Dec 05
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: A Systemic-functional Approach to a Variety of Discourse
Subtitle: An Illustration of Genre and Register in British National Newswriting
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Communication 12
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
http://www.lincom-shop.eu
Book URL: http://bit.ly/21Cy6dk
Author: María José González Rodríguez
Paperback: ISBN: 9783862886784 Pages: 39 Price: Europe EURO 38.80
Abstract:
The language of newspapers is usually explored by linguists because it is undoubtedly the most widely genre read in Western countries. Systemic linguistics provides useful tools for analyzing newswriting, identifying grammatical and lexical elements that are functional for achieving particular purposes in media discourse. The aim of this study is to explore to what extent situational and cultural context determines the linguistic features used in British national newswriting. More specifically, through a systemic functional approach to language, we illustrate how the most distinctive feature of news discourse, the lead, is itself structured for a particular use and how register variables impact into that language use.
Dec 03
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Multimodality, Learning and Communication
Subtitle: A social semiotic frame
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://bit.ly/1XuZQ3K
Author: Gunther Kress
Author: Jeff Bezemer
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415709613 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 170.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780415709620 Pages: 158 Price: U.S. $ 49.95
Abstract:
This state-of-the-art account of research and theorising brings together multimodality, learning and communication through detailed analyses of signmakers and their meaning-making in museums, hospitals, schools and the home environment.By analysing video recordings, photographs, screenshots and print materials, Jeff Bezemer and Gunther Kress go well beyond the comfortable domains of traditional sites of (social) semiotic and multimodal research.
Nov 21
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics
Series Title: Benjamins Current Topics 78
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.78
Editor: María Jesús Pinar Sanz
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268013 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268013 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268013 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027242662 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027242662 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027242662 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.40
Abstract:
The aim of this volume is to advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the relationship between Multimodality and Cognitive Linguistics. The innovative nature of the volume in relation to those existing in the field lies in the fact that it brings together contributions from three of the main approaches dealing with Multimodality – Cognitive Linguistics and multimodal metaphors (Forceville & Urios Aparisi, 2009), social semiotics and systemic functional grammar and multimodal interactional analysis (Jewitt, 2009) –highlighting the importance of multimodal resources, and showing the close relationship between this field of study and Cognitive Linguistics applied to a variety of genres –ranging from comics, films, cartoons, picturebooks or visuals in tapestry to name a few. Originally published in Review of Cognitive Linguistics Vol. 11:2 (2013).
Nov 14
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Society in Language, Language in Society
Subtitle: Essays in Honour of Ruqaiya Hasan
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
http://www.palgrave.com
Book URL: http://bit.ly/1Le2bUB
Editor: Wendy Lee Bowcher
Editor: Jennifer Yameng Liang
Hardback: ISBN: 9781137402851 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 68.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9781137402851 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 105.00
Abstract:
Society in Language, Language in Society: Essays in Honour of Ruqaiya Hasan is the first collection dedicated to research directly influenced by the innovative and groundbreaking ideas of the eminent linguist Ruqaiya Hasan. The collection offers an insight into the breadth and depth of Hasan’s distinctive linguistic approaches and theoretical concerns. It includes original contributions by well-known scholars such as M.A.K. Halliday, Margaret Berry, David G. Butt, Donna R. Miller, Geoff Williams, Mary Schleppegrell, Annabelle Lukin, Alison Rotha Moore and Tom Bartlett, and covers a range of areas including verbal art, context of situation, semantic networks, cohesive harmony, text structure and literacy education. The volume also contains an interview with Ruqaiya Hasan by David Butt and Jennifer Yameng Liang, and a section in which the contributors describe their connection with Ruqaiya Hasan and her work.
This book is of particular value to scholars and students working in sociolinguistics, literary criticism, stylistics, functional linguistic theories, literacy pedagogy, social semiotics, multimodality and applied linguistics.
Nov 10
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Address Practice As Social Action
Subtitle: European Perspectives
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
http://www.palgrave.com
Book URL: http://bit.ly/1iONS1R
Editor: Catrin Norrby
Editor: Camilla Wide
Hardback: ISBN: 9781137529916 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 45.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9781137529916 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 67.50
Abstract:
How we address one another – whether we use first names, or titles and surnames, for example – says a great deal about who we are, our social relationships and which groups in society we belong to. This edited volume examines address choices in a range of everyday interactions – from radio interviews and service encounters to commercials and internet forums – taking place in Dutch, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Italian and the two national varieties of Swedish, Finland Swedish and Sweden Swedish. By comparing local, national and cross-border address practices, this volume uncovers both commonalities and differences in the way social meaning is expressed and shaped through address. The chapters also highlight the importance of investigating the daily encounters that make up the social fabric of our lives. This book will be of great interest to researchers of intercultural and cross-cultural communication, interactional sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis and pragmatics.
Nov 10
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Corpora, Grammar and Discourse
Subtitle: In honour of Susan Hunston
Series Title: Studies in Corpus Linguistics 73
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/scl.73
Editor: Nicholas Groom
Editor: Maggie Charles
Editor: Suganthi John
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027267900 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027267900 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027267900 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027210708 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027210708 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027210708 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 100.70
Abstract:
Corpus linguistics has had a revolutionary impact on grammar and discourse research. Not only has it opened up entirely new theoretical perspectives and methodological possibilities for both fields, but it has also to a considerable extent erased the boundaries that have traditionally been drawn between them. This book showcases a variety of current corpus-based approaches to the study of grammar and discourse, and makes a case for seeing grammar and discourse as fundamentally inter-related phenomena. The book features contributions from leading experts in cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, critical discourse studies, genre and register analysis, phraseology, language learning and teaching, languages for specific purposes, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, systemic functional linguistics and text linguistics. An essential reference point for future research, Corpora, Grammar and Discourse has been edited in honour of Susan Hunston, whose own work has consistently pushed at the boundaries of corpus-based research on grammar and discourse for over three decades.
Nov 03
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: A Beginner’s Guide to Discourse Analysis
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
http://www.palgrave.com
Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?k=9781137402882&loc=uk
Author: Sean Sutherland
Paperback: ISBN: 9781137402882 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 20.99
Abstract:
This practical textbook introduces the tools and techniques that explain how language is used in different situations, and it will be an indispensable resource that students will return to again and again during their course.
Author Sean Sutherland has years of experience in teaching the topic to his own undergraduate and graduate students, and the book is packed with colourful examples from novels, songs, newspaper articles and more that enrich students’ understanding and develop their confidence.
A Beginner’s Guide to Discourse Analysis:
• Assumes no prior knowledge of the subject
• Is filled with exercises and answers throughout, along with answers and commentary
• Contains supporting explanations of relevant grammar points
This is an indispensable resource for anybody doing discourse analysis as part of their studies.
Oct 22
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Talking with the President
Subtitle: The Pragmatics of Presidential Language
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/talking-with-the-president-9780199858798
Author: John Wilson
Paperback: ISBN: 9780199858798 Pages: 288 Price: U.S. $ 35.00
Abstract:
This book provides a pragmatic analysis of presidential language. Pragmatics is concerned with “meaning in context,” or the relationship between what we say and what we mean. John Wilson explores the various ways in which U.S. Presidents have used language within specific social contexts to achieve specific objectives. This includes obfuscation, misdirection, the use of metaphor or ambiguity, or in some cases simply lying. He focuses on six presidents: John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald W. Reagan, William F. Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack H. Obama. These presidents cover most of the last half of the twentieth century, and the first decade of the twenty first century, and each has been associated with a specific linguistic quality. John F. Kennedy was famed for his quality of oratory, Nixon for his manipulative use of language, Reagan for his gift of telling stories, Clinton for his ability to engage the public and to linguistically turn arguments and descriptions in particular directions. Bush, on the other hand, was famed for his inability to use language appropriately, and Obama returns us to the rhetorical flourishes of early Kennedy. In the case of each president, a range of specific examples are explored in order to highlight the ways in which a pragmatic analysis may provide an insight into presidential language. In many cases, what the president says is not necessarily what the president means.
Oct 03
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Body Talk and Cultural Identity in the African World
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
http://www.equinoxpub.com/
Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/body-talk-cultural-identity-african-world-augustine-agwuele/
Editor: Augustine Agwuele
Hardback: ISBN: 9781781791851 Pages: 214 Price: U.S. $ 100 Comment: £60
Paperback: ISBN: 9781781791868 Pages: 214 Price: U.S. $ 29.95 Comment: £19.99
Abstract:
The body is a site bearing multiple signs of cultural inscriptions. People’s postures, use of space, dress codes, speech particularities, facial expressions, tone qualities, gaze, and gestures are codes that send messages to observers. These messages differ across cultures and times. Some of these non-verbal messages are taken to be conscious or subconscious projection of a sense of personal or collective identity. The various forms of “body talk” may flag personal distinction, style, uniqueness or politics, in which case, the body and its presentations become stances of the self. Body talk may also exhibit a society’s or culture’s standardized norms.
The subject of this anthology is non-verbal communication signals from societies and cultures of Africa and African Diaspora. The goals are to document popular gestures, explore their meanings, and understand how they frame interactions and colour perception. The anthology is also aimed at offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the problematics of non-verbal communication by making sense of the various ways that different cultures speak without “voice”, and to examine how people and groups make their presence felt as social, cultural and political actors.
Contributions include case studies, descriptive codification, theoretical analyses and performative studies. The issues highlighted range from film and literature studies, gender studies, history, religion, popular cultural, and extends to the virtual space. Other studies provide a linguistic treatment of non-verbal communication and use it as means of explicating perception and stereotyping.
Sep 03
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: The Dynamics of Political Discourse
Subtitle: Forms and functions of follow-ups
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 259
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.259
Editor: Anita Fetzer
Editor: Elda Weizman
Editor: Lawrence N. Berlin
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268242 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268242 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268242 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256645 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256645 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256645 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 100.70
Abstract:
Rethinking Sinclair and Coulthard’s sequentiality-based notion of the follow-up, this volume explores its forms and communicative functions in traditional and contemporary modes of communication (parliamentary sessions, interviews, debates, speeches, op-eds, discussion forums and Twitter) wherein political actors address challenges to their political agenda and to their political face. In so doing, the volume achieves two major advances. First, its contributions expand the understanding of follow-ups beyond the traditional focus on structural sequentiality, considering communicative function as a defining feature of a follow-up. Second, it broadens the understanding of what constitutes political discourse, as not being limited to a single discourse, but also being able to span multiple discourses of different forms and speech events over time.
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