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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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