World-Builders on World-Building

With contributions from a distinguished group of world-builders, including academics, writers, and designers, this anthology of essays describes the process and

World Building represents the state-of-the-discipline in worlds-based approaches to discourse, collected together for the first time. Over the last 40 years the

This edited collection of original essays situates itself at the cutting edge of media theory, exploring imaginary worlds as forms of knowledge and forms of lif

In this book, over 30 prominent scientists, theologians, and philosophers explore three main convergences: the convergence of different sciences to give a coher

Text World Theory is a powerful framework for discourse analysis that, thus far, has only been used in monolingual Anglophone stylistic analyses. This work adap

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This companion provides a definitive and cutting-edge guide to the study of imaginary and virtual worlds across a range of media, including literature, televisi

This work originates from the need to develop an integrated dynamic model of negation in discourse that is adequate for understanding the role of negation in an

Tools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world. Design Unbound presents a new tool set for having ag

This edited book provides cutting edge contributions from an international array of prominent experts who discuss the relevance of pedagogical stylistics in rel