Religions and Discourse

ISSN: 1422-8998

«Religions and Discourse» explores religious language in the major world faiths from various viewpoints, including semiotics, pragmatics and cognitive linguistics, and reflects on how it is situated within wider intellectual and cultural contexts. In particular a key issue is the role of figurative speech. Many fascinating metaphors originate in religion e.g. revelation as a ‘garment’, apostasy as ‘adultery’, loving kindness as the ‘circumcision of the heart’. Every religion rests its specific orientations upon symbols such as these, to name but a few. The series strives after the interdisciplinary approach that brings together such diverse disciplines as religious studies, theology, sociology, philosophy, linguistics and literature, guided by an international editorial board of scholars representative of the aforementioned disciplines. Though scholarly in its scope, the series also seeks to facilitate discussions pertaining to central religious issues in contemporary contexts. The series will publish monographs and collected essays of a high scholarly standard.

64 publications

Mediated Youth

ISSN: 1555-1814

Mediated Youth publishes cutting-edge research on the cultures, media and artifacts of children, tweens, teens, and young adults. This series aims to understand the complex relationship between youth and mediated cultures, and, whenever possible, include the voices of youth themselves. The series welcomes works that study any forms of digital culture, media culture or popular culture, such as social media, gaming, film/TV, music, fashion, sports, toys, leisure, clubs, school cultures/activities, film, dance, language, licensing/merchandising, and subcultures. Books in this series endeavor to explore how young people critically engage with mediated culture. The series invites works that engage with transdisciplinary methods and embrace a variety of critical perspectives.

66 publications

Sprache, Sprechen und Computer / Computer Studies in Language and Speech

ISSN: 1435-5736

9 publications

Mediated Fictions

ISSN: 2194-5918

The Mediated Fiction series aims at providing a forum for studies in English Language and Literatures, but also Comparative Literature, the History of Sciences, and Slavonic Languages and Literatures. The series emphasis is on studies in Verbal and Visual Narratives. The editors, Professor Artur Blaim and Associate Professor Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim, specialize in literary theory, cultural semiotics and fictional worlds in literature and cinema.

23 publications

Studies in Computer Assisted Language Learning

ISSN: 2364-1339

The series brings together contemporary research within the field of computer assisted language learning. The range of topics includes all areas pertaining to CALL methodology: corpora in language learning and teaching, computer mediated communication (CMC) in language pedagogy, intercultural language learning and teacher training, virtual language learning environments and management systems, digital course design, mobile learning and many others. Volumes in the series should be of interest to researchers within the fields of applied linguistics and communication studies. The series Studies in Computer Assisted Language Learning will publish monographs (including also outstanding dissertations) and thematic collective volumes by scholars from Poland and abroad. The language of the series is English.

4 publications

University of Fribourg Series in Computer Science

ISSN: 0940-9580

1 publications