Reviewed by Timo Savela University of Turku, Finland Gender, Neoliberalism and Distinction through Linguistic Capital: Taiwanese Narratives of Struggle and Strategy. (Volume 15) (Encounters (15). By Mark Fifer Seilhamer Gender, Neoliberalism and Distinction Through Linguistic Capital: Taiwanese Narratives of Struggle and…
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Volume 7, Number 1 June 2019
Download complete issue • Message from the Editor• Message from the Guest Editor• Call for guest-editors for e-journal Language, Discourse & Society Original Articles – Symbolic violence in socio-educational contexts. Language, power and ethnicity Basia Vucic ‘Re-Placing’ Janusz Korczak: Education…
Call for posters
Language and Society. Research Advances in Social Sciences International Conference of RC25 (ISA) Warsaw 26-27th September 2019 We invite posters from PhD students/Doctoral candidates for the Poster Session. A poster will not be rejected if the Authors are overqualified. Please…
Book Review: Muchnik, Malka, Niznik, Marina, Teferra, Anbessa, and Gluzman, Tania (2016). Elective Language Study and Policy in Israel: A Sociolinguistic and Educational Study. Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-3-319-34035-7, ISBN 978-3-319-34036-4 (e-Book)
Reviewed by Maria Yelenevskaya Technion-Israel Institute of Humanities, Israel Note from the Editor in Chief: This book review was first published in Hed Ha’ulpan He’chadash, 106, in Hebrew.[1] We thank the editor for the permission to publish the English version…
Book Review: Persson, A. (2018). Framing Social Interaction: Continuities and Cracks in Goffman’s Frame Analysis. (1 ed.) London & New York: Routledge. 188 pages. ISBN: 9781472482587
Reviewed by Maud Mazaniello-Chézol McGill University, Canada Framing Social Interaction: Continuities and Cracks in Goffman’s Frame Analysis is the second book and one of the numerous analyses of Goffman’s sociological work written by Anders Persson[1]. This first edition book is…
Developing language awareness: A study of Japanese students’ perceptions toward English language education
Mieko Yamada Purdue University Fort Wayne, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, 2101 East Coliseum Boulevard, Fort Wayne, IN, 46805-1499, email: yamadam@pfw.edu Abstract In globalized societies where English uses and users are diverse, promoting intercultural communication skills becomes important in English…
Situated Identities in the Discourse of Insurance: A Comparative Critical Discourse Analysis of Chinese and British Insurance Contracts
Mark Nartey(1) & Hui Huang(2) (1) The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of English, mark.nartey@connect.polyu.hk(2) Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Department of English, huanghnj@qq.com Abstract This paper is a comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and British insurance…
Discourse in a Confrontational Situation: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Mohammed Farrah English Department, Faculty of Arts – Hebron University, Palestine, E-mail: mfarrah06@gmail.com and mfarrah@hebron.edu Abstract The aim of the article is to shed light on ongoing situation about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the lenses of newspaper heading analysis. Newspapers…
Análisis crítico de aspectos sociopragmáticos en las cartas a un presidente [Critical Analysis of Sociopragmatic Aspects in Letters to a President]
Carolina Gutiérrez-Rivas Central Michigan University, Department of World Languages and Cultures, gutie1c@cmich.edu Resumen El presente es un análisis crítico de las estructuras discursivas de en un corpus de diez cartas digitales abiertas dirigidas a Nicolás Maduro, actual presidente de Venezuela,…
Nommer l’absence de logement. Catégoriser les individus exclus du logement [Naming Housing Absence. Categorizing the Individuals Who are Excluded from Housing]
Marjorie Lelubre Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles, Centre d’études sociologiques, Chercheuse associée, mlelubre@hotmail.com Abrégé Sans-abri, SDF, clochards, vagabonds, … sont tout autant de termes par lesquels le langage commun tente de désigner l’exclusion du logement. Nommer le manque sans stigmatiser, sans gommer…