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Linguistic and Rhetorical Perspectives on Congressional Hearings
Congressional hearings are often the most requested government documents in US libraries. However, among the genres that have been traditionally of interest to political discourse analysts – e.g. political speeches, political interviews, policy documents – hearings have not been of much scrutiny on the part of discourse scholars, an attitude somehow contrasting with the lay public’s interest. Cinzia Giglioni takes the opportunity to gain a unique view into the actors, the interested parties, the issues, from a linguistic and rhetorical perspective. Her intent is to provide an in-depth analysis of witnesses’ opening statements, which are probably the most salient parts in a congressional hearing. The investigation begins with, but is not constricted by, theoretical aspects, which are integrated with empirical observations and suggestions for critical reading.
European Stevenson
Edinburgh, late 1860s. Two young gentlemen, their heads buzzing with ideas and artistic ambitions, hang over North Bridge “watching the trains start southward and longing to start too,” the Walter Scott Monument a short way behind them, but their eyes fixed on the tracks leading South, to London and the Continent. In their Introduction the editors see this scene with his painter cousin as symbolically significant for Robert Louis Stevenson’s writing career. Through his connection with Europe, and especially France, he participated in an international exchange of ideas on art which led him in the 1870s to reinvent his relationship with his national literary tradition by exploring a vari...
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries reinstates Stevenson at the center of critical debate and demonstrates the sophistication of his writings and the present relevance of his kaleidoscopic achievements. While most young readers know Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) as the author of Treasure Island, few people outside of academia are aware of the breadth of his literary output. The contributors to Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries look, with varied critical approaches, at the whole range of his literary production and unite to confer scholarly legitimacy on this enormously influential writer who has been neglected by critics. As the editors point out in their Introduct...
Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing
This is a collection of Joyce's non-fictional writing, including newspaper articles, reviews, lectures and essays. It covers 40 years of Joyce's life and maps important changes in his political and literary opinions.
Discourses of Authenticity on YouTube
This book explores the discourse of authenticity on the popular social media platform YouTube. It investigates how popular users negotiate their identity and discursively portray themselves as authentic in their videos. In so doing, it adds to the development of new perspectives on social media communication and offers an outlook on issues concerning the complexities of contemporary identity practices. Starting from the premise that authenticity is a discursive construction, the study adopts a linguistics-based approach and relies on a hybrid methodological toolkit that draws on the analytical tools provided by Social Media Critical Discourse Studies (SM-CDS), a newly-introduced framework co...
Uncertainty in deliberate lexical interventions
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 foundation for a new method to extract speakers’ opinions on lexical items from text corpora. The method is intended as a tool for language managers to detect and explore in context the reasons why speakers might accept or reject lexical items.
The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Translation Studies
This Handbook offers a comprehensive grounding in key issues of corpus-informed translation studies, while showcasing the diverse range of topics, applications, and developments of corpus linguistics. In recent decades there has been a proliferation of scholarly activity that applies corpus linguistics in diverse ways to translation studies (TS). The relative ease of availability of corpora and text analysis programs has made corpora an increasingly accessible and useful tool for practising translators and for scholars and students of translation studies. This Handbook first provides an overview of the discipline and presents detailed chapters on specific areas, such as the design and analys...
Professional Vision und Fallarbeit in der Lehramtsausbildung
Was passiert, wenn angehende Deutschlehrkräfte über Beobachtungen im Unterricht sprechen? Kann die reale Fallarbeit die Erwartungen an die Methode der Kasuistik und des Forschenden Lernens erfüllen? Björn Stövesand untersucht solche Gespräche aus der Perspektive der ethnomethodologischen Gesprächsforschung, Wissenssoziologie und Interaktionslinguistik. Mit dem Konzept der Professional Vision nach Charles Goodwin fasst er die Analysegespräche als Ort der diskursiven Aushandlung der Sichtweisen und Deutungsmuster auf die Beobachtungsprotokolle. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich, wie der Umgang mit Beobachtungswissen, Erfahrungen und Vorstellungen von Unterricht das Deuten und Bewerten der protokollierten Praxis beeinflussen. Durch ihre rekonstruktive und linguistische Perspektive ist diese Studie eine Bereicherung für die aktuelle Diskussion um das Forschende Lernen und die Professionalisierung in der Lehramtsausbildung.
Macht und Widerständigkeit durch Sprache
Der Band umfasst Aufsätze und Vorträge aus den Jahren 2013–2022 zum Thema Sprache und Politik. Am Beginn geht Ulla Fix auf das Wesen von sprachlicher Macht ein und auf die Prinzipien, nach denen Macht in einer Gesellschaft sprachlich durchgesetzt wird. Dabei unterscheidet sie zwei Arten von Machtausübung: die Macht durch die Sprache und deren Gebrauchsbedingungen selbst und die von Menschen ausgeübte Macht durch Sprachregelung. Anschließend zeigt sie an Texten verschiedener Kommunikationsbereiche, welche spezifischen Praktiken eine autoritäre Gesellschaft entwickelt hat, um Sprachregelungen vorzunehmen und Zwang durch Sprachgebrauch auszuüben. Den Schwerpunkt des Bandes bildet anschließend die Beschreibung sprachlich-semiotischer Verfahren widerständigen Verhaltens. Ulla Fix zeigt, dass die widerständige Wirkung von Texten nicht allein durch Sprache, sondern auch durch gestalterische Mittel wie Typographie, Farben, Leseflächen, Symbole und selbst durch den Ort der Publikation hervorgerufen wird.
