Media and Communication

Stefania Maci Evidential verbs in the genre of medical posters

A corpus-based analysis

The main goal of this volume is to analyze evidentiality expressed with verbs and realized in a corpus of specialized written texts, namely medical posters, with the purpose of exploring the categories, forms, and functions of evidentiality in medicine discourse. Helle Metslang• Miina Norvik• Andra Kalnača (eds.) Insights into the Baltic and Finnic Languages

Contacts, Comparisons, and Change

This book includes twelve articles on the Finnic and Baltic languages spanning the topics of morphosyntax, typology and onomastics. Taking an areal, comparative, or sociolinguistic perspective the articles bring new data and knowledge regarding the contacts and (dis)similarities between the language varieties in the Circum-Baltic area. Luo Xuanmin

Translation and Chinese Modernity

This book describes how translation has been facilitating China’s progress towards modernity since the early 20th century. Translation is a powerful medium for cultural dissemination and construction, and enables better interchange between Chinese culture and those of other nations in the context of mass media and globalization. Simon Bacon (ed.) Toxic Cultures

A Companion

What is toxic? Connoting many forms of negativity, denial or disillusion, ‘toxic’ cultures are part of living in the twentyfirst century. Including topics such as cancel culture, environmental denialism, #MeToo, Black Lives Matter and more, this companion serves an important intervention into the conversation. Susan B. Barnes

Visual Spirituality

Art, Mediums, and Cognitive Dissociation

This book explores the topic through the lenses of media ecology, art history, and psychology. Media ecology is a theory that media shapes how messages are delivered.

Bern, 2022. 498 pp., 42 fig. b/w, 35 tables. Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication. Vol. 291

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