Analyzing Public Discourse

Discourse Analysis in the Making of Public Policy

By Ron Scollon

Analyzing Public Discourse demonstrates the use of discourse analysis to provide testimony in public policy consultations: from environmental impact statements to changes in laws and...

Published November 7th 2007 by Routledge.

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Reading Images

The Grammar of Visual Design

By Gunther Kress, Theo van Leeuwen

This second edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual...

Published March 30th 2006 by Routledge.

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Discourse in Action

Introducing Mediated Discourse Analysis

By RODNEY H. JONES, Sigrid Norris

From emails relating to adoption over the Internet to discussions in the airline cockpit, the spoken or written texts we produce can have significant social...

Published May 23rd 2005 by Routledge.

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The Written Language Bias in Linguistics

Its Nature, Origins and Transformations

By Per Linell

Linguists routinely emphasise the primacy of speech over writing. Yet, most linguists have analysed spoken language, as well as language in general, applying theories and...

Published February 1st 2005 by Routledge.

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The Language of Websites

By Mark Boardman

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second...

Published October 14th 2004 by Routledge.

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Genetically Modified Language

The Discourse of Arguments for GM Crops and Food

By Guy Cook

The GM debate is as much a war of words as of facts. Food and farming are being changed forever - yet whether for good...

Published September 16th 2004 by Routledge.

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Intercultural Communication

An Advanced Resource Book

By Adrian Holliday, Martin Hyde, John Kullman

Intercultural Communication:

• introduces the key theories of intercultural communication
• explores ways in which people communicate within and across social groups
• is built around three themes – identity, otherization and...

Published June 24th 2004 by Routledge.

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The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes

By Graeme Ritchie

This book starts from three observations. First, the use of humour is a complex, puzzling, and idiosyncratically human form of behaviour (and hence is of...

Published October 16th 2003 by Routledge.

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New Media Language

Edited by Jean Aitchison, Diana Lewis

New Media Language brings leading media figures and scholars together to debate the shifting relations between today's media and contemporary language.
From newspapers and television to...

Published May 22nd 2003 by Routledge.

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Communicating

The Multiple Modes of Human Interconnection

By Ruth Finnegan

In Communicating, the anthropologist Ruth Finnegan considers the many and varied modes through which we humans communicate and the multisensory resources we draw on.
The book...

Published April 11th 2002 by Routledge.

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