Language and Body in Place and Space
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. Through a detailed investigation of multimodal interaction among climbers, the book explores a number of significant sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological themes, including spatial frames of reference, intersubjectivity, chronotopic configurations, and poetic formations of talk. In doing so, it presents climbing as a condensed locus of human interactions in which the integrated analysis of semiotic processes brings to light a new set of relationships between humans and their surroundings. Grounded in an extended and focused participation in rock climbing activities and interviews with other climbers, Kuniyoshi Kataoka examines the assemblage of semiotic resources including the language, the body, and the space mediated by their climbing equipment and the surrounding environment. The result is a showcase of interdisciplinary multimodal approaches to climbing discourse analysis in and around the gravity-sensitive zone, ranging from expert climbers' instruction to novices, gossip and narratives on near-death experiences, to a multi-participant discussion of a critical accident. As well as demonstrating how language reflects extraordinary experiences on the vertical plane, the findings also offer a chance to learn more about climbing, which is attracting a growing number of participants and competitors worldwide.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under aCC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded byAichi University, Japan.
Using Literacy Strategies to Enhance Social Studies Education in Elementary Classrooms
Elementary teachers, often with their students for most or all of the day, have the opportunity to creatively integrate instruction across classes. In this text we explore meaningful pedagogical cross-over that goes beyond the surface level to build strong foundations and deep connections for teaching and learning in interdisciplinary ways.
Watch Your Words
Never before has humanity done so much talking... But is anyone listening? For that matter, are people ever speaking to each other?We need to acknowledge that speech, as we know it, has never been so debased. We live in a world full of empty, degraded, and potentially violent speech: a daily reality that confronts us in the workplace, in the media, on the streets, on the internet and in our political lives. Verbal clashes are commonplace, while proper dialogue is rare.G矇rald Garutti pushes for a return to a more constructive and responsible form of speech. He lays the groundwork for a humanistic approach: one which, contrary to the dominant culture of ignoring and humiliating others, emphasizes listening to them and mastering speech as a way of connecting. The arts of speech can contribute to the reconciliation of tensions in our society and to the realization of our full humanity.Watch Your Words is a stunning manifesto for anyone interested in how we might better communicate with each other.
Rethinking Your Writing
With its emphasis on both rhetoric and reflection, Rethinking Your Writing foregrounds the inquiry and decision-making processes that help writers succeed in today's writing task-and transfer that learning to the next one. Students are invited to move beyond "just do it" writing to more deliberately predict, problem-solve, and reflect throughout their process. Created from the start as an online book, Rethinking also helps support instructors as they engage students with many kinds of writing tasks, from typical first-year assignments like narratives and research-based arguments to writing that happens in response to more complex rhetorical situations, such as community-based writing, writing in multiple genres, and writing across disciplines: The modular, cross-linked design helps faculty assign and students locate information needed for any writing situation. In-depth, student-friendly sections guide students' thinking on vital but less visible elements of writing, such as threshold concepts, rhetorical analysis, reflective practice, peer review, writers' dispositions, critical reading, research processes, and questions of equity. A book-wide focus on how writers choose their approaches based on their goals, resources, and constraints supports learners who are exploring new genres and audiences, and lays the groundwork for discussion of how writers use tools like Generative AI. More than 70 innovative writing exercises help writers explore and practice relevant strategies. In Rethinking Your Writing, E. Shelley Reid provides a versatile guide that can be tailored to the needs of almost any course or classroom. Whether you select a single module to supplement your current resources or use the text throughout your course, this book is designed to help you engage your students and deepen their understanding of how writers learn and succeed in school, their careers, and beyond.
A Taxonomy of Cognitive Semantics
Cognitive semantics is a relatively new field whose central concern is how language structures conceptual content. This book aims to approach the field comprehensively and outline its main contours. It both summarizes previous research and presents novel analyses. The main issues it covers range from concept structuring mechanisms, through crosslinguistic contrasts of concepts, to relations across cognitive faculties. Along the way, it examines communication systems, including gesture and signed language; diachronic change from long to short-term; differences between universal, typological, and language-specific features; ten conceptual categories represented by closed-class forms; and tropes as a form of "constructive discrepancy".
The Complete Pleasury of Word and Phrase Origins
To the man or woman who knows its origin, each word presents a picture, no matter how ordinary it may appear. Best-selling language author Richard Lederer passionately and humorously presents illuminating stories about the histories and mysteries of everyday words and phrases. In this hardcover book, Dr. Lederer illuminates the history and mystery of everyday words and expressions, organizing these etymologies into thirteen thematic clusters, including body parts; wild kingdom; entertainment, land, sea, air, and beyond; politics; sports; science; and religion.Typical of Richard Lederer's brand of language dressed up to have fun, be prepared to laugh as you learn.
Lost Tongues of the Red River
Among the world's languages, Vietnamese provides unique insight into the cosmopolitan dynamism of premodern Asia. Modern notions of language history are often constrained by nationalist narratives, focused on bolstering a particular nation's social, cultural, or political identities. A closer look at the Vietnamese language reveals a rich record of interaction and transformation that does not fit easily within modern nation-state lines or boundaries. By employing philological, textual, and comparative linguistic methodologies, John D. Phan uncovers the history of a Sinitic language rooted in the Red River Plain of northern Vietnam, which he calls "Annamese Middle Chinese." The life and death of this language stimulated dramatic transformations in the speech of the region, ultimately giving rise to a new and alloyed language over the early centuries of the second millennium--Vietnamese. Drawing connections among linguistic, demographic, intellectual, and cultural realities over time, Phan traces the story of the emergence of Vietnamese within the broader context of a cosmopolitan East and Southeast Asia. Lost Tongues of the Red River demonstrates how language forms a surprisingly intimate record of human interaction--one with unique potential to enrich and expand our understanding of the distant past.
Multidisciplinary Insights Into Translation Studies
The book explores translation theory, the translation industry's current state and potential future, and translation research and pedagogy. It delves into disruptive technologies, globalisation, and changing market trends that are shaping translation studies. The book highlights significant advancements in the translation industry and translation training technology, particularly machine translation and artificial intelligence in practice, focusing on interdisciplinary human-based approach and its impact on the increased demand for translations. The book offers views on new opportunities for labour positions in the translation industry and training models that should be carried out to corresponding research. Moreover, the book emphasises the increasing demand for translation services in selected domains and niche industries. While acknowledging the potential disruptions brought by technological advancements, the ideas presented in the book underline the importance of adaptability and continuous learning for language professionals. It calls for the education system to embrace the challenges and equip future language professionals with the necessary skills to thrive in a changing landscape. The presented concepts aim to encourage readers to embrace technological advancements, human cooperation, specialisation in niche areas, and actively participate in professional networking to contribute significantly to the growth of the fast-evolving language industry. This book is intended for curricula designers at universities, academics and students in the fields of translatology, philology, linguistics, humanities, languages, and cultural studies, and trainers of translation and interpreting. This book is also useful for lexicographers and terminographers, and freelancers in LSP.
International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction
Die seit 2004 erscheinende Zeitschrift hat die historisch-vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft und vergleichende Rekonstruktion insbesondere der indogermanischen Sprachen zum Gegenstand. Gelegentlich finden aber auch andere Sprachen Raum, wie etwa das Tungusische oder die Nordwestkaukasische Sprachen. Zudem widmet sich die Zeitschrift der philologischen Erschlieaung linguistisch bedeutsamer Texte in alteren Sprachen. Das Spektrum wird erweitert durch methodische Diskussionsbeitrage zur historisch-vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft und linguistischen Rekonstruktion.
Publishing Confidential
Any number of books explain ""how to write a book,"" but getting a book published is the hard part. Aside from talent, writers need a strategy for distinguishing their efforts from countless others. (No, don't use pink paper.) Paul B. Brown has been an author on a dozen books with sales totaling more than 2 million copies. So you could say he knows what it takes. In Getting Published, Brown offers a straightforward approach to test-marketing book ideas, creating strong proposals, reaching the right editors and agent, and more. Equally important, he provides inside tips for how to become an integral part of the publisher's marketing and sales efforts. The book also gives pointers on nontraditional arrangements such as self- and subsidy-based publishing. The book's many valuable tools include sample contract language, a fully annotated book proposal, and exercises to help authors identify what they may be doing right and wrong. With abundant humor and unparalleled insight, Brown debunks the myths and misconceptions in favor of trustworthy and effective advice.
Bodleian Libraries: Hobbies & Pastimes Bookshelves (Foiled Dot Grid Journal)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: White Rabbit (Foiled Blank Journal)
New title in the Flame Tree Blank Notebook collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, and featuring blank pages, a pocket at the back and two ribbon bookmarks. Perfect slipped into handbags, for personal use or as a dazzling gift. A FLAME TREE BLANK NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production and FSC-certified paper with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year. BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red end-papers, all FSC-certified. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table. PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Blank Notebooks come with practical features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list and robust ivory text paper. THE ARTIST. This illustration features the White Rabbit as Herald at the trial, after the design by Sir John Tenniel for the first edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Carroll's novel remains one of the best-loved fantasy tales, with his characters enjoying an enduring legacy in popular imagination. THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Georgia Breeze: Bookshelves (Foiled Blank Journal)
New title in the Flame Tree Blank Notebook collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, and featuring blank pages, a pocket at the back and two ribbon bookmarks. Perfect slipped into handbags, for personal use or as a dazzling gift. A FLAME TREE BLANK NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production and FSC-certified paper with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year. BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red end-papers, all FSC-certified. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table. PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Blank Notebooks come with practical features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list and robust ivory text paper. THE ARTIST. Based in the coastal town of Bude, North Cornwall, Georgia Breeze studied art at Falmouth College and went on to specialize in textiles and surface pattern design. After running her own hand-finished greeting cards business, she now focuses on creating designs that explore her love of colour and pattern design. THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Deliberating Ghana
In the early 2010s electoral disputes in Ghana garnered global attention and raised questions concerning the nature and future of democratic practice in postcolonial countries. In Deliberating Ghana: Postcolonial Rhetorics, Culture, and Democracy Stephen Kwame Dadugblor examines these disputes as they unfolded in Ghana's Supreme Court and in the public domain. Reading a diverse set of materials including courtroom discourse, social media artifacts, documentaries, parliamentary records, and op-eds, Dadugblor theorizes a cultural imaginaries orientation as a viable approach for understanding and decolonizing knowledge of democratic practice frequently tethered to Western epistemologies and conceptions. Organized around four key ideas about deliberation--the notion of speech, the utility of genre, the promises and perils of digital political participation, and the politics of memory--Deliberating Ghana situates rhetorical studies of democracy within African epistemologies, calling attention to how centering the postcolony can contribute to moving beyond well-worn binaries of West/non-West in studies of rhetoric, democracy, and deliberation, and toward decolonial possibilities. It offers fresh perspectives on foregrounding a society's indigenous knowledge and the messiness of its socio-political and rhetorical traditions to intervene in debates about the politics of knowledge production.
Political Argumentation in Early America
This book investigates the language used by protagonists in four major political debates in the early history of the United States. The first of these concerns the controversy in the first United States House of Representatives in the summer of 1789 on whether a proposal for a bill of rights should be considered in an expeditious fashion or whether the issue should be left till much later. The second is the principal debate on whether a sedition act should be enacted in July 1798, and the third concerns the enactment of the Logan Act of 1799. The fourth investigates the elections for the Legislature of the State of New York in the spring of 1800, which was the key event affecting the outcome of the presidential election of 1800. In each case there was a sharp disagreement between groups of politicians representing different points of view, and each event was significant from the point of view of the political history of the United States. The authors introduce these four debates, as well as the notion of informal fallacy - taken to designate an argument that is unsatisfactory in some way - before analysing deceptive fallacies and demonstrating how fallacy theory can be used as a critical tool in the examination of political argumentation. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political communication, rhetoric and argumentation, US history and politics, and diachronic linguistics, especially diachronic pragmatics.
Digitally-assisted Historical English Linguistics
This collection features different perspectives on how digital tools are changing our understanding of language varieties, language contact, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and dialectology through the lens of different historical contexts.
Multimodality Studies in International Contexts
This collection responds to the need for theoretically informed and methodologically grounded empirical research on the global transformations in multimodal human communication and social practices.
Frontiers in Technology-Mediated Language Learning
This edited volume is designed to showcase a selection of recent cutting-edge innovations. This publication incorporates chapters dealing with the use virtual reality, social networking, speech technologies and social semiotics.
Language, Celebrity Fandom, and Political Activism in Chinese Media
This book examines antagonistic fan communication on Chinese social media, focusing on the sociolinguistic dimensions and digital strategies in fandom discourse of Chinese celebrities to engage in broader questions around language, social media, and fan culture.
Circulation, Translation and Reception Across Borders
This volume offers a detailed analysis of selected cases in the reception, translation, and artistic reinterpretation of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1972) around the world.
A Qualitative Approach to Translation Studies
This collection explores innovative or underexploited ways of working qualitatively with what in Translation Studies may be termed as elusive constructs. This book will be of interest to scholars in translation studies.
Theorizing and Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics
This collection reflects the field of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as embodied in the work of key figure Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen. This book is ideal for students and scholars in systemic functional linguistics.
Multimodal Literacy in English as an Additional Language in Higher Education
Multimodal Literacy in English as an Additional Language in Higher Education addresses three key aspects of multimodal literacy in higher education; identifying what is understood by multimodal literacy, its teachability in the EAL context, and how to integrate multimodal competence into professional development programmes.This edited collection provides a diverse and international perspective on multimodal literacy development in both students and teachers in higher education settings. The volume is organised into three parts; the first examines the concept of multimodal literacy at university level from different perspectives; the second focuses on students, with examples of how multimodal literacy pedagogies in EAL courses can be meaningfully applied; and the third explores the design and implementation of EAL teachers' professional development programmes which promote and enhance multimodal literacy. Multimodal Literacy in English as an Additional Language in Higher Education paves the way for the integration of multimodal literacy theories and practices in the different EAL curricula.This innovative volume brings together both theory and practical application, and is essential reading for researchers, postgraduate students, and teachers and teacher trainers in the fields of language teaching, language learning, and education.
