Second edition first published 1994 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New …

This fourth edition of Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts is an
indispensible guide to the most important terms in the field. It offers clear explanations of the …

Much of everyday work is done through talk between practitioner and client. Conversation
Analysis is the close inspection of people's use of language in interaction. The work reported …

This article evaluates more than a dozen vocabulary learning techniques for students of a
second or foreign language. These techniques are divided into four broad categories …

The objective of this study is to examine the similarities and differences in the realization
patterns and the perceptions of refusals by educated, male native speakers of Mexican …

Page 1 CAPTURING THE COMPLEXITY OF CONFLICT Dealing with Violent Ethnic Conflicts of
the Post-Cold War Era Dennis JD Sandole Foreword by Christopher R. Mitchell Page 2 Page …

Interactional Competence (IC) involves speakers' ability to make social actions recognizable
to one another while taking into account individual identities and social role relationships …

This study investigates issues of reliability and validity in pragmatics research and examines
the extent to which role-play data approximate naturally-occurring discourse with respect to …

This article introduces the concept of synthetic cultures. These are role profiles for enacting
dimensions of national culture. The full profiles are given for 10 synthetic cultures, based on …

People play a central role in intelligent manufacturing systems because of two reasons: their
knowledge is indispensable to create and improve intelligent manufacturing systems; and …