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New sounds, new stories : narrativity in contemporary music
When listeners talk about their listening experiences, they often refer to music as if it were a narrative. But can music actually tell a story? Can music be narrative? Traditionally, narrativity is associated with verbal and visual texts, and the mere possibility of musical narrativity is highly debated. In this study, Vincent Meelberg demonstrates that music can indeed be narrative, and that …
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- 9789087280024
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- 268 hlm
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- 146 VIN n
Discourse in translation
This book explores the discourse in and of translation within and across cultures and languages. From the macro aspects of translation as an inter- cultural project to actual analysis of textual ingredients that contribute to translation and interpreting as discourse, the ten chapters represent different explorations of ‘global’ theories of discourse and translation. Offering interrogations…
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- 9781315098791
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- xvii, 243 p.: ill.
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- 418.02 FAI d
The linguistics of newswriting
The Linguistics of Newswriting focuses on text production in journalistic media as both a socially relevant field of language use and as a strategic field of applied linguistics. The book discusses and paves the way for scientific projects in the emerging field of linguistics of newswriting. From empirical micro and theoretical macro perspectives, strategies and practices of research developm…
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- 9789027271389
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- xiiii, 317 p. : ill.
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- 302.2 PER t
Educational Perspectives on Mediality and Subjectivation
This open access book examines the complex relationship between education, media and power. Exploring the entanglement of education media and power structures, the contributions use various examples and case studies to demonstrate how subjectivation processes and digital structures interact with one another. The book asks which modes of subjectivation can be identified with current media cultur…
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- 9783030843434
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- 136p. ; ill.
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- Palgrave Studies in Educational Media
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- 371.33 PAT e
Oral democracy : deliberation in Indian village assemblies
Oral Democracy studies citizens' voices in civic and political deliberations in India's gram sabhas (village assemblies), the largest deliberative institution in human history. It analyses nearly three hundred transcripts of gram sabhas, sampled within the framework of a natural experiment, allowing the authors to study how state policy affects the quality of discourse, citizens' discursive per…
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- 9781139095716
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- xi, 215p. : ill.
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- 320.840954 SAN o
Meaning, life and culture : in conversation with Anna Wierzbicka
This book is dedicated to Anna Wierzbicka, one of the most influential and innovative linguists of her generation. Her work spans a number of disciplines, including anthropology, cultural psychology, cognitive science, philosophy and religious studies, as well as her home base of linguistics. She is best known for the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to meaning—a versatile tool fo…
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- 9781760463939
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- XVIII, 515 p.
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- 801.4 MEA m
Uncertainty in deliberate lexical interventions: Exploring Esperanto speakers…
Language managers in their different forms (language planners, terminologists, professional neologists …) have long tried to intervene in the lexical usage of speakers, with various degrees of success: Some of their lexical items (partly) penetrate language use, others do not. Based on electronic networks of practice of the Esperanto speech community, Mélanie Maradan establishes the foundati…
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- 9783732992379
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- 373p.: ill.
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- 414 MAR u
Violence and trolling on social media : history, affect, and effects of onlin…
'Trolls for Trump', virtual rape, fake news - social media discourse, including forms of virtual and real violence, has become a formidable, yet elusive, political force. What characterizes online vitriol? How do we understand the narratives generated, and also address their real-world - even life-and-death - impact? How can hatred, bullying, and dehumanization on social media platforms be addr…
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- 9789048542048
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- 266 p,
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- MediaMatters
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- 006.754 VIO v
Language and discourse in special education: understanding ethnographic inter…
Interdisciplinary teamwork has significantly improved the education of children with special needs. Because the students' needs are complex, the responses of the diverse professionals working together to provide services must be equally multifaceted. Language and Discourse in Special Education analyzes how interdisciplinary teams work in school settings, specifically how members convey their kn…
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- 9783319090245
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- xiv, 142 p. 11 illus.; 22 cm.
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- 371.9 MAN l
Discourses we live by: narratives of educational and social endeavour
What are the influences that govern how people view their worlds? What are the embedded values and practices that underpin the ways people think and act? Discourses We Live By approaches these questions through narrative research, in a process that uses words, images, activities or artefacts to ask people – either individually or collectively within social groupings – to examine, discuss, p…
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- 9781783748549
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- 234 p.; 22 cm.
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- 370.307 DIS d
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