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Interpersonal Pragmatics
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 307.00This handbook focuses on the interpersonal aspects of language in use, exploring key concepts such as face, im/politeness, identity, or gender, as well as mitigation, respect/deference, and humour in a variety of settings. The volume includes theoretical overviews as well as empirical studies from experts in a range of disciplines within linguistics... more...
Modellierung von Kommunikationsprozessen in KMU-Netzwerken
Springer Fachmedien 2009; US$ 54.99Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2012; US$ 149.00The aim of this paper is to analyse the usage of address forms in written professional communication in Brazilian Portuguese and Romanian. The corpus consists of two types of data, authentic workplace documents (especially from private companies) and templates from two recently published business correspondence textbooks in Romanian and Brazilian Portuguese.... more...
Exploring Professional Communication
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning postgraduate studies, or taking an introductory MA course as well as advanced undergraduates. Titles in the series are also ideal for language professionals returning... more...
Sustainability, Participation & Culture in Communication
Intellect 2013; US$ 20.00At a time when sustainability is on everyones lips, this volume is one of the first to offer an overview of sustainability and communication issues - including community mobilization, information technologies, gender and social norms, mass media, interpersonal communication, and integrated communication approaches - from a development and social... more...
Analyzing Multimodal Interaction
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 48.95Our perception of our everyday interactions is shaped by more than what is said. From coffee with friends to interviews, meetings with colleagues and conversations with strangers, we draw on both verbal and non-verbal behaviour to judge and consider our experiences. Analyzing Multimodal Interaction is a practical guide to understanding and investigating... more...
Impoliteness in Interaction
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 158.00This study concerns the nature of impoliteness in face-to-face spoken interaction. For more than three decades many pragmatic and sociolinguistic studies of interaction have considered politeness to be one central explanatory concept governing and underpinning face-to-face interaction. Politeness' "evil twin" impoliteness has been largely neglected... more...
Talking at Cross-Purposes
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 165.00Misunderstandings have been examined extensively in studies on cross-cultural (mis)communication which associate them with participants? differing cultural backgrounds and/or linguistic knowledge. Drawing on a large corpus of misunderstandings from cross- and intra-cultural encounters, this book argues that miscommunication does not relate exclusively... more...









