This book is for scientists and other experts who need to explain the significance and potential of their work to colleagues, committees, funding bodies or the general public. It details how to harness story-telling principles to make complex or technical contents easier to comm…
"Noise, as we usually think of it, is background sound that interferes with our ability to hear more interesting sounds. In general terms, though, it is anything that interferes with the reception of signals of any sort. It includes extraneous energy in the environment, degradat…
In this book, renowned authorities Marschark and Hauser explain how empirical research conducted over the last several years directly informs educational practices at home and in the classroom, and offer strategies that parents and teachers can use to promote optimal learning in…
What happens when people communicate or dialogue with each other? This is the daunting question that this book proposes to address by starting from a controversial hypothesis: What if human interactants were not the only ones to be considered, paraphrasing Austin (1962), as 'doi…
"Relevance theory provides an original theoretical framework to capture the complex nature and intricacies of the processes underlying ostensive communication. The model has been in constant development for the last 30 years, and this study attempts to contribute to it by challe…
Ausgehend von einem systemischen Projektmodell und einem konstruktivistischen Mehrebenenmodell von Kommunikation rekonstruiert Matthias Freitag insgesamt 34 Funktionen der Projektkommunikation. Der Autor konkretisiert den breiten, aber auch ambivalenten Einfluss der Kommunikatio…
