Interdisciplinary Language Studies Books

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1. 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)

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. Language in the Digital Age

   By James Paul Gee, Elizabeth Hayes

   In the context of moral panics surrounding social media, the internet and video games and concerns over how digital media are affecting the young and their ability to learn and communicate effectively, leading educationalists James Paul Gee and Elisabeth Hayes, put forward arguments for how digital...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-60277-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Multimodality in Practice: Investigating Theory-in-Practice-through-Methodology

   Edited by Sigrid Norris

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   April 2011 | 978-0-415-88037-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. David Crystal's Introduction to Language: The lectures

   By David Crystal

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-60267-9 | DVD (Routledge)

8. 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...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-49876-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Language and Technology

   By Angela Goddard, Beverly Geesin

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-60416-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory: Perspectives on Literary Metaphor

    Edited by Monika Fludernik

    In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory. The volume's goals are three-fold. The first aim of the book is to present some recent approaches to metaphor which have no immediate connection with...

    March 2011 | 978-0-415-88828-8 | Hardback (Routledge)