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By Susan Petrilli, Susan Mancino
October 28, 2024
This collection brings together perspectives on the interplay of communication, dialogue and responsibility, exploring communicative acts of disruption towards a social environment attuned to short-sighted individualism. Semioethics highlights the condition of inevitable entanglement with the other...
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By Silvia Ferrara, Mattia Cartolano, Ludovica Ottaviano
September 30, 2024
This innovative collection offers a holistic portrait of the multimodal communication potential of images from the Upper Paleolithic times through to today, showcasing image-based creativity throughout the centuries. The volume seeks to extend the boundaries of our understanding of what language ...
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By Ninke Stukker, John A. Bateman, Danielle McNamara, Wilbert Spooren
September 17, 2024
This collection sets out an innovative research agenda for advancing a multidisciplinary approach to genre, bringing together researchers from a variety of disciplines to enhance our existing understanding of the challenges and opportunities for current and future genre research. The volume brings ...
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By Katie Jane Patterson, Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio
July 29, 2024
This collection highlights multidisciplinary approaches toward better understanding the discourses of extremism, exploring the ways in which insights from linguistics and other disciplines might inform each other in enacting meaningful reforms in policy, social media, and education. The volume is ...
By Christopher Williams
May 27, 2024
This volume offers insights into the ways in which plain language has influenced the language of the law in the United Kingdom, critically reflecting on its historical development and future directions. The book opens with an overview of the theoretical frameworks underpinning plain language and a ...
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By Raymond F. Person, Jr., Robin Wooffitt, John P. Rae
January 29, 2024
This collection extends the conversation beginning with Gail Jefferson’s seminal 1996 article, "On the Poetics of Ordinary Talk," linking the poetics of ordinary talk with the work of poets to bring together critical perspectives on new data from talk-in-interaction and applications of Jefferson’s ...
By Daria Dayter, Sofia Rüdiger
January 29, 2024
This book adopts a corpus-based discourse analysis approach to the study of the communicative practices of pick-up artists, offering a systematic exploration of distinct language use in an online community that uses speed-seduction practices for short-term dating and sex. Drawing on a ...
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By Laura Filardo-Llamas, Esperanza Morales-López, Alan Floyd
September 25, 2023
This collection explores the discursive strategies and linguistic resources underpinning conflict and polarization, taking a multidisciplinary approach to examine the ways in which conflict is constructed across a diverse range of contexts. The volume is divided into two sections as a means of ...
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By Jan Engberg, Antoinette Fage-Butler, Peter Kastberg
August 25, 2023
This collection elaborates an innovative analytical framework for knowledge communication, bringing together insights from a range of professional settings to highlight how a cross-disciplinary approach can promote a new view of knowledge that emphasizes constructivist and cognitivist perspectives....
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By Mable Chan
July 13, 2023
This collection bridges the gap between research and practical applications by showcasing the latest research developments on business English as a lingua franca and the ways in which they might better inform language teaching practice. Featuring contributions from both established and emerging ...
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By Alejandro Parini, Francisco Yus
June 30, 2023
This collection calls for greater attention to the need for a clearer understanding of the role of discourse in the process of placemaking in the digital age and the increasing hybridisation of physical and virtual worlds. The volume outlines a new conceptualisation of place in the time of ...
By Anaïs Augé
June 28, 2023
This volume sheds light on the argumentative role of metaphor in climate change discourse, unpacking the ways in which stakeholders use specific metaphors to influence perceptions of the climate crisis. While existing research has explored the explanatory function of metaphors in communication on ...