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  • Articulations of Self and Politics in Activist Discourse

    A Discourse Analysis of Critical Subjectivities in Minority Debates

    by Jan Zienkowski ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book focuses on the discursive processes that allow activists to make sense of themselves and of the modes of politics they engage in. It shows how political and metadiscursive awareness develop in tandem with a reconfiguration of one’s sense of self. The author offers an integrated pragmatic and poststructuralist perspective on self and subjectivity. He draws on Essex style discourse theory, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Introducing Linguistics

    A Graphic Guide

    by R. L. Trask ...
    Series Book 0 - Graphic Guides
    Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, "Introducing Linguistics" reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collocation

    Applications and Implications

    by G. Barnbrook, O. Mason, R. Krishnamurthy ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and applications of the concept as language model and analytical tool. It provides a definitive survey of currently available techniques and a detailed description of their implementation. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Discourse of Politics in Action

    Politics as Usual

    by R. Wodak ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    An interdisciplinary study providing first-hand evidence of the everyday lives of politicians; what politicians actually do on 'the backstage' in political organizations. The book offers answers to the widely discussed phenomena of disenchantment with politics and depoliticization. ... Read more

    $89.09 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

  • Decoding Political Discourse

    Conceptual Metaphors and Argumentation

    by Maria-Ionela Neagu ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides an in-depth look into the cognitive and argumentative nature of political discourse with a focus on the role and place of conceptual metaphors in practical argumentation. Neagu's empirical investigation centres on the corpus of the American Presidential debates in 2008 and speeches by Barack Obama from 2009-2011. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • 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

  • Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture

    Edited by Paul Baker, Giuseppe Balirano ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality
    How do we learn what it means to be a man? And how do we learn to question what it means to be a man? This collection comprises a set of original interdisciplinary chapters on the linguistic and cultural representations of queer masculinities in a range of new and older media: television, film, online forums, news reporting, advertising and fiction. This innovative work examines new and emerging ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Discourse Analysis as Social Critique

    Discursive and Non-Discursive Realities in Critical Social Research

    by Benno Herzog ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents post-Marxist theoretical approaches towards social critique and offers discourse analytical tools for critical research. How is a normative critique possible? The author, working at the crossroads of sociological discourse analysis and social philosophy, answers this question and others to show how empirical discourse research can be used to develop normative critique of ... Read more

    $28.49 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

  • The Exercise of Power in Communication

    Devices, Reception and Reaction

    Edited by R. Schulze, H. Pishwa ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores the various choices speakers or communicators make when expressing power relations in modern societies. The volume brings together several disciplines, such as linguistics, sociology, communication studies and social psychology, to give insight into how interactants co-construct different aspects of power in their everyday life. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Framing the Rhetoric of a Leader

    An Analysis of Obama’s Election Campaign Speeches

    by M. Degani ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Based on a selection of 30 election campaign speeches during Obama's first run for the American presidency in 2008, this book investigates the Democratic presidential candidate's much celebrated rhetoric from a cognitive semantics point of view. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD