"How do people engage in, and competently manage discourse and interaction with others? How do members of various groups speak among each other and how do they communicate with people of other groups or cultures? What is the role of discourse in the perpetuation or legitimation …
This new edition of this classic text from one of the major figures of world sociology includes an introduction published in English for the first time. In Norbert Elias's hands, a local community study of tense relations between an established group and outsiders becomes a micr…
Burma, a socialist nation of Southeast Asia
The pragmatics of interaction
by Östman, Jan-Ola, D'hondt, Sigurd
fromHandbook of pragmatics highlights
"John Tyler Bonner has experimented with cellular slime molds for more than sixty years, and he has done more than anyone else to raise these peculiar collections of amoebae from a minor biological curiosity to a major model organism - one that is widely studied for clues to the…
Sociologist Chayko (College of St. Elizabeth) presents a conceptual and empirical investigation of people connecting across time and space--via various kinds of media, including the internet as well as television, movies, and other means of communication. She draws on structured…
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