RT list: Revista alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 19 (2006)

Now available, Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 19 (2006), special issue devoted to linguistics and the media edited by Jose Mateo and me (see contents below).

Anyboy interested in getting a copy of the volume (20 euros) please contact our distributor:

Marcial Pons Librero
San Sotero 6.
28037 MADRID (Spain)
revistas@marcialpons.es
Tel: +34 913043303
Fax: +34 913272367

Cordially,
Francisco Yus

Contents

Preface
José Mateo and Francisco Yus 5-6

ESSAYS
Discourse Strategies for Global Topic Construction in Complex Written Texts: Evidence from Comment Articles (Alonso, Pilar 9-22)

The Discursive Construction of Identity in an Internet Hip-Hop Community (Beers Fägersten, Kristy 23-44)

The Discursive Construction of the Public and the Private Spheres in Media Debates: The Case of Television Talk Shows (Burger, Marcel 45-65)

Coming out of the Closet 'Six Feet Under': Textual Silences and the Social Construction of the Family Stage in the Obituary Genres (Corona Marzol, Isabel 67-82)

Critical Discourse Analysis as an Analytical Resource for Cultural Studies: Exploring the Discursive Construction of Subject Positions in British Men's Magazines' Problem Pages (de Gregorio Godeo, Eduardo 83-100)

Critical Discourse Analysis of the Iraq Conflict in the British and German 'Quality' Press (Dirks, Una 101-123)

Moving Closer to the Audience: Watching Football on Television (Gerhardt, Cornelia 125-148)

Tracing Context in the Discourse of the Media: Features of Language-in-Use in the British Press (González Rodríguez, María José 149-168)

The Role of Metaphor, Metonymy, and Conceptual Blending in Understanding Advertisements: The Case of Drug-prevention Ads (Herrero Ruiz, Javier 169-190)

Multimodality and Relevance in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Televised Promotion (Ifantidou, Elly and Angeliki Tzanne 191-210)

GHD Advertising Campaign Across Cultures. A Case Study (Maci, Stefania M. 211-223)

Evaluation and Engagement in Journalistic Commentary and News Reportage (Marín Arrese, Juana I. and Begoña Núñez Perucha 225-248)

A Systemic Functional Analysis of Two Multimodal Covers (Martínez Lirola, María 249-260)

Well, it is WELL: Language and Human Interest in a Virtual Community (Oha, Obododimma 261-283)

The Hidden Dimension of the Language of Corporations in America and Spain: Perspectives for Inter-legal Communications (Orts Llopis, María Ángeles 285-298)

"Honourable Bigotry"? Relevance Theory, Conversation Analysis and Radio Talk-Backs (Pattemore, Stephen 299-318)

Journalists' Language Awareness: Inferences from Writing Strategies (Perrin, Daniel and Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow 319-343)

Direct Discourse in the Greek Press: From Evidentiality to Subjectivity (Politis, Periclis and Maria Kakavoulia 345-363)

Speeches and Declarations: A War of Words (Reyes-Rodríguez, Antonio 365-386)

Towards an Analysis of Academic Weblogs (Stuart, Keith 387-404)

The Discursive Construction of Anti-European Sentiment in the times.co.uk Texts (Valdeón, Roberto A. 405-431)

REVIEWS 435-445
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