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imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Offering an in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis of Arabic and
English language narratives of the Islamic State terrorist group,
this book investigates how these narratives changed across national
and media boundaries. Utilizing insights and methodologies from
translation studies, communication studies and sociology, Islamic
State in Translation explores how multimodal narratives of IS and
survivors were fragmented, circulated and translated in the context
of the terrorist action carried out by Islamic State against the
people and culture of Iraq, as well as against other victims around
the world. Closely examining four atrocities, the Speicher
massacre, the enslavement of Ezidi women, execution videos and
videos of the destruction of Iraqi cultural heritage, Balsam
Mustafa explores how the Arabic and English-language narratives of
these events were translated, developed, and fragmented. In doing
so, she advances a socio-narrative theory and reconsiders
translation in the new media environment, within a broader
socio-political field of inquiry.
This book provides a critical discussion on how different
discourses of nationalism in the Turkish media construct contested
concepts of New Turkey’s identity, which has great importance for
mapping modern Turkey’s place in the world of nations. Drawing on
a Discourse-Historical Approach, the author analyses different
discourses on Turkish national identity and foreign policy in
Turkish media in the second term of the AKP government from 2007 to
2011, which was the period of consolidation of Muslim conservative
nationalism in both internal and external relations. By using three
case studies, including the Presidential elections in 2007, the
launch of Kurdish Initiative in 2009, and the debate of axis shift
in Western orientation of Turkish Foreign Policy in 2010, the book
argues that not only has AKP’s Muslim nationalism reconstructed
new Turkish foreign policy, but also new Turkish foreign policy
discourse has reconstructed Turkish nation’s Muslim identity and
reinforced Muslim nationalism.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics… Despite dating from the 4th
century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as
the single most important work on the art of persuasion. As
democracy began emerging in 5th-century Athens, public speaking and
debate became an increasingly important tool to garner influence in
the assemblies, councils, and law courts of ancient Greece. In
response to this, both politicians and ordinary citizens became
desperate to learn greater skills in this area, as well as the
philosophy behind it. This treatise was one of the first to provide
just that, establishing methods and observations of informal
reasoning and style, and has continued to be hugely influential on
public speaking and philosophy today. Aristotle, the grandfather of
philosophy, student of Plato, and teacher of Alexander the Great,
was one of the first people to create a comprehensive system of
philosophy, encompassing logic, morality, aesthetics, politics,
ethics, and science. Although written over 2,000 years ago, The Art
of Rhetoric remains a comprehensive introduction for philosophy
students into the subject of rhetoric, as well as a useful manual
for anyone today looking to improve their oratory skills of
persuasion.
Introducing the key questions and challenges faced by the
researcher of digital discourse, this book provides an overview of
the different methodological dimensions associated with this type
of research. Bringing together a team of experts, chapters guide
students and novice researchers through how to conduct rigorous,
accurate, and ethical research with data from a wide range of
online platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube,
and online dating apps. Research Methods for Digital Discourse
Analysis focuses on the key issues that any digital discourse
analyst must consider, before tackling more specific topics and
approaches, including how to work with multilingual or multimodal
data. Emphasizing concrete, practical advice and illustrated with
plentiful examples from research studies, each chapter introduces a
new research dimension for consideration, briefly exploring how
other discourse analysts have approached the topic before using an
in-depth case study to highlight the main challenges and provide
guidance on methodological decision-making. Supported by a range of
pedagogical tools, including discussion questions and annotated
further-reading lists, this book is an essential resource for
students and any researcher new to analyzing digital discourse.
In this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can
be applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten
lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book presents the
theoretical foundations, open questions, and methodological
approaches that inform the constructional analysis of diachronic
processes in language. The lectures address issues such as
constructional networks, competition between constructions, shifts
in collocational preferences, and differentiation and attraction in
constructional change. The book features analyses that utilize
modern corpus-linguistic methodologies and that draw on current
theoretical discussions in usage-based linguistics. It is relevant
for researchers and students in cognitive linguistics, corpus
linguistics, and historical linguistics.
Semantic studies of the Biblical Hebrew verb have been influenced
by those of its most invoked nominal form . In this volume Andrew
Chin Hei Leong shows that the concepts of balance, alliance, and
completeness form the basic semantic structure of . Previous
studies on employed either historical or textual methodology, which
has been dominant in biblical lexical studies. In addition to these
methods, in Leong develops a systematic semantic methodology from
Cognitive Semantics and Frame Semantics, to demonstrate that it is
balance, rather than completeness, that is the most central concept
in holding the semantic network together.
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