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    The Novel and the Everyday

    Portable Prose: The Novel and the Everyday examines the novel as a privileged site for representing the everyday, as well as a physical object that occupies public and private space. This collection interrogates the relationships between these differing aspects of the novel’s existence, negotiating the boundaries between the material world, subjective experience, and strategies of representation ... Read more

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    WHERE IS ATLANTIS? Plato the greatest Greek philosopher first revealed this ancient lost civilization, but no-one believed him. It’s the world’s most famous mystery. WHO CAN FIND IT? Not Chris, Demi and Alex, surely. They’re too young, with too many problems of their own. But they’re given a mission by their Granddad: ‘Follow my clues and find Atlantis. Which I never could.’ He was a super-Nerd ... Read more

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    Social semiotics reveals language�s social meaning its structures, processes, conditions and effects in all social contexts, across all media and modes of discourse. This important new book uses social semiotics as a one-stop shop to analyse language and social meaning, enhancing linguistics with a sociological imagination.Social Semiotics for a Complex World develops ideas, frameworks and ... Read more

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  • Myths of Oz

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    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Studies
    This book, first published in 1987, sets out to examine and extend our understanding of Australian popular culture, and to counter the long-established, traditional criticism bewailing its lack. The authors argue that the 'knocker's' view started from an elitist viewpoint, yearning for Australia to aspire to a European culture in art, music, literature and other traditional cultural fields. They ... Read more

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  • Language and Control

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociolinguistics
    Originally published in 1979. This book studies language variation as a part of social practice - how language expresses and helps regulate social relationships of all kinds. Different groups, classes, institutions and situations have their special modes of language and these varieties are not just stylistic reflections of social differences; speaking or writing in a certain manner entails ... Read more

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    The Art of Reading Dragons

    Series series Culture and Communication in Asia
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