Querying Consent examines the ways in which the concept of consent is used to map and regulate sexual desire, gender relationships, global positions, technological interfaces, relationships of production and consumption, and literary and artistic interactions. From philosophy to…
"Language and Power is widely recognised both as a classic and an essential introductory textbook to the field of Critical Discourse Analysis. It focusses on how language functions in maintaining and changing power relations in modern society, the ways of analysing language whic…
"Germany and Austria since 1814 presents an accessible overview of the distinctive historical experiences undergone by both Germany and Austria during this period. Beginning in 1814 with the Congress of Vienna and ending two centuries later with the consequences and ongoing chal…
Gives renewed impetus to the study of Colombian Spanish. The editors have included articles that either extend far beyond the national borders of Colombia or transcend the narrow(er) confines of Spanish.
"In this book, Gunther Kress and Jeff Bezemer present a new social semiotic theory which brings together communication, learning and identity through detailed analyses of a range of different multimodal environments, including classrooms, textbooks and hospital operating theatre…
"In syntactic analysis, as in linguistics generally, the skills required to first identify, and then make sense of, complex patterns in linguistic data involve a certain specific kind of reasoning, where various alternatives are entertained and modified in light of progressively…
Machine generated contents note: 1. Defining template; 2. A typological description language for templates; 3. Typologizing templates: case studies; 4. Typologizing templates: comparison; 5. Moving forward "Defining template 1.1 Templates: Often invoked, but undertheorized The …
"Cognitive linguists and psychologists have often argued that language is best understood as an association network; however while the network view of language has had a significant impact on the study of morphology and lexical semantics, it is only recently that researchers hav…
Describe nuevos desarrollos en la lengua española y explora posibilidades de una nueva construcción del hispanismo en el dominio de las ciencias del lenguaje. Se tratan temas hasta hace poco descuidados en la lingüística: innovaciones ocasionadas por el contacto con otras lengua…
"In 2014, the US marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the basis for the Johnson administration's escalation of American military involvement in Southeast Asia and war against North Vietnam. Vietnam War Slang outlines the context behind the slang used by m…
