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Written for students studying intercultural communication for the first time, this textbook gives a thorough introduction to inter- and cross-cultural concepts with a focus on practical application and social action. Provides a thorough introduction to inter- and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-18
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With the majority of the world's population now living in cities, questions about the cultural and political trajectories of urban societies are increasingly urgent. Media and the City explores the global city as the site where these questions become most prominent. As...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-12-17
Collection :
Global Media and Communication
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This volume presents evidence about how we understand communication in changing times, and proposes that such understandings may contribute to the development of pedagogy for teaching and learning. It expands current debates on multilingualism, asking which signs are in...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-12-17
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Introducing Second Language Acquisition: Perspectives and Practices represents a clear and concise introduction to the main concepts, issues, and debates in second language acquisition studies aimed specifically at undergraduates encountering the topic for the first...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-16
Collection :
Linguistics in the World
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This book presents a collection of thematically focused articles addressing culture-specific features of academic communication, with a particular focus on communication conducted in English as an Additional Language and directed at multicultural audiences. It comprises...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-12-16
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A Dictionary of Varieties of English presents a comprehensive listing of the distinctive dialects and forms of English spoken throughout the contemporary world. Provides an invaluable introduction and guide to current research trends in the field Includes definitions...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-12
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This book presents the forefront of research in the emerging field of family language policy.This is the first volume to explore the link between family language policy, practice and management in the light of state and community language policy in more than 20...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-12-12
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Medienethische Richtlinien wie der Pressekodex des Deutschen Presserates bieten Journalisten ohne Zweifel eine wichtige Entscheidungshilfe bei ethischen Abwägungen in Fragen von Recherche und Veröffentlichung. Doch Richtlinien, die zwangsläufig allgemein gehalten sein...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2013-12-11
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Our eye movements in response to visual stimuli reveal much about how we experience the world. Focusing on the latest developments in the multidisciplinary field of eye tracking research, this volume ranges across a wide spectrum of research applications, with four...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-12-11
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Locality is a key concept not only in linguistic theorizing, but in explaining pattern of acquisition and patterns of recovery in garden path sentences, as well. If syntax relates sound and meaning over an infinite domain, syntactic dependencies and operations must be...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-11
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"An essential guide for anyone hungry to learn how journalism should be practised today, and will be tomorrow. Hill and Lashmar encapsulate the transformative impact technology is having on journalism, but anchor those changes in the basic principles of reporting." -...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2013-12-10
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This volume offers a comparative analysis of the functioning of totalitarian and authoritarian discourses and their aftermath. Whereas other studies often focus on communist/post-communist examples and hence particularize totalitarian discourse, this book starts from a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-09
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Die Fremdsprachendidaktik erstmals lexikalisch erschlossen. Ob Sprachlehrforschung, bilingualer Unterricht, Filmdidaktik, Lernsoftware, Tandemlernen oder Sprachgefühl das Lexikon informiert über alle wichtigen Begriffe, Grundlagen und Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2013-12-09
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Explores the direct relation of modern CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) to aspects of natural language processing for theoretical and practical applications, and worldwide demand for formal language education and training that focuses on restricted or...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-12-05
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In this book, leading linguists explore the empirical scope of syntactic theory, by concentrating on a set of phenomena for which both syntactic and nonsyntactic analyses initially appear plausible. Exploring the nature of such phenomena permits a deeper understanding...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-12-05
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This book considers the implications of cross-linguistic word-order patterns for linguistic theory. One of the salient results of Joseph Greenberg's pioneering work in language typology was the notion of a 'harmonic' word-order type, whereby if the verb appears at the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-12-05
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From an integrative perspective this study analyses the evolution of ethnolinguistic variability in Cameroon English (CamE) pronunciation along the educational echelon. Focus is on the phonetic/phonological variables of ethnolects distinctive from Received Pronunciation...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Richard Wilkins and Karen Wolf present an innovative look at the relationship between rhetoric and the ethnography of communication. They argue that a situated rhetoric extends beyond the study of public discourse to include moments of identification that are used in a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Für die Erzielung langfristiger Spenderbeziehungen ist das Vertrauen eines Spenders in eine Nonprofit-Organisation von zentraler Bedeutung. Dabei kann die Kommunikation mit potentiellen Spendern allgemein und die Kommunikation über onlinebasierte soziale Netzwerke im...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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The apocalypse can bring upon the world either termination, either change. By exploring how emotions, ethnic or national belonging and digital technologies work together in constructing an apocalypticizing national self, this book offers a complex analysis of far...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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