Transparency, Power, and Control: Perspectives on Legal Communication, Hafner Christoph A., Wagner Anne

This cutting-edge book:

• draws together fourteen eminent scholars in the field including James Paul Gee, David Barton, Ilana Snyder, Phil Benson, Victoria Carrington, Guy Merchant, Camilla Vasquez, Neil Selwyn and Rodney Jones
• answers the central question: "How does discourse analysis enable us to understand digital practices?"
• addresses a different type of digital media in each chapter
• demonstrates how digital practices and the associated new technologies challenge discourse analysts to adapt traditional analytic tools and formulate new theories and methodologies
• examines digital practices from a wide variety of approaches including textual analysis, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, multimodal discourse analysis, object ethnography, geosemiotics, and critical discourse analysis.

Discourse and Digital Practices will be of interest to advanced students studying courses on digital literacies or language and digital practices.

Based on sustained research into students' experiences in an ESP context in Hong Kong, this volume provides an empirically grounded and practical methodology to ESP learning and course design and features:

- mixed-method case studies;

- links between theory and practice, with plentiful examples of teaching materials and learning activities;

- recognition of the effect of new technologies and globalization on the practice of ESP, highlighting problems and providing practical solutions;

- a new pedagogical model for ESP course design, addressing multiple dimensions relevant to today's ESP learners including learner autonomy, genre, multimodality and digital literacies, plurilingual practices, and project-based learning and collaboration.

English in the Disciplines provides key reading for anyone studying and researching this topic.