Identity and Culture: Narratives of Difference and Belonging (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies)
Added by: darkness | Karma: 399.63 | Non-Fiction, Science literature | 30 March 2010
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Culture and Identity (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies)
Where does our sense of identity and belonging come from? How does culture produce and challenge identities?
Identity and Culture looks at how different cultural narratives and practices work to constitute identity for individuals and groups in multi-ethnic,postcolonial societies.
Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics (Benjamins Current Topics)
Lexical cohesion is about meaning in text. It concerns the way in which lexical items relate to each other and to other cohesive devices so that textual continuity is created. The seminal work on lexical cohesion is Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) Cohesion in English, where it is nevertheless given the shortest treatment of the five types of cohesion identified by the authors.
Weeds in the Garden of Words: Further Observations on the Tangled History of the English
Kate Burridge follows the international success of Blooming English with another entertaining excursion into the ever-changing nature of the complex and captivating English language. If language is a glorious garden, filled with exotic hybrids as well as traditional heritage specimens, then weeds will also thrive on its fertile grounds. Linguistic weeds may be defined as pronunciations or constructions that are no longer used.
On Our Mind: Salience, Context, and Figurative Language
In this volume, Rachel Giora explores how the salient meanings of words--the meanings that stand out as most prominent and accessible in our minds--shape how we think and how we speak. For Giora, salient meanings display interesting effects in both figurative and literal language. In both domains, speakers and writers creatively exploit the possibilities inherent in the fact that, while words have multiple meanings, some meanings are more accessible than others.
