Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Pragmatics

Discourse analysis is a wide ranging area of study that examines the features of language beyond the limits of a sentence including vocal, written and sign language, along with any significant semiotic events. It has been employed from a number of interdisciplinary perspectives in an attempt to reveal a person s socio-psychological characteristics through the practical analysis of naturally-occurring language rather than artificially created examples.

Routledge Library Editions: Discourse Analysis brings together an extensive collection of scholarship that reflects the broad...

This volume provides an up-to-date and evaluative review of theoretical and empirical stances on emotion and its close interaction with language and cognition in monolingual and bilingual individuals. Importantly, it presents a novel methodological approach that takes into account contextual information and hence goes beyond the reductionist approach to affective language that has dominated contemporary research. Owing to this pragmatic approach, the book presents brand new findings in the field of bilingualism and affect and offers the first neurocognitive interpretation of findings...

Welche Rolle spielen soziale Medien in lateinamerikanischen Wahlkampfen? Wie nutzen Kandidierende Twitter & Co. in ihren Kampagnen? Wodurch zeichnet sich der politische Online-Diskurs aus? Am Beispiel der kolumbianischen Prasidentschaftswahlen 2010 wertet diese Studie die Online-Kampagnen von neun Kandidat_innen aus. Mittels einer Kritischen Diskursanalyse untersucht sie Blogtexte, Facebook-Postings und Tweets als Elemente offizieller Wahlkampfkommunikation. Die Autorin analysiert die Textgestaltung und beleuchtet Positionierungen zu brisanten Themen wie Korruption, Wahlbetrug und...

This book is the first to formulate an ideology of emancipation for women in Morocco. Beginning with constructs of the body, femininity and masculinity, it analyzes the central role played by the sociopolitical writing of sexuality in creating gender hierarchy. The author focuses on Morocco, while drawing parallels with Hollywood cinema, one of the great producers of femininity and masculinity, and conducts an exhaustive examination of constructs of femininity and masculinity in language, social practices, cultural productions and legal texts. This multidisciplinary study exposes in an...

Whether we are speaking with the clerk at the store, our boss, or our spouse, language is dependent on things as commonplace as a rising tone of voice, an apparently meaningless word, or a glance-signals so small that we hardly pay them any conscious attention. Nevertheless, they are the essence of how we speak. From the traffic signals of speech to the importance...