Portable Prose: The Novel and the Everyday examines the novel as a privileged site for representing the everyday, as well as a physical object that occupies public and private space. This collection interrogates the relationships between these differing aspects of the novel’s existence, negotiating the boundaries between the material world, subjective experience, and strategies of representation.This collection offers a wide array of innovative novelistic explorations—with a focus ...

Good teaching relies on a firm grasp of the communication process. In this innovative text Bob Hodge presents common pitfalls in the communication of teachers, and shows where they are most likely to mistake the communication of pupils. He uses practical examples which enable the reader to see an immediate and direct connection with classroom practises, making principles easier to understand and apply.

Social semiotics reveals language�s social meaning its structures, processes, conditions and effects in all social contexts, across all media and modes of discourse. This important new book uses social semiotics as a one-stop shop to analyse language and social meaning, enhancing linguistics with a sociological imagination.Social Semiotics for a Complex World develops ideas, frameworks and strategies for better understanding key problems and issues involving language a...

WHERE IS ATLANTIS? Plato the greatest Greek philosopher first revealed this ancient lost civilization, but no-one believed him. It’s the world’s most famous mystery. WHO CAN FIND IT? Not Chris, Demi and Alex, surely. They’re too young, with too many problems of their own. But they’re given a mission by their Granddad: ‘Follow my clues and find Atlantis. Which I never could.’ He was a super-Nerd who knew Greek. But dead. Wasn’t he? THE ISLAND Granddad’s tech takes them back to deep time. Pl...

An innovative text which adopts the tools of cultural studies to provide a fresh approach to the study of Chinese language, culture and society. The book tackles areas such as grammar, language, gender, popular culture, film and the Chinese diaspora and employs the concepts of social semiotics to extend the ideas of language and reading. Covering a range of cultural texts, it will help to break down the boundaries around the ideas and identities of East and West and provide a more relevant...

Here is a collection of recorded memories, fact, fiction, and stages in between. It follows up the collaborated Bobs Gettysburg Saga & Poetry, which was published in 2014. In these pages, Bob visits the Alamo, with all its spiritual and ghostly history. Herein are encountered many of the characters that shaped Texas and, to this day, keep its legend alive. From Bob and Texas, the book unfolds into the broader West with two obituaries and two tales of strife and daring-do. As in the past, I...

Originally published in 1979. This book studies language variation as a part of social practice - how language expresses and helps regulate social relationships of all kinds. Different groups, classes, institutions and situations have their special modes of language and these varieties are not just stylistic reflections of social differences; speaking or writing in a certain manner entails articulating certain social meanings, however implicit. This book focuses on the repressive and falsi...

This book, first published in 1987, sets out to examine and extend our understanding of Australian popular culture, and to counter the long-established, traditional criticism bewailing its lack. The authors argue that the 'knocker's' view started from an elitist viewpoint, yearning for Australia to aspire to a European culture in art, music, literature and other traditional cultural fields. They argue however that there are other definitions of culture that are more populist, more comprehe...