"Now in its third edition, this successful book introduces students to the area of social science theory and research known as social constructionism. Using a variety of examples from everyday experience and from existing research in areas such as personality, sexuality and heal…
"Now in its third edition, this successful book introduces students to the area of social science theory and research known as social constructionism. Using a variety of examples from everyday experience and from existing research in areas such as personality, sexuality and heal…
"Now in its third edition, this successful book introduces students to the area of social science theory and research known as social constructionism. Using a variety of examples from everyday experience and from existing research in areas such as personality, sexuality and heal…
Introducing multimodality
by Jewitt, Carey, Bezemer, Josephus Johannes, O'Halloran, Kay L.
This accessible introduction to multimodality illuminates the potential of multimodal research for understanding the ways in which people communicate. Readers will become familiar with the key concepts and methods in various domains while learning how to engage critically with t…
An examination of the scientific evidence for the mechanisms which underlie the effect a writer's language has on the reader.
Drawing on recent theoretical developments in second language acquisition, through subtitled audiovisual input. Subtitled text is explored as a source of language acquisition, and its dialogue and subtitle components are focused on as sources of linguistic input. The primary foc…
How does language affect us? This title provides a general theory of the impact that language can have on readers, uncovering the deep-seated ideologies of everyday texts.