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News as Changing Texts
The updated and revised edition of this volume maintains its focus on the dialectic interrelation between ‘news’ and ‘change’. News is intended as a textual type in its evolutionary – and revolutionary – development, while change is discussed with reference to the form, content and structure of news texts. The news texts in question range from the first forms of periodical news in the seventeenth century up to the news blogs and social media of the present day. Divided into four chapters, representing key historical moments in the process of news writing, each chapter makes use of a set of corpora specifically designed to suit the needs of scholars working in those particular fie...
Learning and Teaching in Distance Education
This unique and comprehensive overview of open and distance education is written by one of the best known names in the field. It integrates historical, contemporary and future aspects of distance education. Packed with international case studies, it goes beyond looking at the methods and technology of distance education, giving Otto Peters' renowned visions on the sociological and social impacts of distance education. Now published in paperback for the first time, this new edition includes a new section on virtual universities. A major contribution to thinking on open and distance education, this new edition will reach an even wider audience.
Change in Contemporary English
Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, and discusses the linguistic and social factors that are contributing to this process.
Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics
This volume presents a snapshot of the current state of the art of research in English corpus linguistics. It contains selected papers from the 40th ICAME conference in 2019 and features contributions from experts in synchronic, diachronic, and contrastive linguistics, as well as in sociolinguistics, phonetics, discourse analysis, and learner language. The volume showcases the particular strengths of research in the ICAME tradition. The papers in this volume offer new insights from the reanalysis of new data types, methodological refinements and advancements of quantitative analysis, and from taking new perspectives on ongoing debates in their respective fields.
A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches
This indispensable handbook explains how scholars and students should work with and think about the composer's working manuscripts.
The Darkest Room
'The dead are our neighbours everywhere on the island, and you have to get used to it.' It is bitter mid-winter on the Swedish island of Oland, and Katrine and Joakim Westin have moved with their children to the boarded-up manor house at Eel Point. But their remote idyll is soon shattered when Katrine is found drowned off the rocks nearby. As Joakim struggles to keep his sanity in the wake of the tragedy, the old house begins to exert a strange hold over him. Joakim has never been in the least superstitious, but from where are those whispering noises coming? To whom does his daughter call out in the night? And why is the barn door for ever ajar? As the end of the year approaches, and the infamous winter storm moves in across Oland, Joakim begins to fear that the most spine-chilling story he's heard about Eel Point might indeed be true: that every Christmas the dead return...
Argument and Rhetoric
The book is the first corpus-based study giving a comprehensive overview of English items which have been used as adverbial connectors ('conjuncts', 'linking adverbials'), from Old English to Present-Day English. The author analyses different characteristics of the make-up, functions and use of connectives, and considers morphological and syntactic factors as well as pragmatic, textlinguistic and socio-cultural aspects.
Yömyrsky
Kun elävät ja kuolleet kohtaavat. Öölannin talvinen myrsky on jäinen, luminen ja sumuinen ja peittää alleen kaiken eteensä osuvan. Kun myrsky pyyhkii saaren yli, ei mikään ole ennallaan pääkaupungista muuttaneen perheen elämässä. Johan Theorinin tunnelmallisen sarjan toinen osa ammentaa Öölannin rikkaasta tarinaperinteestä. Katrine ja Joakim Westin ovat saaneet tarpeekseen Tukholman suurkaupunkielämästä, ja he muuttavat autiotilalle Öölantiin kahden pienen lapsensa kanssa. Saarelaisten mukaan talo on rakennettu talvimyrskyn aikaan haaksirikkoutuneen laivan puusta ja vainajat vierailevat siellä. Westinit eivät pelkää haamuja tai tuulta ja tuiskua, joten he asettuvat taloksi valoisin mielin. Pian kuitenkin tapahtuu kauheita. Outoa tapausta selvittävät Hämärän hetkestä tuttu vanha merikapteeni Gerlof Davidsson ja nuori poliisi Tilda Davidsson. Johan Theorin on syntynyt Göteborgissa ja asuu siellä edelleen. Hän on journalisti ja kirjailija, joka on viettänyt kaikki kesänsä Öölannin saarella.
