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Post-Narratology Through Computational and Cognitive Approaches (Hardcover): Takashi Ogata, Taisuke Akimoto Post-Narratology Through Computational and Cognitive Approaches (Hardcover)
Takashi Ogata, Taisuke Akimoto
R6,043 Discovery Miles 60 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Studying narratives is an ideal method to gain a good understanding of how various aspects of human information are organized and integrated. The concept and methods of a narrative, which have been explored in narratology and literary theories, are likely to be connected with contemporary information studies in the future, including those in computational fields such as AI, and in cognitive science. This will result in the emergence of a significant conceptual and methodological foundation for various technologies of novel contents, media, human interface, etc. Post-Narratology Through Computational and Cognitive Approaches explores the new possibilities and directions of narrative-related technologies and theories and their implications on the innovative design, development, and creation of future media and contents (such as automatic narrative or story generation systems) through interdisciplinary approaches to narratology that are dependent on computational and cognitive studies. While highlighting topics including artificial intelligence, narrative analysis, and rhetoric generation, this book is ideally designed for designers, creators, developers, researchers, and advanced-level students.

Celebrating Indigenous Voice - Legends and Narratives in Languages of the Tropics and Beyond (Hardcover): Alexandra Y.... Celebrating Indigenous Voice - Legends and Narratives in Languages of the Tropics and Beyond (Hardcover)
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert L Bradshaw, Luca Ciucci, Pema Wangdi
R3,896 Discovery Miles 38 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Every society thrives on stories, legends and myths. This volume explores the linguistic devices employed in the astoundingly rich narrative traditions in the tropical hot-spots of linguistic and cultural diversity, and the ways in which cultural changes and new means of communication affect narrative genres and structures. It focusses on linguistic and cultural facets of the narratives in the areas of linguistic diversity across the tropics and surrounding areas - New Guinea, Northern Australia, Siberia, and also the Tibeto-Burman region. The introduction brings together the recurrent themes in the grammar and the substance of the narratives. The twelve contributions to the volume address grammatical forms and categories deployed in organizing the narrative and interweaving the protagonists and the narrator. These include quotations, person of the narrator and the protagonist, mirativity, demonstratives, and clause chaining. The contributors also address the kinds of narratives told, their organization and evolution in time and space, under the impact of post-colonial experience and new means of communication via social media. The volume highlights the importance of documenting narrative tradition across indigenous languages.

Second Language Acquisition in Action - Principles from Practice (Hardcover): Andrea Nava, Luciana Pedrazzini Second Language Acquisition in Action - Principles from Practice (Hardcover)
Andrea Nava, Luciana Pedrazzini
R3,552 Discovery Miles 35 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Despite the key role played by second language acquisition (SLA) courses in linguistics, teacher education and language teaching degrees, participants often struggle to bridge the gap between SLA theories and their many applications in the classroom. In order to overcome the 'transfer' problem from theory to practice, Andrea Nava and Luciana Pedrazzini present SLA principles through the actions and words of teachers and learners. Second Language Acquisition in Action identifies eight important SLA principles and involves readers in an 'experiential' approach which enables them to explore these principles 'in action'. Each chapter is structured around three stages: experience and reflection; conceptualisation; and restructuring and planning. Discussion questions and tasks represent the core of the book. These help readers in the process of 'experiencing' SLA research and provide them with opportunities to try their hands at different areas of language teachers' professional expertise. Aimed at those on applied linguistics MA courses, TESOL/EFL trainees and in-service teachers, Second Language Acquisition in Action features: * Key Questions at the start of each chapter * Data-based tasks to foster reflection and to help bridge the gap between theory and practice * Audiovisual extracts of lessons on an accompanying website * Further Reading suggestions at the end of each chapter

Writing to Be Understood - What Works and Why (Hardcover): Anne Janzer Writing to Be Understood - What Works and Why (Hardcover)
Anne Janzer
R718 R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Save R79 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Labored - The State(ment) and Future of Work in Composition (Hardcover): Randall McClure, Dayna V Goldstein, Michael A.... Labored - The State(ment) and Future of Work in Composition (Hardcover)
Randall McClure, Dayna V Goldstein, Michael A. Pemberton
R1,742 Discovery Miles 17 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fear, Hate, and Victimhood - How George Wallace Wrote the Donald Trump Playbook (Hardcover): Andrew E. Stoner Fear, Hate, and Victimhood - How George Wallace Wrote the Donald Trump Playbook (Hardcover)
Andrew E. Stoner
R3,186 Discovery Miles 31 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When Donald J. Trump announced his campaign for president in 2015, journalists, historians, and politicians alike attempted to compare his candidacy to that of Governor George C. Wallace. Like Trump, Wallace, who launched four presidential campaigns between 1964 and 1976, utilized rhetoric based in resentment, nationalism, and anger to sway and eventually captivate voters among America's white majority. Though separated by almost half a century, the campaigns of both Wallace and Trump broke new grounds for political partisanship and divisiveness. In Fear, Hate, and Victimhood: How George Wallace Wrote the Donald Trump Playbook, author Andrew E. Stoner conducts a deep analysis of the two candidates, their campaigns, and their speeches and activities, as well as their coverage by the media, through the lens of demagogic rhetoric. Though past work on Wallace argues conventional politics overcame the candidate, Stoner makes the case that Wallace may in fact be a prelude to the more successful Trump campaign. Stoner considers how ideas about "in-group" and "out-group" mentalities operate in politics, how anti-establishment views permeate much of the rhetoric in question, and how expressions of victimhood often paradoxically characterize the language of a leader praised for "telling it like it is." He also examines the role of political spectacle in each candidate's campaigns, exploring how media struggles to respond to-let alone document-demagogic rhetoric. Ultimately, the author suggests that the Trump presidency can be understood as an actualized version of the Wallace presidency that never was. Though vast differences exist, the demagogic positioning of both men provides a framework to dissect these times-and perhaps a valuable warning about what is possible in our highly digitized information society.

Elements of Rhetoric - How to Write and Speak Clearly and Persuasively -- A Guide for Students, Teachers, Politicians &... Elements of Rhetoric - How to Write and Speak Clearly and Persuasively -- A Guide for Students, Teachers, Politicians & Preachers (Hardcover)
Ryan N S Topping
R620 Discovery Miles 6 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cooperative Learning and World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages - A Guide for Effective Practice (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Cooperative Learning and World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages - A Guide for Effective Practice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Ghazi M. Ghaith, Ghada M. Awada
R1,478 Discovery Miles 14 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides curriculum planners, materials developers, and language educators with curricular perspectives and classroom activities in order to address the needs of learners of English as a global lingua franca in an increasingly globalized and interdependent world. The authors argue that language educators would benefit from synthesizing and using research and evidence-based cooperative learning methods and structures to address the current world-readiness standards for learning languages in the five domains of Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities. The book outlines the main cooperative learning principles of heterogenous grouping, positive interdependence, individual accountability, social/collaborative skills, and group processing, then demonstrates their relevance to language teaching and learning. This book will be of interest to students in pre-service teacher education programmes as well as in-service practitioners, teacher trainers and educational administrators.

Events, States and Times - An essay on narrative discourse in English (Hardcover): Daniel Altshuler Events, States and Times - An essay on narrative discourse in English (Hardcover)
Daniel Altshuler
R2,833 Discovery Miles 28 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This monograph investigates the temporal interpretation of narrative discourse in two parts. The theme of the first part is narrative progression. It begins with a case study of the adverb 'now' and its interaction with the meaning of tense. The case study motivates an ontological distinction between events, states and times and proposes that 'now' seeks a prominent state that holds throughout the time described by the tense. Building on prior research, prominence is shown to be influenced by principles of discourse coherence and two coherence principles, NARRATION and RESULT, are given a formally explicit characterization. The key innovation is a new method for testing the definitional adequacy of NARRATION and RESULT, namely by an abductive argument. This contribution opens a new way of thinking about how eventive and stative descriptions contribute to the perceived narrative progression in a discourse. The theme of the second part of the monograph is the semantics and pragmatics of tense. A key innovation is that the present and past tenses are treated as scalar alternatives, a view that is motivated by adopting a particular hypothesis concerning stative predication. The proposed analysis accounts for tense in both matrix clauses and in complements of propositional attitudes, where the notorious double access reading arises. This reading is explored as part of a corpus study that provides a glimpse of how tense semantics interacts with Gricean principles and at-issueness. Several cross-linguistic predictions of the analysis are considered, including their consequences for the Sequence of Tense phenomenon and the Upper Limit Constraint. Finally, a hypothesis is provided about how tense meanings compose with temporal adverbs and verb phrases. Two influential analysis of viewpoint aspect are then compared in light of the hypothesis. The monograph is directed at graduate students and researchers in semantics, pragmatics and philosophy of language. The analysis of narrative discourse that is developed in the monograph synthesizes and builds on prior collaborative research with Corien Bary, Valentine Hacquard, Thomas Roberts, Roger Schwarzschild, Una Stojnic, Karoly Varasdi and Aaron White. Daniel Altshuler is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College and an Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Evaluating Second Language Courses (Hardcover): Dale Griffee, Greta Gorsuch Evaluating Second Language Courses (Hardcover)
Dale Griffee, Greta Gorsuch
R3,025 Discovery Miles 30 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Typically, books on evaluation in the second and foreign language field deal with large programs and often result from large?scale studies done by the authors. The challenge for ordinary second and foreign language classroom teachers is that they must extrapolate techniques or strategies for evaluation from a very large scale to a much smaller scale, that of the course. At the same time, classroom teachers are responsible for outcomes of their courses and need to do evaluation on a scale and for needs of their choosing. Evaluating Second Language Courses is designed for classroom teachers who are dealing with a single course, and who wish to understand and improve some aspect of their course.

Discourse, Identity, and Social Change in the Marriage Equality Debates (Hardcover): Karen Tracy Discourse, Identity, and Social Change in the Marriage Equality Debates (Hardcover)
Karen Tracy
R2,625 Discovery Miles 26 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Karen Tracy examines the identity-work of judges and attorneys in state supreme courts as they debated the legality of existing marriage laws. Exchanges in state appellate courts are juxtaposed with the talk that occurred between citizens and elected officials in legislative hearings considering whether to revise state marriage laws. The book's analysis spans ten years, beginning with the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of sodomy laws in 2003 and ending in 2013 when the U.S. Supreme Court declared the federal government's Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional, and it particularly focuses on how social change was accomplished through and reflected in these law-making and law-interpreting discourses. Focal materials are the eight cases about same-sex marriage and civil unions that were argued in state supreme courts between 2005 and 2009, and six of a larger number of hearings that occurred in state judicial committees considering bills regarding who should be able to marry. Tracy concludes with analysis of the 2011 Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on DOMA, comparing it to the initial 1996 hearing and to the 2013 Supreme Court oral argument about it. The book shows that social change occurred as the public discourse that treated sexual orientation as a "lifestyle " was replaced with a public discourse of gays and lesbians as a legitimate category of citizen.

Concise Encyclopedia of Brain and Language (Paperback): Harry A. Whitaker Concise Encyclopedia of Brain and Language (Paperback)
Harry A. Whitaker
R3,970 R3,701 Discovery Miles 37 010 Save R269 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume descibes, in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, the field of neurolinguistics, the science concerned with the neural mechanisms underlying the comprehension, production and abstract knowledge of spoken, signed or written language. An edited anthology of 165 articles from the award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd edition, Encyclopedia of Neuroscience 4th Edition and Encyclopedia of the Neorological Sciences and Neurological Disorders, it provides the most comprehensive one-volume reference solution for scientists working with language and the brain ever published.

Stigma Stories - Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness (Hardcover): Molly Margaret Kessler Stigma Stories - Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness (Hardcover)
Molly Margaret Kessler
R4,288 Discovery Miles 42 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Narrative Sequence in Contemporary Narratology (Hardcover): Raphael Baroni, Francoise Revaz Narrative Sequence in Contemporary Narratology (Hardcover)
Raphael Baroni, Francoise Revaz
R3,009 Discovery Miles 30 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Untimely Women - Radically Recasting Feminist Rhetorical History (Hardcover): Jason Barrett-Fox Untimely Women - Radically Recasting Feminist Rhetorical History (Hardcover)
Jason Barrett-Fox
R3,590 Discovery Miles 35 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Remaking Kichwa - Language and Indigenous Pluralism in Amazonian Ecuador (Hardcover): Michael Wroblewski Remaking Kichwa - Language and Indigenous Pluralism in Amazonian Ecuador (Hardcover)
Michael Wroblewski
R3,377 Discovery Miles 33 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Investigating the efforts of the Kichwa of Tena, Ecuador to reverse language shift to Spanish, this book examines the ways in which indigenous language can be revitalized and how creative bilingual forms of discourse can reshape the identities and futures of local populations. Based on deep ethnographic fieldwork among urban, periurban, and rural indigenous Kichwa communities, Michael Wroblewski explores adaptations to culture contact, language revitalization, and political mobilization through discourse. Expanding the ethnographic picture of native Amazonians and their traditional discourse practices, this book focuses attention on Kichwas' diverse engagements with rural and urban ways of living, local and global ways of speaking, and indigenous and dominant intellectual traditions. Wroblewski reveals the composite nature of indigenous words and worlds through conversational interviews, oral history narratives, political speechmaking, and urban performance media, showing how discourse is a critical focal point for studying cultural adaptation. Highlighting how Kichwas assert autonomy through creative forms of self-representation, Remaking Kichwa moves the study of indigenous language into the globalized era and offers innovative reconsiderations of indigeneity, discourse, and identity.

Spoken Discourse (Hardcover): Rodney Jones Spoken Discourse (Hardcover)
Rodney Jones
R5,266 Discovery Miles 52 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides an overview of current theories of and methods for analysing spoken discourse. It includes discussions of both the more traditional approaches of pragmatics, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and critical discourse analysis, and more recently developed approaches such as multimodal discourse analysis and critical sociolinguistics. Rather than treating these perspectives as mutually exclusive, the book introduces a framework based on principles from mediated discourse analysis in which different approaches to spoken discourse are seen as complementing and informing one another. In this framework, spoken discourse is seen as mediated through a complex collection of technological, semiotic and cultural tools which enable and constrain people's ability to engage in different kinds of social actions, enact different kinds of social identities and form different kinds of social relationships. A major focus of the volume is on the way technological tools like telephones, broadcast media, digital technologies are changing the way people communicate with spoken language. The book is suitable for use as a textbook in advanced courses in discourse analysis and language in social interaction, and will also be of interest to scholars in a variety of fields including linguistics, sociology, media studies and anthropology.

Reed's Homophones - A Comprehensive Book of Sound-alike Words (Hardcover, 4th Fourth Edition, Revised & Expanded ed.): A D... Reed's Homophones - A Comprehensive Book of Sound-alike Words (Hardcover, 4th Fourth Edition, Revised & Expanded ed.)
A D Reed
R581 Discovery Miles 5 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Applying Linguistics in Health Research, Education, and Policy - Bench to Bedside and Back Again (Hardcover): Brett A. Diaz,... Applying Linguistics in Health Research, Education, and Policy - Bench to Bedside and Back Again (Hardcover)
Brett A. Diaz, Robert W. Schrauf
R3,898 Discovery Miles 38 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Researchers in applied linguistics have found medical and health contexts to be fertile grounds for study, from macro-levels of conceptual analyses to micro-levels of the "turn-by-turn." The rich array of health contexts include medical research itself, clinical encounters, medical education and training, caregivers and patients in everyday life - from the formal and ritualized to the ad hoc and ephemeral. This volume foregrounds the crucial role of applied linguists addressing real world problems, while simultaneously highlighting the varied ways that health can be understood as a rich site of language inquiry in its own right. Chapters cover a range of health topics including medical training, medical interaction, disability in education, health policy analysis and recommendations, multidisciplinary research teams, and medical ethics. While reporting and reflecting on their specific topics in clinical and health contexts, contributors also articulate their own hybrid identities as professional collaborators in health research, education, and policy.

Put The Kettle On - An American's Guide to British Slang, Telly and Tea (Hardcover): Trish Taylor Put The Kettle On - An American's Guide to British Slang, Telly and Tea (Hardcover)
Trish Taylor
R549 R509 Discovery Miles 5 090 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Communication Centers - A Theory-Based Guide to Training and Management (Hardcover): Kathleen J. Turner, Theodore F Sheckels Communication Centers - A Theory-Based Guide to Training and Management (Hardcover)
Kathleen J. Turner, Theodore F Sheckels; Contributions by Kyle Anne Barnett Love, Marlene M Preston, Linda Bartlett Hobgood
R2,669 Discovery Miles 26 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Communication Centers: A Theory-Based Guide to Training and Management offers advice based on extant research and best practices to both faculty who are asked to develop a communication center and for directors of established centers. Broken into easily understood parts, Turner and Sheckels begin with the development of communication centers, offering guidance on the history of centers, how to start a center, and, in a contribution by Kyle Love, creative approaches to marketing. They provide a communication perspective on selecting and training tutors, and then address how to train the tutors in their tasks of helping students with invention, disposition, style, memory, and delivery as well as presentation aids, including consideration of special situations and diverse populations. The authors explore ways to broaden the vision for communication centers, and conclude with chapters on techniques for assessment by Marlene Preston and on the rich rhetorical roots of communication centers by Linda Hobgood. The volume concludes with appendixes on guidelines for directors and for certification of tutor training programs. Communication Centers is a valuable resource for scholars in any stage of developing or improving a communication center at their university.

The Visual Narrative Reader (Hardcover): Neil Cohn The Visual Narrative Reader (Hardcover)
Neil Cohn
R5,289 Discovery Miles 52 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sequential images are as natural at conveying narratives as verbal language, and have appeared throughout human history, from cave paintings and tapestries right through to modern comics. Contemporary research on this visual language of sequential images has been scattered across several fields: linguistics, psychology, anthropology, art education, comics studies, and others. Only recently has this disparate research begun to be incorporated into a coherent understanding. In The Visual Narrative Reader, Neil Cohn collects chapters that cross these disciplinary divides from many of the foremost international researchers who explore fundamental questions about visual narratives. How does the style of images impact their understanding? How are metaphors and complex meanings conveyed by images? How is meaning understood across sequential images? How do children produce and comprehend sequential images? Are visual narratives beneficial for education and literacy? Do visual narrative systems differ across cultures and historical time periods? This book provides a foundation of research for readers to engage in these fundamental questions and explore the most vital thinking about visual narrative. It collects important papers and introduces review chapters summarizing the literature on specific approaches to understanding visual narratives. The result is a comprehensive "reader" that can be used as a coursebook, a researcher resource and a broad overview of fascinating topics suitable for anyone interested in the growing field of the visual language of comics and visual narratives.

Type Matters - The Rhetoricity of Letterforms (Hardcover): Christopher Scott Wyatt, Danielle Nicole DeVoss Type Matters - The Rhetoricity of Letterforms (Hardcover)
Christopher Scott Wyatt, Danielle Nicole DeVoss
R2,453 Discovery Miles 24 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election - Her Political and Social Discourse (Hardcover): Michele Lockhart, Kathleen... Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election - Her Political and Social Discourse (Hardcover)
Michele Lockhart, Kathleen Mollick; Contributions by Diane M. Blair, A Fletcher Cole, Farris Lee Francis, …
R3,709 R2,612 Discovery Miles 26 120 Save R1,097 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election: Her Political and Social Discourse is an edited collection that demonstrates the ways in which Clinton has used political rhetoric and discourse to provide and assert her right to leadership in her many roles as First Lady, Senator from New York, and Secretary of State. This collection lends itself to the potential Democratic nomination of Clinton for U.S. President with its examination of current media reports and interviews with Clinton. Each chapter analyzes various aspects of the campaign to present readers with a pre-election picture of Clinton's political discourse and how it relates to the 2016 election. Recommended for scholars of rhetoric, political rhetoric, political discourse, leadership studies, women's studies, and gender roles in politics.

Philosophical Approaches to Language and Communication - Volume 2 (Hardcover, New edition): Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Martin Hinton Philosophical Approaches to Language and Communication - Volume 2 (Hardcover, New edition)
Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Martin Hinton
R1,503 Discovery Miles 15 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This two-volume collection showcases a wide range of modern approaches to the philosophical study of language. Contributions illustrate how these strands of research are interconnected and show the importance of such a broad outlook. The aim is to throw light upon some of the key questions in language and communication and also to inspire, inform, and integrate a community of researchers in philosophical linguistics. Volume two presents analyses of several fundamental concepts and studies in which they are applied empirically. These include the linguistic topics of assertion, vagueness, and disagreement, and the philosophical themes of belief, normativity, and thought. These chapters provide unique insight into the role of philosophy in the contemporary study of communication.

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