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The Global World is a pivotal formula in present-day «Newspeak».The book’s leitmotif – if it is true that the faces of today’s global world are manifold – is that language opens to the other, that the word’s boundaries are the multiple boundaries of the relation to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-15
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The study of proxemics – the human use of space – is reimagined for the digital age in this book, a compelling examination of the future of the ways we move. Whereas much writing on the subject focuses on what digital technology might do for us, this book explores what...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-14
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Advances in Intergroup Communication is a timely contribution to the field. It reflects developments in older, more established intergroup settings (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, organizations) whilst introducing newer studies such as the military and political...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-14
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This volume advances theory and research by presenting original, empirical studies as well as theoretical and methodological overviews on dark family communication processes. Taking an interdisciplinary and international approach, the volume includes contributions from...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-04-14
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Non-professional Interpreting and Translation (NPIT) is a recent discipline. Books and volumes on this subject that combine all the different fields are extremely uncommon and authoritative reference material is scarce and mostly scattered through disparate specialized...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-08
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The author analyses the reasons behind the electoral success of European right-wing populist parties. Using the Austrian Freedom Party under Jörg Haider as a case study and with a richness of primary material, he argues that their success is only partly caused by...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-08
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Despite the powerful anti-political impulses that have pervaded Italian society in recent years, Italian cinema has sustained and renewed its longstanding engagement with questions of politics, both in the narrow definition of the term, and in a wider understanding that...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-01
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Seit Jahrhundertbeginn boomt der Markt populärer Geschichtsmagazine in Europa und anderen Weltregionen. Ihre Vielfalt und Auflagenhöhe machen sie zu bislang weithin unterschätzten Agenten der öffentlichen Geschichtskultur und des «Histotainments». Dieser Band widmet...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-24
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This collection of papers addresses new trends in Cognitive Linguistics. Three parts of the book focus on Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Integration Network Analysis. Both the theoretical contributions and the empirical case studies stress the importance of contextual...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-03-24
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Provides a foundation for understanding a range of linguistic, cultural, and technological factors to effectively practice international communication in a variety of professional communication arenas An in-depth analysis of how cultural factors influence translation,...
Editeur :
Wiley-IEEE Press
Parution :
2016-03-23
Collection :
IEEE PCS Professional Engineering Communication Series
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This book was featured as one of thirty-four Epic Feminist Books in Teen Vogue magazine. This book offers interpretive and contextual tools to read the AMC television series Mad Men, providing a much-needed historical explanation and exposition regarding the status of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-03-11
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Few crimes provoke the collective fear, public outrage, and media fascination that child abductions do. Stories about missing children capture national headlines and dominate public discourses about crime and deviance, child safety, parenting, the American family, and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-03-11
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For the past decade or more, few Hollywood stars have experienced a more meteoric rise than Tyler Perry. As much as he is lauded by fans, Perry is panned by cultural critics who reject his work as overtly preachy and rife with racially stereotypical characterizations...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-03-10
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The Internet, World Wide Web, and digital devices have fundamentally changed the way people communicate, affecting everything from business, to school, to family, to religion, to democracy. This textbook takes a well-rounded view of the evolution from media literacy to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-03-10
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Der Autor stellt den Einfluss des Nationalsozialismus auf die Presse der deutschen Volksgruppen in Rumänien, Ungarn und dem ehemaligen Jugoslawien in der Zwischenkriegs- und Kriegszeit dar. Er nennt repräsentative Journalisten der erwähnten deutschen Volksgruppen, die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-04
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This volume presents a cross-disciplinary analysis of academic poster presentations, taking into consideration the text and visuals that posters display depending on the discipline within which they are created. As the academic poster is a multimodal genre, different...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-04
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Communication is at the heart of any complete understanding of the end of life. While it is true that individuals physically die as a single entity, the process of ending an individual life is located within a complex system of relationships and roles connected and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-02-18
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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...
Editeur :
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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