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Written by a leading scholar of public diplomacy, Boundary Spanners of Humanity introduces a pan-human vision of communication that can revolutionize how we collaborate to solve global problems.
Never before has humanity enjoyed better technological capabilities for...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-09
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You ain't gonna like it: bad grammar's not so bad. - The TimesRemember all those grammar rules from school? No? Most of us don't. Mike McCarthy, renowned corpus linguist and co-author of the 900-page Cambridge Grammar of English answers the awkward questions that...
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Chambers
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2021-12-09
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A broad overview of the many kinds of unitary expressions found in everyday verbal and written communication, including their signature meaning, form, and usage, authored by a renowned scholar in the field Foundations of Familiar Language is renowned scholar Diana...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-12-07
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This book explores debaters’ professional identity construction through implicit negation in televised debates from an interpersonal pragmatic perspective. It reveals the linguistic strategies used to indirectly negate the identity of others, and highlights three pairs...
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Springer
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2021-12-04
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A broad review of how nonprofits, businesses, and governments work together to tackle social problems
Networks for Social Impact takes a systems approach to explain how and when networks make a social impact. Michelle Shumate and Katherine R. Cooper argue that network...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-03
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This book analyses changing views on bilingualism in Cognitive Psychology and explores their socio-cultural embeddedness. It offers a new, innovative perspective on the debate on possible cognitive (dis)advantages in bilinguals, arguing that it is biased by popular...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-02
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This book examines how ordinary users review cultural products online, ranging from books to films and other art objects to consumer products. The book maps different communities—in institutional and non-institutional settings—which intersect with the genre of review,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-02
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This edited book offers a broad selection of interdisciplinary studies within cognitive science. The book illustrates and documents how cognitive science offers a unifying framework for the interaction of fields of study focusing on the human mind from linguistics and...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-12-02
Collection :
Language, Cognition, and Mind
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Skandale sind zweifellos ein wichtiges Korrektiv innerhalb demokratischer Gesellschaften. Gleichzeitig kritisieren Sozialwissenschaftler den verstärkten Einsatz von Skandalisierungen als Mittel im massenmedialen Aufmerksamkeitswettbewerb sowie beobachtbare...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-11-30
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The volume explores the integration of language and society as reflected in the grammar of a language. Each language bears an imprint of the society that speaks it; language reflects speakers' relationships with each other, their beliefs, and their ways of viewing the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-30
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This book captures an urgent moment for language teaching, learning and research. At its core are a series of debates concerning gender stereotyping, the place of linguistics in modern languages, language activism, multilingualism and modern languages and digital...
Editeur :
John Murray Languages
Parution :
2021-11-25
Collection :
Language Acts and Worldmaking
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This book presents the latest theoretical and empirical advances in cognitive translation studies. It involves the modes of written translation, interpreting, sight translation, and computer-aided translation. In separate chapters, this book proposes a new analytical...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-11-18
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A sweeping account of the global rise of English and the high-stakes politics of language
Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca--its common tongue. The language of business, popular media, and international politics, English...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-17
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This book explores the metaphors used in public and media communication to ask how language shapes our moral reasoning about the global coronavirus crisis. The author offers insights into the metaphors, metonyms, allegories and symbols of the global crisis and examines...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-12
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This second edition of Ian Roberts's highly successful textbook on diachronic syntax has been fully revised and updated throughout to take account of the multiple developments in the field in the last decade. The book provides a detailed account of how standard...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-11
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Drawing on the collaborative expertise of three senior scholars, The Journalism Manifesto makes a powerful case for why journalism has become outdated and why it is in need of a long-overdue transformation. Focusing on the relevance of elites, norms and audiences,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-11-11
Collection :
The Manifesto Series
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Building on insights from the fields of textual criticism, bibliography, narratology, authorship studies, and book history, The Preface: American Authorship in the Twentieth Century examines the role that prefaces played in the development of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-06
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Woraus ergibt sich das Einflusspotenzial interpersonaler Kommunikation im Medienwirkungsprozess? Dieses Buch liefert auf der Basis von mehr als 2.500 verdeckt beobachteten Alltagsgesprächen sowie einer anschließenden Befragung der beobachteten Kleingruppen Antworten. Es...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-11-05
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This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses. The three chapters in Part I delineate grammatical contexts of occurrence and special uses, exploring grammatical roles,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-11-03
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This book deals with the connection between media and the future. It is about the imagination of futuristic media and what this says about the present, but it also shows how media are imagined as means to control the future. The book begins by describing different...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-30
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