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SERENDIPITIES is an iconoclastic, dazzlingly erudite and witty demonstration, by one of the world's most brilliant thinkers, of how myths and ... More

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Renowned scholar Elaine Scarry celebrates language as she deals with the complicated problems of representation in diverse and cultural genres--from ... More

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the ... More

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Renowned as the scholar who has made a whole generation of Africanists realise the singular importance of oral literature, Ruth Finnegan asks whether ... More

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What it means to be a self - and a self communicating and being in a particular culture - are key issues interwoven throughout Min-Sun Kim s ... More

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In "Other People's Stories, " Amy Shuman examines the social relations embedded in stories and the complex ethical and social tensions that surround ... More

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Intercultural Communication: introduces the key theories of intercultural communication explores ways in which people communicate within and ... More

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Intercultural Communication: introduces the key theories of intercultural communication explores ways in which people communicate within and ... More

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This path--breaking study will become the standard work on the history of reading in the West. It will be indispensable to students of cultural ... More

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Do others understand what we say or write? Do we understand them? Theorists of language and interpretation claim to be more concerned with questions ... More

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Do others understand what we say or write? Do we understand them? Theorists of language and interpretation claim to be more concerned with questions ... More

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Anagnorisis--recognition--is one of the least familiar terms in Aristotelian poetics, yet it is used to describe one of the most familiar features of ... More

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Alf layla wa layla (known in English as A Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights) changed the world on a scale unrivalled by any other ... More

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This unique collection of more than 2,500 pepeha, "sayings of the ancestors, " were gathered and compiled from all over New Zealand over a 20-year ... More

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This book investigates the notion of Speech Acts from a cross-cultural perspective. The starting point for this book is the assumption that speech ... More

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Where is semiotics now? As the promised science of the social life of signs in general, semiotics has not been good to its word. Although well ... More

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The 2nd edition of Intercultural Communication: Updates key theories of intercultural communication Explores the ways in which people ... More

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This newly revised edition is both a lively introduction and practical guide to the main concepts and challenges of intercultural communication. ... More

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Translation and Cultural Identity: Selected Essays on Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication tackles the complexity of the concepts mentioned ... More

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Leading scholars in the history of science address the historical, methodological, and ideological motivation behind scientists' use of language ... More

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Using the theory of "politeness" as a springboard, Culturally Speaking develops a new framework for analyzing interactions. The book examines both ... More

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This book offers the first detailed intellectual history of communication study, from its beginnings in late nineteenth-century critiques of ... More

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