Supreme Folly: True Tales from the Courtrooms

Humor & Entertainment

Jones, Rodney

Uelmen, Gerald

Humor

Angus & Robertson (UK)

On receiving the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1990 for his third book, Transparent Gestures, Rodney Jones was hailed as "a brand-new world-class poet." This collection of poems, rich in irony, sensuousness, and pleasure, reveals his robust, humorous, earthy, and cerebral view of reality and his exploration of all regions and sensibilities of American life.

Transparent Gestures

Literature & Fiction

United States

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Self-Help

Relationships

Ecco

Poems deal with a middle-aged man concerned with his newborn son and his best friend's death, life in Central America, farms, factories, restaurants, shopping malls, and service stations

Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poems

Poetry

Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poems offers a poignant look at the American landscape: factories, restaurants, farms, empty fallout shelters, glorified malls, and transfigured filling stations scattered across the land. This collection oscillates from the personal to the political, from the religious to the secular, never losing sight of the possibility of joy.

Apocalyptic Narrative And Other Poems

A new collection of forty-one poems by the award-winning author of Transparent Gestures explores such topics as sex, memory and desire, television, parenthood, change, and hunger, in an anthology blending elements of southern evangelism, modern sophistication, and passionate moral commitment.

Things That Happen Once: New Poems

Things That Happen Once, Jones's fifth volume, may well be his finest yet, combining currents of southern evangelism, contemporary sophistication, and passionate moral engagement. Its forty-one poems display an exciting power of language and open up new visions of inheritance and parenthood, sexuality and change. In doing so, these poems release energy that American poets and readers of poetry will eagerly welcome.

Genre Fiction

Celebrating the essence of life in the South, a collection of poems chronicles the life cycle of a young Southern white male, from high school football to losing his virginity, from ignorant youth to self-awareness

Elegy for the Southern Drawl

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings―all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible ‘two dimensional’ stricture is built around four sections―introduction, development, exploration and extension―which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained. Each book in the series has a companion website with extra resources for teachers, lecturers and students. Discourse Analysis: <ul>
<li>Provides an accessible introduction and comprehensive overview of the major approaches and methodological tools used in discourse analysis</li> <li>Introduces both traditional perspectives on the analysis of texts and spoken discourse as well as more recent approaches that address technologically mediated and multimodal discourse.</li> <li>Incorporates practical examples using real data from conversational interaction, ceremonial vows, dating adverts, social media such as facebook, blogs and msn, films such as When Harry Met Sally, popular music lyrics and newspaper articles on areas as diverse as international political incidents and Lady Gaga. </li> <li>Includes key readings from leading scholars in the field, such as James Paul Gee, Michael Halliday, Henry G. Widdowson, Dell Hymes, Harvey Sacks and Ron Scollon</li> <li>Offers a wide range of activities, questions and points for further discussion </li> <li>Is supported by a companion website featuring extra activities, additional guidance, useful links and multimedia examples including sound files, YouTube and videos. </li> </ul> This title will be essential reading for students undertaking research within the areas of English Language, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics.

Discourse Analysis: A Resource Book for Students (Routledge English Language Introductions)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Routledge

Health and Risk Communication

Health and Risk Communication provides a critical and comprehensive overview of the core issues surrounding health and risk communication from the perspective of applied linguistics. It outlines the ways applied linguistics differs from other methods of understanding health and risk communication, assesses the benefits and limitations of the approaches used by different scholars in the field, and offers an innovative framework for consolidating past research and charting new directions.  Utilizing data from clinical interactions and everyday life, this book addresses a number of crucial questions including:    How are the everyday actions we take around health constructed and constrained through discourse?   What is the role of texts in influencing health behaviour, and how are these texts put together and interpreted by readers?   How are actions and identities around health and risk negotiated in situated social interactions, and what are the factors that influence these negotiations?   How will new technologies like genetic screening influence the way we communicate about health?   How does communication about health and risk help create communities and institutions and reflect and reproduce broader ideologies and patterns of power and inequality within societies?   Health and Risk Communication: An Applied Linguistic Perspective is essential reading for advanced students and researchers studying and working in this area.

Health and Risk Communication: An Applied Linguistic Perspective

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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Books by Jones, Rodney

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Supreme Folly: True Tales from the Courtrooms

Transparent Gestures

Transparent Gestures

Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poems

Apocalyptic Narrative And Other Poems

Things That Happen Once: New Poems

Things That Happen Once: New Poems

Elegy for the Southern Drawl

Discourse Analysis: A Resource Book for Students (Routledge English Language Introductions)

Health and Risk Communication: An Applied Linguistic Perspective