Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Books

Book SynopsisPhraseology - the study of multi-word units - is a hot topic in second language acquisition, processing and use. Drawing on different fields of linguistics and cognitive sciences, Vetchinnikova builds a comprehensive account of how the right words come to mind and what is special about second language use in this respect.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. From a unit of meaning to a meaning-shift unit; 3. L2 use and processing of multi-word units; 4. Triangulating usage, exposure and processing; 5. Meaning-shift units in L2 learning and use: Usage vs. exposure; 6. Meaning-shift units in L2 processing: Usage vs. word association responses; 7. Toward the bigger picture.

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Book SynopsisWhat do we mean by 'voice' in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of 'voice', from a poem's soundworld to the rhetorical gestures through which poems speak to us, in order to embark on a philosophical exploration of the concept of voice itself.Trade Review“Nowell Smith begins and ends with Hopkins, giving circular coherence, but each chapter is individually ‘essayistic,’ offering a ‘speculative poetics.’ … what is explored here is explored brilliantly. … this is a fascinating work of animation.” (Rebecca Varley-Winter, The Goose, Vol. 14 (2), February, 2016)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Voice in Poetry: Opening up a Concept 1. A Natural Scale 2. Vibration and Difference 3. Turnings of the Breath 4. 'The Multitudinous Tongue' 5. Getting the Measure of Voice Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSean Sutherland is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster, UK.Trade Review'In this beautifully exemplified and neatly-structured work, Sutherland guides readers through the various ways of thinking about language in use. A must-read for students, scholars and practitioners with an interest in text and discourse analysis.' Sofia Lampropoulou, University of Liverpool, UK 'Pitched in a way beginning linguists can understand, Sutherland explains and provides an overview of central issues in discourse analysis. Written in a clear, lively style it introduces a breadth of key concepts and topics, including up-to-date examples. An accessible and engaging introduction.' Urszula Clark, Aston University, Birmingham, UK 'Finally a textbook on Discourse Analysis that really targets UG beginners who might have no background in the field. This is a great little book, lecturer and student friendly, very flexible and adaptable to different ways of structuring a course. I will adopt it as one of my main textbooks, I will recommend it for a first year UG module on language and also across the English programme.' Arianna Maiorani, Lougborough University, UKTable of Contents1. Thinking About the Text 2. Thinking About the Meaning 3. Thinking About the Producer 4. Thinking About the Context 5. Thinking about the Information.

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Book SynopsisAcknowledgements Voice in Poetry: Opening up a Concept 1. A Natural Scale 2. Vibration and Difference 3. Turnings of the Breath 4. 'The Multitudinous Tongue' 5. Getting the Measure of Voice BibliographyTrade Review“Nowell Smith begins and ends with Hopkins, giving circular coherence, but each chapter is individually ‘essayistic,’ offering a ‘speculative poetics.’ … what is explored here is explored brilliantly. … this is a fascinating work of animation.” (Rebecca Varley-Winter, The Goose, Vol. 14 (2), February, 2016)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Voice in Poetry: Opening up a Concept 1. A Natural Scale 2. Vibration and Difference 3. Turnings of the Breath 4. 'The Multitudinous Tongue' 5. Getting the Measure of Voice Bibliography

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Book Synopsis''Finalist'' in the PROSE Award (2022) for Language & LinguisticsAwarded Honors at the Storytelling World Awards 2022Linking the ongoing ecological crisis with contemporary conditions of alienation and disenchantment in modern society, this book investigates the capacity of oral storytelling to reconnect people to the natural world and enchant and renew their experience of nature, place and their own existence in the world. Anthony Nanson offers an in-depth examination of how a diverse ecosystem of oral stories and the dynamics of storytelling as an activity can catalyse different kinds of conversation and motivation, helping us resist the discourse of powerful vested interests. Detailed analysis of traditional, true-life and fictional stories shows how spoken narrative language can imbue landscapes, creatures and experiences with enchantment and mediate between the inner world of consciousness and outer world of ecology and community. A pioneering ecolinguistic Trade ReviewWise, precise, scientifically fluent while achingly expressive, and distilled from decades of practice and research, this book reimagines storytelling for this moment of ecological emergency. Nanson opens up his story-crafting processes to illustrate how storytellers can integrate different forms of knowledge, and make space for listeners’ own explorations, emotions, and aspirations. * Dr Catherine Heinemeyer, Lecturer in Arts and Ecological Justice, York St John University, UK *The recognition within the environmental world that we are a story telling species, not a data processing species is one of the most significant developments within the environmental movement. Stories change lives; they challenge assumptions; they are also huge fun! And that is what Anthony shows so powerfully in this truly important book. * Martin Palmer, Senior Advisor to WWF International on Beliefs and Values, UK *Anthony Nanson’s exploration of storytelling in relation to ecology is a sine qua non for eco-critics and eco-linguists, whether they are researchers, educators, or students. Nanson’s extensive analysis reframes storytelling as a tool for ecological agency. We must forget the speech-act, as Nanson, a master storyteller, brings us the story-act. * Dr Maria Nita, The Open University, UK *Anthony Nanson does a great job of laying out how live story performance can build an emotional connection between listeners and the environment and shows how these emotional connections are critically important if we want people to take action to protect natural areas and the wildlife that depend upon them. * Kevin Strauss, Author of Tales with Tails: Storytelling the Wonders of the Natural World (Libraries Unlimited, 2006), USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Storytelling and Ecology: Reconnecting People and Nature through Oral Narrative 2. Storytelling as a Means of Conversation about Ecology and Sustainability 3. Time, Desire and Consequence in Ecological Stories 4. Composting Snakes and Dragons: Ecological Enchantment of Local Landscapes 5. The Listening Place: The Space of Transformative Stillness 6. Supernatural Ecology and the Transcendence of Normative Expectation Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMarcus Callies is Professor and Chair of English Linguistics at the University of Bremen, Germany.Magnus Levin is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at Linnaeus University, Sweden.Trade ReviewThe editors of the book, Marcus Callies and Magnus Levin, have assembled a fascinating collection of work addressing an intersection of language and context that is of itself a growing area of interest for linguists. * Human Kinetics *[The book] offers innovative empirical studies that use new corpus resources to showcase the structural-linguistic and discourse aspects of a wide range of sports (e.g. football, cycling, motor racing), genres (e.g. live commentary, post-match reports, legal texts) and contexts of use (e.g. sports media, in-team communication). Considering the pioneering investigations involved in each chapter, the volume is especially impressive in its exploratory nature and rich implications for future research. * LINGUIST *[T]his is an excellent contribution to scholarly research around mental health. * Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies *An innovative, multifaceted collection going beyond current trends: studying English in comparison with other languages, investigating football and various other sports, studying metaphors, phraseology and many other aspects, analysing not only match reports and live text commentaries, but also a series of internet genres just emerging, with new variants of multimodality and language mixing – rich, profound, and inspiring! * Eva Lavric, Professor of Romance Linguistics, Innsbruck University, Austria *This comprehensive volume is among the first to focus on the language of sports, covering a wide range of topics from discussions in race car cockpits to online fan commentaries, which are analysed from equally diverse linguistic perspectives. A highly recommended read for anyone interested in the cultural, social and linguistic aspects of sports. * Tuomo Hiippala, Assistant Professor of English Language and Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Finland *This is a most welcome addition to the burgeoning collection of linguistic research on mediated sports discourse. The editors have to be congratulated for preparing a fascinating book that will prove to be indispensable to scholars and students in linguistics, media studies and communication, as well as to anybody else interested in sports, language and communication. * Jan Chovanec, Associate Professor of English Linguistics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic *Table of Contents1. Introduction. Corpus approaches to the language of sports: texts, media, modalities, Marcus Callies (University of Bremen, Germany) and Magnus Levin (Linnaeus University, Sweden) Part I. Texts. Contrastive and comparative aspects of the phraseology of football match reports 2. Formulaic language and text routines in football live text commentaries and match reports – A cross- and corpus-linguistic approach, Simon Meier (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) 3. The language of football match reports in a contrastive perspective, Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (University of Oslo, Norway) 4. Lexical features of football reports: computer- vs. human-mediated language, Rita Jukneviciene (Vilnius University, Lithuania) and Paulius Viluckas (Vilnius University, Lithuania) Part II. Media. Expanding the scope of research to new contexts of use 5. Such a nice guy who loved racing his bike: framing in media accounts of fatal crashes involving competitive cyclists, Turo Hiltunen (University of Helsinki, Finland) 6. “When did I do dangerous driving then?”: structures and functions of Formula One race radio messages, Jukka Tyrkkö (Linnaeus University, Sweden) and Hanna Limatius (University of Tampere, Finland) 7. The emotional content of English swearwords in football chatspeak: WTF and other pragmatic devices, Isabel Balteiro (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) 8. Fighting for integrity against a corrupting disease: the legal metaphors of sports fraud, Miguel Ángel Campos-Pardillos (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) Part III. Modalities. Multimodal studies 9. A multimodal analysis of football live text commentary, Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg, Germany) 10. ‘Fear and disgust’ – A corpus study of sentiment towards sporting events as expressed multimodally on 4chan’s /sp/ board, Peter Crosthwaite (University of Queensland, Australia) and Joyce Cheung (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China) 11. A comparative multi-modal corpus study of dislocation structures in live football commentary, Marcus Callies (University of Bremen, Germany) and Magnus Levin (Linnaeus University, Sweden) Index

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Book SynopsisGregory Fraser is Associate Professor of English at the University of West Georgia, USA.Chad Davidson is Associate Professor of English at the University of West Georgia, USA.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent tool for knowledge-making inside and outside the classroom. -- Rich Rice, Texas Tech Univeristy, USA‘An excellent book about how to develop critical judgement, and a very lively exploration of human understanding. Analyze Anything does what it claims, and it does it with style.‘ -- Dr Graeme Harper, Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Honors College, Oakland University, USACritical thinking skills are at the core of the Humanities and here is one of the few books that explains how to analyse systematically. This is a 'how to' book for literature students but also for anyone interested in how to critique the world around them.It looks at symbols, layers, approaches, and techniques, but what's more it explains why they're important. Like all the best study guides this is a clear, accessible, and readable textbook that will greatly help students improve the ways they think and write. -- Peter Childs, Dean of Research and Professor of Modern English Literature, University of Gloucestershire, UKTable of Contents1. The Analysis of Signs; 2. The Characteristics of Theory and Analysis; 3. Choosing a Sign to Analyze; 4. Questioning the Meanings of the Sign; 5. Responding Analytically; 6. The Five-Theories Model of Analysis; 7. Polishing and Presenting the Analysis; 8. Beyond the Five-Theories Model of Analysis; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisCorpus linguistics uses specialist software to identify linguistic patterns in large computerised collections of text - patterns which then must be interpreted and explained by human researchers. This book critically explores how corpus linguistics techniques can help analysis of language and gender by conducting a number of case studies on topics which include: directives in spoken conversations, changes in sexist and non-sexist language use over time, personal adverts, press representation of gay men, and the ways that boys and girls are constructed through language. The book thus covers both gendered usage (e.g. how do males and females use language differently, or not, from each other), and gendered representations (e.g. in what ways are males and females written or spoken about). Additionally, the book shows ways that readers can either explore their own hypotheses, or approach the corpus from a naïve position, letting the data drive their analysis from the outset. The book coversTrade ReviewThe author does a splendid job of providing food for thought for both corpus linguistics and gender researchers alike. The book as a whole is well written and very accessible ... Each chapter provides stimulating research on gender and language (for the corpus linguist) and a useful description of corpus linguistic approaches to language (for the researcher in gender and language). * International Journal of Corpus Linguistics *[In Using Corpora to Analyze Gender] Baker examines very thoroughly the issue of male and female differences in language, perhaps one of the most convincing interrogations of this issue that I have read ... This impressive book gives a thorough introduction to the use of corpora in gender and language research ... and offers insights about data interpretation that are essential for all gender and language research. * Gender and Language *Written in what is now Baker's familiar, accessible style ... [This book] will satisfy corpus linguistics wanting to explore and write about questions relating to language and gender. * Discourse Studies *Strongly recommended ... A range of techniques and measures are discussed in the book ... all in an accessible style [and] with the help of case studies ... [Q]uite manageable and pleasant to read. * Linguist List *Paul Baker’s excellent introductory book effectively shows how corpus linguistics can be used to study language and gender. Employing contemporary real-life research case studies Baker shows, on the one hand, how people interested in Gender and Language can make use of corpora in their work, and, on the other hand, how corpus linguists who are not already familiar with Gender and Language studies might examine gender in their corpus work. -- John Flowerdew, Professor, Department of English, City University of Hong KongIf you want to know what corpus linguistics can offer to sociolinguists interested in the relationship between language and gender, this book is the answer. I found it hard to put down. Written in a wonderfully accessible style, it provides detailed examples of the challenging questions, messy data, and satisfying, though often approximate, answers that corpus linguistics can provide. It confronts researchers with the real nitty-gritty of the challenges and rewards of each step of a corpus linguistics project. Researchers and students will both find it invaluable. -- Janet Holmes, Professor of Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Exploring gendered directives in a spoken corpus. 3. Corpus-driven research: going beyond "do women say "lovely" more than men?" 4. Examining changes in (non-) sexist language over time: where are all the spokeswomen? Frequency-based analysis 5. Identifying discourses in corpora: why there was nothing natural about the Daily Mail's representation of gay men 6. Gender representation via word sketches: boys grin, girls giggle 7. Combining approaches - the case of personal adverts 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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