May 13
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Language and Semiotic Studies is a new peer-reviewed academic journal of international scope. Published by Soochow University Press, it is an authorized quarterly journal with an independent ISSN number (2096—031X) and CN number (32—1859/H /) granted by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People’s Republic of China. With all its contents appearing in one language (English), the journal serves and supports the Chinese Association for Language and Semiotic Studies (founded at Soochow University in 1994) while it seeks to expand international exchange in the new century.
The focus of Language and Semiotic Studies is language and signs. The journal reports and publishes high-quality research in the studies of language, literature, translation, language education, communication and culture from linguistic and semiotic perspectives. From time to time, we publish special issues devoted to topics of particular interest.
Manuscripts are requested to be submitted through e-mail attachments to lass@suda.edu.cn and there is no rigid limit to the length of manuscripts, provided that they are not exceedingly long. All submissions should contain an abstract, keywords, and a short bionote, and be formatted according to APA style.
May 01
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: The Interactive Stance
Subtitle: Meaning for Conversation
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198722991.do
Author: Jonathan Ginzburg
Paperback: ISBN: 9780198722991 Pages: 430 Price: U.K. £ 27.99
Abstract:
This book presents one of the first attempts at developing a precise, grammatically rooted, theory of conversation motivated by data from real conversations. The theory has descriptive reach from the micro-conversational – e.g. self-repair at the word level – to macro-level phenomena such as multi-party conversation and the characterization of distinct conversational genres. It draws on extensive corpus studies of the British National Corpus, on evidence from language acquisition, and on computer simulations of language evolution. The Interactive Stance challenges orthodox views of grammar by arguing that, unless we wish to exclude from analysis a large body of frequently occurring words and constructions, the right way to construe grammar is as a system that characterises types of talk in interaction.
Apr 10
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Producing and Managing Restricted Activities
Subtitle: Avoidance and withholding in institutional interaction
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 255
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.255
Editor: Fabienne H.G. Chevalier
Editor: John Moore
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269096 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269096 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269096 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256607 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256607 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256607 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 104.94
Abstract:
This book examines the kinds of talk that service providers working in various
settings (e.g. doctors, healthcare providers, helpline call takers, tourist
officers) seek to avoid in their interactions with clients, when such talk may
be expected or due in some way. The studies utilise Conversation Analysis to
demonstrate how participants use the interactional practices of avoidance and
withholding to construct specific activities as restricted. The various
authors also show how, in contributing to the restricted character of certain
activities, withholding and avoidance in turn contribute to both the
accomplishment of the particular work of the specific organisations and to the
construction of the specific institutional identities of the professionals.
Overall, the collection offers an authoritative account of restriction and
avoidance in workplace interaction.
Apr 10
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: A User’s Guide to Thought and Meaning
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198736455.do
Author: Ray Jackendoff
Paperback: ISBN: 9780198736455 Pages: 288 Price: U.K. £ 11.99
Abstract:
A profoundly arresting integration of the faculties of the mind – of how we
think, speak, and see the world. Written with an informality that belies the
originality of its insights and the radical nature of its conclusions, this is
the author’s most important book since his groundbreaking Foundations of
Language in 2002.
Mar 17
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Language and Neoliberalism
Series Title: Language, Society and Political Economy
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://bit.ly/1GJwu8u
Author: Marnie Holborow
Hardback: ISBN: 9780415744553 Pages: 152 Price: U.K. £ 105.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780415744560 Pages: 152 Price: U.K. £ 29.99
Abstract:
Language and Neoliberalism examines the ways in which neoliberalism, or the
ideology of market rule, finds expression in language. In this groundbreaking
original study, Holborow shows at once the misleading character of ideological
meaning and the underlying social reality from which that meaning emerges.
Mar 15
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: The Bloomsbury Companion to M. A. K. Halliday
Series Title: Bloomsbury Companions
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-bloomsbury-companion-to-m-a-k-halliday-9781441172754/
Editor: Jonathan J. Webster
Electronic: ISBN: 9781441197580 Pages: 464 Price: U.K. £ 99.99 Comment: PDF
Electronic: ISBN: 9781441102546 Pages: 464 Price: U.K. £ 99.99 Comment: EPUB
Hardback: ISBN: 9781441172754 Pages: 528 Price: U.K. £ 100.00
Abstract:
The Bloomsbury Companion to M. A. K. Halliday is a comprehensive and accessible reference resource to one of the world’s leading and most influential linguists.
Born in 1925, Halliday is the figure most responsible for the development of systemic functional linguistics (SFL). The impact of his work extends beyond linguistics, into the study of stylistics, computation linguistics, visual narrative and multimodal communication. He is considered a founder of the field of social semiotics. Written by leading figures in the field, the volume provides readers with an authoritative overview of his early career, his most important theoretical findings and how his work has influenced linguistics as a discipline. From the publishers of his ‘Collected Works’ and ‘The Essential Halliday’, this is another must have book underlining Halliday’s era-defining impact on the field of linguistics.”
Mar 12
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Realism and Individualism
Subtitle: Charles S. Peirce and the Threat of Modern Nominalism
Series Title: Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie 55
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/bsp.55
Author: Mateusz W. Oleksy
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269010 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 110.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269010 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 165.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269010 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214652 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 165.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214652 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214652 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 116.60
Abstract:
Realism and Individualism. Charles S. Peirce and the Threat of Modern Nominalism discusses the main problems, tenets, assumptions, and arguments involved in Charles S. Peirce’s early and late realist stances and subjects to critical scrutiny the still dominant view that Pragmatic Realism merely extends or refines new arguments in support of Scholastic Realism without questioning its basic assumptions. The book presents a critical overview of Peirce’s views on modern nominalism and offers a novel approach to the social-anthropological underpinnings of his realism, especially Pragmatic Realism vis à vis the individualist tendencies in modern thought.
The book is of interest to scholars and students of philosophy, especially students of American pragmatism, anthropology, linguistic pragmatics, as well as to anyone interested in Charles S. Peirce, Duns Scotus, Ockham, and generally to semioticians, social scientists, and sociologists.
Mar 12
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 256
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.256
Editor: Marta Dynel
Editor: Jan Chovanec
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268945 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268945 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268945 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256614 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256614 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256614 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 100.70
Abstract:
This book deals with participation frameworks in modern social and public
media. It brings together several cutting-edge research studies that offer
exciting new insights into the nature and formats of interpersonal
communication in diverse technology-mediated contexts. Some papers introduce
new theoretical extensions to participation formats, while others present case
studies in various discourse domains spanning public and private genres.
Adopting the perspective of the pragmatics of interaction, these contributions
discuss data ranging from public, mass-mediated and quasi-authentic texts,
fully staged and scripted textual productions, to authentic, non-scripted
private messages and comments, both of a permanent and ephemeral nature. The
analyses include news interviews, online sports reporting, sitcoms, comedy
shows, stand-up comedies, drama series, institutional and personal blogs,
tweets, follow-up YouTube video commentaries, and Facebook status updates. All
the authors emphasize the role of context and pay attention to how meaning is
constructed by participants in interactions in increasingly complex
participation frameworks existing in traditional as well as novel
technologically mediated interactions.
Mar 12
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Semiotics of Happiness
Subtitle: Rhetorical Beginnings of a Public Problem
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/semiotics-of-happiness-9781472523716/
Author: Ashley Frawley
Electronic: ISBN: 9781472524201 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 74.99 Comment: PDF
Electronic: ISBN: 9781472523303 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 74.99 Comment: EPUB
Hardback: ISBN: 9781472523716 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Abstract:
The Semiotics of Happiness examines the rise of ‘happiness’ (and its various satellite terminologies) as a social and political semiotic, exploring its origins in the US and subsequent spread into the UK and across the globe.
The research takes as its starting point the development of discussions about happiness in UK newspapers in which dedicated advocates began to claim that anew ‘science of happiness’ had been discovered and argued for social and political change on its behalf. Through an in-depth analysis of the written and visual rhetoric and subsequent activities of these influential ‘claims-makers’, Frawley argues that happiness became a serious political issue not because of a growing unhappiness in society nor a demand ‘on the ground’ for new knowledge about it, but rather because influential and dedicated ‘insiders’ took the issue on at a cultural moment when problems cast in emotional terms were particularly likely to make an impact.
Emerging from the analysis is the observation that, while apparently positive and light-hearted, the concern with happiness implicitly affirms a ‘vulnerability’ model of human functioning, encourages a morality of low expectations, and in spite of the radical language used to describe it, is ultimately conservative and ideally suited to an era of ‘no alternative’ (to capitalism).
Mar 07
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Language and Identity across Modes of Communication
Series Title: Language and Social Processes [LSP] 6
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/206486?format=G
Editor: Dwi Noverini Djenar
Editor: Ahmar Mahboob
Editor: Ken Cruickshank
Electronic: ISBN: 9781501500725 Pages: 355 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9781614513872 Pages: 355 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Abstract:
This edited collection examines how people use a range of different modalities
to negotiate, influence, and/or project their own or other people’s
identities. It brings together linguistic scholars concerned with issues of
identity through a study of language use in various types of written texts,
conversation, performance, and interviews.
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