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Language and Media

A Resource Book for Students

By: Rodney H. Jones,Sylvia Jaworska,Erhan Aslan

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Language and Media

A Resource Book for Students

By: Rodney H. Jones,Sylvia Jaworska,Erhan Aslan

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries, and key readings—all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible 'two-dimensional' structure is built around four sections—introduction, development, exploration, and extension— which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained. This revised second edition of Language and Media: Provides an accessible introduction and comprehensive overview of the major approaches and methodological tools used in the study of language and media. Focuses on a broad range of media and media content from more traditional print and broadcast media formats to more recent digital media formats. Incorporates practical examples using real data, including newspaper articles, press releases, television shows, advertisements (print, broadcast, and digital), blogs, social media content, internet memes, culture jamming, and protest signs. Includes key readings from leading scholars in the field, such as Jan Blommaert, Sonia Livingstone, David Machin, Martin Montgomery, Ruth Page, Ron Scollon, and Theo van Leeuwen. Offers a wide range of activities, questions, and points for further discussion. The book emphasises the increasingly creative ways ordinary people are engaging in media production. It also addresses a number of urgent current concerns around media and media production/reception, including fake news, clickbait, virality, and surveillance. Features of the new edition include: Special attention on ‘new media’ forms such as websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, social media sites, and mobile apps such as Snapchat and Instagram; Additional material on: mobility and materiality in media, memes and virality, discourse processes in media production, collaborative production and user created content, reality TV, fake news, the role of algorithms and bots in media production and circulation, and media and resistance; Discussion of media surveillance, privacy boundaries, and the so-called ‘right to be forgotten’ related to Internet archiving; Brand new readings from key scholars in the field including Piia Varis, Jan Blommaert, Monika Bednarek and Martin Montgomery; Updated examples and references throughout, to reflect more contemporary issues. Written by three experienced teachers and authors, this accessible textbook is an essential resource for all students of English language and linguistics.

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1000171078

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Discourse in Action

Introducing Mediated Discourse Analysis

By: Rodney H Jones,Sigrid Norris

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Discourse in Action

Introducing Mediated Discourse Analysis

By: Rodney H Jones,Sigrid Norris

From emails relating to adoption over the Internet to discussions in the airline cockpit, the spoken or written texts we produce can have significant social consequences. The area of Mediated Discourse Analysis considers texts in their social and cultural contexts to explore the actions individuals take with texts - and the consequences of those actions. Discourse in Action: brings together leading scholars from around the world in the area of Mediated Discourse Analysis reveals ways in which its theory and methodology can be used in research into contemporary social situations explores real situations and draws on real data in each chapter shows how analysis of texts in their social contexts broadens our understanding of the real world. Taken together, the chapters provide a comprehensive overview to the field and present a range of current studies that address some of the most important questions facing students and researchers in linguistics, education, communication studies and other fields.

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Routledge

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1134258135

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Spoken Discourse

By: Rodney Jones

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Spoken Discourse

By: Rodney Jones

This book provides an overview of current theories of and methods for analysing spoken discourse. It includes discussions of both the more traditional approaches of pragmatics, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and critical discourse analysis, and more recently developed approaches such as multimodal discourse analysis and critical sociolinguistics. Rather than treating these perspectives as mutually exclusive, the book introduces a framework based on principles from mediated discourse analysis in which different approaches to spoken discourse are seen as complementing and informing one another. In this framework, spoken discourse is seen as mediated through a complex collection of technological, semiotic and cultural tools which enable and constrain people's ability to engage in different kinds of social actions, enact different kinds of social identities and form different kinds of social relationships. A major focus of the volume is on the way technological tools like telephones, broadcast media, digital technologies are changing the way people communicate with spoken language. The book is suitable for use as a textbook in advanced courses in discourse analysis and language in social interaction, and will also be of interest to scholars in a variety of fields including linguistics, sociology, media studies and anthropology.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472589920

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Discourse Analysis

A Resource Book for Students

By: Rodney H. Jones

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Discourse Analysis

A Resource Book for Students

By: Rodney H. Jones

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Taylor & Francis

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1040004067

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Discourse and Creativity

By: Rodney Jones

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Discourse and Creativity

By: Rodney Jones

Discourse and Creativity examines the way different approaches to discourse analysis conceptualize the notion of creativity and address it analytically. It includes examples of studies of creativity from a variety of traditions and examines the following key areas, how people interpret and use discourse, the processes and practices of discourse production, discourse in modes other than written and spoken language, and the relationship between discourse and the technologies used to produce it. Discourse and Creativity combines a forward-thinking and interdisciplinary approach to the topic of creativity; this collection will be of great value to students and scholars in applied linguistics, stylistics, and communication studies.

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Routledge

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1317861221

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Understanding Digital Literacies

A Practical Introduction

By: Rodney H. Jones,Christoph A. Hafner

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Understanding Digital Literacies

A Practical Introduction

By: Rodney H. Jones,Christoph A. Hafner

Assuming no knowledge of linguistics, Understanding Digital Literacies provides an accessible and timely introduction to new media literacies. It supplies readers with the theoretical and analytical tools with which to explore the linguistic and social impact of a host of new digital literacy practices. Each chapter in the volume covers a different topic, presenting an overview of the major concepts, issues, problems and debates surrounding the topic, while also encouraging students to reflect on and critically evaluate their own language and communication practices. Features include: coverage of a diverse range of digital media texts, tools and practices including blogging, hypertextual organisation, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia, websites and games an extensive range of examples and case studies to illustrate each topic, such as how blogs have affected our thinking about communication, how the creation and sharing of digital images and video can bring about shifts in social roles, and how the design of multiplayer online games for children can promote different ideologies a variety of discussion questions and mini-ethnographic research projects involving exploration of various patterns of media production and communication between peers, for example in the context of Wikinomics and peer production, social networking and civic participation, and digital literacies at work end of chapter suggestions for further reading and links to key web and video resources a companion website providing supplementary material for each chapter, including summaries of key issues, additional web-based exercises, and links to further resources such as useful websites, articles, videos and blogs. This book will provide a key resource for undergraduate and graduate students studying courses in new media and digital literacies.

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1136212884

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Intercultural Communication

A Discourse Approach

By: Ron Scollon,Suzanne Wong Scollon,Rodney H. Jones

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Intercultural Communication

A Discourse Approach

By: Ron Scollon,Suzanne Wong Scollon,Rodney H. Jones

This newly revised edition is both a lively introduction and practical guide to the main concepts and challenges of intercultural communication. Grounded in interactional sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, this work integrates theoretical principles and methodological advice, presenting students, researchers, and practitioners with a comprehensive and unified resource. Features new original theory, expanded treatment of generations, gender and corporate and professional discourse Offers improved organization and added features for student and classroom use, including advice on research projects, questions for discussion, and references at the end of each chapter Extensively revised with newly added material on computer mediated communication, sexuality and globalization

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470656409

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9780470656402

Introducing Language and Society

By: Rodney H. Jones,Christiana Themistocleous

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Introducing Language and Society

By: Rodney H. Jones,Christiana Themistocleous

This accessible and entertaining textbook introduces students to both traditional and more contemporary approaches to sociolinguistics in a real-world context, addressing current social problems that students are likely to care about, such as racism, inequality, political conflict, belonging, and issues around gender and sexuality. Each chapter includes exercises, case studies and ideas for small-scale research projects, encouraging students to think critically about the different theories and approaches to language and society, and to interrogate their own beliefs about language and communication. The book gives students a grounding in the traditional concepts and techniques upon which sociolinguistics is built, while also introducing new developments from the last decade, such as translanguaging, multimodality, superdiversity, linguistic landscapes and language and digital media. Students will also have online access to more detailed examples, links to video and audio files, and more challenging exercises to strengthen their skills and confidence as sociolinguists.

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Cambridge University Press

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110858540X

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Health and Risk Communication

An Applied Linguistic Perspective

By: Rodney Jones

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Health and Risk Communication

An Applied Linguistic Perspective

By: Rodney Jones

Health and Risk Communication provides a critical and comprehensive overview of the core issues surrounding health and risk communication from the perspective of applied linguistics. It outlines the ways applied linguistics differs from other methods of understanding health and risk communication, assesses the benefits and limitations of the approaches used by different scholars in the field, and offers an innovative framework for consolidating past research and charting new directions. Utilizing data from clinical interactions and everyday life, this book addresses a number of crucial questions including: How are the everyday actions we take around health constructed and constrained through discourse? What is the role of texts in influencing health behaviour, and how are these texts put together and interpreted by readers? How are actions and identities around health and risk negotiated in situated social interactions, and what are the factors that influence these negotiations? How will new technologies like genetic screening influence the way we communicate about health? How does communication about health and risk help create communities and institutions and reflect and reproduce broader ideologies and patterns of power and inequality within societies? Health and Risk Communication: An Applied Linguistic Perspective is essential reading for advanced students and researchers studying and working in this area.

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1134078196

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The Genesis of Liberation

Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved

By: Emerson B. Powery,Rodney S. Sadler Jr.

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The Genesis of Liberation

Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved

By: Emerson B. Powery,Rodney S. Sadler Jr.

Considering that the Bible was used to justify and perpetuate African American enslavement, why would it be given such authority? In this fascinating volume, Powery and Sadler explore how the Bible became a source of liberation for enslaved African Americans by analyzing its function in pre-Civil War freedom narratives. They explain the various ways in which enslaved African Americans interpreted the Bible and used it as a source for hope, empowerment, and literacy. The authors show that through their own engagement with the biblical text, enslaved African Americans found a liberating word. The Genesis of Liberation recovers the early history of black biblical interpretation and will help to expand understandings of African American hermeneutics.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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1611646596

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Introducing Language and Society

By: Rodney H. Jones,Christiana Themistocleous

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Introducing Language and Society

By: Rodney H. Jones,Christiana Themistocleous

An accessible and entertaining textbook that introduces students to sociolinguistics in a real-world context, with issues they care about.

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Welfare Policy Under the Conservatives, 1951-1964

A Guide to Documents in the Public Record Office

By: Paul Bridgen,Rodney Lowe

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Welfare Policy Under the Conservatives, 1951-1964

A Guide to Documents in the Public Record Office

By: Paul Bridgen,Rodney Lowe

This handbook summarizes the development of all welfare policies in the period 1951-1964, and provides a guide to records available, or about to become available, at the Public Record Office. The previous volume in the series covered the years 1939 to 1951.

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1873162464

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Book's by Rodney H. Jones

Language and Media

Language and Media

Discourse in Action

Discourse in Action

Spoken Discourse

Spoken Discourse

Discourse Analysis

Discourse Analysis

Discourse and Creativity

Discourse and Creativity

Understanding Digital Literacies

Understanding Digital Literacies

Intercultural Communication

Intercultural Communication

Introducing Language and Society

Introducing Language and Society

Health and Risk Communication

Health and Risk Communication

The Genesis of Liberation

The Genesis of Liberation

Introducing Language and Society

Introducing Language and Society

Welfare Policy Under the Conservatives, 1951-1964

Welfare Policy Under the Conservatives, 1951-1964

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