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Originally published in 1989 this title provided a comprehensive
and authoritative introduction to the burgeoning discipline of
human-computer interaction for students, academics, and those from
industry who wished to know more about the subject. Assuming very
little knowledge, the book provides an overview of the diverse
research areas that were at the time only gradually building into a
coherent and well-structured field. It aims to explain the
underlying causes of the cognitive, social and organizational
problems typically encountered when computer systems are
introduced. It is clear and concise, whilst avoiding the
oversimplification of important issues and ideas.
This edited volume provides a single coherent overview of
vocabulary teaching and learning in relation to each of the four
skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking). Each of the four
sections presents a skill area with two chapters presented by two
leading experts in the field, relating recent advances in the field
to the extent that each skill area relates differently to
vocabulary and how this informs pedagogy and policy. The book opens
with a summary of recent advances in the field of vocabulary, and
closes by drawing conclusions from the skill areas covered. The
chapters respond to emerging vocabulary research trends that
indicate that lexical acquisition needs to be treated differently
according to the skill area. The editors have chosen chapters to
respond to recent research advances and to highlight practical and
pedagogical application in a single coherent volume.
This collection brings together recent research on the influences
between first and additional languages with a focus on the
development of multilingual lexicons. Featuring work from an
international group of scholars, the volume examines the complex
dynamics underpinning vocabulary in second and third languages and
the role first languages play within this process. The book is
organized around three different facets of research in this area -
lexical recognition, processing, and knowledge; the effects of
first languages on second language reading and writing,
collocations, and translation skills; and, vocabulary testing -
drawing on examples from a variety of languages, including European
languages, Arabic, and Japanese. Setting the stage for further
research on the interplay between first languages and multilingual
lexicons, this volume is key reading for students and researchers
in applied linguistics, language learning and teaching,
bilingualism, second language acquisition, and translation studies.
This edited volume provides a single coherent overview of
vocabulary teaching and learning in relation to each of the four
skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking). Each of the four
sections presents a skill area with two chapters presented by two
leading experts in the field, relating recent advances in the field
to the extent that each skill area relates differently to
vocabulary and how this informs pedagogy and policy. The book opens
with a summary of recent advances in the field of vocabulary, and
closes by drawing conclusions from the skill areas covered. The
chapters respond to emerging vocabulary research trends that
indicate that lexical acquisition needs to be treated differently
according to the skill area. The editors have chosen chapters to
respond to recent research advances and to highlight practical and
pedagogical application in a single coherent volume.
Originally published in 1989 this title provided a comprehensive
and authoritative introduction to the burgeoning discipline of
human-computer interaction for students, academics, and those from
industry who wished to know more about the subject. Assuming very
little knowledge, the book provides an overview of the diverse
research areas that were at the time only gradually building into a
coherent and well-structured field. It aims to explain the
underlying causes of the cognitive, social and organizational
problems typically encountered when computer systems are
introduced. It is clear and concise, whilst avoiding the
oversimplification of important issues and ideas.
The gravel terraces of the river Thames have revealed a wealth of
archaeological information about the evolution of the landscape of
the region, the development of the settlement pattern, and past
human occupation. Much of this has come to light in the course of
gravel quarrying, which has been so extensive that the Thames
Valley now provides one of the richest resources of archaeological
data in the country. This volume provides an up to date overview of
the archaeological evidence from the valley for the late Iron Age,
Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods, broadly speaking the first
millennium AD. The area studied in detail comprises the Upper
Thames Valley, from the source of the river to the Goring Gap, and
the Middle Thames Valley, from the Goring Gap to the start of the
tidal zone at Teddington Lock. A summary of evidence for the
character of the river and the vegetation and environment of its
floodplain is followed by a detailed account of the evolving
settlement pattern as currently understood from archaeological
evidence. The authors then consider what archaeology can reveal
about the late Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon populations of the
valley, and their changing lifestyles, culture, identities and
beliefs. This is followed by a review of the evidence for
production, trade, transport and communication, and the archaeology
of power and politics. The volume concludes with a discussion of
the state of knowledge today and its limitations, and emerging
themes and problem areas for future research.
This collection brings together recent research on the influences
between first and additional languages with a focus on the
development of multilingual lexicons. Featuring work from an
international group of scholars, the volume examines the complex
dynamics underpinning vocabulary in second and third languages and
the role first languages play within this process. The book is
organized around three different facets of research in this area -
lexical recognition, processing, and knowledge; the effects of
first languages on second language reading and writing,
collocations, and translation skills; and, vocabulary testing -
drawing on examples from a variety of languages, including European
languages, Arabic, and Japanese. Setting the stage for further
research on the interplay between first languages and multilingual
lexicons, this volume is key reading for students and researchers
in applied linguistics, language learning and teaching,
bilingualism, second language acquisition, and translation studies.
Through a richly detailed account of fan cultures and media over
the over fifty-year history of the show, Watching Doctor Who
explores fandom's changing attitudes towards this much-loved TV
series. Why do fans love an episode one year but deride it a decade
later? How do fans' values of Doctor Who change over time? As a
show that's featured as part of the shared landscape of home
entertainment since the 1960s, Doctor Who helps us understand the
changing nature of notions of 'value' and 'quality' in popular
television. Through a series of in-depth case studies of fan polls
and debates, Paul Booth and Craig Owen Jones interrogate the way
Doctor Who fans and audiences re-interpret the value of particular
episodes, Doctors, companions, and eras of Who. With a foreword by
Paul Cornell.
This book examines the fan-created combination of Doctor Who,
Sherlock, and Supernatural as a uniquely digital fan experience,
and as a metaphor for ongoing scholarship into contemporary fandom.
What do you get when you cross the cult shows Doctor Who,
Supernatural, and Sherlock? In this book, Paul Booth explores the
fan-created crossover universe known as SuperWhoLock-a universe
where Sherlock Holmes and Dean Winchester work together to fight
monsters like the Daleks and the Weeping Angels; a world where John
Watson is friends with Amy Pond; a space where the unique brands of
fandom interact. Booth argues that SuperWhoLock represents more
than just those three shows-it is a way of doing fandom. Through
interviews with fans and analysis of fan texts, Crossing Fandoms:
SuperWhoLock and the Contemporary Fan Audience also demonstrates
how fan studies in the digital age can evolve to take into account
changing fan activities and texts.
Adventures Across Space and Time brings together key academic,
critic and fan writings about Doctor Who alongside
newly-commissioned work addressing contemporary issues and debates
to form a comprehensive guide to the wider Whoniverse. The
perennially popular BBC series holds a unique place in the history
of television and of TV fandom: the longest running science-fiction
show, the series and its fan communities have tracked social and
cultural changes over its 60 year lifetime. Adventures Across Space
and Time presents classic writings on Who and its fandom by leading
scholars including John Fiske, Henry Jenkins, John Tulloch and Matt
Hills, but also represents writings and art by fans, including fans
who went on to become showrunners, writers or even the Doctor
himself, with contributions by Steven Moffat, Chris Chibnall,
Douglas Adams and Peter Capaldi. This innovative anthology
addresses Doctor Who's showrunners, Doctors, companions, enemies
and collaborators as well as issues and debates around queer
fandom, intersectionality, the 'wokeness' of the Doctor, fan media
including websites, podcasts and vlogs, fan activism and questions
of race and sexuality in relation to the show and its spin offs. It
considers Doctor Who as a peculiarly British phenomenon but also
one that has delighted, engaged and sometimes enraged viewers
around the world.
Excavation in advance of engineering works along the M1 from
Junctions 6a to 10 (between Hemel Hempstead and Luton) revealed
significant archaeological remains of wide-ranging date. Important
evidence for late Mesolithic and early Neolithic activity,
including pits, was found at Junction 9, while later prehistoric
features were more widely distributed but less concentrated. Late
Iron Age and Roman features were most common, with significant
rural settlements at Junctions 8 and 9, and further evidence for
trackways and enclosures elsewhere. These sites were of fairly low
status and concerned with mixed agriculture, though incidental
activities included manufacture of puddingstone querns. Occupation
was most intensive in the 1st-2nd centuries AD and on a reduced
scale in the late Roman period. At Junction 8, however, an
east-west trackway apparently survived as a landscape feature and
in the 12th and 13th centuries was adjoined by a ditched enclosure
containing structures belonging to a substantial farmstead.
Excavations in advance of gravel quarrying in the Upper Thames
Valley at Horcott Quarry, Fairford, and nearby Arkell’s Land,
Kempsford, revealed contrasting pictures. At Horcott, on the second
terrace, there was periodic activity from the early Mesolithic
onwards. A major earlier Iron Age settlement contained roundhouses
and at least 135 four-post structures, suggesting an exceptional
focus on grain storage. An early–middle Roman farmstead
incorporated a small stone-founded building, while from c AD
250–350 a large cemetery lay in an adjacent enclosure. Two
further groups of burials were contemporary with a substantial
Anglo-Saxon settlement including a timber hall and 33
sunken-featured buildings. By contrast, at Arkell’s Land, on the
first gravel terrace, activity on a significant scale only began in
the later 1st century AD. It comprised enclosures, field systems
and trackways, with the most intensive settlement, as at Horcott,
in the middle Roman period. The site was probably linked to an
adjacent estate centre at Claydon Pike. There was no post-Roman
occupation.
Lankhills and its late Roman cemetery have played a significant
role in the understanding of the military in civilian areas of
Roman Britain in the fourth century, and these new excavations
double the number of graves explored and add to the variety of
finds represented. New analytical techiques show that some of those
buried were immigrants from other parts of Europe and perhaps even
North Africa. The new excavations revealed a further 307 inhumation
graves (plus six more partly excavated previously) and 25 more
cremation burials. The most spectacular individual burial contained
a gilded and inscribed crossbow brooch, silver gilt belt fitting
and decorated spurs, a unique assemblage for Roman Britain. The
report provides a full catalogue of the graves and a comprehensive
study of the finds.
An area of 6 ha just east of Kempsford was examined in 2000-2001 in
advance of gravel extraction. The earliest features belonged to a
field system defined by ditches probably dug in the late Iron Age.
This was replaced in the early Roman period by a very regular
layout of trackways linking field systems to settlements lying just
outside the excavated area, all part of a programme of radical
landscape reorganisation in the wider region. The nearby
settlements probably went out of use in the 3rd century, but the
fields probably remained in use for pasture. The main trackway was
re-established in the later Roman period and a substantial timber
stockade built alongside it. Occasional human and animal burials
made both in the fields and at trackway junctions are an
interesting aspect of the use of this landscape.
Ever since Norman Lear remade the BBC series Till Death Us Do Part
into All in the Family, American remakes of British television
shows have become part of the American cultural fabric. Indeed,
some of the programs currently said to exemplify American tastes
and attitudes, from reality programs like American Idol and What
Not to Wear to the mock-documentary approach of The Office, are
adaptations of successful British shows. Carlen Lavigne and Heather
Marcovitch's American Remakes of British Television:
Transformations and Mistranslations is a multidisciplinary
collection of essays that focuses on questions raised when a
foreign show is adapted for the American market. What does it mean
to remake a television program? What does the process of
"Americanization" entail? What might the success or failure of a
remade series tell us about the differences between American and
British producers and audiences? This volume examines
British-to-American television remakes from 1971 to the present.
The American remakes in this volume do not share a common genre,
format, or even level of critical or popular acclaim. What these
programs do have in common, however, is the sense that something in
the original has been significantly changed in order to make the
program appealing or accessible to American audiences. The
contributors display a multitude of perspectives in their essays.
British-to-American television remakes as a whole are explained in
terms of the market forces and international trade that make these
productions financially desirable. Sanford and Son is examined in
terms of race and class issues. Essays on Life on Mars and Doctor
Who stress television's role in shaping collective cultural
memories. An essay on Queer as Folk explores the romance genre and
also talks about differences in national sexual politics. An
examination of The Office discusses how the American remake
actually endorses the bureaucracy that the British original satiri
Adventures Across Space and Time brings together key academic,
critic and fan writings about Doctor Who alongside
newly-commissioned work addressing contemporary issues and debates
to form a comprehensive guide to the wider Whoniverse. The
perennially popular BBC series holds a unique place in the history
of television and of TV fandom: the longest running science-fiction
show, the series and its fan communities have tracked social and
cultural changes over its 60 year lifetime. Adventures Across Space
and Time presents classic writings on Who and its fandom by leading
scholars including John Fiske, Henry Jenkins, John Tulloch and Matt
Hills, but also represents writings and art by fans, including fans
who went on to become showrunners, writers or even the Doctor
himself, with contributions by Steven Moffat, Chris Chibnall,
Douglas Adams and Peter Capaldi. This innovative anthology
addresses Doctor Who's showrunners, Doctors, companions, enemies
and collaborators as well as issues and debates around queer
fandom, intersectionality, the 'wokeness' of the Doctor, fan media
including websites, podcasts and vlogs, fan activism and questions
of race and sexuality in relation to the show and its spin offs. It
considers Doctor Who as a peculiarly British phenomenon but also
one that has delighted, engaged and sometimes enraged viewers
around the world.
The valley floodplain landscape covered by the Gill Mill quarry,
almost 130ha, was intensively exploited from about 300 BC at a
variety of Iron Age settlements. The largest of these remained in
occupation into the early 3rd century AD, but meanwhile a large
nucleated settlement grew up around a road junction roughly 1km
distant to the NW. This became the sole focus of occupation,
covering an area of about 10ha. Featuring multiple ditched
enclosures, some in very regular layouts associated with one of the
roads, the settlement contained relatively few identified buildings
and appears to have had a specialised economic role related to
systematic cattle management, illuminated in part by large finds
and environmental assemblages. It may have been an integral
component of a wider estate holding and perhaps had an
administrative focus (including a shrine) at its unexcavated
centre. It is notable that occupation of the site had almost
entirely ceased by about AD 370.
The discipline of fan studies is famously undisciplined. But that
doesn't mean it isn't structured. This is the first comprehensive
primer for classroom use that shows students how to do fan studies
in practical terms. With contributions from a range of established
and emerging scholars, coeditors Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams
pull together case studies that demonstrate the wide array of
methodologies available to fan studies scholars, such as
auto/ethnography, immersion, interviews, online data mining,
historiography, and textual analysis. This collection also probes
the ethical questions that are unique to fan studies work, such as
the use of online fan content for research, interview methods,
consent, and privacy.
Leading expert Paul Booth explores the growth in popularity of
board games today, and unpacks what it means to read a board game.
What does a game communicate? How do games play us? And how do we
decide which games to play and which are just wastes of cardboard?
With little scholarly research in this still-emerging field, Board
Games as Media underscores the importance of board games in the
ever-evolving world of media.
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