ilość książek w kategorii: 1141
The Perception of Nature in Travel Promotion Texts: A Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis
ISBN: 9783034315210 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Given the consolidated effects of the greening process on the tourism industry, this volume investigates the relationship between three areas of research the natural environment, tourism and discourse, and how this relationship is affected by and affects society as a whole. In particular, the book highlights the central role of language in constructing eco-friendly tourist sites. Since the images associated to nature are various, this study examines the uses of nature and explores how the terms nature and natural are constructed within the texts. The research identifies how nature is...
Given the consolidated effects of the greening process on the tourism industry, this volume investigates the relationship between three areas of resea...
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337,33 zł |
Image and Emotion in Voter Decisions: The Affect Agenda
ISBN: 9780739189955 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on a decade of their own research from the 2000 to 2012 U.S. presidential elections, Renita Coleman and Denis Wu explore the image presentation of political candidates and its influence at both aggregate and individual levels. When facing complex political decisions, voters often rely on gut feelings and first impressions but then endeavor to come up with a "rational" reason to justify their actions. Image and Emotion in Voter Decisions: The Affect Agenda examines how and why voters make the decisions they do by examining the influence of the media's coverage of politicians' images....
Drawing on a decade of their own research from the 2000 to 2012 U.S. presidential elections, Renita Coleman and Denis Wu explore the image presentatio...
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535,08 zł |
Elements of Hermeneutic Pragmatics: Agency and Interpretation
ISBN: 9783034318839 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can linguistic pragmatics be developed without the need to formulate rules, criteria or maxims? The author argues that rules as they have been conceived of within pragmatics, particularly speech act theory, are limiting and out of step with the linguistic science of recent decades.
Using a hermeneutic approach to pragmatics, this book seeks to bring pragmatics closer to the cognitive paradigm that has transformed the other branches of the linguistic and communication sciences, with the help of developments in certain neighbouring disciplines such as philosophy, sociology and narratology.... Can linguistic pragmatics be developed without the need to formulate rules, criteria or maxims? The author argues that rules as they have been conceiv...
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386,11 zł |
Pratiques Plurilingues En Milieu Professionnel International: Entre Politiques Linguistiques Et Usages Effectifs
ISBN: 9783631652930 / Francuski / Twarda / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cet ouvrage apprehende les pratiques langagieres plurilingues d une entreprise aeronautique et d une organisation internationales. Il a pour but de comparer le -prescrit- par les politiques linguistiques aux situations liees a des pratiques plurilingues quotidiennes ainsi que de reperer les facteurs declenchant le choix de la langue de communication. Pour ce faire, cette etude se situe au carrefour des concepts de la linguistique, de la sociologie interactionniste et de la didactique. Des discours de differentes natures sont analyses au moyen de questionnaires, d entretiens ainsi que d...
Cet ouvrage apprehende les pratiques langagieres plurilingues d une entreprise aeronautique et d une organisation internationales. Il a pour but de co...
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453,67 zł |
Principles and Method in the Study of English Literature
ISBN: 9781107505476 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1919, as the second edition of a 1908 original, this book was written to provide an accessible guide to the process of studying English literature. Aimed chiefly at teachers in secondary and continuation schools, the text attempts 'to describe and illustrate methods of study that follow naturally from the logical and psychological principles on which the teaching of English literature should be based'. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in English literature and the history of education.
First published in 1919, as the second edition of a 1908 original, this book was written to provide an accessible guide to the process of studying Eng...
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202,29 zł |
Designing Online Communities: How Designers, Developers, Community Managers, and Software Structure Discourse and Knowledge Production on the Web
ISBN: 9781433128479 / Angielski / Twarda / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discussion on the Web is mediated through layers of software and protocols. As scholars increasingly study communication and learning on the Internet, it is essential to consider how site administrators, programmers, and designers create interfaces and enable functionality. The managers, administrators, and designers of online communities can turn to more than 20 years of technical books for guidance on how to design online communities toward particular objectives. Through analysis of this how-to literature, Designing Online Communities explores the discourse of design and...
Discussion on the Web is mediated through layers of software and protocols. As scholars increasingly study communication and learning on the Internet,...
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791,01 zł |
Accessing Audiovisual Translation
ISBN: 9783631655085 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Audiovisual translation continues to be a dynamically developing genre, stimulated by interdisciplinary research and technological advances. This volume presents recent developments in the area. Renowned scholars in the field discuss aspects of captioning, revoicing and accessibility, as well as research methods such as eyetracking. The discussion occasionally departs from the confines of audiovisual translation proper, to tackle related areas such as translation for advertising purposes.
Audiovisual translation continues to be a dynamically developing genre, stimulated by interdisciplinary research and technological advances. This volu...
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358,17 zł |
de la Genèse de la Langue À Internet: Variations Dans Les Formes, Les Modalités Et Les Langues En Contact
ISBN: 9783034317986 / Francuski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ce recueil d articles regroupe une selection des communications presentees au colloque international et pluridisciplinaire tenu a Oxford en janvier 2013, que completent quelques contributions d eminents chercheurs sur l evolution du francais, depuis ses origines jusqu a ses developpements lies a l influence d Internet. Les auteurs de ce volume s interessent a la langue francaise sous toutes ses formes et dans toutes ses representations, dans le cinema ou dans la litterature, et l abordent aussi bien a travers sa syntaxe, son lexique, sa phonologie, que dans ses modalites orales ou ecrites. De...
Ce recueil d articles regroupe une selection des communications presentees au colloque international et pluridisciplinaire tenu a Oxford en janvier 20...
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300,30 zł |
Religion Und Sprache- Religion and Language
ISBN: 9783631632710 / Angielski / Twarda / 421 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Beitrage dieses Buches untersuchen verschiedene Fragestellungen zu religiosen Bezugen in nicht-religioser Sprache, etwa in Redewendungen, Ortsnamen, Okonomie-Diskursen oder politischer Rhetorik, und zu nicht-(nur-)religiosen Konstruktionen in religioser Sprache, etwa in Gebeten und anderen sakralen Texten, Ritualen oder religiosen Traktaten. Dabei werden unterschiedliche linguistische Methoden angewandt, von der Diskursanalyse bis zur Onomastik, von der Soziolinguistik bis zur Metaphernanalyse. In vielen Aufsatzen wird interdisziplinar gearbeitet, etwa mit Input aus Bereichen wie der...
Die Beitrage dieses Buches untersuchen verschiedene Fragestellungen zu religiosen Bezugen in nicht-religioser Sprache, etwa in Redewendungen, Ortsname...
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492,03 zł |
Somali Oral Poetry and the Failed She-Camel Nation State; A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Deelley Poetry Debate (1979-1980)
ISBN: 9781433125157 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Somali Oral Poetry and the Failed She-Camel Nation State: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Deelley Poetry Debate (1979 1980) examines the most expressive medium in Somali culture and politics, that is, oral poetry, in its ideological and discursive dimension. Oral poetry has a formidable impact on Somali society and its internal dynamics.
Somali Oral Poetry is the first critical discourse analysis of the connection between oral poetry and politics in Somalia. The book brings out contradictions and conflicts between the ways of thinking of a society structured in clans... Somali Oral Poetry and the Failed She-Camel Nation State: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Deelley Poetry Debate (1979 1980) examines the m...
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519,97 zł |
Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric
ISBN: 9781567925524 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Masters of language can turn unassuming words into phrases that are convincing, effective, and memorably beautiful. Lincoln and Churchill had this power:having heard their words once, one can scarcely imagine the world without them. What are the secrets of this alchemy? The answer lies in rhetoric, among the most ancient of disciplines. This book contains a lively set of lessons on the subject, a tutorial on eloquence conducted by virtuoso faculty. The result is an indispensable book for the writer and the speaker, a highly useful reference tool, and a rewarding source for all lovers and...
Masters of language can turn unassuming words into phrases that are convincing, effective, and memorably beautiful. Lincoln and Churchill had this pow...
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82,37 zł |
Michelle Obama: First Lady, American Rhetor
ISBN: 9781498512213 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michelle Obama: First Lady, American Rhetor is an edited anthology that explores the persona and speech-making of the country s first African American first lady. The result of these thought-provoking essays is an interdisciplinary text that explores the First Lady from a rhetorical and cultural point of view. Authors analyze her Democratic National Convention speeches, her brand as First Lady, her communication from her latest trip to Africa, her agenda rhetoric in Let s Move and Reach Higher, and her coming out as a Black feminist intellectual when she spoke at Maya Angelou s memorial...
Michelle Obama: First Lady, American Rhetor is an edited anthology that explores the persona and speech-making of the country s first African American...
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480,48 zł |
The Contemporary American Monologue: Performance and Politics
ISBN: 9781472585028 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Talk-show confessions, online rants, stand-up routines, inspirational speeches, banal reflections and calls to arms: we live in an age of solo voices demanding to be heard. In The Contemporary American Monologue Eddie Paterson looks at the pioneering work of US artists Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, Anna Deavere Smith and Karen Finley, and the development of solo performance in the US as a method of cultural and political critique. Ironic confession, post-punk poetry, investigations of race and violence, and subversive polemic, this book reveals the link between the rise of radical...
Talk-show confessions, online rants, stand-up routines, inspirational speeches, banal reflections and calls to arms: we live in an age of solo voices ...
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570,57 zł |
A Critical Search for Values in George W. Bush's State of the Union Addresses
ISBN: 9783631664834 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What values are invoked in the speeches? How are these values constructed? How can they be classified? How are particular construals of values conducive to the actions the speaker wants to legitimize? This book focuses on values and valuation in the State of the Union addresses delivered by the former US President George W Bush.
What values are invoked in the speeches? How are these values constructed? How can they be classified? How are particular construals of values conduci...
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279,11 zł |
Variabilidad En El Paradigma Verbal de Futuro. El Español de Valencia Y de Otras Sintopías
ISBN: 9783034320047 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Este libro ofrece un analisis variacionista de la expresion verbal de lo futuro en el espanol de la comunidad de habla bilingue castellano-catalan de Valencia. Se investigan tres variantes: futuro morfologico, futuro perifrastico y presente prospectivo, y los resultados se comparan con los obtenidos en otras comunidades monolingues y bilingues del ambito hispanico. Junto a este estudio comparativo que permite conocer el paradigma alternante en el espanol de ambos lados del Atlantico, la obra aporta nuevos modelos para el tratamiento estadistico de los datos. Frente al programa empleado...
Este libro ofrece un analisis variacionista de la expresion verbal de lo futuro en el espanol de la comunidad de habla bilingue castellano-catalan de ...
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456,97 zł |
Robert's Rules of Order in Action: How to Participate in Meetings with Confidence
ISBN: 9781623156213 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How to Get Things Done in a Meeting The official edition of Robert's Rules of Order is 2 inches thick and 816 pages long. But if you want to participate with total confidence in your next assembly, you only need 100 pages. These 100 pages. Robert's Rules of Order in Action puts the most important parliamentary rules, terms, and examples at your fingertips. When the clock is ticking, and you need to make a privileged motion or demand an appeal, this book gives you the right answers in the shortest time. Featuring:
How to Get Things Done in a Meeting The official edition of Robert's Rules of Order is 2 inches thick and 816 pages long. But if you want to ... |
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69,51 zł |
Democratic Orators from JFK to Barack Obama
ISBN: 9781137509024 / Angielski / Twarda / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do leading Democratic Party figures strive to communicate with and influence their audience? Why have some proven more successful than others in advancing their ideological arguments? How do orators seek to connect with different audiences in different settings such as the Senate, conventions and through the media? This thoroughly researched and highly readable collection comprehensively evaluates these questions as well as providing an extensive interrogation of the political and intellectual significance of oratory and rhetoric in the Democratic Party. Using the Aristotelian modes of...
How do leading Democratic Party figures strive to communicate with and influence their audience? Why have some proven more successful than others in a...
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192,74 zł |
SECONDARY SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES for Busy Teachers - Vol 2
ISBN: 9781906628703 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This long-awaited second volume of the best-selling 'Secondary School Assemblies for Busy Teachers' includes a collection of 'ready-to-go' topical presentations varying between 5 and 15 minutes in length. Designed to deliver interesting content in an engaging and informative manner, each subject is presented in a convenient, easy to use format. Subjects such as social media; historical events; the importance of laughter; democracy and voting; famous people and their achievements.. and other interesting topics are presented in a manner designed to capture and hold the attention of the...
This long-awaited second volume of the best-selling 'Secondary School Assemblies for Busy Teachers' includes a collection of 'ready-to-go' topical pre...
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158,14 zł |
The Art of Public Speaking
ISBN: 9781519169624 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie. This is a US only edition. The efficiency of a book is like that of a man, in one important respect: its attitude toward its subject is the first source of its power. A book may be full of good ideas well expressed, but if its writer views his subject from the wrong angle even his excellent advice may prove to be ineffective. This book stands or falls by its authors' attitude toward its subject. If the best way to teach oneself or others to speak effectively in public is to fill the mind with rules, and to set up fixed standards for the...
The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie. This is a US only edition. The efficiency of a book is like that of a man, in one important respect: its ...
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70,42 zł |
Steal the Show: From Speeches to Job Interviews to Deal-Closing Pitches, How to Guarantee a Standing Ovation for All the Performances
ISBN: 9780544800847 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An indispensable guide for introverts and extroverts alike." -- Inc. Magazine
A Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller Every interaction is a performance, and much of our success--professional and personal--hinges on being able to inspire an audience. And while some people seem to be naturals in the spotlight, this ability very rarely derives from talent alone. Confident communication is a skill, and anyone can learn how to do it. In Steal the Show, New York Times... "An indispensable guide for introverts and extroverts alike." -- Inc. Magazine
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82,55 zł |