Routledge Research in Language and Communication
The Language of Persuasion on Instagram: A Systemic Functional Approach to Multimodal Tourism Discourse
1st Edition
By Elena Mattei
January 21, 2026
This book offers a systematic, interdisciplinary investigation into the language of persuasion in contemporary tourism discourse, with a focus on English-language travel boards’ use of Instagram and official websites. Drawing on Corpus Linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics, it examines ...
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Discourses of Extremism
1st Edition
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By Katie Jane Patterson, Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio
November 27, 2025
This collection highlights multidisciplinary approaches toward better understanding the discourses of extremism, exploring the ways in which insights from linguistics and other disciplines might inform each other in enacting meaningful reforms in policy, social media, and education. The volume is ...
Intermedial Agencies: The Crucial Role of the Arts in Shaping Media Dynamics
1st Edition
By Asun López-Varela Azcárate, Luis Martínez-Falero
October 27, 2025
Intermedial Agencies: The Crucial Role of the Arts in Shaping Media Dynamics explores how the arts continuously redefine and facilitate cross-media transformation through intermedial interactions. Drawing primarily on semiotics and neomaterialist approaches, López-Varela Azcárate and ...
Communicating Food to Children: Linguistic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives
1st Edition
By Daniela Cesiri
September 28, 2025
This book offers a systematic account of communication on food aimed at children, investigating verbal and visual strategies used in food media in English from synchronic and diachronic perspectives. While there is a wide body of research on food discourse, there has been little to date on children...
The Discourse of Comfort in Chinese Online Medical Consultations
1st Edition
By Ying Jin
September 18, 2025
This book integrates perspectives from conversation analysis (CA) and discursive psychology to shed light on doctor-patient communication in asynchronous web-based interactions through the lens of the discourse of comfort. While previous research has been done in this space on face-to-face ...
Language in Sport: Real-Time Talk in Training and Games
1st Edition
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By Andrew S. Ross, David Caldwell, Y.J. Doran
September 14, 2025
This collection showcases the language of “doing” sport, emphasizing the real-time talk of players and coaches during training and games toward elucidating real-time language use and encouraging effective sporting pedagogies. While there is established work at the intersection of linguistics and ...
Perspectives on Knowledge Communication: Concepts and Settings
1st Edition
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By Jan Engberg, Antoinette Fage-Butler, Peter Kastberg
December 18, 2024
This collection elaborates an innovative analytical framework for knowledge communication, bringing together insights from a range of professional settings to highlight how a cross-disciplinary approach can promote a new view of knowledge that emphasizes constructivist and cognitivist perspectives....
Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse
1st Edition
By Anaïs Augé
November 29, 2024
This volume sheds light on the argumentative role of metaphor in climate change discourse, unpacking the ways in which stakeholders use specific metaphors to influence perceptions of the climate crisis. While existing research has explored the explanatory function of metaphors in communication on ...
Perspectives on Teaching Workplace English in the 21st Century
1st Edition
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By Mable Chan
November 28, 2024
This collection bridges the gap between research and practical applications by showcasing the latest research developments on business English as a lingua franca and the ways in which they might better inform language teaching practice. Featuring contributions from both established and emerging ...
The Discursive Construction of Place in the Digital Age
1st Edition
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By Alejandro Parini, Francisco Yus
November 28, 2024
This collection calls for greater attention to the need for a clearer understanding of the role of discourse in the process of placemaking in the digital age and the increasing hybridisation of physical and virtual worlds. The volume outlines a new conceptualisation of place in the time of ...
Communicative Spaces in Bilingual Contexts: Discourses, Synergies and Counterflows in Spanish and English
1st Edition
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By Ana Sánchez-Muñoz, Jessica Retis
August 26, 2024
This collection bridges disciplinary scholarship from critical language studies, Latinx critical communication, and media studies scholarship for a comprehensive exploration of Spanish-English bilingualism in the US and in turn, elucidating, more broadly, our understanding of bilingualism in a ...
Political Myth-making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah's Construction and Promotion of the African Dream
1st Edition
By Mark Nartey
August 26, 2024
Using the socio-political discourse of Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-Africanist and Ghana’s independence leader, Nartey investigates the notion of political myth-making in a context underexplored in the literature. He examines Nkrumah’s construction of a myth described in the book as the Unite or...