Over centuries, scholars have explored how metaphor contributes to thought, language, culture. This collection of essays reflects on Müller, Kappelhoff, and colleagues' transdisciplinary (film studies and linguistics) ...
"This handbook examines the legislations on internet, data security and their effects on user engagement and cyber-crime while contextualizing the inter- relationship between technology and law and addressing the need for ...
"The COVID-19 pandemic has forced organizations and individuals to embrace new practices such as social distancing and remote working forcing a new focus on cybersecurity, and this book covers new research results, challenges ...
"This book provide in-depth coverage of the broad range of taboo topics, concepts related to taboo, intercultural perspectives on taboo, and principles for interdisciplinary perspectives on taboo including communication ...
Bateman John A.,; Boesen Kristoffer Claussen; Ewerth Ralph; Hiippala Tuomo; Jiang Zhanhao; Johannessen Christian Mosbæk; Kang Jiaping; Kessell Angela; Kiaer Jieun; Kim Loli; Müller-Budack Eric; Otto Christian; Pflaeging Jana; Rothenhöfer Andreas; Stamenković Dušan; Stöckl Hartmut; Tvede Mads Lomholt; Tversky Barbara; Wildfeuer Janina(2021)
This volume advances the data-based study of multimodal artefacts and performances by showcasing methods and results from the latest endeavors in empirical multimodal research, representing a vibrant international and ...
"IoT technologies are being used in the re-engineering of a variety of products resulting in better performance, reduced cost, and an improved customer experience, and this book offers a variety of chapters that specifically ...
Pawłowski Adam; Mačutek Ján; Embleton Sheila M.,; Mikros George K.,(2021)
"Specialists in quantitative linguistics the world over have recourse to a solid and universal methodology. These days, their methods and mathematical models must also respond to new communication phenomena and the flood ...
"The Presidential Elections of Trump and Bolsonaro, Whiteness, and the Nation is a sociological analysis of the similarities between the elections of Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, based on biographies, academic sources, ...
"Money in Politics explores the political fundraising of the 2020 presidential election from the primaries through the General Election, illustrating the importance of campaign fundraising and examining how campaign ...
There is, at present, no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to human beings, how it works, why language is not communication and communication is not language, why languages vary and how they ...
"This book explores major themes related to where to live in America, not only about the acquisition of a home but also the ways in which where one lives relates to one's cultural identity. It shows how changes in media ...
"The present volume focuses on complimenting behavior, including the awarding of (self-)praise, as manifested on social media. These commonplace activities have been found to fulfil a wide range of functions in face-to-face ...
"Comprehension of texts and understanding of questions is a cornerstone of successful human communication. Whilst reading comprehension has been thoroughly investigated in the last decade, there is surprisingly little ...
"This collection contains a selection of recent work on people's production of figurative language (metaphoric, ironic, metonymic, hyperbolic, ...) and similarly of figurative expression in visual media and artefact design. ...
"This book provides the relevant theoretical framework which concerns storytelling in modern society, as well as the newest and most varied analyses and case studies in the field, offering radical forms of storytelling in ...
"This volume brings together ten contributions by leading experts who present their current usage-based research in Diachronic Construction Grammar. All papers contribute to the discussion of how to conceptualize constructional ...
"This textbook serves a dual purpose. It is, first, a comprehensive introduction to historical linguistics, intended for both undergraduate and graduate students who have taken, at the least, an introductory course in ...
"Presentis a collection of studies on middle-voice grams in Baltic, that is, on a widely ramified family of constructions with different syntactic and semantic properties but sharing a morphological marker of reflexive ...
Sinha Vera da Silva; Moreno-Núñez Ana; Tian Zhen(2020)
"The dynamics of language, culture and identity are a major focus for many linguists and cognitive and cultural researchers. This book explores the inextricable connection that language has with cultural identity and ...