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Sebastian Löbner in the first of two parts takes the reader through a step-by-step guide to the main phenomena and notions of semantics, covering levels and dimensions of meaning, ambiguity, meaning and context, logical relations and meaning relations, the basics of noun semantics, verb semantics and sentence semantics. The second part provides a critical introduction to the basic notions of the three major theoretical approaches to meaning: structuralism, cognitive semantics and formal semantics.
Key features:
Understanding Semantics is an essential resource for all undergraduate students studying semantics.
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Written in a clear and accessible style, David Barton and Carmen Lee look at language online from a variety of perspectives, providing a solid theoretical grounding, an outline of key concepts, and practical guidance on doing research. Chapters cover topical issues including the relation between online language and multilingualism, identity, education and multimodality. The book concludes by looking at how to carry out research into online language use.
This is a vital read for anyone new to studying online language and an essential textbook for undergraduates and postgraduates working in the areas of new media, literacy and multimodality within language and linguistics courses.
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Now in its 4th edition, Susan M. Gass' key textbook has been fully revised and updated to include the latest developments in the field including, new sections on using learner corpora, semantics and morphosyntax (within formal approaches to SLA), sociocultural approaches, gesture, priming research, and chaos theory.
Second Language Acquisition 4th edition retains the features that students found useful in the current edition but also provides new pedagogical tools that encourage students to reflect upon the experiences of second language learners. As with previous editions, discussion questions and problems at the end of each chapter help students apply their knowledge, and a glossary defines and reinforces must-know terminology.
This clearly-written, comprehensive, and current textbook is the ideal textbook for the introductory SLA course in second language studies, applied linguistics, linguistics, TESOL, and language education programs.
Companion website
Additional resources for both instructors and students can be accessed here via the accompanying website.
* Mike Long is a Professor of SLA, at the University of Maryland
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Now in its second edition, Ian Frederick Finseth has updated and revised this excellent Civil War companion, exploring how literature, poetry and the documentation of history, shaped the way in which the American Civil War is remembered.
With selections from Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, Sidney Lanier, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Kate Chopin, and many more, Finseth’s careful arrangement of texts remains an indispensable resource for readers who seek to understand the impact of the Civil War on the culture of the United States.
*Colleen G. Boggs is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College
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In this exciting new addition to our Critical Moments in American History series, author Katie Oxx brings alive the nativist movement through the use of trial transcripts and newspaper articles, poems, and personal narratives. Oxx draws close attention to the religious dimensions of nativism, illuminating the history of exclusion and the formative clashes between religious groups.
A companion website supports the text providing images, primary doucments, recommended weblinks and a timeline. Follow this link to view sample pages.
*Edward J. Blum is co-author of The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America
]]>Developed for students in telecommunications management, media management, and the business of media, this text helps future media professionals understand the relationship and convergence patterns between the broadcast, cable television, telephony, and Internet communication industries.
The second edition includes updated research throughout , including material on major business and technology changes and the importance of digital lifestyle reflected in E-commerce and personalized media selection, such as Netflix and iTunes, and the growing importance of Facebook and social networking from a business perspective. Also included with this edition is a new and robust companion website that includes discussion questions, exercises, further readings, all of the book’s tables and figures, video links and an RSS feed.
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Key features of the book include:
•Screenshots of contemporary Web sites that will allow students to understand how writing for and linking to other layers of a Web site should work
•Flow charts that describe how Web site architecture and navigation works
•Parsing exercises in which students break down information into subsets to demonstrate how Web site architecture can be usable and scalable
•Detailed step-by-step descriptions of how to use basic technologies such as file transfer protocols (FTP)
•Hands-on projects for students to engage in that allow them to connect the various components in the text
•A companion website with downloadable code and additional pedagogical features.
Writing for the Web prepares students to work in professional roles, as it facilitates understanding of architecture and arrangement of written content of an organization’s texts.
Presenting information from major cases, rules, regulations, and legal documents in a concise and readable form, this book helps current and prospective media professsionals understand the complex realm of law and regulation. Students will learn how to avoid common legal pitfalls and anticipate situations that may have potential legal consequences.
This sixth edition provides annotated cases with margin notes, and new chapters address such timely issues as media ownership, freedom of information, entertainment rights, and cyber law. A companion website provides additional materials for students and instructors.
]]>Drawing on the experiences and insights of theorists and practitioners from across the world, Learning Through Theatre shows how theatre can, and does, promote:
• participatory engagement;
• the use of innovative theatrical form;
• work with young people in a range of educational settings; and
• social and personal change.
Now transatlantically edited by Anthony Jackson and Chris Vine, Learning Through Theatre offers exhilarating new reflections on the book’s original aim: to define, describe and debate the salient features, and wider political context, of one of the most important – and radical – developments in contemporary theatre.
A Social History of Contemporary Democratic Media
Beginning with a look at the inherent weaknesses of the U.S. broadcasting model of mass media, Drew outlines the early 1960s and 1970s experiments in grassroots media, where artists and activists began to re-engineer electronic technologies to target local communities and underserved audiences. From these local projects emerged national and international communications projects, creating production models, social networks and citizen expectations that would challenge traditional means of electronic media and cultural production. Drew’s perspective puts the social and cultural use of the user at the center, not the particular media form. Thus the structure of the book focuses on the local, the national, and the global desire for communications, regardless of the means. Read more.
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The Future of Journalism: Developments and Debates
The Future of Journalism: Developments and Debates comprises the research-based responses of distinguished academic specialists and professional journalists to the challenging issues involved in assessing the future of journalism. It is essential reading for everyone interested in the changing role of journalism in the economic, democratic and cultural life of communities locally, nationally and globally. Read more.
Ongoing challenges for journalism in the online media environment are identified: maintaining impartiality in the face of calls for more open personal journalism; ensuring accuracy when the power of the "former audience" allows news to break at speed; and overcoming the limits of the scale of the BBC’s news operation in order to meet the demands to present news as conversation.
While the focus of the book is on the BBC’s coverage of war and terrorism, the conclusions are more widely relevant to the evolving practice of journalism at traditional media organizations as they grapple with a revolution in publication.
This book is the latest in the Routledge Research in Journalism Series, which is our home for innovative research in journalism. It includes monographs and edited collections that provide insight into a field that faces the challenges of an ever-evolving news and media environment.
The handbook presents a collection that spans a variety of disciplines including developmental psychology, media studies, public health, education, feminist studies and the sociology of childhood. Essays provide a unique intellectual mapping of current knowledge, exploring the relationship of children and media in local, national, and global contexts.
Divided into five parts, each with an introduction explaining the themes and topics covered, the handbook features 57 new contributions from 71 leading academics from 38 countries. Chapters consider vital questions by analyzing texts, audience, and institutions, including
•the role of policy and parenting in regulating media for children
•the relationships between children’s’ on-line and off-line social networks
•children’s strategies of resistance to persuasive messages in advertising
•media and the construction of gender and ethnic identities.
The Handbook’s interdisciplinary approach and comprehensive, international scope make it an authoritative, state of the art guide to the nascent field of Children’s Media Studies. It will be indispensable for media scholars and professionals, policy makers, educators, and parents.
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These areas include:
•promotional culture’s primary industries, including advertising, marketing, PR and branding, and how are they informed by changes in consumer behaviour and market conditions
•how industries are adapting in the digital age to attract both audiences and advertising revenue
•the evolving dialogues between ‘new consumers’ and producers and promotional industries.
Ten contributions from leading theorists on contemporary promotional culture presents an indispensable guide to this creative and dynamic field and include detailed historical analysis, in-depth case studies and global examples of promotion through TV, magazines, newspapers and cinema.
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