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  • The Communicative Linguistic Landscape

    Production Formats and Designed Environments

    by Lionel Wee ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
    How exactly do linguistic landscapes communicate and what theoretical significance might follow from such an inquiry? This book addresses these questions by taking as its starting point the insight that the individual or organisation that is responsible for the production of a sign may not be physically present at the landscape itself. The information to be conveyed is typically designed as a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Posthumanist World Englishes

    by Lionel Wee ...
    Series series Elements in World Englishes
    A posthumanist approach problematizes the separateness and centrality of humans in understanding the world around us. Posthumanism does not deny the role of humans but questions the assumption that it is human activity and agency that should be given pride of place in any analysis of social activity. This carries important and interesting implications for the study of World Englishes, some of ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Singlish Controversy

    Language, Culture and Identity in a Globalizing World

    by Lionel Wee ...
    Singlish is the colloquial variety of English spoken in Singapore. It has sparked much public debate, but so far the complex question of what Singlish really is and what it means to its speakers has remained obscured. This important work explores some of the socio-political controversies surrounding Singlish, such as the political ideologies inherent in Singlish discourse, the implications of ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Language, Space and Cultural Play

    Theorising Affect in the Semiotic Landscape

    by Lionel Wee, Robbie B. H. Goh ...
    This multimodal approach to linguistic landscapes examines the role of linguistic and semiotic regimes in constructing landscape affect. Affect, as distinct from emotion, is object-oriented, and can be analysed in terms of structures of language and signs which operate on individuals and groups in specific spatial settings. Analysing a series of landscape types - including 'kawaii', 'reverenced', ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Markets of English

    Linguistic Capital and Language Policy in a Globalizing World

    by Joseph Sung-Yul Park, Lionel Wee ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
    The global spread of English both reproduces and reinforces oppressive structures of inequality. But such structures can no longer be seen as imposed from an imperial center, as English is now actively adopted and appropriated in local contexts around the world. This book argues that such conditions call for a new critique of global English, one that is sensitive to both the political economic ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Language of Organizational Styling

    by Lionel Wee ...
    The ways in which commercial organizations and service providers 'style' themselves - creating the image they wish to portray to their potential consumers - is a long-established area of research in the fields of sociology and business studies. However, language also plays an important role in organizational styling, something which until now has been largely overlooked in the literature. This is ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Language without Rights

    by Lionel Wee ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
    Language without Rights is a book-length critique of the concept of language rights. Synthesizing insights from a variety of disciplines, including linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, sociology and political philosophy, Wee demonstrates how the appeal to language rights faces a number of conceptual and practical problems, particularly because the discourse of rights is fundamentally ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Style, Identity and Literacy

    by STROUD, Christopher, WEE, Lionel ...
    Style, Identity and Literacy is a qualitative study of the literacy practices of a group of Singaporean adolescents, relating their patterns of interaction - both inside and outside the classroom - to the different levels of social organization in Singaporean society (home, peer group and school). ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Multilingual Citizen

    Towards a Politics of Language for Agency and Change

    Edited by Assist. Prof. Lisa Lim, Christopher Stroud, Dr. Lionel Wee ...
    Series Book 11 - Encounters
    In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the editors and authors develop the idea of Linguistic Citizenship. This notion highlights the importance of practices whereby vulnerable speakers themselves exercise control over their languages, and draws attention to the ways in which alternative voices can be inserted into processes and structures that otherwise alienate those they were designed to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Sociolinguistics of the Korean Wave

    Hallyu and Soft Power

    by Nora Samosir, Lionel Wee ...
    Samosir and Wee examine how the immensely popular Korean Wave ("K-wave") also known as Hallyu is wielded as soft power through the use of communication for persuasion and attraction on the global stage. The Korean Wave refers to the global spread and popularity of South Korean culture, particularly its pop music ("K-pop"), serialised dramas ("K-dramas") and films ("K-films"). Given the South ... Read more

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  • Automation in Communication

    The Ideological Implications of Language Machines

    by Lionel Wee ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
    By drawing on multiple examples from healthcare, religion, service encounters and poetry, Lionel Wee presents rich insights into the use of automation in communication through a posthumanist lens.As communication becomes increasingly automated, the use of automation creates significant conceptual challenges for ideologies about language, beliefs about the nature of language, as well as assumptions ... Read more

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