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Talking Images The Interface between Drawing and Writing

Talking Images: The Interface between Drawing and Writing

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Silvia Ferrara, Mattia Cartolano, Ludovica Ottaviano
September 17, 2024

This innovative collection offers a holistic portrait of the multimodal communication potential of images from the Upper Paleolithic times through to today, showcasing image-based creativity throughout the centuries.  The volume seeks to extend the boundaries of our understanding of what language ...

Multidisciplinary Views on Discourse Genre A Research Agenda

Multidisciplinary Views on Discourse Genre: A Research Agenda

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Ninke Stukker, John A. Bateman, Danielle McNamara, Wilbert Spooren
September 10, 2024

This collection sets out an innovative research agenda for advancing a multidisciplinary approach to genre, bringing together researchers from a variety of disciplines to enhance our existing understanding of the challenges and opportunities for current and future genre research. The volume brings ...

Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Discourses of Extremism

Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Discourses of Extremism

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Katie Jane Patterson, Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio
July 29, 2024

This collection highlights multidisciplinary approaches toward better understanding the discourses of extremism, exploring the ways in which insights from linguistics and other disciplines might inform each other in enacting meaningful reforms in policy, social media, and education. The volume is ...

The Impact of Plain Language on Legal English in the United Kingdom

The Impact of Plain Language on Legal English in the United Kingdom

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Christopher Williams
May 27, 2024

This volume offers insights into the ways in which plain language has influenced the language of the law in the United Kingdom, critically reflecting on its historical development and future directions. The book opens with an overview of the theoretical frameworks underpinning plain language and a ...

Bridging the Gap Between Conversation Analysis and Poetics Studies in Talk-In-Interaction and Literature Twenty-Five Years after Jefferson

Bridging the Gap Between Conversation Analysis and Poetics: Studies in Talk-In-Interaction and Literature Twenty-Five Years after Jefferson

1st Edition

Edited By Raymond F. Person, Jr., Robin Wooffitt, John P. Rae
January 29, 2024

This collection extends the conversation beginning with Gail Jefferson’s seminal 1996 article, "On the Poetics of Ordinary Talk," linking the poetics of ordinary talk with the work of poets to bring together critical perspectives on new data from talk-in-interaction and applications of Jefferson’s ...

The Language of Pick-Up Artists Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry

The Language of Pick-Up Artists: Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry

1st Edition

By Daria Dayter, Sofia Rüdiger
January 29, 2024

This book adopts a corpus-based discourse analysis approach to the study of the communicative practices of pick-up artists, offering a systematic exploration of distinct language use in an online community that uses speed-seduction practices for short-term dating and sex. Drawing on a ...

Discursive Approaches to Sociopolitical Polarization and Conflict

Discursive Approaches to Sociopolitical Polarization and Conflict

1st Edition

Edited By Laura Filardo-Llamas, Esperanza Morales-López, Alan Floyd
September 25, 2023

This collection explores the discursive strategies and linguistic resources underpinning conflict and polarization, taking a multidisciplinary approach to examine the ways in which conflict is constructed across a diverse range of contexts. The volume is divided into two sections as a means of ...

Perspectives on Knowledge Communication Concepts and Settings

Perspectives on Knowledge Communication: Concepts and Settings

1st Edition

Edited By Jan Engberg, Antoinette Fage-Butler, Peter Kastberg
August 25, 2023

This collection elaborates an innovative analytical framework for knowledge communication, bringing together insights from a range of professional settings to highlight how a cross-disciplinary approach can promote a new view of knowledge that emphasizes constructivist and cognitivist perspectives....

Perspectives on Teaching Workplace English in the 21st Century

Perspectives on Teaching Workplace English in the 21st Century

1st Edition

Edited By Mable Chan
July 13, 2023

This collection bridges the gap between research and practical applications by showcasing the latest research developments on business English as a lingua franca and the ways in which they might better inform language teaching practice. Featuring contributions from both established and emerging ...

The Discursive Construction of Place in the Digital Age

The Discursive Construction of Place in the Digital Age

1st Edition

Edited By Alejandro Parini, Francisco Yus
June 30, 2023

This collection calls for greater attention to the need for a clearer understanding of the role of discourse in the process of placemaking in the digital age and the increasing hybridisation of physical and virtual worlds. The volume outlines a new conceptualisation of place in the time of ...

Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse

Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse

1st Edition

By Anaïs Augé
June 28, 2023

This volume sheds light on the argumentative role of metaphor in climate change discourse, unpacking the ways in which stakeholders use specific metaphors to influence perceptions of the climate crisis. While existing research has explored the explanatory function of metaphors in communication on ...

Discourses of Perfection Representing Cosmetic Procedures and Beauty Products in UK Lifestyle Magazines

Discourses of Perfection: Representing Cosmetic Procedures and Beauty Products in UK Lifestyle Magazines

1st Edition

By Anne-Mette Hermans
January 09, 2023

This book explores editorial and advertising discourses related to cosmetic procedures and beauty products and services in UK lifestyle magazines, offering a holistic perspective on the normalisation of cosmetic procedures and the societal context in which particular perceptions have ...

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