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.
Knowledge Machines: Language and Information in a Technological Society
1st Edition
By Denise E. Murray
August 03, 1995
Provides a wide-ranging survey of the sociolinguistic issues raised by the impact of information technology. The author demonstrates how and in which ways the new technologies both affect human communication and are in turn affected by the way people communicate using the technologies....
Fictions at Work: Language and Social Practice in Fiction
1st Edition
By Mary M. Talbot
May 19, 1995
In this book, Mary Talbot shows how fiction works in the constitution and reproduction of social life. She discusses both `high' and `low' fiction, combining discussion of social context with language analysis. Examples are taken from children's tales, romance, horror and science in her language ...
Language and the Law
1st Edition
By John Peter Gibbons
July 18, 1994
Explains and describes the ways that language use in the legal system can create inequality and disadvantage. It examines the three main areas where the two intersect: the central issue of the language of the law; the disadvantage which language can impose before the law, and forensic linguistics -...
Linguistics and Aphasia: Psycholinguistic and Pragmatic Aspects of Intervention
1st Edition
By Ruth Lesser, Lesley Milroy
February 15, 1993
Linguistics and Aphasia is a major study of recent developments in applying psycholinguistics and pragmatics to the study of acquired language disorders (aphasia) and their remediation. Psycholinguistic analyses of aphasia interpret disorders in terms of damaged modules and processes within what ...
Discourse and the Translator
1st Edition
By B. Hatim, J IAN Mason
March 05, 1990
Discourse and the Translator both incorporates and moves beyond previous studies of translation. Its logical and informative approach to the problems of translation ensures that it will be essential for all those who work with languages 'in contact'. Incorporating research in sociolinguistics, ...