Routledge Studies in Linguistics
The Discourse of Protest, Resistance and Social Commentary in Reggae Music: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Pacific Reggae
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Turner
May 31, 2023
A comprehensive, engaging and timely Bakhtinian examination of the ways in which the music and lyrics of Pacific reggae, aspects of performance, a record album cover and the social and political context construct social commentary, resistance and protest. Framed predominantly by the theory and ...
Women in Social Semiotics and SFL: Making a Difference
1st Edition
By Eva Maagerø, Ruth Mulvad, Elise Seip Tønnessen
May 31, 2023
This book showcases interviews with nine women who have made pioneering contributions to social semiotics and systemic functional linguistics (SFL), highlighting how these women have taken the discipline into new and innovative directions, and the enduring impact of their work. The volume features ...
Chronotopes and Migration: Language, Social Imagination, and Behavior
1st Edition
By Farzad Karimzad, Lydia Catedral
January 09, 2023
In Chronotopes and Migration: Language, Social Imagination, and Behavior, Farzad Karimzad and Lydia Catedral investigate migrants’ polycentric identities, imaginations, ideologies, and orientations to home and host countries through the notion of chronotope. The book focuses on the authors’ ...
Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects
1st Edition
By Yolanda Fernández-Pena
August 01, 2022
*Winner of AEDEAN Leocadio Martín Mingorance Book Award on Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics (2021)* *Winner of ESLA Guadalupe Aguado Research Award for Young Researchers (2022)* *Winner of ESSE Book Award 2022 for Young Researchers in the category 'English Language and ...
Persian Linguistics in Cultural Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Alireza Korangy, Farzad Sharifian
April 29, 2022
Korangy and Sharifian’s groundbreaking book offers the first in-depth study into cultural linguistics for the Persian language. The book highlights a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects and accents, wherever spoken, can be examined. Linguistics with ...
The Discourse of Desperation: Late 18th and Early 19th Century Letters by Paupers, Prisoners, and Rogues
1st Edition
By Ivor Timmis
April 29, 2022
This book discusses how the poor and desperate in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries mobilised their linguistic resources in pursuit of vital pragmatic goals, drawing on three corpora of letters written by the poor. The main question addressed by the book is, ‘How were the poor, ...
Analysing Scientific Discourse from A Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective: A Framework for Exploring Knowledge Building in Biology
1st Edition
By Jing Hao
December 13, 2021
This book describes the discourse of biology from a systemic functional linguistic perspective. It offers a detailed description of resources based on text analysis. The description reveals co-textual patterns of language features, their expressions through grammatical resources, as well as their ...
Systemic Functional Language Description: Making Meaning Matter
1st Edition
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By J.R. Martin, Y.J. Doran, Giacomo Figueredo
September 30, 2021
This volume showcases previously unpublished research on theoretical, descriptive, and methodological innovations for understanding language patterns grounded in a Systemic Functional Linguistic perspective. Featuring contributions from an international range of scholars, the book demonstrates...
Casting a Minimalist Eye on Adjuncts
1st Edition
By Stefanie Bode
August 02, 2021
This book offers a comprehensive account of adjuncts in generative grammar, seeking to reconcile the differing ways in which they have been treated in the past by proposing a method of analysis grounded in simplification based on Simplest Merge. The volume provides an up-to-date review of the ...
Approaches to the Study of Sound Structure and Speech: Interdisciplinary Work in Honour of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk
1st Edition
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By Magdalena Wrembel, Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak, Piotr Gąsiorowski
June 30, 2021
This innovative work highlights interdisciplinary research on phonetics and phonology across multiple languages, building on the extensive body of work of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk on the study of sound structure and speech. //The book features concise contributions from both established and ...
Externalization: Phonological Interpretations of Syntactic Objects
1st Edition
By Yoshihito Dobashi
June 30, 2021
This book explores theoretical issues of the syntax-phonology interface within the Minimalist Program of linguistic theory and proposes an entirely new approach to prosodic categories. Conceptual as well as empirical questions are addressed, concerning how syntactic objects are mapped to the ...
Heart- and Soul-Like Constructs across Languages, Cultures, and Epochs
1st Edition
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By Bert Peeters
June 30, 2021
All languages and cultures appear to have one or more "mind-like" constructs that supplement the human body. Linguistic evidence suggests they all have a word for someone, and another word for body, but that doesn’t mean that whatever else makes up a human being (i.e. someone) apart from the body ...