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This collection brings together established and emerging scholars for a critical framing of sustainability through the lens of language and communication, social semiotics, and media studies.
An introduction to the semiotic analysis of live performances, providing a clear method for untangling the multimodal complexity of experiencing performances from the spectator’s point of view.
Originally published in 1927, The World of Imagery is a study of the use of metaphor, simile, and other forms of literary imagery from the ancient Hebrew to the early twentieth century.
Examines how so-called human inner life (feelings, emotions, sentiments and self-reflection) can translated in different arts and between the arts.
The second of two volumes, this book explores how artefacts, as outcomes of experience brought about by the ‘artistranslator’ perform semiotic work.
Thinking with Words: A Literary Groundwork provides a unique foundational introduction to the depths and glories of literature and its study. Essential reading for anyone interested in not just literature but in art, culture, and language.
This collection highlights a range of perspectives on the emerging body of research on evolutionary pragmatics, expanding the borders of language evolution research and indicating exciting new directions for the future of the field.
This collection brings together perspectives on the interplay of communication, dialogue and responsibility, exploring communicative acts of disruption towards a social environment attuned to short-sighted individualism.
This book examines how people around the world have articulated and shaped their experiences of COVID-19 through a sociolinguistic phenomenon known as magical thinking.
The volumes seek to place political thinking and postcolonial political systems under the scholarly gaze with the view to highlight and enhance the participation of African cross-disciplinary scholarship in the postcolonial political processes of the continent.