Marcel Danesi Forfatter
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Linguistic Relativity Today: Language, Mind, Society, and the Foundations of Linguistic Anthropology (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This is the first textbook on the linguistic relativity hypothesis, presenting it in user-friendly language, yet analyzing all its premises in systematic ways. The hypothesis claims that there is an intrinsic interconnection between thought, language, and society.
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An Anthropology of Puzzles: The Role of Puzzles in the Origins and Evolution of Mind and Culture (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
An Anthropology of Puzzles argues that the human brain is a "puzzling organ" which allows humans to literally solve their own problems of existence through puzzle format.
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Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Levering: Print on Demand (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Metaphor, Riddles, and the Origin of Language: The Sphinx’s Legacy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book contributes to the debate surrounding the origin of language by demonstrating that riddles and myths can be examined as evidence of the emergence of conceptual metaphors, a prerequisite for the development of a complete language.
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Dictionary of Media and Communications (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Presents a listing of media concepts, figures, and techniques with illustrations and historical commentaries. This dictionary includes terms related to psychology,... Læs mere
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Brands (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Marcel Danesi's outstanding introduction provides a clear guide to brands and brand identity, outlining their historical origins and their increasing centrality in contemporary consumer culture.
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Language, Society, and New Media: Sociolinguistics Today (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book uses an interdisciplinary approach, integrating frameworks from sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology and emerging strands of research on language and new media, to demonstrate the relationship between language, society, thought, and culture to students
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Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception and belief, and by extension its power to manipulate thoughts and beliefs.
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Pseudology: The Science of Lying (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In an age where fake news, conspiracy theories, and outright lies by political and cultural leaders are commonplace, we may be becoming accustomed to lying, or worse, even immune to it. Pseudology unravels the reasons for this by describing a “science of lying”.
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Poetic Logic and the Origins of the Mathematical Imagination (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book treats eighteenth-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico’s theory of poetic logic for the first time as the originating... Læs mere
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Solving Puzzles with Neural Creativity: The Aha Moment (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book takes an in-depth look at the tradition of solving puzzles and considers the psychological cause and effect of the ‘Aha moment’: that familiar flash of sudden insight. Everyone loves a good puzzle, but why is this so?
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Concise Dictionary of Popular Culture (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In this user-friendly dictionary of popular culture, over 800 A-to-Z entries provide historical information, definitions, and brief commentaries about the theories,... Læs mere
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