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Information technology (IT) has transformed human resource management across our society, and its influence on higher education has been profound. Technology Everywhere addresses the dual role played by colleges and universities that must recruit, hire, and train...
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Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2002-10-02
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Jossey-Bass Educause Leadership Series
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Marit Julien investigates the relation between morphology and syntax, or more specifically, the relation between the form of inflected verbs and the position of those verbs. She surveys 530 languages and shows that, with the exception of agreement markers, the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2002-09-26
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"Film Cultures is thought-provoking and challenging. By opening film theory up to the many simultaneous networks of relation (that is, the cultures) of film, it asks both viewer and student to take film more seriously." - Communication Research Trends
"Film Cultures...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2002-09-20
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This collection of previously unpublished articles examines Noam Chomsky's Extended Projection Principle and its relationship to subjects and expletives (words like "it" that stand for other words). Re-examining Chomsky's proposition that each clause must have a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2002-09-19
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Combining a comprehensive literature review with original empirical research on young people's use of new media, this book provides a fresh and in-depth discussion of the increasingly complex relationship between the media and childhood, the family and the home.
We can...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2002-04-24
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Prosodic Features andProsodic Structure presents an overall view of the nature of prosodic features of language - accent, stress, rhythm, tone, pitch, and intonation - and shows how these connect to sound systems and meaning. It is a work of great scholarship and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2002-04-19
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The digital revolution is transforming media and communications industries worldwide, and media companies are keen to emerge at the forefront of an increasingly transnational and competitive communications marketplace. However, the volume and scale of mergers and...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2002-04-17
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This book describes the development of the scientific article from its modest beginnings to the global phenomenon that it has become today. Their analysis of a large sample of texts in French, English, and German focuses on the changes in the style, organization, and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2002-04-11
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This is the definitive survey of the English language - in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world and finally he gives a brief history of English. The book has been fully revised and there...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2002-03-28
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This collection of previously unpublished, cutting-edge research discusses the conversation analysis (CA) approach to understanding language use. CA is the dominant theory for analyzing the social use of language and is concerned with the description of how speakers...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2002-02-28
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How can an infinite number of sentences be generated from one human mind?How did language evolve in apes? In this book Donald Loritz addresses these and other fundamental and vexing questions about language, cognition, and the human brain. He starts by tracing how...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2002-02-28
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How does human language work?How do we put ideas into words that others can understand? Can linguistics shed light on the way the brain operates?
Foundations of Language puts linguistics back at the centre of the search to understand human consciousness. Ray...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2002-01-24
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How does human language work?How do we put ideas into words that others can understand? Can linguistics shed light on the way the brain operates?
Foundations of Language puts linguistics back at the centre of the search to understand human consciousness. Ray...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2002-01-24
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Linguists have become increasingly interested in examining how class culture is socially constructed and maintained through spoken language. Julie Lindquist's examination of the linguistic ethnography of a working-class bar in Chicago is an important and original...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2002-01-17
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Linguists have become increasingly interested in examining how class culture is socially constructed and maintained through spoken language. Julie Lindquist's examination of the linguistic ethnography of a working-class bar in Chicago is an important and original...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2002-01-17
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In this fascinating work, Scott Soames offers a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertions made by utterances. He gives meanings of proper names and natural kind predicates and explains their use in attitude ascriptions. He also...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2002-01-03
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Syntactically speaking, it has long been known that noun phrases are parallel to clauses in many respects. While most syntactic theories incorporate this principle, nouns have generally been regarded as inferior to verbs in terms of their licensing abilities, and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2001-11-29
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This handbook draws on multidisciplinary insights and the experiences of academics and campaign practitioners to provide a comprehensive guide and introduction to planning, implementing and measuring public information and communication campaigns. It outlines the basic...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2001-11-28
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In this book, Martin Conboy explores the complex and dynamic relationship between the popular press and popular culture. Rejecting approaches to popular culture which restrict themselves to the contemporary, Conboy argues for the importance of an historical perspective...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2001-11-07
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