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Perspectives on Pantomime

Edited by Przemysław Żywiczyński, Johan Blomberg and Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska

Pantomime is a unique form of communication, which we improvise “on the fly” to transmit information when unable to use language, for example during intercultural contacts or when the use of language is blocked or constrained, as in the case of some medical conditions or the game of charades.… read more

[Advances in Interaction Studies, 12] 2024. v, 244 pp.

The Promise of Dialogue: The dialogic turn in the production and communication of knowledge

Louise Phillips

It has become commonplace to employ dialogue-based approaches in producing and communicating knowledge in diverse fields. Here, “dialogue” has become a buzzword that promises democratic, participatory processes of mutual learning and knowledge co-production. But what does “dialogue” actually entail… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 12] 2011. x, 198 pp.

Applied Cultural Linguistics: Implications for second language learning and intercultural communication

Edited by Farzad Sharifian † and Gary B. Palmer

Research in the relatively new field of cultural linguistics has implications for second language learning and intercultural communication. This volume is the first of its kind to bring together studies that examine the implications for applied programs of research in these domains. Collectively,… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 7] 2007. xiv, 170 pp.

Analysing Citizenship Talk: Social positioning in political and legal decision-making processes

Edited by Heiko Hausendorf and Alfons Bora

Citizenship talk refers to various types of discourse initiated to make citizens take part in politically and socially contested decision-making processes (‘citizen participation’). ‘Citizenship’ has, accordingly, become one of the dazzling key words whenever the democratic deficit of modern… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 19] 2006. viii, 368 pp.

Beyond Misunderstanding: Linguistic analyses of intercultural communication

Edited by Kristin Bührig and Jan D. ten Thije

This book challenges two tacit presumptions in the field of intercultural communication research. Firstly, misunderstandings can frequently be found in intercultural communication, although, one could not claim that intercultural communication is constituted by misunderstandings alone. This volume… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 144] 2006. vi, 339 pp.

Mediating Ideology in Text and Image: Ten critical studies

Edited by Inger Lassen, Jeanne Strunck and Torben Vestergaard

While ideology has been treated widely in CDA-literature, the role played by the interaction of text and image in multiplying meaning and furthering ideological stances has not so far received a lot of attention. Mediating Ideology in Text and Image offers a number of approaches to such analysis,… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 18] 2006. xii, 254 pp.

Perspectives on Localization

Edited by Keiran J. Dunne

Over the past two decades, international trade agreements such as GATT and NAFTA have lowered international trade barriers. At the same time, the information revolution has fueled profound shifts in the ways companies conduct business and communicate with their customers, and worldwide acceptance… read more

[American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series, XIII] 2006. vi, 356 pp.

The Spiral of ‘Anti-Other Rhetoric’: Discourses of identity and the international media echo

Élisabeth Le

How do media inform our representations of the Other and how does this influence intercultural / international relations? While officially dialogues between different national societies are conducted by diplomats in bilateral and multilateral settings, in practice journalists also participate every… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 22] 2006. xii, 280 pp.

Text features which enable cognitive strategies during text comprehension

Edited by Herre van Oostendorp

Special issue of Information Design Journal 14:1 (2006) 100 pp.

Argumentation in Practice

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Peter Houtlosser

Since the late 1950s the study of argumentation has developed from a marginal part of logic and rhetoric into a genuine interdisciplinary academic discipline. After having first been primarily concerned with creating an adequate philosophical perspective on argumentation, argumentation theorists… read more

[Controversies, 2] 2005. viii, 368 pp.

Identifying information and tenor in texts

Edited by Luuk Lagerwerf, Wilbert Spooren and Liesbeth Degand

Special issue of Information Design Journal 13:1 (2005) 96 pp.

Multiple Case Narrative: A qualitative approach to studying multiple populations

Asher Shkedi

This book introduces a methodology for the construction of a comprehensive narrative description and narrative-based theory from the study of multiple populations. The book has two parallel foci. On the one hand, it is a conceptual treatise, focusing on the principles of the Multiple Case Narrative. read more

[Studies in Narrative, 7] 2005. xvi, 210 pp.

Narrative Interaction

Edited by Uta M. Quasthoff and Tabea Becker

Telling stories in conversations is intricately interwoven with the interactive and local functions of story telling. Telling stories demands a certain kind of context and in itself establishes a particular interactive reality. Thus, narration is a specific kind of verbal interaction, governed by… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 5] 2005. vi, 306 pp.

Racism and Discourse in Spain and Latin America

Teun A. van Dijk

This new book extends Teun A. van Dijk’s earlier research on discursive racism to the Latin world. He presents a first inventory of elite discourse and racism in Spain and Latin America by examining discursive reactions in Spain to recent immigration, as well as age-old racism and ethnicism in text… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 14] 2005. xii, 198 pp.

The Sociolinguistics of Narrative

Edited by Joanna Thornborrow and Jennifer Coates

This book aims to appraise sociolinguistic work devoted to the form and function of storytelling and to examine in detail the ways in which narrative constitutes a fundamental discursive resource across a range of contexts. The chapters presented here bring together some of the most recent work in… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 6] 2005. vi, 300 pp.

Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis

Edited by Ellen Contini-Morava, Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodríguez-Bachiller

This volume is the product of a Columbia School Linguistics Conference held at Rutgers University in October 1999, where the plenary speaker was Ronald W. Langacker, a founder of Cognitive Linguistics. The goal of the book is to promote two kinds of dialogue. First, dialogue between Cognitive… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 51] 2004. viii, 389 pp.

Perspectives on Multimodality

Edited by Eija Ventola, Cassily Charles and Martin Kaltenbacher

This volume sign posts several paths of multimodality research and theory-building today. The chapters represent a cross-section of current perspectives on multimodal discourse with a special focus on theoretical and methodological issues (mode hierarchies, modelling semiotic resources as multiple… read more

[Document Design Companion Series, 6] 2004. x, 249 pp.

Law Enforcement, Communication, and Community

Edited by Howard Giles

Given widespread media attention to issues of crime and its prevention, police heroism, and new modes of police-community involvements, this international collection is timely. It is unique in examining ways in which police and citizens communicate across a range of contexts and problem areas.… read more

[Not in series, 112] 2002. x, 265 pp.