The Many Facets of Remediation in Language Studies

The notion of remediation can be taken to refer to a series of linguistic, cultural and psychological processes by means of which language and discourse are transformed and refashioned in new forms. Remediation functions via language, that is, the system through which we interpret and construct our understanding of reality, and at the same time the sense of self we perceive and project onto other people. Therefore, remediation can relate to both the elaboration of new and hybrid text-types and also to the representations of identity. The contributions in this volume span a wide spectrum of text genres and subgenres in which remediation is examined in numerous forms of formal and informal communication.