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Intertext eBook Series

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  • Language Change

    by Adrian Beard ...
    Series series Intertext
    The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics, and can be used ... Read more

    R718,12

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    How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas

    by John Pollack ...
    A presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton explores the hidden power of analogy to fuel thought, connect ideas, spark innovation, and shape outcomesFrom the meatpacking plants that inspired Henry Ford’s first moving assembly line to the "domino theory" that led America into Vietnam to the "bicycle for the mind" that Steve Jobs envisioned as the Macintosh computer, analogies have played a dynamic ... Read more

    R134,88

  • Multimodality

    A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication

    by Gunther Kress ...
    The 21st century is awash with ever more mixed and remixed images, writing, layout, sound, gesture, speech, and 3D objects. Multimodality looks beyond language and examines these multiple modes of communication and meaning making.Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication represents a long-awaited and much anticipated addition to the study of multimodality from the ... Read more

    R1 385,18

  • Do You Speak American?

    by Robert Macneil, William Cran ...
    Is American English in decline? Are regional dialects dying out? Is there a difference between men and women in how they adapt to linguistic variations?These questions, and more, about our language catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran—the authors (with Robert McCrum) of the language classic The Story of English—across the country in search of the answers. Do You Speak American? is the tale ... Read more

    R100,84

  • Debating Diversity

    Analysing the Discourse of Tolerance

    by Jan Blommaert, Jef Verschueren ...
    Immigration, racism and nationalism have become hotly debated issues in the Western world. This highly original and controversial work focuses on the language used by the vast majority who regard themselves as being open to a multi-cultural society. Using Belgium as a case study and drawing parallels with the UK, US, Europe and the former Yugoslavia, the authors analyse this language and reveal a ... Read more

    R1 436,49

  • International English

    A Guide to Varieties of English Around the World

    by Peter Trudgill, Jean Hannah ...
    From Singapore to Scotland, Canada to the Channel Islands, Namibia to New Zealand and beyond, International English takes you on a fascinating journey through the varieties of English spoken around the world. Comparisons across the varieties provide a comprehensive guide to differences in phonetics, phonology, grammar and vocabulary, making this a useful resource for teachers of English as a ... Read more

    R1 102,96

  • Languaging in and across Communities: New Voices, New Identities

    Studies in Honour of Giuseppina Cortese

    Edited by Sandra Campagna, Elana Ochse, Virginia Pulcini, Martin Solly ...
    Series Book 218 - Linguistic Insights
    The title of this volume intentionally echoes that of a landmark issue of Textus on «Languaging» in and across Human Groups, edited by Giuseppina Cortese and Dell Hymes in 2001, since the notion of ‘languaging’ seems to capture most effectively the essence and the continuity in the life and work of Giuseppina Cortese, to whom the book is dedicated. It brings together contributions by a number of ... Read more

    R2 357,72

  • Language Attitudes and Identities in Multilingual China

    A Linguistic Ethnography

    by Sihua Liang ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    These in-depth case studies provide novel insights in to the fast-changing language situation in multilingual China, and how it changes the meanings of language identity and language learning. This linguistic ethnographic study of language attitudes and identities in contemporary China in the era of multilingualism provides a comprehensive and critical review of the state of the art in the field ... Read more

    R890,55

  • Captioned Media in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

    Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing as Tools for Language Learning

    by Robert Vanderplank ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book brings together current thinking on informal language learning and the findings of over 30 years of research on captions (same language subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing) to present a new model of language learning from captioned viewing and a future roadmap for research and practice in this field. Language learners may have normal hearing but they are ‘hard-of-listening’ and ... Read more

    R445,27

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Adult Mental Health

    Edited by Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Nina Lester ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This Handbook gathers together empirical and theoretical chapters from leading scholars and clinicians to examine the broad issue of adult mental health. The contributors draw upon data from a variety of contexts to illustrate the multiple ways in which language as action can assist us in better understanding the discursive practices that surround adult mental health. Conversation and discourse ... Read more

    R2 493,76

  • The Art of Interpretation in the Age of Computation

    by Paul Kockelman ...
    This book is about media, mediation, and meaning. The Art of Interpretation focuses on a set of interrelated processes whereby ostensibly human-specific modes of meaning become automated by machines, formatted by protocols, and networked by infrastructures. That is, as computation replaces interpretation, information effaces meaning, and infrastructure displaces interaction. Or so it seems. Paul ... Read more

    R1 513,62

  • Standardizing Minority Languages

    Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery

    Edited by Pia Lane, James Costa, Haley De Korne ...
    The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781138125124**, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.**This volume addresses a crucial, yet largely unaddressed dimension of minority language standardization, namely how social actors engage with, support, negotiate, resist and even reject such ... Read more

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