Global Discourse

Environment, Education and Society in the Asia-Pacific: Local Traditions and Global Discourses (Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies)
$175.00
This important new book explores the influences of global environmental discourses and local traditions and practices in twelve countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Tourism Discourse: Language and Global Mobility
$85.00
Tourism Discourse offers new insights into the role of spoken, written and visual discourse in representating and producing tourism as a global cultural industry. With a view to the interplay between the symbolic and economic orders of global mobility, the book is grounded in empirically-based studies of key tourism genres.

Genre, Relevance and Global Coherence: The Pragmatics of Discourse Type (Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Languages and Cognition)
$100.00
Genre, Relevance and Global Coherence seeks to explain how discourse types or genre may influence the addressee's inferential processes in identifying the communicator's intention. It examines global coherence-based accounts as well as proposals based on Gricean pragmatics, arguing that the key to a solution lies in the interplay of the cognitive and communicative principles of relevance proposed by Sperber & Wilson. It unravels intricate relations between cognitive mechanisms, communicative principles and expectations of relevance in complex ostensive stimuli such as texts.

Global American Discourse
$0.01
Focus on foreign policy. Comment and analysis on new Pax Americana in the post Cold War era from pro-American Japanese viewpoints.