[PDF] The Language Discourse Society Reader eBook

Author : Denise Riley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 44,6 MB
Release : 2004-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230213340

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For the last twenty-five years, Language, Discourse, Society has been the most intellectually challenging series in English. Its titles range across the disciplines from linguistics to biology, from literary criticism to law, combining vigorous scholarship and theoretical analysis at the service of a broad political engagement. This anniversary reader brings together a fascinating group of thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic with an introductory overview from the editors which considers the development of theory and scholarship over the past two decades.

Author : Laura Mulvey
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 30,13 MB
Release : 2009-02-27
Category : Art
ISBN :

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This new edition of Laura Mulvey's first collection of essays contains a new introduction in which she re-assesses her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema."

Author : Rodney H. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108498922

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An accessible and entertaining textbook that introduces students to sociolinguistics in a real-world context, with issues they care about.

Author : Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521516900

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The theory is applied to the domain of politics, including the debate about the war in Iraq, where political leaders' speeches serve as a case study for detailed contextual analysis."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Wolfgang Teubert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 31,7 MB
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139487469

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Meaning, Discourse and Society investigates the construction of reality within discourse. When people talk about things such as language, the mind, globalisation or weeds, they are less discussing the outside world than objects they have created collaboratively by talking about them. Wolfgang Teubert shows that meaning cannot be found in mental concepts or neural activity, as implied by the cognitive sciences. He argues instead that meaning is negotiated and knowledge is created by symbolic interaction, thus taking language as a social, rather than a mental, phenomenon. Discourses, Teubert contends, can be viewed as collective minds, enabling the members of discourse communities to make sense of themselves and of the world around them. By taking an active stance in constructing the reality they share, people thus can take part in moulding the world in accordance with their perceived needs.

Author : A. Parakrama
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0230371302

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This study first establishes the discriminatroy and elitist nature of standard languages and standardisation itself, considering as counter-example the case of Sri Lankan English as symptomatic of the 'other' or postcolonial Englishes. On the basis of this understanding of the standard, while at the same time, accepting the necessity of standards, however attenuated, the writer argues for the active broadening of the standard to include the greatest variety possible - privileging 'meaning' over other rules - and holds that this would in fact work towards extending the bounds of linguistic tolerance.

Author : Kornelia Freitag
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 3825812103

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In an age of globalization, computerization, and commodification, why read poetry? It seems ill suited to meet today's challenges. Or is it? This volume, which collects papers and poems read at a conference on British and North American experimental poetry, demonstrates the opposite.

Author : Peter Womack
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 1989-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349084964

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An attempt to trace the origins of the romantic image of the Highlands, by examining the economic, military and ideological circumstances of the region's subjugation by the British state. It combines literary criticism and cultural history to produce a case study of the making of the myth.