Routledge, 2015. — 380 p. Originally published in 1977. This book focuses on how to do research in the area of face-to-face interaction when studying human social conduct. It covers the methods of data collection and analysis and looks at the efficiency of these. It secondarily considers a model for conceptualising such interactions, drawing together several social science...
XML Press, 2016. — 192 p. The Language of Technical Communication has a dual objective: to define the terms that form the core of technical communication as it is practiced today, while predicting where the field will go in the future. The choice of terms defined in this book followed two overarching principles: include all aspects of the discipline of technical communication,...
Routledge, 2018. — 352 p. This book focuses on major theories of language from several disciplines and aims to develop an approach to communicative practice that combines the formal properties of linguistic systems with the dynamics of speech as social activity. Language the System -- The Language of Saussure -- From Signs to Sentences -- North American Formalism and the...
Countryman Press, 2023. — 470 p. — ISBN 978-1-68268-799-4, 978-1-682-68800-7. This recondite caboodle of glosses panegyrizes the boggles of our palaver. Words confirm and deny, guarantee and deceive, elucidate and obfuscate. The more words you know, the better you can express yourself and the more you can do in life. The founder of Grandiloquent Word of the Day accordingly...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2018. — 228 p. Too often our use of language has become lazy, frivolous, and even counterproductive. We rely on clichés and bromides to communicate in such a way that our intentions are lost or misinterpreted. In a culture of "takeaways" and buzzwords, it requires study and cunning to keep language alive. In Mind over Memes: Passive...
Springer, 2022. — 650 p. This book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way. By surveying the several major divisions of language (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, tropology) and explicating the way in which sound and meaning cohere in them, this text lays bare––for students, scholars and advanced readers alike––the lineaments of an...
Management Impact Publishing, 2020. — 256 p. — ISBN 9462763569, 9789462763562. Leadership is the art of designing transformative conversations. Real change is needed, now, more than ever. This change can’t happen through force, edict or persuasion. The future will be built through conversation - and Good Talk will show you how. Good Talk is a step-by-step framework to effect...
Virago Press, 1996. — 180 p. — ISBN10 1853815128. This book does indeed have a narrow focus, but the subject of that focus-interpersonal communication-has far reaching implications in any type of human relationship. Relationships often suffer from a variety of different problems, ranging from differences in personal habits, to differences in values, to differences in religious...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017. — 327 p. — (Dialogue Studies 29). This volume presents a theoretical and practical model for analysing epistemic stance in dialogues, i.e. the positions both epistemic (commitment) and evidential (source of information) which speakers take in the here and now of communication with regard to the information they are conveying and which...
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