Routledge Research in Language and Communication
Semioethics as Social Dialogic: Precarity, Insecurity and Crisis in the Twenty-First Century
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By Susan Petrilli, Sophia Melanson Ricciardone
March 19, 2027
This collection of chapters features several interdisciplinary perspectives on the application of semioethics for critique and response to precarity, insecurity, and crisis in today’s globalised world. A recent trend in sign, language and meaning studies, semioethics prioritises the connection to ...
Resistance to Climate Crisis Metaphors
1st Edition
By Anaïs Augé
February 02, 2027
This book offers an in-depth exploration of public resistance to metaphor in climate crisis discourse. While the role of metaphor has been examined in climate change discourse previously, researchers have grappled with the limitations of existing studies, expanding their area of foci toward ...
Communicating Food to Children: Linguistic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives
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By Daniela Cesiri
December 28, 2026
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...
Language in Sport: Real-Time Talk in Training and Games
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By Andrew S. Ross, David Caldwell, Y.J. Doran
December 28, 2026
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 ...
The Discourse of Comfort in Chinese Online Medical Consultations
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By Ying Jin
December 28, 2026
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 ...
Echo Chambers and Epistemological Bubbles: Communicative Flirtations with the End of Democracy
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By Lauren Zentz
October 22, 2026
In Echo Chambers and Epistemological Bubbles: Communicative Flirtations with the End of Democracy, Lauren Zentz offers a critical linguistic ethnographic examination of moral-political discourse on social media following the January 6, 2021, US Capitol insurrection. Moving beyond the oft-used "echo...
Suicide and the Self: A Discourse Analysis Approach to Self-Narratives of Suicide
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By Dariusz Galasiński, Justyna Ziółkowska
October 15, 2026
This book centres on self-accounts of suicidal behavior, using a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach to offer a qualitative perspective within current suicidology and suicide prevention research. Suicide and the Self: A Discourse Analysis Approach to Self-Narratives of Suicide is the first ...
On the Past, Present, and Future of Semioethics: A Dialogue with Susan Petrilli
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By Susan Petrilli, Simon Levesque
September 27, 2026
This volume charts the origins, development, and future potential of semioethics through the work of Susan Petrilli, showcasing an extended dialogue with one of the eminent figures in semiotics scholarship. Featuring a wide-ranging conversation between Petrilli and scholar Simon Levesque, the book ...
Framing Sustainability in Language and Communication
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By Maida Kosatica, Sean P. Smith
July 19, 2026
This collection brings together established and emerging scholars for a critical framing of sustainability through the lens of language and communication, social semiotics, and media studies. The volume underscores the importance of re-envisioning sustainability around not only climate change and ...
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Discourse on Populism: Tracking the Uses of 'Populism' in Media and Political Discourse
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By Laetitia Aulit, Anaïs Augé, Barbara De Cock, Min Reuchamps, Sandrine Roginsky, Coline Rondiat
July 01, 2026
This collection examines the construction and circulation of discourses on populism, charting their role in shaping collective understandings of democracy. This volume advocates for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of populism as a form of categorisation used by several types of actors to...
Semioethics as Existential Dialogue: The Gift and Burden of Responsibility
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By Susan Petrilli, Susan Mancino
May 21, 2026
This collection brings together perspectives on the interplay of communication, dialogue, and responsibility, exploring communicative acts of disruption toward a social environment attuned to short-sighted individualism. Semioethics highlights the condition of inevitable entanglement with the other...
The Feedback Society: Linguistic and Discursive Approaches
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By Sylvia Jaworska, Camilla Vásquez
May 04, 2026
This collection explores the rise of feedback as a discursive practice in everyday life, examining diverse genres and sociocultural contexts. The volume puts a focus on the “how” of feedback in a range of contexts and communicative settings. Genres examined include performance reviews and online ...