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Continuum Advances in Semiotics<br />
Introduction to<br />
Peircean Visual<br />
Semiotics<br />
A Visual Rhetoric<br />
Tony Jappy<br />
• Presents a Peircean view of semiotics<br />
and visual rhetoric clearly and simply<br />
• Enables readers to understand a<br />
powerful theory and its wide ranging<br />
applications<br />
• Contextualises competing theories such<br />
as structuralism and poststructuralism<br />
A Peircean introduction to visual rhetoric<br />
and a powerful systemic of semiotics<br />
different to the structuralist Saussurian<br />
mainstream.<br />
TONy JAPPy is Emeritus Professor of English<br />
Linguistics and Semiotics at the University<br />
Perpignan Via-Domita, France.<br />
UK December 2012 US February 2013<br />
256 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches<br />
HB 9781441151636 - £75.00 / $140.00<br />
PB 9781441109408 - £24.99 / $44.95<br />
Continuum Advances in Semiotics<br />
Continuum<br />
The Semiotics of<br />
Religion<br />
Signs of the Sacred in History<br />
Robert A. Yelle<br />
• Integrates<br />
structural and<br />
historical,<br />
humanistic<br />
approaches to<br />
the semiotics of<br />
religion<br />
• Provides clear<br />
examples of the<br />
semiotic<br />
analysis of religious texts and ritual<br />
performances<br />
• Explains many of the characteristic<br />
features of religious symbolism from<br />
the context of modern semiotics<br />
ROBERT A. yELLE is Assistant Professor at the<br />
Department of History and the Helen Hardin<br />
Honors Program, University of Memphis, USA.<br />
UK September 2012 US November 2012<br />
256 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches<br />
HB 9781441142825 - £75.00 / $140.00<br />
PB 9781441104199 - £24.99 / $44.95<br />
Continuum Advances in Semiotics<br />
Continuum<br />
LINGUISTICS<br />
Continuum Advances in Semiotics publishes original works in the field demonstrating robust scholarship, intellectual<br />
creativity, and clarity of exposition. These works apply semiotic approaches to linguistics and non-verbal productions,<br />
social institutions and discourses, embodied cognition and communication, and the new virtual realities that have<br />
been ushered in by the Internet.<br />
Series Editor: Paul Bouissac, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, Canada.<br />
The Discourse of Text<br />
Messaging<br />
Analysis of SMS Communication<br />
Caroline Tagg<br />
• Meets a growing<br />
need for linguists<br />
to understand this<br />
new discourse<br />
• Uses CorTxt, the<br />
largest SMS<br />
corpus in English,<br />
providing more<br />
evidence than<br />
previous studies<br />
Reveals the depth and complexity of the<br />
language used in SMS text communication,<br />
and how it exploits various linguistic<br />
resources to create identities.<br />
CAROLINE TAGG is Lecturer in Applied<br />
Linguistics at the Centre for English Language<br />
Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK.<br />
UK May 2012 US July 2012<br />
272 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches<br />
HB 9781441174093 - £75.00 / $140.00<br />
PB 9781441173768 - £24.99 / $44.95<br />
Continuum Discourse<br />
Continuum<br />
News Discourse<br />
Monika Bednarek and Helen Caple<br />
• First accessible,<br />
criticallygrounded<br />
introduction to<br />
news discourse<br />
that addresses<br />
both text and<br />
image<br />
• Comprehensively<br />
covers multisemiotic<br />
news discourse: case<br />
studies, further reading, discussion<br />
questions and suggestions for projects<br />
• Uses cases studies and examples from<br />
international print and online news<br />
discourse<br />
MONIKA BEDNAREK is a Lecturer in Linguistics at<br />
the University of Sydney, Australia.<br />
HELEN CAPLE is a Lecturer in Media, Journalism<br />
and Communications at the University of New<br />
South Wales, Australia.<br />
UK June 2012 US August 2012<br />
256 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches<br />
HB 9781441120908 - £75.00 / $140.00<br />
PB 9781441147998 - £24.99 / $44.95<br />
Continuum Discourse<br />
Continuum<br />
The Semiotics of Drink<br />
and Drinking<br />
Paul Manning<br />
• Modular: each<br />
chapter can<br />
be read alone<br />
or as part of<br />
a developing<br />
narrative<br />
• Readable by<br />
people interested<br />
in semiotics and<br />
ethnography at a<br />
basic level<br />
• Interdisciplinarity: engages debates<br />
within humanities, social sciences,<br />
semiotics and anthropology/<br />
ethnography<br />
A study of how drinks and drinking, as<br />
embodied semiotic and material forms,<br />
mediate modern social life.<br />
PAUL MANNING is an Associate Professor of<br />
Anthropology at Trent University, Canada.<br />
UK May 2012 August 2012<br />
256 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches<br />
HB 9781441160188 - £75.00 / $140.00<br />
PB 9781441137746 - £24.99 / $44.95<br />
Continuum Advances in Semiotics<br />
Continuum<br />
Discourse of Twitter<br />
and Social Media<br />
How We Use Language to Create<br />
Affiliation on the Web<br />
Michele<br />
Zappavigna<br />
Preface by J. R.<br />
Martin<br />
• Offers the<br />
first corpusbased<br />
study of<br />
the discourse<br />
generated by and<br />
around social<br />
media<br />
• Guides readers on how to use in-built<br />
tools to analyse Twitter, including<br />
constructing corpora<br />
MICHELE zAPPAVIGNA is Postdoctoral Research<br />
Fellow in Linguistics at the University of Sydney,<br />
Australia.<br />
J. R. MARTIN is Professor of Linguistics at the<br />
University of Sydney, Australia.<br />
UK February 2012 US April 2012<br />
224 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches<br />
HB 9781441141866 - £75.00 / $140.00<br />
Continuum Discourse<br />
Continuum<br />
LINGUISTICS<br />
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