[Cadaad] New books from around the CADAAD network

Wed Jun 18 08:19:17 UTC 2025

Dear colleagues,

I’m happy to share the latest books from the CADAAD network.

If you’d like to share details of your own publication and activity (monographs, edited volumes, special issues of journals), please send an email to sbennett at amu.edu.pl<mailto:sbennett at amu.edu.pl>

Critical Foreign Language Teaching: Centring Student Agency in Foreign Language Pedagogy (Routledge)
Gerrard Mugford
https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Foreign-Language-Teaching-Centring-Student-Agency-in-Foreign-Language-Pedagogy/Mugford/p/book/9781041006282

Synopsis: This book develops the theory and practice of critical foreign language pedagogy. It encourages educators to think beyond traditional methods of language teaching to consider both the social reality of being a foreign language user and the personal goals and experiences of each learner. It emphasises the need to teach students how to navigate the types of interactional difficulties, power imbalances, and hostility they may experience outside of the classroom as well as how to recognise and analyse 'native' speaker norms and practices. It further stresses the importance of first-language knowledge in developing foreign language expertise, encouraging educators to build on the skills learners already have to empower them to express their personality and individuality in their target language.

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Multimodality, Ideology, and Manipulation BBC Travel Documentaries and the Illusion of Empire (Routledge)
Jacopo Castaldi<https://www.routledge.com/search?author=Jacopo%20Castaldi>
https://www.routledge.com/Multimodality-Ideology-and-Manipulation-BBC-Travel-Documentaries-and-the-Illusion-of-Empire/Castaldi/p/book/9781032744933

Synopsis: "The book examines how sociopolitical and intercultural ideologies surrounding globalisation and neoliberalism are constructed and negotiated in travel documentaries, focusing on the role of the BBC in reproducing neo-imperialistic and neoliberal values. It argues that these documentaries naturalise the values underpinning globalisation and justify the exploitation of resources from the United Kingdom and the West at the expense of developing countries, reflecting forms of neo-imperialism. After discussing the role of the BBC as a public service provider, case studies explore the production and reception of three documentaries, and the semiotic and cognitive processes influencing the ideology of the participants."
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Codes of Corruption A Critical Realist Discourse Analysis of Illicit Transactions. London: Routledge.
Karin Zotzmann
https://www.routledge.com/Codes-of-Corruption-A-Critical-Realist-Discourse-Analysis-of-Illicit-Transactions/Zotzmann/p/book/9781032473550

Synopsis: This book is one of the first qualitative analyses of a corpus of instances of corruption—mainly bribery and extortion as the quintessential forms of corruption, but also on some cases of facilitation payments, clientelism (vote buying) and cronyism—from Mexico, a country where the phenomenon has systemic character. While Mexico serves as a case study, the results will be discussed in broader theoretical terms that apply to other contexts as well. The analysis uses a variety of discourse and multimodal analytical tools to show the interactional work participants engage in to come to an agreement. By adopting a Critical Realist (CR) perspective, the analysis also focuses on the enabling, constraining, and motivating structures—or the absences thereof—these events are embedded in, the unique powers of reflexive individuals who break and bend institutional genres, and the semiotic resources they draw upon in the process. Through this innovative approach, the study aims to further the theoretical conceptualization of corruption, its causes, and potential remedies.
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Meaning Generation in Chinese Official Media Discourse
Lutgard Lams, Rui Zhang, Emma Lupano (eds.)
https://www.routledge.com/Meaning-Generation-in-Chinese-Official-Media-Discourse/Lams-Zhang-Lupano/p/book/9781032592961?srsltid=AfmBOop19pdCZIEL569w837Un_tCm3RReogkmyLFcKj3dy69Jl9oWmq-

Synopsis: Drawing on approaches from Linguistic Pragmatics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Social Actor Representation Theory, and Framing Theory, this book critically explores the various linguistic devices and pragmatic strategies that concern meaning generation in the context of Chinese official media discourse. This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in the relation between language and politics and, in particular, in understanding meaning-making and meaning-molding processes in discourses articulated in an official Chinese context aimed both internally and internationally.
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Self-Presentation and Self-Praise in the Digital Workplace
Anna Danielewicz-Betz
https://anthempress.com/books/self-presentation-and-self-praise-in-the-digital-workplace-pb

Synopsis: Self-Presentation and Self-Praise in Open Communication Digital Enterprises presents the findings of an interdisciplinary study of the ‘self-entrepreneurial self’ and, in particular, the rationale behind its need to self-present under the current socio-economic and business conditions. It addresses the complex landscape of the levels, typologies, categories, triggers, as well as both internal and external factors impacting self-praise in the context of a digital workplace (with the focus on enterprise social media).

Kind regards,

Sam

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Dr Samuel Bennett
Assistant Professor Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan<https://anglistyka.amu.edu.pl/strona-glowna/struktura/zaklad-socjolingwistyki-i-studiow-nad-dyskursem/samuel-bennett>
Chair CADAAD Executive Commitee<https://www.cadaad.info/>
Co-Editor Journal of Language & Politics<https://benjamins.com/catalog/jlp>
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