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Talking Gender and Sexuality
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 173.00This edited volume brings together scholars from psychology, linguistics, sociology and communication science to investigate how performative notions of gender and sexuality can be fruitfully explored with the rich set of tools that have been developed by conversation analysis and discursive psychology for analyzing everyday practical language use,... more...
Faktor Anerkennung
Campus Verlag 2007; US$ 48.91Hauptbeschreibung Aufbauend auf »Der Anerkennende Erfahrungsaustausch« (Campus 2004) zeigen die Autoren anhand von Erfahrungsberichten von Managern, Betriebsräten und Mitarbeitern, wie man die Stärken des Modells ausbauen sowie Schwächen und Probleme beheben kann. Fragebögen und Checklisten ergänzen den Praxisnutzen des Buches und erläutern, wie... more...
Approaching Dialogue
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1998; US$ 180.00Approaching Dialogue has its primary focus on the theoretical understanding and empirical analysis of talk-in-interaction. It deals with conversation in general as well as talk within institutions against a backdrop of Conversation Analysis, context-based discourse analysis, social pragmatics, socio-cultural theory and interdisciplinary dialogue... more...
On Speech Act Verbs
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1980; US$ 98.00This essay concerns the analysis of speech act verbs. It offers a range of ideas which form theoretical preliminaries to the analysis of this phenomenon. more...
Diskurse der Gelehrtenkultur in der Frühen Neuzeit
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 266.00The Handbook presents a total of 23 exemplary studies of the discourses and complex topics in the culture of scholarship and science in the Early Modern Age (15th - 18th cents.) which set trends and established directions in this epoch between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age. Each study traces its particular dialogue with its variants, protagonists... more...
The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy
Wiley 2011; US$ 202.95The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy offers insights into the boundaries of this field of study, assesses why it is important, who is affected, and with what political, economic, social and cultural consequences. Provides the most up to date and comprehensive collection of essays from top scholars in the field Includes contributions... more...
Confident Conversation
Baker Publishing Group 2008; US$ 12.99Communication is an art, and anyone--whether shy or outgoing--can improve his or her conversational skills. Dr. Mike Bechtle offers a straightforward guide to making good conversation that works for any personality type. more...
The Logic of Conventional Implicatures
OUP Oxford 2004; US$ 49.99This book revives the study of conventional implicatures in natural language semantics. H. Paul Grice first defined the concept. Since then his definition has seen much use and many redefinitions, but it has never enjoyed a stable place in linguistic theory. Christopher Potts returns to the original and uses it as a key into two presently under-studied... more...
Acting Out Participant Examples in the Classroom
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1994; US$ 149.00This volume explores a relational pattern that occurs during one type of speech event — classroom “participant examples.” A participant example describes, as an example of something, an event that includes at least one person also participating in the conversation. Participants with a role in the example have two relevant identities... more...









