Communication studies

This book addresses translingual identities through an innovative multimodal analysis of the language learning histories of a class of advanced learners of English in Japan who grew up between two or more languages.

This book reveals the market research, strategy, branding and communication behind the unpredictable 2017 New Zealand election result which saw Jacinda Ardern elected Labour leader just 8 weeks before the election to become Prime Minister.

The election of Donald Trump as US President in 2016 seemed to catch the world napping.

This book explains why the role of corruption varies greatly between public services, between people, between national systems of governance, and between measures of corruption.

This book explores the images and perceptions of the EU in the eyes of their Strategic Partners.

This book explores the interdisciplinarity of semiotics and communication studies, comprising both theoretical explorations and semiotic applications to communication with theoretical bearings.

This book examines civil society empowerment during the EU enlargement process.

This book provides an analysis of the politics of consumption and how the 'educated consumer' plays a vital role in advancing responsible market practices and consumption.

This book takes James Gilligan's theory of shame and violence as a starting point for an application of the model across disciplines (psychology, sociology, philosophy, political science, cultural studies, history, architecture and urban studies) and levels of analysis (from the individual to the global).

This book examines public administration in South Asia in the context of rapid changes and modernization of administrative traditions, thoughts, and practices.

This book analyzes e-participation in smart cities.

This book examines the use of game elements to encourage citizens to participate in political decision-making and the planning of large-scale public sector projects.

This book brings together the study of translation with public sphere theory, in order to discuss social communication as it really happens.

This book focuses on recent technical advancements and state-of-the art technologies for analyzing characteristic features and probabilistic modelling of complex social networks and decentralized online network architectures.

This book explores speeches by American presidents.

This book explores embodiment in second language education, sociocultural theory and research.

This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction.

This book covers the different aspects of modern 3D multimedia technologies by addressing several elements of 3D visual communications systems, using diverse content formats, such as stereo video, video-plus-depth and multiview, and coding schemes for delivery over networks.

Rooted in the performative of Speech Act Theory, this interdisciplinary study crafts a new model to compare the work we do with words when we protest: across genres, from different geographies and languages.

This edited volume explores studying second languages abroad by critically and constructively reviewing established programming, providing theoretical and research-informed support for pedagogical and curriculum interventions, and analysing participant experiences.

Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice examines the interplay between images and human rights, addressing how, when, and to what ends visuals are becoming a more central means through which human rights claims receive recognition and restitution.

This book presents the first analytical study of the levels of professionalism of campaigns in the 2012 Egyptian presidential elections.

This edited collection explores the use of Exploratory Practice (EP) by language teachers in classrooms.

This edited collection draws upon interdisciplinary research to explore new dimensions in the politics of image and aid.

How to better coordinate policies and public services across public sector organizations has been a major topic of public administration research for decades.

Most Western-driven theories do not have a place in Black communicative experience, especially in Africa.

This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria's emerging democracies.

This book provides important insight on a range of issues focused on three themes; what new climate change information is being developed, how that knowledge is communicated and how it can be usefully applied across international, regional and local scales.

This book discusses globalization trends and influences on traditional African oral literary performance and the direction that Ilorin oral art is forced to take by the changes of the twenty-first century electronic age.

This book analyses the translation strategies employed by journalists when reporting foreign news events to home audiences.

Drawing on interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives, this book critically examines intercultural theory and its interrelations with globalisation, education and dialogue in multicultural societies.

This book examines the role of gender in political conflicts worldwide, specifically the intersection between gender and terrorism.

This book analyzes the impact of social media on democracy and politics at the sub-national level in developed and developing countries.

This book introduces a new methodology to assess the way in which journalists today operate within a new sphere of communicative 'public' interdependence across global digital communities by focusing on climate change debates.

This book outlines the need for media companies to embrace an audience-centric approach to thrive in today's fiercely competitive global market.

Using the conceptual framework of populism as discourse, Ritchie Savage provides a comparative analysis of U.

This book offers an examination of the political dimensions of a number of Jean-Luc Godard's films from the 1960s to the present.

This book studies the role of rhetoric in the expansive movement for global higher education in U.

This book presents an analysis of how metaphors are essential elements in the study of international relations.

This book argues that Islam has been securitized in US foreign policy, especially during the W.

This book examines the history of the legal discourse around political falsehood and its future in the wake of the 2012 US Supreme Court decision in US v.

This book assembles six chapters by respected and emerging scholars in political science and communication to produce a first sustained look at Twitter's role in the 2016 US Presidential Election.

This monograph presents the result of the authors' scientific research on the development of cognitive discursive approach to issues of intercultural professional and business communication (IPBC) and the study of the language of professional communication, the links binding the language with non-linguistic and extralinguistic realia in the framework of cognitive linguistics, as well as oral and written communication in intercultural professional business discourse.

Authenticity is everywhere: political leaders invoke the idea to gain our support, advertisers use it to sell their products.

This is the first thorough and systematic interrogation of Republican Party oratory and rhetoric that examines a series of leading figures in American conservative politics.

This edited volume analyzes mistakes in different areas of international relations including the realms of security, foreign policy, finance, health, development, environmental policy and migration.

This book features contributions to the XVIIth International Conference "e;Linguistic and Cultural Studies: Traditions and Innovations"e; (LKTI 2017), providing insights into theory, research, scientific achievements, and best practices in the fields of pedagogics, linguistics, and language teaching and learning with a particular focus on Siberian perspectives and collaborations between academics from other Russian regions.

This unique book gathers articles from the numanistic perspective of multidisciplinarity and innovation, connected by three main theoretical interests or overarching themes: music, semiotics and translation.

This book explores Charles De Gaulle's use and strict control of television between 1958 and 1969, highlighting the association between charismatic power and television with regards to legitimizing the Gaullist leadership and determining an evolution towards presidentialism during the Fifth Republic.

This edited volume is the first to discuss the methodological implications of the 'emotional turn' in International Relations.