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Media Talkby Andrew Tolson
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 119.40Offers a perspective on some key issues in contemporary media studies. Adapting perspectives derived from "Discourse and Conversation Analysis", this approach investigates distinctive forms of mediated speech on TV and radio. more...
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...
Media in Europe Todayby Josef Trappel; Werner A. Meier; Leen d?Haenens; Jeanette Steemers; Barbara Thomass
Intellect 2010; US$ 20.00This book is written by media scholars from all over Europe who are members of the Euromedia Research Group. What unites the group is the joint interest of its members in the analysis of media structures and media policy in Europe against the background of contemporary communication theories and concepts. The book has two parts: First, it looks into structural changes in specific media formats such as newspapers, radio, television and online-media. Second, it analyses specific problems and challenges in a comparative way, such as the creation of public sphere(s), the relation between media and democracy, public service media, media regulation and media governance, challenges of media industries etc.The book addresses graduate students in mass... more...
French for Marketingby R. E. Batchelor; Malliga Chebli-Saadi
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 35.00Written entirely in French, this book provides a structured two-year course in French and marketing. more...
Does Writing Have a Future?by Mark Poster; Nancy Ann Roth
University of Minnesota Press 2011; US$ 60.00In Does Writing Have a Future?, a remarkably perceptive work first published in German in 1987, VilTm Flusser asks what will happen to thought and communication as written communication gives way, inevitably, to digital expression. In his introduction, Flusser proposes that writing does not, in fact, have a future because everything that is now conveyed in writingùand much that cannot beùcan be recorded and transmitted by other means. Confirming FlusserÆs status as a theorist of new media in the same rank as Marshall McLuhan, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, and Friedrich Kittler, the balance of this book teases out the nuances of these developments. To find a common denominator among texts and practices that span millennia, Flusser... 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...
Environmental Risks and the Mediaby Barbara Adam; Stuart Allan; Cynthia Carter; Ulrich Beck
Routledge 1999; US$ 41.95Considers the tension between entertainment and information in media coverage of environmental issues. more...
Introduction to Communication Studiesby John Fiske
Routledge 1990; US$ 35.95Fiske's essential text aims to equip the reader with a range of methods of analysing examples of communication in our society, together with a critical awareness of the theories underpinning them. more...
Language of Magazinesby Linda McLoughlin
Routledge 2000; US$ 26.95Offers students a hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on magazines. It combines practical activities with texts, followed by commentaries and suggestions for further reading. more...