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The English Studies Book: An Introduction to Language, Literature and Culture, 3rd Edition
By Rob Pope
The English Studies Book is uniquely designed to support students and teachers working across the full range of language, literature and culture. Combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology, it has rapidly established itself as a core text on a wide variety of...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-49876-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Language in Late Capitalism: Pride and Profit
Edited by Alexandre Duchene, Monica Heller
There is marked variation in the forms taken by the relationships between globalization and localization, between linguistic and cultural dimensions of social practice and its discursive legitimation, and among competing ideologies of language and identity. The goal of this book is to explore...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-88859-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Stories and Social Media: Identities and Interaction
By Ruth Page
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...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-88981-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Multi-modal Spoken Corpus Analysis
By Svenja Adolphs
This volume looks at the development of multi-modal spoken corpus analysis. In particular, Adolphs discusses the approaches and results of a number of related research projects that rely upon spoken corpora that integrates textual, prosodic and gestural representations of spoken interactions.&...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-88829-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception
Edited by Bethan Benwell, James Procter, Gemma Robinson
Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-88871-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Corpus Stylistics and Dickens’s Fiction
By Michaela Mahlberg
This book presents a way into the Dickensian world that starts from linguistic patterns, employing corpus linguistic methodology to study electronic versions of his texts. The analysis begins with clusters -- i.e. repeated sequences of words -- as pointers to local textual functions, and...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-80014-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Reading, Writing, and the Rhetorics of Whiteness
By Wendy Ryden, Ian Marshall
Ryden and Marshall bring together the critical lenses of whiteness studies and the field of composition and rhetoric in this timely co-authored study about recent developments in whiteness studies and what these developments mean for literacy practices, critical education, and the academic...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-88865-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Language, Ethnography, and Education: Bridging New Literacy Studies and Bourdieu
By Mike Grenfell
Offering an in-depth discussion of Bourdieu, New Literacy Studies and education, this frontline book provides a useful reference point for scholars and students of education, language, and literacy wishing to incorporate Bourdieu’s ideas into their work. There is a well established tradition of...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-87249-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Multimodal Film Analysis: How Films Mean
By John Bateman, Karl-Heinrich Schmidt
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,...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-88351-1 | Hardback (Routledge)