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Language as Social Action
This Series explores new and exciting advances in the ways in which language both reflects and fashions social reality--and thereby constitutes critical means of social action. As well as these being central foci in face-to-face interactions across different cultures, they also assume significance in the ways that language functions in the mass medias, new technologies, organizations, and social institutions. Language As Social Action does not uphold apartheid against any particular methodological and/or ideological position, but, rather, promotes (wherever possible) cross-fertilization of ideas and empirical data across the many, all-too-contrastive, social scientific approaches to language and communication. Contributors to the Series will also accord due attention to the historical, political, and economic forces that contextually bound the ways in which language patterns are analyzed, produced, and received. The Series will also provide an important platform for theory-driven works that have profound, and otentimes provocative, implications for social policy. This Series explores new and exciting advances in the ways in which language both reflects and fashions social reality--and thereby constitutes critical means of social action. As well as these being central foci in face-to-face interactions across different cultures, they also assume significance in the ways that language functions in the mass medias, new technologies, organizations, and social institutions. Language As Social Action does not uphold apartheid against any particular methodological and/or ideological position, but, rather, promotes (wherever possible) cross-fertilization of ideas and empirical data across the many, all-too-contrastive, social scientific approaches to language and communication. Contributors to the Series will also accord due attention to the historical, political, and economic forces that contextually bound the ways in which language patterns are analyzed, produced, and received. The Series will also provide an important platform for theory-driven works that have profound, and otentimes provocative, implications for social policy. This Series explores new and exciting advances in the ways in which language both reflects and fashions social reality--and thereby constitutes critical means of social action. As well as these being central foci in face-to-face interactions across different cultures, they also assume significance in the ways that language functions in the mass medias, new technologies, organizations, and social institutions. Language As Social Action does not uphold apartheid against any particular methodological and/or ideological position, but, rather, promotes (wherever possible) cross-fertilization of ideas and empirical data across the many, all-too-contrastive, social scientific approaches to language and communication. Contributors to the Series will also accord due attention to the historical, political, and economic forces that contextually bound the ways in which language patterns are analyzed, produced, and received. The Series will also provide an important platform for theory-driven works that have profound, and otentimes provocative, implications for social policy.
37 publications
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Reflections on Signs and Language
This book series proposes themes that are generally associated with the so-called language and sign sciences, in the first place semiotics, linguistics and philosophy of language, inclusive of literary language. It also focuses on problems that interest the communication sciences, including mass-medial communication and the question of translation. However, the perspective is not limited to any one of these disciplinary spheres. Moreover, the series intends to propose a vision that is critical, open and dialogic, which means to say developed in terms of interdisciplinary dialogue. Such an approach is proficuous if it is not limited to encounter among specific disciplines, competencies and interests at a scientific level alone. In fact, a priority characterising this series is to create the conditions for encounter between the sciences of signs, language and communication, on the one hand, and the problems of everyday life which are closely involved, indeed are engendered in them, on the other. We live in a world where life overall as much as the life of each one of us depends increasingly on signs, language and communication. But there’s more: not only human life, but life in general, as biosemiotics now evidences unequivocally, consists of communication and is made of signs. We are looking forward to receiving contributions from all over the world, mindful of the series’ interdisciplinary orientation, characteristics and interests. Submissions should be written in English and will be peer-reviewed by the relevant specialists.
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Language Function, Structure, and Change
Essays in Linguistics in Honor of Tomasz P. Krzeszowski©2002 Others -
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The Function of the Dream and the Body in Diderot’s Works
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Portable Music and its Functions
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Meaning and functionality of heḇel in Qoheleth
Translation, reception and reconfiguration©2026 Thesis -
Studies in Functional Discourse Grammar
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Combining Functional Linguistics and Skopos Theory
A Case Study of Greek Cypriot and British Folktales©2006 Thesis -
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Language and Concepts in Action
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Linguistic Research©2013 Monographs -
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Anti-suit Injunctions
Gerichtliche Zuständigkeitskontrolle im europäischen Zivilverfahrensrecht durch Prozessführungsverbote©2012 Thesis -
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Family and Dysfunction in Contemporary Irish Narrative and Film
©2016 Monographs -
Variation in Language and Language Use
Linguistic, Socio-Cultural and Cognitive Perspectives©2013 Edited Collection -
Language, Action, Interaction
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First Language versus Foreign Language
Fluency, Errors and Revision Processes in Foreign Language Academic Writing©2015 Thesis -
In Search of the Cultural Motivation in Language
Girl and Woman in James Joyce’s “Dubliners”©2020 Monographs -
Emotion and identity in second language learning
©2023 Edited Collection