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First published in 1988, this book focuses on diversity and discourse, and collects contemporaneous research across a wide range of topics including: description, polemic, narrative analysis, DJ talk, philosophical history, conversation, children's books and nuclear deterrence. The essays demonstrate analyses of discourse in the service of stylistic inquiry, exploring relationships of text and context. This reflects the overall argument that discourse analyses aiming to represent diversity of so...

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The papers in this volume were ?rstpresented at the International Round Table Time and Modality held in Paris in December of 2005 and organized by the Jeune ' Equipe B 368 Syntaxe anglaise et syntaxe comparative (Universite ' Paris3-Sorbonne Nouvelle) and by the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (Centre National dela Recherche Scienti?que (CNRS) and UniversiteP ' aris 7). We wish to thank the institutions that provided ?nancial support for the Round Table: the CNRS, the Laboratoire de Linguis...

Die Beitrage dieses Bandes fassen Forschungsergebnisse und Reflexionen zusammen, die in den kommenden Jahren die Diskussion im kommunikations- und medienwissenschaftlichen Bereich beeinflussen werden. Gefragt wird nach der metaphysischen Ruckschrittlichkeit der Wissenschaften im Zuge der Entwicklung neuer Technologien. Ersetzen technisch realisierte Fiktionen zunehmend Realitat? Wie gebrochen ist das aktuelle Realitatsverhaltnis? Befoerdert die Digitalisierung eine Mythologisierung kommunikative...

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.

Testimony is an invaluable source of knowledge. We rely on the reports of those around us for everything from the ingredients in our food and medicine to the identity of our family members. Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the epistemology of testimony. Despite the multitude of views offered, a single thesis is nearly universally accepted: testimonial knowledge is acquired through the process of transmission from speaker to hearer. In this book, Jennifer Lackey shows that this...

100+ Fun Ideas for Practising Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) in the Primary Classroom contains 137 fun activities for developing oracy and literacy skills. The tried and tested activities in this book can be used to with almost any language. Sue Cave, the author, has chosen these particular ideas due to the enthusiastic responses she has received from young learners and the positive impact the games and activities have had on the learning of another language. The inherent rationale behind each a...

Book History is the annual journal of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. (SHARP). Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the history of the creation, dissemination, and the reception of script and print. Book History publishes research on the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, editing, printing, the book arts, publishing, the book trade, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorshi...

Neue Erkenntnisse und Methoden der Onomastik werden am Beispiel von Stadt und Region Magdeburg diskutiert und dargestellt. Die Orts-, Gewasser- und Personennamen sowie die Varia dieses geographischen Raumes zeigen ein uberaus interessantes Spektrum. Hier treffen alte Siedlungs- und Dialektregionen aufeinander und schlagen sich ebenso wie neuzeitliche Entwicklungen im Namenschatz nieder. Dieser Band vereinigt in sich 16 Aufsatze zu diesem Themenkreis, die im Ergebnis einer Tagung im November 2004...

Cet ouvrage illustre a travers plusieurs perspectives les conflits d'interpretation pouvant etre generes par le binome sens et representation et leurs liens potentiels. Il propose, au travers des diverses contributions, de mettre ces conflits en exergue, de voir leurs manifestations sur le plan du discours, de l'interaction et de la communication. Il s'interroge sur les outils et pratiques possibles d'interpretation tout en offrant de nouvelles voies de reflexion. L'idee fondatrice qui anime cet...

The study described in this book arose in the contextof a three-year collective effort to bring about change in science teaching at Mountain Elementary School. 1 This opportunity emerged after I contacted the school with the idea to help teachers implement student-centered science teaching. At the same time, the teachers collectively had come to realize that their science teaching was not as exciting to children as it could be. They had recognized their own teaching as textbook-based with little...