Routledge Research in Language and Communication
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...
Multidisciplinary Views on Discourse Genre: A Research Agenda
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By Ninke Stukker, John A. Bateman, Danielle McNamara, Wilbert Spooren
September 30, 2024
This collection sets out an innovative research agenda for advancing a multidisciplinary approach to genre, bringing together researchers from a variety of disciplines to enhance our existing understanding of the challenges and opportunities for current and future genre research. The volume brings ...
Talking Images: The Interface between Drawing and Writing
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By Silvia Ferrara, Mattia Cartolano, Ludovica Ottaviano
September 30, 2024
This innovative collection offers a holistic portrait of the multimodal communication potential of images from the Upper Paleolithic through to today, showcasing image-based creativity throughout the centuries. The volume seeks to extend the boundaries of our understanding of what language and ...
Communicative Spaces in Bilingual Contexts: Discourses, Synergies and Counterflows in Spanish and English
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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
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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
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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 ...
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Discourses of Extremism
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By Katie Jane Patterson, Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio
July 31, 2024
This collection highlights multidisciplinary approaches toward better understanding the discourses of extremism, exploring the ways in which insights from linguistics and other disciplines might inform each other in enacting meaningful reforms in policy, social media, and education. The volume is ...
The Impact of Plain Language on Legal English in the United Kingdom
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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 ...
The Language of Pick-Up Artists: Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry
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By Daria Dayter, Sofia Rüdiger
January 29, 2024
This book adopts a corpus-based discourse analysis approach to the study of the communicative practices of pick-up artists, offering a systematic exploration of distinct language use in an online community that uses speed-seduction practices for short-term dating and sex. Drawing on a ...
Discursive Approaches to Sociopolitical Polarization and Conflict
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By Laura Filardo-Llamas, Esperanza Morales-López, Alan Floyd
September 25, 2023
This collection explores the discursive strategies and linguistic resources underpinning conflict and polarization, taking a multidisciplinary approach to examine the ways in which conflict is constructed across a diverse range of contexts. The volume is divided into two sections as a means of ...
Discourses of Perfection: Representing Cosmetic Procedures and Beauty Products in UK Lifestyle Magazines
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By Anne-Mette Hermans
January 09, 2023
This book explores editorial and advertising discourses related to cosmetic procedures and beauty products and services in UK lifestyle magazines, offering a holistic perspective on the normalisation of cosmetic procedures and the societal context in which particular perceptions have ...