Communication studies

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.

Southeast Asia is a vast, populous and diverse region.

This book explores the interconnected ways in which the control of knowledge has become central to the exercise of political, economic, and social power.

This book discusses parliamentary oversight and its role in curbing corruption in developing countries.

This edited collection presents a study of innovation in teaching, learning, assessment and teacher development practices in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

This book provides an in-depth exploration of World Englishes and their place in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom.

This book assesses the important role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the management of regional political, security and economic relations.

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

This edited volume brings together original sociolinguistic and cultural contributions on food as an instrument to explore diasporic identities.

This book examines the nature of human language and the ideology of linguistic legitimacy - the common set of beliefs about language differences that leads to the rejection of some language varieties and the valorization of others.

Super Mad at Everything All the Time explores the polarization of American politics through the collapse of the space between politics and culture, as bolstered by omnipresent media.

This volume provides descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena as well as processes that emerge at the interface of languages and cultures in the context of contrastive and contact linguistics and media discourse.

This book explores how terrorists have been portrayed in the Western media, and the wider ideological and social functions of those representations.

This book addresses how digitalization has influenced the institutions, practitioners and audiences of diplomacy.

The study of the informal dimension of EU politics is more important than ever in order to understand how the EU system works.

This book presents different research designs, their respective purposes and merits as well as their underlying assumptions.

This book provides students, researchers, and practitioners of speechwriting with a unique insight in the theory, history, and practice of speechwriting.

"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.

Beyond Slacktivism examines how routine social media use shapes political participation.

Political Communication in Britain is a now established series of nine books, the first of which appeared in the aftermath of the 1979 General Election.

In this book David Block draws on analytical techniques from Critical Discourse Studies to critically investigate truth, truths, the propagation of ignorance and post-truth.

Global business management issues and concerns are complex, diverse, changing, and often intractable.

Visual Communication: From Theory to Practice explores how cultural theory can be applied to the real-world practice of graphic design.

This Handbook provides the first comprehensive examination of the influence industry and how it operates worldwide across different domains.

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