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Looks at the study of crime and deviance through written, spoken and visual representation. This book deals specifically with the role of language in representations and constructions of crime, deviance and punishment in the media. It provides a toolkit for the analysis of language and images in examples across a range of media.

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Looks at the study of crime and deviance through written, spoken and visual representation. This book deals specifically with the role of language in representations and constructions of crime, deviance and punishment in the media. It provides a toolkit for the analysis of language and images in examples across a range of media.

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Webster presents an edited collection of works by British linguist, M. A. K. Halliday, written between the 1970s and 1990s, and based on Halliday's intensive study as a participant-observer of his own son, Nigel, and his developing language skills.

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An analysis of the most important characteristics of television dialogue, with a focus on fictional television.

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Addresses the need for a systemic analysis of television discourse and characterization within linguistics and media studies. This title presents both corpus stylistics and 'manual' analysis of linguistic and multimodal features of fictional television.

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Charts the connections between the language of journalism in England and its social impact on audiences and social and political debates from the first emergence of periodical publications in the seventeenth century to the present day.

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Charts the connections between the language of journalism in England and its social impact on audiences and social and political debates from the first emergence of periodical publications in the seventeenth century to the present day.

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This volume explores the semantic character of scientific discourse and the chapters are organised into two sections, one on grammatical metaphor, the other on scientific English. Halliday was Foundation Professor of Linguistics at University of Sydney.

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A thorough introduction to the language of surrealism by a leading authority in the field. The author draws on recent work in cognitive poetics and literary linguistics to re-evaluate surrealism in its own historical setting, analysing textual examples and situating them within a framework of the latest theories and stylistic methods.

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This is a compilation of slang, nicknames, military jargon and terminology, idioms, colloquialisms, and other words and expressions used (and often originating) during the American Civil War.

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Looks at linguistic, cultural and economic aspects of hip-hop in parallel using various frameworks of analysis.

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Looks at linguistic, cultural and economic aspects of hip-hop in parallel using various frameworks of analysis.

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A rich series of geographically diverse case studies examining the historical and theoretical issues involved in the study of urban African languages.

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Presents a series of geographically diverse case studies that examine various issues involved in the study of urban African languages. This book focuses on theoretical issues in the study of African urban languages, exploring the outcomes of intense multilingualism and also the ways in which urban dwellers form their speech communities.

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The enormous body of short story anthologies from the nineteen countries of Spanish America and Brazil testifies to their importance for writers, editors, readers, and, especially, for schools and universities, teachers and students.

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After verbs and nouns, adjectives are the most important lexical word class. This is a study of this central grammatical category, providing a demonstration of the validity of Halliday's hypothesis, and aiming to contribute to the linguistic theory of systemic functional and general linguistics.

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The Literary Lifeline offers an interdisciplinary investigation into the phenomenon of reading for well-being. The book is a study of the transformative potential of literature.

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A great speech is more than just a slick presentation. It requires interesting ideas, presented in a clear and memorable way. This all-in-one presentation guide helps people master every aspect of public speaking - from researching and writing the speech to preparing the manuscript to delivering the speech to handling questions from the audience.