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Text-Based Research and Teaching A Social Semiotic Perspective on Language in Use

This book illustrates the many methods available for researching language in context and for the analysis of everyday text types. Each chapter highlights language as a resource for the expression of meanings—a social semiotic resource. Text analysis is used to reveal our capacity to formulate multip...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mickan, Peter (Editor), Lopez, Elise (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Subjects:
Semiotics
Semantics
Language And Languages—study And Teaching
Language Teaching
Sociolinguistics
Discourse Analysis
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • - Chapter 1: Introduction: Text-Based Research and Teaching
  • Part I: Text-Based Research in Everyday Social Settings
  • Chapter 2: Text-Based Research and Teaching from a Social Semiotic Perspective: Transformative Research and Pedagogy
  • Chapter 3: A Month of Climate Change in Australia: A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Media Discourse
  • Chapter 4: A (Critical) Discourse Analysis of Alan Greenspan’s Public Discourses on the Housing Bubble: The Trigger to the Global Financial Crisis
  • Chapter 5: A Social Semiotic Perspective of Multimodal Banking Discourse in the Context of the Global Financial Crisis
  • Chapter 6: Locating Voices in Memoir: Modelling Voice through an Analysis of Interpersonal Linguistic Choices
  • Chapter 7: The Generic Structure of the Call for Papers of Predatory Journals
  • Part II: Text-Based Language Pedagogy
  • Chapter 8: Students Questions in Talk around Children’s Picture Books
  • Chapter 9: Text-Based Teaching in a High School Setting
  • Chapter 10: A Socio-Semiotic Perspective on a Unit of Work in an Indonesian Textbook
  • Chapter 11: The Text-Based Approach in the German as a Foreign Language Secondary Classroom: A Case Study
  • Chapter 12: Spoken Texts in High-Stakes EFL Testing in Korea and their Impact on High School English Teaching
  • Chapter 13: Text: A Means for Language Socialisation in Communities of Practice
  • Chapter 14: Self-Learning a Foreign Language through Literature: A Case Study of a Self-Learner’s Socialisation into Czech through Czech Literature
  • Chapter 15: Thematic Options and Success in ESL Writing
  • Chapter 16: Using Student-Selected Texts in Speaking Classes
  • Chapter 17: ‘Now We Are All Friends’: An Exploratory Study of Social Networking Texts in the Context of Second Language Learning
  • Chapter 18: Academic Literacies in the Field of Interior Architecture: A Multimodal Analysis
  • Chapter 19: Documentation, Renewal and Semiotic Mediation: Continuing Text-Based Research and Teaching

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