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Antonymy is the technical name used to describe 'opposites', pairs
of words such as rich/poor, love/hate and male/female. Antonyms are
a ubiquitous part of everyday language, and this book provides a
detailed, comprehensive account of the phenomenon. This book
demonstrates how traditional linguistic theory can be revisited,
updated and challenged in the corpus age. It will be essential
reading for scholars interested in antonymy and corpus linguistics.
This book explores the ways in which the contemporary university is
talked about, and talks about itself. Focusing on English higher
education, Jones documents how an under-confident sector
internalised the language and logic of government policy, and
individual institutions then set about normalising competition and
gaming short-term advantage at the expense of collectively serving
a common good. A flawed marketisation project was attended and
sustained by hostile discourses, with purportedly woke universities
becoming a soft target for right-leaning politicians and media
commentators, and campuses reluctant battlefields for manufactured
culture wars. Within this context, integrity deficits soon arose:
universities bragged about diversity and social responsibility
without commensurate action; global ambitions went unmatched by
local accountability; senior management grew more distant and
self-rewarding as contractual precarity increased for frontline
staff. Jones does not call for a return to any golden age of
academic self-rule. Rather, he warns that without self-assured new
stories, firmly underpinned by more transparent and moral forms of
governance, universities risk further compromising their standing
as trusted public institutions at the very moment they are needed
most.
The SAGE Handbook of Human-Machine Communication has been designed
to serve as the touchstone text for researchers and scholars
engaging in new research in this fast-developing field. Chapters
provide a comprehensive grounding of the history, methods, debates
and theories that contribute to the study of human-machine
communication. Further to this, the Handbook provides a point of
departure for theorizing interactions between people and
technologies that are functioning in the role of communicators, and
for considering the theoretical and methodological implications of
machines performing traditionally ‘human’ roles. This makes the
Handbook the first of its kind, and a valuable resource for
students and scholars across areas such as communication, media and
information studies, and computer science, as well as for
practitioners, engineers and researchers interested in the
foundational elements of this emerging field. Part 1: Histories and
Trajectories Part 2: Approaches and Methods Part 3: Concepts and
Contexts Part 4: Technologies and Applications
Antonymy is the technical name used to describe 'opposites', pairs of words such as rich/poor, love/hate and male/female. Antonyms are a ubiquitous part of everyday language, and this book provides a detailed, comprehensive account of the phenomenon. This book demonstrates how traditional linguistic theory can be revisited, updated and challenged in the corpus age. It will be essential reading for scholars interested in antonymy and corpus linguistics. eBook available with sample pages: 0203166256
An introduction to the work, key ideas and influence of Gramsci,
Italian Marxist theorist and political activist. Gramsci was a long
term prisoner of the Mussolini regime, hence his most famous
writings have been those penned in his cell, including the "Prison
Notebooks" and the "Prison Letters." Gramsci's ideas about the the
relationships between the rulers and the ruled, about domination,
resistance and transgression, have been extremely influential in
cultural studies and cultural theory. He is perhaps best-known for
formulating the concept of "hegemony" which describes the process
whereby the ruling power wins the consent of the ruled to the
status quo, and hence to fit their subordination, and their ways of
understanding the world with the interests of the ruling power.
Gramsci's ideas were much employed during the grim years of
Thatcherism, as critics on the left (notably Stuart Hall) struggled
to find ways to explain the fact that the working classes kept
voting for Thatcher, even though it was apparently against their
interests to do so. Gramsci's thought also offers hope in that
challenges or transgressions to hegemonic ideas or structures can
be found even in the most outwardly conservative of narratives.
Popular culture has often been cited as a key battleground, on
which struggles for meaning and power take place - for example
debates about whether Eminem is a "good thing" - because he speaks
for the disenfranchised white working-class American, and argues
against racial boundaries in music - or a bad thing because of his
homophobic and misogynistic lyrics.
Steven Jones' book will explain the contemporary relevance of
Gramsci's ideas, notably about hegemony, throughrecent texts,
phenomena and events such as the death of Diana, "La haine," the
Global spread of McDonalds and anti-globalization tracts including
Naomi Klein's "No Logo."
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Antonio Gramsci (Hardcover)
Steven Jones; Series edited by Robert Eaglestone
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An introduction to the work, key ideas and influence of Gramsci,
Italian Marxist theorist and political activist. Gramsci was a long
term prisoner of the Mussolini regime, hence his most famous
writings have been those penned in his cell, including the "Prison
Notebooks" and the "Prison Letters." Gramsci's ideas about the the
relationships between the rulers and the ruled, about domination,
resistance and transgression, have been extremely influential in
cultural studies and cultural theory. He is perhaps best-known for
formulating the concept of "hegemony" which describes the process
whereby the ruling power wins the consent of the ruled to the
status quo, and hence to fit their subordination, and their ways of
understanding the world with the interests of the ruling power.
Gramsci's ideas were much employed during the grim years of
Thatcherism, as critics on the left (notably Stuart Hall) struggled
to find ways to explain the fact that the working classes kept
voting for Thatcher, even though it was apparently against their
interests to do so. Gramsci's thought also offers hope in that
challenges or transgressions to hegemonic ideas or structures can
be found even in the most outwardly conservative of narratives.
Popular culture has often been cited as a key battleground, on
which struggles for meaning and power take place - for example
debates about whether Eminem is a "good thing" - because he speaks
for the disenfranchised white working-class American, and argues
against racial boundaries in music - or a bad thing because of his
homophobic and misogynistic lyrics.
Steven Jones' book will explain the contemporary relevance of
Gramsci's ideas, notably about hegemony, throughrecent texts,
phenomena and events such as the death of Diana, "La haine," the
Global spread of McDonalds and anti-globalization tracts including
Naomi Klein's "No Logo."
The study of antonyms (or 'opposites') in a language can provide
important insight into word meaning and discourse structures. This
book provides an extensive investigation of antonyms in English and
offers an innovative model of how we mentally organize concepts and
how we perceive contrasts between them. The authors use corpus and
experimental methods to build a theoretical picture of the antonym
relation, its status in the mind and its construal in context.
Evidence is drawn from natural antonym use in speech and writing,
first-language antonym acquisition, and controlled elicitation and
judgements of antonym pairs by native speakers. The book also
proposes ways in which a greater knowledge of how antonyms work can
be applied to the fields of language technology and lexicography.
The study of antonyms (or 'opposites') in a language can provide
important insight into word meaning and discourse structures. This
book provides an extensive investigation of antonyms in English and
offers an innovative model of how we mentally organize concepts and
how we perceive contrasts between them. The authors use corpus and
experimental methods to build a theoretical picture of the antonym
relation, its status in the mind and its construal in context.
Evidence is drawn from natural antonym use in speech and writing,
first-language antonym acquisition, and controlled elicitation and
judgements of antonym pairs by native speakers. The book also
proposes ways in which a greater knowledge of how antonyms work can
be applied to the fields of language technology and lexicography.
Whether or not one believes the hyperbolic claims about the Internet being the biggest thing since the invention of the wheel, the Internet is a medium with great consequences for social and economic life. Doing Internet Research is written to help people discern in what ways it has commanded the public imagination, and the methodological issues that arise when one tries to study and understand the social processes occurring within the Internet. Each contributor to the volume offers original responses in the search for, and critique of, methods with which to study the Internet and the social, political, economic, artistic, communicative phenomena occurring within and around it. This book provides encouragement for readers getting started with Internet research and also provides perspective on this new and ubiquitous communication medium.
This revised edition of The Art of Horror Movies includes more
films, rare images, and in-depth explorations to bring this
award-winning book completely up to date, cementing its position as
the definitive and essential guide to horror movies. Through a
series of informative chapters and fascinating sidebars
chronologically charting the evolution of horror movies for more
than a century, profusely illustrated throughout with over 600 rare
and unique images including posters, lobby cards, advertising,
promotional items, tie-in books and magazines, and original artwork
inspired by classic movies, this handsomely designed hardcover
traces the development of the horror film from its inception and
celebrates the actors, filmmakers, and artists who were responsible
for scaring the pants off successive generations of moviegoers!
Edited by multiple award-winning writer and editor Stephen Jones
and boasting a foreword by director and screenwriter John Landis
(An American Werewolf in London), this volume brings together
fascinating and incisive commentary from some of the genre's most
highly respected experts. With eye-popping images from all over the
world, The Art of Horror Movies: Revised Edition is the definitive
guide for anyone who loves horror films and movie fans of all ages.
Jones challenges traditional images of Percy Bysshe Shelley in this
first book-length analysis of his major satiric works. Bringing to
bear genre theory and a New Historical frame of reference, Jones
places Shelley's satires in their broad context of popular,
political, and material culture. Jones argues that Shelley's
satiric poems express an important countervoice within Shelley's
work as well as within Romanticism as a whole. These ironic,
public, referential, and worldly texts are shown to be deeply
ambivalent, employing the imagery of curse, revenge, and punishment
in a coercive rhetoric of violence only occasionally covered with
laughter. Thus the satires vividly represent the darker side of the
Romantic poet's relation to society as well as his efforts to
engage and to change the world. Shelley's Satire illuminates the
historical and cultural contexts that stirred the poet's
imagination - contemporary superstition, the popular entertainments
of the pantomime and graphic prints, and historical events such as
the Peterloo Massacre and the Queen Caroline affair. It will engage
not only Shelleyans and Romanticists but also anyone interested in
satire as a genre, New Historicist methods, theories of cultural
formation, and the Regency period in English history.
An analysis of the events surrounding the discovery of the Dead Sea
Scrolls and their influence on Church theology particularly the
influence on Vatican II. The book asks whether there was a covert
agenda by examining actual historical accounts and quotes by those
involved.
One School One Planet Vol. 2 is a collection of articles and essays
written over the course of the second and third years of the One
School One Planet project in Llanfyllin, Powys. The project sought
to develop a mainstream permaculture curriculum for schools, while
also helping Llanfyllin to prepare as a community for the realities
of climate change.
The painter Titian towards the end of his life broke from the very
school he helped found. Most notable was his Flaying of Marsyas. It
is about a bet made between Apollo and Marsysas who was the greater
musician. Marsyas, losing the bet, must be flayed by Apollo. The
painting creates controversy now just as it did then. Is it
gruesome or a thing of beauty? Renaissance Neoplatonists saw it as
a victory for Marsyas, symbolizing a liberation of the Spirit from
the flesh. Others saw it as the price for challenging a god to a
duel. Still others see it as symbolic of what happens when one lets
their passions get the best of them. In the painting we see
'reason' off to the side devoutly playing music to the gods. In
many ways the painting could represent the modern milieu of the
Church. What some see as a liberating of the Spirit, others see as
a brutal gutting of everything sacred. Like the Flaying of Marsyas,
it is difficult to tell without the true story. This is the story.
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