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Linguistics
Reflective Linguistics and the Study of Language
Fiona English, IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK & Tim Marr, Universidad Icesi, Colombia What do we need to know about language and why do we need to know it? This book shows how viewing the world through a linguistics lens can help us to understand how we communicate with each other and why we do it in the ways we do. Now in its second edition, it contains additional pedagogical features, a range of new and international examples, discussion of fast-growing topics, new chapters on language and identity, and language and social media, a glossary, and a brand new companion website.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 320 pages • 51 bw illus PB 9781350272156 • £23.99 / $32.95 • HB 9781350272163 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350272170 • £21.59 / $30.21 ePdf 9781350272187 • £21.59 / $30.21 Bloomsbury Academic
Language and Nationality
Social Inferences, Cultural Differences, and Linguistic Misconceptions
Pietro Bortone, University of Oxford, UK What role does language play in the formation and perpetuation of our ideas about nationality and other social categories? And what role does it play in the formation and perpetuation of nations themselves, and of other human groups? Language and Nationality considers these questions and examines the consequences of the notion that a language and a nationality are intrinsically connected.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 272 pages PB 9781350071643 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350071636 ePub 9781350071650 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350071667 • £85.50 / $118.15 Bloomsbury Academic
The Discourse of Conflict and Crisis
Poland’s Political Rhetoric in the European Perspective
Piotr Cap, University of Lodz, Poland This book explores linguistic patterns of conflict, crisis and threat generation in the political discourse of the Polish Law and Justice Party. Analysing a vast corpus of speeches, statements and remarks, Piotr Cap sheds light on parliamentary discourse against opposition and Poland’s strained relations with the EU, showing how these discourses produce public coercion and strengthen the party’s leadership. Cap extends his argument to examine discursive examples from Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Austria, Italy and the UK, highlighting the direct correlation between the Law and Justice Party and broader socio-political and rhetorical trends in contemporary Europe.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 184 pages PB 9781350270268 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350135635 ePub 9781350135659 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350135642 • £85.50 / $118.15 Bloomsbury Academic Language Learning, Identity, and Intercultural Communication in the Transnational Game
Brendan H. O'Connor, Arizona State University, USA Providing a detailed exploration of multilingualism in professional sports, this book connects issues of language diversity in baseball to broader concerns around language, race, migration, and demographic shifts in the US and other contemporary societies through the lens of linguistic anthropology.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 224 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781350298521 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781350298545 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350298538 • £85.50 / $118.15 Bloomsbury Academic
Language and Body in Place and Space
Discourse of Japanese Rock Climbing
Kuniyoshi Kataoka, Aichi University, Japan Combining the author’s own experience as a sociolinguist and a rock/mountain climber, this book offers a detailed investigation of multimodal interaction among Japanese rock climbers. It explores how climbers’ expertise and affect-laden experience can be illuminated through linguistic methods and theories. Engaging with a variety of sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological themes, it considers aspects such as spatial frames of reference, intersubjectivity, chronotopic configurations, and poetic formations of talk. It also examines a range of examples, including expert climbers’ instruction to novices, narratives on near-death experiences, and multiparticipant discussion of a critical accident.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 256 pages • 37 bw illus HB 9781350319479 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781350319493 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350319486 • £85.50 / $118.15 Bloomsbury Academic
The Discourse of Customer Service Tweets
Planes, Trains and Automated Text Analysis
Ursula Lutzky, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Investigating digital business discourse on Twitter, this book studies the discursive and pragmatic features of customer service interactions. Making use of a corpus of over 1.5 million tweets from more than 30 different companies, Ursula Lutzky discusses the use of the microblogging site by airlines and train companies for purposes of customer updates and travel assistance. She analyses patterns of language use as well as platform-specific features for their communicative functions, enhancing our understanding of customers’ linguistic expectations on Twitter and of what makes for successful or unsuccessful interaction.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 232 pages PB 9781350273207 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350090682 ePub 9781350090705 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350090699 • £85.50 / $118.15 Series: Bloomsbury Discourse • Bloomsbury Academic
Communication and Behaviours on Social Media
Jieun Kiaer, University of Oxford, UK Exploring Social Network Service (SNS) communication as a global phenomenon, this book investigates how digital youth engage in computermediated communication (CMC) in the era of social media. Particularly focused on their uses of emoji, their motivations, attitudes and interpretations of emoji use across languages, Emoji Speak provides the first book-level discussion looking at youth-toyouth SNS communication and emoji use. Presenting the results of empirical investigation through large-scale surveys, SNS corpora, and interviews with a wide pool of international youth participants, it suggests that emoji use among young people is leading to the emergence of a new, 'social' grammar.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 240 pages • 39 bw illus. HB 9781350135116 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781350135130 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350135123 • £85.50 / $118.15 Bloomsbury Academic
Theory and Application
Thu Ngo, Australian Catholic University, Australia, Susan Hood, University of Sydney, Australia, J. R. Martin, University of Sydney, Australia, Clare Painter, University of Sydney, Australia, Bradley A. Smith, University of Sydney, Australia & Michele Zappavigna, University of Sydney, Australia This is the first account of 'body language' as 'paralanguage' informed by Systemic Functional Semiotics, offering a fresh linguistic perspective on gesture, facial expression and voice quality resources.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 280 pages PB 9781350277588 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350074903 ePub 9781350074927 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350074910 • £85.50 / $118.15 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics • Bloomsbury Academic Xinren Chen, Nanjing University, China Using data drawn from real-life communicative contexts in China, Xinren Chen examines why identity strategies are adopted, how and why identities are constructed and what factors determine their appropriateness and effectiveness. In answering these questions, Chen argues that identity is an essential communicative resource, present across various domains and able to be exploited to facilitate the realisation of communicative needs. Demonstrating that communication in Chinese involves the dynamic choice and shift of identity by discursive means, this book suggests that identity is intersubjective in communication in all languages and that it can be accepted, challenged, or even deconstructed.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 264 pages PB 9781350273214 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350169326 ePub 9781350169340 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350169333 • £85.50 / $118.15 Bloomsbury Academic
The Societal Codification of Korean English
Alex Baratta, University of Manchester, UK Exploring the development of Korean English, or 'Konglish', this book investigates how language varieties can be codified and gain legitimacy through everyday usage. Arguing that 'official' methods of codification, such as dictionaries and textbooks, are becoming less relevant, Alex Baratta charts numerous examples of Korean English in conversation and the media. In so doing, he explores the implications and opportunities that societal codification presents to EFL students and teachers.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 224 pages PB 9781350189089 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350188556 ePub 9781350188570 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350188563 • £85.50 / $118.15 Series: Bloomsbury Advances in World Englishes • Bloomsbury Academic
