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Railway Discourse

Author : Esterino Adami
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527525554
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Railway Discourse written by Esterino Adami and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the train trope in a variety of cultural, literary and linguistic contexts, from contemporary crime fiction and dystopian graphic narratives to postcolonial railway travelogues, by employing a range of methods and frameworks. Situated within the “Discourse, Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics” collection, the book critically engages with significant areas such as discourse and narrative structure. Interpreting the railway as a powerful cultural and imaginary site in the English-speaking world that traverses a range of creative domains, this study explores the ways in which the train and its structures, symbols and metaphors are textually rendered and the type of stylistic effects they generate in readers. It introduces, frames and discusses the idea of railway discourse and focuses on specific case studies (The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, the graphic novel Snowpiercer and Monisha Rajesh’s Around India in 80 Trains). In particular, it considers how a compartment window can constrain, and shape, the point of view of a narrator, the way in which science fiction trains are conceptually imagined, and the intercultural implications of rail travel writing in India today. To analyse the role and meaning of the railway in these texts, and compare them with others, this work adopts and adapts analytical tools and critical concepts from the integration of different fields, such as stylistics and linguistics, postcolonial criticism and literary studies.

The Discourse of Customer Service Tweets

Author : Ursula Lutzky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350090700
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Discourse of Customer Service Tweets written by Ursula Lutzky and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Discourse of Customer Service Tweets studies the discursive and pragmatic features of customer service interactions, making use of a corpus of over 1.5 million tweets from more than thirty different companies. With Twitter being used as a professional service channel by many transport operators, this book features an empirical analysis of British and Irish train companies and airlines that provide updates and travel assistance on the platform, often on a 24/7 basis. From managing crises in the midst of strike action to ensuring passengers feel comfortable on board, Twitter allows transport operators to communicate with their customers in real time. Analysing patterns of language use as well as platform specific features for their communicative functions, Ursula Lutzky enhances our understanding of customers' linguistic expectations on Twitter and of what makes for successful or unsuccessful interaction. Of interest to anyone researching discourse analysis, business communication and social media, this book's findings pave the way for practical applications in customer service.

Analyzing Text and Discourse

Author : Anders Björkvall
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 1529679591
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Analyzing Text and Discourse written by Anders Björkvall and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choose the right methodological tools to answer your research question and know how to use them with this anthology of textual analysis approaches. Each chapter provides not only relevant theoretical background behind each methodology, but also its advantages and challenges, its potential applications, and its relationship to studying social phenomenon. Through step-by-step worked examples of real-world data, you get an in-depth window into each method in action and learn how to apply the same techniques successfully and confidently in your own research. Methods include: • Content analysis • Narrative analysis • Critical discourse studies • Multimodal discourse analysis

Discourse Analysis in Transport and Urban Development

Author : Robin Hickman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1802207201
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Discourse Analysis in Transport and Urban Development written by Robin Hickman and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-20 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on discourse analysis as an emerging field in transport and urban development, this innovative book takes a novel approach to examining the different interpretations, diversity of views and controversy in society.

The Great Indian Railways

Author : Arup K. Chatterjee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9388414233
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (884 download)

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Book Synopsis The Great Indian Railways by : Arup K. Chatterjee

Download or read book The Great Indian Railways written by Arup K. Chatterjee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following an experimental railway track at Chintadripet, in 1835, the battle for India's first railroad was fought bitterly between John Chapman's Great Indian Peninsular Railway and Rowland MacDonald Stephenson's East India Railway Company, which was merged with Dwarkanauth Tagore's Great Western of Bengal Railway. Even at the height of the Mutiny of 1857, Bahadur Shah Zafar promised Indian owned railway tracks for native merchants if Badshahi rule was restored in Delhi. From Jules Verne to Rudyard Kipling to Mark Twain to Rabindranath Tagore to Nirad C. Chaudhuri to R.K. Narayan and Ruskin Bond-the aura of Indian trains and railway stations have enchanted many writers and poets. With iconic cinematography from The Apu Trilogy, Aradhana, Sonar Kella, Sholay, Gandhi, Dil Se, Parineeta, Barfi, Gangs of Wasseypur, and numerous others, Indian cinema has paved the way for mythical railroads in the national psyche. The Great Indian Railways takes us on a historic adventure through many junctions of India's hidden railway legends, for the first time in a book replete with anecdotes from imperial politics, European and Indian accounts, the battlefronts of the Indian nationalist movement, Indian cinema, songs, advertisements, and much more, in an ever-expanding cultural biography of the Great Indian Railways. Dubbed as 'one of a kind' this awe-inspiring saga is 'compulsive reading.' 'In this fascinating cultural history, Arup K Chatterjee charts the extraordinary journey of the Indian Railways, from the laying of the very first sleeper to the first post-Independence bogey. It evokes our collective accumulation of those innumerable memories of platform chai and rail-gaadi stories, bringing alive through myriad voices and tales the biography of one of India's defining public institutions.' – Shashi Tharoor, Author, M.P., Lok Sabha 'The Great Indian Railways is a fascinating and well-researched cultural biography of the Indian Railways-those intricate arteries of the soul of India, as have been experienced, written, filmed, and dreamed. We cannot all travel by rail to know India, as Gandhiji did, but we can and should read this book!' – Tabish Khair, Author, Professor

Constraints in Discourse

Author : Anton Benz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027291438
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Constraints in Discourse written by Anton Benz and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a commonplace to say that the meaning of text is more than the conjunction of the meaning of its constituents. But what are the rules governing its interpretation, and what are the constraints that define well-formed discourse? Answers to these questions can be given from various perspectives. In this edited volume, leading scientists in the field investigate these questions from structural, cognitive, and computational perspectives. The last decades have seen the development of numerous formal frameworks in which the structure of discourse can be analysed, the most important of them being the Linguistic Discourse Model, Rhetorical Structure Theory and Segmented Discourse Representation Theory. This volume contains an introduction to these frameworks and the fundamental topics in research about discourse constraints. Thus it should be accessible to specialists in the field as well as advanced graduate students and researchers from neighbouring areas. The volume is of interest to discourse linguists, psycholinguists, cognitive scientists, and computational linguists.

Railway Travel in Modern Theatre

Author : Kyle Gillette
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786477768
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Railway Travel in Modern Theatre written by Kyle Gillette and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railway travel has had a significant influence on modern theatre's sense of space and time. Early in the 20th century, breakthroughs--ranging from F.T. Marinetti's futurist manifestos to epic theatre's use of the treadmill--explored the mechanical rhythms and perceptual effects of railway travel to investigate history, technology, and motion. After World War II, some playwrights and auteur directors, from Armand Gatti to Robert Wilson to Amiri Baraka, looked to locomotion not as a radically new space and time but as a reminder of obsolescence, complicity in the Holocaust, and its role in uprooting people from their communities. By analyzing theatrical representations of railway travel, this book argues that modern theatre's perceptual, historical and social productions of space and time were stretched by theatre's attempts to stage the locomotive.

Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction

Author : Manuela Romano
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027267227
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Discourse Strategies in Social and Cognitive Interaction written by Manuela Romano and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers readers interested in Discourse Analysis and/or Socio-Cognitive models of language a closer view of the relationship between discourse, cognition and society by disclosing how the cognitive mechanisms of discourse processing depend on shared knowledge and situated cognition. An inter- and multidisciplinary approach is proposed that combines theories and methodologies coming from Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Multimodal Metaphor Theory, Critical Discourse Analysis, Narratology, Systemic Functional Linguistics, Appraisal Theory, together with the most recent developments of Socio-Cognitive Linguistics, for the analysis of real communicative events, which range from TV reality shows, commercials, digital stories or political debates, to technical texts, architectural memorials, newspapers and autobiographical narratives. Still, several key notions are recurrent in all contributions -embodiment, multimodality, conceptual integration, metaphor, and creativity- as the fundamental constituents of discourse processing. It is only through this wide-ranging epistemological and empirical approach that the complexity of discourse strategies in real contexts, i.e. human communication, can be fully comprehended, and that discourse analysis and cognitive linguistics can be brought closer together.

Victorian Fiction and the Cult of the Horse

Author : Gina M. Dorré
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754655152
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Fiction and the Cult of the Horse written by Gina M. Dorré and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ubiquity of horses in literary texts, visual media, and other cultural documents indicates a vibrant cult of the horse during the Victorian Period. Treating the novels of Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Braddon, Anna Sewell, and George Moore, Gina M. Dorr

Speech of Hon. Milton S. Latham, on the Pacific Rail Road

Author : Milton Slocum Latham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speech of Hon. Milton S. Latham, on the Pacific Rail Road written by Milton Slocum Latham and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Railway and Modernity

Author : Matthew Beaumont
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039110247
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Railway and Modernity written by Matthew Beaumont and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most research and writing on railway history has been undertaken in a way that disconnects it from the wider cultural milieu. Authors have been very effective at constructing specialist histories of transport, but have failed to register the railway's central importance in the representation and understanding of modernity. This book brings together contributions from a range of established scholars in a variety of disciplines with the central purpose of exploring the railway less as a transport technology than as a key signifier of capitalist modernity. It examines the complex social relations in which the railway became historically embedded, identifying it as a central problematic in the cultural experience of modernity. It avoids the limitations of both the close-sighted empiricism typical of many transport historians and the long-sighted generalizations of cultural commentators who view the railway merely as a shorthand for the concept of progress over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book draws on a diverse range of materials, including literary and historical forms of representation. It is also informed by a creative application of various critical theories.

India's Railway History

Author : John Hurd II
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004231153
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book India's Railway History written by John Hurd II and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India has had operating railways for well-over 150 years: railways that have played a central and well-documented role in the making of India in the colonial and post-colonial eras. This handbook provides a reference guide for researchers interested in almost any facet of the history, colonial and post-colonial, of these railways. The secondary literature is identified and surveyed, primary sources and their locations identified, statistical and cartographic data discussed and presented, and a massive bibliography made available. This handbook is the indispensable tool for anyone seeking to understand India's railways and the roles they played in the making of modern India.

Africa’s Railway Renaissance

Author : Tim Zajontz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000919242
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Africa’s Railway Renaissance written by Tim Zajontz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the history, political economy and spatiality of Chinese railway projects in Africa. It examines the financial governance of Sino-African railway projects, their socio-cultural, political and economic effects as well as the regional dimension of Africa’s new railway architecture and its function within China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Leading and emerging scholars from Africa, China, Europe and the Americas offer interpretations through politicoeconomic, historical, geographical and post-colonial conceptual lenses. Case studies on projects in Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Zambia offer an empirically rich and cross-disciplinary picture of Sino-African railway developments at the micro-, meso- and macro-levels. Regional analyses on West and East Africa expose persistent obstacles to the regional integration of Africa’s railways. The volume outlines opportunities and challenges related to Africa’s railway renaissance in the post-COVID-19 global political economy and will be of great interest to academics, students and practitioners interested in Africa-China relations and their developmental effects or in the politics of infrastructure, spatial governance and the political economy of transport.

Environmental Issues in Political Discourse in Britain and Ireland

Author : Gilles Leydier
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144385283X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Environmental Issues in Political Discourse in Britain and Ireland by : Gilles Leydier

Download or read book Environmental Issues in Political Discourse in Britain and Ireland written by Gilles Leydier and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the political response to current environmental concerns in the context of the British Isles. How have the issues been assimilated by political parties? Which ones have been given priority? Who are the main actors and what is the role of ecologists? Answers to questions such as these are provided in this collective work, not only through valuable insights into the theories and concepts found in political ecology, but also with specific examination of present political debates, such as the Liberal Democrats’ stance, the question of nuclear energy or the salient issue of climate change. A recurring theme is the link between landscape and identity, explored in the contexts of Welsh, Scottish and Irish nationalisms. While this volume reveals some cases of genuine commitment and effective action, it also highlights discrepancies between statements of intent on the one hand and implemented policies on the other. The authors’ aim is to promote dialogue among politicians, experts and academics in the field of environmental issues, political and social sciences, linguistics and discourse.

Central Railway Chronicle

Author : Central Railway Club of Buffalo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central Railway Chronicle written by Central Railway Club of Buffalo and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Railway Times

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1366 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railway Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Railways, Urban Development and Town Planning in Britain: 1948–2008

Author : Russell Haywood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317071646
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Railways, Urban Development and Town Planning in Britain: 1948–2008 by : Russell Haywood

Download or read book Railways, Urban Development and Town Planning in Britain: 1948–2008 written by Russell Haywood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical overview of the relationships between planning and railway management and development during the key period in the 20th Century when the railway was in public ownership: 1948-94. It assesses the strength of the relationships when working in collaboration with the private sector. The book then focuses on the interplay between planning and railway since privatization in 1994 and points to best practice for the future in institutional structures and policy development to secure improved outcomes.