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The course aims to teach students how to analyze the contents, stylistic features, and pragmatics of different text types. It also expands the scope of students’ general knowledge through reading a wide variety of texts. Special attention is given to the development of logical, analytical and critical thinking skills.
This book provides an interesting view on the relationship between translation and conflict from the perspective of narrative theory. While Chapter 1 gives an overview of the connotations of translation, conflict, and narrative, Chapter 2 introduces what the definition of narrative is. Chapter 3 displays four types of narratives based on Somers’ and Gibson’s works. Chapter 4 & 5 explain how narratives function. Chapter 6 draws on Goffman’s notion of frame and the key strategies translators and interpreters uses to speak their own voices in narratives. Chapter 7 discusses the feasibility of analyzing individual narratives. The author stresses that translation is part of the process of social and political developments.
This book examines the place of the news interview in Anglo-American society, and considers its historical development in the United States and Britain. The main body of the book discusses the fundamental norms and conventions that shape conduct in the modern interview; it explores the particular recurrent practices through which journalists balance competing professional norms that encourage both objective and adversarial treatment of public figures. It also explores how, in the face of aggressive questioning, politicians and other public figures struggle to stay “on message” and pursue their own agendas.
The book begins with a discussion of the structure of visual language- its lexicon and grammar, and explores visual morphology. Then it moves to look at patterns at the panel level and in full sequences of images, to outline the visual language grammar, its narrative structure, to address the strategies that people use in making their way through the panels of page layouts- the navigational structure, to review the processing of sequential images by the mind/brain, and to discuss American Visual Language, Japanese Visual Language as well as the visual language from Aboriginal communities in Central Australia. Finally, it reflects on the implications of the theory on language and cognition.
This book covers all aspects of advertising language, from the interrelation of language, image and layout to the discourse between reader and advertisement. It draws on literary and linguistic theory for analysis of texts, and argues that advertisements are forms of discourse which make a powerful contribution to how we construct our identities, and that they must use our commonly shared resources of language in ways that affect us and mean something to us, and this attention to how messages are constructed from language is what makes this book different and unique. This second edition specifically incorporates recent developments in the field.
This is an anthology of twelve essays in feminist response to some of these recent changes in legal scholarship, focusing especially upon the meeting of feminist thought with the Swedish ‘dogmatic approach’ to law. It considers in particular how the limits of law may be challenged or extended, or even reinforced, by feminist arguments and strategies. It challenges the general sense of pessimism among feminists and others about the usefulness of law as an instrument of change. The book combines theoretical analysis of the law’s boundaries with investigation of the practical settings for changing legal and policy environments.
This book discusses the communication between doctors and patients in primary care consultations. The book is expressly conversation-analytic in orientation and presents authentic dialogue from patients and physicians as it unfolds, thus capturing the social and medical dynamic within which medicine is practiced. The book also presents chapters in which quantitative analyses are built upon conversational analytic material. It provides support for the development of a new kind of interaction study – one with the potential for rich and meaningful synthesis of the medical dialogue derived from an integration of qualitative and quantitative methods.
This book offers a theoretical framework for the study of communication in the modern world of multimedia. This book gives an overview of the development of communication and discourse and show how this development is influenced by overall changes in society and social life. It then introduces four different levels of communication that contribute meaning, the concepts of multimodality, stratal configurations, experiential meaning potential, and provenance, the notion of discourse, the concept of design, the notion of production, and the concept of distribution. Kress and Leeuwen also suggest further research topics in this book.
This book focuses on the structure of visual design- color, perspective, framing and composition- that has become established as conventions in the course of the history of Western visual semiotics, and analyzes how the structure is used to produce meaning by contemporary image-makers. The examples used in this book are by and large confined to visual text-objects from Western cultures, from children’s drawings to textbook illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well as three-dimensional forms such as sculpture and toys. The book also discusses how images and their uses have changed through time.
This book introduces the framework of mediated discourse analysis, an approach to move discourse analysis beyond the analysis of texts to consider questions about the actions people take with them, as well as with other cultural tools, and the social consequences these actions have. Resonated with Scollon, Norris and Jones identify the ultimate aim of mediated discourse analysis as to understand the potential of our own everyday actions to create positive social change. This book begins by introducing the basic unit of analysis of mediated discourse analysis, discusses the mediational means, social practices, site of engagement, and the question of agency.
This book studies intersentential coherence and its interaction with sentence structure. “Cohesive relations are relations between two or more elements in a text that are independent of the structure…… A semantic relation of this kind may be set up either within a sentence of between sentences; with the consequence that, when it crosses a sentence boundary, it has the effect of making the two sentences cohere with one another”. This book covers the concept of cohesion, reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction, lexical cohesion, the meaning of cohesion, the analysis of cohesion, etc.
