Books in the Language In Social Life series

In these critical overviews of the interface between language, social structure and social action, theoretical and methodological traditions are represented: variationist and ethnographic sociolinguistics, conversation and interaction analysis, discourse analysis, social semiotics and ideological linguistics, and sociology and social theory.

Language has graphic as well as linguistic aspects to it, this book argues that there are many opportunities for collaboration between typographers and applied linguistics. Typographic examples looked at include letter writing conventions and the house style of printers and publishers.

Examines the challenges facing education and training professionals in redefining their contribution to improving communication and learning at work, in a world in which communication technology is constantly evolving.

This volume offers the reader a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to the study of language as discourse, questioning traditional views of disciplinary knowledge and the role of discourse in the pursuit, construction and compartmentalization of such knowledge.

Provides a variety of theoretical and analytical perspectives on misunderstanding within different types of spoken interaction/discourse - such as in news media interviews, legal and medical situations, communication by second language learners and between different cultural and social groups, and mistakes in everyday conversation.

Provides an account of interpreter-mediated communication, exploring the responsibilities of the interpreter and the expectations of both the interpreter and of other participants involved in the interaction.

Examines three main areas where the language and law interact: the central issue of the language of the law; the disadvantage which language can impose before the law, and forensic linguistics. Each area is dealt with in a separate section which is preceded by an introduction from the editor.

Part of the "Language in Social Life" series, this text examines linguistics and aphasia and the psycholinguistic and pragmatic aspects of intervention. Amongst areas covered are the clinical background to aphasia, functional communication strategies and control processes in sentence production.

Language tests are now being used as part of immigration procedures in many countries and as a means of rejecting or accepting refugees. This book discusses the role of language tests within educational, social and political contexts.

This is a study of understanding in a second language, related to the actual lives of minority workers. The focus is on everyday interactions between these workers and the bureaucrats of the society in which they are now resident.

The author seeks to bridge the gap between media studies and sociolinguistics by presenting a new study on the role of language in news media, based on ethnographic and textual analyses of both print and television news media. In the LANGUAGE IN SOCIAL LIFE series.

This text examines language and information technology, focusing attention on the use of the computer at work, as a phone message service, as a communication site, as a text processor and as a knowledge broker.

Incorporating research in sociolinguistics, discourse studies, pragmatics and semiotics, this book analyses the process and product of translation in different social contexts, and examines the practice of translation in the context of theoretical linguistics.

Justine Coupland presents a new perspective on small talk and demonstrates how, even though it has often been derided, it plays a crucial role in everyday communication.

In this work, the author shows how fiction works in the constitution and reproduction of social life. The book does not reduce fiction to a functional support for ideology, but considers that the greatest interest in fiction is as a source of pleasure.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this text looks at the different types and functions of written communication in the business context, and considers how technology such as e-mail has affected communication.