Routledge Research in Language and Communication
The Language of Persuasion on Instagram: A Systemic Functional Approach to Multimodal Tourism Discourse
1st Edition
By Elena Mattei
December 29, 2025
This book offers a systematic, interdisciplinary investigation into the language of persuasion in contemporary tourism discourse, with a focus on English-language travel boards’ use of Instagram and official websites. Drawing on Corpus Linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics, it examines ...
Communicating Food to Children: Linguistic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives
1st Edition
By Daniela Cesiri
September 29, 2025
This book offers a systematic account of communication on food aimed at children, investigating verbal and visual strategies used in food media in English from synchronic and diachronic perspectives. While there is a wide body of research on food discourse, there has been little to date on children...
Intermedial Agencies: The Crucial Role of the Arts in Shaping Media Dynamics
1st Edition
By Asun López-Varela Azcárate, Luis Martínez-Falero
September 29, 2025
Intermedial Agencies: The Crucial Role of the Arts in Shaping Media Dynamics explores how the arts continuously redefine and facilitate cross-media transformation through intermedial interactions. Drawing primarily on semiotics and neomaterialist approaches, López-Varela Azcárate and ...
The Discourse of Comfort in Chinese Online Medical Consultations
1st Edition
By Ying Jin
September 19, 2025
This book integrates perspectives from conversation analysis (CA) and discursive psychology to shed light on doctor-patient communication in asynchronous web-based interactions through the lens of the discourse of comfort. While previous research has been done in this space on face-to-face ...
Language in Sport: Real-Time Talk in Training and Games
1st Edition
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By Andrew S. Ross, David Caldwell, Y.J. Doran
September 15, 2025
This collection showcases the language of “doing” sport, emphasizing the real-time talk of players and coaches during training and games toward elucidating real-time language use and encouraging effective sporting pedagogies. While there is established work at the intersection of linguistics and ...
Suicide and the Self: A Discourse Analysis Approach to Self-Narratives of Suicide
1st Edition
By Dariusz Galasiński, Justyna Ziółkowska
July 28, 2025
This book centres on self-accounts of suicidal behavior, using a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach to offer a qualitative perspective within current suicidology and suicide prevention research. Suicide and the Self: A Discourse Analysis Approach to Self-Narratives of Suicide is the first ...
On the Past, Present, and Future of Semioethics: A Dialogue with Susan Petrilli
1st Edition
By Susan Petrilli, Simon Levesque
June 29, 2025
This volume charts the origins, development, and future potential of semioethics through the work of Susan Petrilli, showcasing an extended dialogue with one of the eminent figures in semiotics scholarship. Featuring a wide-ranging conversation between Petrilli and scholar Simon Levesque, the book ...
Framing Sustainability in Language and Communication
1st Edition
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By Maida Kosatica, Sean P. Smith
March 30, 2025
This collection brings together established and emerging scholars for a critical framing of sustainability through the lens of language and communication, social semiotics, and media studies. The volume underscores the importance of re-envisioning sustainability around not only climate change and ...
Perspectives on Knowledge Communication: Concepts and Settings
1st Edition
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By Jan Engberg, Antoinette Fage-Butler, Peter Kastberg
December 18, 2024
This collection elaborates an innovative analytical framework for knowledge communication, bringing together insights from a range of professional settings to highlight how a cross-disciplinary approach can promote a new view of knowledge that emphasizes constructivist and cognitivist perspectives....
Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse
1st Edition
By Anaïs Augé
November 29, 2024
This volume sheds light on the argumentative role of metaphor in climate change discourse, unpacking the ways in which stakeholders use specific metaphors to influence perceptions of the climate crisis. While existing research has explored the explanatory function of metaphors in communication on ...
Perspectives on Teaching Workplace English in the 21st Century
1st Edition
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By Mable Chan
November 28, 2024
This collection bridges the gap between research and practical applications by showcasing the latest research developments on business English as a lingua franca and the ways in which they might better inform language teaching practice. Featuring contributions from both established and emerging ...
The Discursive Construction of Place in the Digital Age
1st Edition
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By Alejandro Parini, Francisco Yus
November 28, 2024
This collection calls for greater attention to the need for a clearer understanding of the role of discourse in the process of placemaking in the digital age and the increasing hybridisation of physical and virtual worlds. The volume outlines a new conceptualisation of place in the time of ...