Routledge Research in Language and Communication
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
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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
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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
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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 ...
Semioethics as Existential Dialogue: The Gift and Burden of Responsibility
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By Susan Petrilli, Susan Mancino
October 28, 2024
This collection brings together perspectives on the interplay of communication, dialogue, and responsibility, exploring communicative acts of disruption toward a social environment attuned to short-sighted individualism. Semioethics highlights the condition of inevitable entanglement with the other...
Communicative Spaces in Bilingual Contexts: Discourses, Synergies and Counterflows in Spanish and English
1st Edition
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By Ana Sánchez-Muñoz, Jessica Retis
August 26, 2024
This collection bridges disciplinary scholarship from critical language studies, Latinx critical communication, and media studies scholarship for a comprehensive exploration of Spanish-English bilingualism in the US and in turn, elucidating, more broadly, our understanding of bilingualism in a ...
Political Myth-making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah's Construction and Promotion of the African Dream
1st Edition
By Mark Nartey
August 26, 2024
Using the socio-political discourse of Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-Africanist and Ghana’s independence leader, Nartey investigates the notion of political myth-making in a context underexplored in the literature. He examines Nkrumah’s construction of a myth described in the book as the Unite or...
Revisiting Trustworthiness in Social Interaction
1st Edition
By Mie Femø Nielsen, Ann Merrit Rikke Nielsen
August 26, 2024
Bringing together trust research, rhetoric, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this book formulates an analytical program for conceptualizing and defining trustworthiness as an empirical research object in social interaction. Revisiting Trustworthiness in Social Interaction examines ...
The Impact of Plain Language on Legal English in the United Kingdom
1st Edition
By Christopher Williams
May 27, 2024
This volume offers insights into the ways in which plain language has influenced the language of the law in the United Kingdom, critically reflecting on its historical development and future directions. The book opens with an overview of the theoretical frameworks underpinning plain language and a ...
Bridging the Gap Between Conversation Analysis and Poetics: Studies in Talk-In-Interaction and Literature Twenty-Five Years after Jefferson
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By Raymond F. Person, Jr., Robin Wooffitt, John P. Rae
January 29, 2024
This collection extends the conversation beginning with Gail Jefferson’s seminal 1996 article, "On the Poetics of Ordinary Talk," linking the poetics of ordinary talk with the work of poets to bring together critical perspectives on new data from talk-in-interaction and applications of Jefferson’s ...