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The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics

Author : John Douthwaite
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027264600
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics written by John Douthwaite and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In treating the topic of the landscapes of stylistics, this book provides a series of chapters which deal not only with physical landscapes but also with social, mental, historical portraits of places, people and society. The chapters demonstrate that all texts project a worldview, even when the content appears to be only a physical description of the external world. The implication is that texts attempt to produce specific effects on the reader determined by the author’s worldview. Contents and effects, (namely mental and emotional states, behaviours), are thus inseparable. Identifying those effects and how they are produced is an eminently cognitive operation. The chapters analyse a variety of linguistic devices and cognitive mechanisms employed in producing the text and accounting for the effects achieved. Though the majority of the chapters have a cognitive basis, a wide range of methodologies are employed, including ecostylistics, offering cutting-edge theoretical approaches teamed up with close reading. A further crucial feature of this collection is the selection of non-canonical texts, ranging from lesser-known texts in English to significant works in languages other than English, all of which are characterised by important social themes, thus emphasising the importance of critical appreciation as a means of self-empowerment.

Ecological Stylistics

Author : Daniela Francesca Virdis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303110658X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Ecological Stylistics written by Daniela Francesca Virdis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects the cutting edge in ecostylistic approaches to nature, the environment and sustainability as represented in contemporary non-literary discourse. Firstly, the book presents the ecolinguistic and stylistic terms and theories applied in this ecostylistic analysis (ecosophy, beneficial, ambivalent and destructive discourses; and foregrounding, point of view, metaphor), and reviews the most recent literature in the field of ecostylistics. Secondly, the book examines the occurrences of five marker words (nature, environment, ecosystem, ecology, sustainability) on the websites of five environmental organisations and agencies (Forestry England, Greenpeace International, National Park Service, Navdanya International, World Wide Fund for Nature). The main research purpose of this study is to identify beneficial discourses in the environet and to investigate the beneficial ecostylistic strategies utilised to produce them. Above all, this book reminds us humans that we do not stand apart from nature: we are a part of it. The book will be of interest to scholars of stylistics, ecolinguistics and ecocriticism, as well as scholars of discourse analysis, environmental communication and environmental humanities.

Language in Place

Author : Daniela Francesca Virdis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027260168
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Language in Place written by Daniela Francesca Virdis and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in this collection offer a wide range of stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, by focusing on a variety of text-types ranging from poetry, the Bible, fictional and non-fictional prose, to newspaper articles, condo names, online texts and exhibitions. Employing both established and cutting-edge methodologies from, among others, corpus linguistics, metaphor studies, Text World Theory and ecostylistics, the eleven chapters in the volume provide an overview of how landscape, place and environment are encoded and can be investigated in literary and non-literary discourse. The studies collected here stand as evidence of the possibility of, and the need for, a “stylistics of landscape”, which emphasises how represented spaces are made manifest linguistically; a “stylistics of place”, which focuses on the discursive and affective qualities of those represented spaces; and a “stylistics of environment”, which reiterates the urgency for environmentally-responsible humanities, able to support a change in the anthropocentric narrative which poses humans as the most important variable in the human-animal and human-environment relationships.

Mediterranean Heritage in Transit

Author : Lucia Abbamonte
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443889636
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Mediterranean Heritage in Transit written by Lucia Abbamonte and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is mainly within and around Mediterranean itineraries that the European Union seeks its in/tangible cultural heritage, an important component of both individual and collective identities. This volume brings together many different strands of analysis, helping to shed light on the multifaceted entities that constitute the socio-semiotic landscape of the Mediterranean. It views this vibrant scenario from a cross-cultural perspective, and investigates the domains of national identities and stereotypes, advertising and social media, TV series, myths and festivals, landscapes, culture-bound terms, migrating words, and food. More specifically, some chapters revolve around issues of intra-/inter-group identities in the context of itineraries of recent or historical migrations, and how such variegated identities are re-shaped by and through the media, in a dynamic interplay of symbols and clichés. In the same vein, gender issues are also addressed in a dimension suspended between tradition and modernity, with a special focus on Turkish women. The multi-dimensional Turkish culture and landscape are also voiced through an example of blended American/Turkish children’s literature. Other chapters explore the language of tourism in the diverse multimodal representations and textualizations of the tourist experience in Mediterranean destinations, mainly expressed through social media. The contemporary appreciation of the Mediterranean Diet as a global cultural heritage is also explored through the magnifying lens of such media. Given the variety of perspectives and methodological approaches adopted by the contributors, this volume offers useful insights to students and practitioners of discourse analysis alike. From an educational perspective, the book, which also includes practical worksheets, can be used in first- and second-level degrees in Foreign Languages, Communication, Political Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, as well as specific courses in linguistics, multimodal studies, critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. The underlying rationale of the book is its concentration on the prominent role of English in representing the Mediterranean heritage, despite the fact that it is a non-Mediterranean language. At the same time, the volume bridges the gap between academic research and class practice at the university level.

The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis

Author : Michael Handford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000860876
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis written by Michael Handford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis covers the major approaches to discourse analysis from critical discourse analysis to multimodal discourse analysis and their applications in key educational and institutional settings. The handbook is divided into eight sections: Approaches to Discourse Analysis, Gender, Race and Sexualities, Narrativity and Discourse, Genre and Register, Spoken Discourse, Social Media and Online Discourse, Educational Applications and Institutional Applications. The chapters are written by a wide range of contributors from around the world, each a leading researcher in their respective field. With a focus on the application of discourse analysis to real-life problems, the contributors introduce the reader to a topic and analyse authentic data. This fully revised second edition includes new sections on Gender, Race and Sexualities, Narrativity and Discourse, Genre and Register, Spoken Discourse, Social Media and Online Discourse and nine new chapters on topics such as digital communication and public policy and political discourse. This volume is vital reading for all students and researchers of discourse analysis in linguistics, applied linguistics, communication and cultural studies, social psychology and anthropology.

Researching Metaphors

Author : Michele Prandi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000606449
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Researching Metaphors written by Michele Prandi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection advocates for a more holistic picture of metaphor, extending the field’s focus beyond the cognitive paradigm and conventional metaphorical concepts to illustrate the possibilities afforded by the study of living metaphors. The volume brings together a diverse range of researchers in the discipline towards critically examining the presuppositions of the cognitive approach. The book shines a light on living metaphors – creative interpretations of conflictual meaning specific to a text or communicative act with their own unique functions – to throw into relief long-held tenets in existing metaphor research. Chapters reflect on the notion that creative metaphors spring from independent sources, not merely from metaphorical concepts, and the subsequent implications for our understanding of the relationship between linguistic forms and conceptual structures and the role of creative metaphors in organizing thought and action. Taken together, the book offers a complementary vision of languages and figures which integrates disparate lines of study within the cognitive paradigm with alternative perspectives for a more comprehensive portrait of metaphors. This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in the study of metaphor, including such disciplines as theoretical linguistics, cognitive linguistics, semantics, literary studies, and philosophy of language.

The Poetics of Ekphrasis

Author : Maria-Eirini Panagiotidou
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031113136
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Ekphrasis written by Maria-Eirini Panagiotidou and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a stylistic and cognitive poetic account of ekphrastic poetry (poetry whose subject matter is predominantly artworks and images), examining the linguistic processes through which works of art can become literary objects. The author sheds light on the workings of ekphrasis at a textual level, while also considering the cognitive and psychological effects of reading ekphrastic poems, developing cognitive and stylistic analytical frameworks grounded on the four principles that govern ekphrasis: representation, narrativization, transposition, and collaboration. This book will be of interest to academics and practitioners in various fields, including literary critics, art critics, rhetoricians, poets, visual artists, and stylisticians.

Ecological Communication and Ecoliteracy

Author : Maria Bortoluzzi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350335843
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Ecological Communication and Ecoliteracy written by Maria Bortoluzzi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access volume is a call for ecological awareness and action through communication. It offers perspectives on how we, as humans, posit ourselves in relation to, and as part of, the environment in both verbal and non-verbal discourse. The contributions investigate a variety of situated communicative practices and how they instantiate and potentially influence our actions. Through the frameworks of ecolinguistics, multimodal studies and ecoliteracy, the book discusses how the environmental crisis is communicated as an urgent global and local issue in a variety of media, texts and events. The contributions present a wide range of case studies (including news articles, institutional websites, artwork installations, promotional texts, signposting, social campaigns and other), and they explore how communicative actions can help meet the challenges of ecologically-oriented change. The focus is on the impact that linguistic and multimodal communication can have on acting in, with and towards the environment seen as living ecosystems, or 'lifescapes'. The chapters offer a reflection on the way we experience, endorse, reframe and resist value systems in ecological communication, and propose alternative and healthier perspectives to respect and preserve the common and nurturing lifescapes through awareness and action. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

The Linguistics of Crime

Author : John Douthwaite
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108571670
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Linguistics of Crime written by John Douthwaite and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, this book explores the analysis of crime-related language. Drawing on ideas from stylistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, metaphor theory, critical discourse analysis, multimodality, corpus linguistics, and intertextuality, it compares and contrasts the linguistic representation of crime across a range of genres, both fictitious (crime novels, and crime in TV, film and music), and in real life (crime reporting, prison discourse, and statements used in courts). It touches on current political topics like #BlackLivesMatter, human (child) trafficking, and the genocide of the Kurds among others, making it essential reading for linguists, criminologists and those with a general interest in crime-related topics alike. Covering a variety of text genres and methodological approaches, and united by the aim of deciphering how crime is portrayed ideologically, this book is the next step in developing research at the intersection of linguistics, criminology, literature and media studies.

Self-Reflective Fiction and 4E Cognition

Author : Merja Polvinen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000818160
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Self-Reflective Fiction and 4E Cognition written by Merja Polvinen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the study of self-reflective fiction and the contemporary 4E theories of cognition in order to challenge existing cognitive-theoretical models and approaches to literary phenomena. Polvinen presents reflective attention on artifice as an integral part of engagement with fictional narratives, rather than as an external viewpoint that would obscure immersive experiences. The detailed analyses included are both of traditionally metafictional texts by John Barth, A.S. Byatt, Dave Eggers, and Ali Smith, as well as of speculative fictions by Ted Chiang, China Miéville, Christopher Priest, and Catherynne M. Valente. Each of the chapters focuses on a specific issue of fictional cognition: on metaphorical representation, spatiality, temporality, and fictionality. As a whole, the book argues that by combining a literary and theoretically complex view of artifice with the enactive paradigm of perception and imagination, practitioners of cognitive literary studies can further sharpen their own conceptual and terminological apparatus and continue to generate fruitful hermeneutic circulation around the study of the imagination in both the sciences and the humanities. This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in cognitive approaches to literary studies, speculative fiction, metafiction, and narrative studies.

The Language of Contemporary Poetry

Author : Lesley Jeffries
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031097491
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Contemporary Poetry written by Lesley Jeffries and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a new way of looking at how poems mean, drawing on the framework first developed in the author’s book Critical Stylistics, but applied here to aesthetic more than ideological meaning. The aim is to empower readers of poetry to articulate the features of poetic language that they come across and explain to themselves and others why these features convey the meanings that they do. While this volume focuses on contemporary poets writing in English and mostly based in the UK and Ireland, the framework will work just as well for other eras’ poetry, as well as for other cultures and languages.

Dickens and the Italians in 'Pictures from Italy'

Author : Germana Cubeta
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030474291
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Dickens and the Italians in 'Pictures from Italy' written by Germana Cubeta and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores Dickens’s perception of Italy as it appears in the travel book Pictures from Italy. Corpus methodologies, alongside the notion of intersectionality, display the writer’s multi-faceted interpretation of the Italians and his efforts to highlight their multidimensionality and heterogeneity. The book debates that Pictures from Italy departs from conventions – it investigates the function of travel in the construction of Italian identity and discusses Dickens’s relationship with Italy. Corpus linguistics methodologies analyse the language of the book and shed newlight on the relationship between body language and culture.

The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory

Author : Paul Dawson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100057637X
Total Pages : 781 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory written by Paul Dawson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory brings together top scholars in the field to explore the significance of narrative to pressing social, cultural, and theoretical issues. How does narrative both inform and limit the way we think today? From conspiracy theories and social media movements to racial politics and climate change future scenarios, the reach is broad. This volume is distinctive for addressing the complicated relations between the interdisciplinary narrative turn in the academy and the contemporary boom of instrumental storytelling in the public sphere. The scholars collected here explore new theories of causality, experientiality, and fictionality; challenge normative modes of storytelling; and offer polemical accounts of narrative fiction, nonfiction, and video games. Drawing upon the latest research in areas from cognitive sciences to complexity theory, the volume provides an accessible entry point for those new to the myriad applications of narrative theory and a point of departure for new scholarship.

Communicating English in Specialised Domains

Author : Stefania Maci
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527545032
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Communicating English in Specialised Domains written by Stefania Maci and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to Maurizio Gotti, in honour of his long and noteworthy academic career. Having served as Full Professor of History of the English Language and of English Language and Translation for more than two decades at the University of Bergamo, Italy, Gotti made significant contributions to multiple areas of study including specialized discourses, lexicography, history of the English language and language teaching. This wide-ranging collection brings together essays from these fields of enquiry authored by scholars whose academic input have interacted in various ways with ideas and topics introduced or extensively discussed by Gotti. The contributions are grouped into four theme-based sections representing the main threads in Gotti’s research, from the macro area of specialised discourse to the more specific fields of research in academic and legal languages, while the fourth section includes contributions dealing with the history of English language, and is followed by a miscellaneous section which concludes the collection.

Contemporary Stylistics

Author : Marina Lambrou
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441183841
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Stylistics written by Marina Lambrou and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Two Dimensions of Meaning

Author : Andrew Goatly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000600181
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Two Dimensions of Meaning written by Andrew Goatly and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book takes as its point of departure the notion that similarity and contiguity are fundamental to meaning. It shows how they manifest in oral, literate, print, and internet cultures, in language acquisition, pragmatics, dialogism, classification, the semantics of grammar, literature, and, most centrally, metaphor and metonymy. The book situates these reflections on similarity and contiguity in the interplay of language, cognition, culture, and ideology, and within broader debates around such issues as capitalism, biodiversity, and human control over nature. Positing that while similarity-focused systems can be reductive, and have therefore been contested in social science, philosophy, and poetry, and contiguity-based ones might disregard useful statistical and scientific evidence, Andrew Goatly argues for the need for humans to entertain diverse metaphors, models, and languages as ways of understanding and acting on our world. The volume also considers the cognitive connections between the similarity-contiguity duality and the noun-verb distinction. This innovative volume will appeal to scholars involved in wider debates on meaning, within the fields of cognitive semantics, pragmatics, metaphor and metonymy theory, critical discourse analysis, and the philosophy of language. Equally, the motivated and intelligent general reader, interested in language, philosophy, culture, and ecology, should find the later chapters of the book fascinating, and the earlier technical chapters accessible.

Reterritorializing Linguistic Landscapes

Author : David Malinowski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350077984
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Reterritorializing Linguistic Landscapes written by David Malinowski and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historically, spatially and methodologically rich sub-field of sociolinguistics, Linguistic Landscapes (LL) is a rapidly evolving area of research and study. With contributions by an international team of experts from the USA, Europe, the UK, South Africa, Israel, Hong Kong and Colombia, this volume is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary account of the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in this area. It covers both the conceptual tools and methodologies used to define and question, and case studies of real-world phenomena to showcase Linguistic Landscapes methods in action. Divided into four parts, chapters bring into dialogue themes relating to reterritorialization practices and the productive nature of boundaries and spaces. This book considers the contemporary challenges facing the field, the politics and processes of identifying and demarcating 'sites of research', and the ethics and pedagogical applications of LL research. With comprehensive lists of further reading, extended discussion questions and suggestions for independent research at the end of each chapter, this is an essential reference work for all LL scholars and students who wish to keep abreast of the current state of the art.