- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Orienting the reader – the legacy of colonialism and cultural imperialism -- Chapter 3. The Aesthetics of beauty – commodification -- Chapter 4. For the woman who wants the world – commodified feminism -- Chapter 5. East meets West – cultural hybridity -- Chapter 6. Men’s voices in women’s magazines -- Chapter 7. Readers’ responses – multi…
- Introduction -- PART I: CONCEPTS AND ISSUES -- Chapter 1: Discourses on discourse -- Chapter 2: Who’s involved in discourse? -- Chapter 3: What is it that’s going on here? -- Chapter 4: How do you know that? -- Chapter 5: Why that now? -- Chapter 6: What actions are being taken here, by whom and why? -- Chapter 7: How do discourse and social change drive each other? -- PART II: A MULTI-PE…
Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Literature Review -- Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework and Research Methods -- Chapter 4 Heterogeneous Corporate Identities of Banks on Sina Weibo -- Chapter 5 Framing Who We Are: Impression Management Strategies of Corporate Identity Construction on the Sina Weibo -- Chapter 6 Followers' Co-Constructing Banks’ Corporate Identity on Weibo -- Chapter 7 Cross-B…
- Chapter 1: Cognitive, social and psychological issues of public discourse and threat communication -- Chapter 2: Proximization: A threat-based model of policy legitimization -- Chapter 3: Health discourse: The war on cancer and beyond -- Chapter 4: Environmental discourse: Climate change -- Chapter 5: Technological discourse: Threats in the cyber-space -- Chapter 6: Immigration and anti-migr…
-- PART I: Written language and semiotics -- Chapter 1: Researching the representation of a crisis -- Chapter 2: Semiotic Discourse Analysis -- PART II: A Barthesian conceptualisation of written language -- Chapter 3: Theoretical foundations -- Chapter 4: Data collection and research principles -- Chapter 5: A Barthesian analysis of the BP data in four stages -- Chapter 6: Stage 1: Contextuali…
- Chapter 1. Hong Kong English: an overview -- PART I: LEXICOGRAMMAR -- Chapter 2. Tag questions -- Chapter 3. Collective nouns -- PART II: DISCOURSE -- Chapter 4. Expressions of gratitude -- Chapter 5. Code-mixing of indigenous Cantonese words into English -- Chapter 6. Linguistic variation in digital discourse: the case of blogs -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Indigenous Cantonese exp…
Chapter 1: Peer Review in Academic Settings -- Chapter 2: The Genre of Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 3: Pragmatics and Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 4: Politeness and Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 5: Evaluation and Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 6: Learning to Do Peer Review -- Chapter 7: Implications for Reviewer Training -- Chapter 8: Conclusions.This book examines reports that are wri…
- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The disciplinary landscape -- Chapter 3. Understanding interdisciplinarity -- Chapter 4. Interdisciplinary interaction -- Chapter 5. Knowledge exchange in initial meetings -- Chapter 6. The collaborative construction of knowledge -- Chapter 7. Disciplinary identity -- Chapter 8. How leadership works -- Chapter 9. Conclusion.This book uncovers exactly what…
- Chapter 1: Manipulated Context -- Chapter 2: Double function -- Chapter 3: Disposition -- Chapter 4: Orientation -- Chapter 5: Contrasting mind styles -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.This book introduces readers to linguistic stylistic analysis and combines both literary and linguistic analysis to explore suspense in crime fiction. Employing critical linguistics, discourse analysis and functional gr…
This book analyses the punitive crime discourse in the Argentinean press during the 1990s. Fernandez Roich focusses on several features of media discourse during this time, such as: the notion that petty criminals ‘deserve to die' in reference to police brutality and killings, the phenomenon of ‘vindicators’ or how common citizens turned into ‘evil’ modern heroes in the press, and the…