Dec 14
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Towards an Ecology of Language, Communication and the Mind
Series Title: Interfaces
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
http://www.peterlang.com
Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?262873
Author: Marta Boguslawska-Tafelska
Hardback: ISBN: 9783631628737 Pages: 121 Price: U.S. $ 31.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9783631628737 Pages: 121 Price: U.K. £ 19.40
Hardback: ISBN: 9783631628737 Pages: 121 Price: Europe EURO 24.30
Abstract:
This book discusses an ecological approach to communicational processes. Raising consciousness about being green is not the only concern of present-day ecological linguistics. Ecolinguistics, with its attention focused on ecosystems as well as contexts of language and communication, probes deep into the core of not only modern linguistics but modern science in general, while relating to conceptions of the world as well as to the scientific method itself. Thus, when ecological thinking is applied to science, it eventually will incite a methodological and philosophical rethinking. This study reports the fundamental shifts occurring after ecological views had been infused into the Social Sciences and Humanities. The substance of various qualities, from the very dense and tangible, to subtle mental or cognitive non-matter, becomes an ecosystem for human language on both a very direct, material plane, as well as on the non-material plane. In fact, human language, as perceived by !
an ecologically-minded linguist today, is a life process, operating within the pulsating grid of other life processes.
Contents: Ecolinguistics – New linguistics – New paradigm in language and communication studies – Mind – Meaning as a process – Cognitive processes – Communication – Interdisciplinary linguistics.
Dec 10
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Discourse Studies Reader
Subtitle: Essential Excerpts
Series Title: Bloomsbury Discourse
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discourse-studies-reader-9781441179821/
Editor: Ken Hyland
Electronic: ISBN: 9781441172693 Pages: 360 Price: U.K. £ 19.99 Comment: EPUB
Electronic: ISBN: 9781441192653 Pages: 360 Price: U.K. £ 19.99 Comment: PDF
Hardback: ISBN: 9781441179821 Pages: 360 Price: U.K. £ 65.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781441154972 Pages: 360 Price: U.K. £ 19.99
Abstract:
Since 2005, the Continuum Discourse series, under the editorship of Professor Ken Hyland, has published some of the most cutting-edge work in the field of discourse analysis.This edited collection offers a showcase of the work produced by its authors and reads as fully-functional book in its own right. The work of Paul Baker, Frances Christie and Greg Myers features, amongst others.
With an introduction by Professor Hyland, the chapters are organized thematically to provide a look a research methods, examine at the various types of institutional discourses covered by the series, and finally, a look to arguably the future of the field – electronic discourses in an electronic medium, for example Twitter, SMS and Blogs.
This is an essential purchase for those involved in discourse analysis in any capacity.
Dec 10
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Studies of Laughter in Interaction
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/studies-of-laughter-in-interaction-9781441164797/
Editor: Phillip Glenn
Editor: Elizabeth Holt
Electronic: ISBN: 9781441183477 Pages: 312 Price: U.K. £ 74.99 Comment: PDF
Electronic: ISBN: 9781441162809 Pages: 312 Price: U.K. £ 74.99 Comment: EPUB
Hardback: ISBN: 9781441164797 Pages: 312 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Abstract:
Laughter is pervasive in interaction yet often overlooked in the research. This volume presents a collection of original studies revealing the highly-ordered, complex, and important phenomenon of laughter in everyday interactions. Building on 40 years of conversation analytic research, the authors show how the design and placement of laughs contribute to unfolding sequences, social activities, identities, and relationships. In this revealing study leading experts investigate laughter in a range of different contexts and across a variety of languages. The research demonstrates that laughter is not simply a reaction to humour but is used in a fascinating array of different ways. Findings reported here include its use in clinics, employment interviews, news interviews, classrooms, the discourse of children with severe autism, and ordinary conversations. The acoustics of laughter and its relationship to movement, gaze and gesture are also explored. The volume brings together new and influential research into this phenomenon to present the state-of-the-art. It will be invaluable to anyone interested in the study of interaction, conversation analysis, humour and laughter.
Dec 06
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
http://www.palgrave.com
Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=500323
Author: Helen Caple
Hardback: ISBN: 9780230301009 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 50
Abstract:
Photojournalism provides an analysis of press photography from a social semiotic perspective. It explores the role of photography in the news and how meanings are made in news photographs. It also investigates the meanings that are made at the intersection of words and images in the news story context. This is becoming increasingly important for multimodal news reporting in the twenty-first century.
The book brings together the author’s experiences as a professional photographer, lecturer and researcher to provide readers with a comprehensive tool kit for analyzing images and text-image relations. It explores a wide range of case studies and will appeal to scholars in Social Semiotics, Linguistics, Communications Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis and Media/Journalism Studies.
Dec 05
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: New Perspectives on the Origins of Language
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 144
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.144
Editor: Claire Lefebvre
Editor: Bernard Comrie
Editor: Henri Cohen
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271136 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 165.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271136 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 110.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271136 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206114 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 116.60
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206114 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206114 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 165.00
Abstract:
The question of how language emerged is one of the most fascinating and
difficult problems in science. In recent years, a strong resurgence of
interest in the emergence of language from an evolutionary perspective has
been helped by the convergence of approaches, methods, and ideas from several
disciplines. The selection of contributions in this volume highlight scenarios
of language origin and the prerequisites for a faculty of language based on
biological, historical, social, cultural, and paleontological forays into the
conditions that brought forth and favored language emergence, augmented by
insights from sister disciplines. The chapters all reflect new speculation,
discoveries and more refined research methods leading to a more focused
understanding of the range of possibilities and how we might choose among
them. There is much that we do not yet know, but the outlines of the path
ahead are ever clearer.
Dec 05
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Listenership Behaviours in Intercultural Encounters
Subtitle: A time-aligned multimodal corpus analysis
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 236
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.236
Author: Keiko Tsuchiya
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271013 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271013 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271013 Pages: Price: S. Korean won 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256416 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 100.70
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256416 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256416 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Abstract:
How do people listen in a conversation, especially in an intercultural
setting, and how do they shift from listener to speaker in the particular
context? This book investigates listenership behaviours of a tutor and a
student in the context of academic supervision sessions at a university in the
UK, comparing British tutor – British student conversations with British tutor
– Japanese student conversations in English. A new research methodology, a
time-aligned multimodal corpus analysis, is introduced for analysing
listenership and turn-taking structure, synthesising visual data with verbal
data in timeline. The method also integrates discourse-pragmatic and
conversation analytic approaches with the corpus-based analysis. This work
reports strategies in use of response tokens for framework shifts and
multi-functional nature of hand gestures observed in the conversations.
Therefore, this book is highly relevant for researchers and postgraduate
students, who study pragmatic and discursive practice in intercultural
settings using multimodal corpora.
Dec 05
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Ideology in Language Use
Subtitle: Pragmatic Guidelines for Empirical Research
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://cambridge.org
Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/semantics-and-pragmatics/ideology-language-use-pragmatic-guidelines-empirical-research?format=PB
Author: Jef Verschueren
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107695900 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107695900 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 39.99
Abstract:
The relationship between language and ideology has long been central to research in discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, and has also informed other fields such as sociology and literary criticism. This book, by one of the world’s leading pragmatists, introduces a new framework for the study of ideology in written language, using the tools, methods and theories of pragmatics and discourse analysis. Illustrations are drawn systematically from a coherent corpus of excerpts from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history textbooks dealing with episodes of colonial history and in particular the 1857 ‘Indian Mutiny’. It includes the complete corpus of excerpts, allowing researchers and students to evaluate all illustrations; at the same time, it provides useful practice and training materials. The book is intended as a teaching tool in language-, discourse- and communication-oriented programs, but also for historians and social and political scientists.
Introduction; Part I. Language Use and Ideology; Part II. Pragmatic Rules of Engagement; Part III. Pragmatic Guidelines and Procedures; Conclusion.
Nov 21
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhlanguage and brain, mode and modalities
Thorough musical training affects the structure and function of different brain regions more profoundly than previously thought. See here!
Nov 12
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhepistemology
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03ggc19
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Ordinary Language Philosophy, a school of thought which emerged in Oxford in the years following World War II. With its roots in the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ordinary Language Philosophy is concerned with the meanings of words as used in everyday speech. Its adherents believed that many philosophical problems were created by the misuse of words, and that if such ‘ordinary language’ were correctly analysed, such problems would disappear. Philosophers associated with the school include some of the most distinguished British thinkers of the twentieth century, such as Gilbert Ryle and JL Austin.
Nov 04
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Introducing Functional Grammar
Subtitle: 3rd Edition
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781444152678/
Author: Geoffrey Thompson
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415826303 Pages: 316 Price: U.S. $ 150.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781444152678 Pages: 316 Price: U.S. $ 42.95
Abstract:
Introducing Functional Grammar, third edition, provides a user-friendly overview of the theoretical and practical aspects of the systemic functional grammar (SFG) model.
No prior knowledge of formal linguistics is required as the book provides: An opening chapter on the purpose of linguistic analysis, which outlines the differences between the two major approaches to grammar – functional and formal; An overview of the SFG model – what it is and how it works; Advice and practice on identifying elements of language structure such as clauses and clause constituents; Numerous examples of text analysis using the categories introduced, and discussion about what the analysis shows; Exercises to test comprehension, along with answers for guidance.
Introducing Functional Grammar remains the essential entry guide to Hallidayan functional grammar, for undergraduate and postgraduate students of language and linguistics.
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