Cultural Turns in Information Design I
Edited by Juhri Selamet and Nina Hansopaheluwakan Edward
Special issue of Information Design Journal 30:1 (2025) 96 pp.
BISAC SubjectsLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies
Nuevos Enfoques Lingüísticos y Traductológicos del Discurso Turístico
Editado por Manuela Álvarez Jurado y Gisella Policastro Ponce
El presente volumen explora la riqueza y pluralidad del turismo y su discurso a través de un análisis interdisciplinario, que proporciona una visión integral del impacto del turismo en diversas esferas comunicativas, sociales y culturales. Esta obra recopila un total de quince investigaciones que… read more[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 44] 2025. xi, 174 pp.
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.
Disability in Dialogue
Edited by Jessica M.F. Hughes and Mariaelena Bartesaghi
What would it mean to invite disability into dialogue? Disability in Dialogue attunes us to the dialogues of and about disability. In the pages of this book, we ask readers to consider the dialogic constitution of disability and to imagine its reformulation. We find the voices, bodies, social… read more[Dialogue Studies, 33] 2023. x, 214 pp.
Information Visualization
Edited by Isabel Meirelles, Marian Dörk and Yanni Loukissas
Argumentation between Doctors and Patients: Understanding clinical argumentative discourse
Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen and Nanon Labrie
Argumentation between Doctors and Patients discusses the use of argumentation in clinical settings. Starting from the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation, it aims at providing an understanding of argumentative discourse in the context of doctor-patient interaction. It explains when and how… read more[Not in series, 235] 2021. x, 155 pp.
Mass Media Effects and the Political Agenda: Assessing its Scope and Conditions
Edited by Ana Maria Belchior, Peter Van Aelst, José Santana-Pereira and Patrick Merle
Special issue of The Agenda Setting Journal 4:1 (2020) v, 169 pp.
Fifty years of agenda-setting research: Volume II
Edited by Chris J. Vargo
Special issue of The Agenda Setting Journal 3:1 (2019) v, 102 pp.
Information Visualization
Edited by Marian Dörk and Isabel Meirelles
Fifty years of agenda-setting research: Volume I
Edited by Chris J. Vargo
Special issue of The Agenda Setting Journal 2:2 (2018) v, 111 pp.
Health Information Design
Edited by Guillermina Noël
Special issue of Information Design Journal 23:3 (2017) ii, 134 pp.
Information Visualization
Edited by Isabel Meirelles and Katherine Gillieson
Semiotics: A way of thinking & approaching information design
Edited by Priscila Lena Farias and João Queiroz
Special issue of Information Design Journal 23:2 (2017) ii, 121 pp.
Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating
Edited by Ruth Breckinridge Church, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly
Co-speech gestures are ubiquitous: when people speak, they almost always produce gestures. Gestures reflect content in the mind of the speaker, often under the radar and frequently using rich mental images that complement speech. What are gestures doing? Why do we use them? This book is the first… read more[Gesture Studies, 7] 2017. vii, 433 pp.
Traffic & Transport: Part II
Edited by Peter Simlinger
Special issue of Information Design Journal 22:2 (2016) ii, 122 pp.
Images in Use: Towards the critical analysis of visual communication
Edited by Matteo Stocchetti and Karin Kukkonen
News coverage of EU negotiations, children’s war memories or TV series glamourising political processes – images pervade both private and public discourse, and visual communication plays a key role in our social negotiation of values. Conceptualising images as “images in use”, this volume considers… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 44] 2011. vi, 298 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.
Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, incarnation and ventriloquism
François Cooren
What happens when people communicate or dialogue with each other? This is the daunting question that this book proposes to address by starting from a controversial hypothesis: What if human interactants were not the only ones to be considered, paraphrasing Austin (1962), as “doing things with… read more[Dialogue Studies, 6] 2010. xvi, 206 pp.
Adapting Health Communication to Cultural Needs: Optimizing documents in South-African health communication on HIV and AIDS
Edited by Piet Swanepoel and Hans Hoeken
The question of what constitutes effective health communication has been addressed mainly by scholars working in American and European cultural contexts. Many people who could benefit most from effective health communication, however, come from different cultures. A prime example is the threat… read more[Not in series, 140] 2008. v, 178 pp.
Highlights of Vision Plus 12: Information Design - Achieving Measurable Results
Edited by Lennart Strand and Peter Simlinger
Special issue of Information Design Journal 16:3 (2008) 112 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.
The Discourse of Child Counselling
Ian Hutchby
This book is an empirical study of naturally occurring interaction between child counselling professionals and young children experiencing parental separation or divorce. Based on tape recordings of the work of a London child counselling practice, it offers the reader a unique and sustained look… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 21] 2007. xii, 145 pp.
Political Discourse in the Media: Cross-cultural perspectives
Edited by Anita Fetzer and Gerda Eva Lauerbach
This book departs from the premise that political discourse is intrinsically connected with media discourse, as shaped by its cultural and transcultural characteristics. It presents a collection of papers which examine political discourse in the media from a cross-culturally comparative perspective… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 160] 2007. viii, 379 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.