Book: The Discourse Studies Reader

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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
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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.

Book: Reading for Learning

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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
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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.

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