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Watching TV with a Linguist

by Kay Richardson, Joseph Trotta, Jean Ann, Hanna Green, Matthias Eitelmann, Ulrike Stange, Michael Percillier, Jessie Sams, Gulstat Aygen, Ilaria Fiorentini, Paulo Quaglio ...

Series series Television and Popular Culture
In Watching TV with a Linguist, Fägersten challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, she champions the use of fictional television to learn about linguistics and at the same time promotes enriched television viewing experiences by explaining the role of language in creating humor, conveying drama, and developing identifiable ... Read more

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In Watching TV with a Linguist, Fägersten challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, she champions the use of fictional television to learn about linguistics and at the same time promotes enriched television viewing experiences by explaining the role of language in creating humor, conveying drama, and developing identifiable
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Surviving the Bosnian Genocide

The Women of Srebrenica Speak

by Selma Leydesdorff ...

Translated by Kay Richardson ...

In this "valuable oral history," women who survived the 1995 Srebrenica massacre speak of their lives before, during, and after the Bosnian war ( Publishers Weekly).In July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some eight thousand Bosnian men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica—the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. Surviving the Bosnian Genocide recounts the ... Read more

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In this "valuable oral history," women who survived the 1995 Srebrenica massacre speak of their lives before, during, and after the Bosnian war ( Publishers Weekly).In July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some eight thousand Bosnian men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica—the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. Surviving the Bosnian Genocide recounts the
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Someone So Right

by Kay Henley Richardson ...

In the wake of sorrow and heartache, Myles and Kayla discover solace and strength in their shared belief, finding comfort in the promise of redemption and the enduring presence of divine love. Their journey is a testament to the power of faith to heal wounds, mend broken hearts, and ignite the flames of newfound hope.Set against the backdrop of life's twists and turns, Someone So Right is a ... Read more

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In the wake of sorrow and heartache, Myles and Kayla discover solace and strength in their shared belief, finding comfort in the promise of redemption and the enduring presence of divine love. Their journey is a testament to the power of faith to heal wounds, mend broken hearts, and ignite the flames of newfound hope.Set against the backdrop of life's twists and turns, Someone So Right is a
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Researching Language

Issues of Power and Method

by Deborah Cameron, Elizabeth Frazer, Penelope Harvey, M. B. H. Rampton, Kay Richardson ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociolinguistics
Originally published in 1992. This book discusses the possibilities of developing the research process in social science so that it benefits the subjects as well as the researcher. The authors distinguish between ‘ethical’, ‘advocate’ and ‘empowering’ approaches to the relationship between researcher and researched, linking these to different ideas about the nature of knowledge, action, language, ... Read more

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Originally published in 1992. This book discusses the possibilities of developing the research process in social science so that it benefits the subjects as well as the researcher. The authors distinguish between ‘ethical’, ‘advocate’ and ‘empowering’ approaches to the relationship between researcher and researched, linking these to different ideas about the nature of knowledge, action, language,
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Worlds in Common?

Television Discourses in a Changing Europe

by Ulrike H. Meinhof, Kay Richardson ...

Worlds in Common? examines the newly emerging forms of language used in satellite television programmes, exploring a wide range of genres including twenty-four hour news broadcasting, culture channels, talk shows, local TV and European news.Focusing on the experiences of British and German viewers, the authors discuss these new forms of communication brought about by the technological and economic ... Read more

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Worlds in Common? examines the newly emerging forms of language used in satellite television programmes, exploring a wide range of genres including twenty-four hour news broadcasting, culture channels, talk shows, local TV and European news.Focusing on the experiences of British and German viewers, the authors discuss these new forms of communication brought about by the technological and economic
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Ethnographically Speaking

Autoethnography, Literature, and Aesthetics

by Carolyn Ellis, Michael V. Angrosino, Arthur P. Bochner, Kathryn Church, Teresa Beverly Dent, Douglas Flemons, Arthur Frank, Kenneth Gergen, Mary Gergen0, H. L. Goodall1, Ross Gray2, Shelley Green3, Scott Hoy4, Vrenia Ivonoffski5, Elaine Jenks6, Stacy Holman Jones7, Christine Kiesinger8, Lesa Lockford9, Ernest Lockridge0, Ron Pelias1, Picart Kay2, Laurel Richardson3, Janice Rushing4, Christina Sinding5, Andrew C. Sparkes6, Paul Stoller7, Lisa Tillmann-Healy8 ...

Series series Ethnographic Alternatives
This volume presents the latest explorations of the literary turn in ethnographic work by many of the leading people in the area. Centering on autoethnography, personal narrative, ethnographic performance, and the blending of social science and the arts, the articles collected here emphasize embodiment, experiential understanding, participatory ways of knowing, sensuous engagement, and intimate ... Read more

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This volume presents the latest explorations of the literary turn in ethnographic work by many of the leading people in the area. Centering on autoethnography, personal narrative, ethnographic performance, and the blending of social science and the arts, the articles collected here emphasize embodiment, experiential understanding, participatory ways of knowing, sensuous engagement, and intimate
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Register, Genre, and Style

by Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad ...

Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the methodological techniques used to analyse them. Three analytical approaches are introduced and compared, describing a wide range of texts from the perspectives of register, genre and style. The primary focus of the book is on the analysis of registers. Part 1 introduces an analytical framework for studying ... Read more

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This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the methodological techniques used to analyse them. Three analytical approaches are introduced and compared, describing a wide range of texts from the perspectives of register, genre and style. The primary focus of the book is on the analysis of registers. Part 1 introduces an analytical framework for studying
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The Stuff of Thought

Language as a Window into Human Nature

by Steven Pinker ...

**This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and Enlightenment Now."Curious, inventive, fearless, naughty."--The New York Times Book Review**Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to ... Read more

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**This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and Enlightenment Now."Curious, inventive, fearless, naughty."--The New York Times Book Review**Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to
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Stylish Academic Writing

by Helen Sword ...

Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can’t get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions or eager to write for a larger audience, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books enjoyable to read—and to write. ... Read more

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Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can’t get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions or eager to write for a larger audience, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books enjoyable to read—and to write.
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Depression

A Public Feeling

by Ann Cvetkovich ...

In Depression: A Public Feeling, Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and critical essay in search of ways of writing about depression as a cultural and political phenomenon that offer alternatives to medical models. She describes her own experience of the professional pressures, creative anxiety, and political hopelessness that led to intellectual blockage while she was finishing her dissertation and ... Read more

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In Depression: A Public Feeling, Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and critical essay in search of ways of writing about depression as a cultural and political phenomenon that offer alternatives to medical models. She describes her own experience of the professional pressures, creative anxiety, and political hopelessness that led to intellectual blockage while she was finishing her dissertation and
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Fifty Ways to Teach Pronunciation: Tips for ESL/EFL Teachers

by Tamara Jones ...

This guide for new or experienced teachers of English as a second or foreign language contains fifty techniques, strategies, activities, and games for teaching pronunciation. It can be used alongside any existing textbook or without one at all, and is suitable for all levels.This book is divided into six sections:Word stressSpeech RhythmSpeech GroupsFinal Intonation and FocusLinking and ... Read more

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This guide for new or experienced teachers of English as a second or foreign language contains fifty techniques, strategies, activities, and games for teaching pronunciation. It can be used alongside any existing textbook or without one at all, and is suitable for all levels.This book is divided into six sections:Word stressSpeech RhythmSpeech GroupsFinal Intonation and FocusLinking and
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Side Affects

On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

by Hil Malatino ...

How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishingSome days—or weeks, or months, or even years—being trans feels bad. Yet as Hil Malatino points out, there is little space for trans people to think through, let alone speak of, these bad feelings. Negative emotions are suspect because they unsettle narratives of acceptance or reinforce virulently phobic framings of ... Read more

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How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishingSome days—or weeks, or months, or even years—being trans feels bad. Yet as Hil Malatino points out, there is little space for trans people to think through, let alone speak of, these bad feelings. Negative emotions are suspect because they unsettle narratives of acceptance or reinforce virulently phobic framings of
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