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This original volume provides the first state-of-the-art overview
of research on pronouns in the 21st century. With its dedicated
sections on grammar, history, and change, language
learning/acquisition, cognition and comprehension, power, politics,
and identity, The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns shows that
contemporary interest in pronouns and gender represents just the
tip of the iceberg. Led by Laura Paterson, a transdisciplinary
collection of experts discuss the global history of different
pronoun systems, synthesize the literature, and contextualize the
salient issues and current debates shaping research on pronouns
across different spheres and via different
theoretical-methodological traditions. The Handbook is designed to
encourage readers to engage with a range of perspectives from
within and beyond their immediate areas of interest, with the
ultimate aim of shaping the future trajectory of interdisciplinary,
multiingual research on pronouns. Using data from multiple
languages and engaging deeply with the social, cultural, political,
technological, and psychological factors that can influence pronoun
use, this innovative book will be an indispensable resource to
scholars and advanced students of theoretical and applied
linguistics, education, and the social and behavioural sciences.
How do people talk about marriage? Who gets to do the talking?
When, why, where and how do these things change? From the
experiences of women forced to marry as children to those of older
women who never married, from investigations of cross-border
marriage applications to Christian pastors’ sermons on divorce,
from oppositional media discussions of same-sex marriage to
pro-marriage equality protest signs: this collection presents
research from across the globe addressing the often shifting,
context-specific ways that we talk about marriage. Developed from
the work of the UK-based Discourses of Marriage Research Group and
a two-day conference drawing together scholars interested in talk
of marriage and related topics, this interdisciplinary volume
brings together linguists, psychologists, and film makers and draws
on data from the UK, Germany, Taiwan, the US, Belgium, and Turkey.
It is intended both as a survey of some contemporary trends in
research on marriage and as a foundation for further research. The
chapters in this book, except for chapters 1 and 7, were originally
published as a special issue of the journal Critical Discourse
Studies. This volume comes with a new introduction.
This book explores a novel methodological approach which combines
analytical techniques from linguistics and geography to bring fresh
insights to the study of poverty. Using Geographical Text Analysis,
it maps the discursive construction of poverty in the UK and
compares the results to what administrative data reveal. The
analysis draws together qualitative and quantitative techniques
from corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, Geographical
Information Science, and the spatial humanities. By identifying the
place-names that occur within close proximity to search terms
associated with to poverty it shows how different newspapers use
place to foreground different aspects of poverty (including
employment, housing, money, and benefits), and how the
London-centric nature of newspaper reporting dominates the
discursive construction of UK poverty. This book demonstrates how
interdisciplinary research methods can illuminate complex social
issues and will appeal to researchers in a number of disciplines
from sociology, geography and the spatial humanities, economics,
linguistics, health, and public policy, in addition to policymakers
and practitioners.
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