Linguistics
JANUARY - MARCH 2026
BLOOMSBURY OPEN COLLECTIONS?
A new open access model for books
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UK March 2026 • US March 2026
384 Pages • 8 b&w images
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Foundations of Grammar
Beyond Standardized American English
Trini Stickle, Western Kentucky University, USA & Veronika Drake
This introductory textbook on the structure of English gives a comprehensive, descriptive grammar of contemporary standardized and non-standardized American English dialects The book challenges conventional perspectives and offers an exploration of American English grammars The authors include Chicano English, African American English, Southern American English, Appalachian English and other dialects to show students that all varieties of English should be represented and recognised They also delve into the historical and social contexts of these dialects, shedding light on how they've been perceived over time
Grammatical structures and features are introduced and illustrated through examples that demonstrate each of the dialect features including signage, text from published sources, snippets from actual conversations as well as dialogue from print, film, and television The numerous examples show how different dialects construct sentences, offering a comprehensive view of linguistic diversity and illuminating the intricacies of these grammars, dispelling myths and prompting critical thinking The authors present these data samples and lead the reader through guiding questions and comments before expanding on the linguistic terms, import, theories, and applications Recommended readings and ideas for student projects are provided in key chapters, and a companion website offers resources for instructors
Providing practice and iterative exercises, as well as suggestions for real-world application, Foundations of Grammar promotes linguistic equality and ensures students have an increased appreciation for a variety of dialects and languages
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UK February 2026 • US February 2026
328 Pages
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Speaking in Pictures A Vision of Language
Neil Cohn, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Pictures are a fundamental aspect of how we express ourselves, and cave paintings are among our oldest records of intelligence Yet, despite their importance, why don’t most people feel they can draw, and why are pictures often considered less important than language?
For over 20 years, Neil Cohn has pioneered research around these questions within the fields of linguistics and cognitive neuroscience, and this book is the result, heralding a new paradigm of language, drawing, and communication, all accessibly presented as a non-fiction graphic novel This work challenges the conventional understandings of how pictures communicate, how people learn to draw, and the nature of language itself
With humor and a clear, friendly, and accessible tone, Speaking in Pictures introduces ground-breaking research by doing what it discusses: intertwining pictures and words into a single message as a non-fiction graphic novel, taking the reader on an inspiring journey through the study of communication and the mind
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Corpus and Discourse
UK February 2026 • US February 2026
288 Pages • 10 bw illus
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UK March 2026
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Corpus and Discourse
UK January 2026 • US January 2026
248 Pages • 10 bw illus
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Constructions of Risks to Life in News Media
Rakan Alibri, Tabuk University, Saudi Arabia
This book investigates the construction of risks through discourse to provide new insights into the relationship between risk discourse and society
It explores how British newspapers used language to discursively construct four different types of risks to life, namely terror attacks, earthquakes, road accidents, and heart attacks, between 2017 and 2020, examining what makes some risk events newsworthy, and how this relates to the way they are perceived
The author offers new insights into risk reporting by using an approach combining theories and methodologies from corpus linguistics and critical discourse studies focusing on news values and risk perception Through a focus on risks to life, related social actors, and consequences, he demonstrates salient discursive strategies found in risk reporting, including dramatisation, naturalisation, impersonalisation, blame, responsibility, and risk management These strategies contribute differently to the construction of the risks and can potentially be linked to how the media amplify or attenuate risk perception in society, a consequence of media language use
Exploring Meaning in Surveillance Discourses through Corpora
Viola Wiegand
Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and surveillance studies, this book focuses on how surveillance is defined, discussed, and negotiated in public discourses. It analyses different meaning components of the cultural keyword of surveillance – inherently linked to power relations – in ongoing debates of public discourses
The author looks at the representation of surveillance in different discourse domains through three different studies – the prime academic journal in surveillance studies (Surveillance & Society), The Times newspaper, and the signage of public spaces The first two studies illustrate implementations of a novel method of ‘co-occurrence comparisons’ in diachronic analyses of collocation The final study integrates cutting-edge research on the multimodal representation of surveillance in public spaces
Adopting the sociolinguistic framework of ‘surveillant landscapes’ from mediated discourses analysis, this analysis reveals how surveillant practices are signalled in public environments To capture the textual and material representation of surveillance in a collection of photographs from public spaces in multiple cities across Europe, North America, and Asia, the study presents a novel methodology combining corpus and qualitative methods for the analysis of multimodal data
Constructing Brexit Britain
A Corpus-Assisted Approach to National Identity Discourse
Tamsin Parnell, University of Nottingham, UK
Combining corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, and a discourse analysis of narratives, this book considers one aspect of the Brexit process: the language that journalists, politicians and individuals used to write and talk about what it means to be British and European around the time of Brexit
It reveals a trajectory towards a discourse of national division in Brexit Britain in three datasets: pro-Brexit newspaper articles, UK Government documents, and interviews with individual citizens
Demonstrating the important role that (supra-)national identity discourses played in discussions about Brexit, the book traces a shift towards a representation of Brexit Britain as divided and in decline at a time when the construction of a collective identity is likely to be paramount The emerging representation is a direct contradiction of the great global trading nation narrative that the Vote Leave campaigners – and later the UK Government – promised, questioning the discursive success of the Global Britain project
Constructing Brexit Britain demonstrates that the transition from pre- to post-Brexit Britain was a crucial period of destabilisation for institutional and lay national identity narratives
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Studies in Slavic, Baltic, and Eastern European Languages and Cultures
UK January 2026 • US November 2025
512 Pages • 81 bw illus
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Advances in Sociolinguistics
UK March 2026 • US March 2026
288 Pages • 10 bw illus
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Advances in Sociolinguistics
UK March 2026
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288 Pages
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Ukrainian Border Dialects in Belarusian-Russian Contact Areas Characteristics and Trends
Salvatore Del Gaudio
This book presents a contemporary, primarily synchronic, linguistic analysis of the essential dialectal features characterizing the dialects spoken in the Ukrainian-Belarusian-Russian border area.
Utilizing sociolinguistic and unique focus-group data, Salvatore Del Gaudio analyzes specific local dialects at the crossroads of Ukraine, Belarus, and the Russian Federation, both locally and cross-regionally, to best highlight stable characteristics and ongoing tendencies over the span of a decade (2012–2022) The individuality of this area is also examined within a broader sociolinguistic context, which accounts for language attitudes, habits, and the identity of local speakers, as well as the linguistic landscape of the border area The findings presented in this book are valuable for further dialectological research and related linguistic subfields Moreover, they contribute to the establishment of a more accurate typology of (East) Slavic languages, offering valid insights into areal linguistics, as is often required in similar studies
The Language of Marginality and Subjectivity in a Global Context
Edited by Roberta Piazza, University of Sussex, UK, Helen Ringrow, University of Portsmouth, UK, Sergio MaruendaBataller, University of Valencia, Spain & Carmen Gregori-Signes, University of Valencia, Spain
This book expands and deepens the investigation of the language associated with or produced by groups that are socially, culturally, racially and economically outliers and whose marginalisation results in a different engagement with and participation in mainstream society’s activities
It features case studies from across the globe, including Ghana, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Zambia, addressing the construction (and self-construction) of marginalisation and diversity in discourse and society, bringing to light many unheard and hidden voices and perspectives The 14 chapters explore a wide range of forms of marginalisation and diversity as global issues that have an impact on societies worldwide, in terms of exclusion in the guise of non-participation in mainstream society’s activities and contestation in different international contexts
The contributions in the book capture how vulnerable individuals and groups occupying the in-between spaces of marginality navigate through them and construct themselves as dissenting and diverse; how they are aware of their condition at a certain point in time and how they are able to reflect resourcefully on it
Language and Memory Interactions and Mediations
Edited by Natalie Braber, Thomas Van de Putte & Sophie van den Elzen
This interdisciplinary edited volume combines linguistic and memory approaches to study how people attribute meaning to the past
It includes contributions by linguists who consider memory and its theories, and by memory scholars without linguistic background who look at sociolinguistic methods and concepts
The book is divided into three parts and includes case studies from countries including Belgium, Chile, Cyprus, India, Italy, Poland and Sri Lanka The first part considers ways in which memory scholars might reach out to discourse analytical and other sociolinguistic methods to make sense of a variety of memory phenomena The second considers cutting-edge linguistic research which reaches out to memory scholars and their body of theories The final section centres on how language itself can be studied as a ‘site of memory’ Its symbolic power is salient for communities to make sense of continuities between past, present and future
This book makes a powerful case that the connections between language and memory are crucial across cultures and at different scales
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Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics
UK February 2026 • US February 2026
240 Pages • 20 bw illus
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Critical Ecolinguistics Within Singapore, 'the Garden City'
Edited by Todd LeVasseur, YNUSC, Singapore
This book offers a critical ecolinguistics case study of an entire city nation, Singapore, and of the stories told about and by it internationally in relation to its efforts of sustainability, response to climate change, and commitment to ecomodernity.
It explores several key questions: How will humans live in urban areas in the decades to come? How will these efforts be impacted by climate change and how will cities adapt? What discourses about nature are present in cities, and how will these discourses influence and impact efforts towards sustainable urban living during climate change?
The methods of the book can also be applied to analyzing the un/sustainability of other urban areas in the world from the perspective of ecolinguistics, better equipping planners of all types with a more nuanced understanding of the role language and discourse plays in shaping human/nature interactions in urban areas during times of rapid climate change
The authors offer insights into contemporary issues around sustainable urbanism, the role of discourses in conceptualizing and advocating for sustainability, methods on how to apply an ecolinguistical lens to various ‘texts’ that constitute a nation city, and an understanding of how various discourses may promote or impede climate resiliency and adaptation
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Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics
UK January 2026 US January 2026
200 Pages • 4 bw illus
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Exploring Ecolinguistics
Ecological Principles and Narrative Practices
Douglas Mark Ponton, University of Catania, Italy
Contributing to the rapidly emerging field of ecolinguistics, this book explores the role of language in mediating and determining our relationship with nature and in shaping attitudes and social practices in environmental areas In doing so, it maps out research pathways for informed ecological debate that concerns both the planet and the discipline
The book centres on two case studies The first is a nature reserve near Siracusa in Sicily run by Fabio Cilea, where flamingos have begun to breed despite the devastation of the nearby coastline by one of the largest petro-chemical plants in Europe The second is High Ash farm, a small farm near Norwich, UK Farmer, Chris Skinner, is a passionate naturalist who for 30 years has presented a programme on BBC Radio Norfolk Through analysing the discourse of both Skinner and Cilea, the book explores what it can reveal about the underlying environmental visions that sustain them Together with the discourse of other engaged ecological figures, a picture emerges of the connections that exist between our beliefs/attitudes, language and the natural world
Presenting a framework for analysing environmental discourse from a primarily positivist standpoint, the book draws attention to the discourses that underline social practices felt to be useful, necessary and beneficial in these moments of environmental crisis Although these contexts are European, the methodologies applied, as well as the ecological and linguistic issues dealt with, are universal, clarifying the relationship between social practices and language itself, viewed in the book as an ecosystem that is also in need of loving attention
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Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics
UK March 2026 • US March 2026
264 Pages • 10 bw illus
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Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics
UK January 2026 • US January 2026
260 Pages • 20 bw illus
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UK March 2026 • US March 2026
272 Pages 17 bw illus
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Ecolinguistics and Environment in Education
Language, Culture and Textual Analysis
Emile Bellewes, Linköping University, Sweden
In the age of ecological crisis, language and discourse are emerging as a new battleground in the environmental debate. With the rise of new environmentalist movements and their subsequent backlash, we are now exposed to a plethora of different and often opposing discourses on the environmental crisis and our relationship with nature This book argues for the need to develop classroom practices which aid students in critically reviewing and evaluating different perspectives on discourses of environmentalism and sustainability
Remarking that language and humanities teachers are perfectly positioned to play a key role in the development of ecocritical language awareness at this crucial juncture, this book explores how they can help students utilise a critical perspective to navigate the multitude of cultural messages regarding our relationship with nature Employing ecolinguistics as a form of eco-critical pedagogy, Emile Bellewes presents key concepts underpinning ecolinguistics, before guiding readers through their application in the classroom Serving as a bridge between critical perspectives on environmental education and forms of discourse analysis, Ecolinguistics and Environment in Education explains how ecolinguistics can be used to carry out detailed linguistic analyses of environmentally significant messages in the classroom
Language as an Ecological Phenomenon
Languaging and Bioecologies in Human-Environment Relationships
Edited by Sune Vork Steffensen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark , Stephen Cowley, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark & Martin Döring, Hamburg University, Germany
Moving beyond a more traditional view of language as a discrete sociocultural and cognitive entity that distorts our understanding of surrounding ecologies, this book argues that the starting point for ecolinguistics is an appreciation of language as not just about nature, but of nature
Exploring this conceptual change in the field, the book presents a process view in which language is substituted by languaging, emphasising the bioecologies that we cohabit with numerous other species It puts forward this perspective by looking at the theoretical considerations behind the understanding of languaging as bioecological, and through examining languaging in various contexts and places Drawing on examples from across the world, it addresses topics such as climate catastrophes, corporate narratives, questions of ecological leadership, the bioecological implications of the COVID pandemic, and relational landscapes It also makes use of data from across multiple bioecological settings, including the dairy and agricultural industries
Ultralingualism
The Disassociation of Language from Meaning
Andrey Rosowsky
This book offers an introduction to the commonly observed, but generally ignored or misrepresented, practice of using language when referential (semantic) meaning is problematic, partial or even absent
The concept and term ‘ultralingualism’ accounts for language performance or use where meaning in the conventional sense lies elsewhere to, or beyond (ultra-), the performer and/or the listener/audience This book argues for the adoption of the term ‘ultralingualism’ as an important and previously absent heuristic as a means of capturing the diverse language practices where this language phenomenon occurs
The book adopts a dynamic and inter-disciplinary theoretical framework that encompasses a range of complementary approaches: linguistic sound or the ‘sonic’ element of language (real and invented), non-semantic/non-referential language usage, post-vernacular performance, Bauman’s heightened performance theory, the ethics of translation, theories linking language and music, and language maintenance and shift theory
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UK March 2026 US March 2026
272 Pages • 15 bw illus
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Abortion in Ireland
The Language of the Campaign for Reproductive Rights
Simon Statham, Queen’s University Belfast, UK & Helen Ringrow, University of Portsmouth, UK
Providing an in-depth analysis of the diverse discourse types present in the fight for women’s bodily autonomy in Ireland over four decades, this book explores discourse from the imposition of the Eighth Amendment in 1983 to its repeal in 2018 and beyond, adopting a mixed-methods critical linguistic approach.
By applying models of analysis from across the spectrum of critical linguistics, the book maximises the potential of the analytical models prominent in critical linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), in turn maximising the number of discourse arenas available for investigation
Interdisciplinary both in terms of methodology and data, the chapters analyse a diverse range of societal texts including traditional political campaign discourse and cross-generational pro-choice leaflets The book also assesses the utilisation of pro-choice voices in the contemporary discourse arenas of social media and broadcast entertainment, and examines politico-legal arenas such as submissions to the Citizens’ Assembly and parliamentary speeches It also scrutinises the abortion rights campaign in the north of Ireland through interviews with a range of campaigners
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Bloomsbury Studies in Linguistic Anthropology
UK February 2026
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Poetics of Living
Aspects of Multimodal and Multisensorial Semiosis
Edited by Takeshi Enomoto, Makiko Takekuro & Kuniyoshi Kataoka, Aichi University, Japan
This book provides empirical and theoretical accounts of poetics from a sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological perspective, highlighting the poesis of everyday living
The authors not only regard poetry as a literary genre or a form of aesthetic performance, but also aim to clarify how everyday practices, such as casual conversation, radio broadcasting, sightseeing tours, classroom instruction, and reciprocal singing, are imbued with poetic (inter)actions achieved through senses, bodies, materials, and the environment Such mediums are shown to be appropriated here and now in accordance with the ongoing social actions gleaned from the contributors’ fields of research and expertise Examples include classroom instruction and local festivals in Japan, music contests in China, rock climbing and public demonstrations in the USA, radio/TV broadcasts in Hawai’i and the USA, and tourist guidance in New Zealand, among others
Building on poetic theories in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and pragmatics, such as ethnopoetics, ritual poetics, and dialogic resonance, this book offers highly interdisciplinary approaches to poetic analysis that range from microinteractional exchanges to macro-sociocultural issues surrounding poetic ‘texts’
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Bloomsbury Handbooks
UK February 2026
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432 Pages
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics
Edited by Jonathan J Webster, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, David Butt, Macquarie University, Australia & Federico Navarro, Universidad de O'Higgins, Chile
An essential one-volume reference to contemporary systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and its applications, this handbook offers a rigorous and systematic overview of the field and its recent developments. Written by an international team of leading scholars, this volume covers the key approaches and applications, providing both a survey of current research and more practical guidance for advanced study
Fully updated, revised and restructured to take account of developments over the last decade, this second edition features:
- 4 new chapters, covering the application of SFL in language comparison, education, healthcare and multimodal contexts
- Substantially revised and updated chapters on topics such as methods, models and computing
- An expanded and updated glossary of key terms
Featuring chapters by giants in the field, including M A K Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan, and Jim Martin, this volume identifies and describes the central concepts and applications associated with SFL The Bloomsbury Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics is an essential resource for anyone interested in the field
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Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics
UK March 2026 • US March 2026
216 Pages
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Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics
UK March 2026 • US March 2026
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Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics
UK March 2026 • US March 2026
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A Practical Guide to System Networks
Modelling Paradigmatic Relations for Language Description in Systemic Functional Linguistics
J R Martin, University of Sydney, Australia & Pin Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
In Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), paradigmatic relations are formalised in system networks This book provides a practical, step-by-step guide to designing system networks for language description, one of the key aspects of SFL theory and analysis.
Including examples from English, Chinese, Korean and Spanish, and exercises with answer keys for each of the main chapters, this book offers a broad coverage and guides learners through the process of designing system networks for the purpose of grammatical description in an accessible way
Beginning with simple systems, the authors show how grammars involve a complex of relations, with some systems dependent on others and some working in parallel with simultaneous options They introduce the reasoning involved in designing system networks, explaining how choices in grammatical systems are motivated in terms of their realisation in structure and how this relationship between the paradigmatic axis and the syntagmatic axis is formalised in SFL descriptions In addition, the book helps readers to understand the theoretical architecture of SFL – including the dimensions of rank, metafunction and stratification
Writing with Students
New Perspectives on Collaborative Writing in EAP Contexts Lucy Macnaught, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Shortlisted for the ASFLA (Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Association) M. A. K. Halliday Prize 2025
Beginning with a review of the theory and pedagogic practices that have been influential in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) contexts, this book examines the practice of joint construction in a genre-based approach to literacy pedagogy. It investigates how teachers guide students to co-construct a text, drawing attention to the contested rationale for teachers taking a leading role when writing collaboratively with their students
Informed by systemic functional linguistics, the book puts forward an accessible approach to the analysis of classroom discourse that centres on the dynamic mediation of meaning Through examples of classroom interaction involving international students who are studying EAP, and specifically as preparation for university entrance, it illuminates how classroom metalanguage and the organisation of classroom talk enables teachers to guide but not provide wording; metalanguage also enables students to critique and justify their choices as they ‘try out’ new academic language, modify and improve their writing
Languages of Australia’s First Peoples in Narrative Australian Stories
David Rose, University of Sydney, Australia
Celebrating the diverse languages of Australia’s First Peoples, this book presents stories told by elders in eighteen languages from around the continent, and explores their patterns of meaning
The stories recount the experiences of the tellers and histories of their communities, from tales of anti-colonial resistance to origin stories of the Dreaming The book aims to make the languages accessible and engaging through the voices of the elders, while building readers’ knowledge about language and language learning It opens with some basic language knowledge for reading the stories Each chapter then begins with the cultural and historical contexts of the stories, which are first previewed in English translation, then presented sentence-by-sentence, setting out the original sounds and wordings, glossed with plain English Extracts are selected to illustrate patterns of meanings that are characteristic of each language
The final chapter sums up the various meaning patterns the stories use, and interprets their evolution in the light of First Peoples’ deep histories, as recorded by archaeology and traditional knowledge
The book will be useful for language learning programs in communities and schools, for researchers of language and language teaching, and for any reader with an interest in the languages and cultures of Australia’s First Peoples
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Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
UK February 2026 • US February 2026
304 Pages • 15 bw illus
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Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
UK February 2026
224 Pages
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Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
UK March 2026
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Early Body Ornaments and the Origins of our Semiotic Mind
Antonis Iliopoulos, University of Oxford, UK
By employing a cognitive semiotic theory based on pragmatism and enactivism, this book explores the nature and emergence of early body ornamentation, which has long been at the forefront of the debate on modern human origins
Using a range of artefacts including the Blombos Cave Beads, ostrich eggshells, and engraved pieces of ochre, the book examines the connection between early body ornaments and the semiotic mind, and addresses the question of whether early body ornaments were made by a symbolic mind, or whether they provided the material and semiotic scaffolding required for such a mind to emerge
The Semiotics of the Zodiac Signs of Destiny
Marcel Danesi,
University of Toronto, Canada
This book considers various aspects of the meanings and functions of zodiacal systems, including how they affect belief systems, and how they have evolved over time It explores the cultural significance of the Zodiac as a semiotic code for interpreting personal destinies as manifestations of stellar influences and as affirmations of the logic that governs the cosmos as a whole
The book traces the international history of Western astrology, from its origins in Babylon to its decline after the Enlightenment, up to its resurgence today as “pop astrology” in an era where social media and predictive algorithms can deliver customized personal horoscopes Bringing together examples from the Western and Chinese zodiacal systems, it examines how the Zodiac semiotic enabled individuals across the world to interpret the date of their birth and the events that marked their daily lives in terms of the constellations and celestial conjunctions It offers an engaging contribution to Zodiac scholarship by spanning various aspects of the meanings and functions of zodiacal systems
The Semiotics of Toys and Games
The Childhood Artefacts that Introduce Us to the World
Theo Van Leeuwen, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia & Staffan Selander
Drawing on extensive research over more than two decades, this book focuses on toys and games as resources for play It analyses their functionalities as well as their symbolic meaning potentials, exemplifying how they are used in different contexts, such as home and preschool, and how these uses are regulated by parental, pedagogic and marketing discourses
Building on the work of semioticians such as Barthes, Baudrillard and Krampen, as well as on the social semiotics of Halliday, Hodge, Kress, and others, the book introduces a framework for the multimodal semiotic analysis of physical objects, and the ways in which they are digitally translated into words, images and sounds It also introduces a multimodal framework with a focus on designs for and in learning It then applies these frameworks to a range of toys and games for young children including teddy bears, dolls, construction toys, war toys and digital games Throughout it shows how the toy and games industry contributes to changing the nature of childhood and the way children learn about the world
Accessibly written, the book will not only be relevant to students and scholars of multimodality and semiotics, but also to early childhood educators and parents of young children
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Ethnic Belonging and Deaf Identity in Romania Living in Multiple Minorities
Emese-Hajnalka Belenyi & Gavril Flora
While Deafness can function as a cultural–linguistic identity with its own language and community norms, Deaf individuals may belong simultaneously to other social groups while sharing a Deaf identity
Throughout this work, Belenyi and Flora interpret Deafness and ethnicity through the lens of Social Identity Theory (SIT), which posits that individuals derive part of their self-concept from membership in social groups and predicts that group memberships shape self-concept and self-esteem While SIT has its limitations, newer adaptations, such as selfcategorization theory and identity process theory, allow for more nuanced interpretations With a focus on Hungarian ethnicminority Deaf people in Romania and their partners and communities the authors examine these insights to understand how Deaf people in Romania balance their ethnic and Deaf identities
Deaf people in East-Central Europe, especially in the multi-ethnic context of Romania, inhabit overlapping minority worlds Although nation-building policies often emphasize linguistic and ethnic homogeneity, in practice Hungarian–Romanian relations within Deaf families and communities can reveal unexpected cultural bridges This book combines a theoretical synthesis of Deaf identity, culture, and ethnicity with empirical life-course research to shed new light on how Deaf and ethnic identities intersect
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Language, Knowledge and Society in Higher Education
The Intersection of Social, Epistemological and Discursive Knowledge in Academic Communication Ian Bruce, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand & Alex Ding, University of Leeds, UK
Addressing the issue of fragmentation in academic English language research, this book takes a holistic approach to the areas of knowledge that converge within academic discourse and texts
The authors argue that this convergence integrates three knowledge areas of a disciplinary community: its social processes, epistemology, and discursive practices Going beyond the narrower focus of much previous theory and research, the volume advocates an original and integrated approach to the multifaceted nature of the academic language and literacy practices of universities
The book is divided into two parts Part 1 examines the context of contemporary universities and the broader influences that shape academic language use Part 2 explores disciplinarity and the three dimensions that together shape academic language: social, epistemological, and discursive The authors then present an innovative and integrated model of the three dimensions and use it to examine language from social science and STEM subjects A concluding manifesto argues for an integrative, reflexive and ethical approach to researching academic language This volume is of interest to anyone concerned with understanding, analysing, and teaching the academic language of universities as it is used for study or research publication purposes
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Analysing Environmental Discourse A Critical Approach
Scott Burnett, Pennsylvania State University, USA
The sheer scale of global ecosystem devastation and the crescendo of the climate crisis may serve as good reasons for scholars and commentators to welcome any social mobilization that tries to save the earth And yet not all environmentalisms are good environmentalisms From eco-fascism to greenwashing and neoliberal conservation, not all ‘green’ action has a positive value Offering a critical framework for discourse analysts to get to the heart of this specific complexity, this book is a study of the key discursive moves in environmentalist discourses that perpetuate social inequality, putting forward an alternate socioecological approach to avoiding these pitfalls
While debates over the social visions and implications of environmentalist discourse have been raging for decades, they have yet to receive focused attention within critical discourse studies This book addresses this gap, building on critiques from feminist, queer, anti-racist, Indigenous, and decolonial scholars across fields such as political ecology, environmental sociology, indigenous studies, human geography, literary theory, environmental communication, and others, in which the tropes, strategies, and structures perpetuated within strands of environmentalism are identified Special attention is paid to the whiteness and/or coloniality of ecological futures articulated as utopian social visions, and it is argued that only when combined with a radical vision for social justice are these environmental utopias desirable, attainable, or workable
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Environmental Awareness and Governance
Ecolinguistic and Discourse Perspectives
Edited by Mohamed Mliless, Independent Researcher, Morocco, David Stringer, Indiana University Bloomington, USA & Mohammed Larouz, Moulay Ismail University of Meknès, Morocco
Environmental Awareness and Governance: Ecolinguistic and Discourse Perspectives is a comprehensive exploration that delves into the intricate relationship between language, discourse, and environmental issues This book begins by examining the role of environmental governance in Moroccan political parties’ electoral programs, followed by an analysis of how Moroccan online media communicates water stress as a risk issue It also provides an ecolinguistic analysis of a computeranimated Netflix film, “The Sea Beast , and discusses the impact of climate change on Moroccan agriculture, particularly focusing on the “Generation Green” strategy
The editors and contributors explore the role of translation in the environmental movement and discusses the shift from the Anthropocene to the Capitalocene in the context of global climate change They also provide a critical discourse analysis of the environmental discourse of the COP27, highlighting the North-South divide
This book concludes with an ecocritical interpretation of solastalgia in Mohsin Hamid’s “Exit West” and a generic, ecocritical reading of climate change in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital Trilogy Each chapter provides a unique perspective on environmental issues, making it a comprehensive resource for anyone interested in environmental studies
Conversing in the Metaverse
The Embodied Future of Online Communication
Jieun Kiaer, University of Oxford, UK
How do metaverse technologies change how we communicate with each other? This book explores how existing metaverse technologies affect our communication, both verbal and non-verbal, as well as the ramifications of these effects
Communication is central to the human experience, and how we currently communicate (and will communicate) can affect our sense of identity and relationships with others, which can have huge long term societal repercussions Utilising methods of digital ethnography and linguistic landscape, this book takes an in-depth look at what exactly the metaverse is or will be and tracks the technological and societal trends that surround it To do so, it questions what differentiates the metaverse from earlier connected virtual worlds like World of Warcraft or Second Life, and features extracts from interviews with the users and developers of current metaverses, such as Roblox, Minecraft, and Gather town It also investigates the impact of the pandemic in changing and accelerating how we communicate in virtual spaces
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