Based on ethnographic observations of encounters between social workers and people with whom they do not have a shared language, this book analyzes the impact of language discordance on the quality of professional service provision.
Based on ethnographic observations of encounters between social workers and people with whom they do not have a shared language, this book analyzes the impact of language discordance on the quality of professional service provision.
An engaging introduction to the study of spoken interaction, this book provides a thorough grounding in the theory and methodology of conversation analysis.
This book provides an in-depth look at pragmatic development by second language learners of French through their production of French discourse markers.
This book provides an in-depth look at pragmatic development by second language learners of French through their production of French discourse markers.
Para los aficionados a los temas lingüísticos, los de comunicación en general y la interpersonal en particular, siempre habrá un sinnúmero de temas atractivos para ser estudiados o analizados desde puntos distintos.
How to Do Discourse Analysis provides a comprehensive toolkit for conducting discourse analysis, offering 26 practical tools to examine how language is used to construct meaning, enact identities, and shape social realities.
This book examines the rise in popularity of fantasy literature in Taiwan and the crucial but often invisible role that translators have played in making this genre widely available.
Study abroad is now both an international industry and an experience that can have a deep impact on students' attitudes and approaches to second language learning.
This book explores ways in which common metaphors can play a detrimental role in everyday life; how they can grow in outsized importance to dominate their respective terrains and push out alternative perspectives; and how forms of resistance might act to contain their dominance.
First published in 1982, Languages of South Asia covers all important languages and language groups of the so-called Indian subcontinent (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan).
This book explores ways in which common metaphors can play a detrimental role in everyday life; how they can grow in outsized importance to dominate their respective terrains and push out alternative perspectives; and how forms of resistance might act to contain their dominance.
First published in 1982, Languages of South Asia covers all important languages and language groups of the so-called Indian subcontinent (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan).
An engaging introduction to the study of spoken interaction, this book provides a thorough grounding in the theory and methodology of conversation analysis.
Responding to Questions at Press Conferences makes clear how the spokespersons at China's diplomatic press conferences maneuver strategically in defining the issues in the empirical counterpart of the confrontation stage when responding to the journalists' questions and how this confrontational maneuvering is meant to be instrumental in convincing the intended audience.
Shifting attention away from policy achievements and effects on democracy, this book focuses on the charismatic function of populist discourse - comprising antagonistic narratives, transgressive style and appeals to the common people.
Shifting attention away from policy achievements and effects on democracy, this book focuses on the charismatic function of populist discourse - comprising antagonistic narratives, transgressive style and appeals to the common people.
This volume examines rhetorical conventions employed in mechanical engineering research to understand the knowledge-making principles of the discipline, as well as their expression within the research article.
This volume offers a critical discursive-argumentative framework that scrutinizes the discursive construction and, moreover, the argumentative justification of authoritarian attitudes on newspaper front pages in highly polarized times of multiple 'crises' in Greece.
Drawing on the author's experience as a sociolinguist and a mountain climber, this open access book shows how the expertise and affect-laden experience of Japanese rock climbers can be illuminated through linguistic methods and theories.
A groundbreaking collection by leading scholars that spans a broad range of social situations, cultural contexts, and analytic perspectivesThe contemporary landscape of discourse analysiswhich examines spoken, written, and multimodal communicationis so diverse that, as volume contributor Deborah Tannen observes, discourse has become almost synonymous with language and, for many scholars, extends well beyond it.
Original archival research invites new ways of understanding the rhetorics of the civil rights movementIn Liturgy of Change, Elizabeth Ellis Miller examines civil rights mass meetings as a transformative rhetorical, and religious, experience.
This book explores communication in emergency call and response centers, taking an approach drawn from Conversation Analysis to examine how call-takers answer calls and the ways in which dispatch is issued in different contexts.
Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English (SASE) presents the major theoretical developments in generative syntax and the empirical arguments motivating them.
By providing a contemporary understanding of theories on classroom dialogue through a sociocultural lens, Sybing offers innovative ways to observe and foster more engaged interaction between teacher and student, particularly in language learning contexts.
By providing a contemporary understanding of theories on classroom dialogue through a sociocultural lens, Sybing offers innovative ways to observe and foster more engaged interaction between teacher and student, particularly in language learning contexts.
