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Health and Risk Communication
An Applied Linguistic Perspective
Health and Risk Communication provides a critical and comprehensive overview of the core issues surrounding health and risk communication from the perspective of applied linguistics. It outlines the ways applied linguistics differs from other methods of understanding health and risk communication,...
To Be Published May 13th 2013 by Routledge
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Understanding Digital Literacies
A Practical Introduction
Assuming no knowledge of linguistics, Understanding Digital Literacies provides an accessible and timely introduction to new media literacies. It supplies readers with the theoretical and analytical tools with which to explore the linguistic and social impact of a host of new digital literacy...
Published April 1st 2012 by Routledge
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Discourse Analysis
A Resource Book for Students
Series: Routledge English Language Introductions
Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings—all...
Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Advances in Discourse Studies
Methods of approaching the study of discourse have developed rapidly in the last ten years, influenced by a growing interdisciplinary spirit among linguistics and anthropology, sociology, cognitive and cultural psychology and cultural studies, as well as among established sub-fields within...
Published November 7th 2007 by Routledge
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Discourse in Action
Introducing Mediated Discourse Analysis
From emails relating to adoption over the Internet to discussions in the airline cockpit, the spoken or written texts we produce can have significant social consequences. The area of Mediated Discourse Analysis considers texts in their social and cultural contexts to explore the actions individuals...
Published May 22nd 2005 by Routledge