The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics
Title | The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Cobley |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2005-11-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1134545479 |
The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics opens up the world of semiotics and linguistics for newcomers to the discipline, and provides a useful ready-reference for the more advanced student.
The Routledge Companion to Semiotics
Title | The Routledge Companion to Semiotics PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Cobley |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 599 |
Release | 2009-09-11 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1135284288 |
The Routledge Companion to Semiotics provides the ideal introduction to semiotics, containing engaging essays from an impressive range of international leaders in the field. Topics covered include: the history, development, and uses of semiotics key theorists, including Saussure, Peirce and Sebeok crucial and contemporary topics such as biosemiotics, sociosemiotics and semioethics the semiotics of media and culture, nature and cognition. Featuring an extended glossary of key terms and thinkers as well as suggestions for further reading, this is an invaluable reference guide for students of semiotics at all levels.
The Routledge Companion to Semiotics
Title | The Routledge Companion to Semiotics PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Cobley |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 421 |
Release | 2009-09-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135284296 |
The ideal introduction to semiotics, containing engaging essays from an impressive range of international leaders in the field. Featuring an extended glossary of key terms and thinkers as well as suggestions for further reading, this is an invaluable reference guide for students of semiotics at all levels.
The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics
Title | The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Carmen Llamas |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0415338492 |
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The Routledge Companion to English Language Studies
Title | The Routledge Companion to English Language Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Maybin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1134144172 |
An accessible guide to the major topics, debates and issues in English Language Studies. Established knowledge and more recent developments in the field are clearly examined and explained by well-known language specialists from a range of backgrounds.
The Routledge Companion to English Studies
Title | The Routledge Companion to English Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Constant Leung |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 686 |
Release | 2014-03-14 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1317918916 |
English is now a global phenomenon no longer defined by fixed territorial, cultural and social functions. The Routledge Companion to English Studies provides an authoritative overview of the subject area. Taking into account the changing conceptualisations of English, this Companion considers both historical trajectories and contemporary perspectives whilst also showcasing the state-of-the-art contributions made by the established scholars of the field. The Routledge Companion to English Studies: provides a set of broad perspectives on English as a subject of study and research highlights the importance of the link between English and other languages within the concepts of multilingualism and polylingualism investigates the use of language in communication through the medium of digital technology covering key issues such as Digital Literacies, Multimodal Literacies and Games and Broadcast Language explores the role of English in education taking account of social, ethnographic and global perspectives on pedagogical issues. This collection of thirty-four newly commissioned articles provides a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the dynamic and diverse field of English Studies and will be an invaluable text for advanced students and researchers in this area.
The Ecology and Semiotics of Language Learning
Title | The Ecology and Semiotics of Language Learning PDF eBook |
Author | Leo van Lier |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2006-04-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1402079125 |
In this book I try to give a coherent and consistent overview of what an ecological approach to language learning might look like. This is not a fully fledged grand theory that aims to provide an explanation of everything, but an attempt to provide a rationale for taking an ecological world view and applying it to language education, which I regard as one of the most important of all human activities. Goethe once said that everything has been thought of before, but that the difficulty is to think of it again. The same certainly is true of the present effort. If it has any innovative ideas to offer, these lie in a novel combination of thoughts and ideas that have been around for a long, long time. The reader will encounter influences that range from Spinoza to Bakhtin and from Vygotsky to Halliday. The scope of the work is intentionally broad, covering all major themes that are part of the language learning process and the language teaching profession. These themes include language, perception and action, self, learning, critical pedagogy and research. At the same time I have attempted to look at both the macro and the micro sides of the ecological coin, and address issues from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. This, then, aims to be a book that can be read by practitioners and theoreticians alike, and the main idea is that it should be readable and challenging at the same time.