Communication studies

This book seeks to understand and classify differences that exist between a variety of elections in Britain.

This book explores the consequences of lowering the voting age to 16 from a global perspective, bringing together empirical research from countries where at least some 16-year-olds are able to vote.

This book examines the language policies relating to linguistic rights in European Union law and in the constitutions and legal statutes of some European Union member states.

This book offers a transdisciplinary perspective on the question of how political legitimacy is constructed in the increasingly contested postnational setting of the European Union.

"e;Women's sports have typically been grossly under-represented in sports media coverage.

This book argues that Donald Trump's election and Presidency represent the triumph of marketing, branding and segmentation in American politics.

Through the analysis of eighteen years of presidential data, this book shows how Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump have conducted and framed the war on terror since its inception in 2001.

This timely book examines the role of fact-checking journalism within political policy debates, and its potential contribution to public engagement.

This book brings together fresh evidence and new theoretical frameworks in a unique analysis of the increasing role of social media in political campaigns and electoral processes across Africa.

The book investigates political re/tweets that reveal the nature and patterns of politics and digital political revolution in India.

This book aims to explore the supercomplexity of interaction and to suggest ways of teaching about this supercomplexity in various settings, including intercultural communication and language-learning.

How were social media posts, scripted speeches, traditional news media and political cartoons used and understood during the Brexit campaign?

This book examines how the two educational systems of China and the Nordic countries intersect.

This edited book explores languages and cultures (or linguacultures) from a translation perspective, resting on the assumption that they find expression as linguacultural worldviews.

This volume explores how linguistic and cultural diversity in Greece, caused by various waves of emigration and immigration, has transformed Greek society and its educational system.

This book identifies six ethical competencies for public leadership in contexts of pluralism.

This book traces how right-wing newspapers in Britain helped shape British public opinion about the European Union over the course of the 20 years preceding the EU referendum in June 2016.

This book explores the changes in political communication in light of the development of a public opinion mediated by web 2.

This edited book examines modern foreign language teachers who research their own and others' experiences of identity construction in the context of living and teaching in UK institutions, primarily in the Higher Education sector.

This edited volume maps the development of the use of political campaigning and marketing techniques in countries of the former Communist Bloc over the last thirty years.

This book examines the experiences of couples with different language backgrounds and different cultural origins as they negotiate love, partnership and parenting.

"e;This book is a timely reminder of the ties that join Russia and the European Union and the opportunities that still exist to improve a troubled relationship.

This book develops a new theoretical framework for studying the interaction between political parties, the news media and citizens.

Drawing on the culture-centered approach (CCA), this book re-imagines culture as a site for resisting the neocolonial framework of neoliberal governmentality.

This book investigates ways in which global media coverage of conflicts affects the worldviews of the social and cultural values of nationals from the war regions.

This edited book provides a multi-disciplinary approach to the topics of translation and cross-cultural communication in times of war and conflict.

This book examines the development of democratic thought in the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, with a focus on the movement's ideas about participatory democracy.

This book explores the thirty-year trajectory of the Free Patriotic Movement that aimed to achieve the freedom, sovereignty and independence of Lebanon from the Lebanese political elite and Syrian hegemony.

This book provides the analytical framework for understanding the relationship between media scandals, executive accountability and the crisis of democracy.

This volume seeks to analyse the emerging wave of data journalism in the Global South.

This book presents a much-needed discussion on ethnic identification and morphosyntactic variation in San Francisco Chinatown-a community that has received very little attention in linguistic research.

This edited book examines how teacher education utilises international immersion and field teaching (or service-learning) experience to develop teachers' global, multilingual and intercultural competencies, in preparation for entering today's culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms.

This book explores in detail new protest organisation and mobilisation strategies of young activists in the digital age with the aim to identify the tactics that worked well against those creating high risks in the context of digitally supported protests.

This edited collection examines the multi-faceted phenomenon of transparency, especially in its relation to social movements, from a range of multi-disciplinary viewpoints.

This book seeks for an alternative perspective in analysing cultural phenomena to supplement the norm of Western dominant theorising and conceptualisation.

This book examines the psychology behind micro-targeted tactics used in election campaigning and the advent of increasingly sophisticated dynamic Agent-Based Models (ABMs).

This book provides a research-led guide to public speaking in English, using the foundations of applied linguistics research to analyse elements of spoken presentation, including content, form, persona and audience interaction.

This book examines a series of phenomena that have accompanied the development of digital technology and focuses on the attentional processes that these phenomena have in common.

This book provides a rhetorical manual for political and business leaders to motivate followers even in times of hardship.

"e;In their comparative analysis of several universities from different parts of the world, the authors make a case for the critical roles that higher education institutions can play in building the civic framework in a society.

"e;This book provides a significant contribution to the discursive analysis of service encounters.

This book presents detailed accounts of policymaking in contemporary risk communication.

This book offers a theoretically driven, empirically grounded survey of the role visual communication plays in political culture, enabling a better understanding of the significance and impact visuals can have as tools of political communication.

This book takes an innovative view of language and politics, charting the terrain of political identities and discourses in New Zealand through detailed linguistic analysis of interactions with its voters.

This highly readable book develops a numanistic, and specifically semiotic approach to multiculturalism.

Compiling various strands of the dis/enchantment with development discourse in contemporary South Asia, with specific focus on the cases from India, this edited book brings together anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and historians to refresh the understanding of development.

This book explores how community radio contributes to social change.

This book investigates the role of media and communication in processes of democratization in different political and cultural contexts.

This book examines the highly emotional context of the 2016 US presidential campaign through the scope of political theater and emotional attribution.

This book explores the study of policies and practices in Higher Education by comparing systems, institutions, programs, innovations, results and cultures.