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“An outstanding introduction to discourse analysis of written language in an age that is more and more characterized by multilingual, digital, and generically hybrid texts. In an accessible style, Working with Written Discourse illustrates how these texts can be analyzed employing a wide variety of approaches that are critical, multidisciplinary, and productive.”
Scripts and Spelling
Scripts and Spelling
As a visual/graphic representation of language, writing makes use of graphic resources that do not exist in speech. In this chapter, we look more closely at what those resources are, how they can be used, and what meanings are communicated by the choices writers make about them. Our discussion will emphasize that how words are written is not a purely technical question, but may also have social and political implications.
From Çapulcu to Chapulling: Spellings, Scripts and Global Protest
In May 2013 the Turkish police forcibly dispersed a group of environmentalists who had been occupying Gezi Park near Taksim Square in central Istanbul, protesting against a planned urban development project which would have bulldozed the park to make way for a shopping mall ...
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