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Downscaling Culture

Author : Dorottya Cserző
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443898139
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Downscaling Culture by : Dorottya Cserző

Download or read book Downscaling Culture written by Dorottya Cserző and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the current era of globalisation, big-C Culture loses analytical purchase. However, research, as well as intercultural training and education, continues to take for granted a more or less fixed idea of culture. This volume updates intercultural communication, both its theory and its application, by utilising a theory of scales in order to understand how culture gets contextualised as speakers communicate and negotiate meaning with each other. As succinctly captured in the title of this volume, it is suggested that research can ‘downscale culture’ analytically: culture might be, but also might not be, relevant in an interaction. The 14 chapters brought together here explore the possibilities of such downscaling from a wide range of core themes in intercultural communication studies and from various research traditions, including interactional sociolinguistics, critical geography, conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, textual analysis, multimodal analysis and nexus analysis.

Applying Linguistics in Illness and Healthcare Contexts

Author : Zsófia Demjén
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350057673
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Applying Linguistics in Illness and Healthcare Contexts by : Zsófia Demjén

Download or read book Applying Linguistics in Illness and Healthcare Contexts written by Zsófia Demjén and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All aspects of illness and healthcare are mediated by language: experiences of illness, death and healthcare provision are talked and written about (face-to-face or online), while medical consultations, research interviews, public health communications and even some diagnostic instruments are all inherently linguistic in nature. How we talk to, about and for each other in such a sensitive context has consequences for our relationships, our sense of self, how we understand and reason about our health, as well as for the quality care we receive. Yet, linguistic analysis has been conspicuously absent from the mainstream of medical education, health communication training and even the medical or health humanities. The chapters in this volume bring together applied linguistic work using discourse analysis, corpus methods, conversation analysis, metaphor analysis, cognitive linguistics, multiculturalism research, interactional sociolinguistics, narrative analysis, and (im)politeness to make sense of a variety of international healthcare contexts and situations. These include: -clinician-patient interactions -receptionist-patient interactions -online support forums -online counselling -public health communication -media representations -medical accounts -diagnostic tools and definitions -research interviews with doctors and patients The volume demonstrates how linguistic analysis can not only improve understandings of the lived-experience of different illnesses, but also has implications for communications training, disease prevention, treatment and self-management, the effectiveness of public health messaging, access to appropriate care, professional mobility and professional terminology, among others.

Social Media Discourse, (Dis)identifications and Diversities

Author : Sirpa Leppanen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317230132
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Book Synopsis Social Media Discourse, (Dis)identifications and Diversities by : Sirpa Leppanen

Download or read book Social Media Discourse, (Dis)identifications and Diversities written by Sirpa Leppanen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume serves as an in-depth investigation of the diversity of means and practices that constitute (dis)identification and identity construction in social media. Given the increasing prevalence of social media in everyday life and the subsequent growing diversity in the types of participants and forms of participation, the book makes the case for a rigorous analysis of social media discourses and digital literacy practices to demonstrate the range of semiotic resources used in online communication that form the foundation of (dis)identification processes. Divided into two major sections, delineating between the (dis)identification of the self across various social categories and the (dis)identification of the self in relation to the "other", the book employs a discourse-ethnographic approach to highlight the value of this type of theoretical framework in providing nuanced descriptions of identity construction in social media and illuminating their larger, long-term societal and cultural implications. This volume is a key resource for researchers, and students in sociolinguistics, discourse studies, computer-mediated communication, and cultural studies.

Art in Diverse Social Settings

Author : Susana Gonçalves
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800438966
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Art in Diverse Social Settings by : Susana Gonçalves

Download or read book Art in Diverse Social Settings written by Susana Gonçalves and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume examines the important and multi-varied role that art plays in today’s diverse society. Built on a multidisciplinary and dialogical approach, the book brings together the views of scholars and artists from around the world to explore central questions relating to the purpose(s) art services in contemporary, pluralistic societies.

Transcultural Voices

Author : Jaspal Naveel Singh
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1788928156
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (889 download)

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Book Synopsis Transcultural Voices by : Jaspal Naveel Singh

Download or read book Transcultural Voices written by Jaspal Naveel Singh and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the narratives and voices of young, mostly male practitioners of hip hop culture in Delhi, India. The author suggests that practitioners understand hip hop as both a thing that can be appropriated and authenticated, made real, in the local and global context and as a way that enables them to transform their lives and futures in the rapidly globalising urban environments of Delhi. The dancers, artists, musicians and cultural theorists that feature in this book construct a multitude of voices in their narratives to formulate their ‘own’ transcultural voices within global hip hop. Through a combination of linguistic ethnography, sociolinguistics and discourse studies, the book addresses issues including gender and sexuality, identity construction and global culture.

The Aesthetics and Politics of Linguistic Borders

Author : Heidi Grönstrand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429536429
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Book Synopsis The Aesthetics and Politics of Linguistic Borders by : Heidi Grönstrand

Download or read book The Aesthetics and Politics of Linguistic Borders written by Heidi Grönstrand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection showcases a multivalent approach to the study of literary multilingualism, embodied in contemporary Nordic literature. While previous approaches to literary multilingualism have tended to take a textual or authorship focus, this book advocates for a theoretical perspective which reflects the multiplicity of languages in use in contemporary literature emerging from increased globalization and transnational interaction. Drawing on a multimodal range of examples from contemporary Nordic literature, these eighteen chapters illustrate the ways in which multilingualism is dynamic rather than fixed, resulting from the interactions between authors, texts, and readers as well as between literary and socio-political institutions. The book highlights the processes by which borders are formed within the production, circulation, and reception of literature and in turn, the impact of these borders on issues around cultural, linguistic, and national belonging. Introducing an innovative approach to the study of multilingualism in literature, this collection will be of particular interest to students and researchers in literary studies, cultural studies, and multilingualism.

Church in Life

Author : Michael Moynagh
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532649886
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Book Synopsis Church in Life by : Michael Moynagh

Download or read book Church in Life written by Michael Moynagh and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church in Life breaks fresh ground by proposing a new framework for thinking about innovation in the church, by arguing that starting new ecclesial communities should be at the centre of the church’s life and thought, and by offering new theology and methodologies for church planting. Church planters will find in it the theoretical and practical resources for a radical missional ecclesiology, while theologians will find a nuanced reworking of the purpose and nature of the church.

Visualizing Digital Discourse

Author : Crispin Thurlow
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501510118
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Visualizing Digital Discourse by : Crispin Thurlow

Download or read book Visualizing Digital Discourse written by Crispin Thurlow and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first dedicated volume of its kind, Visualizing Digital Discourse brings together sociolinguists and discourse analysts examining the role of visual communication in digital media. The volume showcases work from leading, established and emerging scholars from across Europe, covering a diverse range of digital media platforms such as messaging, video-chat, gaming and wikis; visual modalities such as emojis, video and layout; methodologies like discourse analysis, ethnography and conversation analysis; as well as data from different languages. With an opening chapter by Rodney Jones, the volume is organized into three parts: Besides Words and Writing, The Social Life of Images, and Designing Multimodal Texts. From the perspective of these broad domains, chapters tackle some of the major ideological, interactional and institutional implications of visuality for digital discourse studies. The first part, beginning with a co-authored chapter by Crispin Thurlow, focuses on micro-level visual practices and their macro-level framing – all with particular regard for emojis. The second part, beginning with a chapter from Sirpa Leppänen, examines the ways visual resources are used for managing personal relations, and the wider cultural politics of visual representation in these practices. The third part, beginning with a chapter by Hartmut Stöckl, considers organizational contexts where users deploy visual resources for more transactional, often commercial ends.

The Sociolinguistics of Hip-hop as Critical Conscience

Author : Andrew S. Ross
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319592440
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sociolinguistics of Hip-hop as Critical Conscience by : Andrew S. Ross

Download or read book The Sociolinguistics of Hip-hop as Critical Conscience written by Andrew S. Ross and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book adopts a sociolinguistic perspective to trace the origins and enduring significance of hip-hop as a global tool of resistance to oppression. The contributors, who represent a range of international perspectives, analyse how hip-hop is employed to express dissatisfaction and dissent relating to such issues as immigration, racism, stereotypes and post-colonialism. Utilising a range of methodological approaches, they shed light on diverse hip-hop cultures and practices around the world, highlighting issues of relevance in the different countries from which their research originates. Together, the authors expand on current global understandings of hip-hop, language and culture, and underline its immense power as a form of popular culture through which the disenfranchised and oppressed can gain and maintain a voice. This thought-provoking edited collection is a must-read for scholars and students of linguistics, race studies and political activism, and for anyone with an interest in hip-hop.

Global Hiphopography

Author : Quentin Williams
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031219554
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Global Hiphopography written by Quentin Williams and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a range of hip hop scholars, artists and activists working on Hip Hop in the Global North and South with the goal of advancing Hiphopographic research as a critical methodology with critical fieldwork methods that can provide a critical perspective of our world. The authors’ focus in this volume is to present an anthology of essays that expand the remit of Hiphopography as an approach to the study of Hip Hop that is not only sensitive to the social, economic, political and cultural lives of Hip Hop Culture participants as interpreters and theorists, but one that continues to humanize the “whole person” behind the decks, on the mic, rocking on the linoleum floor, painting in front of a wall, and seeking that Knowledge of Self. This book will be relevant to Hip Hop scholars in fields such as cultural studies and history, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and ethnography, and race studies, while Hip Hop heads themselves will find parts of this book that represent their culture in ethical and informative ways.

New Studies in Multimodality

Author : Ognyan Seizov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350026522
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book New Studies in Multimodality written by Ognyan Seizov and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multimodality is one of the most popular and influential semiotic theories for analysing media. However, the application and conceptual anchoring of multimodality often remains geographically and disciplinarily grounded within local systems of thought. New Studies in Multimodality combines the expertise of multimodalists from around the globe, offering novel readings and applications of central concepts in multimodality and inviting innovative synergies between previously disparate schools. Combining perspectives from the most actively developing traditions of theory and research, this book progresses from classic concepts to more empirically and practice-motivated contributions. Contributors engage in mutual dialogue to present new theoretical perspectives and compelling applications to a variety of old and new media. Expanding the basis and scope of multimodality, this volume shows awareness and experience of this field in many disciplines and illustrates how versatile, pervasive and relevant it is for studying today's communication phenomena.

Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration

Author : Mirjana Lozanovska
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317572785
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Book Synopsis Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration by : Mirjana Lozanovska

Download or read book Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration written by Mirjana Lozanovska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration explores the interface between migration and architecture. Cities have been substantially affected by transnational migration but the physical manifestations of migration in architecture – and its effect on streetscape, neighbourhood and city – have so far been understudied. This contributed volume examines how migrants interact with, adapt, and construct new architecture. Looking at the physical, urban and cultural impact of these changes on a variety of sites, the authors explore architecture as an identity category and investigate what buildings and places associated with migration tell us about central questions of belonging, culture, community, and home in regions such as North America, Australia and the UK. An important contribution to debates on place identity and the transformation of places as a result of mobility and globalised economies in the 21st century.

Public Representations of Immigrants in Museums

Author : Yannik Porsché
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319663577
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Public Representations of Immigrants in Museums written by Yannik Porsché and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an interactionist perspective on theories of public representation, knowledge and immigration in museum institutions. Examining how a Franco-German museum exhibition represents immigrants and exposes public stereotypes, the analysis follows the process of the production and reception of the exhibition as it travelled from Paris to Berlin. The author proposes a microsociological contextualisation analysis integrating discourse analysis and ethnography to compare formats of museum work, social interaction in the exhibition and mass media debates. Visitor reception of the different exhibition versions reveals the symbolic nature of interactions in museums, for example concerning conflicting political voices and accusations of censorship. Depending on the institutional context, interactions in the museums are geared towards securing immigrants a place in national collective memory, towards carrying out debate on integration, or providing opportunities for personal encounters and reflection beyond national categorisation. This book will appeal to students and researchers interested in work on the intersection of sociology, cultural studies, and discursive psychology, in methods of discourse analysis and ethnography; and to practitioners working in museums.

The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World

Author : Martin J. Ball
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000901963
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World written by Martin J. Ball and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on examples from a wide range of languages and social settings, The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World was originally the first single-volume collection surveying the current research trends in international sociolinguistics. This new edition has been comprehensively updated and significantly expanded, and now includes more than 50 chapters written by leading authorities and a brand-new substantial introduction by John Edwards. Coverage has been expanded regionally and there is a critical focus on Indigenous languages. This handbook remains a key tool to help widen the perspective on sociolinguistics to readers interested in the field. Divided into sections covering the Americas, Asia, Australasia, Africa, and Europe, the book provides readers with a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field of sociolinguistics in each area. It clearly explains the patterns and systematicity that underlie language variation in use, along with the ways in which alternations between different language varieties mark personal style, social power, and national identity. The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World is the ideal resource for all students in undergraduate sociolinguistics courses and for researchers involved in the study of language, society, and power.

Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics

Author : Akila Sellami-Baklouti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315299852
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Book Synopsis Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics by : Akila Sellami-Baklouti

Download or read book Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics written by Akila Sellami-Baklouti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars highlighting the "appliability" of Systemic Functional Linguistics and the ways in which theoretical and analytical conclusions drawn from its applications can inform and advance the study of language. The book discusses SFL’s theoretical foundations and development in recent years to demonstrate its evolution into a more effective analytical tool. Building on this theoretical framework, the volume showcases the theory’s applications in case studies exploring four sub-disciplines of language study: multilingual studies; translation studies; language learning and language teaching; and genre analysis. This all-inclusive volume demonstrates both Systemic Functional Linguistics’ efficacy as a means of theoretical analysis, but also its value as a unique approach to the study of language and meaning, making this an indispensable resource for researchers and scholars in applied linguistics, discourse analysis, genre studies, translation studies, and multilingualism.

Critical Policy Discourse Analysis

Author : Nicolina Montesano Montessori
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788974964
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (889 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Policy Discourse Analysis by : Nicolina Montesano Montessori

Download or read book Critical Policy Discourse Analysis written by Nicolina Montesano Montessori and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a series of contemporary and international policy case studies analysed through discursive methodological approaches in the traditions of critical discourse analysis, social semiotics and discourse theory. This is the first volume that connects this discursive methodology systematically to the field of critical policy analysis and will therefore be an essential book for researchers who wish to include a discursive analysis in their critical policy research.

National Medievalism in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Matthias D. Berger
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843846578
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis National Medievalism in the Twenty-First Century by : Matthias D. Berger

Download or read book National Medievalism in the Twenty-First Century written by Matthias D. Berger and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How ideas and ideals of an imagined, protean, national Middle Ages have once again become a convergence point for anxieties about politics, history and cultural identity in our time - and why. After a period of abeyance, the link forged in the nineteenth century between the Middle Ages and national identity is increasingly being reclaimed, with numerous groups and individuals mining an imagined medieval past to present ideas and ideals of modern nationhood. Today's national medievalism asserts itself at the interface of culture and politics: in literature and television programming, in journalism and heritage tourism, and in the way political actors of various stripes use a deep past that supposedly proves the nation's steady exceptionalism in a hectic globalised world. This book traces these ongoing developments in Switzerland and Britain, two countries where the medieval past has recently been much invoked in negotiations of national identity, independence and Euroscepticism. Through comparative analysis, it explores examples of reemerging stories of national exceptionalism - stories that, ironically, echo those of other nations. The author analyses depictions of Robert the Bruce and Wilhelm Tell; medievalism in the discourse surrounding Brexit as well as at the Welsh Senedd; novels like Paul Kingsnorth's The Wake; community-based art such as the Great Tapestry of Scotland; and elaborate public commemorations of Swiss victories (and defeats) in battle. Basing his critical readings in current theories of cultural memory, heritage and nationalism, the author explores how the protean national Middle Ages have once again become a convergence point for anxieties about politics, history and cultural identity in our time - and why.