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  • Discourse, Grammar and Ideology

    Functional and Cognitive Perspectives

    by Prof Christopher Hart ...
    Researchers in critical discourse analysis (CDA) have often pointed to grammar as a locus of ideology in discourse. This book illustrates the role that grammars as models of language (and image) can play in revealing ideological properties of texts and discourse in social and political contexts.The book takes the reader through three distinct grammatical frameworks – functional grammar, multimodal ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies

    Edited by Prof Christopher Hart, Dr Piotr Cap ...
    Series series Contemporary Studies in Linguistics
    CDS is a multifarious field constantly developing different methodological frameworks for analysing dynamically evolving aspects of language in a broad range of socio-political and institutional contexts. This volume is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary account of these theoretical and empirical developments. It presents an up-to-date survey of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS), covering both the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Discourse Pragmatics and the Verb

    The Evidence from Romance

    Edited by Suzanne Fleischman, Linda R. Waugh ...
    Series series RLE: Discourse Analysis
    First published in 1990, this collection investigates grammatical categories associated with the verb as they are used by speakers and writers in real discourses and texts. Focusing on tense, aspect, mood, and voice in French, Spanish, and Italian, each chapter underscores the importance of context in our understanding of how grammatical categories work. Above and beyond their basic ‘grammatical ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Pragmatic Syntax

    by Ms Jieun Kiaer ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
    Jieun Kiaer puts forward an argument in this book that the grammar of a language directly underpins the processing of the language, in real time. This is a view that runs against the orthodoxy of linguistic theorizing for the last 50 years, which has insisted that languages have to be characterized in terms that make little or no reference to the dynamics of language use.This orthodox view fails ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Designing Communities

    by Wolff-Michael Roth ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The study described in this book arose in the contextof a three-year collective effort to bring about change in science teaching at Mountain Elementary School. 1 This opportunity emerged after I contacted the school with the idea to help teachers implement student-centered science teaching. At the same time, the teachers collectively had come to realize that their science teaching was not as ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content

    by Eva Hajicová, P. Sgall, Barbara B.H. Partee ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    1 OBJECTIVES The main objective of this joint work is to bring together some ideas that have played central roles in two disparate theoretical traditions in order to con tribute to a better understanding of the relationship between focus and the syn tactic and semantic structure of sentences. Within the Prague School tradition and the branch of its contemporary development represented by Hajicova ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Introduction to Peircean Visual Semiotics

    by Tony Jappy ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
    Contemporary culture is as much visual as literary. This book explores an approach to the communicative power of the pictorial and multimodal documents that make up this visual culture, using Peircean semiotics. It develops the enormous theoretical potential of Peirce's theory of signs of signs (semiotics) and the persuasive strategies in which they are employed (visual rhetoric) in a variety of ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Introducing Semiotics

    A Graphic Guide

    by Paul Cobley ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    "Introducing Semiotics" outlines the development of sign study from its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism. Through Paul Cobley's incisive text and Litza Jansz's brilliant illustrations, it identifies the key semioticians and their work and explains the simple concepts behind difficult terms. For anybody who wishes to know why signs are crucial to human existence and how we ... Read more

    $4.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conceptual Conflicts in Metaphors and Figurative Language

    by Michele Prandi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Linguistics
    This innovative volume provides a comprehensive integrated account of the study of conceptual figures, demonstrating the ways in which figures and in particular, conflictual figures, encapsulate linguistic expression in the fullest sense and in turn, how insights gleaned from their study can contribute to the wider body of linguistic research. With a specific focus on metaphor and metonymy, the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Pragmatics and Semiotics of Standard Languages

    by Albert Sweet ...
    Sweet describes the pragmatic foundations of standard logic and applies these foundations to the task of developing a theory of intended models as an extension of standard model theory in which the relevant "intending" is represented pragmatically. Methods of formal logic are used to investigate the structure of the relation between language and the world. The truism which holds that this relation ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Language and Globalization

    by Norman Fairclough ...
    Language and Globalization explores the effects of language in the processes of globalization. Norman Fairclough adopts the approach of combining critical discourse analysis with cultural political economy to develop a new theory of the relationship between discourse and other dimensions of globalization. Using examples from a variety of countries such as the USA, Britain, Romania, Hungary and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Defining Pragmatics

    by Mira Ariel ...
    Series series Research Surveys in Linguistics
    Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is that 'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel challenges the prominent definitions of pragmatics, as well as the widely-held assumption that specific topics – implicatures, deixis, speech acts, politeness – naturally and uniformly belong on the pragmatics turf. She ... Read more

    $43.49 USD