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Inside Culture offers a fresh and stimulating reassessment of the direction of cultural studies. Nick Couldry argues without apology for cultural studies as a discipline centred around the interrelations of culture and power, with a clear focus on accountable empirical...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2000-05-03
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In recent years the idea that an adequate semantics of ordinary language calls for some theory of events has sparked considerable debate among linguists and philosophers. Speaking of Events offers a vivid and up-to-date indication of this debate, with emphasis precisely...
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Oxford University Press
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2000-04-13
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What are the golden rules of speech making? How should you respond to the toast to the bride and groom? And which people do you need to thank and how? The answers to all these questions and more are here in this much-needed book. Now you can make your wedding day speech...
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How to Books
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2000-04-01
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You have a wonderful opportunity to add to the magic of your daughter's wedding. Your words will linger in memories - they may even be captured on video for future generations to hear. So what are the golden rules of speech-making? How can you convey emotion,...
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How to Books
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2000-04-01
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Almost all languages have some grammatical means for the linguistic categorization of nouns. Well-known systems such as the lexical numeral classifiers of South-East Asia, on the one hand, and the highly grammaticalized gender agreement classes of Indo-European...
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OUP Oxford
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2000-03-30
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It's good to talk is one of the great clich[ac]es of our time. The benefits of talk to individuals, families and organizations are proclaimed by pop psychologists, television talk show hosts, and management gurus. The importance of talk is talked about endlessly.
`Good...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2000-03-27
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Clitics are grammatical elements that are treated as independent words in syntax but form a phonological unit with the word that precedes or follows it. This volume brings together the facts about clitics in the Slavic languages, where they have become a focal points of...
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Oxford University Press
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2000-03-23
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This work investigates the syntax of the higher portion of the functional structure of the clause using comparative data from hundreds of Northern Italian dialects. The area contains dialects that are different in most ways yet homogenous syntactically, making it an...
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Oxford University Press
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2000-03-09
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This innovative work provides the first comprehensive account of general extenders ("or something," "and stuff," "or whatever"). Combining insights from linguistics, cognitive psychology, and interactional sociolinguistics, the author demonstrates that these small...
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Oxford University Press
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2000-02-17
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A distinction is made in formal semantics between "stage-level predicates," predicates that describe the general state of a noun, and "individual-level predicates," predicates that specify the specific properties of a noun. Fernald investigates various contexts in which...
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Oxford University Press
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2000-02-10
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This is a collection of papers from a 1997 conference that attempted to assess the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's efforts to modernize Eastern European libraries after the fall of communism. Looking primarily at Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, the...
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Oxford University Press
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2000-02-03
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With Writing without Teachers (OUP 1975) and Writing with Power (OUP 1995) Peter Elbow revolutionized the teaching of writing. His process method--and its now commonplace "free writing" techniques--liberated generations of students and teachers from the emphasis on...
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Oxford University Press
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2000-01-27
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Ura demonstrates that his theory of multiple feature-checking, an extension of Chomsky's Agr-less checking theory, gives a natural explanation for a wide range of data drawn from a variety of languages in a very consistent way with a limited set of parameters.
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Oxford University Press
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2000-01-06
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In this book, Barrie Gunter provides a broad overview of the methodological perspectives adopted by media researchers in their attempt to derive a better understanding of the nature, role and impact of media in society.
By tracing the epistemological and theoretical...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-12-29
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Written as an introduction for beginning students, this book offers a thorough, yet lively, overview of human communication in all its aspects.
Accessibly written and assuming no prior knowledge of the discipline Communication: An Introduction: offers a thorough, yet...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-12-15
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This volume introduces the study of language attrition--the forgetting of language. In this first collection devoted to second language attrition, the contributors focus on contexts of loss where Japanese is either the attriting language, or the replacing language....
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Oxford University Press
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1999-11-25
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"It's easy to be snobbish about media culture; the great merit of Roger Silverstone's book is to make the reader understand just how important that culture is."
- Richard Sennett, New York University
"A remarkable book which argues for a new paradigm for the study of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-10-22
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`A very welcome and much-needed broadening of current theoretical perspectives' - Professor Norman Fairclough, University of Lancaster
This book offers a major reappraisal of the role of language in the social world. Focusing on three main areas - the global spread of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-10-06
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Pertti Alasuutari provides a state-of-the-art summary of the field of audience research. With contributions from Ann Gray, Joke Hermes, John Tulloch and David Morley, a case is presented for a new agenda to account for the role of the media in everyday life.
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-08-31
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The authors here promote the reintroduction of temporality into the description and analysis of spoken interaction. They argue that spoken words are, in fact, temporal objects and that unless linguists consider how they are delivered within the context of time, they...
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Oxford University Press
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1999-08-26
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