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Arguably the most influential of all contemporary English-speaking philosophers, Richard Rorty has transformed the way many inside and outside philosophy think about the discipline and the traditional ways of practising it.
This book is the first account of the health panic surrounding cellular phones that developed in the mid-1990s. The book looks at the creation of the 'story' and how and why it became prominent in some societies but not in others.
In the late 1980s and 1990s, the advanced industrial countries considered replacing the existing analogue television infrastructure with... Læs mere
How is an online affair different from an affair in the real world? Is online sex still cheating? Accessible, shocking and entertaining, this book addresses these and many other questions and will change the way you look at cyberspace and love forever.
Gesture, or visible bodily action that is intimately involved in interaction, has long fascinated scholars and laymen alike. Written by a leading authority on the... Læs mere
What if the Nazis had won World War II? What if Adolf Hitler had escaped from Nazi Germany in 1945 and gone into hiding? What if... Læs mere
In this book, Margaret Archer examines the reflexive 'internal conversations' most people have with themselves, and their influence... Læs mere
How do we coordinate linguistic structures with bodily resources such as gaze and gesture to bring about intelligible courses of action? This... Læs mere
A text which looks at industrial language training and how it can be used to help inter-ethnic communication. It discusses the nature of cross-cultural training, provides examples and examines the workplace from an ethnographic and linguistic point of view.
This work provides a timely and challenging prescription for just how the goals of placing communication functions at the heart of the strategic management of the UN might be achieved.
The role of social context in the various stages of learning to read and write is an important key to understanding literacy, and is the chief organizing theme of this book.... Læs mere
Presents an analysis of major issues in the theory, research, and applications of warnings and risk communication. This book describes a communication-human information... Læs mere