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  • Fabulosa!

    The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language

    by Paul Baker ...
    A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019'Richly evocative and entertaining.' Guardian'A delightful read.' Tatler'An essential book for anyone who wants to Polari Bona!' AttitudePolari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. It offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage and a means of identific... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Hello Sailor!

    The hidden history of gay life at sea

    by Paul Baker, Jo Stanley ...
    When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp. And on some liners to the sun and the New World, queens and butches had a ball. They sashayed and minced their way across the world's oceans.Never before has the story been told of the masses. These are the thousands of queer seafarers, mainly stewards, who sometimes even outnumbered ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • A History of the Regular Mounted Infantry

    From Victoria's Colonial Wars to the Russian Campaign of 1919

    by Paul Baker ...
    The Mounted Infantry had a short life spanning from the mid 1880’s until disbanded in 1913. To continue the camaraderie of the corps, past surviving members formed the M.I Club and in 1936 decided to publish a short history based on Regimental records and personal reflections. An appeal elicited responses and work was begun by Major Tomlin. The manuscript was almost complete at the start of the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis

    by Paul Baker ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Discourse
    How can you carry out discourse analysis using corpus linguistics? What research questions should I ask? Which methods should you use and when? What is a collocational network or a key cluster?Introducing the major techniques, methods and tools for corpus-assisted analysis of discourse, this book answers these questions and more, showing readers how to best use corpora in their analyses of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Power and Practices

    Engaging the Work of John Howard Yoder

    by Chris K Huebner, Nekeisha Alexis-Baker,Paul Martens, John C Nugent, Paul C Heidebrecht ...
    A new generation engages the theology of John Howard Yoder. These essays wrestle with questions of power and its implications for social practices including policing, nonviolence, sexism, governmentality, dialogue, political critique, theological construction, and the work of inheriting a theological tradition.The authors and their approaches to Yoder's work are diverse. They bring a wide array of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American and British English

    Divided by a Common Language?

    by Paul Baker ...
    Is British English becoming more like American English? If so, why, and in what ways? This book compares examples of American and British language data from the 1930s, 1960s, 1990s and 2000s, to track the most important ways that both varieties are changing over time, and compares the extent to which they are following similar paths using a mixture of computer and human analysis. The analysis is ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare

    by Elena Semino, Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes, Luke Collins, Tony McEnery ...
    Communication is central to the experience of illness and the provision of healthcare. This book showcases the insights that can be gained into health communication by means of corpus linguistics – the computer-aided linguistic analysis of large datasets of naturally occurring language use known as 'corpora'. The book takes readers through the stages that they must go through to carry out corpus ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics

    A Multimodal Study of News Representations of Islam

    by Paul Baker, Hanna Schmück, Yufang Qian ...
    Series series Elements in Corpus Linguistics
    This Element reports on the creation and analysis of a 1.5-million-word corpus consisting of a year's worth of UK national press news articles about Islam and Muslims, published between December 2022 and November 2023. The corpus also contains 8,546 image files which have been automatically tagged using Google's Vertex AI. Analysis was carried out on three levels a) written text only, b) images ... Read more

    $20.49 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

  • Corpora and Discourse Studies

    Integrating Discourse and Corpora

    Edited by Anthony McEnery, Paul Baker ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This edited collection brings together contemporary research that uses corpus linguistics to carry out discourse analysis. The book takes an inclusive view of the meaning of discourse, covering different text-types or modes of language, including discourse as both social practice and as ideology or representation. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies

    by Mathew Gillings, Gerlinde Mautner, Paul Baker ...
    Series series Elements in Corpus Linguistics
    The breadth and spread of corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) indicate its usefulness for exploring language use within a social context. However, its theoretical foundations, limitations, and epistemological implications must be considered so that we can adjust our research designs accordingly. This Element offers a compact guide to which corpus linguistic tools are available and how they ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Language, Discourse and Anxiety

    by Luke Collins, Paul Baker ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Linguistics
    Why is language so important to the ways that we make sense of anxiety? This book uses corpus assisted discourse analysis to examine twenty-three million words of text posted to a forum for people with anxiety. It shows how linguistic techniques like catastrophisation and anthropomorphisation can result in very different conceptualisations of anxiety, as well as how aspects of identity like age, ... Read more

    $30.39 USD