The k-effect

Taking up the phenomenon of romanization, this book’s comparative reading of Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Lu Xun, Franz Kafka, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer, proposes an important new way to assess the multi-lingual, multi-script coordinates of transnational modernism and modern print culture.

Animaliteration

A humorous book for children, full of crazy creatures in bizarre circumstances. With an animal for every letter of the alphabet, and funny stories to go with each one, alliteration has never been such fun! Prepare yourself for some terrific tongue-twisters, alphabetic athletics and amazingly adve...

The legal recognition of sign languages

This book presents the first comprehensive overview of national laws recognising sign languages, their impacts and the advocacy campaigns which led to their creation. Each chapter is grounded in a collaborative writing approach between deaf and hearing scholars and activists involved in legislati...

Critical perspectives on plurilingualism in deaf education

This book is the first edited international volume focused on critical perspectives on plurilingualism in deaf education, which encompasses education in and out of schools and across the lifespan. It explores issues such as bimodal bilingualism, translanguaging, teacher education, sign language i...

Towards a poetics of creative writing

This book is a study of the poetics of creative writing as a subject in the dramatically changing context of practice as research, taking into account the importance of the subjectivity of the writer as researcher. It explores creative writing and theory while offering critical antecedents, theor...

Making sense in sign

Language which develops ‘against all the odds’ is very precious. Words were not enough for Tom; it was signs that made sense of a world silenced by meningitis. Confidence came via joyful and positive steps to communication from babyhood; a brush with epilepsy, a cochlear implant in his teens and ...

Multilingual aspects of signed language communication and disorder

This book brings together work on communication disorders of child and adult users of signed languages. The chapters investigate linguistic impairments caused by deficits in visual processing and motor movements, as well as neurological decline. It also contains suggestions about how signed langu...

An interdisciplinary approach to the theory and practice of wildlife corridors

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Wildlife Corridors charts some best practices and makes new theoretical contributions about the design and creation of wildlife corridors. The book provides the necessary background for understanding habitat connectivity projects, and ma...

A no-nonsense guide to academic writing

Do you have a long essay, dissertation, or thesis to write? This short guide is for international students, mature students, all students uncertain as to how to proceed.

Chinese script

Thomas O. Höllmann explains the development of the Chinese writing system and its importance in literature, religion, art, and other aspects of culture. Spanning epigraphs and oracle bones to writing and texting, Chinese Script is a wide-ranging introduction to the complexity and beauty of writte...

Modern korean digraphia

William Strnad traces the formation and development of modern Korean digraphia during the years 1894–1972.

Chinese grammatology

For nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese script. In Chinese Grammatology, Yurou Zhong traces the origins, transmutations, and containment of this script revolution to provide a groundbreaking account of its formative effects on Chinese literature and culture an...

The techlash and tech crisis communication

The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication provides an in-depth analysis of the evolution of tech journalism. The emerging tech-backlash is a story of pendulum swings: we are currently in tech-dystopianism after a long period spent in tech-utopianism.

The medieval internet

This book sheds light on the world of the Internet and social media and their relationship with surveillance and control, through a historical prism drawn from the Medieval Age.

Metric culture

Data and metrics play an unmistakably powerful role in today’s society. Over the years, their use has expanded to cover almost every sphere of everyday life. This book provides a critical investigation into what we can call a “metric culture” in which practices of self-tracking and quantification...

Nirbhaya, new media and digital gender activism

Using the 2012 Delhi Nirbhaya rape case as a case study and keeping gender discourses at its core, this book explores the use of digital media for gender activism in India demonstrating how it has formed an alternate platform for dissent.

Multilingual metal music

This multi-disciplinary book explores the textual analysis of heavy metal lyrics written in languages other than English including Japanese, Yiddish, Latin, Russian, Hungarian, Austrian German, and Norwegian. Topics covered include national and minority identity, politics, wordplay, parody, local...

Sameness and repetition in contemporary media culture

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Our culture has an uneasy relationship with repetition and sameness. On the one hand, we find familiarity pleasurable and soothing; on the other, we crave novelty and long for a sense of discovery. We blame algori...

Becoming digital

This book examines the convergence of Cloud Computing, Big Data, and the Internet of Things to forge the Next Internet. Ubiquitous computing enables universal communication, concentration of power, privacy erosion, environmental degradation, and massive automation and this title explores solving ...

The road to neofeudalism

Through an in-depth analysis of neofeudalism using empirical research, Patelis examines the Greek political party Syriza—the embodiment of collective subjectivity. Critical discussions dissect the link between Syriza and social movements, revealing its neofeudalist politics.

The "m" in citams@30

Volume 18 of Emerald Studies in Media and Communications celebrates the thirty year anniversary of the Communications, Information Technology, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.

Posthumanism in digital culture

This book explores the theories of transhumanism and posthumanism, two philosophies that deal with radically changing bodies, minds, and even the nature of humanity itself.

Children and mobile phones

This book examines research and relevant theory on the role of mobile phones in the lives of children and young people, how these technologies are used for different applications, the effects that mobile phones have on young people, and the challenges of regulating and controlling the technology ...

The quirks of digital culture

This book explores the quirks of digital culture. Through a series of short punchy chapters, it uses these quirks as momentary glimpses into the hidden dynamics of our swirling, highly mediated and often unfathomable cultural experiences.

Data excess in digital media research

Provoking an ethical reconsideration of what we do, or do not do, with excess data, this is a call to action for researchers and scholars to rethink how they conduct their research as the consequences of datafication grow ever more central to both our academic endeavours and our lives.

Beyond the digital divide

This book advances the understanding of the relationship between social inequality and Internet use by bringing forth a new, contextual approach. It encourages a rethinking of the information society theory, information policies, and the role of social science in the process of informatization.

Protest technologies and media revolutions

Contains an Open Access chapter. With chapters spanning from the Russian Revolution to the present day, this book considers how art, media and communication technologies have been operationalised to connect, mobilise, organize and inspire the masses in particular national, political, and economic...

Digital activism and cyberconflicts in nigeria

This book offers fresh insights on digital activism and cyberconflicts through a comparison of sociopolitical and ethnoreligious movements in Nigeria. Occupy Nigeria, Boko Haram and The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) highlight the digital and organizational aspects of con...

Mass mediated representations of crime and criminality

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume features social science research that examines the practices, patterns and messages related to representations of crime in mass media around the world.

Platform governance and social justice

Identifying four traditional approaches that have underpinned hate speech regulation in the contemporary digital landscape, Paloma Viejo Otero proposes a fifth approach called the Social Justice Approach (SJA), an original contribution to the field of research.

Theorizing criminality and policing in the digital media age

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS),this volume in Emerald Studies in Media and Communications features social science research on criminality, policing, and mass media in the digital age.

Contesting platform power

Contesting Platform Power explores the practices and discourses of data activists, by shifting focus from critical digital studies to critical platform studies through the theoretical lens of affordances, to understand the material means by which activist’s software and applications strives to em...

Digital life on instagram

Discussing the social uses of Instagram, this book shows how visuality is changing people’s perception of the world and their mediated lives, illustrating how the platform shapes new social relationships, marketing techniques, privacy and surveillance concerns, and representations of the self, ar...

Digital materialism

Digital materiality (digimat) proposes a set of basic principles for how we understand the world through digital processes. This short book sets out a methodical materialist understanding of digital technologies, where they come from, how they work, and what they do.

Communication as gesture

This book critiques current assumptions about 'communication', particularly digitally mediated communication, by re-examining conceptual foundations in rhetoric, linguistics, semiotics, information theory, and cybernetics. The result is a dimensional account of interaction that is at once both in...

Networks, hacking and media - citams@30

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume celebrates the section's thirtieth anniversary. It looks at the history of the section, reviews some of its most important themes, and sets the agen...

Social movements and media

This volume focuses on media and social movements. Contributing authors draw on cases as diverse as the Harry Potter Alliance to youth oriented, non-profit educational organizations to systematically assess how media environments, systems, and usage affect collective action in the 21st Century.

The korean vernacular story

Si Nae Park examines how the culture of Chosŏn Seoul gave rise to a new vernacular literary form (yadam), anonymously and unofficially circulating tales. She focuses on the collection Repeatedly Recited Stories of the East, which was written in a new medium in which Literary Sinitic is hybridized...

Racial exhaustion

How to build stamina to confront racial exhaustion and communicate differently about raceIn the wake of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, many Americans—regardless of race—find themselves exhausted by conversations about race and racism. People of color continue to bear the weight of ...

Planet digital

Explores how digitalization has transformed global media entertainment and the making of popular culturesIn the three decades since the rise of the global internet, digitalization has transformed how media are made, circulated, and consumed, reshaping culture on a planetary scale. Yet the story o...

Reading media

Innovative methods in textual analysis to decode today’s ever-expanding media landscapeReading Media: How to do Textual Analysis reinvigorates one of media and cultural studies’ most foundational methods at a moment when it is most needed, showing its continuing vitality by adapting it to new med...

Scandalize my name

From sapphire, mammy, and jezebel, to the angry black woman, baby mama, and nappy-headed ho, black female iconography has had a long and tortured history in public culture. The telling of this history has long occupied the work of black female theorists—much of which has been foundational in situ...

Virtual exchange as justice-oriented practices

This book brings a justice-oriented focus to virtual exchange, highlighting how equity, inclusion and critical awareness can be meaningfully integrated into global learning environments. Readers are introduced to diverse justice-based perspectives, frameworks, protocols, case studies and material...

Word and plan

John MacFarlane gives a novel expressivist account of vagueness and explores its implications for semantics, pragmatics, thought, and disagreement.

How metaphors shape biotechnology

This volume presents the proceedings of an interdisciplinary workshop at Braunschweig University of Technology in a collection of English and German articles (English summaries are provided for all German articles). Focusing on biotechnology, experts from biology, biotechnology, ethics, philosoph...

La delimitación morfológica, sintáctica y pragmática de las unidades léxicas

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied  Romance languages. The series publishes high-quality mo...

Für das erste schuljahr

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Für das erste Schuljahr" verfügbar.

The language of lawyers

Clarity of court proceedings is increasingly considered essential to both the efficiency and the quality of a modern judiciary. One particularly under-researched area is the language of pleadings, i.e., texts written by lawyers representing the parties in court. Building on the results of the Att...

New approaches to transcodification

The series explores the complexity and the interconnections of arts and languages by merging, comparing and contrasting themes from different sources, methodologies or fields of studies. Its main results derive from the “Arts, Languages, and Media: Translation and Transcodification” project but i...

Smart speaker im dialog

Die empirische, auf qualitative oder quantitative Korpusanalyse gestützte Beschreibung von geschriebener und gesprochener Sprache hat sich in der Sprachwissenschaft als zentrales Paradigma etabliert. Die Reihe bietet eine Plattform für synchron-linguistische Ansätze und interdisziplinäre Arbeiten...

Polarised discourse

Polarisation, the ideological positioning at extreme ends of a continuum actively combating opposite views, is a major concern these days as it spreads beyond the political sphere and permeates public discourse on current socio-political issues. Critical socio-cognitive approaches to discourse an...

Interpunktion im korpus

Dieser Band bietet eine korpuslinguistische Untersuchung und Beschreibung aller zwölf Interpunktionszeichen des Deutschen. Dabei wurden die genauen Fragestellungen für die jeweiligen Zeichen angepasst – die Anpassung kann durch einen neuen, veränderten Forschungsstand oder durch das jeweilige Zei...

Discourse approaches to gender-based violence

This volume illustrates how the adoption of discourse approaches can cast light on the complex and often subtle ways in which gender-based violence (GBV) discursively operates. The focus is on careful theorisations and empirical contributions that foreground GVB as a human rights violation motiva...

Exploring digitally-mediated communication with corpora

Specialized corpora of the language of Computer-mediated Communication and Social Media are increasingly vital for the analysis of the "unparalleled and rapidly evolving diversity in terms of speakers and settings" in digital contexts, as well as of "language evolution seen through the lens of us...

Quantitative perspective on stylistics

This book explores the syntactic variation across various styles and genres in contemporary written Czech using quantitative methods. The research is based on the large, balanced corpus, SYN2020, which is part of the Czech National Corpus. The aim is to demonstrate the potential of corpus-based q...

The pragmatics of metadiscourse

Mouton Series in Pragmatics (MSP) is a timely response to the growing demand for innovative and authoritative monographs and edited volumes from all angles of pragmatics. Recent theoretical work on the semantics/pragmatics interface, applications of evolutionary biology to the study of language, ...

»kinder können nicht mehr richtig schreiben!«

Die Buchreihe Linguistik – Impulse & Tendenzen (LIT) ist ein attraktives Forum für hochwertige Arbeiten zur Sprachwissenschaft – insbesondere zur germanistischen Linguistik. Sie sucht aktuelle Tendenzen aufzunehmen und widerzuspiegeln, gleichzeitig aber wegweisende Impulse für das Fach und se...

Legal language and the sea

While maritime law and law of the sea are highly-researched domains of law, there are few studies about the language associated with these fields. In a global society that is increasingly impacted by environmental, health, social, humanitarian, and political crises that partly unfold on the sea, ...

Language in social interaction

The central idea underlying the studies in this volume is that when speakers act in social context language acquires a social signature whose details have not yet been fully understood. This volume brings together eleven original, empirical studies in the fields of conversation analysis, interact...

The coloniality of language in digital humour

Humour has not yet been systematically analysed from a decolonial perspective. This book addresses the coloniality of language in online humour from an interdisciplinary decolonial linguistics approach that places attentional processes at the centre of the analysis. Its chapters contribute to lin...

Mastering m&a narratives

This book reimagines mergers and acquisitions as emotionally charged, narrative-driven processes rather than linear business events. Challenging traditional models that separate pre- and post-acquisition phases, it introduces a dynamic framework that emphasizes the sequence and emotional impact o...

Erkenntnisperspektiven und methoden der kommunikations- und mediengeschichte

Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge gehen auf eine gemeinsame Fachtagung des Instituts für Zeitungsforschung und der Fachgruppe Kommunikationsgeschichte der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK) im April 2022 zurück. Rahmenthema waren Erkenntnisperspe...

Language, borders and bordering practices / lenguaje, fronteras y prácticas de fronterización

Las fronteras no son solo líneas físicas en un mapa, sino divisiones y procesos sociales y simbólicos que se configuran continuamente a través del lenguaje y la interacción cotidiana. Este volumen bilingüe desafía las nociones estáticas y binarias de las fronteras, revelando cómo se construyen ...

Revalorizing occitan in the 21st century

Colonial ideologies, indigeneity, anti-racist discourses

Contemporary sociolinguistic theorizing is concerned with the study of social solidarity in differential contexts of power, so it must engage with protesting discourses and practices. In two volumes, Sociolinguistics of Protesting addresses the socio-discursivity of protesting from different geop...

Situated, historical, embodied semiosis

Situated, Historical, Embodied Semiosis offers a new synthesis of Peircean biosemiotics, empirical research on situated activity (including talk, gesture, and inscriptions), and intra-active frameworks for becoming-with. Examining and integrating a wide range of theory and research, the authors c...

Embodied histories, imagined worlds, emplaced resistance

Contemporary sociolinguistic theorizing is concerned with the study of social solidarity in differential contexts of power, so it must engage with protesting discourses and practices. In two volumes, Sociolinguistics of Protesting addresses the socio-discursivity of protesting from different geop...

»schizophrenie« in der alltagssprache

Der Terminus Schizophrenie hat seit seiner Prägung durch Eugen Bleuler im Jahr 1908 eine erstaunliche Verbreitung und Veränderung erfahren. Verhältnismässig rasch im Fach aufgenommen, gehört er bis heute zu den zentralen Diagnosetermini der Psychiatrie. Zugleich ist Schizophrenie zusammen mit sei...

Grammatik des modernen chinesisch

Das Standardwerk „Xiandai Hanyu" (现代汉语, Modernes Chinesisch) der Peking-Universität (1993/2018) gehört zu den prägenden sprachwissenschaftlichen Lehrwerken an Instituten für chinesische Sprache (中文系Zhongwen Xi) in der VR China.Die vorliegende komplette Übersetzung des umfangreichen Kapitels „Gram...

Information structure and discourse in generative grammar

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulte...

Lingua ex machina

An investigation of the connections between the parallel rise of modern Hebrew and modern mediaAfter lying dormant for two millennia as a mainly written language, Hebrew awoke from its literary slumber to become a living modern vernacular. This revitalization is unique and unprecedented in world ...

Hieroglyphs

Today the history of ancient Egypt is known around the world, recognisable in precious museum collections and countless retellings from popular culture. Yet for hundreds of years, from the late Roman Empire to the 19th century, the wonders of this ancient civilisation were frozen in time, locked ...