To round off a fantastic year of publishing, I am pleased to bring you a round-up of our latest titles, including two new coursebooks and a great selection of in-depth research works.
First up, the latest addition to our fabulous Advances in Semiotics series, Semiotics of Religion by Robert A. Yelle.
This book integrates structural and historical perspectives on the semiotics of religion and gives an account of the distinctive features of religious language and symbolism.
We have recieved some wonderful endorsements, including this from Webb Keane, University of Michigan, USA- "This book is vast in scope, deep in implications, and admirably clear and forthright in exposition.The study of religion has needed a work of this kind, which brings together several research traditions and pushes the resulting synthesis in new directions.The result is an agenda-setting project of huge ambition."
Check out window 8 on the Bloomsbury advent calendar to win copies of the first three books to publish in this exciting new series, including Semiotics of Religion.
Next up, the latest offering from Brian Tomlinson, Applied Linguistics and Materials Development.
This book focuses for the first time on materials development and applications of current research and theory for the main areas of applied linguistics (e.g. second language acquisition, pragmatics, vocabulary studies).
"For many years Brian Tomlinson has led the way internationally in the field of materials development. This edited book by him is another example of innovative, research-based exploration of materials for language teaching that never loses sight of the classroom nor of the need for pedagogy that is reflective, informed and learner-sensitive. And there is a great cast-list of contributors. Highly recommended." - Professor Ronald Carter, School of English, University of Nottingham, UK
Both books are available on inspection for lecturers. More information on the inspection copy process can be found here.
We also have a number of new monographs publishing this month, including the following two additions to our well-established Bloomsbury Advances in Translation series (formerly Continuum Advances in Translation).
Music, Text and Translation by Helen Julia Minors
Explores the roles that translation plays in a musical context, questioning the transference of sense between music and text.
'This volume issues a powerful challenge to everyone who uses the word “translation” in relation to music. The sheer diversity of its essays demonstrates, as no previous book has, the extraordinary intellectual and artistic fertility of bringing together the notions of music and translation – and the dangers of thinking we know what we’re talking about.' - Peter Dayan, The University of Edinburgh, UK
The Pragmatic Translator by Massimiliano Morini
Showcases a descriptive theory of translation based on pragmatics, describing all processes and products of translation on the performative, interpersonal and locative axes.
Presents a full and up to date view of translation that takes into account thirty years of research in the field of Descriptive Translation Studies. Unlike DTS, the theory provides an account of products and processes. This publication exhibits the need for and usefulness of such a theory, and will be essential reading for scholars involved in translation and interpreting studies.
Also publishing:
I. A. Richards and the Rise of Cognitive Stylistics by David West (part of our Advances in Stylistics series):
'Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. This is a convincing revaluation of Richards’ significance; it is a perfect example of the rational cognitive turn in the arts; and it is an unanswerable polemic for a science of literary study.' - Professor Peter Stockwell, Chair in Literary Linguistics, University of Nottingham, UK
The Syntax of Mauritian Creole by Anand Syea, (from the Bloomsbury Studies in Theoretical Linguistics series):
'Anand Syea's book, the result of over twenty years of research, has everything one could wish for: abundant and reliable examples, a firm but accessible theoretical foundation, a transparent structure and line of argumentation.’ - Pieter Muysken, Professor, Department of Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
The Semantic Representation of Natural Language by Michael Levison, Geg Lessard, Craig Thomas and Matthew Donald:
‘At last a book on natural language semantics that tackles semantics all the way up to texts of considerable length and fictional statements. The proposed formalism brings together well tried solutions for specific linguistic phenomena with a structural approach based on programming languages that makes it user friendly and gives it tremendous expressive power. A very useful contribution for natural language generation and the representation of narrative.’ - Pablo Gervás, Associate Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
To mark the launch of our new website, all of our books are available at a 25% discount (excluding US, Canada and Australia unfortunately), so you can currently buy all of the above titles at bargain prices!
Best wishes,
Ellena
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