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War Memory and East Asian Conflicts, 1930¿1945

Coates, Jennifer / Buchheim, Eveline
War Memory and East Asian Conflicts, 1930¿1945
This book explores how narratives, exhibitions, media representations, and cultural heritage sites that communicate memories of conflicts in East Asia between 1930 and 1945 spread, interact, and are re-packaged for post-war audiences across national divisions. The contributors examine individual case studies of grassroots engagement with war memory, and collectively demonstrate the necessity of remaining aware of the researcher as participatin...

CHF 168.00

Bodies of evidence

Coates, Jennifer
Bodies of evidence
This book addresses the question of public response to civil war through changes in the representation of the female body in the popular print art of mid-1800s Japan. Close reading of the presentation of the female body in ukiyo-e woodblock prints of the Bakumatsu era reveals a discourse of national anxieties expressed and mediated through popular imagery. Though each genre of ukiyo-e engages with the image of the female body in its own way, a...

CHF 64.00

Women in Their Speech Communities

Coates, Jennifer / Cameron, Deborah
Women in Their Speech Communities
A collection of essays, most published for the first time, which present a picture of research on women and language in Britain. The contributors cover a range of British speech communities, linguistic events and settings using approaches from sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.

CHF 92.00

The Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries

Coates, Jennifer
The Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries
This text is a report of an investigation into the meanings of the modal auxiliaries in modern British English. The investigation took the form of a large-scale corpus-based project, looking at modal auxiliaries in both written and spoken language, and taking into account stylistic variation.

CHF 209.00

Language and Gender

Coates, Jennifer / Pichler, Pia
Language and Gender
The new edition of Language and Gender: A Reader responds to the wealth of research that has shaped the field since the book's initial publication in 1998. Coates and Pichler combine new research articles with foundational works, and they accordingly draw on research from all over the world including Brazil, China, and Japan as well as North America and Europe. The Reader discusses a wide range of topics including single and mixed-sex talk, la...

CHF 127.00

The Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries

Coates, Jennifer
The Semantics of the Modal Auxiliaries
The analysis of a corpus of a `real¿ language brings the analyst face-to-face with a problem which has frequently been avoided or ignored in theoretical semantics: language is not an orderly phenomenon, and, as far as meaning is concerned, indeterminacy seems to be a feature of all languages. But it is one thing to recognise the existence of indeterminacy, and another to deal with it adequately. Semantic analysis conventionally consists in dis...

CHF 81.00

Women, Men and Language

Coates, Jennifer
Women, Men and Language
Women, Men and Language has long been established as a seminal text in the field of language and gender, providing an account of the many ways in which they intersect. Jennifer Coates explores linguistic gender differences and introduces the reader to a wide range of sociolinguistic research in the field. Here reissued as a Routledge Linguistics Classic, this book contains a brand new preface which situates this text in the modern day study of...

CHF 170.00

Men Talk P

Coates, Jennifer
Men Talk P
Men Talk "draws on rich conversational material from a wide range of contexts to illuminate our understanding of men and masculinities at the turn of the millennium. Draws on rich conversational material to illuminate our understanding of men and masculinities at the turn of the millennium. Collects data from a wide range of conversations, including garage mechanics on a break, carpenters at the pub after work, and university academics chattin...

CHF 71.00