LINGUISTICS
Employing Linguistics
Thinking and Talking About Careers for Linguists
Anna Marie Trester An essential resource to help you recognise the value and relevance of your skills and training as a linguist in the job market. Using insights drawn from the experiences of professional linguists working in a range of domains, this book inspires broad and creative thinking about career options for students of linguistics. No matter where you are in your career – just starting a first job or reflecting back on 30 years – this book provides an interpretive frame for thinking and catalysing momentum about what comes next. Featuring activities, exercises and a review of career literature, it details the ways in which the powerful analytical skills cultivated by a background in linguistics can be employed in professional workspaces. Anna Marie Trester is the founder of Career Linguist, a blog and resource center for career exploration, and is based in the USA. February 2022 208 pages 216 x 138mm 9781350137967 Bloomsbury Academic
Research Methods for Digital Discourse Analysis Edited by Camilla Vásquez Provides an introductory overview of different methodological considerations, issues, and approaches associated with the analysis of digital texts. Introducing the key questions and challenges faced by the researcher of digital discourse, this book provides an overview of the different methodological dimensions of this type of research. Chapters guide students and novice researchers through how to conduct rigorous, accurate, and ethical research with data from a wide range of online platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and online dating apps. Each chapter introduces a new research dimension for consideration, briefly exploring how other discourse analysts have approached the topic before using an in-depth case study to highlight the main challenges and provide guidance on methodological decision-making. Camilla Vásquez is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of South Florida, USA.
March 2022 30 mono illus 320 pages • 234 x 156mm 9781350166820 Bloomsbury Academic Series: Research Methods in Linguistics
Warning Signs
The Semiotics of Danger
Marcel Danesi Explores how the language of danger and its visual symbolism has imparted warnings of hazard, risk and peril across history, from ancient Egyptian tombs to nuclear waste. Warning signs are all around us. This book examines and evaluates the kinds of signs, symbols, narratives, and other semiotic strategies humans have used across time to communicate the sense of danger. From Paleolithic cave art and ancient monuments to the dangers of nuclear waste, carbon emissions, and other pollution, Marcel Danesi explores how danger has been encoded in language, discourse, and symbolism. He puts forward a plan for a more effective 'semiotising' of risk and peril, calling on linguists, semioticians, and agencies to work together to more clearly communicate vitally important warnings about the dangers we've left behind. Marcel Danesi is Professor Emeritus of Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. January 2022 192 pages 234 x 156mm 9781350178304 Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
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