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Corpora, Corpses and Corps
This book uses corpus and multimodal methods to present a comparative study of three major Canadian TV crime series, Flashpoint (2008-2010), Motive (2013-2015) and 19-2 (2014-2016), paying special attention to cinematic techniques. Following an overview of the methodology and the Canadian cultural milieu of the study, the author approaches the three series as complex cultural and linguistic productions that depend heavily on a national appropriation of a genre whose popularity is growing internationally. The book investigates the verbal, nonverbal and paraverbal strategies employed by each production to create the patterns that make this genre appealing to a variety of audiences, and uncovers some of the psychological processes at work in contemporary Canadian TV crime serials. This book will be of interest to scholars in fields including Corpus Linguistics, Multimodal Studies, Canadian Studies, Media and Communication Studies, and Specialised Discourse.
Embassytown
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Embassytown
In un futuro remoto, gli esseri umani si sono spinti ai confini dell’universo, colonizzando il pianeta Areka. Qui, i rapporti tra gli uomini e il misterioso popolo degli Arekei, custode di una lingua misteriosa e inaccessibile, sono possibili solo grazie ai pochi ambasciatori terrestri in grado di comprenderne il linguaggio. Avice Benner Cho, una colona umana, ha fatto ritorno sul pianeta, nella città di Embassytown, dopo anni di viaggio nello spazio più profondo. Non è in grado di parlare la lingua degli Arekei, eppure in qualche modo ne rappresenta una parte: lei, come altri esseri umani, è utilizzata dagli indigeni come una “similitudine vivente”, necessaria alla formulazione di...
Foreign Women Authors under Fascism and Francoism
This collection of essays highlights cultural features and processes which characterized translation practice under the dictatorships of Benito Mussolini (1922-1940) and Francisco Franco (1939-1975). In spite of the different timeline, some similarities and parallelisms may be drawn between the power of the Fascist and the Francoist censorships exerted on the Italian and Spanish publishing and translation policies. Entrusted to European specialists, this collection of articles brings to the fore the “microhistory” that exists behind every publishing proposal, whether collective or individual, to translate a foreign woman writer during those two totalitarian political periods. The nine chapters presented here are not a global study of the history of translation in those black times in contemporary culture, but rather a collection of varied cases, small stories of publishers, collections, translations and translators that, despite many disappointments but with the occasional success, managed to undermine the ideological and literary currents of the dictatorships of Mussolini and Franco.
Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture
This collection showcases the unique potential of stylistic approaches for better understanding the multifaceted nature of pop culture discourse. As its point of departure, the book takes the notion of pop culture as a phenomenon characterized by the interaction of linguistic signs with other modes such as imagery and music to examine a diverse range of genres through the lens of stylistics. Each section is grouped around thematic lines, looking at literary fiction, telecinematic discourse, music and lyrics, as well as cartoons and video games. The 12 chapters analyze different forms of media through five central strands of stylistics, from sociolinguistic, pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal, ...
Language and Television Series
Explores contemporary US television dialogue - the on-screen language that viewers worldwide encounter as they watch popular television series.
