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  • Cognition and Conspiracy Theories

    Series series Elements in Cognitive Linguistics
    This Element deals with the relationship between cognition, understood as the process of acquiring and developing knowledge, and diverse types of conspiracy theories, or short, 'CTs'. Section 1 lays the groundwork for the analysis by determining four components of narrative argumentative framing in CTs, of which the first three are constitutive for all CTs, with a fourth representing the 'optional ... Read more

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  • National Conceptualisations of the Body Politic

    Cultural Experience and Political Imagination

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book presents the results of a large-scale experiment into interpretations of the metaphor “the Nation as a Body” among 1,800+ respondents from 30 linguistic and cultural backgrounds. In this first account of an empirical study of cross-cultural global metaphor interpretation of that scale, Musolff confirms that the meanings of metaphors are complex, culturally mediated and may differ for ... Read more

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  • Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust

    The Concept of the Body Politic

    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse
    This book is the first to provide a cognitive analysis of the function of biological/medical metaphors in National Socialist racist ideology and their background in historical traditions of Western political theory. Its main arguments are that the metaphor of the German nation as a body that needed to be rescued from a deadly poison must be viewed as the conceptual basis rather than a mere ... Read more

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  • Political Metaphor Analysis

    Discourse and Scenarios

    Political metaphors and related figurative discourse tools are characterised by their variability and contentiousness. Using them, discourse participants try to gain competitive advantage over others by offering their audiences new meaning nuances, challenging each other and announcing political initiatives. It is here that metaphor as a means to change meanings – and thus, to change social and ... Read more

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  • Inclusive Healthcare Communication in Action

    Healthcare, Language, and Inclusivity, Volume 2

    Series series Routledge Studies in Language, Health and Culture
    As the second of two companion volumes, this book advances the study of language and health by focusing on communication in action. The volume showcases applications of health communication in real contexts and illustrates how linguistics research and practice can address health inequalities across global contexts.Building on the foundations in Discourses of Inclusive and Exclusionary Health ... Read more

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  • Discourses of Inclusive and Exclusionary Health Communication

    Healthcare, Language, and Inclusivity, Volume 1

    Series series Routledge Studies in Language, Health and Culture
    As the first of two companion volumes, this book provides a comprehensive collection of applied linguistics studies on health inclusivity, showcasing empirical research and methodological insights on different languages such as British Sign Language, Chinese, Danish, English, German, Japanese, and Spanish.The volume presents studies on health inclusivity based on first-hand patient experiences and ... Read more

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  • Pandemic and Crisis Discourse

    Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy

    The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a host of critical reflections about discourse practises dealing with public health issues. Situating crisis communication at the centre of societal and political debates about responses to the pandemic, this volume analyses the discursive strategies used in a variety of settings.Exploring how crisis discourse has become a part of managing the public health crisis ... Read more

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  • Metaphor and Intercultural Communication

    Metaphor and Intercultural Communication examines in detail the dynamics of metaphor in interlingual contact, translation and globalization processes. Its case-studies, which combine methods of cognitive metaphor theory with those of corpus-based and discourse-oriented research, cover contact linguistic and cultural contacts between Chinese, English including Translational English and Aboriginal ... Read more

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  • Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim

    Cultural Identities in Public Discourse

    Series Book 143 - Multilingual Matters
    Since 1989, Europe’s eastern rim has been in constant flux. This collection focuses on how political and economic transformations have triggered redefinitions of cultural identity. Using discursive modes of identity construction (deconstruction, reconstruction, reformulation, and invention) the book focuses on the creation of opposition to old and new 'outsiders' and 'insiders' in Europe. The ... Read more

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  • Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim

    Since 1989, Europe’s eastern rim has been in constant flux. This collection focuses on how political and economic transformations have triggered redefinitions of cultural identity. Using discursive modes of identity construction (deconstruction, reconstruction, reformulation, and invention) the book focuses on the creation of opposition to old and new 'outsiders' and 'insiders' in Europe. The ... Read more

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    Learning from Classroom Moments

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    Looking closely at what happens when translanguaging is actively taken up to teach emergent bilingual students across different contexts, this book focuses on how it is already happening in classrooms as well as how it can be implemented as a pedagogical orientation. It extends theoretical understandings of the concept and highlights its promises and challenges. Using a Transformative Action ... Read more

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  • Vampire Nation

    Violence as Cultural Imaginary

    Series series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
    Vampire Nation is a nuanced analysis of the cultural and political rhetoric framing ‘the serbs’ as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century, as well as the cultural imaginaries and rhetorical mechanisms that inform nationalist discourses more broadly. Tomislav Z. Longinović points to the Gothic associations of violence, blood, and soil in the writings of many ... Read more

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