Jul 31
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: The Body in Language
Subtitle: Comparative Studies of Linguistic Embodiment
Series Title: Brill’s Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Brill
http://www.brill.com
Book URL: http://www.brill.com/products/book/body-language
Editor: Matthias Brenzinger
Editor: Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
Hardback: ISBN: 9789004274280 Pages: 396 Price: Europe EURO 126
Hardback: ISBN: 9789004274280 Pages: 396 Price: U.S. $ 163
Abstract:
“The Body in Language: Comparative studies of Linguistic Embodiment” provides new insights into the theory of linguistic embodiment in its universal and cultural aspects. The contributions of the volume offer theoretical reflections on grammaticalization, lexical semantics, philosophy, multimodal communication and – by discussing metaphorization and metonymy in figurative language – on cognitive linguistics in general.
Case studies contribute first-hand data on embodiment from more than 15 languages and present findings on the body in language in diverse cultures from various continents. Embodiment fundamentally underlies human conceptualisation and the present discussions reveal a wide range of target domains in conceptual transfers with the body as the source domain.
Jul 26
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Charles Sanders Peirce in His Own Words
Subtitle: 100 Years of Semiotics, Communication and Cognition
Series Title: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] 14
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/255019?format=G
Editor: Torkild Thellefsen
Editor: Bent Sørensen
Electronic: ISBN: 9781501510342 Pages: 606 Price: Europe EURO 119.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9781614517535 Pages: 606 Price: Europe EURO 119.95
Abstract:
In 2014, Peirce will have been dead for one hundred years. The book will
celebrate this extraordinary, prolific thinker and the relevance of his idea
for semiotics, communication, and cognitive studies. More importantly,
however, it will provide a major statement of the current status of Peirce’s
work within semiotics. The volume will be a contribution to both semiotics and
Peirce studies.
Jul 11
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: The Evolution of Social Communication in Primates
Series Title: Interdisciplinary Evolution Research
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Springer
http://www.springer.com
Book URL: http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/evolutionary+%26+developmental+biology/book/978-3-319-02668-8
Editor: Marco Pina
Editor: Nathalie Gontier
Electronic: ISBN: 9783319026695 Pages: Price: —-
Paperback: ISBN: 9783319026688 Pages: Price: —-
Abstract:
How did social communication evolve in primates? In this volume,
primatologists, linguists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists and
philosophers of science systematically analyze how their specific disciplines
demarcate the research questions and methodologies involved in the study of
the evolutionary origins of social communication in primates in general, and
in humans in particular. In the first part of the book, historians and
philosophers of science address how the epistemological frameworks associated
with primate communication and language evolution studies have changed over
time, and how these conceptual changes affect our current studies on the
subject matter. In the second part, scholars provide cutting-edge insights
into the various means through which primates communicate socially in both
natural and experimental settings. They examine the behavioral building blocks
by which primates communicate, and they analyze what the cognitive
requirements are for displaying communicative acts. Chapters highlight
cross-fostering and language experiments with primates, primate mother-infant
communication, the display of emotions and expressions, manual gestures and
vocal signals, joint attention, intentionality and theory of mind. The primary
focus of the third part is on how these various types of communicative
behavior possibly evolved, and how they can be understood as evolutionary
precursors to human language. Leading scholars analyze how both manual and
vocal gestures gave way to mimetic and imitational protolanguage, and how the
latter possibly transitioned into human language. In the final part, we turn
to the hominin lineage, and anthropologists, archeologists and linguists
investigate what the necessary neurocognitive, anatomical and behavioral
features are in order for human language to evolve, and how language differs
from other forms of primate communication.
Jul 08
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: The Discourse Studies Reader
Subtitle: Main currents in theory and analysis
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/z.184
Editor: Johannes Angermuller
Editor: Dominique Maingueneau
Editor: Ruth Wodak
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027270184 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027270184 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 88
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027270184 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027212108 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027212108 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 111.30
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027212108 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9789027212115 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 34.98
Paperback: ISBN: 9789027212115 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 28.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9789027212115 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 49.95
Abstract:
Discourse Studies is an interdisciplinary field studying the social production
of meaning across the entire spectrum of the social sciences and humanities.
The Discourse Studies Reader brings together 40 key readings from discourse
researchers in Europe and North America, some of which are now translated into
English for the first time. Divided into seven sections – ‘Theoretical
Inspirations: Structuralism versus Pragmatics’, ‘From Structuralism to
Poststructuralism’, ‘Enunciative Pragmatics’, ‘Interactionism’,
‘Sociopragmatics’, ‘Historical Knowledge’ and ‘Critical Approaches’ – The
Discourse Studies Reader offers a comprehensive overview of the main currents
in discourse studies, both discourse theory and discourse analysis. With short
introductions elaborating the broader context, the sections present key
selections from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds by placing them into
their respective epistemological traditions. The Discourse Studies Reader is
an indispensable textbook for students and scholars alike who are interested
in discourse theoretical questions and working with discourse analytical
methods.
Jul 08
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Reading for Learning
Subtitle: Cognitive approaches to children’s literature
Series Title: Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 3
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/clcc.3
Author: Maria Nikolajeva
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269959 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269959 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269959 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027201577 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027201577 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 100.70
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027201577 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Abstract:
How does reading fiction affect young people? How can they transfer fictional
experience into real life? Why do they care about fictional characters? How
does fiction enhance young people’s sense of self-hood? Supported by cognitive
psychology and brain research, this ground-breaking book is the first study of
young readers’ cognitive and emotional engagement with fiction. It explores
how fiction stimulates perception, attention, imagination and other cognitive
activity, and opens radically new ways of thinking about literature for young
readers. Examining a wide range of texts for a young audience, from
picturebooks to young adult novels, the combination of cognitive criticism and
children’s literature theory also offers significant insights for literary
studies beyond the scope of children’s fiction. An important milestone in
cognitive criticism, the book provides convincing evidence that reading
fiction is indispensable for young people’s intellectual, emotional and social
maturation.
Jul 04
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Researching Language and Social Media
Subtitle: A Student Guide
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://bit.ly/1mlsZLS
Author: Ruth Page
Author: David Barton
Author: Johann Wolfgang Unger
Author: Michele Zappavigna
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415841993 Pages: 202 Price: U.S. $ 145.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780415842006 Pages: 202 Price: U.S. $ 39.95
Abstract:
Each chapter begins with a clear summary of the topics covered and also
suggests sources for further reading to supplement the initial discussion and
case studies. Written with an international outlook, Researching Language and
Social Media is an essential book for undergraduate and postgraduate students
of Linguistics, Media Studies and Communication Studies.
Jul 04
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Unified Discourse Analysis
Subtitle: Language, Reality, Virtual Worlds and Video Games
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://bit.ly/1mls2TZ
Author: James Paul Gee
Electronic: ISBN: 9781315774459 Pages: 175 Price: U.S. $ 44.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9781138774513 Pages: 134 Price: U.S. $ 145.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781138774520 Pages: 134 Price: U.S. $ 39.95
Abstract:
In this ground-breaking new textbook, best-selling author and experienced
gamer, James Paul Gee, sets out a new theory and method of discourse analysis
which applies to language, the real world, science and video games. Rather
than analysing the language of video games, this book uses discourse analysis
to study games as communicational forms. Gee argues that language, science,
games and everyday life are deeply related and each is a series of
conversations. Discourse analysis should not be just about language, but about
human interactions with the world, with games, and with each other,
interactions that make meaning and sustain lives amid risk and complexity.
Jul 01
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: The Social Origins of Language
Series Title: Oxford Studies in the Evolution of Language 19
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199665327.do
Author: Daniel Dor
Author: Chris Knight
Author: Jerome Lewis
Hardback: ISBN: 9780199665327 Pages: 528 Price: U.K. £ 90.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780199665334 Pages: 528 Price: U.K. £ 35.00
Abstract:
This book presents a new perspective on the origins of language, and highlights the key role of social and cultural dynamics in driving language evolution. It considers, among other questions, the role of gesture in communication, communities, and the time-frame for language evolution.
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