This collection highlights new perspectives on the work of Erving Goffman, revisiting his place in contemporary social theory and interactional linguistics research and its impact in surfacing new insights in conversation analysis and our understanding of Goffman's legacy.
Teaching with Dystopian Text propounds an exchange of spatial to pedagogical practices centered around "e;Orwellian Spaces,"e; signaling a new utility for teaching with dystopian texts in secondary education.
This collection explores the communicative dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, redressing the absence of perspectives from Africa and the Global South in pandemic discourses and highlighting the importance of considering the impact of local contexts in global crises.
Scholars routinely describe how Martin Luther prioritized the books of the New Testament that he believed most truly represented the gospel, the Living Word of Jesus Christ.
To date, there has been no comprehensive and coherent approach to determining the communicative and precommunicative processes involved in the construction of group identities.
An invaluable reflection on the essence of liberal democracy-and an ideal introduction to the work of political philosopher Raymond AronLiberty and Equality is the first English translation of the last lecture delivered at the College de France by Raymond Aron, one of the most influential political and social thinkers of the twentieth century.
This book defines and analyzes the content, structure, and values of three predominant types of public discourse, which are labeled Doublespeak, Salespeak, and Sensationspeak.
This book explores a new approach to understanding the evolution of mind and consciousness by examining the perceptual abilities of animals and the way they experience their world.
This book addresses the problems and challenges of studying the discourse of "e;danger"e; cross-linguistically and cross-culturally, and proposes the cultural pragmatics of danger as a new field of inquiry.
This volume develops a theory of meaning and a semantics for both mathematical and empirical sentences inspired to Chomsky's internalism, namely to a view of semantics as the study of the relations of language not with external reality but with internal, or mental, reality.
This book describes language testing practices that exist in the intermediate space between large-scale standardized testing and classroom assessment, an area that is rarely addressed in language testing literature.
This volume highlights the shortcomings concerning literacy development in Africa and collates the current available literature based on empirical research in various countries in a coherent manner.
Focused on Ahmad Ibn 'Ajiba - an eighteenth-century Moroccan Sufi scholar renowned for his contribution to Sufi Qur'anic exegesis - this book engages critically with his theory of divine love to elucidate his impact on the wider field of Qur'anic scholarship.
Focused on Ahmad Ibn 'Ajiba - an eighteenth-century Moroccan Sufi scholar renowned for his contribution to Sufi Qur'anic exegesis - this book engages critically with his theory of divine love to elucidate his impact on the wider field of Qur'anic scholarship.
This book brings together a range of hip hop scholars, artists and activists working on Hip Hop in the Global North and South with the goal of advancing Hiphopographic research as a critical methodology with critical fieldwork methods that can provide a critical perspective of our world.
This volume highlights the shortcomings concerning literacy development in Africa and collates the current available literature based on empirical research in various countries in a coherent manner.
This volume provides an overview of current issues in English as an International Language (EIL) education and critical intercultural literacy pedagogy.
Young people who feel marginalized due to physical differences or disabilities may benefit from discovering fictional characters who face similar difficulties.
This book is about rules, and especially about human capability to create, maintain and follow rules, as a root of what makes us humans different from other animals.
Are you bothered by the bad grammar, emoticons, acronyms, and poor spelling that are ubiquitous in cyberspace, and especially prevalent in teen communications?
This book brings together a range of hip hop scholars, artists and activists working on Hip Hop in the Global North and South with the goal of advancing Hiphopographic research as a critical methodology with critical fieldwork methods that can provide a critical perspective of our world.
Leading scholars summarize the current research on risk, protection, and resilience in the context of youth violence and its implications for practice with children and families.
To date, there has been no comprehensive and coherent approach to determining the communicative and precommunicative processes involved in the construction of group identities.
This long-needed sourcebook assesses the unique styles and themes of notable African-American orators from the mid-19th century to the present-of 43 representative public speakers, from W.
The first reference book written for the sight-impaired student and those who serve their needs, A Field Guide for the Sight-Impaired Reader explains how to locate, obtain, and integrate all forms of aid to construct a world of reading equal to that of the fully sighted reader.
Using psychological theory and the author's direct experience working with at-risk youth, this book answers the questions on the minds of anyone shocked and appalled by the events of the Boston Marathon bombings.
