Feb 20
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Narratives in Academic and Professional Genres
Series Title: Linguistic Insights – Volume 172
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
http://www.peterlang.com
Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?431371
Editor: Maurizio Gotti
Editor: Carmen Sancho Guinda
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034313711 Pages: 511 Price: U.S. $ 124.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034313711 Pages: 511 Price: U.K. £ 77.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034313711 Pages: 511 Price: Europe EURO 96.07
Abstract:
Through Narrative Theory, the book offers an engaging panorama of the
construction of specialised discourses and practices within academia and
diverse professional communities. Its chapters investigate genres from various
fields, such as aircraft accident reports, clinical cases and other scientific
observations, academic conferences, academic blogs, climate-change reports,
university decision-making in public meetings, patients’ oral and written
accounts of illness, corporate annual reports, journalistic obituaries,
university websites, narratives of facts in legal cases, narrative processes
in arbitration hearings, briefs, and witness examination accounts. In addition
to exploring narration in this wide range of contexts, the volume uses
narrative as a powerful tool to gain a methodological insight into
professional and academic accounts, and thus it contributes to research into
theoretical issues. Under the lens of Narratology, Discourse and Genre
Analysis, fresh research windows are opened on the study of academic and
professional interactions.
Feb 20
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Equinox is pleased to announce a new journal Language and Sociocultural Theory
edited by James Lantolf (The Pennsylvania State University).
Language and Sociocultural Theory is an international journal devoted to the
study of language from the perspective of Vygotskian sociocultural theory.
Articles appearing in the journal may draw upon research in the following
fields of study: linguistics and applied linguistics, psychology and cognitive
science, anthropology, cultural studies, and education. Particular emphasis is
placed on applied research grounded on sociocultural theory where language is
central to understanding cognition, communication, culture, learning and
development. The journal especially focuses on research that explores the role
of language in the theory itself, including inner and private speech,
internalization, verbalization, gesticulation, cognition, conceptual
development, etc). Work that explores connections between sociocultural theory
and meaning-based theories of language also fits the journal’s scope.
Publication and Frequency
2 issues per volume year, April and September (commencing 2014)
For information on contributing and subscribing please see the journal
website:
https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/LST/index
With best wishes
Valerie Hall, Equinox Publishing Ltd
Feb 18
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Working with Multimodality
Subtitle: Rethinking Literacy in a Digital Age
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415676205/
Author: Jennifer Rowsell
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415676236 Pages: 182 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415676236 Pages: 182 Price: U.S. $ 130.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780415676205 Pages: 182 Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9780415676205 Pages: 182 Price: U.S. $ 36.95
Abstract:
In today’s digital world, we have multiple modes of meaning-making: sounds,
images, hypertexts. Yet, within literacy education, even ‘new’ literacies, we
know relatively little about how to work with and produce modally complex
texts.
In Working with Multimodality, Jennifer Rowsell focuses on eight modes: words,
images, sounds, movement, animation, hypertext, design and modal learning.
Throughout the book each mode is illustrated by cases studies based on the
author’s interviews with thirty people, who have extensive experience working
with a mode in their field. From a song writer to a well known ballet dancer,
these people all discuss what it means to do multimodality well.
This accessible textbook brings the multiple modes together into an integrated
theory of multimodality. Step-by-step, beginning with theory then exploring
modes and how to work with them, before concluding with how to apply this in
an investigation, each stage of working with multimodality is covered.
Assuming no prior knowledge about multimodality and its properties, Working
with Multimodality is designed to appeal to advanced undergraduate and
postgraduate students interested in how learning and innovation is different
in a digital and media age and is an essential textbook for courses in
literacy, new media and multimodality within applied linguistics , education
and communication studies.
Feb 13
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: The Pragmatics of Political Discourse
Subtitle: Explorations across cultures
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 228
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.228
Editor: Anita Fetzer
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027272393 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027272393 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027272393 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256331 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.40
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256331 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256331 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Abstract:
The volume promotes a pragmatic perspective to the analysis of political
discourse as multilayered mediated discourse. The chapters cross the
disciplinary and methodological boundaries of speech act theory, social
positioning theory, and argumentation theory and rhetorics. They address the
strategic use of address terms and irony, the form and function of questions,
and the expression of certainty in the contexts of parliamentary discourse,
interview, talkshow, phone-in programme and motion of support across different
discourse domains. Different cultural contexts are represented, including
Africa, the Middle East, different parts of Europe and the United States.
Feb 02
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Evolving Genres in Web-mediated Communication
Series Title: Linguistic Insights – Volume 140
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
http://www.peterlang.com
Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?431013
Editor: Sandra Campagna
Editor: Giuliana Garzone
Editor: Cornelia Ilie
Editor: Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034310130 Pages: 337 Price: U.S. $ 103.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034310130 Pages: 337 Price: U.K. £ 64.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9783034310130 Pages: 337 Price: Europe EURO 80.00
Abstract:
This volume explores genres in Web-mediated communication in a
discourse-analytical perspective, focusing in particular on genre change and
evolution under the pressure of technological renewal, the availability of new
affordances, and the consequent emergence of new generic conventions that
challenge traditional genre theory. The chapters are organised in an ideal
progression from websites and more “traditional” Web applications to Web 2.0
communicative platforms, characterised as they are by user participation and
user-generated content, focusing in the final section on blogging and
microblogging as the applications that are most representative of the
properties of the new platforms. In all chapters the starting point is an
awareness of the need to renew or adapt existing analytical tools to make them
applicable to the new objects of investigation.
Feb 02
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Nonverbal Communication
Series Title: Handbooks of Communication Science
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/119484?format=G
Editor: Judith A. Hall
Editor: Mark L. Knapp
Electronic: ISBN: 9783110238150 Pages: 882 Price: Europe EURO 199.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110238143 Pages: 882 Price: Europe EURO 199.95
Abstract:
The current volume will emphasize uses, purposes, origins, and consequences of
nonverbal communication in the lives of individuals, dyads, and groups-in
other words, the behavior of human beings. As such, it will not emphasize
communication systems per se nor the impact on humans of the physical
environment, whether built or natural. With a field as widely represented as
this one, full coverage within one volume is impossible. Therefore, the
decision was made by the volume Editors to cover many different topics, the
volume’s unity will derive from its focus on the persons (or, in one chapter,
non-human animals) engaging in nonverbal communication and the communicative
and psychological aspects of this behavior. Nonverbal behavior is the more
inclusive category and includes all emitted nonverbal behavior that may be
subject to interpretation by others, whether the behavior is intentionally
produced or not. In contrast, nonverbal communication refers to a subset of
nonverbal behavior that represents a more active process whereby encoder
(expressor) and decoder (recipient) emit and interpret behaviors according to
a shared meaning code.
Feb 01
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Language and Enlightenment
Subtitle: The Berlin Debates of the Eighteenth Century
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Linguistics/SociolinguisticsAnthropologicalL/?view=usa&ci=9780199661664
Author: Avi Lifschitz
Hardback: ISBN: 9780199661664 Pages: 272 Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Abstract:
What is the role of language in human cognition? Could we attain
self-consciousness and construct our civilisation without language? Such were
the questions at the basis of eighteenth-century debates on the joint
evolution of language, mind, and culture. Language and Enlightenment
highlights the importance of language in the social theory, epistemology, and
aesthetics of the Enlightenment. While focusing on the Berlin Academy under
Frederick the Great, Avi Lifschitz situates the Berlin debates within a larger
temporal and geographical framework. He argues that awareness of the
historicity and linguistic rootedness of all forms of life was a mainstream
Enlightenment notion rather than a feature of the so-called
‘Counter-Enlightenment’.
Enlightenment authors of different persuasions investigated whether speechless
human beings could have developed their language and society on their own.
Such inquiries usually pondered the difficult shift from natural signs like
cries and gestures to the artificial, articulate words of human language. This
transition from nature to artifice was mirrored in other domains of inquiry,
such as the origins of social relations, inequality, the arts and the
sciences. By examining a wide variety of authors – Leibniz, Wolff, Condillac,
Rousseau, Michaelis, and Herder, among others – Language and Enlightenment
emphasises the open and malleable character of the eighteenth-century Republic
of Letters. The language debates demonstrate that German theories of culture
and language were not merely a rejection of French ideas. New notions of the
genius of language and its role in cognition were constructed through a
complex interaction with cross-European currents, especially via the prize
contests at the Berlin Academy.
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