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Orality
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 110.00Oral 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... more...
Remaking Media
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 39.95Remaking Media is a unique and timely reading of the contemporary struggle to democratize communication. With a focus on activism directed towards challenging and changing media content, practices and structures, the book explores the burning question: What is the political significance and potential of democratic media activism in the western... more...
Dialogue and Critical Discourse
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 89.99This is a collection of previously unpublished essays, by both linguists and literary critics, on the relationship between spoken language and written text in the light of the thought of the influential Russian formalist Mikhail Bakhtin. more...
The People, Press, and Politics of Croatia
Greenwood Publishing Group 2001; US$ 111.00This title examines the evolution of the press-government relationship in Croatia from the Tito era to the end of the 20th century. It is a story of three interacting players: the Croatian government, the compliant press and the largely quiescent public. more...
New Media and American Politics
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 69.99Examines the effect on modern politics of the new media, which include talk radio, tabloid journalism, television talk shows, entertainment media, and computer networks. The text discusses the new media's cultural environment, audience, and content. more...
Mitigation, Volume 4
BRILL 2006; US$ 125.00The NEW companion series to the Journal of Pragmatics, the most influential journal in its field! more...
4,000 Questions for Getting to Know Anyone and Everyone
Diversified Publishing 2007; US$ 14.994,000 ways to achieve instant intimacy What, more than anything, makes you angry? Who were your childhood idols? What kind of leader are you most inclined to follow? What has happened to the art of conversation? In the age of Internet chat rooms, speed dating, and frantic text messaging, have we forgotten how to meaningfully connect? This book... more...
Advances in Natural Multimodal Dialogue Systems
Springer 2006; US$ 179.99Addresses topics such as natural multimodal interaction, talking heads, conversational agents, tutoring systems, multimodal communication, machine learning, architectures for multimodal dialogue systems, systems evaluation, and data annotation. This title is useful for scientists, researchers and practitioners. more...
Reporting Talk
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 35.00A study of reported speech - the quoting of others words - in different types of interaction. more...
Sprache und Schrift aus handlungstheoretischer Perspektive
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 168.00This study develops solutions to the problem of the linguistic handling of writing from a new perspective arising from the action-oriented nature of writing. The main theory is that writing does not compete with language, but is rather a component of it. The results of the study form a new theory on the relationship between language and writing. more...









