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.
Jan 22
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Without Metaphor, No Saving God
Subtitle: Theology after Cognitive Linguistics
Series Title: Studies in Philosophical Theology, 54
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: ISD, Distributor of Scholarly Books
http://www.isdistribution.com
Book URL: https://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=34846
Author: R. Masson
Paperback: ISBN: 9789042930193 Pages: 347 Price: U.S. $ 79.00
Abstract:
Studies of conceptual and neural mapping in cognitive linguistics, while
posing a fundamental challenge for religious belief, also suggest new ways of
understanding how people conceptualize God and make theological inferences.
This book, inspired by that research and attentive to the distinctive insights
of Christian theology, elaborates an innovative explanation of God-talk,
better able to credibly address confusion and controversies that trouble the
church, academic theology, and broader culture. The first part analyzes both
cognitive linguistics’ challenge to standard theological depictions of
metaphorical, analogous, symbolic, and literal language, and the discipline’s
promise for providing a more satisfactory account. The second half examines
six case studies to illustrate how clarifying the conceptual mapping in
God-talk and theological inferences provides a powerful tool for advancing
religious understanding. The illustrations include the hypothesis that
religion is an epiphenomenon of evolution, the so-called “new atheism,” Black
theology, and controversies between theologians and Church authorities.
(Peeters Publishers 2014)
Jan 17
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Language and Identity
Subtitle: Discourse in the World
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://bloomsbury.com/language-and-identity-9780567338167/
Editor: David Ceri Evans
Electronic: ISBN: 9780567566140 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Electronic: ISBN: 9780567047793 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Hardback: ISBN: 9780567338167 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Abstract:
Language not only expresses identities but also constructs them. Starting from that point, Language and Identity examines the interrelationships between language and identities. It finds that they are so closely interwoven, that words themselves are inscribed with ideological meanings.
Words and language constitute meanings within discourses and discourses vary in power. The powerful ones reproduce more powerful meanings, colonize other discourses and marginalize or silence the least powerful languages and cultures. Language and culture death occur in extreme cases of marginalization.
This book also demonstrates the socio-economic opportunities offered by language choice and the cultural allegiances of language, where groups have been able to create new lives for themselves by embracing new languages in new countries. Language can be a ‘double-edged sword’ of opportunity and marginalization. Language and Identity argues that bilingualism and in some cases multilingualism can both promote socio-economic opportunity and combat culture death and marginalization.
With sound theoretical perspectives drawing upon the work of Bakhtin, Vygotsky, Gumperz, Foucault and others, this book provides readers with a rationale to redress social injustice in the world by supporting minority linguistic and cultural identities and an acknowledgement that access to language can provide opportunity.
Jan 15
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Words for Feelings
Subtitle: Studies in the History of the English Emotion Lexicon
Series Title: Anglistische Forschungen, 446
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: ISD, Distributor of Scholarly Books
http://www.isdistribution.com
Book URL: https://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=54534
Author: Hans-Jürgen Diller
Hardback: ISBN: 9783825363598 Pages: 446 Price: U.S. $ 93.00
Abstract:
The papers and articles united in this volume analyse the use of a selection
of lexemes designating emotions in the history of English from Anglo-Saxon
times to Late Modern English. An Introduction gives an account of the emotions
in modern psychology and of the contribution of Historical Semantics to our
understanding of their origins. A number of chapters discriminate the meanings
of near-synonyms such as ‘wrath’/’anger’/’tene’ or ‘joy’/’bliss’/’mirth’.
Other chapters trace the emergence and demise of superordinate categories like
‘mood’, ‘passion’, and ’emotion’. The analyses are largely based on closed
computer-readable collections as they are accessible for Old, Middle, and
Modern English. The more recent chapters aim at a balanced consideration of
literary and non-literary genres and use a personal selection from more
comprehensive repositories like ‘Gutenberg’, the ‘Online Books Page’, ‘Google
Books’ and the ‘Internet Archive’. To a large extent, that selection draws on
traditional bibliographical tools. (Universitätsverlag Winter 2014)
Jan 09
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://bit.ly/14zdaep
Author: Stanton Wortham
Author: Angela Reyes
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415839495 Pages: 196 Price: U.K. £ 100.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780415839501 Pages: 196 Price: U.K. £ 29.99
Abstract:
Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event introduces a new approach to
discourse analysis. In this innovative work, Wortham and Reyes argue that
discourse analysts should look beyond fixed speech events and consider the
development of discourses over time. Drawing on theories and methods from
linguistic anthropology and related fields, this book is the first to present
a systematic methodological approach to conducting discourse analysis of
linked events, allowing researchers to understand not only individual events
but also the patterns that emerge across them.
Dec 15
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication, mode and modalities
Title: The Semiotics of Che Guevara
Subtitle: Affective Gateways
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: bloomsbury.com/uk/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505231/
Author: Maria-Carolina Cambre
Electronic: ISBN: 9781472505293 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 74.99
Electronic: ISBN: 9781472512222 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 74.99
Hardback: ISBN: 9781472505231 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Abstract:
Alberto Korda’s famous photograph of Che Guevara titled the “Guerrillero Heroico” has been reproduced, modified and remixed countless times since it was taken on March 5, 1960, in Havana, Cuba.
This book looks again at this well-known mass-produced image to explore how an image can take on cultural force in diverse parts of the globe and legitimate varying positions and mass action in unexpected global political contexts.
Analytically, the book develops a comparative analysis of how images become attached to a range of meanings that are absolutely inseparable from their contexts of use. Addressing the need for a fluid and responsive approach to the study of visual meaning-making, this book relies on multiple methodologies such as semiotics, research-creation, multimodal discourse analysis, ethnography and phenomenology and shows how each method has something to offer toward the understanding of the social and cultural work of images in our globally oriented cultures.
Dec 04
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Text Linguistics
The How and Why of Meaning
MAK Halliday and Jonathan J Webster
HB 9781904768470 £65
PB 9781904768487 £25
436pp
Sysfling members may order the book at a special discount of 25% off the retail price from the book page of the website. Please quote the code LINGUISTICS14when prompted (valid to the end of December 2014):
http://www.equinoxpub.com/home/text-linguistics-meaning-m-k-hallliday-jonathan-j-webster/
Description:
Whether prose or poetry, how does a text come to mean what it does? A functional-semantic approach to text analysis, such as is illustrated in this book, offers a revealing look at the resources of language at work in the creation of meaning, and a unique perspective on the text as object of study.
This collaborative work between M.A.K. Halliday, the founder of Systemic Functional Linguistics, and Jonathan Webster, the editor of Halliday’s eleven volume collected works, draws on a considerable body of Halliday’s previously unpublished work, including lectures on fundamental concepts in Systemic-Functional Theory, to present a foundational overview suitable to those who are new to the theory and methodology of Systemic Functional Grammar and Rhetorical Structure Theory. Building on this foundation, section two presents the findings from several case studies in text analysis, demonstrating how to conduct detailed functional-semantic analysis of the speeches of Billy Graham, Barack Obama, Richard Nixon, Steve Jobs and Susan Rice. This second section will benefit both beginners and those who have already had some background in the study of linguistics.
Contents:
Acknowledgement
Preface
Part One: a Functional Approach
1. Functions and Components of Language
2. Experiential systems
3. Material and mental processes
4. Verbal and relational processes
5. Participants and circumstances
6. Things and “meta-things”
7. Modality in English: modals and “pseudo-modals”
Part Two: Text and Texture
8. Textual meaning
9. Rhetorical structure of texts
Part Three: Case Studies in Text Linguistics
10. Stepping into meaning: a case study of Billy Graham’s address at the National Prayer and Memorial Service at the Episcopal National Cathedral on 14 September 2001
11. Visualizing the architeXture of a text: analyzing Obama’s first inaugural address and Nixon’s second inaugural address
12. Arriving at a theory of the text: a case study of the commencement addresses delivered by Steve Jobs and Susan Rice
Nov 29
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Genre Pedagogy across the Curriculum
Subtitle: Theory and Application in U.S. Classrooms and Contexts
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
http://www.equinoxpub.com/
Book URL: http://www.equinoxpub.com/home/genre-pedagogy-across-curriculum/
Editor: Luciana de Oliveira
Editor: Joshua Iddings
Hardback: ISBN: 9781845532413 Pages: 162 Price: U.S. $ 100 Comment: £60
Abstract:
This volume provides the most recent scholarship using a theory of genre emerging from Systemic Functional Linguistics. It describes both theoretical and practical applications of a language-based curriculum from elementary through to university level within a U.S. context. While there are other genre-based pedagogies in the U.S., SFL-based genre pedagogies illuminate the importance of language and linguistic choice within the curriculum, aiming to make these choices explicitly understood by scholars, teachers and students. Each chapter shows how this pedagogy can be adapted and used across many different disciplines and student age groups.
This volume will be of interest to postgraduate students and scholars of functional linguistics, discourse analysis, educational linguistics, genre studies and writing theory and pedagogy.
Nov 19
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://bloomsbury.com/contemporary-critical-discourse-studies-9781441141637/
Editor: Christopher Hart
Electronic: ISBN: 9781472527042 Pages: 416 Price: U.K. £ 99.99
Hardback: ISBN: 9781441141637 Pages: 648 Price: U.K. £ 100
Abstract:
CDS is a multifarious field constantly developing different methodological frameworks for analysing dynamically evolving aspects of language in a broad range of socio-political and institutional contexts. This volume is a cutting edge, interdisciplinary account of these theoretical and empirical developments. It presents an up-to-date survey of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS), covering both the theoretical landscape and the analytical territories that it extends over. It is intended for critical scholars and students who wish to keep abreast of the current state of the art.
The book is divided into two parts. In the first part, the chapters are organised around different methodological perspectives for CDS (history, cognition, multimodality and corpora, among others). In the second part, the chapters are organised around particular discourse types and topics investigated in CDS, both traditionally (e.g. issues of racism and gender inequality) and only more recently (e.g. issues of health, public policy, and the environment).
This is, altogether, an essential new reference work for all CDS practitioners.
Nov 19
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Discourse, Grammar, and Ideology
Subtitle: Functional and Cognitive Perspectives
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://bloomsbury.com/discourse-grammar-and-ideology-9781441133571/
Author: Christopher Hart
Electronic: ISBN: 9781441104854 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 74.99
Electronic: ISBN: 9781441101358 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 74.99
Hardback: ISBN: 9781441133571 Pages: 232 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Abstract:
Researchers in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) have often pointed to grammar as a locus of ideology in discourse. This book illustrates the role that grammars as models of language (and image) can play in revealing ideological properties of texts and discourse in social and political contexts. The book takes the reader through three distinct grammatical frameworks – functional grammar, multimodal grammar and cognitive grammar. Using examples taken from a range of discourses relating to globalisation, including discourses of immigration, war, corporate practice and political protests, the book demonstrates the individual utility and the interconnectedness of these models inside CDA. A key argument advanced is that the cognitive processes necessarily involved in making sense of language are based in visual experience. This position offers new ways of understanding the ideological effects of grammatical choices in texts and suggests a reassessment of the relationship between linguistic and multimodal grammars in CDA.
The book will appeal to students and researchers interested in CDA and the relationship between discourse, cognition and social action.
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