This book presents a constitutive approach to controversy based on a discourse analysis of news texts, focusing on the role of journalists as participants who shape public controversy for readers. Drawing data from the Reuters Corpus, the project identifies formulas that journalists use in reporting controversy and draws conclusions about how these serve professional and textual functions and how they shape public controversy as a natural, historical, and pragmatic event.
Politically Speaking: A Worldwide Examination of Language Used in the Public Sphere
This work details and examines the characteristics, nature, and content of the language used in the public sphere of various Western and non-Western societies; the functions language plays in the polity; and the link between culture, political culture, and the language that politicians and other elites, as well as the public, use in their symbolic interaction. The essays describe and analyze the topic of political language from different perspectives--political science, psychology, philosophy, sociology, gender studies, economics, religious, public administration, mass communication, and linguistics.
Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on each of the more established areas in linguistics such as lexicology, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, historical linguistics, and language typology and on some of the newer areas such as cross-cultural semantics, pragmatics, text linguistics and contrastive linguistics.
"The Applied Linguistics Review" is a peer reviewed annual publication. It aims to bring together new empirical and theoretical research and serve as testing ground for the articulation of original ideas and approaches in the study of real-world issues in which language plays a crucial role.
Whether you are studying education, languages, psychology, anthropology, English, or teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE, International Edition, offers the information you need in a clear and descriptive manner that assumes no prior knowledge of linguistics.
