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Book SynopsisThe broad aim of this lively and engaging book is to examine relationships between the linguistic patterns, the stylistic functions, and the social and cultural contexts of humour. The material used in illustration is of corresponding breadth: schoolyard jokes, graffiti, aphorisms, advertisements, arguments, anecdotes, puns, parodies, passages of comic fiction, all come under Dr Nash''s scrutiny.

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Book SynopsisMeaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics is a comprehensive introductory text which discusses the development of pragmatics - its aims and methodology - and also introduces themes that are not generally covered in other texts.Jenny Thomas focuses on the dynamic nature of speaker meaning, considering the central roles of both speaker and hearer, and takes into account the social and psychological factors involved in the generation and interpretation of utterances. The book includes a detailed examination of the development of Pragmatics as a discipline, drawing attention to problems encountered in earlier work, and brings the reader up to date with recent discussion in the field. The book is written principally for students with no previous knowledge of pragmatics, and the basic concepts are covered in considerable detail. Theoretical and more complicated information is highlighted with examples that have been drawn from the media, fiction and real-life interTrade Review"An understanding of pragmatics is essential in order to make learners effective as well as affective communicators. Meaning in Interaction provides an excellent introduction to this goal."BBC EnglishTable of Contents1. What is pragmatics?2. Speech acts3. Conversational implicature4. Approaches to pragmatics5. Pragmatics and indirectness6. Theories of politeness7. The construction of meaning

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Book SynopsisThis collection critically examines tourism as a site of intercultural communication, drawing on the analytical tools afforded by the discipline toward better understanding contemporary tourism discourses and the broader societal structures of power and ideologies in which they are situated.The volume interrogates culture and interculturality in tourism in detailed analyses of discursive details in tourism interactions and focuses on the notion of culture as a process or phenomenon engaged in or enacted on by individuals. Drawing on discourse analytic and ethnographic approaches, the book brings together perspectives from the lived experiences of residents, hosts and ethnographers to explore the extent to which linguistic and cultural differences are constructed, identities negotiated, and power relations maintained and perpetuated in tourism encounters. The volume draws on insights from those working across a range of geographic contexts and explores the interplay of these iTable of ContentsTable of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction: The problem of interculturality in tourism (Shuang Gao and Bal Krishna Sharma) Part 1. Metadiscourses of interculturality in tourismChapter 2. The Other food: Ambivalence and (in)authenticity in the representation of Chinese food and foodways at tourist cooking schools (Shuang Gao) Chapter 3. Imaging Chinese in touristic intercultural communication (Xiaoxiao Chen) Chapter 4. Interculturality and stereotypes in tourism instructional discourse (Bal Krishna Sharma) Part 2. Interculturality in the promotion of tourist destinations Chapter 5. "Fun place and hospitable people": (Post)colonial gaze towards the Philippines on webpages for Japanese learners of English (Jayson Parba and Tomoaki Morikawa)Chapter 6. Finding Queen Emma at the International Market Place: The intercultural semiotics of commodified cultural heritage tourism (Kristen Urada, Lin Chen, Kathleen Griffin, Michaela Nuesser, and Christina Higgins)Chapter 7. Culinary types: Culture in the typographic landscape of the Eastern Food Bazaar in Cape Town (Gilles Baro)Part 3. Interculturality and identity in tourism encounters Chapter 8. Getting down to business: Intercultural communication and the utilitarian discourse system in an urban tourist destination in France (Adam Wilson) Chapter 9. Ecocultural identity and intercultural communication in wildlife ecotourism: Stance-taking towards sea turtles in Hawai‘i (Gavin Lamb) Chapter 10. Emergent stance in walking tour discourse in Nara: The intersubjective construction of interculturality (Hiroko Takanashi)Chapter 11. Touring linguistic borderland: Communicating the ‘cultural divide’ in bilingual guided tours (Larissa Semiramis Schedel) Discussion commentary: Why we didn’t see things and why we should have: Critical considerations on tourism and intercultural communication (Alexandre Duchêne)

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Book SynopsisAntonyms in Mind and Brain presents a multi-method empirical investigation of opposition with a particular focus on the processing of opposite pairs and their representation in the mental lexicon. Building on recent cognitive accounts of antonymy which highlight the fundamentally conceptual nature of antonymy, this book outlines previous literature to draw out criteria for good opposites and establish the state of the art on the question whether the strong connection of certain opposite pairs is primarily of a conceptual or lexical nature. presents a detailed cross-linguistic empirical study combining corpus data, speaker judgements and behavioural experiments for a wide range of central (e.g. big:little) and peripheral (e.g. buy:sell; wife:husband) opposite pairs to establish the contribution of individual factors. proposes a model of the representation of opposite pairs in the mental lexicon Table of ContentsPART I Theoretical foundations 1. Introduction 2. Previous perspectives on antonymy PART II Empirical investigation 3. Antonymic and associative strength: evidence from English and German 4. Processing opposite pairs: an antonym-decision task 5. Case studies PART III Theoretical implications 6. Antonyms in mind and brain: towards a psycholinguistic model of opposition 7. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses some of the many upheavals brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of the COVID-19communicationculture interface, with a particular focus on the new global, virtual workplace. It brings together a pluridisciplinary and multinational team of researchers from the fields of sociology and organisational studies, discourse analysis, linguistics, communication and cultural studies, and includes testimonials from actors within the professional sector such as international managers, consultants and foreign trade advisors. The collection examines a wide range of phenomena including communication on the pandemic by public authorities, the pandemic as a discursive construct, the digital turn and its impact on communication, the role of social media, as well as national diplomacy and questions of surveillance, (bio)power and trust. Issues pertaining specifically to the workplace focus on the impact of remote work, including the challenge of buildTrade Review'In 2020 the global workplace underwent a fundamental change with the almost wholesale transfer of communicative labour from physical spaces in the real world to virtual spaces online. This has had profound implications not only for the way we work but also for how we communicate with one another as human beings. In this much needed volume, Fiona Rossette-Crake and Elvis Buckwalter present a pluridisciplinary range of contributions which reveal the manifold experience of remote working in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. For scholars and students interested in how the pandemic has impacted on work in the domains of discourse, communication, linguistic diversity, culture, management, public messaging, government policy or the operations of biopower and surveillance, this collection is essential reading.'John O’Regan, Professor of Critical Applied Linguistics, University College London, UK'This volume is one of the firsts to take stock of the fundamental changes brought on by the pandemic, both in how we as a society interact about a global crisis, and both how it affects our interactions in professional situations. The professional and research insights from a group of thought leaders will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience interested in exploring the pandemic through the lenses of communication, culture and organisation.' Erika Darics, Lecturer in Communication and Information Science, University of Groningen, Netherlands'Of course, COVID-19 has been thoroughly researched from a public health and epidemiology perspective. But it is so good to see scholars in social sciences and communication get involved too, foregrounding other, equally relevant issues like responsibility, power and trust through the powerful lenses of discourse, narrative and culture. This is a highly welcome, timely volume indeed.'Geert Jacobs, Professor of English Business Communication, Ghent University, BelgiumTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. COVID-19, communication, culture and the workplace, multiple spaces, multiple interfaces Part I: Communicating about COVID-19 2. Responding to the pandemic: a discourse analysis approach 3. Wikipedia as a trusted method of information assessment during the COVID-19 crisis 4. Understanding China’s "intermestic" online vaccination-themed narrative strategy: towards a "Global community of health for all"? 5. Formulating a discourse of solidarity amid COVID-19: a positive discourse analysis of remarks given by spokespersons from China’s foreign ministry 6. COVID-19 and communication through the lens of culture Part II: Communication during COVID-19 7. Why face-to-face communication matters: a comparison of face-to-face and computer-mediated communication 8. COVID-19 and the rise of digitalised spoken communication: the example of webinars 9. Managing multilingual teams in a virtual context 10. Communicating on the job during COVID-19: some professional testimonials Part III: COVID-19 and representations of the workplace 11. Remote work and the contemporary workplace: the example of student internships in the context of France 12. COVID-19 and the culture of professions: issues and tensions in the group of health professionals 13. From privilege to duty: changing media representations of remote work in France, the USA and Estonia 14. International managers and expatriates in the face of the pandemic: impact and cultural issues 15. Working internationally during COVID-19: professional testimonials Postface 16. Concluding virtual round-table discussion: COVID-19, communication, culture and work practice

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Book SynopsisCatastrophes unsettle our safe places within the world. As such, they provide an interesting site to analyze the intersection of our affective and political lives.Bringing radical democratic thinking, affect theory, psychoanalysis, and discursive analysis to bear on contemporary catastrophic events, Democracy and Event presents a fresh perspective on the study of affect and its impact on democratic sensibilities and practices. Situated in different countries with differing institutional histories and cultures the Grenfell Tower fire in London, England (2017); the SARS epidemic in Toronto, Canada (2003); the Parkland shooting in Florida (2018); the early days of the COVID-19 crisis and the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, USA (2020) Elaine Stavro interprets the rhetoric, discourse, and affective communication of politicians and passionate protestors. She examines their linkages to well-established organizations informed by democratic ideals, as well as the conteTable of ContentsList of figuresAcknowledgments1 Theoretical perspectives on democratic sensibilities and democratic practicesVital materialism: ontologies of lively materiality countering social determinismPopulist thinkers: turning to the political and away from the socialNavigating novelty and indeterminacy – embodied creativity versus the post-humanRethinking emotion and affect: challenging autonomous affectThe monstrous event2 Engendering fear and racism during the SARS epidemic: a defi cit in deliberative thinkingThe event: the impact of fearDebates that frame this catastropheAbjection: scapegoating the ChineseThe Orientalist thesis – essentializing the Asian – linking negative affect to Social OtheringMedia management of the crisis – the pairing of the war on terror and bioterrorRepresentations and responses to the SARS crisis: China versus TorontoFrom fear to disbelief: challenging WHO’s travel advisoryAttending to emotion’s material effectsSARS effects on deliberation and democratic decision-makingToward a more reliable account of the catastrophe: material conditions – mega slums and global livestock productionPost-SARS3 Burning inferno: the Grenfell Tower fire in the era of austerityThe event: affective representations overwhelm factsConfronting vital materialists’ and populists’ thinking on affect and emotionSocial weightlessnessFostering solidarity: a tangled event that produced multiple narratives and feelingsChallenging earlier narratives – the case for investigative journalismApplying vital materialism to the event: confederate agency and human responsibilityA new collective subject fails to emergeAttending to larger frames of referenceThe effects of Brexit – ignoring economic interestsThe power of neoliberal governing strategies – the demise of democratic practices4 Students’ passionate participation: a democratic movement in the digital ageThe terrifying eventThe public sphere in the age of internet and social media – the prospect for democratic opinion formationMOFL’s success: cultivating affective solidarity and pursuing strategic actionsDifferences in social powers: March for Our Lives versus Black Lives MatterCollaboration across differences: practice surmounts theoretical problemsStriving for a leaderless movement: achievements and compromisesStrategic actions in the face of a history of defeatsThe government’s response or lack thereofGun culture: another impediment to gun controlInstitutional and cultural differences matter5 President Trump’s response to the COVID pandemic: a ective ideology and authoritarian mismanagementThe turn to facts in a world of fear: a veneer of certaintyEschewing scientific expertise and journalistic critiqueSocial Othering strategies: blaming the democrats, China, and WHOCultivating a divided and uninformed public: the effects of anti-science and anti-expert sentimentsEfforts to consolidate affective solidarity: “we are all in this together” #alonetogether Trump’s populism: corporate freedom versus public well-being Populist leadership: the allure of tough talkMishandling of COVID: the erosion of democratic proceduresAddendumThinking critically about the pandemic: why were we unprepared?The promises and perils of the COVID catastrophe6 The murder of George Floyd and the meteoric rise of Black Lives Matter: the success of an affectively rich eventAffective solidarity: the power of the eventThe appearance of Black Lives Matter: a political movement in the digital ageSymbolic politics, celebrity support, performative activism – the process of emotional reorientation Spontaneous affective events – dismantling statutes waiving public debateAmbiguity of violence: triggering solidarity and undermining support The counter-narratives of the alt-right: stoking up fear and loathing Emotional reflexivity: the power of reason and good arguments Transforming beliefs: raising awareness of systemic racism Strategies and ideals of BLM – the complicated path toward instantiating democratic practicesMoving forward: a case for social democracy or billionaires’ charities?AddendumConclusion Index

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Book SynopsisPopulist Discourse: Recasting Populism Research offers a refreshingly innovative discourse theory perspective on populist phenomena. Reading this book will help you familiarize yourself with the historical genealogy of significant populist phenomena from the end of the 19th century onwards and with the main conceptual/theoretical accounts established to analyse them. Mainstream conceptualizations of populism in both academia and public discourse are critically discussed in order to map new, promising avenues for research. Inspired by the works of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, the book addresses current challenges within populism research and highlights the new directions that a conceptually nuanced, theoretically rigorous and historically informed discursive orientation can contribute to the contemporary study of populism. Without sacrificing attention to detail, strong bibliographical support and a focus on the future development of populism research, Populist Discou

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Book SynopsisThe volume examines the discourse-based critique of coloniality. It brings together an extensive interdisciplinary dialogue that reveals what different research fields such as sociology of language, social psychology, history and political science, among others have to say about discourse criticism and de/coloniality. In doing so, it also invites a critique of critical thinking, acknowledging the relevance of dissonant voices that arise from this debate.The essays in this volume discuss possibilities to decolonize discursive studies without losing sight of its contradictions. The book delves into how one can, as an intellectual who enjoys the privileges of coloniality in academic environments of the Global North, deal with the limitations and paradox of a radical critique through discourse. It discusses how ideas, entrenched in privilege, can be extracted, shared and applied while ensuring the radicality of their local contextualization. These ideas then must not only make

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Book SynopsisPolitics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception, and belief, and by extension its power to manipulate thoughts and beliefs. This exciting and original work is the first to apply cognitive linguistics to the analysis of political lies and conspiracy theories, both of which have flourished in the internet age and which many argue are threatening democracy. It unravels the verbal mechanisms that make these different truths so effective and proliferative, dissecting the verbal structures (metaphor, irony, connotative implications, etc.) of a variety of real-life cases concerning politicians, conspiracy theorists, and influencers. Marcel Danesi goes on to demonstrate how these linguistic structures switch on or switch off alternative mind worlds. This book is essential reading for students of cognitive linguistics and will enrich the studies of any student or researcheTable of ContentsPreface1. Lies and Conspiracy TheoriesPrologueLies and Lying Lies and Hate SpeechConspiracy TheoriesMetaphor and DeceptionEpilogue2. Deconstructing Political Lies PrologueConceptual MetaphorsMetaphorical FramingPolitically Motivated LiesThe Korzybski EffectEpilogue3. Da Vinci Code EffectsPrologueConspiracy ThinkingConspiracy Theories Mind Control Cognitive DissonanceEpilogue4. Fake News and Pseudo-EventsPrologueFake NewsDisinformationPseudo-EventsEpilogue5. Mythic LiesPrologueMythologiesAlternative HistoryCentral MetaphorsEpilogue6. Channels of SpreadPrologueThe Spoken and Written WordSocial MediaEpilogue7. The Cognitive Linguistic PerspectivePrologueThe Central ProblemNeural CircuitryTurning the Switch OffEpilogueReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisRoutledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, and commentaries.Revised and updated throughout, the new edition of Discourse Analysis provides a comprehensive overview of the major approaches to and methodological tools used in discourse analysis. This textbook: introduces both traditional perspectives on the analysis of texts and talk as well as more recent approaches that address technologically mediated and multimodal discourse incorporates practical examples using real data, now revised to include more diverse examples from a wider range of countries includes a revised final section to highlight recent research with case studies showcasing examples of how scholars used the principles illustrated in the book is ac

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Book SynopsisCorpus Linguistics for Virtual Workplace Discourse provides a thorough and practical step-by-step guide to constructing and analysing a multi-modal corpus of virtual meetings. It draws from original data from video recordings of virtual meetings with a variety of participant profiles from various industries, alongside examples of images and transcriptions from this data to illustrate key points.This cutting-edge volume contextualises the field through previous corpus studies of interaction in a workplace context, as well as a description of various technology mediated interactions, culminating in video-mediated interaction, before outlining the cross-section of these two areas in describing the characteristics of virtual meetings. An overview of multi-modal corpus analysis provides examples and analysis of virtual meetings from a multi-modal perspective, demonstrating what is unique about virtual workplace discourse. The text concludes by presenting how multi-modal cor

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Book SynopsisCritical Sociolinguistic Research Methods is a guide to conducting concrete ethnographic and discourse analytic research projects, written by top scholars for students and researchers in social science fields. Adopting a critical perspective focusing on the role of language in the construction of social difference and social inequality, the authors walk the reader through five key moments in the life of a research project: composing research questions, designing the project, doing fieldwork, performing data analysis and writing academic texts or otherwise engaging in conversation with different types of social actors about the project. These moments are illustrated by colour-coded examples from the authors' experiences that help researchers and students follow the sequential stages of a project.Now in its second edition, this popular and original text has been revised and updated to reflect the latest developments in this field, including expanded sections on the centr

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Book SynopsisThis book explores visual political engagement online how citizens participate in the dynamism of life in society by expressing their opinions and emotions on various issues of democratic life in image-based social media posts, independently of collective actions.Looking beyond large digital social movements to focus on the everyday, the book provides a well-documented and comprehensive framework of key notions, concrete methods and examples of empirical insights into everyday visual citizenship on social media. It shows how the visual has become ubiquitous in citizens' communication on social media, focusing on how citizens use visual content to express their emotions and opinions on social media platforms when they discuss politics in a large sense.With this book, every reader interested in political communication, visual communication and/or new media is fully equipped to analyse everyday visual citizenship on social media platforms.The Open Access version oTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: ConceptsChapter 1. Everyday political expression as a citizenship practiceChapter 2. Citizenship, social media and visual culturesChapter 3. Personalised citizenshipChapter 4. Visual creativity and civic engagementChapter 5. Affective citizenshipPart II: MethodsChapter 6. Challenges to the validity of visual studiesChapter 7. Systemic functional approaches to visual contentChapter 8. Methodological standards for quantitative content analysis of social media postsChapter 9. Categories for visual content analysisChapter 10. Appraisal in text-image social media contentPart III: Empirical insightsChapter 11. The Brexit vote and its aftermath: quantitative resultsChapter 12. Opinions and emotions in text-image relationsChapter 13. Metaphoric judgement and creativity in the Brexit context

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In recent decades, there has been a substantial turn towards narrative and life history study. The embrace of narrative and life history work has accompanied the move to postmodernism and post-structuralism across a wide range of disciplines: sociological studies, gender studies, cultural studies, social history; literary theory; and, most recently, psychology. Written by leading international scholars from the main contributing perspectives and disciplines, The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History seeks to capture the range and scope as well as the considerable complexity of the field of narrative study and life history work by situating these fields of study within the historical and contemporary context. Topics covered include: The historical emergences of life history and narrative study Techniques for conducting life history and narrative study Identity and politics Generational history Social and

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1992 Rethinking Translation makes the translator's activity more visible by using critical theory. It examines the selection of the foreign text and the implementation of translation strategies; the reception of the translated text, and the theories of translation offered by philosophers, critics and translators themselves. The book constitutes a rethinking that is both philosophical and political, taking into account social and ideological dimensions, as well as questions of language and subjectivity. Covering a number of genres and national literatures, this collection of essays demonstrates the power wielded by translators in the formation of literary canons and cultural identities, and recognises the appropriative and imperialist movements in every act of translation. Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Translating Origins: Psychoanalysis and Philosophy 2. Translation as Simulacrum 3. Gender and the Metaphorics of Translation 4. Translation as (Sub) Version: On Translating Infante’s Inferno 5. Merill’s Valéry: An Erotics of Translation 6. Mistranslation, Missed Translation: Hélène Cixous’ Vivre L’Orange 7. Translation and the Postcolonial Experience: The Francophone North African Text 8. Translation and Cultural Hegemony: The Case of French-Arabic Translation 9. The Language of Cultural Difference: Figures of Alterity in Canadian Translation 10. Colors in Translation: Baudelaire and Rimbaud 11. I.U. Tarchetti’s Politics of Translation; or a Plagiarism of Mary Shelley Index

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Book SynopsisResearching Language, Gender and Sexuality leads students through the process of undertaking research in order to explore how gender and sexuality are represented and constructed through language. Drawing on international research, Sauntson incorporates a fluid understanding of genders and sexualities and includes research on a diverse range of identities.This accessible guidebook offers an outline of the practical steps and ethical guidelines involved when gathering linguistic data for the purpose of investigating gender and sexuality. Each chapter contains up-to-date information and empirical case studies that relate to a range of topics within the field of language, gender and sexuality, as well as suggestions for how students could practically research the areas covered.Student-friendly, this is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of English language, linguistics and gender studies.Trade ReviewThis book offers students a comprehensive account of the theories, methods and frameworks used in the field, applied usefully to illuminating case studies. Researching Language, Gender and Sexuality is essential reading for those developing their own research projects, but also an effective general introduction to the language, gender and sexuality.Lucy Jones, University of Nottingham, UKThis book will spark students‘ interest in language, gender and sexuality and provide them with invaluable guidance for their own research projects. Its pertinent discussion of theoretical and methodological issues in combination with fresh illustrations and an incorporation of recent research render it an excellent resource. Heiko Motschenbacher, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, BergenTable of ContentsContentsList of TablesList of FiguresAcknowledgementsChapter 1 – What Questions Might A Linguist Ask about Language, Gender and Sexuality? Chapter 2 – Theorising Gender and Sexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and PerformativityChapter 3 – What Does It Mean To Do Research in Language, Gender and Sexuality?Chapter 4 – An Overview of Analytical FrameworksChapter 5 – Researching Language, Gender and Sexuality in Private and Public ContextsChapter 6 – Researching Linguistic Representations of Gender and Sexuality in the MediaChapter 7 – Researching Language, Gender and Sexuality in Forensic ContextsChapter 8 – Breaking the Binary: Investigating Transgender, Gender Variance and LanguageChapter 9 – Researching Gender- and Sexuality-based Discriminatory LanguageChapter 10 – Writing Up, Drawing Conclusions and Sharing Your ResearchAppendixReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn this book, John O'Regan examines the role of political economy in the worldwide spread of English and traces the origins and development of the dominance of English to the endless accumulation of capital in a capitalist world-system.O'Regan combines Marxist perspectives of capital accumulation with world-systems analysis, international political economy, and studies of imperialism and empire to present a historical account of the free riding' of English upon the global capital networks of the capitalist world-system. Relevant disciplinary perspectives on global English are examined in this light, including superdiversity, translanguaging, translingual practice, trans-spatiality, language commodification, World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca. Global English and Political Economy presents an original historical and interdisciplinary interpretation of the global ascent of English, while also raising important theoretical and practical questions for perspectivTrade ReviewWith this book, John O’Regan has mastered the art of engaging readers with his elegant and sharp scholarship, however complex the subject matter may be. He treats seriously and passionately the long overdue need to examine and document the political economic dimension of language, specifically in relation to the historical global dominance of English. In so doing, O’Regan challenges established and promoted bodies of work by questioning normative and in-fashion ideologies and thinking, seeing beyond oft-celebrated sentiments and positions in order to deliver a work that is not only thought-provoking, but also of great merit and intellectual weight.Phan Le Ha, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, BruneiA careful, comprehensive and critical study of the intertwined tentacles of English and capitalism. John O’Regan presents here the big and the long picture of the political economy of English, showing how the global dominance of English and the development of the capitalist world-system cannot be usefully considered in isolation. A study of real importance.Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology Sydney, AustraliaIn conclusion, with this seminal work on the historical and ongoing alliance of capitalism and a normative English in helping one another, O’Regan has indeed filled in a crucial ‘number of the historical and economic lacunae which have existed...in applied linguistic and sociolinguistic accounts of the spread of English as a global language’ (p. 2) not only for him as he states, but also importantly for many of us who have been calling out capitalism for what ithas been doing to us for the past several centuries.Christian W. Chun, Applied Linguistics 2021: 1–4Deeply insightful and intellectually stimulating, O’Regan’s book will be essential reading for scholars and students of applied linguistics, World Englishes, and associated fields of study.Pamoda M. Jayaweera, Language in SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsChapter 1The political economy of English in a capitalist world-systemChapter 2English and the political economy of informal empire, 1688–1850Chapter 3The political economy of global English, 1850–1914Chapter 4The political economy of global English, 1918–1979Chapter 5Capital-centric English and the modern world-system, 1979–2008Chapter 6The decline of the US world-hegemonyChapter 7Superdiverse translingualism, commodification and trans-spatial resistancesChapter 8The demise of capitalism and the end of the hegemony of English ReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Language in the Workplace provides a comprehensive survey of linguistic research on language in the workplace written by top scholars in the field from around the world. The Handbook covers theoretical and methodological approaches, explores research in different types of workplace settings, and examines some key areas of workplace talk that have been investigated by workplace researchers. Issues of identity have become a major focus in recent workplace research and the Handbook highlights some core issues of relevance in this area, such as gender, leadership, and intercultural communication. As the field has developed, applications of workplace research for both native and non-native speakers have emerged. Insights can inform and improve input from practitioners training workers in a range of fields and across a variety of contexts, and the Handbook foregrounds some of the ways workplace research can do this. This is an Trade Review"This handbook provides a superb overview of the field of language and communication in the workplace. Written in a highly accessible style, its five main sections offer a comprehensive picture of this multifaceted field, with each of the section chapters explaining historical background as well as current research and developments. I’ll definitely be referring to it regularly. Very highly recommended!" Helen Spencer-Oatey, University of Warwick, UKTable of ContentsPrefaceMeredith Marra and Jo AngouriAcknowledgementsIntroductionBernadette VineSection I: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches1 Interactional SociolinguisticsCynthia Gordon and Joshua Kraut2 Conversation AnalysisMerran Toerien3 Critical Discourse StudiesVeronika Koller4 Linguistic EthnographyNick Wilson5 Corpus LinguisticsMichael Handford6 (Im)politeness TheoryMichael Haugh and Yasuhisa Watanabe7 Rapport ManagementJeannie Fletcher8 Social ConstructionismMariana Lazzaro-Salazar9 Communities of PracticeBrian W. King10 Genre TheoryKieran A. FileSection II: Different Workplace Settings11 Corporate SettingsDorien Van De Mieroop and Jonathan Clifton12 Language in Blue-Collar WorkplacesDorte Lønsmann and Kamilla Kraft13 Language in Legal SettingsBronwen Innes14 Service EncountersJ. César Félix-Brasdefer15 Call Centre DiscourseJon S. Y. Hui16 Genetic CounsellingOlga ZaytsSection III: Key Areas of Workplace Talk17 Directives in Workplace DiscourseJunko Saito and Haruko Minegishi Cook18 Relational Talk at WorkJulien C. Mirivel and Ryan Fuller19 Humour in the WorkplaceBernie Chun Nam Mak20 Workplace NarrativesHans J. Ladegaard21 Miscommunication at WorkMaria Stubbe22 Conflict TalkAlmut Koester23 Argumentation in the WorkplaceJérôme Jacquin24 Interpreting in the WorkplaceChase Wesley RaymondSection IV: Identity and the Workplace25 Gender and the WorkplaceLouise Mullany and Melissa Yoong26 LeadershipStephanie Schnurr27 Intercultural Communication in the WorkplaceJanet Holmes28 Identity in the Workplace in a Context of Increasing MultilingualismGeorges Lüdi29 Men's Talk in Women's Work: Doing Being a NurseJoanne McDowell30 Professional Identity Construction: Cabin Crew DiscourseBarbara ClarkSection V: Applications31 Vocational EducationStefano A. Losa32 Gender, Language, and Leadership: Enabling Women LeadersJudith Baxter33 Language Preparation for Internationally Educated ProfessionalsJulie Kerekes34 Language Learning On-the-JobLynda Yates

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