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From Fritzl to #metoo Twelve Years of Rape Coverage in the British Press
This is the first longitudinal study of the language used by the British press to talk about rape. Through a diachronic analysis informed by corpus...
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Exploring Silences in the Field of Computer Assisted Language Learning
This book is an attempt to pay deliberate attention to some silences on issues of social, cultural, and political importance that have remained...
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Language, Gender and Videogames Using Corpora to Analyse the Representation of Gender in Fantasy Videogames
This book explores how corpus linguistic techniques can be applied to close analysis of videogames as a text, particularly examining how language is...
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Linguistic Intermarriage in Australia Between Pride and Shame
This book examines the experiences of couples with different language backgrounds and different cultural origins as they negotiate love, partnership...
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Language Before Stonewall Language, Sexuality, History
This book explores the linguistic and social practices related to same-sex desires and identities that were widely attested in the USA during the...
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Exploring Student Loneliness in Higher Education A Discursive Psychology Approach
This book is an in-depth qualitative linguistic study of loneliness disclosures in interviews with undergraduate students in the UK. While much...
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The Language of Feminine Beauty in Russian and Japanese Societies
This book conducts a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural study of 'women’s language' as it pertains to feminine beauty. It examines the ideological...
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Professional Discourses, Gender and Identity in Women's Media
This book examines the professional discourses produced in women’s media in Malaysia and the subject positions that they make available for career...
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The Tyranny of Ordinary Meaning Corbett v Corbett and the Invention of Legal Sex
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the case of Corbett v Corbett, a landmark in terms of law’s engagement with sexual identity, marriage, and...
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The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements
This book is the first to develop a history of the analogy between woman and slave, charting its changing meanings and enduring implications across...
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Multimodal Communication A social semiotic approach to text and image in print and digital media
This book draws on visual data, ranging from advertisements to postage stamps to digital personal photography, to offer a complex interpretation of...
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Pädagogik sprechen Die sprachliche Reproduktion gewaltvoller Ordnungen in der Migrationsgesellschaft
In diesem Sammelband gehen die Autor*innen der Frage nach, wie Sprache und Gewalt miteinander verwoben sind und wie dieser Zusammenhang für...
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Discourses of Ageing and Gender The Impact of Public and Private Voices on the Identity of Ageing Women
This book presents in-depth investigation of the language used about women and ageing in public discourse, and compares this with the language used by ...
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Gender, Discourse and Ideology in Italian
This book analyses gendered language in Italian, shedding light on how the Italian language constructs and reproduces the social imbalance between...
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Women Through Anti-Proverbs
This book examines stereotypical traits of women as they are reflected in Anglo-American anti-proverbs, also known as proverb transformations,...
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Analyzing Digital Discourse New Insights and Future Directions
This innovative edited collection presents new insights into emerging debates around digital communication practices. It brings together research by...
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Men in Women's Worlds Constructions of Masculinity in Women's Magazines
This book presents an analysis of masculinity construction in a large corpus of women’s magazines, adopting a feminist Critical Stylistic approach to...
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Gender Approaches in the Translation Classroom Training the Doers
This volume examines strategies for embedding gender awareness within translation studies and translator training programmes. Drawing on a rich...
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The Discourse of Business Meetings Agency and Power in Financial Organizations
This book examines the social organizational discourse of task-oriented business meetings in a Kuwaiti financial organization and an American...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness
This handbook comprehensively examines social interaction by providing a critical overview of the field of linguistic politeness and impoliteness....