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Metaphor in use : context, culture, and communication
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ISBN: 9789027223920 9789027273468 9027273464 128389484X 9781283894845 9027223920 Year: 2012 Volume: 38 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company,

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Metaphor is a fascinating phenomenon, but it is also complex and multi-faceted, varying in how it is manifested in different modes of expression, languages, cultures, or time-scales. How then can we reliably identify metaphors in different contexts? How does the language or culture of speakers and hearers affect the way metaphors are produced or interpreted? Are the methods employed to explore metaphors in one context applicable in others? The sixteen chapters that make up this volume offer not only detailed studies of the situated use of metaphor in language, gesture, and visuals around the world - providing important insights into the different factors that produce variation - but also careful explication and discussion of the methodological issues that arise when researchers approach metaphor in diverse 'real world' contexts. The book constitutes an important contribution to applied metaphor studies, and will prove an invaluable resource for the novice and experienced metaphor researcher alike.


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Intercultural miscommunication past and present
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ISBN: 9783631621998 363162199X Year: 2012 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang,


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Die Sprache der Sarrazin-Debatte : eine diskurslinguistische Analyse.
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ISBN: 9783828828889 3828828884 Year: 2012 Publisher: Marburg Tectum


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How to do critical discourse analysis : a multimodal introduction
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ISBN: 9780857028921 9780857028914 085702891X 0857028928 Year: 2012 Publisher: Los Angeles London New Delhi [etc.] : SAGE,

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Language and communication shapes and is shaped by the society we live in. Using a multimodal approach –graphic, vocal, written – the book guides students to an understanding of how language, power and ideology are negotiated in visual communication and media texts, from magazine and advertising, to YouTube and music videos. It draws on discourse analysis, appraisal theory, stylistics and conversation analysis to present a systematic toolkit for doing language and image analysis. Using case studies and examples from a range of traditional and new media content, the book equips students with the necessary tools to analyze and understand the relationship between language, discourse and social practices. Timely and relevant, How to do Critical Discourse Analysis is a unique and compelling textbook for students in media, communication, linguistics and journalism.


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Style-shifting in public : new perspectives on stylistic variation
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ISBN: 1283469308 9786613469304 9027274878 9789027274878 9789027234896 9027234892 Year: 2012 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co.,

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Language acts are acts of identity, and linguistic variation reflects the multifaceted construction of verbal alternatives for transmitting social meaning, where style-shifting represents our ability to take up different social positions due to its potential for linguistic performance, rhetorical stance-taking and identity projection.Traditional variationist conceptualizations of style-shifting as a primarily responsive phenomenon seem unable to account for all stylistic choices. In contrast, more recent formulations see stylistic variation as initiative, creative and strategic in personal and


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The handbook of intercultural discourse and communication.
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ISBN: 1118941284 1405162724 1444354329 1782685324 9786613615633 1280585803 1444354345 1118247272 1444354310 9781118941287 9781405162722 Year: 2012 Publisher: Malden Wiley-Blackwell

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Intercultural discourse and communication is emerging as an important area of research in a highly globalized and connected world, where language and culture contact is frequent and cultural misunderstandings and misconceptions abound. The Handbook contains contributions from established scholars and up-and-coming researchers from a range of fields to survey the theoretical perspectives and applied work in this burgeoning area of linguistics. This timely volume features first a section which introduces the background detailing the scope and topics of the field; followed by a section of four different theoretical approaches and their basic research questions, from Dell Hymes's foundational Ethnography of Speaking and John Gumperz's Interactional Sociolinguistics to Critical approaches and Postmodernism. The third section, Interactional Discourse Features, describes and explains the features of talk which are frequently studied in cross-cultural research, such as turn-taking and politeness. The volume also includes a section on Interactional Discourse sites, examining cross-cultural communication (such as Greek-Turkish discourse). The Handbook concludes with chapters on where such discourse occurs, such as Law, Medicine, and Religion


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The reality of social construction
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ISBN: 9781107024373 1107024374 9781107630161 1107630169 9781139169202 9781139424264 1139424262 1139169203 9781139422222 1139422227 9781139420174 1139420178 1139411799 9781139411790 1107232007 9781107232006 9786613660121 6613660124 1139423193 9781139423199 1139418130 9781139418133 128068318X Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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'Social construction' is a central metaphor in contemporary social science, yet it is used and understood in widely divergent and indeed conflicting ways by different thinkers. Most commonly, it is seen as radically opposed to realist social theory. Dave Elder-Vass argues that social scientists should be both realists and social constructionists and that coherent versions of these ways of thinking are entirely compatible with each other. This book seeks to transform prevailing understandings of the relationship between realism and constructionism. It offers a thorough ontological analysis of the phenomena of language, discourse, culture and knowledge, and shows how this justifies a realist version of social constructionism. In doing so, however, it also develops an analysis of these phenomena that is significant in its own right.


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Kritische discouranalyse : de macht en kracht van taal en tekst
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ISBN: 9789070289195 9070289199 Year: 2012 Publisher: Brussel ASP : Academic & Scientific Publishers

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Voor iedereen die meer wil weten over de rol van taal en tekst in de vorm- en betekenisgeving van onze maatschappij is dit boek een aanrader. Het geeft een inleiding op de kritische discoursanalyse (KDA), een discipline die in de jaren negentig is ontwikkeld en taalkunde en sociologie met elkaar combineert. Kritische discoursanalyse richt zich op de analyse van de relatie tussen taal en de instandhouding van machtsrelaties binnen de maatschappij, binnen organisaties en binnen familieverbanden.U komt in dit boek verschillende filosofen tegen, zoals Foucault, Bourdieu, Habermas en Gramsci. U raakt vertrouwd met centrale begrippen uit de kritische discoursanalyse zoals narratieven, frames, articulatie, intertextualiteit en interdiscursiviteit. Door de vele voorbeelden uit de praktijk en de actualiteit raakt u snel met deze begrippen vertrouwd en zult u ze ook zelf gaan herkennen. U zult zien dat taal niet alleen een instrument is om te communiceren over deze wereld, maar ook een middel om de werkelijkheid vorm te geven. Door taalgebruik legt u een verband tussen uzelf en anderen; u construeert uw beeld van de werkelijkheid en presenteert dit beeld aan uw gesprekspartners. Kritische discoursanalyse richt zich zowel tot het brede publiek als tot (praktijk)onderzoekers en is van belang voor iedereen die zich interesseert voor het verband tussen taal en maatschappelijke en politieke processen.Bron : http://www.aspeditions.be


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Public information messages : a contrastive genre analysis of state-citizen communication
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ISBN: 9789027256270 9789027273406 9027273405 9027256276 1283548976 9781283548977 9786613861429 Year: 2012 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co.,

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Public information messages are an important means of state-citizen communication in today's societies. Using this genre, citizens are directed to "never ever drink and drive", to "slow down" and to "learn to say no". Yet, this book presents the first in-depth analysis of public information messages from a linguistic perspective, and indeed also from a cross-cultural perspective. Specifically, the study, adopting genre analysis, contrasts a corpus of state-run national public information campaigns in Germany and Ireland. A taxonomy of moves is developed inductively and the interactional featur

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