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Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysisby Robin Wooffitt
Sage Publications Ltd. 2005; US$ 58.00Shows how the methods and findings of conversation and discourse analysis may inform the development of empirical research questions. It will therefore be an invaluable resource for social science students on courses which require them to undertake practical or empirical exercises. more...
Statistical Pronunciation Modeling for Non-Native Speech Processingby Rainer E. Gruhn; Wolfgang Minker; Satoshi Nakamura
Springer 2011; US$ 129.00In this work, the authors present a fully statistical approach to model non--native speakers' pronunciation. Second-language speakers pronounce words in multiple different ways compared to the native speakers. Those deviations, may it be phoneme substitutions, deletions or insertions, can be modelled automatically with the new method presented here. The methods is based on a discrete hidden Markov model as a word pronunciation model, initialized on a standard pronunciation dictionary. The implementation and functionality of the methodology has been proven and verified with a test set of non-native English in the regarding accent. The book is written for researchers with a professional interest in phonetics and automatic speech and speaker... more...
On Dialogueby David Bohm; Lee Nichol
Routledge 1996; US$ 17.95In a world of modern technology, radio, television air travel and satellites, this book looks at communication and asks how we can commmunicate better. more...
Language of Conversationby Francesca Pridham
Routledge 2001; US$ 26.95This accessible satellite textbook is unique in offering students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on conversation. more...
Crisis of Public Communicationby Jay Blumler; Michael Gurevitch
Routledge 1995; US$ 37.95The role of the mass media in the world of politcs has become increasingly influential and controversial. This book traces the origins and development of this phenomena, basing discussion on critiques of BBC election coverage since 1966. more...
Media Reformby Monroe E. Price; Beata Rozumilowicz; Stefaan Verhulst
Routledge 2001; US$ 150.00Media Reform examines the relationship between the media and the development of democracy. Detailed worldwide case studies illustrate discussions on liberalisation of media, technological developments and new trends. more...
Dialogue as a Means of Collective Communicationby Bela H Banathy; Patrick M Jenlink
Springer 2005; US$ 169.00The authors in this work offer a cross-disciplinary approach to examining dialogue as a communicative medium. more...
Group Communication in Contextby Lawrence R. Frey
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2002; US$ 67.50This volume provides real-life studies of groups in the setting where they form. The book is designed for use as a text in courses on group communication and as a reference for group communication scholars. more...
Oralityby Graham Furniss
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 100.00Oral communication is quite different in its spontaneity and communicative power from textual and visual communication. Culturally-bounded expectations of ways of speaking and individual creativity provide the spark that can ignite revolution or calm the soul. This book explores, from a cross-cultural perspective, the centrality of orality in the ideological processes that dominate public discourse, providing a counterbalance to the debates that foreground literacy and the power of written communication. more...
Remaking Mediaby Robert Hackett
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 37.95With a focus on activism directed towards challenging and changing media content, practices and structures, this book explores the question: What is the political significance and potential of democratic media activism in the western world? more...