call for change in the field of literacy education. ThIS was In part sparked by the push of media systems into education. These systems have In tu~n been driven by new digital technology that simultaneously a.cts as a ...

This article has the following two overarching aims. First, it traces the development of multimodal discourse analysis and sets out its main descriptive and analytical parameters; in doing so, the article highlights ...

Linguistically inspired approaches to the semiotics of music have generally described music as an abstract system of tonal and temporal relations, 'Music, by itself, signifies nothing', Nattiez (1971: 8), echoing Stravinsky's ...

This essay addresses the topic of the political use of formalized language. In the Chinese historical tradition the `correctness¿ of language has always been considered a source of moral authority, official legitimacy and ...

There are essentially three difficulties attending any search for cultural explanations of change in China: culture can be a broad and often a somewhat imprecise concept; the scale of China makes for difficulties in the ...

This paper explores the ways in which the Chinese women’s suffrage movement used racializing narratives to alter the boundaries that had excluded women from full participation in politics in the first two decades of the ...