Language, Identity and Cycling in the New Media Age Exploring Interpersonal Semiotics in Multimodal Media and Online Texts /

• Main Author: Kiernan, Patrick (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Sociolinguistics.; Sports.; Semiotics.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Applied linguistics.; Semantics.; Popular Science in Sports.; Cultural and Media Studies, general.; Applied Linguistics.

This book examines how identities associated with cycling are evoked, narrated and negotiated in a media context dominated by digital environments. Arguing that the nature of identity is being impacted by the changing nature of the material and semiotic resources available for making meaning, the au...