Feb 28
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Grammatical Metaphor in Chinese
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
http://www.equinoxpub.com/
Book URL: http://www.equinoxpub.com/home/grammatical-metaphor-chineseyang-yanning/
Author: Yang Yanning
Hardback: ISBN: 9781781791028 Pages: 282 Price: U.S. $ 100 Comment: £70
Abstract:
‘Well-written, neatly-structured and well-organized; it is sound both theoretically and methodologically; its arguments are forceful, and the description and the analysis are detailed and its findings are significant.’
Professor Huang Guowen, Sun Yat-sen University, China
This is the first comprehensive study of Grammatical Metaphor in the Chinese language. As the most important theoretical innovation of Systemic Functional Linguistics in the past three decades, Grammatical Metaphor has been extensively studied in relation to the English language. There has been very little research describing and analysing in depth the phenomenon of Grammatical Metaphor and other languages.
The book discusses the identification, categorization and deployment of Grammatical Metaphor in Chinese and compares these aspects of Grammatical Metaphor in Chinese with those in English. In addition, Grammatical Metaphor in Chinese looks not just at ideational but also at interpersonal Grammatical Metaphor with corpora consisting of both written texts and spoken discourses. This will provide a more comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon and set up a framework for further analysis of the interaction between two types of Grammatical Metaphor.
Feb 28
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Time, Language, and Ontology
Subtitle: The World from the B-Theoretic Perspective
Series Title: Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198718161.do
Author: M. Joshua Mozersky
Hardback: ISBN: 9780198718161 Pages: 208 Price: U.K. £ 50
Abstract:
This book brings together an account of the structure of time with an account
of our language and thought about time. It is a wide-ranging examination of
recent issues in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and the philosophy of
science and presents a compelling picture of the relationship of human beings
to the spatiotemporal world.
Feb 14
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Sociocultural Theory in Second Language Education (2nd Edition)
Subtitle: An Introduction through Narratives
Series Title: MM Textbooks
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783093168
Author: Merrill Swain
Author: Penny Kinnear
Author: Linda Steinman
Hardback: ISBN: 9781783093175 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 69.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9781783093175 Pages: 192 Price: U.S. $ 119.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9781783093168 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 19.95
Paperback: ISBN: 9781783093168 Pages: 192 Price: U.S. $ 29.95
Abstract:
In this accessible introduction to Vygotskian sociocultural theory, narratives
illuminate key concepts of the theory. These key concepts include mediation;
Zone of Proximal Development; collaborative dialogue and private speech;
everyday and scientific concepts; the interrelatedness of cognition and
emotion; activity theory; and assessment. A final chapter provides readers
with an opportunity to consider two additional narratives and apply the SCT
concepts that they have become familiar with. We hear from learners, teachers
and researchers in a variety of languages, contexts, ages and proficiencies.
Intended for graduate and undergraduate audiences, this new edition of the
textbook includes controversies in the field, improved questions for
collaborative discussion and provides updated references to important work in
the literature of second language teaching, learning and research.
Feb 13
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: The Rise of Writing
Subtitle: Redefining Mass Literacy
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://cambridge.org
Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/english-language-and-linguistics-general-interest/rise-writing-redefining-mass-literacy?format=PB
Author: Deborah Brandt
Hardback: ISBN: 9781107090316 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9781107090316 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 50.00
Abstract:
Millions of Americans routinely spend half their working day or more with their hands on keyboards and their minds on audiences – writing so much, in fact, that they have less time and appetite for reading. In this highly anticipated sequel to her award-winning Literacy in American Lives, Deborah Brandt moves beyond laments about the decline of reading to focus on the rise of writing. What happens when writing overtakes reading as the basis of people’s daily literate experience? How does a societal shift toward writing affect the ways that people develop their literacy and understand its value? Drawing on recent interviews with people who write every day, Brandt explores this major turn in the development of mass literacy and examines the serious challenges it poses for America’s educational mission and civic health.
Introduction: the rise of mass writing; 1. The status of writing; 2. Writing for the State; 3. Occupation: author/writing over reading in the literacy development of contemporary young adults; 4. When everybody writes; Conclusion: deep writing; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography.
Feb 13
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Discourse and Digital Practices
Subtitle: Doing discourse analysis in the digital age
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Book URL: http://bit.ly/1FDhfL4
Editor: Rodney H Jones
Editor: Alice Chik
Editor: Christoph A Hafner
Hardback: ISBN: 9781138022324 Pages: 262 Price: U.K. £ 95.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9781138022331 Pages: 262 Price: U.K. £ 26.99
Abstract:
Discourse and Digital Practices shows how tools from discourse analysis can be used to help us understand new communication practices associated with digital media, from video gaming and social networking to apps and photo sharing.
Discourse and Digital Practices will be of interest to advanced students studying courses on digital literacies or language and digital practices.
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.
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