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Grapholinguistics, the multifaceted study of writing systems, is
growing increasingly popular, yet to date no coherent account
covering and connecting its major branches exists. This book now
gives an overview of the core theoretical and empirical questions
of this field. A treatment of the structure of writing
systems-their relation to speech and language, their material
features, linguistic functions, and norms, as well as the different
types in which they come-is complemented by perspectives centring
on the use of writing, incorporating psycholinguistic and
sociolinguistic issues such as reading processes or orthographic
variation as social action. Examples stem from a variety of diverse
systems such as Chinese, English, Japanese, Arabic, Thai, German,
and Korean, which allows defining concepts in a broadly applicable
way and thereby constructing a comparative grapholinguistic
framework that provides readers with important tools for studying
any writing system. The book emphasizes that grapholinguistics is a
discipline in its own right, inviting discussion and further
research in this up-and-coming field as well as an overdue
integration of writing into general linguistic discussion.
The first dedicated volume of its kind, Visualizing Digital
Discourse brings together sociolinguists and discourse analysts
examining the role of visual communication in digital media. The
volume showcases work from leading, established and emerging
scholars from across Europe, covering a diverse range of digital
media platforms such as messaging, video-chat, gaming and wikis;
visual modalities such as emojis, video and layout; methodologies
like discourse analysis, ethnography and conversation analysis; as
well as data from different languages. With an opening chapter by
Rodney Jones, the volume is organized into three parts: Besides
Words and Writing, The Social Life of Images, and Designing
Multimodal Texts. From the perspective of these broad domains,
chapters tackle some of the major ideological, interactional and
institutional implications of visuality for digital discourse
studies. The first part, beginning with a co-authored chapter by
Crispin Thurlow, focuses on micro-level visual practices and their
macro-level framing - all with particular regard for emojis. The
second part, beginning with a chapter from Sirpa Leppanen, examines
the ways visual resources are used for managing personal relations,
and the wider cultural politics of visual representation in these
practices. The third part, beginning with a chapter by Hartmut
Stoeckl, considers organizational contexts where users deploy
visual resources for more transactional, often commercial ends.
The first dedicated volume of its kind, Visualizing Digital
Discourse brings together sociolinguists and discourse analysts
examining the role of visual communication in digital media. The
volume showcases work from leading, established and emerging
scholars from across Europe, covering a diverse range of digital
media platforms such as messaging, video-chat, gaming and wikis;
visual modalities such as emojis, video and layout; methodologies
like discourse analysis, ethnography and conversation analysis; as
well as data from different languages. With an opening chapter by
Rodney Jones, the volume is organized into three parts: Besides
Words and Writing, The Social Life of Images, and Designing
Multimodal Texts. From the perspective of these broad domains,
chapters tackle some of the major ideological, interactional and
institutional implications of visuality for digital discourse
studies. The first part, beginning with a co-authored chapter by
Crispin Thurlow, focuses on micro-level visual practices and their
macro-level framing - all with particular regard for emojis. The
second part, beginning with a chapter from Sirpa Leppanen, examines
the ways visual resources are used for managing personal relations,
and the wider cultural politics of visual representation in these
practices. The third part, beginning with a chapter by Hartmut
Stoeckl, considers organizational contexts where users deploy
visual resources for more transactional, often commercial ends.
Today, young people write in their leisure time far more than they
did 15 years ago. Most often they use the new media to do their
writing. This book explores whether the frequent writing of short
messages and e-mails and participation in chats and social networks
like Facebook have an influence on writing in school. Are there any
similarities and relationships between the texts written in school
and the private texts? For the first time, based on comprehensive
data from Swiss students, this book provides empirical answers to
these questions.
Die politischen Verhaltnisse in der Schweiz unterscheiden sich in
vielfaltiger Weise von denjenigen in anderen europaischen
Demokratien. Dies gilt sowohl in Bezug auf das politische System,
das von Elementen der direkten Demokratie gekennzeichnet ist, als
auch mit Blick auf politische Mentalitaten und Werte, wie sie sich
im Konkordanzprinzip oder im schweizerischen Grundsatz der
Neutralitat zeigen. Der vorliegende Band fragt nach dem Verhaltnis
zwischen diesen Rahmenbedingungen und der politischen Kommunikation
in der Schweiz, stellt aber auch Vergleiche zwischen dem
politischen Sprachgebrauch in der Schweiz und in Deutschland her.
Dabei geht es nicht nur darum, Unterschiede auf der Ebene des
Wortschatzes zu benennen, die eng mit der politischen Geschichte
des jeweiligen Landes verbunden sind (so etwa, wenn in der
deutschsprachigen Schweiz vom Sprengkandidaten, der
Minarett-Initiative oder der Fichenaffare die Rede ist, wahrend man
in Deutschland von der Mauer in den Kopfen, von der Agenda 2010
oder der Groaen Koalition spricht). Weitere charakteristische
Merkmale reichen vom Sprachgebrauch in politischen Institutionen
uber das Spektrum politischer Textsorten (z. B. rund um den
Abstimmungsprozess) bis hin zur Funktion komplexer Sprechakte auf
Bundes-, Kantons- und Gemeindeebene, denen in der direkten
Demokratie eine grundsatzlich andere Bedeutung als im reinen
Parlamentarismus zukommt. Die achtzehn Beitrage des Bandes
behandeln diese Aspekte im Rahmen von funf thematischen
Schwerpunkten: 1) Politische Sprache in der Schweiz und in
Deutschland, 2) Der Sprachgebrauch in politischen Institutionen, 3)
Politische Sprache in den Medien, 4) Diskurslinguistische Zugange,
5) Politischer Sprachgebrauch in historischer Perspektive. Der Band
umreiat damit ein Thema in der Politlinguistik, das in der
germanistischen Linguistik bislang nur wenig Beachtung gefunden
hat: die Schweiz.
What are the features of young people's written and spoken
communication? How is youth language situated in the context of
multilingualism and language contact? What influence does
communication in the new media have on the language use? What are
the characteristics of the public discourse about youth language?
In the three categories � language use and linguistic skills, �
language use and identity, and � youth languages as global and
local phenomena these and other questions are discussed and new
research perspectives are revealed. Moreover, the book is not only
a documentation of the current state of affairs of German youth
language research, but it also gives an insight into international
research into the language of young people (in 15 European,
American, and African countries altogether).
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