Semiotics / semiology

To suppose that God has a providential plan based on a special covenant with Israel and realised in the atonement presents us with a moral problem.

Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists.

Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists.

Three churches have recently produced liturgies for 'extended communion'.

Three churches have recently produced liturgies for 'extended communion'.

Some of the most innovative writers of contemporary literature are writing in diaspora in their second or third language.

This title, first published in 1990, argues for the existence of a significant connection between the theories of literature and culture of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975) and Iurii Mikhailovich Lotman (1922-1993).

The Eiffel Tower-this symbol of industrial development and the French Republic is now associated with a romantic vacation in Paris.

The Eiffel Tower-this symbol of industrial development and the French Republic is now associated with a romantic vacation in Paris.

MARY SHELLEY's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus grew out of a parlor game and a nightmare vision.

Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North American colonies.

In recent decades, what is known as 'the subject' has been problematized by various old and new materialisms and today appears as decentered in and by language, split by the unconscious, deformed by social forces, governed by ideology and is either seen to have succumbed to the postmodern condition or to never have existed in the first place.

Contributions in this book illustrate the many methods available for researching language in context and for the analysis of everyday text types.

This book offers an innovative approach to analysing written texts, grounded in principles of semiotics.

This book advances our understanding of change over time in human social conduct, and represents the first consolidated effort to reveal how micro-analytic studies of social interaction address such issues.

This book examines how identities associated with cycling are evoked, narrated and negotiated in a media context dominated by digital environments.

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.

This book documents changes and trends in English predicate complementation.

Abbe Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of French and American sign language.

This book offers original corpus research in a range of workplace contexts including office-based settings, call center interactions and healthcare communication.

This is a methodical study of the material and mental limits and possibilities of transferring information and media traits among dissimilar media.

This book introduces readers to linguistic stylistic analysis and combines both literary and linguistic analysis to explore suspense in crime fiction.

This book examines the extent to which the insights of STS can be used to analyse the role of architecture in and for social life.

This book presents the latest work in the field of complementation studies.

Public Service Interpreting is a hugely complex activity, encompassing human, ethical, commercial and political dimensions.

This book presents developments of discourse analysis in France and applies its tools to key texts from five theorists of structuralism: Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida and Sollers.

This book engages with deictics ('pointing' words like here/there, this/that) of space.

This collection of original articles covers a range of research connecting with the work of the eminent linguist Ruqaiya Hasan.

Teaching and Learning Signed Languages examines current practices, contexts, and the research nexus in the teaching and learning of signed languages, offering a contemporary, international survey of innovations in this field.

This book focuses on strategies and procedures for assessing the academic language ability of students entering an English-medium university, so that those with significant needs can have access to opportunities to enhance their language skills.

This book combines an authoritative examination of the field of discourse-based research with practical guidance on research design and development.

This book defines the notion of applied sign linguistics by drawing on data from projects that have explored sign language in action in various domains.

This book presents the first computer program automating the task of componential analysis of kinship vocabularies.

Victor Dudman's revolutionary English Grammar brings grammar and logic together by conceiving grammar as 'the necessary preliminary to logic'.

Drawing on a variety of film semiotic theories, this book sheds light on works by mainland Chinese directors, Hong Kong New Wave directors, Taiwan New Cinema directors, and overseas Chinese directors.

In Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales, the author examines the intricate relationship between laughter, fiction, and the human condition in Chaucer's work.

First Published in 2005.

First Published in 2005.

This is a semiotic study of a corpus of texts that Kumarajiva (344-413 CE), Paramartha (499~569 CE) and Xuanzang (599~664 CE) transmitted from India to China, featuring a critical reading of the Dazhidu Lun (T1509, Maha-Prajnaparamita-upadeua-Uastra), San Wuxing Lun (T1617, Try-asvabhava-prakara.

This is a semiotic study of a corpus of texts that Kumarajiva (344-413 CE), Paramartha (499~569 CE) and Xuanzang (599~664 CE) transmitted from India to China, featuring a critical reading of the Dazhidu Lun (T1509, Maha-Prajnaparamita-upadeua-Uastra), San Wuxing Lun (T1617, Try-asvabhava-prakara.

This study reveals the world of Sufi ritual with particular reference to two major Sufi orders.

This study reveals the world of Sufi ritual with particular reference to two major Sufi orders.

The phenomenon of multimodality has, as Jewitt observes, generated interest "e;across many disciplines.

The phenomenon of multimodality has, as Jewitt observes, generated interest "e;across many disciplines.

First Published in 2002.

First Published in 2002.

Studies of multimodality have significantly advanced our understanding of the potential of different semiotic resources-verbal, visual, aural, and kinetic-to make meaning and allow people to achieve various social purposes such as persuading, entertaining, and explaining.

Studies of multimodality have significantly advanced our understanding of the potential of different semiotic resources-verbal, visual, aural, and kinetic-to make meaning and allow people to achieve various social purposes such as persuading, entertaining, and explaining.

Examines the role of God in medieval Islamic philosophy and theology in a new and exciting way.

Examines the role of God in medieval Islamic philosophy and theology in a new and exciting way.