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  • Imagining the Cosmopolitan in Public and Professional Writing

    by Anne Surma ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    In this important book, Surma combines threads from ethical, political, communications, sociological, feminist and discourse theories to explore the impact of writing in a range of contexts and illustrate the ways in which it can strengthen social connections. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Communicating through Vague Language

    A Comparative Study of L1 and L2 Speakers

    by Grace Q. Zhang, Peyman G.P. Sabet ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is a comparative study of vague language based on naturally occurring data of L1 and L2 speakers in academic settings. It explores how L2 learners have diverse and culturally specific needs for vague language compared with L1s, and are generally vaguer. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Taking Offence on Social Media

    Conviviality and Communication on Facebook

    by Caroline Tagg, Philip Seargeant, Amy Aisha Brown ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores communication on Facebook, developing the new theoretical concept of context design as a way of understanding the dynamics of online interaction. Against a backdrop of fake news and other controversies surrounding online political debate, the authors focus on inadvertent acts of offence on Facebook; that is, when users of the site unwittingly offend or are offended by the airing ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Semiperiphery of Academic Writing

    Discourses, Communities and Practices

    Edited by K. Bennett ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    With researchers around the world are under increasing pressure to publish in high-profile international journals, this book explores some of the issues affecting authors on the semiperiphery, who often find themselves torn between conflicting academic cultures and discourses. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Metaphor and Entertainment

    A Corpus-Based Approach to Language in Chinese Online News

    by C. Han ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Metaphor and Entertainment presents the very first, large-scale exploration of metaphor in Chinese online entertainment news, one of the most vibrant and controversial news genres in contemporary China. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Language of Interstate Relations

    In Search of Personification

    by P. Twardzisz ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    In challenging the widely held belief in the ubiquity of the personification of the political state, this book strives to de-politicize research and to de-mystify conceptual metaphor. Opposed to mainstream cognitive assumptions, it provides detailed data-driven research and one realistic solution to many of the dilemmas. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Gender, Power and Political Speech

    Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election

    by Deborah Cameron, Sylvia Shaw ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Gender, Power and Political Speech explores the influence of gender on political speech by analyzing the performances of three female party leaders who took part in televised debates during the 2015 UK General Election campaign. The analysis considers similarities and differences between the women and their male colleagues, as well as between the women themselves; it also discusses the way gender ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Learning Business English in China

    The Construction of Professional Identity

    by Zuocheng Zhang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyses the learning experiences of students of Business English at a Chinese university. It addresses several topical issues in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) education and Business English teaching, including how ESP students learn, how they develop multiple identities. In particular, it focuses on their professional identity in the classroom, and how these identities are ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Investigating English Pronunciation

    Trends and Directions

    Edited by Jose A. Mompean, Jonás Fouz-González ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book updates the latest research in the field of 'English pronunciation', providing readers with a number of original contributions that represent trends in the field. Topics include sociophonetic or sound-symbolic aspects of pronunciation English pronunciation teaching and learning. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Exploring Spoken English Learner Language Using Corpora

    Learner Talk

    by Eric Friginal, Joseph J. Lee, Brittany Polat, Audrey Roberson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a corpus-based study of spoken learner language produced by university-level ESL students in the classroom. Using contemporary theories as a guide and employing cutting-edge corpus analysis tools and methods, the authors analyse a variety of learner speech to offer many new insights into the nature and characteristics of the spoken language of college ESL learners. Focusing on ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Address Practice As Social Action

    European Perspectives

    Edited by C. Norrby, C. Wide ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    How we address one another says a great deal about our social relationships and which groups in society we belong to. This edited volume examines address choices in a range of everyday interactions taking place in Dutch, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Italian and the two national varieties of Swedish, Finland Swedish and Sweden Swedish.The chapter 'Introduction: Address as Social Action Across ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Argumentation and Language — Linguistic, Cognitive and Discursive Explorations

    Edited by Steve Oswald, Thierry Herman, Jérôme Jacquin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume focuses on the role language plays at all levels of the argumentation process. It explores the effects that specific linguistic choices may have in the production and the reception of arguments and in doing so, it moves beyond the first, necessary, descriptive stance provided by current literature on the topic. Each chapter provides an original take illuminating one or more of the ... Read more

    $80.09 USD