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  • Women, Language and Politics

    by Sylvia Shaw ...
    This book addresses the problem of the underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains inequality in political institutions. Drawing on different political genres from televised debates to parliamentary question times, and fifty interviews with politicians between 1998 and 2018, the book identifies the barriers and obstacles women face by ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Gender, Power and Political Speech

    Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election

    by Deborah Cameron, Sylvia Shaw ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Gender, Power and Political Speech explores the influence of gender on political speech by analyzing the performances of three female party leaders who took part in televised debates during the 2015 UK General Election campaign. The analysis considers similarities and differences between the women and their male colleagues, as well as between the women themselves; it also discusses the way gender ... Read more

    $83.29 CAD

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    Applications and Implications

    by G. Barnbrook, O. Mason, R. Krishnamurthy ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and applications of the concept as language model and analytical tool. It provides a definitive survey of currently available techniques and a detailed description of their implementation. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Discourse of Politics in Action

    Politics as Usual

    by R. Wodak ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    An interdisciplinary study providing first-hand evidence of the everyday lives of politicians; what politicians actually do on 'the backstage' in political organizations. The book offers answers to the widely discussed phenomena of disenchantment with politics and depoliticization. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Communicating through Vague Language

    A Comparative Study of L1 and L2 Speakers

    by Grace Q. Zhang, Peyman G.P. Sabet ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is a comparative study of vague language based on naturally occurring data of L1 and L2 speakers in academic settings. It explores how L2 learners have diverse and culturally specific needs for vague language compared with L1s, and are generally vaguer. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Address Practice As Social Action

    European Perspectives

    Edited by C. Norrby, C. Wide ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    How we address one another says a great deal about our social relationships and which groups in society we belong to. This edited volume examines address choices in a range of everyday interactions taking place in Dutch, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Italian and the two national varieties of Swedish, Finland Swedish and Sweden Swedish.The chapter 'Introduction: Address as Social Action Across ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Argumentation and Language — Linguistic, Cognitive and Discursive Explorations

    Edited by Steve Oswald, Thierry Herman, Jérôme Jacquin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume focuses on the role language plays at all levels of the argumentation process. It explores the effects that specific linguistic choices may have in the production and the reception of arguments and in doing so, it moves beyond the first, necessary, descriptive stance provided by current literature on the topic. Each chapter provides an original take illuminating one or more of the ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Metaphor and the Historical Evolution of Conceptual Mapping

    by R. Trim ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    An investigation of the historical evolution of figurative language within the framework of cognitive linguistics. It examines how and why metaphors evolve through the ages; discusses the role of culture; patterns of metaphor evolution; how many people use particular expressions. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Articulations of Self and Politics in Activist Discourse

    A Discourse Analysis of Critical Subjectivities in Minority Debates

    by Jan Zienkowski ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book focuses on the discursive processes that allow activists to make sense of themselves and of the modes of politics they engage in. It shows how political and metadiscursive awareness develop in tandem with a reconfiguration of one’s sense of self. The author offers an integrated pragmatic and poststructuralist perspective on self and subjectivity. He draws on Essex style discourse theory, ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Framing the Rhetoric of a Leader

    An Analysis of Obama’s Election Campaign Speeches

    by M. Degani ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Based on a selection of 30 election campaign speeches during Obama's first run for the American presidency in 2008, this book investigates the Democratic presidential candidate's much celebrated rhetoric from a cognitive semantics point of view. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Analysing Structure in Academic Writing

    by Tomoko Sawaki ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book breaks through formalistic traditions to propose a new generic structure analytical framework for academic writing. The integrated approach, taking lessons from cognitive linguistics and structuralism, offers a foundation for establishing research and pedagogy that can promote diversity and inclusion in academia. The simplicity of the flexible structure analytical model proposed by ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Minimal English for a Global World

    Improved Communication Using Fewer Words

    Edited by Cliff Goddard ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book introduces a new tool for improving communication and promoting clearer thinking in a world where the use of Global English can create numerous comprehension and communication issues. Based on research findings from cross-linguistic semantics, it contains essays and studies by leading experts exploring the value and application of ‘Minimal English’ in various fields, including ethics, ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD