Tag: Discourse

Free Download Faizullah Jan, "The Muslim Extremist Discourse: Constructing Us versus Them"
English | ISBN: 1498520375 | 2015 | 180 pages | EPUB | 308 KB

Free Download Sharon L. Snyder, "Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse"
English | 2001 | pages: 230 | ISBN: 0472067486, 0472097482 | PDF | 1,2 mb
Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the perpetual circulation of images of disability in print and visual media. The manuscript’s six chapters offer comparative readings of key texts in the history of disability representation, including the tin soldier and lame Oedipus, Montaigne’s "infinities of forms" and Nietzsche’s "higher men," the performance history of Shakespeare’s Richard III, Melville’s Captain Ahab, the small town grotesques of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio and Katherine Dunn’s self-induced freaks in Geek Love.David T. Mitchell is Associate Professor of Literature and Cultu

Free Download Eleonora Esposito, "Discourse in the Digital Age "
English | ISBN: 1032292725 | 2023 | 312 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 9 MB

Free Download Elizabeth Turner, "The Discourse of Protest, Resistance and Social Commentary in Reggae Music: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Pacific Reggae "
English | ISBN: 036742326X | 2021 | 142 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 15 MB
A comprehensive, engaging and timely Bakhtinian examination of the ways in which the music and lyrics of Pacific reggae, aspects of performance, a record album cover and the social and political context construct social commentary, resistance and protest.

Free Download Eden Sum-hung Li, "Systemic Functional Political Discourse Analysis: A Text-based Study "
English | ISBN: 1138359718 | 2019 | 268 pages | EPUB | 23 MB
Systemic Functional Political Discourse Analysis: A Text-based Study is the first book which takes a comprehensive systemic functional perspective on political discourse to provide a complete, integrated, exhaustive, systemic and functional description and analysis. Based on the political discourses of the Umbrella Movement – the largest public protest in the history of Hong Kong, which occupies a unique political situation in the world: a post-colonial society like many other Asian societies and yet unlike the others, it is a Special Administrative Region of China. Though it enjoys a high degree of autonomy under the principle of ‘One Country, Two Systems’, it is still confined to being part of the ‘One Country’. The book demonstrates how a systemic functional approach can provide a comprehensive, thorough, and insightful analysis of the political discourse from four co-related and complementary approaches: contextual, discourse semantic, lexicogrammatical and historical. Apart from a thorough discussion of various systemic functional conceptions, it provides examples of various analyses from a SF perspective, including contextual parameters, registerial analysis, semantic discourse analysis, appraisal analysis, and discusses important issues in political discourse, including negotiation of self-identity, association of language, power and institutional role, and expression of ‘evidentiality’ and ‘subjectivity’. It is written not only for those who are interested in Hong Kong politics in general and political discourse in Hong Kong in particular, but also for those who work on political discourse analysis, and those who apply SFL to various other discourses such as mass media discourse, medical discourse, teaching discourse, etc. Last but not least, this book is also intended to provide a theoretical framework in discourse analysis from the systemic functional perspective for those who work in Cantonese and in other languages.

Free Download Hiroki Nomoto, "Discourse Particles in Asian Languages Volume II "
English | ISBN: 1138482447 | 2023 | 278 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 6 MB
This volume is the second in a two-part collection of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as well as non-formal semantics and pragmatics.

Free Download Elin McCready, "Discourse Particles in Asian Languages Volume I "
English | ISBN: 1138482439 | 2023 | 206 pages | EPUB | 1429 KB
This is the first of two volumes of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as well as non-formal semantics and pragmatics.

Free Download Jing Hao, "Analysing Scientific Discourse from A Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective: A Framework for Exploring Knowledge Bu"
English | ISBN: 0815374992 | 2020 | 272 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
This book describes the discourse of biology from a systemic functional linguistic perspective. It offers a detailed description of resources based on text analysis. The description reveals co-textual patterns of language features, their expressions through grammatical resources, as well as their functions in the disciplinary context. The book also applies the description to analyse student texts in undergraduate biology, revealing characteristics of language and knowledge development. Although the discussion in this book focuses on the discourse of biology, both the language description and the descriptive principle can be used to inform the examination of knowledge in academic discourse in general, making this key reading for students and researchers in systemic functional linguistics, discourse analysis, English for academic purposes, applied linguistics, and science education.

Free Download Antonella Castelnuovo, "A Sociocultural Study of Intercultural Discourse: Empirical Research on Italian Adolescent Pupils"
English | ISBN: 1443872008 | 2015 | 310 pages | PDF | 1352 KB
This book is the result of research which was begun over twenty years ago and which spanned two countries, as well as two decades. It developed out of the author’s work in speech therapy, but took on the in-depth theoretical investigation of the work of Bernstein, Vygotsky, Luria, and Hallidayan linguistics in an investigation of ways of thinking and the use of language, and particularly the relationship between group processes and individual learning. This research project did not remain within the realms of theory as it began to study developmental patterns which may be helpful in informing pedagogy, leading to this book, which gathers together real data and actual language use in the classroom. Rather like the sampling of water from a river by plunging in a test tube, this book provides a sample which is full of micro-elements in a medium which is a rich and complex context, full of variables, contextual variation and trace elements of sociocultural diversity. The small sample analysed in the book, taken from classroom data gathered in a small town in Tuscany and a small group of adolescents, and put under the microscope of quantitative and qualitative analysis involving multiple tests regarding various linguistic and socio-cultural elements, is testament to the complexity of such a setting and the nature of classroom interaction. The complex interactions between theory and practice, and between individual consciousness and socially organised experience are laid out in detail throughout the book, which offers both wide ranging and in-depth theoretical analysis of the relevant literature and insights into the careful sampling procedures used in the classroom all brought together to provide up-to-date and detailed information for teachers and to highlight aspects of diversity in the appropriation of cultural tools. The book can be read in two different ways, each one of them informative in itself. For those interested in socio-culturally informed theories of language, this book will serve as a guide to the relationships between three possible approaches: namely, the sociological approach of Basil Bernstein, the cultural-historical approach of Lev Vygotsky, and the linguistic approach of Michael Halliday. For those interested in empirical analysis of discourses produced by adolescents from different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, the book provides rich material about language use by Italian and immigrant youth.

Free Download Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Audiobook)
English | January 16, 2007 | ASIN: B000MQ54BC | MP3@98 kbps | 4h 49m | 203.44 MB
Author: Neil Postman
Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach
In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs, and how "entertainment values" have corrupted the very way we think.