Language In Social Life
About the Book Series
Language in Social Life is a major new series which highlights the importance of language to an understanding of issues of social and professional concern. It will be of practical relevance to all those wanting to understand how the ways we communicate both influence and are influenced by the structures and forces of contemporary social institutions.
Misunderstanding in Social Life: Discourse Approaches to Problematic Talk
1st Edition
By Juliane House, Gabriele Kasper, Steven Ross
January 22, 2003
Misunderstanding is a pervasive phenomenon in social life, sometimes with serious consequences for people's life chances. Misunderstandings are especially hazardous in high-stakes events such as job interviews or in the legal system. In unequal power encounters, unsuccessful communication is ...
Knowledge & Discourse: Towards an Ecology of Language
1st Edition
By Colin Barron, Nigel Bruce, David Nunan
January 15, 2002
Knowledge and Discourse presents an ecological approach to the study of discourse in social, academic and professional practices. It brings together distinguished scholars from diverse cultures - India, China, Australia, Canada among others - and disciplines - linguistics, anthropology, sociology, ...
Sociolinguistics and Social Theory
1st Edition
By Nikolas Coupland, Srikant Sarangi, Christopher N. Candlin
May 25, 2001
The empirical and descriptive strengths of sociolinguistics, developed over more than 40 years of research, have not been matched by an active engagement with theory. Yet, over this time, social theorising has taken important new turns, linked in many ways to linguistic and discursive concerns. ...
The Power of Tests: A Critical Perspective on the Uses of Language Tests
1st Edition
By Elana Shohamy
January 12, 2001
Language in Social Life is a major series which highlights the importance of language to an understanding of issues of social and professional concern. It will be of practical relevance to all those wanting to understand how the ways we communicate both influence and are influenced by the ...
Typography & Language in Everyday Life: Prescriptions and Practices
1st Edition
By Sue Walker
December 12, 2000
Typography and Language in Everyday Life provides a detailed look at graphic as well as linguistic aspects of language and suggests there is much to be gained from collaboration between typographers and applied linguists.The first part of the book provides an introduction to aspects of typographic ...
Small Talk
1st Edition
By Justine Coupland
June 20, 2000
This study presents a new perspective on small talk and its crucial role in everyday communication. The new approach presented here is supported by analyses of interactional data in specific settings - private and public, face-to-face and telephone talk. They vary from gossip at the family dinner ...
Writing Business: Genres, Media and Discourses
1st Edition
By Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini, Catherine Nickerson
April 27, 1999
Writing Business: Genres, Media and Discourses offers an analysis of the genres and functions of written discourse in the business context, involving a variety of modes of communication. The evolution of new forms of writing is a key focus of this collection and is only partly attributable to the ...
Language and Literacy in Workplace Education: Learning at Work
1st Edition
By Giselle Mawer
March 22, 1999
Just as workers are confronting the rapidly changing practices of the restructured, technological workplace and the increasing convergence of working and learning, so those involved in any form of workplace education or training are also restructuring their focus, teaching methods and approaches. ...
Interpreting As Interaction
1st Edition
By Cecilia Wadensjo
October 02, 1998
Interpreting in Interaction provides an account of interpreter-mediated communication, exploring the responsibilities of the interpreter and the expectations of both the interpreter and of other participants involved in the interaction. The book examines ways of understanding the distribution of ...
Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction: A Study of News Discourse
1st Edition
By Ron Scollon
April 09, 1998
Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction makes an explicit link between media studies and social interactionalist discursive research where previously the two fields of study have been treated as separate disciplines. This text presents an integrated theory illustrated by ample concrete examples, ...
The Construction of Professional Discourse
1st Edition
By B.L. Gunnarsson, Per Linell, Bengt Nordberg
April 09, 1997
Internationally, there is increasing research and interest in the processes of the production and reception of texts for specific purposes and in the historical development of genres and registers within Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP), psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology and ...
Achieving Understanding: Discourse in Intercultural Encounters
1st Edition
By Katharina Bremer, Margaret Simnot, Celia Roberts, M.-T. (Department Of Linguistics, University Rene Descartes, Paris V, France) Vasseur, Margaret (Department Of Arts, Law And Social Sciences, Islington College) Simonot
January 19, 1996
This is a detailed study of understanding in a second language, related to the actual lives of minority workers. The focus is on everyday interactions between these workers and the bureaucrats of the society in which they are now resident. It provides an important contribution to the debate about ...