Dec 18
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Communicating Beyond Language
Subtitle: Everyday Encounters with Diversity
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415503389/
Author: Betsy Rymes
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415503389 Pages: 134 Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780415503402 Pages: 134 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Abstract:
This new book offers a timely and lively appraisal of the concept of
communicative repertoires, resources we use to express who we are when in
dialogue with others. Each chapter describes and illustrates the communicative
resources humans deploy daily, but rarely think about – not only the multiple
languages we use, but how we dress or gesture, how we greet each other or tell
stories, the nicknames we coin, and the mass media references we make – and
how these resources combine in infinitely varied performances of identity.
Rymes also discusses how our repertoires shift and grow over the course of a
lifetime, as well how a repertoire perspective can lead to a rethinking of
cultural diversity and human interaction, from categorizing people’s
differences to understanding how our repertoires can expand and overlap with
other, thereby helping us to find common ground and communicate in
increasingly multicultural schools, workplaces, markets, and social spheres.
Dec 18
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: The Language of War Monuments
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://bloomsbury.com/uk/the-language-of-war-monuments-9781623563332/
Author: David Machin
Author: Gill Abousnnouga
Hardback: ISBN: 9781623563332 Pages: 248 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Abstract:
This book analyses war monuments by developing a multimodal social-semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as three-dimensional objects. The book provides a practical tool-kit approach to how critical multimodal social semiotics should be done through visual, textual and material analysis. It ties this material analysis into the social and political contexts of production. Using examples across the 20th and 21st century the book’s chapters offer a way of analysing the way that monument designers have used specific semiotic choices in terms of things like iconography, objects, shape, form, angularity, height, materials and surface realisation to place representations of war in public places across Britain.
This social-semiotic approach to the study of war monuments serves three innovative purposes. First, it provides a contribution to the work on the ideological representations of war in Media and Cultural Studies and in Critical Discourse Analysis applied specifically to more banal realisations of discourse. Second, it responds to calls by historians for innovative ways to study war commemoration by providing an approach that offers both specific analysis of the objects and attends to matters of design. Thirdly, following in the relatively recent tradition of multimodal analysis, the arguments draw on the ideas of Kress and van Leeuwen (1996, 2001), adapting and extending their theories and models to the analysis of British commemorative war monuments, in order to develop a multimodal framework for the analysis of three dimensional objects.
Dec 18
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis
Subtitle: 2nd Edition
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415519748/
Editor: Carey Jewitt
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415519748 Pages: 544 Price: U.K. £ 125.00
Abstract:
The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis, Second Edition provides a comprehensive ‘research tool kit’ for multimodal analysis, with 34 chapters written by the leading figures in the field on a wide range of theoretical and methodological issues. It clarifies terms and concepts, synthesizes the key literature with in-depth exploration and illustrative analysis, and tackles challenging methodological issues. This second edition includes 12 new chapters on new theoretical and methodological developments and multimodal research on digitally mediated texts and interaction.
Dec 18
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Discourse of Twitter and Social Media
Subtitle: How We Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web
Series Title: Bloomsbury Discourse
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://bloomsbury.com/uk/discourse-of-twitter-and-social-media-9781472531544/
Author: Michele Zappavigna
Electronic: ISBN: 9781441123039 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 74.99 Comment: PDF eBook
Electronic: ISBN: 9781441138712 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 74.99 Comment: EPUB eBook
Hardback: ISBN: 9781441141866 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781472531544 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Abstract:
Social media such as microblogging services and social networking sites are changing the way people interact online and search for information and opinions. This book investigates linguistic patterns in electronic discourse, looking at online evaluative language, Internet slang, memes and ambient affiliation using a large Twitter corpus (over 100 million tweets) alongside specialized case studies. The author argues that we are currently witnessing a cultural movement from online conversation to what can be termed ‘searchable talk’ – online talk where people affiliate by making their discourse findable (for example, via metadata such as Twitter hashtags) by others holding similar interests. This cutting edge text will be of interest to all scholars and students dealing with electronically mediated discourse.
Dec 18
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Critical Multimodal Studies of Popular Discourse
Series Title: Routledge Studies in Multimodality
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415624718/
Editor: Emilia Djonov
Editor: Sumin Zhao
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415624718 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Abstract:
This volume brings together contributions by prominent and emerging scholars
that address the critical analysis of multimodality in popular culture texts
and semiotic practices. It connects multimodal analysis to critical discourse
analysis, demonstrating the value of different approaches to multimodality for
building a better understanding of critical issues of central interest to
discourse analysis, semiotics, applied linguistics, education, cultural and
media studies.
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