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Suasive Iterations - Rhetoric, Writing, and Physical Computing (Hardcover): David M. Rieder Suasive Iterations - Rhetoric, Writing, and Physical Computing (Hardcover)
David M. Rieder
R1,653 Discovery Miles 16 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is - Theories and Approaches for the Field (Hardcover): Lisa Meloncon Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is - Theories and Approaches for the Field (Hardcover)
Lisa Meloncon
R3,369 Discovery Miles 33 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Disabled Upon Arrival - Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability (Hardcover): Jay Timothy Dolmage Disabled Upon Arrival - Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability (Hardcover)
Jay Timothy Dolmage
R2,285 Discovery Miles 22 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond - Let Cinema Speak (Hardcover, New): Roberta Piazza The Discourse of Italian Cinema and Beyond - Let Cinema Speak (Hardcover, New)
Roberta Piazza
R5,867 Discovery Miles 58 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Roberta Piazza's book is a linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema covering a selection of films from the 1950s to the present day. It looks at how speech is dealt with in studies of the cinema and tackles the lack of engagement with dialogue in film studies. It explores the representation of discourse in cinema -- the way particular manifestations of verbal interaction are reproduced in film. Whereas representation generally refers to the language used in texts to assign meaning to a group and its social practices, here discourse representation more directly refers to the relationship between real-life and cinematic discourse. Piazza analyses how fictional dialogue reinterprets authentic interaction in order to construe particular meanings. Beginning by exploring the relationship between discourse and genre, the second half of the book takes a topic-based approach and reflects on the themes of narrative and identity. The analysis carried out takes on board the multi-semiotic and multimodal components of film discourse. The book uses also uses concepts and methodologies from pragmatics, conversation analysis and discourse analysis.

Stylistics and Shakespeare's Language - Transdisciplinary Approaches (Hardcover): Mireille Ravassat, Jonathan Culpeper Stylistics and Shakespeare's Language - Transdisciplinary Approaches (Hardcover)
Mireille Ravassat, Jonathan Culpeper
R4,907 Discovery Miles 49 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This innovative volume testifies to the current revived interest in Shakespeare's language and style and opens up new and captivating vistas of investigation. Transcending old boundaries between literary and linguistic studies, this engaging collaborative book comes up with an original array of theoretical approaches and new findings. The chapters in the collection capture a rich diversity of points of view and cover such fields as lexicography, versification, dramaturgy, rhetorical analyses, cognitive and computational corpus-based stylistic studies, offering a holistic vision of Shakespeare's uses of language. The perspective is deliberately broad, confronting ideas and visions at the intersection of various techniques of textual investigation. Such novel explorations of Shakespeare's multifarious artistry and amazing inventiveness in his use of language will cater for a broad range of readers, from undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars and researchers, to poetry and theatre lovers alike.

Digital Tools for Writing Instruction in K-12 Settings - Student Perceptions and Experiences (Hardcover, New): Rebecca S.... Digital Tools for Writing Instruction in K-12 Settings - Student Perceptions and Experiences (Hardcover, New)
Rebecca S. Anderson, Clif Mims
R8,539 Discovery Miles 85 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

More emphasis is being placed on writing instruction in K-12 schools than ever before. With the growing number of digital tools in the classroom, it is important that K-12 teachers learn how to use these tools to effectively teach writing in all content areas. Digital Tools for Writing Instruction in K-12 Settings: Student Perceptions and Experiences will provide research about how students use digital tools to write, both in and out of school settings, as well as discuss issues and concerns related to the use of these learning methods. This publication is beneficial to educators, professionals, and researchers working in the field of K-12 and teacher education.

Avatar Emergency (Hardcover, New): Gregory L Ulmer Avatar Emergency (Hardcover, New)
Gregory L Ulmer
R1,680 Discovery Miles 16 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

NEW MEDIA THEORY Series Editor, Byron Hawk 327 pages, including photographs, bibliography, and index. (c) 2012 by Parlor Press AVATAR EMERGENCY is Gregory L. Ulmer's fourth book featuring the EmerAgency, an online virtual consultancy for the digital age. This time his point of departure is Paul Virilio's Generalized Accident from which he develops and theorizes the new concepts of Flash Reason, and specifically Avatar, which serves as the site for electrate identity formation in the twenty-first century. I have taught Ulmer's work on electracy for years, and his theoretical sophistication as well as the practical ambition and applicability of his work never ceases to amaze me. With Avatar Emergency, Ulmer shows once again that he is at the top of his game; I am positively thrilled to share this new and very timely treasure trove of a book with my students. -JAN RUNE HOLMEVIK, author of Inter/Vention: Free Play in the Age of Electracy Ulmer advances a ratio: "Avatar is to electracy what 'self' is to literacy, or 'spirit' to orality." He explores this "emergent logic through the invention of concept avatar." He begins, urgently, by asking: "What might wisdom be today, upon what authority might it be grounded, . . . what vision of well-being?" Perpetually asking the questions, Ulmer searches for "a vital anecdote" as an antidote to the "internet accident" by way of "flash reason." He claims, "Within this frame I present, in the genre of Mystory Internet Invention], what I have come to understand about living, my decision to become a professor of the Humanities and the lifestyle embraced as part of that choice." He invites his readers, thereby, to discover their own Mystory (mystery). Their own wisdom. After all, he explains: "Concept avatar must be not only understood, but undergone." My advice: Undergo the book -VICTOR J. VITANZA, author of Negation, Subjectivity, and the History of Rhetoric and Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing: Chaste Rape GREGORY L. ULMER is Professor of English and Media Studies at the University of Florida, where he teaches courses in Hypermedia, E-Lit, and Heuretics. He is also the Joseph Bueys Chair in the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Ulmer's books include Applied Grammatology (1985), Teletheory (1989), Heuretics (1994), Internet Invention (2003), Electronic Monuments (2005), and Miami Virtue (2011

Discourse Analysis of the New Testament Writings (Hardcover): Todd a Scacewater Discourse Analysis of the New Testament Writings (Hardcover)
Todd a Scacewater
R1,555 Discovery Miles 15 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Semantic Services, Interoperability and Web Applications - Emerging Concepts (Hardcover, New): Amit P. Sheth Semantic Services, Interoperability and Web Applications - Emerging Concepts (Hardcover, New)
Amit P. Sheth
R4,767 Discovery Miles 47 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Semantic Web technology is of fundamental interest to researchers in a number of fields, including information systems and Web design, as continued advancements in this discipline impact other, related fields of study. Semantic Services, Interoperability and Web Applications: Emerging Concepts offers suggestions, solutions, and recommendations for new and emerging research in Semantic Web technology. Focusing broadly on methods and techniques for making the Web more useful and meaningful, this book unites discussions on Semantic Web directions, issues, and challenges.

Elgar Introduction to Organizational Discourse Analysis (Paperback): Marco Berti Elgar Introduction to Organizational Discourse Analysis (Paperback)
Marco Berti
R954 Discovery Miles 9 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Our knowledge and understanding of organizations is both enabled and constrained by an invisible relationship of power that is embedded in the ways in which we act and speak. This book offers a succinct but comprehensive introduction to the vast field of organizational discourse analysis, the approach that studies organization as a linguistic phenomenon, and offers an original approach to investigate the relationship between materiality and discourse. Three original images of discourse are employed: discourse as a map, discourse as organizing and discourse as a mask. These metaphors are used as cognitive tools to highlight different implications and perspectives on discourse. The book critically compares and contrasts various linguistic-focused approaches to the study of organizations, and proposes the use of linguistic phenomena in connection with other methodologies. One section even offers an exemplification of the proposed approach to discourse analysis, presenting a map of discursive terrain, which plays a central role in the reproduction of local organizational and management discourses. This rich and approachable introduction is targeted at graduate and doctoral students, as well as non-specialist academics who want to familiarize themselves with the organizational discourse debate.

Linked Noun Groups - Opposition and Expansion as Genre and Style Markers (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Michael Pace-Sigge Linked Noun Groups - Opposition and Expansion as Genre and Style Markers (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Michael Pace-Sigge
R1,709 Discovery Miles 17 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides a corpus-led analysis of multi-word units (MWUs) in English, specifically fixed pairs of nouns which are linked by a conjunction, such as 'mum and dad', 'bride and groom' and 'law and order'. Crucially, the occurrence pattern of such pairs is dependent on genre, and this book aims to document the structural distribution of some key Linked Noun Groups (LNGs). The author looks at the usage patterns found in a range of poetry and fiction dating from the 17th to 20th century, and also highlights the important role such binomials play in academic English, while acknowledging that they are far less common in casual spoken English. His findings will be highly relevant to students and scholars working in language teaching, stylistics, and language technology (including AI).

At Home in the Anthropocene (Hardcover): Amy D Propen At Home in the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
Amy D Propen
R2,820 Discovery Miles 28 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The White House Speaks - Presidential Leadership as Persuasion (Hardcover, New): Craig A. Smith, Kathy B. Smith The White House Speaks - Presidential Leadership as Persuasion (Hardcover, New)
Craig A. Smith, Kathy B. Smith
R2,708 Discovery Miles 27 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work treats presidential leadership as persuasive communication. The major theories of presidential leadership found in the literature establish the central role of persuasion, and introduce the interpretive systems approach to political communication as a theoretical framework for the study of presidential leadership as persuasion. Case studies examine recent presidents' use of public persuasion to perform their leadership functions. Particular attention is devoted to coalitional constraints on presidential pardoning rhetoric, presidential leadership through the politics of division, the political significance of conflicting political narratives, the sermonic nature of much 20th-century presidential discourse, the difficulties inherent in persuading the public to make sacrifices, and the dangers of relying too heavily on public rhetoric. The concluding chapter considers the rhetoric that contributed to the demise of the Bush presidency, the election of Bill Clinton, and the challenges facing the Clinton presidency.

How to Speak and Write Correctly (Annotated) -- Hardcover - Learning the Art of English Language From an ESL Student to a... How to Speak and Write Correctly (Annotated) -- Hardcover - Learning the Art of English Language From an ESL Student to a Master Copywriter (Hardcover)
Vivian W Lee, Joseph Devlin
R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Multimodality - Disciplinary Thoughts and the Challenge of Diversity (Hardcover): Janina Wildfeuer, Jana Pflaeging, John... Multimodality - Disciplinary Thoughts and the Challenge of Diversity (Hardcover)
Janina Wildfeuer, Jana Pflaeging, John Bateman, Ognyan Seizov, Chiao-I Tseng
R3,598 Discovery Miles 35 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Multimodality's popularity as a semiotic approach has not resulted in a common voice yet. Its conceptual anchoring as well as its empirical applications often remain localized and disparate, and ideas of a theory of multimodality are heterogeneous and uncoordinated. For the field to move ahead, it must achieve a more mature status of reflection, mutual support, and interaction with regard to both past and future directions. The red thread across the disciplines reflected in this book is a common goal of capturing the mechanisms of synergetic knowledge construction and transmission using diverse forms of expressions, i.e., multimodality. The collection of chapters brought together in the book reflects both a diversity of disciplines and common interests and challenges, thereby establishing an excellent roadmap for the future. The contributions revisit and redefine theoretical concepts or empirical analyses, which are crucial to the study of multimodality from various perspectives, with a view towards evolving issues of multimodal analysis. With this, the book aims at repositioning the field as a well-grounded scientific discipline with significant implications for future communication research in many fields of study.

The Multimodal Rhetoric of Humour in Saudi Media Cartoons (Hardcover): Wejdan Alsadi, Martin Howard The Multimodal Rhetoric of Humour in Saudi Media Cartoons (Hardcover)
Wejdan Alsadi, Martin Howard
R3,404 Discovery Miles 34 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Cartoons, as a form of humour and entertainment, are a social product which are revealing of different social and political practices that prevail in a society, humourised and satirised by the cartoonist. This book advances research on cartoons and humour in the Saudi context. It contributes to the growing multimodal research on non-interactional humour in the media that benefits from traditional theories of verbal humour. The study analyses the interaction between visual and verbal modes, highlighting the multimodal manifestations of the rhetorical devices frequently employed to create humour in English-language cartoons collected from the Saudi media. The multimodal analysis shows that the frequent rhetorical devices such as allusions, parody, metaphor, metonymy, juxtaposition, and exaggeration take a form which is woven between the visual and verbal modes, and which makes the production of humorous and satirical effect more unique and interesting. The analysis of the cartoons across various thematic categories further offers a window into contemporary Saudi society.

Key Terms in Stylistics (Hardcover, New): Nina Norgaard, Beatrix Busse, Rocio Montoro Key Terms in Stylistics (Hardcover, New)
Nina Norgaard, Beatrix Busse, Rocio Montoro
R4,898 Discovery Miles 48 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key terms, concepts and thinkers in stylistics. Stylistics is the study of the ways in which meaning is created and shaped through language, in literature and in other types of text. "Key Terms in Stylistics" provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the field, along with sections that explain relevant terms, concepts and key thinkers, listed from A to Z. The book comprises entries on different stylistic approaches to text, including feminist, cognitive, corpus and multimodal stylistics. There is coverage of key thinkers and their work as well as on central terms and concepts. It ends with a comprehensive bibliography of Key Texts. The book is written in an accessible manner, explaining difficult concepts in an easy to understand way. It will appeal to both beginner and upper-level students working in the interface between language and linguistics. The "Key Terms" series offers undergraduate students clear, concise and accessible introductions to core topics. Each book includes a comprehensive overview of the key terms, concepts, thinkers and texts in the area covered and ends with a guide to further resources.

The Immaculate Mistake (Hardcover): Rodney Wallace Kennedy The Immaculate Mistake (Hardcover)
Rodney Wallace Kennedy; Foreword by Randall Balmer; Preface by William V. Trollinger
R1,085 R881 Discovery Miles 8 810 Save R204 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reflexive Pronouns: A Theoretical and Experimental Synthesis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Darcy Sperlich Reflexive Pronouns: A Theoretical and Experimental Synthesis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Darcy Sperlich
R1,671 Discovery Miles 16 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents a comprehensive picture of reflexive pronouns from both a theoretical and experimental perspective, using the well-researched languages of English, German, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. In order to understand the data from varying theoretical perspectives, the book considers selected syntactic and pragmatic analyses based on their current importance in the field. The volume consequently introduces the Emergentist Reflexivity Approach, which is a novel theoretical synthesis incorporating a sentence and pragmatic processor that accounts for reflexive pronoun behaviour in these six languages. Moreover, in support of this model a vast array of experimental literature is considered, including first and second language acquisition, bilingual, psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic and clinical studies. It is through both the intuitive and experimental data linguistic theorizing relies upon that brings out the strengths of the modelling adopted here, paving new avenues for future research. In sum, this volume unites a diverse array of the literature that currently sits largely divorced between the theoretical and experimental realms, and when put together a better understanding of reflexive pronouns under the auspices of the Emergentist Reflexivity Approach is forged.

Forensic Linguistics - An Introduction To Language, Crime and the Law (Hardcover, 2nd edition): John Olsson Forensic Linguistics - An Introduction To Language, Crime and the Law (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
John Olsson
R5,864 Discovery Miles 58 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2004, John Olsson's practical introduction to Forensic Linguistics has become required reading for courses on this new and expanding branch of applied linguistics. This second edition has been revised and updated throughout, and includes new chapters on language in the justice system, forensic transcription, and expanded information on forensic phonetics. The book includes an appendix of forensic texts for student study, exercises and suggestions for further reading.This unique, hands-on introduction to Forensic Linguistics, based on Olsson's extensive experience as a practising forensic linguist, is essential reading for students, and researchers encountering this branch of applied linguistics for the first time.

Meaning - A Slim Guide to Semantics (Hardcover): Paul Elbourne Meaning - A Slim Guide to Semantics (Hardcover)
Paul Elbourne
R2,408 R2,068 Discovery Miles 20 680 Save R340 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers an introduction to the analysis of meaning. Our outstanding ability to communicate is a distinguishing features of our species. To communicate is to convey meaning, but what is meaning? How do words combine to give us the meanings of sentences? And what makes a statement ambiguous or nonsensical? These questions and many others are addressed in Paul Elbourne's fascinating guide. He opens by asking what kinds of things the meanings of words and sentences could be: are they, for example, abstract objects or psychological entities? He then looks at how we understand a sequence of words we have never heard before; he considers to what extent the meaning of a sentence can be derived from the words it contains and how to account for the meanings that can't be; and he examines the roles played by time, place, and the shared and unshared assumptions of speakers and hearers. He looks at how language interacts with thought and the intriguing question of whether what language we speak affects the way we see the world. Meaning, as might be expected, is far from simple. Paul Elbourne explores its complex issues in crystal clear language. He draws on approaches developed in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology - assuming a knowledge of none of them -in a manner that will appeal to everyone interested in this essential element of human psychology and culture.

The Language of Fictional Television - Drama and Identity (Hardcover): Monika Bednarek The Language of Fictional Television - Drama and Identity (Hardcover)
Monika Bednarek
R5,228 Discovery Miles 52 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this book, Monika Bednarek addresses the need for a systemic analysis of television discourse and characterization within linguistics and media studies. She presents both corpus stylistics and manual analysis of linguistic and multimodal features of fictional television. The first part focuses on communicative context, multimodality, genre, audience and scripted television dialogue while the second part focuses on televisual characterization, introducing and illustrating the novel concept of expressive character identity. Aside from the study of television dialogue, which informs it throughout, this book is a contribution to studying characterization, to narrative analysis and to corpus stylistics. With its combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis, the book represents a wealth of exploratory, innovative and challenging perspectives, and is a key contribution to the analysis of television dialogue and character identity. The volume will be of interest to researchers and students in linguistics, stylistics and media/television studies, as well as to corpus linguists and communication theorists. The book will be a useful resource for lecturers teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in media discourse and related areas.

Grim Fairy Tales - The Rhetorical Construction of American Welfare Policy (Hardcover, New): Lisa M. Gring-Pemble Grim Fairy Tales - The Rhetorical Construction of American Welfare Policy (Hardcover, New)
Lisa M. Gring-Pemble
R2,698 Discovery Miles 26 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Gring-Pemble asserts that the role of language in shaping policy options is rarely studied and poorly understood. She seeks to analyze congressional hearings and debates on welfare to understand the role of language in framing welfare policy and contemporary welfare discussions. She reviews welfare history in the United States and provides a rhetorical analysis of welfare deliberations. In the process she illustrates the significance of language and ideology in shaping American social policy outcomes.

The Elements Of Style (Hardcover): William Strunk The Elements Of Style (Hardcover)
William Strunk
R692 Discovery Miles 6 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Language of Crime and Deviance - An Introduction to Critical Linguistic Analysis in Media and Popular Culture (Hardcover,... The Language of Crime and Deviance - An Introduction to Critical Linguistic Analysis in Media and Popular Culture (Hardcover, New)
Andrea Mayr, David Machin
R5,545 Discovery Miles 55 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

There is now a long tradition of academic literature in media studies and criminology that has analysed how we come to think about crime, deviance and punishment. This book for the first time deals specifically with the role of language in this process, showing how critical linguistic analysis can provide further crucial insights into media representations of crime and criminals. Through case studies the book develops a toolkit for the analysis of language and images in examples taken from a range of media. The Language of Crimeand Deviance covers spoken, written and visual media discourses and focuses on a number of specific areas of crime and criminal justice, including media constructions of young people and women; media and the police, 'reality crime shows; corporate crime; prison and drugs.It is therefore a welcome and valuable contribution to the fields of linguistics, criminology, media and cultural studies.

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