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  • Communicating Across Cultures and Languages in the Health Care Setting

    Voices of Care

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a novel approach to understanding the complexities of communication in culturally and linguistically diverse health care contexts. It marks the culmination of two decades of research in South Africa, a context that has obvious application in a wider international climate given current globalization and migration trends. The authors draw from a large body of evidence based across ... Leer más

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    Reconsidering Medical Education in the Twenty-First Century

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    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    Medical competence is a hot topic surrounded by much controversy about how to define competency, how to teach it, and how to measure it. While some debate the pros and cons of competence-based medical education and others explain how to achieve various competencies, the authors of the seven chapters in The Question of Competence offer something very different. They critique the very notion of ... Leer más

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  • Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings

    Series Libro 1 - Language at Work
    This volume investigates the features and challenges of medical discourse between medical professionals as well as with patients and in the media. Based on corpus-driven studies, it includes a wide variety of approaches including cognitive, corpus and diachronic linguistics. Each chapter examines a different aspect of medical communication, including the use of metaphor referring to cancer, the ... Leer más

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  • The Discourse of Politics in Action

    Politics as Usual

    de R. Wodak ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    An interdisciplinary study providing first-hand evidence of the everyday lives of politicians; what politicians actually do on 'the backstage' in political organizations. The book offers answers to the widely discussed phenomena of disenchantment with politics and depoliticization. ... Leer más

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  • Real Talk: Reality Television and Discourse Analysis in Action

    Series series Education (R0)
    This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. Chapters provide rigorous case studies of the discourse practices that characterise a wide range of generic and linguistic/cultural contexts, including dating shows in China and Spain, docudramas in Argentina and New Zealand, and talent shows in the UK and USA. ... Leer más

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  • Standardization, Ideology and Linguistics

    Series series Education (R0)
    The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are interrelated. Through a number of case studies they show how concepts such as grammaticality and structural change covertly rely on a false conceptualization of language, one that derives ultimately from standardization. ... Leer más

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  • Taking Offence on Social Media

    Conviviality and Communication on Facebook

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores communication on Facebook, developing the new theoretical concept of context design as a way of understanding the dynamics of online interaction. Against a backdrop of fake news and other controversies surrounding online political debate, the authors focus on inadvertent acts of offence on Facebook; that is, when users of the site unwittingly offend or are offended by the airing ... Leer más

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  • Metaphor and Entertainment

    A Corpus-Based Approach to Language in Chinese Online News

    de C. Han ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Metaphor and Entertainment presents the very first, large-scale exploration of metaphor in Chinese online entertainment news, one of the most vibrant and controversial news genres in contemporary China. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Gender, Power and Political Speech

    Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Gender, Power and Political Speech explores the influence of gender on political speech by analyzing the performances of three female party leaders who took part in televised debates during the 2015 UK General Election campaign. The analysis considers similarities and differences between the women and their male colleagues, as well as between the women themselves; it also discusses the way gender ... Leer más

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  • Learning Business English in China

    The Construction of Professional Identity

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyses the learning experiences of students of Business English at a Chinese university. It addresses several topical issues in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) education and Business English teaching, including how ESP students learn, how they develop multiple identities. In particular, it focuses on their professional identity in the classroom, and how these identities are ... Leer más

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  • Address Practice As Social Action

    European Perspectives

    Edición de C. Norrby, C. Wide ...
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    How we address one another says a great deal about our social relationships and which groups in society we belong to. This edited volume examines address choices in a range of everyday interactions taking place in Dutch, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Italian and the two national varieties of Swedish, Finland Swedish and Sweden Swedish.The chapter 'Introduction: Address as Social Action Across ... Leer más

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  • Decoding Political Discourse

    Conceptual Metaphors and Argumentation

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides an in-depth look into the cognitive and argumentative nature of political discourse with a focus on the role and place of conceptual metaphors in practical argumentation. Neagu's empirical investigation centres on the corpus of the American Presidential debates in 2008 and speeches by Barack Obama from 2009-2011. ... Leer más

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