Language & Communication Books

New and Published Books

1. Analyzing Public Discourse

   Discourse Analysis in the Making of Public Policy

   By Ron Scollon

   Analyzing Public Discourse demonstrates the use of discourse analysis to provide testimony in public policy consultations: from environmental impact statements to changes in laws and policies. Scollon asserts that it is in the best interest of democratic public discourse for all participants in the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Politics of English

   Conflict, Competition, Co-existence

   Edited by Ann Hewings, Caroline Tagg

   Series: Worlds of English

   The Politics of English: Conflict, Competition, Co-existence explores policies and practices that affect the use and position of English. The book discusses the ways in which people’s language choices relate to the history, politics, and economies of their local context. Throughout, the focus is...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Communicating in English

   Talk, Text, Technology

   Edited by Daniel Allington, Barbara Mayor

   Series: Worlds of English

   Communicating in English: Talk, Text, Technology looks at how people use spoken and written English to communicate in their everyday lives. Exploring the complex relationship between communication, technology and the English language, this book offers the reader practical insights into the analysis...

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Written Language Bias in Linguistics

   Its Nature, Origins and Transformations

   By Per Linell

   Series: Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory

   Linguists routinely emphasise the primacy of speech over writing. Yet, most linguists have analysed spoken language, as well as language in general, applying theories and methods that are best suited for written language. Accordingly, there is an extensive 'written language bias' in traditional and...

   Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
5. Metaphor and Figurative Language

   Edited by Patrick Hanks, Rachel Giora

   Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

   With contributions from Aristotle to Lakoff and Johnson, and incorporating the work of philosophers, linguists, literary theorists, and cognitive psychologists, this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary six-volume collection on metaphor and figurative language is a new title from Routledge’s Critical...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
6. Language and Citizenship in Japan

   Edited by Nanette Gottlieb

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   The relationship between language and citizenship in Japan has traditionally been regarded as a fixed tripartite: ‘Japanese citizenship’ means ‘Japanese ethnicity,’ which in turn means ‘Japanese as one’s first language.’ Historically, most non-Japanese who have chosen to take out citizenship have...

   Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
7. Signs, Language and Communication

   By Professor Roy Harris, Roy Harris

   In Signs, Language and Communication readers familiar with the arguments of Professor Harris' previous work, including Signs of Writing, will find those ideas developed here to cover not just writing, but aspects of art, design and manufacture. Roy Harris proposes a new theory of communication. He...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
8. Reading, Writing, and the Rhetorics of Whiteness

   By Wendy Ryden, Ian Marshall

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   In this volume, Ryden and Marshall bring together the field of composition and rhetoric with critical whiteness studies to show that in our "post race" era whiteness and racism not only survive but actually thrive in higher education. As they examine the effects of racism on contemporary literacy...

   Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
9. Language Teaching

   Integrational Linguistic Approaches

   Edited by Michael Toolan

   Series: Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory

   This book demonstrates the relevance of an integrational linguistic perspective to a practical, real-world need, namely the learning of languages. Integrational linguistics’ shunning of both realist and structuralist theories of language, its commitment to an unwavering attention to the perspective...

   Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
10. Palestinian Christians in Israel

    State Attitudes towards Non-Muslims in a Jewish State

    By Una McGahern

    Series: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series

    Although Christians form a significant proportion of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel, very little research has, until now, been undertaken to examine their complicated position within Israel. This book demonstrates the limits of analyses which characterise state-minority relations in Israel...

    Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge