Books available for review

The titles listed below are currently available for review in Discourse and Society. If you wish to volunteer to serve as a book reviewer please contact ingrid.piller with a short message at mq.edu.au. Please use ‘book review for Discourse and Society’ as subject line. Your message should include the following:

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Book reviewing is an important service to the academic community. It is also a nice little barter niche of the academic economy as you will receive a review copy of the book you are reviewing in exchange for your review.

Book reviews in Discourse and Society are usually around a 1,000 words in length and due within 3 months of receipt of the review copy. Reviews should provide an overview of the contents of the book as well as a well-argued judgment regarding its place in the field and its likely importance to the readers of Discourse and Society. If you are selected as a reviewer, you will be provided with more detailed guidelines.

 

Aritz, Jolanta, & Walker, Robyn C. (Eds.). (2012). Discourse perspectives on organizational communication. Lanham, Maryland: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Barnard-Wills, David. (2012). Surveillance and identity: discourse, subjectivity and the state. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

Bayley, Paul, & Williams, Geoffrey (Eds.). (2012). European Identity: What the media say. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Block, David, Gray, John, & Holborow, Marnie. (2012). Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics. London: Routledge.

Busse, Ulrich, & Hubler, Axel (Eds.). (2012). Investigations into the meta-communicative lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamin Publishing.

Chen, Mel Y. (2012). Animacies: Biopolitics, racial mattering, and queer affect. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Chetcuti, Natacha, & Greco, Luca (Eds.). (2012). La face cacheé du genre: Langage et pouvoir des normes. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Chouliaraki, Lilie (Ed.). (2012). Self-Mediation: New Media, Citizenship and Civil Selves. London: Routledge.

Chow, Rey. (2012). Entanglements, or transmedial thinking about capture. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Cramer, Peter A. (2011). Controversy as news discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamin Publishing.

Duchêne, A., & Heller, M. (2011). Language in Late Capitalism: Pride and Profit: Taylor and Francis.

Dunmire, Patricia L. (2011). Projecting the future through political discourses. Amsterdam: John Benjamin Publishing.

Dupret, Baudouin. (2012). Practices of Truth: An ethnomethodological inquiry into Arab contexts. Amsterdam: John Benjamin Publishing.

Ensslin, Astrid. (2012). The language of gaming. London and New York: Routledge.

Entman, Robert M. (2012). Scandal and silence: Media responses to presidential misconduct. Cambridge: Polity.

Hammack, Phillip L. (2011). Narrative and the politics of identity: the cultural psychology of Israeli and Palestinian Youth. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hernandez-Campoy, Juan Manuel, & Cutillas-Espinosa, Juan Antonio (Eds.). (2012). Style-shifting in public: New perspectives on stylistic variation. Amsterdam: John Benjamin Publishing.

Higgins, Christina (Ed.). (2012). identity formation in globalizing contexts: language learning in the new millenium. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Kadar, Daniel Z., & Mills, Sara (Eds.). (2011). Politeness in East Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

King, Katie. (2011). Networked reenactments: Stories transdisciplinary knowledges tell. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Lampropoulou, Sofia. (2012). Direct speech, self-presentation and communities of practice. London: Continuum.

Limberg, Holger, & Locher, Miriam A. (Eds.). (2012). Advice in discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamin Publishing.

Maatsch, Aleksandra. (2011). Ethnic citizenship regimes: Europeanization, post-war migration and redressing past wrongs. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Macgilchrist, Felicitas. (2011). Journalism and the political: discursive tensions in news coverage of Russia. Amsterdam: John Benjamin Publishing.

Machin, David. (2010). Analysing popular music: image, sound, text. London: SAGE.

Machin, David, & Mayr, Andrea. (2012). how to do critical discourse analysis. London: SAGE.

Mallon, Florencia E. (Ed.). (2012). Decolonizing native histories: Collaboration, knowledge, and language in the Americas. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Manning, Paul. (2012). Semiotics of drink and drinking. London: continuum.

Mclaughlin, Kenneth. (2012). Surviving identity: vulnerability and the politics of recognition. London and New York: Routledge.

Mills, Sara. (2012). Gender matters: Feminist linguistic analysis. London: Equinox.

Nasser, Ilham, Berlin, Lawrence N., & Wong, Shelley (Eds.). (2011). Examining education, media, and dialogue under occupation: the case of Palestine and Israel. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

Oropeza-Escobar, Minerva. (2011). represented discourse, resonance and stance in joking interaction in Mexican Spanish. Amsterdam: John Benjamin Publishing.

Reber, Elisabeth. (2012). Affectivity in interaction: sound objects in English. Amsterdam: John Benjamin Publishing.

Roald, Vebjorn, & Sangolt, Linda. (2012). Deliberation rhetoric and emotion in the discourse on climate change in the European Parliament. Delft: Eburon.

Sebba, Mark, Mahootian, Sharzad, & Jonsson, Carla (Eds.). (2012). Language mixing and code-switching in writing: Approaches to mixed-language written discourse. London: Routledge.

Tang, Ramona (Ed.). (2012). Academic writing in a second or foreign language: issues and challenges facing ESL/EFL academic writers in higher education contexts. London: Continuum.

Tsakona, Villy, & Popa, Diana Elena (Eds.). (2012). Studies in political humour. Amsterdam: John Benjamin Publishing.

Van Dijk, Teun (Ed.). (2011). Discourse Studies: A multidisciplinary introduction (2nd ed.). London: SAGE.

Verschueren, Jef. (2012). Ideology in language use: pragmatic guidelines for empirical research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Yildiz, Yasemin. (2012). Beyond the mother tongue: the postmonolingual condition. New York: Fordham University Press.