ilość książek w kategorii: 1304
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The Locals; Identity, Place and Belonging in Australia and Beyond
ISBN: 9783034301541 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the first comprehensive survey of being a local, in particular in Australia. As in much of the colonised, English-speaking world, in Australia the paradox is that the locals are not indigenous peoples but migrants with a specific ethnic heritage who became localised in time to label other migrants as the newcomers and outsiders. Claims of belonging as local provide a crucial insight into power relations that extend beyond the local level to questions of national identity and the ethics of belonging in a postcolonial, multicultural nation. How have Anglo-Celtic Australians...
This book presents the first comprehensive survey of being a local, in particular in Australia. As in much of the colonised, English-speaking world, i...
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249,28 |
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Reporting Research: A Biologist's Guide to Articles, Talks, and Posters
ISBN: 9781107053892 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Want to learn how to present your research successfully? This practical guide for students and postdoctoral scholars offers a unique step-by-step approach to help you avoid the worst, yet most common, mistakes in biology communication. Covering irritants such as sins of ambiguity, circumlocution, inconsistency, vagueness and verbosity, misuse of words and quantitative matters, it also provides guidance to design your next piece of work effectively. Learn how to write scientific articles and get them published, prepare posters and talks that will capture your audience and develop a critical...
Want to learn how to present your research successfully? This practical guide for students and postdoctoral scholars offers a unique step-by-step appr...
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319,84 |
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Reporting Research: A Biologist's Guide to Articles, Talks, and Posters
ISBN: 9781107640467 / Angielski / Miękka / 347 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Want to learn how to present your research successfully? This practical guide for students and postdoctoral scholars offers a unique step-by-step approach to help you avoid the worst, yet most common, mistakes in biology communication. Covering irritants such as sins of ambiguity, circumlocution, inconsistency, vagueness and verbosity, misuse of words and quantitative matters, it also provides guidance to design your next piece of work effectively. Learn how to write scientific articles and get them published, prepare posters and talks that will capture your audience and develop a critical...
Want to learn how to present your research successfully? This practical guide for students and postdoctoral scholars offers a unique step-by-step appr...
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158,75 |
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Eloquence: Public Speaking Skills for Lawyers and Other Professionals
ISBN: 9780993779800 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rohan Bansie has combined his love of teaching with his love of psychology in this public speaking guide for professionals. The necessary skills and their development are informed by personality theory, specifically introversion and extroversion. As a busy professional, you will find this guide useful whether you identify as an introvert or extrovert. Bookmark pages, make notes in the margins, and highlight passages for quick reference before public speaking engagements or meetings with clients. "Studying lawyers are given plenty of opportunity to improve their writing skills, and there are...
Rohan Bansie has combined his love of teaching with his love of psychology in this public speaking guide for professionals. The necessary skills and t...
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57,17 |
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Language Use in the Public Sphere: Methodological Perspectives and Empirical Applications
ISBN: 9783034312868 / Angielski / Miękka / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book comprises a range of general discussions on tradition and innovation in the methodology used in discourse studies (Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Argumentation Theory, Rhetoric, Philosophy) and a number of empirical applications of such methodologies in the analysis of actual instances of language use in the public sphere - in particular, discourses arising in the context of the debate on the presence of religious symbols in public places.
This book comprises a range of general discussions on tradition and innovation in the methodology used in discourse studies (Pragmatics, Discourse Ana...
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549,80 |
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Three Arabic Treatises on Aristotle's Rhetoric: The Commentaries of Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes
ISBN: 9780809334131 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is increasingly well documented that western rhetoric s journey from pagan Athens to the medieval academies of Christian Europe was significantly influenced by the intellectual thought of the Muslim Near East. Lahcen Elyazghi Ezzaher contributes to the contemporary chronicling of this influence in "Three Arabic Treatises on Aristotle s "Rhetoric" The Commentaries of al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes," offering English translations of three landmark medieval Arabic commentaries on Aristotle's famous rhetorical treatise together in one volume for the first time. Elegant and practical,... It is increasingly well documented that western rhetoric s journey from pagan Athens to the medieval academies of Christian Europe was significantl... |
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170,37 |
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Searching for the Patient's Presence in Medical Case Reports
ISBN: 9783631652114 / Angielski / Twarda / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book addresses the issue of the patient s presence in specialist medical publications in the context of a patient-centered approach to medical practice. The author combines both quantitative and qualitative approaches in order to analyze the discourse about the patient in one of the oldest medical genres, case reports. She traces textual references to patients throughout the reports to show that their nature and frequency depend both on the structure of the genre and the context of the production of these texts. The author touches upon the topical issue that although specialist...
The book addresses the issue of the patient s presence in specialist medical publications in the context of a patient-centered approach to medical pra...
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325,90 |
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The Art of Positive Communication: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9781433121005 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How we communicate with each other matters greatly. Our identity, our friendships and marriages, our families, and our culture are the product of how we speak to one another. Our words affect our hopes and dreams, as well as those of our children. We insult, complain, or criticize. We compliment, offer support, and inspire. These are choices that take place in the crevices of our most private and public conversations with others.
This book bridges communication theory and practice to foreground an important message: positive communication matters. By examining closely how people talk to... How we communicate with each other matters greatly. Our identity, our friendships and marriages, our families, and our culture are the product of how ...
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791,63 |
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The Art of Positive Communication: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9781433120992 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How we communicate with each other matters greatly. Our identity, our friendships and marriages, our families, and our culture are the product of how we speak to one another. Our words affect our hopes and dreams, as well as those of our children. We insult, complain, or criticize. We compliment, offer support, and inspire. These are choices that take place in the crevices of our most private and public conversations with others.
This book bridges communication theory and practice to foreground an important message: positive communication matters. By examining closely how people talk to... How we communicate with each other matters greatly. Our identity, our friendships and marriages, our families, and our culture are the product of how ...
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212,78 |
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Current Trends in Lsp Research: Aims and Methods
ISBN: 9783034310543 / Angielski / Miękka / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume offers an overview of new perspectives and ongoing developments in research on Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) and specialised discourse. Traditionally investigated on the basis of terminology and genre studies, the area now also draws on such diverse fields as sociolinguistics, sociology, psychology and communication studies. This widening range of perspectives increases the need for insights into and knowledge about current developments in research on LSP and specialised discourse.
The chapters included here have been selected to address this need. Based on papers... This volume offers an overview of new perspectives and ongoing developments in research on Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) and specialised discou...
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451,23 |
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An Asperger's Guide to Public Speaking: How to Excel at Public Speaking for Professionals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
ISBN: 9781849055161 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This practical guide to effective public speaking for professionals with Asperger Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) provides tailored advice on using your Asperger strengths to your advantage and overcoming areas of challenge to find your public speaking voice. Written by a business leader with Asperger Syndrome, it includes guidance and hands-on tools for preparation, research and delivery of successful speeches and presentations. It addresses all the key areas that can cause particular difficulty for people with Asperger Syndrome such as coping with anxiety, interpreting the facial...
This practical guide to effective public speaking for professionals with Asperger Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) provides tailored advice on usin...
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143,42 |
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A Corpus-Based Study of Nominalization in Translations of Chinese Literary Prose: Three Versions of Dream of the Red Chamber
ISBN: 9783034318150 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This corpus-based study investigates the use of nominalization in English translations of Chinese literary prose through the analysis of three English versions of the Chinese novel Hong Lou Meng (Dream of the Red Chamber).
Previous studies have explored the relevance of the cultural and linguistic positioning of different translators, but thus far no corpus-based study of nominalization has been undertaken in relation to translator style. This book uses quantitative and qualitative analyses of the nominalized transform of finite verbal forms in three Chinese-to-English... This corpus-based study investigates the use of nominalization in English translations of Chinese literary prose through the analysis of three English...
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291,04 |
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Speaker Involvement in Political Interviews
ISBN: 9783631656426 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a pragma-semantic analysis of linguistic means expressing speaker involvement in the genre of political interview. The research is based on an analysis of 40 interviews with British and American politicians. The aim of this work is to confirm or reject the claim that the genre of political interview is detached and impersonal as is typical of any other type of formal interaction. The study also investigates whether female politicians are more indeterminate in their expression than male politicians, and whether the expression of males is matter-of-fact and more precise. The...
This book offers a pragma-semantic analysis of linguistic means expressing speaker involvement in the genre of political interview. The research is ba...
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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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258,25 |
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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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291,04 |
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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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177,38 |
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Long Story Short: The Only Storytelling Guide You'll Ever Need
ISBN: 9781632170279 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a practical storytelling guide from comedian, winner of multiple Moth storytelling competitions, and founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade storytelling program, Margot Leitman. Did you ever wish you could tell a story that leaves others spellbound? Storytelling teacher and champion Margot Leitman will show you how With a fun, irreverent, and infographic approach, this guide breaks a story into concrete components with ways to improve content, structure, emotional impact, and delivery through personal anecdotes, relatable examples, and practical exercises.
This is a practical storytelling guide from comedian, winner of multiple Moth storytelling competitions, and founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade s...
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76,04 |
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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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791,63 |
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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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347,46 |
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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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463,42 |