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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “professor michael billig”
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  • The Politics and Rhetoric of Commemoration

    How the Portuguese Parliament Celebrates the 1974 Revolution

    by Professor Michael Billig, Dr Cristina Marinho ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies
    In recent years there has been much interest in collective memory and commemoration. It is often assumed that when nations celebrate a historic day, they put aside the divisions of the present to recall the past in a spirit of unity. As Billig and Marinho show, this does not apply to the Portuguese parliament's annual celebration of 25 April 1974, the day when the dictatorship, established by ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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  • Political Ideas in the Romantic Age

    Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought - Updated Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    This new edition features the previously unpublished delivery text of Berlin's inaugural lecture as a professor at Oxford, which derives from this volume and stands as the briefest and most pithy version of his famous essay "Two Concepts of Liberty.?Political Ideas in the Romantic Age is the only book in which the great intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin lays out in one continuous account most ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Madre

    Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun

    by Liza Bakewell ...
    Why is the word madre, "mother," so complicated in Spanish—especially in Mexico?Leaping off the page with energy, insight, and attitude, Liza Bakewell's exploration of language is anything but "just semantics." Why does me vale madre mean worthless, while ¡qué padre! means fabulous, she asks? And why do one hundred madres disappear when one padre enters the room, converting the group from madres ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Slang

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jonathon Green ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teenagers, and rappers, but also found in the works of Shakespeare and Dickens. It has been recorded since at least 1500 AD, and today's vocabulary, taken from every major English-speaking country, runs to over 125,000 slang words and phrases. This Very ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Extreme Gone Mainstream

    Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany

    by Cynthia Miller-Idriss ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    How extremism is going mainstream in Germany through clothing brands laced with racist and nationalist symbolsThe past decade has witnessed a steady increase in far right politics, social movements, and extremist violence in Europe. Scholars and policymakers have struggled to understand the causes and dynamics that have made the far right so appealing to so many people—in other words, that have ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Semiotics of Movement in Space

    by Robert James McMurtrie ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Multimodality
    The Semiotics of Movement in Space explores how people move through buildings and interact with objects in space. Focusing on visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, McMurtrie analyses and interprets movement and space relations to highlight new developments and applications of spatial semiotics as he proposes that people’s movement options have the potential to transform the meaning ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Facing the Challenge of Democracy

    Explorations in the Analysis of Public Opinion and Political Participation

    Edited by Paul M. Sniderman, Benjamin Highton ...
    Citizens are political simpletons--that is only a modest exaggeration of a common characterization of voters. Certainly, there is no shortage of evidence of citizens' limited political knowledge, even about matters of the highest importance, along with inconsistencies in their thinking, some glaring by any standard. But this picture of citizens all too often approaches caricature.Paul Sniderman ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Music as Multimodal Discourse

    Semiotics, Power and Protest

    Edited by Dr Lyndon C. S. Way, Simon McKerrell ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
    We communicate multimodally. Everyday communication involves not only words, but gestures, images, videos, sounds and of course, music. Music has traditionally been viewed as a separate object that we can isolate, discuss, perform and listen to. However, much of music's power lies in its use as multimodal communication. It is not just lyrics which lend songs their meaning, but images and musical ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Nazi Germany

    Edited by Harald Kleinschmidt ...
    Series series The International Library of Essays on Political History
    The volume reproduces a set of recently-published articles demonstrating the embeddedness of Nazi genocide and other crimes against humanity in a German society that was haunted by practices of denunciation. Far from being an inexplicable invasion of evil into otherwise sound German society, the genocide and other crimes against humanity were committed not merely by members of SS organizations but ... Read more

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  • Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture

    Edited by Paul Baker, Giuseppe Balirano ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    How do we learn what it means to be a man? And how do we learn to question what it means to be a man? This collection comprises a set of original interdisciplinary chapters on the linguistic and cultural representations of queer masculinities in a range of new and older media: television, film, online forums, news reporting, advertising and fiction. This innovative work examines new and emerging ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Semiotics and Verbal Texts

    How the News Media Construct a Crisis

    by Jane Gravells ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers an innovative approach to analysing written texts, grounded in principles of semiotics. Envisaging whole news media representations as ‘signs’, and using the real-world example of the BP Deepwater Horizon crisis, the author demonstrates how business crises are constructed through language. Gravells identifies patterns of language which show a progression from one kind of ‘current ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Language of Museum Communication

    A Diachronic Perspective

    by Cecilia Lazzeretti ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume explores the evolution of the language of museum communication from 1950 to the present day, focusing on its most salient tool, the press release. The analysis is based on a corpus of press releases issued by eight high-profile British and American museums, and has been carried out adopting corpus linguistics and genre analysis methodologies. After identifying the typical features of ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD