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Continuing the explorations begun in the first Produsing Theory volume, this book provides a site at which varied theories – some still emerging – can intersect and shine a light into the spaces between what previously had been neatly separated and discrete components...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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From Digital to Analog delves into the origins of digitization and its effects on contemporary culture. The book challenges the «common sense» assertion that digitization is just another step in the evolution of the culture of the editorial, film and recorded music...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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Theories help to troubleshoot gaps in our understanding, and to make sense of a world that is constantly changing. What this book tries to do, in part, is blur the lines between the differences between today’s college students – the millennial generation – and their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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This volume presents state-of-the-art reporting on how to measure many of the key variables in health communication. While the focus is on quantitative measures, the editors argue that these measures are centrally important to the study of health communication. The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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Images of «good mothers» saturate the media, yet so too do images of mothers who do not fit this mold. Numerous scholars have addressed «bad mothers» in the media, arguing that these images are a necessary counterpoint that serves to buttress the «good mother» myth....
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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In a society that increasingly touts post-racial and post-feminist discourses, the trope of monstrosity becomes a way to critically examine contemporary meanings around race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability. Focusing on ways in which historically marginalized...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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There is growing emphasis in Health Communication on the study of communication processes that aim to change systems, policies, beliefs, attitudes, and/or behaviors for the betterment of the health of individuals and communities. Engagement on behalf of individual and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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Organizations, which are central in contemporary industrialized and post-industrial societies, including government departments and agencies, corporations, and non-government organizations, claim to want and practice two-way communication, dialogue, and engagement with...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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This book examines the ways in which communicative practices influence the lives of students and faculty with disabilities in higher education. Offering their own experiences as teachers and students, the authors use qualitative research methods, mainly narrative and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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Communicating the Environment Beyond Photography is a modern look at how photographers visualize what is happening to people and places on a changing planet. Michelle I. Seelig draws attention to what compels photographers to focus on these important messages, what...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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Why are some countries more newsworthy than others? What are the similarities and differences in the scope of international news presented in different languages and cultures? How does international news affect our perception of the world? In this book, Elad Segev...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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Each year, thousands of consulting contracts are awarded by organizations to experts who help them with challenges involving people, processes, technologies, goals, resource allocation, decision making, problem solving, and more. These experts – consultants – diagnose...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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This book examines the cross-linguistic expression of changes of location or state, taking as a starting point Talmy's typological generalization that classifies languages as either 'satellite-framed' or 'verb-framed'. In verb-framed languages, such as those of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-02-18
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This volume gathers researchers from around the world endeavouring to better understand a number of perennial issues in assessing Chinese learners of English, covering topics such as students' test performances, interactional competence and lexical knowledge, students'...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-17
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Parameters of linguistic variation were originally conceived, within the chomskyan Principles andParameters Theory, as UG-determined options that were associated with grammatical principles and had a rich deductive structure. This characterization of parametric...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-02-12
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The book introduces the reader into the world of mental perception of literary contents. Based on the research in modern semantics, functional stylistics and cognitive phonetics, it explores the way linguistic elements of a literary work cause readers to form a single...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-09
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Providing a comparative study on celebrity advocacy – from the work of Bono, George Clooney, Madonna, Greg Mortenson, and Kim Kardashian West – this book provides scholars and readers with a better understanding of some of the short-term and long-term impacts of various...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-01
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The Lexicon provides an introduction to the study of words, their main properties, and how we use them to create meaning. It offers a detailed description of the organizing principles of the lexicon, and of the categories used to classify a wide range of lexical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-01-29
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This book-length treatment of Exploratory Practice introduces five propositions about learners as practitioners of learning who are capable of developing their expertise through conducting research in and on their own classroom learning lives.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-28
Collection :
Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics
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The English Language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today?
In How English Became English Simon Horobin investigates the evolution of the English language,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-01-28
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