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Linguistics
William B. McGregor, University of Aarhus, Denmark Outlining the core ideas and approaches in linguistics, this book traces their development and discusses the most recent trends in the field. Using examples from a wide range of languages, it assumes no prior knowledge of linguistics and contains a host of pedagogic features. Revised and updated, the third edition includes a new chapter on corpus linguistics, new topics (including theories of syntax, text typology and the evolution of languages) and updated examples drawn from a variety of global perspectives and contexts. It is an essential introduction to the study of linguistics, with a comprehensive companion website.
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 544 pages • 50 bw illus. PB 9781350164253 • £25.99 / $35.95 • HB 9781350164260 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350164277 • £23.39 / $32.96 ePdf 9781350164284 • £23.39 / $32.96 Bloomsbury Academic
Connected Parenting
Digital Discourse and Diverse Family Practices
Jai Mackenzie, University of Nottingham, UK Drawing on unique and extensive digital and interview data from research with nine UK-based single and/or LGB (lesbian, gay or bisexual) parents, Connected Parenting advances understanding of how concepts of parenting and the family are shifting through digital connective practices that extend across families, communities and geographical borders. Through multimodal, multi-sited analyses that combine constructivist grounded theory with mediated discourse analysis, the book explores the relationship between everyday parenting, family practices and digital media in the lives of single and LGB parents who have used adoption, donor conception and co-parenting arrangements to bring children into their lives. Further, it examines ‘connected’ family lives and practices in a way that transcends the limiting social, biological and legal structures that still dominate concepts of family in contemporary society.
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 224 pages • 33 bw illus HB 9781350262539 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350262553 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350262546 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Extending Applied Linguistics for Social Impact
Cross-Disciplinary Collaborations in Diverse Spaces of Public Inquiry
Edited by Doris S. Warriner, Arizona State University, USA & Elizabeth R. Miller, UNC Charlotte, USA This book demonstrates how applied linguists can utilize their knowledge and methods to explore contemporary social problems that affect other disciplines, local communities and the general public. Drawing on theories and methods in applied linguistics, chapters address equal access to education for immigrants, science education in preschool dual-language contexts, healthcare delivery to refugee families, gendered language in disability studies and social sustainability initiatives. The diversity of research contexts shows how the work of applied linguists can have tangible social impact and influence meaningful change for the public good.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 228 pages PB 9781350249547 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350136380 ePub 9781350136403 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350136397 • £85.50 / $118.15 Bloomsbury Academic Understanding Talk in the Workplace and Everyday Life
Angela Cora Garcia, Bentley University, USA This book provides a thorough grounding in the theory and methodology of conversation analysis, introducing students to foundational and new research findings on everyday conversations and talk in institutional contexts, from media and education to healthcare and law. The second edition includes brand new coverage of interaction in psychotherapy, educational settings, language learning and teaching, online communications and social media, drawing on a wider variety of examples from other languages and incorporating multimodal analysis. It remains an essential guide for doing conversation analysis and offers fresh insight into how we understand talk.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 400 pages • 2 bw illus. PB 9781350199927 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350199910 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350199934 • £26.09 / $37.08 ePdf 9781350199941 • £26.09 / $37.08 Bloomsbury Academic
Storytelling and Ecology
Empathy, Enchantment and Emergence in the Use of Oral Narratives
Anthony Nanson, Professional Storyteller and Writer PROSE Awards 2022 Finalist - Language & Linguistics
Awarded Honors at the Storytelling World Awards 2022
Linking the ongoing ecological crisis with contemporary conditions of alienation and disenchantment in modern society, this book investigates the capacity of oral storytelling to reconnect people to the natural world and enchant and renew their experience of nature, place and their own existence in the world. Anthony Nanson offers an in-depth examination of how a diverse ecosystem of traditional, truelife and fictional stories and the dynamics of storytelling as an activity can catalyse different kinds of conversation and motivation, helping us resist the discourse of powerful vested interests.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 290 pages PB 9781350246225 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350114920 ePub 9781350114944 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350114937 • £85.50 / $118.15 Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Ecolinguistics • Bloomsbury Academic
Multimodal Approaches to Healthcare Communication Research
Visualising Interactions for Resilient Healthcare in the UK and Japan
Edited by Keiko Tsuchiya, Yokohama City University, Japan, Frank Coffey, Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust, UK & Kyota Nakamura, Osaka University Hospital, Japan Exploring multimodally embedded everyday practices of healthcare professionals in the UK and Japan, this book provides an interdisciplinary examination of the theories and rationales of resilient healthcare. It engages with a range of case studies from a variety of healthcare settings in the UK and Japan and considers the application of advanced technologies, such as eye-tracking glasses, for visualising healthcare interactions and implementing virtual healthcare simulation.
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 256 pages • 51 bw illus. HB 9781350298477 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781350298491 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350298484 • £85.50 / $118.15 Bloomsbury Academic
Understanding Linguistic Diversity
John Edwards, St Francis Xavier University, Canada A concise yet compelling overview of multilingualism and its socio-cultural implications and consequences. Covering major topics including language origins, language death and artificial languages, this edition additionally discusses new areas, such as linguistic imperialism, minority languages, and folk linguistics. Also featured in this second edition is a brand-new chapter on new developments and approaches in the field and reflection questions for each chapter.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 272 pages PB 9781350195417 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781350195400 • £55.00 / $75.00 ePub 9781350195424 • £16.19 / $23.34 ePdf 9781350195431 • £16.19 / $23.34 Bloomsbury Academic
Learning Words from Reading
A Cognitive Model of Word-Meaning Inference
Megumi Hamada, Ball State University, USA This book focuses on incidental learning: how students learn words from reading. Clarifying the connection between reading and word learning processes, Megumi Hamada proposes a new model, the Cognitive Model of Word-Meaning Inference, to describe how we obtain and use word-form and contextual information for learning words and the pedagogical applications of this. A significant new contribution to research in the field, this book provides a cognitive perspective on how students learn new words from reading in a second or foreign language.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 172 pages PB 9781350251700 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350153677 ePub 9781350153691 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350153684 • £85.50 / $118.15 Bloomsbury Academic
Bloomsbury Advances in World Englishes
Metaphor in Language and Culture across World Englishes
Edited by Marcus Callies, University of Bremen, Germany & Marta Degani, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Broadening the scope of research on conceptual metaphor at the nexus of language and culture, this book explores metaphor and figurative language as a characteristic of the many Englishes in the world. Chapters examine the key role of culture in the formation of variety-specific cognitive conceptualisations and the linguistic expression of metaphor and figurativity. They analyse a variety of naturalistic data and text types, such as online media, narratives, news reporting, political speeches and literary works, advancing the debate on the interplay of universal and culture-specific grounding of conceptual metaphor.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 288 pages PB 9781350249530 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350157538 ePub 9781350157552 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350157545 • £85.50 / $118.15 Series: Bloomsbury Advances in World Englishes • Bloomsbury Academic Empowering and Transforming Communities
Edited by Robert Blackwood, University of Liverpool, UK & Deirdre A. Dunlevy, Queen's University Belfast, UK Bringing together researchers from across Europe, this book explores sociolinguistic perspectives on multilingualism. With specific emphasis on identity, diversity, and social cohesion, chapters focus explicitly on the potential of this phenomenon to empower individuals, groups, and communities. Understanding ‘public space' in broad terms, the book investigates domains such as education, online, and the linguistic landscape. In so doing, it explores how multilingualism can empower people from a range of perspectives, including memorialisation, onomastics, direct action, linguistic rights, migration, and educational play.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 268 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350186637 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350186590 ePub 9781350186613 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350186606 • £85.50 / $118.15 Bloomsbury Academic
Emoji Speak
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 March 2023 • US March 2023 • 256 pages HB 9781350135116 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781350135130 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350135123 • £85.50 / $118.15 Bloomsbury Academic
Research Developments in World Englishes
Edited by Alexander Onysko, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Discussing key issues of current relevance and setting the tone for future research in world Englishes, this open access book is the inaugural volume in the Bloomsbury Advances in World Englishes series. Chapters cover de-colonial approaches, emerging varieties in post-protectorates and international uses as communicative events to highlight the globalizing aspect of English as a semiotic code.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 322 pages • 28 bw illus PB 9781350249592 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350167056 ePub 9781350167070 ePdf 9781350167063 Series: Bloomsbury Advances in World Englishes • Bloomsbury Academic
Salvatore Attardo, Texas A&M UniversityCommerce, USA & Lucy Pickering, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA This book guides you through one of the most exciting and innovative research methods in the field of linguistics. It provides a foundational overview to the neurology and physiology of the eye and the common measurements and tools used in eye-tracking, a guide to the applications of eye-tracking most pertinent to linguists, and a step-by-step process to plan, execute, analyze and report your research project in eye-tracking. Covering topics such as reading, lexical and syntactic processing, classroom interactions, statistical tools and how to write up results, each chapter also includes applied case studies and self-study questions.
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 304 pages • 50 bw illus PB 9781350117518 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350117501 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350117525 • £26.09 / $37.08 ePdf 9781350117532 • £26.09 / $37.08 Series: Research Methods in Linguistics • Bloomsbury Academic
Significant Emotions
Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age
Ashley Frawley, Swansea University, UK Providing a piercing examination of the rising use of emotional signifiers in public debate, this book examines the ‘emotional turn’ across the social sciences and the broader cultural rise of the ‘age of emotion’. Exploring the appearance of these trends in a variety of claims-making activities across academia, traditional and social media and social policy, Ashley Frawley argues that emotions have become key signifiers of broader cultural tendencies to affirm conservatism over progress, vulnerability over resilience, and the determined self over the free willing subject.
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 256 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781350026797 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350026803 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePdf 9781350026827 • £17.99 / $24.72 Bloomsbury Academic
Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
Paul Bouissac, University of Toronto, Canada
The Social Semiotics of Populism
Sebastián Moreno Barreneche, ORT University of Uruguay, Uruguay Conceiving populism as a series of semiotic constructions based on a conception of the social divided into two groups, ‘the People’ and ‘the Other’, this book shows that semiotics is an essential framework for understanding populism. Exploring how these categories are discursively constructed, the ways in which meaning emerges through the oppositions between imagined collective actors is explained. Through examination of the different dimensions of populism, drawing on examples from Europe, North America and South America, this book presents a systematic semiotic approach to this multifaceted political concept.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350205390 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781350205413 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350205406 • £85.50 / $118.15 Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics • Bloomsbury Academic
Language, Expressivity and Cognition
Edited by Mikolaj Deckert, University of Lódz, Poland, Piotr Pezik, University of Lódz, Poland & Raffaele Zago, University of Catania, Italy Using a wide variety of data types, from song lyrics and TV shows through to Twitter posts and political speeches, and a range of languages, including Arabic, English, Polish, Italian, Hungarian, and Turkish, this book offers a panoramic view of the multi-faceted interaction between language, emotion and cognition. Providing an up-to-date, interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic account of the centrality of emotion in communication, it explores both the conceptual architecture of emotions as reflected in language, and the high emotional ‘temperature’ of a variety of contemporary discourses, such as those surrounding the COVID-19 vaccinations.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 256 pages • 13 bw illus HB 9781350332867 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781350332881 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350332874 • £85.50 / $118.15 Bloomsbury Academic
The End of the Circus
Evolutionary Semiotics and Cultural Resilience
Paul Bouissac, University of Toronto, Canada This book analyses two features of the traditional circus that have come under increasing attack since the mid-20th century: the use of wild animals in performance and the act of clowning. Positioning this socio-cultural change within the broader perspective of evolutionary semiotics, renowned circus expert Paul Bouissac examines the decline of the traditional circus and its transformation into a purely acrobatic spectacle, brought into the fold of mainstream popular entertainment. Questioning the survival of this new circus and the likely resurgence of its traditional forms, this book marks the culmination of Bouissac’s ground-breaking work on the circus.
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 264 pages • 30 bw illus PB 9781350244764 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350166493 ePub 9781350166516 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350166509 • £85.50 / $118.15 Bloomsbury Academic
Computational Semiotics
Jean-Guy Meunier, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Can semiotics and computers be compatible? Can computation advance semiotics by giving the theory of signs a more scientific basis? This book tackles these questions head-on and shows how semiotics can build the same type of conceptual, formal, and computational models as other scientific projects, opening up a rich domain of inquiry toward the formal understanding of semiotic artifacts and processes. Examining how pairing semiotics with computation can bring more methodological rigor and logical consistency to the epistemic quest for the forms and functions of meaning, this book offers a cutting-edge, model-driven theory to the field.
UK March 2023 • US September 2023 • 288 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781350259775 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350166615 ePub 9781350166639 • £85.50 / $118.15 ePdf 9781350166622 • £85.50 / $118.15 Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics • Bloomsbury Academic
