Language & Media Books

New and Published Books

1. Understanding Digital Literacies

   A Practical Introduction

   By Rodney Jones, Christoph Hafner

   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
2. 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
3. Errors and Intelligence in Computer-Assisted Language Learning

   Parsers and Pedagogues

   By Trude Heift, Mathias Schulze

   Series: Routledge Studies in Computer Assisted Language Learning

   This book provides the first comprehensive overview of theoretical issues, historical developments and current trends in ICALL (Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning). It assumes a basic familiarity with Second Language Acquisition (SLA) theory and teaching, CALL and linguistics. It...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Multimodality in Practice

   Investigating Theory-in-Practice-through-Methodology

   Edited by Sigrid Norris

   Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

   In this wide-ranging collection, leading scholars, researchers, and emergent researchers from around the world come together and present examples of multimodal discourse analysis in practice. The book illustrates new theoretical, methodological and empirical research into new...

   Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
5. Stories and Social Media

   Identities and Interaction

   By Ruth E. Page

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how...

   Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
6. Multimodal Film Analysis

   How Films Mean

   By John Bateman, Karl-Heinrich Schmidt

   Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

   This book presents a new basis for the empirical analysis of film. Starting from an established body of work in film theory, the authors show how a close incorporation of the current state of the art in multimodal theory—including accounts of the syntagmatic and paradigmatic axes of organisation,...

   Published September 25th 2011 by Routledge
7. Multimodal Studies

   Exploring Issues and Domains

   Edited by Kay O'Halloran, Bradley Smith

   Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

   The phenomenon of multimodality has, as Jewitt observes, generated interest "across many disciplines...against the backdrop of considerable social change." Contemporary societies are grappling with the social implications of the rapid increase in sophistication and range of multimodal practices,...

   Published June 6th 2011 by Routledge
8. Language and Technology

   By Angela Goddard, Beverly Geesin

   Series: Intertext

   The INTERTEXT series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A core introduction to language analysis (third edition, 2007) is the foundation text which is complemented by a range of ‘satellite’ titles. These provide students...

   Published May 5th 2011 by Routledge
9. Framing Discourse on the Environment

   A Critical Discourse Approach

   By Richard Alexander

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse

   In this study, Richard Alexander presents a series of original and empirically based case studies of the language and discourse involved in the discussion of environmental and ecological issues. Relying upon a variety of different text types and genres – including company websites,...

   Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
10. Language, Ideology and Identity in Serial Killer Narratives

    By Christiana Gregoriou

    Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics

    In this book, Gregoriou explores the portrayal of the serial killer identity and its related ideology across a range of contemporary crime narratives, including detective fiction, the true crime genre and media journalism. How exactly is the serial killer consciousness portrayed, how is the killing...

    Published December 20th 2010 by Routledge