Communication studies

In a constantly interconnected world communication takes place beyond territorial boundaries, in networks where English works as a lingua franca.

Despite the great number and diversity of specialised dictionaries and terminologies, several major issues of specialised lexicography still remain unresolved.

Currently, there is a great number of approaches to the semantics-pragmatics distinction on the market.

The first aim is to provide well-articulated concepts by thinking through elementary phenomena of today's world, focusing on privacy and the digital, to clarify who we are in the cyberworld - hence a phenomenology of digital whoness.

This book is conceived as an introductory text into the theory of syntactic and semantic information, and information flow.

Journalism is under ever-increasing pressure, due in large part to the phenomenon of media convergence.

This book offers a practical guide for policy advisors and their managers, grounded in the author's extensive experience as a senior policy practitioner in New Zealand's Westminster-style system of government.

Presenting original, detailed studies of keywords of Danish, this book breaks new ground for the study of language and cultural values.

How do people interact when they are on the move?

This volume offers unique insights into the mutually constitutive nature of social media practices and religious change.

Running and Clicking examines how Future Narratives push against the confines of their medium: Studying Future Narratives in movies, interactive films, and other electronic media that allow for nodes, this volume demonstrates how the dividing line between film and game is progressively dissolved.

This volume examines the structure of text-based Future Narratives in the widest sense, including choose-your-own-adventure books, forking-path novels, combinatorial literature, hypertexts, interactive fiction, and alternate reality games.

The interdependency of technology and communication presents theoreticians as well as practitioners with a wide range of problems.

Peirce's (1906) proposal that the universe as a whole, even if it does not consist exclusively of signs, is yet everywhere perfused with signs, is a thesis that better than any other sums up the life and work of Thomas A.

This collection of essays by the Linguistic Politeness Research Group represents the results of over a decade of the group's research, discussions, seminars and conferences on the subject of linguistic politeness.