Feb 28
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Grammatical Metaphor in Chinese
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
http://www.equinoxpub.com/
Book URL: http://www.equinoxpub.com/home/grammatical-metaphor-chineseyang-yanning/
Author: Yang Yanning
Hardback: ISBN: 9781781791028 Pages: 282 Price: U.S. $ 100 Comment: £70
Abstract:
‘Well-written, neatly-structured and well-organized; it is sound both theoretically and methodologically; its arguments are forceful, and the description and the analysis are detailed and its findings are significant.’
Professor Huang Guowen, Sun Yat-sen University, China
This is the first comprehensive study of Grammatical Metaphor in the Chinese language. As the most important theoretical innovation of Systemic Functional Linguistics in the past three decades, Grammatical Metaphor has been extensively studied in relation to the English language. There has been very little research describing and analysing in depth the phenomenon of Grammatical Metaphor and other languages.
The book discusses the identification, categorization and deployment of Grammatical Metaphor in Chinese and compares these aspects of Grammatical Metaphor in Chinese with those in English. In addition, Grammatical Metaphor in Chinese looks not just at ideational but also at interpersonal Grammatical Metaphor with corpora consisting of both written texts and spoken discourses. This will provide a more comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon and set up a framework for further analysis of the interaction between two types of Grammatical Metaphor.
Feb 28
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Time, Language, and Ontology
Subtitle: The World from the B-Theoretic Perspective
Series Title: Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198718161.do
Author: M. Joshua Mozersky
Hardback: ISBN: 9780198718161 Pages: 208 Price: U.K. £ 50
Abstract:
This book brings together an account of the structure of time with an account
of our language and thought about time. It is a wide-ranging examination of
recent issues in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and the philosophy of
science and presents a compelling picture of the relationship of human beings
to the spatiotemporal world.
Feb 14
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Sociocultural Theory in Second Language Education (2nd Edition)
Subtitle: An Introduction through Narratives
Series Title: MM Textbooks
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783093168
Author: Merrill Swain
Author: Penny Kinnear
Author: Linda Steinman
Hardback: ISBN: 9781783093175 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 69.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9781783093175 Pages: 192 Price: U.S. $ 119.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9781783093168 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 19.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9781783093168 Pages: 192 Price: U.S. $ 29.95
Abstract:
In this accessible introduction to Vygotskian sociocultural theory, narratives
illuminate key concepts of the theory. These key concepts include mediation;
Zone of Proximal Development; collaborative dialogue and private speech;
everyday and scientific concepts; the interrelatedness of cognition and
emotion; activity theory; and assessment. A final chapter provides readers
with an opportunity to consider two additional narratives and apply the SCT
concepts that they have become familiar with. We hear from learners, teachers
and researchers in a variety of languages, contexts, ages and proficiencies.
Intended for graduate and undergraduate audiences, this new edition of the
textbook includes controversies in the field, improved questions for
collaborative discussion and provides updated references to important work in
the literature of second language teaching, learning and research.
Feb 13
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: The Rise of Writing
Subtitle: Redefining Mass Literacy
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/english-language-and-linguistics-general-interest/rise-writing-redefining-mass-literacy?format=PB
Author: Deborah Brandt
Hardback: ISBN: 9781107090316 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9781107090316 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 50.00
Abstract:
Millions of Americans routinely spend half their working day or more with their hands on keyboards and their minds on audiences – writing so much, in fact, that they have less time and appetite for reading. In this highly anticipated sequel to her award-winning Literacy in American Lives, Deborah Brandt moves beyond laments about the decline of reading to focus on the rise of writing. What happens when writing overtakes reading as the basis of people’s daily literate experience? How does a societal shift toward writing affect the ways that people develop their literacy and understand its value? Drawing on recent interviews with people who write every day, Brandt explores this major turn in the development of mass literacy and examines the serious challenges it poses for America’s educational mission and civic health.
Introduction: the rise of mass writing; 1. The status of writing; 2. Writing for the State; 3. Occupation: author/writing over reading in the literacy development of contemporary young adults; 4. When everybody writes; Conclusion: deep writing; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography.
Feb 13
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Discourse and Digital Practices
Subtitle: Doing discourse analysis in the digital age
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://bit.ly/1FDhfL4
Editor: Rodney H Jones
Editor: Alice Chik
Editor: Christoph A Hafner
Hardback: ISBN: 9781138022324 Pages: 262 Price: U.K. £ 95.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781138022331 Pages: 262 Price: U.K. £ 26.99
Abstract:
Discourse and Digital Practices shows how tools from discourse analysis can be used to help us understand new communication practices associated with digital media, from video gaming and social networking to apps and photo sharing.
Discourse and Digital Practices will be of interest to advanced students studying courses on digital literacies or language and digital practices.
Feb 12
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: The Semantics of Colour
Subtitle: A Historical Approach
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://cambridge.org
Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/semantics-and-pragmatics/semantics-colour-historical-approach?format=PB
Author: C. P. Biggam
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107499881 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 34.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107499881 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Abstract:
Human societies name and classify colours in various ways. Knowing this, is it possible to retrieve colour systems from the past? This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics, including the recognition of basic vocabulary, subsets, specialised terms and the significance of non-colour features. Each point is illustrated by case studies drawn from modern and historical languages from around the world. These include discussions of Icelandic horses, Peruvian guinea-pigs, medieval roses, the colour yellow in Stuart England, and Polynesian children’s colour terms. Major techniques used in colour research are presented and discussed, such as the evolutionary sequence, Natural Semantic Metalanguage and Vantage Theory. The book also addresses whether we can understand the colour systems of the past, including prehistory, by combining various semantic techniques currently used in both modern and historical colour research with archaeological and environmental information.
1. What is colour?; 2. What is colour semantics?; 3. Basic colour terms; 4. Non-basic and non-standard colour expressions; 5. Basic colour categories; 6. The evolutionary sequence; 7. Different approaches; 8. Historical projects: preliminaries; 9. Synchronic studies; 10. Diachronic studies; 11. Prehistoric colour studies; 12. Applications and potential.
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