Combining the resources of new historicism, feminism, and postmodern textual analysis, Eric Mallin reveals how contemporary pressures left their marks on three Shakespeare plays written at the end of Elizabeths reign.
A historically, spatially and methodologically rich sub-field of sociolinguistics, Linguistic Landscapes (LL) is a rapidly evolving area of research and study.
The Anatomy of Drama by Alan Reynolds Thompson argues that drama, as an art form, is essential to the vitality of civilization, especially during times of global upheaval.
This book analyses how three artists - Adrian Piper, Nancy Spero and Mary Kelly - worked with the visual dimensions of language in the 1960s and 1970s.
Dieses Buch erklärt, wie Unternehmen mit Hilfe der Semiotik – der Lehre von den Zeichen – ihre digitalen Produkte und Dienstleistungen erfolgreicher machen können.
Anchored within current issues and debates in the field of Linguistic Landscape (LL) scholarship, this edited volume is concerned with politics of language and the semiotic construction of space in multilingual and multi-ethnic Asian countries.
This volume presents a knowledge-based approach to concept-level sentiment analysis at the crossroads between affective computing, information extraction, and common-sense computing, which exploits both computer and social sciences to better interpret and process information on the Web.
Key practitioners and researchers explore how people routinely and at particular sites are discursively constructed as deficient in ways that may affect their life chances.
Based on extensive and diverse material from 70 languages, and covering a range of previously undiscussed problems, this book provides a thorough analysis of how nominalization types interact with other structural features.
First published in 1992, this book evokes Pandora and Occam as metaphoric corner posts in an argument about language as discourse and in doing so, brings analytic philosophy to bear on issues of Continental philosophy, with attention to linguistic, semiological, and semiotic concerns.
This book offers an original new conception of visual story telling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in an encompassing dialogic system of embodied social behavior.
Bloomsbury Semiotics offers a state-of-the-art overview of the entire field of semiotics by revealing its influence on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives.
Azade Seyhan provides a concise, elegantly argued introduction to the critical theory of German Romanticism and demonstrates how its approach to the metaphorical and linguistic nature of knowledge is very much alive in contemporary philosophy and literary theory.
Modernism valorizes the marginal, the exile, the "e;other"e;-yet we tend to use writing from the most commonly read European languages (English, French, German) as examples of this marginality.
Themenheft / Special IssueUrban Semiotics: Zeichen-Landschaften und Streitgespräche im Stadt-Raum BerlinsUrban Discourse: Signs of Space and eristic Debates in Berlinvon Ernest W.
Literary Transvaluation: From Vergilian Epic to Shakespearean Tragicomedy is a meticulous exploration of literary influence, focusing on how Shakespeares works, especially Antony and Cleopatra, engage in a profound reimagining of Vergil's Aeneid.
This book focuses on case studies of vocabulary strategy use and presents an in-depth account of the vocabulary learning experiences of Chinese students in the UK.
This volume offers insights on experimental and empirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing on how negation is marked and how negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation.
This book provides a detailed model of both the discourse and knowledge of physics and offers insights toward developing pedagogy that improves how physics is taught and learned.
Countering impressions of Moses reinforced by Sigmund Freud in his epoch-making Moses and Monotheism, this concise, engaging work begins with the perception that the story of Moses is at once the most nationalist and the most multicultural of all foundation narratives.
This study advances a model for Critical Discourse Analysis which draws on Evolutionary Psychology and Cognitive Linguistics, applied in a critical analysis of immigration discourse.
Tristram Shandy's World: Sterne's Philosophical Rhetoric by John Traugott offers a major reappraisal of Laurence Sterne's most provocative work, arguing that Tristram Shandy is less a ';novel' than a sustained rhetorical performance.
This book presents 18 highly influential essays on Chinese literature and semiotics by Professor Zhao Yiheng, including his analysis and discussions of the development of Chinese literature and its characteristics from traditional to modern times.
