"In this book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of academic life. Academic Instincts discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in re…
In Naming the Mind, Kurt Danziger examines the origins and presuppositions underlying psychological categories - from stimulus-response to personality, motivation and cognition.
In 'Naming the Mind', Kurt Danziger examines the origins and presuppositions underlying psychological categories - from stimulus-response to personality, motivation and cognition.
This work arose from the desire to teach foreign students in North America a particular variety of language used in their disciplines (speech situations), whereupon the inadequacy or non-existence of previous study became apparent. Given this raison d'être, the work first illust…
"This is the first and only micro-analytic study of the interaction between pilots in the cockpit of commercial aircraft. It examines, in close detail, the communication that pilots engage in with one another and with other parties, such as traffic controllers, as they perform t…
"This volume focuses on specialist translation - one of the areas of translation in greatest demand in our age of globalization. The 16 chapters deal not only with the classical domains of science and technology, law, socio-politics and medicine but also with lesser researched a…