The present textbook is based on two preceding editions. In 1993, Jan Renkema published
his volume Discourse Studies: An Introductory Textbook, which was updated under the …

In Communicating, the anthropologist Ruth Finnegan considers the many and varied modes
through which we humans communicate and the multisensory resources we draw on. The …

English is increasingly becoming the world's lingua franca. If we are not native speakers of
one of the many varieties of English, then we may be students of English, or use English …

Qu'est-ce que la communication médiatisée par ordinateur change aux discussions
politiques profanes? Pour répondre à cette question, nous analysons diverses …

Many accounts of human communication suggest that we are limited to communicating
through words, visual images, the mass media and by digital means. This perspective …

This study explores how impoliteness affects Japanese bulletin board system (BBS)
communities. It finds that impoliteness, defined as intentional face-attack, has different …

The word of technology was derived from technique and logos, means knowledge about
methods or doing something (technical term). Technology refered to how-to-do an act or …

Suchmaschinen im WWW indexieren und durchsuchen Dokumente in großer
Geschwindigkeit. Trotz der quantitativ beeindruckenden Ergebnisse lässt dieQualität der …

Despite the growing interest in investigating learners' corpora, surprisingly little research has
been conducted on the language use of L2 writers and its relation to the gender and genres …

Whatever Media Studies 2.0 involves, one thing is certain, there is a need to confront and
deal with new technologies, most notably computers and computer networks. Despite the …