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Advances in Natural Multimodal Dialogue Systems (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): Jan Van Kuppevelt, Laila Dybkjaer, Niels Ole Bernsen Advances in Natural Multimodal Dialogue Systems (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
Jan Van Kuppevelt, Laila Dybkjaer, Niels Ole Bernsen
R3,099 Discovery Miles 30 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The main topic of this volume is natural multimodal interaction. The book isunique in that it brings together a great many contributions regarding aspectsof natural and multimodal interaction written by many of the important actorsin the field. It is a timely update of Multimodality in Language and SpeechSystems by Bjorn Granstrom, David House and Inger Karlsson and, at the sametime, it presents a much broader overview of the field. Its 17 chaptersprovide a broad and detailed impression of where the fairly new field ofnatural and multimodal interactivity engineering stands today. Topicsaddressed include talking heads, conversational agents, tutoring systems, multimodal communication, machine learning, architectures for multimodaldialogue systems, systems evaluation, and data annotation."

Research in Technical Communication - A Bibliographic Sourcebook (Hardcover): Debra Journet, Michael G Moran Research in Technical Communication - A Bibliographic Sourcebook (Hardcover)
Debra Journet, Michael G Moran
R2,531 Discovery Miles 25 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This sourcebook demonstrates the vigorous work being done in the field of technical and scientific communication. Collectively, the essays offer researchers a basis from which to begin constructing the theoretical framework necessary for the study of technical communication. The book begins with general concerns and progresses to particular applications. The chapters comprising Part I outline larger theoretical perspectives from which to examine techical communication: humanistic approaches to technical communication, the history of technical communication, communication theory and technical writing, and the teaching of technical writing. Part II examines the relationship of technical communication to traditional rhetorical concerns such as invention, audience, modes of organization, and style. Specific types of technical communication--proposals, reports, and business correspondence, among others--are discussed in Part III. The use of the computer, oral presentations, and specialized forms of technical communication are examined in Part IV. The appendixes offer guides to textbooks and style manuals and an overview of the technical writing profession.

Small Group Research - Implications for Peace Psychology and Conflict Resolution (Hardcover, 2011): Herbert Blumberg, M.Valerie... Small Group Research - Implications for Peace Psychology and Conflict Resolution (Hardcover, 2011)
Herbert Blumberg, M.Valerie Kent, A.Paul Hare, Martin F. Davies
R2,927 Discovery Miles 29 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Small group research is of particularly wide interest to people working in a fairly broad variety of areas concerned with understanding conflict, especially for practitioners and researchers concerned with conflict resolution, peace, and related areas.

The editors will focus on six main topical areas of small group research, which include:

- Cooperation, competition, and conflict resolution
- Coalitions, bargaining, and games
- Group dynamics and social cognition
- The group and organization
- Team performance
- Intergroup relations

Emotional Literacy in Criminal Justice - Professional Practice with Offenders (Hardcover): C Knight Emotional Literacy in Criminal Justice - Professional Practice with Offenders (Hardcover)
C Knight
R2,955 R1,991 Discovery Miles 19 910 Save R964 (33%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Emotions remain largely invisible in the management of criminal justice practice. This book seeks to uncover some of the underground emotional work of practitioners and make visible the impact of both positive and negative emotions, which play a crucial role in practitioner-offender relationships. Exploring how practitioners understand, regulate and work with emotion, Knight argues that the 'soft skills' of emotion are more likely to achieve motivation and change in offenders than the 'hard' skills of punishment, monitoring and surveillance. The book examines some of the gendered implications of this practice and develops an argument for the explicit building of emotional resources within organizations to sustain the development, enhancement and support of emotional literacy in the workforce. Using practice examples, Knight reveals how practitioners can benefit from having an understanding of their own emotions and how these can impact on their practice. This unique and accessible book will be a valuable resource to practitioners across the criminal justice sector including probation officers, youth justice workers, police and prison officers, social workers, policymakers and managers, as well as scholars working within criminology, criminal justice and probation.

Studies in Symbolic Interaction (Hardcover): Norman K Denzin Studies in Symbolic Interaction (Hardcover)
Norman K Denzin
R3,756 Discovery Miles 37 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Studies in Symbolic Interaction (SSI) is an ISI listed serial that locates current symbolic interactionist thought and provides contemporary readings of social situations. The papers are longer than the average journal article allowing more scope for expansion and development. To reflect the wide range of perspectives in symbolic interactionism, SSI draws on many interpretative resources including: Post-structuralism Reconstructivism Performativity Critical race theory Feminist theory Posthumanism Materials theory Post-colonialism Affective theories Queer theory

The Language of Advertising: Major Themes in English Studies (Hardcover): Guy Cook The Language of Advertising: Major Themes in English Studies (Hardcover)
Guy Cook
R34,857 Discovery Miles 348 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Advertising is one of the most prominent, powerful, and ubiquitous contemporary uses of language. Its seductive and controversial quality has attracted consistent and intense attention across a range of academic disciplines including linguistics, media studies, politics, semiotics, and sociology. The reasons for this academic interest are far from superficial. The study of advertising brings together many of the key social and political issues of our time: the new capitalism; globalization; overconsumption and the environment; cultural and individual identities; and the communications revolution. It provides insight into the ideologies and values of contemporary societies. Advertising's creative use of language makes it a particularly rich site for language and discourse analysis. Operating in all media and exploiting the interaction between word, sound, and image, it provides a key location for studies of multimodal communication. Simultaneously poetic and commercial, it raises questions about the nature of creativity and art. Ever since the intensification of advertising in the 1950s, leading scholars have analysed its use of language. This new four-volume Routledge Major Work brings together for the first time the most seminal and controversial works, allowing users to obtain a wide and inclusive view of this rewarding topic. It will be welcomed by scholars and other researchers in the field as an invaluable 'mini library' on the language of advertising.

The 2016 American Presidential Campaign and the News - Implications for American Democracy and the Republic (Hardcover): Jim A.... The 2016 American Presidential Campaign and the News - Implications for American Democracy and the Republic (Hardcover)
Jim A. Kuypers; Contributions by Abe Aamidor, Stephen D Cooper, Katherine Haenschen, Mike Horning, …
R2,672 Discovery Miles 26 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines perhaps the most contentious election in modern US history-the 2016 United States presidential election. It is unique in its discussion of a wide range of issues affecting the news media coverage of the election, coming from an equally diverse range of intellectual perspectives including the rhetorical, social-scientific, communication studies, and media studies. With eleven chapters grounded in hard evidence and communication theory, The 2016 American Presidential Campaign and the News: Implications for American Democracy and the Republic examines significant topics such as fake news, media construction of Hillary Clinton's and Donald Trump's campaign personalities, media bias, visual meme depictions of the candidates, identity politics in the news, Trump's Twitter use, entertainment news, and social media as news. These chapters individually and collectively provide a direct commentary on the implications of the 2016 campaign news coverage for the future of the American Republic and political communication in the media.

The Art of Analyzing People - Learn How to Analyze People Through Gestures and Body Language (Hardcover): Amanda M Myers The Art of Analyzing People - Learn How to Analyze People Through Gestures and Body Language (Hardcover)
Amanda M Myers
R488 R455 Discovery Miles 4 550 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Any Questions? - Identity Construction in Academic Conference Discussions (Hardcover, New): Carmen Konzett Any Questions? - Identity Construction in Academic Conference Discussions (Hardcover, New)
Carmen Konzett
R3,879 Discovery Miles 38 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores how academics at conferences co-construct their own and each other's professional identities. It is based on the detailed sequential analysis of audio recordings of conference discussions in the field of the humanities, the working languages being French and English. The analyses show that the delegates who actively participate in these interactions, whether as presenters, chairpersons or as members of the audience, carry out a considerable amount of identity work, attributing self and other to various categories of professional identity. The discussion participants co-construct themselves and each other discursively as academics, professionals, experts, junior or senior members of the scientific community; they also orient to this identity work as an important task to be achieved at conferences. This study provides detailed insights into the fine-grained mechanics of spoken academic discourse. From the perspective of applied research it serves the double purpose of raising experienced researchers' awareness of their own routines and introducing novices to the discourse practices of academia.

Political Communications - The General Election Campaign of 2005 (Hardcover): D. Wring, J. Green, R. Mortimore, S. Atkinson Political Communications - The General Election Campaign of 2005 (Hardcover)
D. Wring, J. Green, R. Mortimore, S. Atkinson
R2,887 Discovery Miles 28 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Political Communications" offer a unique insight into the 2005 British General Election from the perspectives of those responsible for organizing, reporting, and understanding the campaign. It contains definitive accounts of what happened from those most intimately involved in preparing the main party strategies as well as leading academic, media and polling experts.

How To Talk: Siblings Without Rivalry (Paperback): Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish How To Talk: Siblings Without Rivalry (Paperback)
Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
R380 R344 Discovery Miles 3 440 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Do your children argue some of or most of the time? Do you struggle as a parent to manage conflict between them? Then you are not alone - and parenting experts are here to help. Part of the internationally bestselling How to Talk... parenting series, this use -friendly guide is filled with tested and practical guidelines for how to cope with - and deflect - sibling rivalry. Whether your children are struggling with unhealthy competition, or with jealousy and resentment, or you are unsure of how to help as a parent, this accessible book is filled with top tips, relatable stories and forward-thinking techniques designed to transform how your children interact with one another.

Multimodality in Language and Speech Systems (Hardcover, 2002 ed.): Bjoern Granstroem, D. House, I. Karlsson Multimodality in Language and Speech Systems (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
Bjoern Granstroem, D. House, I. Karlsson
R3,020 Discovery Miles 30 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is based on contributions to the Seventh European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication that was held at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden, in July of 1999 under the auspices of the European Language and Speech Network (ELSNET). The topic of the summer school was "Multimodality in Language and Speech Systems" (MiLaSS). The issue of multimodality in interpersonal, face-to-face communication has been an important research topic for a number of years. With the increasing sophistication of computer-based interactive systems using language and speech, the topic of multimodal interaction has received renewed interest both in terms of human-human interaction and human-machine interaction. Nine lecturers contri buted to the summer school with courses on specialized topics ranging from the technology and science of creating talking faces to human-human communication, which is mediated by computer for the handicapped. Eight of the nine lecturers are represented in this book. The summer school attracted more than 60 participants from Europe, Asia and North America representing not only graduate students but also senior researchers from both academia and industry."

Families, Physicians, and Children with Special Health Needs - Collaborative Medical Education Models (Hardcover): Rosalyn B.... Families, Physicians, and Children with Special Health Needs - Collaborative Medical Education Models (Hardcover)
Rosalyn B. Darling, Margo Peter
R2,773 Discovery Miles 27 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Families of children with special health needs frequently cite difficulties in their communications with physicians and other medical professionals. Indeed, parents of high-risk, chronically ill, and disabled infants often regard interactions with health care providers as one of the most stressful parts of their early experiences with their children.

This volume was designed to present a variety of medical education approaches used to overcome this problem. After providing an overview of some of the difficulties faced by physicians and families of children with special health needs in their interactions with one another, the volume examines a number of useful medical education models. The models and viewpoints presented include those of physicians, early intervention professionals, professionals with backgrounds in education, psychology, and sociology, and parents. This volume is invaluable to those involved in designing and evaluating medical education approaches, and those developing public policy for children and the family.

Reproductive Justice and Women's Voices - Health Communication across the Lifespan (Hardcover): Beth L. Sundstrom Reproductive Justice and Women's Voices - Health Communication across the Lifespan (Hardcover)
Beth L. Sundstrom
R2,599 Discovery Miles 25 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Reproductive rights are human rights. Reproductive Justice and Women's Voices: Health Communication across the Lifespan offers an in-depth analysis of women's reproductive health in a transformative, sociopolitical moment that is redefining women's access to health care; reducing disparities in maternal and child health is a critical public health goal for the United States. Sundstrom contributes to patient-centered public health by analyzing women's reproductive health across the lifespan. Four critical body episodes: contraceptive use dynamics, pregnancy, childbirth, and the post-partum period explicate women's understandings of control and embodiment in the context of technology. Women's meaning making of each body episode is interrogated in three areas: (1) the physiological experience of reproductive health, (2) perceptions of medicine and the biomedical model, and (3) opinions of mediated messages about reproduction, including new media. Through stories and silence, the women interviewed in this book demand accurate information, including the risks and benefits of health care, and access to reproductive services and technologies. The analysis disrupts the nature/technology dualism and reconceptualizes health outside of the normative processes of menstruation, pregnancy, and childbirth. By talking with women, this study privileges women's decision-making about reproductive health and offers insight for how women's partners, families, and health care providers can support them in this process.

The City in Cultural Context (Hardcover, New Ed): John Agnew, John Mercer, David Sopher The City in Cultural Context (Hardcover, New Ed)
John Agnew, John Mercer, David Sopher
R6,731 Discovery Miles 67 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Routledge Library Editions: The City reprints some of the most important works in urban studies published in the last century. For further information on this collection please email [email protected].

The Peckham Experiment - A study of the living structure of society (Hardcover, New Ed): Innes H. Pearse, Lucy H. Crocker The Peckham Experiment - A study of the living structure of society (Hardcover, New Ed)
Innes H. Pearse, Lucy H. Crocker
R6,147 Discovery Miles 61 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Peckham Experiment was first published in 1943.

City, Region and Regionalism - A geographical contribution to human ecology (Hardcover): Robert E Dickinson City, Region and Regionalism - A geographical contribution to human ecology (Hardcover)
Robert E Dickinson
R6,748 Discovery Miles 67 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

City, Region and Regionalism was first published in 1947.

Racial Exclusionism and the City - The Urban Support of the National Front (Hardcover, New Ed): Christopher T. Husbands Racial Exclusionism and the City - The Urban Support of the National Front (Hardcover, New Ed)
Christopher T. Husbands
R6,727 Discovery Miles 67 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1983, this book reports on the results of a survey in thirteen areas of England where the National Front (NF) had previously gained significant levels of electoral support and examines the social and political histories of these areas to reveal not only who and was voting for the NF in the 1970s but also why.

The Government and Misgovernment of London (Hardcover, New Ed): William A. Robson The Government and Misgovernment of London (Hardcover, New Ed)
William A. Robson
R2,062 Discovery Miles 20 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Government and Misgovernment of London was first published in 1939.

Behaviour and Evolution (Hardcover): Jean Piaget Behaviour and Evolution (Hardcover)
Jean Piaget
R5,825 Discovery Miles 58 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book was first published in 1979.

Child's Conception of Movement and Speed (Hardcover, New edition): Jean Piaget Child's Conception of Movement and Speed (Hardcover, New edition)
Jean Piaget
R3,892 Discovery Miles 38 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book was first published in 1970.

Different but Equal - Communication Between the Sexes (Hardcover): Kay Payne Different but Equal - Communication Between the Sexes (Hardcover)
Kay Payne
R3,574 Discovery Miles 35 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study presents a theoretical and practical discussion of the changes that have occurred between men and women and how the sexes relate to one another from social, political, and ethical perspectives. Not only do men and women reflect different gender roles through communication, but they are also impacted by communication about gender, especially from the media. Gender differences in communication have gained political importance due to the increasingly relevant issues of sexual harassment and political correctness. These social and political changes have influenced our value systems and have given the study of gendered communication an ethical importance. Payne argues that religious ideology is an important aspect of gendered development and that biological, psychological, social, and cultural phenomena also affect sex roles.

This volume will appeal to scholars and students in the communications disciplines as well as psychologists and sociologists. Organized around three major themes--the construction of the gendered self, the differences between men and women as they relate to one another through language, power, and nonverbal communication, and the effects of gendered communication in leadership and the media--this work covers much ground on the topic of communication between the sexes.

Communicate! How You Say It (Paperback): Dona Herweck Rice Communicate! How You Say It (Paperback)
Dona Herweck Rice
R210 R193 Discovery Miles 1 930 Save R17 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Knowing what to say in certain situations is important. But how we say things is important, too. This book introduces young learners to the concept of communication. Engage students in reading as they develop their comprehension and literacy skills and learn basic concepts. Featuring exciting TIME For Kids content, this full-color book will keep students reading from cover to cover. Aligned to state and national standards, this text introduces students to simple informational text features including a glossary, vocabulary list, and bold font.

Communication Technology and Social Change - Theory and Implications (Hardcover): Carolyn A. Lin, David J. Atkin Communication Technology and Social Change - Theory and Implications (Hardcover)
Carolyn A. Lin, David J. Atkin
R4,497 Discovery Miles 44 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Communication Technology and Social Change is a distinctive collection that provides current theoretical, empirical, and legal analyses for a broader understanding of the dynamic influences of communication technology on social change. With a distinguished panel of contributors, the volume presents a systematic discussion of the role communication technology plays in shaping social, political, and economic influences in society within specific domains and settings. Its integrated focus expands and complements the scope of existing literature on this subject. Each chapter is organized around a specific structure, covering: *Background-offering an introduction of relevant communication technology that outlines its technical capabilities, diffusion, and uses; *Theory-featuring a discussion of relevant theories used to study the social impacts of the communication technology in question; *Empirical Findings-providing an analysis of recent academic and relevant practical work that explains the impact of the communication technology on social change; and *Social Change Implications-proposing a summary of the real world implications for social change that stems from synthesizing the relevant theories and empirical findings presented throughout the book. Communication Technology and Social Change will serve scholars, researchers, upper-division undergraduate students, and graduate students examining the relationship between communication and technology and its implications for society.

The Watchful Eye - American Justice in the Age of the Television Trial (Hardcover, New): Paul Thaler The Watchful Eye - American Justice in the Age of the Television Trial (Hardcover, New)
Paul Thaler
R2,791 Discovery Miles 27 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

According to Thaler, the presence of cameras in the courtroom is a pervasive technology that can affect public perceptions of the judicial process, change the behavior and attitudes of trial participants, and ultimately transform the sober process of justice into a media event designed for maximum public exposure. The author has interviewed more than 50 people--prominent journalists, academics, and members of the legal system--and brought together their observations in a fascinating historical and psychological profile of the televised courtroom. Thaler provides a historical overview and theoretical perspective, and discusses the new cable courtroom network and the current and continuing camera debate in New York City. He makes reference to the recent celebrated cases involving Amy Fisher, William Kennedy Smith, and Rodney King, then turns to an in-depth case study of the Joel Steinberg murder trial, including insights from the presiding judge, trial attorneys, witnesses, jurors, and the defendant himself, as well as journalists who covered the trial. The author concludes that the process of justice is slowly being turned into an entertainment vehicle, not unlike the show trials of bygone eras.

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