Discourse and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe (Language and Globalization) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 134935600X ISBN 13: 9781349356003

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Synopsis

This volume explores the discursive nature of post-1989 social change in Central and Eastern Europe. Through a set of national case studies, the construction of post-communist transformation is explored from the point of view of accelerating and unique dynamics of linguistic and discursive practices.

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BRIAN P. BENNETT Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Niagara University, USA BRIGITTA BUSCH Senior Research Fellow, Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria DARIUSZ GALASI?SKI Professor of Discourse and Cultural Studies, University of Wolverhampton, UK GABRIELLE HOGAN-BRUN Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK HELEN KELLY-HOLMES Lecturer in Sociolinguistics with New Media, University of Limerick, Ireland IGOR NOSÁL Assistant Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University at Brno, Czech Republic CRISTIAN TILEAG? Lecturer in the School of Psychology, University of East London, UK RUTH WODAK Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies, Lancaster University, UK IGOR . AGAR Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Discourse Studies at the Educational Research Institute, and Professor in Rhetoric and Argumentation at the Faculty of the Humanities, University of Primorska, Slovenia

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 134935600X
• ISBN 13: 9781349356003
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254
• Editor: Galasinska A., Krzyzanowski M.