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Esta antología reúne las participaciones de algunos ponentes del Coloquio Internacional de Estudios Críticos sobre Géneros Populares, que tuvo lugar en agosto del 2016 en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM. Este coloquio fue producto del proyecto PAPIME (Programa de Apoyo a Proyectos para la Innovación y Mejoramiento de la Enseñanza) del mismo nombre que, por más de tres años, se construyó con la colaboración de profesores, investigadores...
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In today's competitive world, Spoken English is considered as a passport for a guaranteed success in life. The craze for learning spoken English has led to the growth of various coaching institutes all over the country. Much as they may profess and advertise, it is not really possible to learn any language in 30 or 40 days. A person who genuinely wants to learn the language needs to spend at least two to three hours every day for at least five or...
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In the face of declining newspaper sales, challenges from online competitors, and flagging ratings for broadcast news programs, media companies have struggled to maintain their relevance. Media between Culture and Commerce brings together a group of European media experts to address the consequences of a system that is increasingly powered by global media conglomerates that set the pace of news and information. As national borders blur and the corporations...
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The Public Work of Rhetoric presents the art of rhetorical techné as a contemporary praxis for civic engagement and social change, which is necessarily inclusive of people inside and outside the academy. In this provocative call to action, editors John M. Ackerman and David J. Coogan, along with seventeen other accomplished contributors, offer case studies and criticism on the rhetorical practices of citizen-scholars pursuing democratic ideals in...
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Este trabajo presenta distintas perspectivas en el campo teórico y práctico sobre el periodismo transmedia, poco estudiado en el momento por la academia. Para tal fin, reúne en una única obra expresivos autores pertenecientes a redes y asociaciones internacionales de estudios de medios, como Intercom (Brasil), Red Transmediaticos, Media Ecology Association (Estados Unidos), Coneic (México), RAIC (Iberoamérica), Alaic (América Latina), entre...
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Este libro reúne diversas interpretaciones en torno a la práctica actual del periodismo en Colombia, el cual atraviesa no solo nuevos retos profesionales por cuenta del contexto socio-político que se avecina con una nación que debe aprender a narrarse más allá del propio conflicto, sino por los avances y logros en las tecnologías de la comunicación y la información que imponen dinámicas novedosas que impactan directamente las maneras de...
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The authors report research that considers writing in all levels of schooling, in science, in the public sphere, and in the workplace, as well as the relationship among these various places of writing. The authors also consider the cultures of writing-among them national cultures, gender cultures, schooling cultures, scientific cultures, and cultures of the workplace.
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This book examines how discourse analysts could best disseminate their research findings in real world settings. Each chapter presents a study of spoken or written discourse with authors putting forward a plan for how to engage professional practice in their work, using this volume's Framework for Application. Techniques used include Conversation Analysis in combination with other methods, Genre Analysis in combination with other methods, and Critical...
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Over half a century ago, in The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), Marshall McLuhan noted that the overlap of traditional print and new electronic media like radio and television produced widespread upheaval in personal and public life: Even without collision, such co-existence of technologies and awareness brings trauma and tension to every living person. Our most ordinary and conventional attitudes seem suddenly twisted into gargoyles and grotesques. Familiar...
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¿Puede la semiótica estudiar la ciudad? ¿Acaso no es una disciplina dedicada exclusivamente al lenguaje? ¿O puede aportar algo sobre la ciudad sin repetir lo estudiado por las ciencias sociales? Semiótica de la ciudad es un esfuerzo colectivo que busca responder a estas preguntas tomando como punto de partida al espacio urbano como un texto, un tejido y un testigo de la producción de sentido.
Alejándose de las miradas desde afuera y desde lejos,...
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Reinventing Rhetoric Scholarship: Fifty Years of the Rhetoric Society of America collects essays reflecting on the history of the Rhetoric Society of America and the organization's 18th Biennial Conference theme, "Reinventing Rhetoric: Celebrating the Past, Building the Future," on the occasion of the Society's 50th anniversary. The opening section, "Looking Back: RSA at Fifty" describes the establishment of the organization and includes remembrances...
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Canadian journalist and political insider Dalton Camp left behind a powerful legacy, including books, essays, and newspaper columns on Canadian politics and public policy. To both celebrate his career and continue his passionate efforts to encourage and support the practice of journalism, St. Thomas University has held the annual Dalton Camp Lecture in Journalism since 2002. In cooperation with CBC Radio's Ideas, the series has become an annual highlight...
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The public relations industry is not just about celebrity gossip. This book shows how, whenever big business is threatened, spin doctors, lobbyists, think tanks and front groups are on hand to push the corporate interest, often at the public's expense.
Written by leading activists and writers, this book reveals the secrets of the PR trade including deception, the use of fake 'institutes', spying and dirty tricks. The impact can be devastating...
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The third annual conference of the Academy of Professional Dialogue was held online for the first time, and in the Academy's Online Conference Centre specially created for the occasion. By holding sessions for four hours each day for five consecutive days, many more could be present than in previous conferences.
This year's conference theme was Shaping the Profession. Dialogue as a profession is beginning to assume the form needed to encourage...
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This volume contains abundant evidence of Putting Dialogue to Work in commercial, governmental, and social organisations to the benefit of a wide range of activities like education, health, community welfare and public safety. The 39 Case Studies were considered at the fourth annual conference of the Academy of Professional Dialogue and describe work designed and delivered by 58 authors working across the globe-in the USA, UK, Sweden, Finland, Germany,...
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This inaugural volume records the Gathering of the Field of Professional Dialogue. It acknowledges and celebrates the work of 25 Professional Dialogue Practitioners, and the wide variety of good work they have delivered. Some have been actively developing their Professional Dialogue careers for decades, whilst others add the innovative energy of being relative newcomers. Their combined work has provided a unique service, addressing and resolving fragmented...
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This book provides a contemporary and critical examination of the theoretical and pedagogical impact of Michael Byram's pioneering work on intercultural communicative competence and intercultural citizenship within the field of language education and beyond. The chapters address important theoretical and empirical work on the teaching, learning, and assessment of intercultural learning, and highlight how individual language educators and communities...
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In this book dialogue is used as a research, knowledge-sharing and community-building tool in which participants engage with each other in reflecting upon the perspectives of self and others: challenging, complementing and contradicting each other as critical peers. The book aims to be an enactment of sociological reimagination, as a way to reimagine public conversations that inspire criticality, innovation and multimodality around the intersection...
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This book is the beginning of a conversation across Social Semiotics, Translanguaging, Complexity Theory and Radical Sociolinguistics. In its explorations of meaning, multimodality, communication and emerging language practices, the book includes theoretical and empirical chapters that move toward an understanding of communication in its dynamic complexity, and its social semiotic and situated character. It relocates current debates in linguistics...
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