Metaphor and Discourse (Musolff A.)(Pevná vazba)

Metaphor and Discourse (Musolff A.)(Pevná vazba)

The contributors present a coherent collection of work on the functioning of metaphor in public discourse and related discourse areas from a broadly cognitive-linguistic background, providing a state-of-the-art overview of research on the discursive grounding of metaphor from a cognitive-linguistic

In Permanent Transit: Discourses and Maps of the Intercultural Experience (Brusaca Sara)(Pevná vazba)

In Permanent Transit: Discourses and Maps of the Intercultural Experience builds interdisciplinary approaches to the study of migrations, traffics, globalisation, communication, regulations, arts, literature, and other intercultural processes, in the context of past and present times. The book

Implicitness - From lexis to discourse(Pevná vazba)

Analysing Political Speeches: Rhetoric, Discourse and Metaphor (Charteris-Black Jonathan)(Paperback)

Considers how traditional approaches such as cohesion and classical rhetoric may be integrated with 'critical' approaches to discourse analysis such as critical metaphor analysis. Presents a range of critical and discourse theories and considers the relationships between linguistic features of

The Real Economy: Essays in Ethnographic Theory (Neiburg Federico)(Paperback)

This collection highlights a key metaphor in contemporary discourse about economy and society. The contributors explore how references to reality and the real economy are linked both to the utopias of collective well-being, supported by real monies and good economies, and the dystopias of financial

Discourse and Truth and Parresia (Foucault Michel)(Pevná vazba)

This volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault late in his career. The book is composed of two parts: a talk, Parrēsia, delivered at the University of Grenoble in 1982, and a series of lectures entitled 'Discourse and Truth,' given at the University

Contemporary Boat Migration: Data, Geopolitics, and Discourses (Burroughs Elaine)(Pevná vazba)

This book explores contemporary migration by boat through the intertwined, and under-explored, elements of empirical data, governance and geopolitics, and

The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment (Chico Tita)(Pevná vazba)

This book shows how British Enlightenment writers and thinkers used science as a metaphor to reconfigure evidence and authority, to reimagine the self and society, and to present literary knowledge as a form of

Digital Media and the Greek Crisis: Cyberconflicts, Discourses and Networks (Ferra Ioanna)(Pevná vazba)

This book concentrates on the parallel evolution of debt crisis and digital communications in Greece. By examining four different online and social media platforms, it uncovers the impact of digital media on the contentious politics of crisis, as well as the impact of the political economic sphere

The Materiality of Interaction: Notes on the Materials of Interaction Design (Wiberg Mikael)(Pevná vazba)

A new approach to interaction design that moves beyond representation and metaphor to focus on the material manifestations of interaction.Smart watches, smart cars, the Internet of things, 3D printing: all signal a trend toward combining digital and analog materials in design. Interaction with

Risk, Language, and Power: The Nanotechnology Environmental Policy Case (Morris Jeffery T.)(Pevná vazba)

Risk, Language, and Power explores discourse around the environmental risks of nanotechnology, making the case that the dominance in risk discourse of regulatory science is a limiting policy debate on environmental risks, and that specific initiatives should be undertaken to broaden debate not just

Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture (Netz Reviel)(Pevná vazba)

Greek culture matters because its unique pluralistic debate shaped modern discourses. This ground-breaking book explains this feature by retelling the history of ancient literary culture through the lenses of canon, space and scale. It proceeds from the invention of the performative 'author' in the

Vibrant Learning: An Integrative Approach to Teaching Content Area Disciplines (Wellman Debra K.)(Pevná vazba)

Vibrant Learning focuses on creating language-rich and literacy-based classrooms where discourse, explaining and justifying, is the norm in all of the content

News Framing of School Shootings: Journalism and American Social Problems (McCluskey Michael)(Pevná vazba)

News discourse helps us understand society and how we respond to traumatic events. News Framing of School Shootings: Journalism and American Social Problems provides insights into how we come to understand broad societal issues like gun control, the influence of violent media on children, the role

Political Discourse in Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Boyce D. G.)(Pevná vazba)

This collection explores the complex political thinking of a fundamental period of Irish history. It moves from the political, religious and military turmoil of the seventeenth century, through the years of the protestant ascendancy, to the revolutionary events at the end of the eighteenth century

Current Approaches to Metaphor Analysis in Discourse (Navarro I. Ferrando Ignasi)(Paperback)

This volume takes up the challenge of surveying the present state of a variety of approaches to the identification, analysis and interpretation of metaphor across communication channels, situational contexts, genres and social spheres. It reflects three foremost trends of present metaphor research,

Discourse and Diversionary Justice: An Analysis of Youth Justice Conferencing (Zappavigna Michele)(Pevná vazba)

This book analyses the Youth Justice Conferencing Program in New South Wales, Australia. Exploring this form of diversionary justice from the perspectives of functional linguistics and performance studies, the authors combine close textual analysis with ethnographic research methodologies. They

Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method (Jorgensen Marianne W.)(Paperback)

Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method is a systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research. It brings together three central approaches, Laclau and Mouffe′s discourse theory, critical discourse analysis and discursive psychology, in order to

Porous City - From Metaphor to Urban Agenda(Pevná vazba)

Mit 'Porosit t' benannten Walter Benjamin und Asja Lacis einst Neapels Eigenschaften: R ume gehen ineinander ber, bieten Spielr ume f r Unvorhergesehenes, Improvisation ist Alltag. Heute wird der Begriff Porosit t mit Bezug auf diesen Kontext zunehmend konzeptionell verwendet. Renommierte Autoren

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors (Sontag Susan)(Paperback)

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as one of the most liberating books of its time. A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the

Garden of Earthly Delights (Rosenthal Stephanie)(Pevná vazba)

The garden as a metaphor for the state of the world, in an exploration of the complexities of our chaotic and increasingly precarious present. Text in English and

On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death (Amery Jean)(Pevná vazba)

' . . . a moving, deep series of insights into the suicide's world . . . ' --Kirkus ReviewsJean Am ry (Auschwitz survivor and author of At the Mind's Limits) thought of On Suicide as a continuation of the kind of reflections on mortality he had laid down in On Aging. But here he probes further and

Discourses on Livy (Machiavelli Niccol)(Paperback)

Discourses on Livy is the founding document of modern republicanism, and Harvey C. Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov have provided the definitive English translation of this classic work. Faithful to the original Italian text, properly attentive to Machiavelli's idiom and subtlety of thought, it is

An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method (Gee James Paul)(Paperback)

Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis examines the field and presents James Paul Gee's unique integrated approach which