Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Multimodal Metaphor
Theory, Critical Discourse Analysis, Narratology, Systemic Functional
Linguistics, Appraisal Theory, together with the most recent developments of
Socio-Cognitive Linguistics, for the analysis of real communicative events,
which range from TV reality shows, commercials, digital stories or political
debates, to technical texts, architectural memorials, newspapers and
autobiographical narratives. Still, several key notions are recurrent in all
contributions -embodiment, multimodality, conceptual integration, metaphor,
and creativity- as the fundamental constituents of discourse processing. It is
only through this wide-ranging epistemological and empirical approach that the
complexity of discourse strategies in real contexts, i.e. human communication,
can be fully comprehended, and that discourse analysis and cognitive
linguistics can be brought closer together.
Apr 23
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Discourse and Responsibility in Professional Settings
Series Title: Studies in Communication in Organisations and Professions
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
http://www.equinoxpub.com/
Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/discourse-responsibility-professional-settings-edited-jan-ola-ostman
Editor: Jan-Ola Ostman
Editor: Anna Solin
Hardback: ISBN: 9781845539146 Pages: 318 Price: U.S. $ 100 Comment: £60
Paperback: ISBN: 9781845539153 Pages: 318 Price: U.S. $ 29.95 Comment: £19.99
Abstract:
This volume strengthens the case for analysing discourse from the point of
view of discourse participants’ accountability and responsibility. It adds an
important and largely neglected strand to research in discourse studies and
pragmatics by analysing the expression and attribution of responsibility,
particularly in professional discourse.
Debates on social and professional responsibility have proliferated in recent
years both in the public sphere (e.g. in connection with corporate
responsibility reports) and in more local practices (e.g. as manifested in the
publication of in-house codes of conduct). However, there is little academic
research on professional discourse which systematically addresses the ways in
which responsibility relations are construed in language use.
This volume contains a number of case studies focusing on different
professional settings: media, health care and social work. The types of data
examined range from globally available mass-consumed discourse (such as news
agency dispatches) to local and essentially private face-to-face encounters
(such as counselling sessions). The studies examine different linguistic
features (such as reported speech in written texts and backchannelling in
spoken encounters) and different types of meanings (such as agency and
causality). The studies draw on different methodological approaches (mainly
pragmatics, conversation analysis and (critical) discourse analysis). A common
thread running through the contributions is that responsibility is not a
stable quality of people or institutions, but a dynamic and variable resource
that language users negotiate in interaction.
Apr 22
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Conversational Writing
Subtitle: A Multidimensional Study of Synchronous and Supersynchronous
Computer-Mediated Communication
Series Title: English Corpus Linguistics – Band 16
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
http://www.peterlang.com
Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?267153
Author: Ewa Jonsson
Hardback: ISBN: 9783631671535 Pages: 353 Price: U.S. $ 89.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9783631671535 Pages: 353 Price: U.K. £ 55.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9783631671535 Pages: 353 Price: Europe EURO 72.95
Abstract:
The author analyses computer chat as a form of communication. While some forms
of computer-mediated communication (CMC) deviate only marginally from
traditional writing, computer chat is popularly considered to be written
conversation and the most «oral» form of written CMC. This book systematically
explores the varying degrees of conversationality («orality») in CMC, focusing
in particular on a corpus of computer chat (synchronous and supersynchronous
CMC) compiled by the author. The author employs Douglas Biber’s
multidimensional methodology and situates the chats relative to a range of
spoken and written genres on his dimensions of linguistic variation. The study
fills a gap both in CMC linguistics as regards a systematic variationist
approach to computer chat genres and in variationist linguistics as regards a
description of conversational writing.
Contents: Creating and annotating corpora of CMC – Internet relay chat – ICQ –
UCOW – Salient features in conversational writing – Social media analysis –
Orality – Synchronicity of communication – Paralinguistic features and
extra-linguistic content – A systemic-functional approach to computer chat.
Mar 19
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Hybridity in Systemic Functional Linguistics
Subtitle: Grammar, Text and Discursive Context
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
http://www.equinoxpub.com/
Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/hybridity-systemic-functional-linguistics-grammar-text-discursive-co
Editor: Donna R. Miller
Editor: Paul Bayley
Hardback: ISBN: 9781781790649 Pages: 408 Price: U.S. $ 110 Comment: £70
Abstract:
The term ‘hybridity’ has been around for a long time and, for most of its
history of use, has been pressed into the most disparate – and often dubious –
services. In recent times it has become a sort of transdisciplinary ‘buzz
word’ and it was about time that Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) also
raised its voice on the subject.
This volume addresses the increasingly typical hybrid nature of text and
discourse. In an SFL perspective, this also means that cultural and
situational contexts must be seen as being always potentially hybrid or, as
Hasan has fittingly put it, ‘permeable’, such permeability being based on the
powerful activation/construal dialectic between discursive situation and
language, system and instance. The authors of the papers in this collection
variously focus on hybridity within sociocultural contexts in which discourse
occurs, investigate hybridity of discourse types (in a wide range of genres,
registers, text-types, etc.), but also examine hybridity within the stratum of
lexicogrammar itself. Moreover, the implications of hybridity for education
and the professions are explored. The volume makes plain the multifaceted
complexity of the phenomenon, as well as its rich potential as a theoretical
construct in SFL.
Mar 16
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Communication in Surgical Practice
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
http://www.equinoxpub.com/
Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/communication-surgical-practice-edited-sarah-j-white-john-cartmill/
Editor: Sarah J. White
Editor: John A. Cartmill
Hardback: ISBN: 9781781790502 Pages: 410 Price: U.S. $ 110.00 Comment: £70
Abstract:
This volume brings together a range of linguistic, sociological, and
professional views on communication in surgical practice. It aims to provide
an insight into the complexity of communication in surgery, covering the
variety of communicative activities required in everyday surgical work.
The selection of authors from a variety of interactive sociolinguistic
disciplines in collaboration with clinicians explores a broad range of topics
and the methodologies currently used to understand communication in surgical
practice.
The intended audience for this book includes surgeons, medical educators,
communication researchers, linguists, sociologists, and others with an
interest in surgical and medical communication.
Mar 02
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Language at Work
Subtitle: Analysing Language Use in Work, Education, Medical and Museum Contexts
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
Book URL: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/language-at-work
Editor: Helen de Silva Joyce
Hardback: ISBN: 1443887110 9781443887113 Pages: 296 Price: U.K. £ 47.99
Hardback: ISBN: 1443887110 9781443887113 Pages: 296 Price: U.S. $ 81.95
Abstract:
Over recent decades, linguists have used various theoretical frameworks to
investigate the language of the workplace and public institutions, and this
work continues to expand into new social contexts. This linguistic research
has been used for various applied purposes, including the need to improve
communication within organisations and with external clients, customers and
patients, and to develop communication and language training programs.
Language at Work: Analysing Language Use in Work, Education, Medical and
Museum Contexts outlines recent linguistic research in a cross-section of
institutions – museums, schools, universities, defence, non-government
organisations, universities, hospitals and corporations, as well as
Asian-based call centres. The chapters will be of interest to students and
scholars of linguistics, language teachers, museum curators, trainers, and
educators, in addition to the general reader interested in organisational
communication.
Feb 24
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Language in Prehistory
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://cambridge.org
Book URL: http://bit.ly/1RZDhQK
Author: Alan Barnard
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107692596 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 24.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107692596 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 17.99
Abstract:
For ninety per cent of our history, humans have lived as ‘hunters and
gatherers’, and for most of this time as talking individuals. No direct
evidence for the origin and evolution of language exists; we do not even know
if early humans had language, either spoken or signed. Taking an
anthropological perspective, Alan Barnard acknowledges this difficulty and
argues that we can nevertheless infer a great deal about our linguistic past
from what is around us in the present. Hunter-gatherers still inhabit much of
the world, and in sufficient number to enable us to study the ways in which
they speak, the many languages they use, and what they use them for. Barnard
investigates the lives of hunter-gatherers by understanding them in their own
terms, to create a book which will be welcomed by all those interested in the
evolution of language.
1. Introduction; 2. Population diversity and language diversity; 3. What did
prehistoric people do?; 4. How did prehistoric people think?; 5. Narratives of
the every-day; 6. Mythological narratives; 7. Sexual selection and language
evolution; 8. Conclusions and thoughts for the future.
Feb 18
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Constructing a System of Irregularities
Subtitle: The Poetry of Bei Dao, Yang Lian, and Duoduo
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
Book URL: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/constructing-a-system-of-irregularities
Author: Chee Lay Tan
Hardback: ISBN: 1443880264 9781443880268 Pages: 290 Price: U.K. £ 47.99
Hardback: ISBN: 1443880264 9781443880268 Pages: 290 Price: U.S. $ 81.95
Abstract:
This book investigates the poetics of three of the most internationally
renowned contemporary Chinese poets – Bei Dao, Yang Lian and Duoduo – who were
all exiled from China after the 1989 Tiananmen student movement. Their poetry
was later to be labelled ‘Misty poetry’ (Menglongshi). Emphasising polyvalent
imagery and irregular syntax, Misty poetry engenders a multiplicity of
meanings, often leading to interpretational indeterminacy. This book examines
three aspects of the ‘Mistiness’ of the poets’ oeuvre: the socio-historic
background where Misty poets live and write; imagery; and linguistic elements.
After first identifying the roots of Mistiness, this book identifies imagistic
and linguistic clues in order to construct a hermeneutical system that
examines the irregularities of the Misty poetics and appreciates the polysemy
of the poets’ works. Stylometry is used to analyse image frequency and its
significance in a stylistic manner, and a semiotic approach is then
systematically applied to analyse the poets’ highly irregular images, syntax
and the different effects of their poems’ obscurity. Through these approaches
that unveil the poems’ evocativeness, the irregularity of the poetry’s
Mistiness is established as its most powerful linguistic and imagistic aspect.
The book then places the three poets’ different misty characteristics into
contrast: Bei Dao’s twisted imagery and elliptical syntax, Yang’s imagery in a
classically-inspired syntax, and Duoduo’s integration of images into a
rhythmic syntax. While the poets’ progressions from pre- to post-exile poetics
suggest the potential of a non-nationally specific, or borderless poetics,
their seemingly irregular poetic Mistiness is the most powerful trait of Misty
poetry for evoking its system of multifaceted significations and alternative
aesthetics.
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