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This book provides a thorough account of contemporary trends in
advertising and media industries. It examines the role of
advertising in the globalisation of consumer culture, taking an
empirical, region-by-region approach.
Advertising attracts much public criticism for the
commercialisation of culture and its apparent impact on social and
personal life. This book outlines and assesses the issues involved,
with regard to how they are manifested in different regional,
national and global contexts. Topics covered include:
- advertising as an object of study
- global trends in the advertising industry
- advertising and the media
- issues in advertising and society
- advertising, globalisation and world regions
While maintaining a contemporary focus, the book looks over the
whole of the 20th century as background to the globalisation of
what it calls the manufacturing-marketing-media complex. There is
specific emphasis on the 1980s, a crucial decade for advertising as
a global institution; the 1990s, as the decade which gave rise to
the discourse of globalisation; and the decade recently ended, as
the era of new media.
The rise of China has brought about a dramatic increase in the rate
of migration from mainland China. At the same time, the Chinese
government has embarked on a full-scale push for the
internationalisation of Chinese media and culture. Media and
communication have therefore become crucial factors in shaping the
increasingly fraught politics of transnational Chinese communities.
This book explores the changing nature of these communities, and
reveals their dynamic and complex relationship to the media in a
range of countries worldwide. Overall, the book highlights a number
of ways in which China's "going global" policy interacts with other
factors in significantly reshaping the content and contours of the
diasporic Chinese media landscape. In doing so, this book
constitutes a major rethinking of Chinese transnationalism in the
twenty-first century.
First published in 1972, 'Guitar Army' was the manifesto for a
generation of young, revved-up readers in a turbulent but
idealistic time of riots and wars, when some rockers posed with
guns and demanded freedom and social change.
John Sinclair is one of the most influential figures in world
linguistics, an innovator who revolutionized the study of spoken
discourse and pioneered corpus-based research. In this definitive
collection, papers reflecting his most important work of the past
decade have been collated and organized into meaningful sections,
providing a clear statement of Sinclair's thinking and research.
Foundations oultines the major theoretical principles on which
subsequent chapters are constructed; The Organization of the Text
traces the development of Sinclair's insights into the relationship
between text structure and dialogue; Lexus and Grammar presents
core papers on the description of vocabulary, its relationship with
grammar and the role of corpus analysis in describing lexical
patterns. Featuring intorductions, summaries of key arguments and a
full annotated bibliography of Sinclair's publications, Trust the
Text is an essential addition to any linguist's bookshelf.
John Sinclair is one of the most influential figures in world
linguistics, an innovator who revolutionized the study of spoken
discourse and pioneered corpus-based research.
In this definitive collection, papers reflecting his most important
work of the past decade have been collated and organized into
meaningful sections, providing a clear statement of Sinclair's
thinking and research.
* "Foundations" outlines the major theoretical principles on which
subsequent chapters are constructed;
* "The organization of text" traces the development of Sinclair's
insights into the relationship between text structure and
dialogue;
* "Lexis and grammar" presents core papers on the description of
vocabulary, its relationship with grammar and the role of corpus
analysis in describing lexical patterns.
Featuring introductions and summaries of key arguments, "Trust the
Text "is an essential addition to any linguist's bookshelf.
The rise of China has brought about a dramatic increase in the rate
of migration from mainland China. At the same time, the Chinese
government has embarked on a full-scale push for the
internationalisation of Chinese media and culture. Media and
communication have therefore become crucial factors in shaping the
increasingly fraught politics of transnational Chinese communities.
This book explores the changing nature of these communities, and
reveals their dynamic and complex relationship to the media in a
range of countries worldwide. Overall, the book highlights a number
of ways in which China's "going global" policy interacts with other
factors in significantly reshaping the content and contours of the
diasporic Chinese media landscape. In doing so, this book
constitutes a major rethinking of Chinese transnationalism in the
twenty-first century.
Quarrying and all other branches of surface mining rather than
diminishing in importance have become of more and more consequence
economically, industrially and particularly with the depletion of
high-grade deep-mined mineral reserves. Low-grade minerals require
low cost extraction and this in many cases necessitates very
expensive mechanized equipment with the cost of individual units
running into millions of pounds in the case of large scale
operations with high productivity. There has been, and there still
is, a tendency for the smaller single quarries to be amalgamated
into groups with large financial resources and therefore with the
ability to purchase these expensive machines so necessary to make
operations viable. This in turn requires wider administrative and
technical knowledge in executives of these groups and as these
often handle a wide range of products from widely differing systems
of working, this technical knowledge should embrace the
exploitation of many different types of deposits. There is, at
present, a great dearth throughout the world of such qualified
executives as is apparent from advertisements of vacancies in the
technical press. It would appear that these industries offer an
attractive career to the widely qualified and experienced
technologist in these fields. This book deals with methods of
working in the surface extractive indus tries, quarry management
and power supply-but does not deal with related ancillary processes
except where these affect quarrying operations.
John Sinclair and a panel of expert investigators present a
comprehensive collection of cellular and molecular techniques for
the analysis of cytomegalovirus (CMV) biology and its pathogenetic
mechanisms. The methods-all described in step-by-step detail with
ready reproducibility in mind-range from basic virus culture to
complex molecular analysis of CMV structure and function. Included
are methods for CMV detection using both immunological and
biological techniques, methods for analyzing fundamental aspects of
the CMV infection cycle, and methods for analyzing T cell response
to cytomegalovirus infection in the human host. Comprehensive and
state-of-the-art, Cytomegalovirus Protocols provides investigators
with a collection of the key methods that are illuminating not only
the basic biology of this complex and intriguing human herpesvirus,
but also its significant role in human infectious diseases and
their emergent therapies.
John Sinclair and a panel of expert investigators present a
comprehensive collection of cellular and molecular techniques for
the analysis of cytomegalovirus (CMV) biology and its pathogenetic
mechanisms. The methods-all described in step-by-step detail with
ready reproducibility in mind-range from basic virus culture to
complex molecular analysis of CMV structure and function. Included
are methods for CMV detection using both immunological and
biological techniques, methods for analyzing fundamental aspects of
the CMV infection cycle, and methods for analyzing T cell response
to cytomegalovirus infection in the human host. Comprehensive and
state-of-the-art, Cytomegalovirus Protocols provides investigators
with a collection of the key methods that are illuminating not only
the basic biology of this complex and intriguing human herpesvirus,
but also its significant role in human infectious diseases and
their emergent therapies.
This book provides a thorough account of contemporary trends in
advertising and media industries. It examines the role of
advertising in the globalisation of consumer culture, taking an
empirical, region-by-region approach.
Advertising attracts much public criticism for the
commercialisation of culture and its apparent impact on social and
personal life. This book outlines and assesses the issues involved,
with regard to how they are manifested in different regional,
national and global contexts. Topics covered include:
- advertising as an object of study
- global trends in the advertising industry
- advertising and the media
- issues in advertising and society
- advertising, globalisation and world regions
While maintaining a contemporary focus, the book looks over the
whole of the 20th century as background to the globalisation of
what it calls the manufacturing-marketing-media complex. There is
specific emphasis on the 1980s, a crucial decade for advertising as
a global institution; the 1990s, as the decade which gave rise to
the discourse of globalisation; and the decade recently ended, as
the era of new media.
John Sinclair and Jospeh D. Straubhaar provide a comprehensive
account of television production, distribution and reception in
Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Latin American countries, showing
how Mexican and Brazilian programmes have dominated in the region,
and placing regional output in the context of the global television
industry.
IT'S ALL GOOD is a collection of the writing, reviews and
interviews of John Sinclair, spanning forty years and personally
selected by the author. The music, people and topics include:
Detroit in the 1960s, and the author as manager of the MC5; John
Lennon; Sun Ra; Jack Kerouac; Dr John; Iggy Pop; North Mississippi
Hill Country Blues and the secret history of the Blues; Bandleader
Walter "Wolfman" Washington; Irma Thomas, the Soul Queen of New
Orleans; The Art Ensemble of Chicago; The White Buffalo Prophesy;
The Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans; Bob Rudnick, the Righteous
One; Johnnie Bassett, Cadillac Bluesman from the Motor City. JOHN
SINCLAIR is a legendary figure on the landscape of the 1960s. A
cultural activist, manager of the MC5, and chairman of the White
Panther Party, he was an early victim of the War on Drugs who faced
twenty years to life in prison for giving two joints to an
undercover narcotics officer. Sinclair served 29 months before his
legal victory on appeal changed the law for good. The long campaign
received international attention when John Lennon wrote a song for
him and performed at a benefit concert on his behalf in 1971, along
with Yoko Ono, Stevie Wonder, Bob Seger, Phil Ochs, Allen Ginsberg
and Bobby Seale. As a music journalist, John Sinclair is widely
recognized as one of America's leading authorities on blues and
modern jazz. He designed and taught courses in Blues History and
History of Rock & Roll for the Music Department at Wayne State
University.
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