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Foundations of Global Communication
This book provides a wide-ranging theoretical and empirical overview of the disparate achievements and shortcomings of global communication. This exceptionally ambitious and systematic project takes a critical perspective on the globalization of communication. Uniquely, it sets media globalization alongside a plethora of other globalized forms of communication, ranging from the individual to groups, civil society groupings, commercial enterprises and political formations. The result is a sophisticated and impressive overview of globalized communication across various facets, assessing the phenomena for the extent to which they live up to the much-hyped claims of globalization’s potential t...
An Introduction to Multilingualism
This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before moving on to the key question of what multilingualism actually is and what is understood by terms such as 'mother tongue', 'native speaker', and 'speech community'. In the chapters that follow, Florian Coulmas systematically explores multilingualism with respect to the individual, institutions, cities, nations, and cyberspace. In each of these domains, the dynamics of language choice are undergoing changes as a result of economic, political, and cultural forces. Against this background, two chap...
Media as Procedures of Communication
The book explores the multifaceted nature of media and communication by challenging traditional views that consider media solely as technical infrastructures for transmitting information. Instead, it focuses on mediality as an empirically relevant concept and proposes to understand media as socially constituted semiotic procedures that shape and are shaped by communicative practices. The book is structured around this central idea, with four main sections. Part I examines digital environments, analyzing the interplay between multimodal approaches and mediality through case studies such as digital learning platforms and Zoom seminars. Part II focuses on journalistic procedures, investigating ...
Grundlagen der globalen Kommunikation
Globalisierung ist eine zentrale Vision unserer Zeit. Globale Kommunikation ist aber auch ein Konfliktfeld, in dem beharrende lokale Strukturen mit kosmopolitischen Formen der Weltbeobachtung und des Dialogs wechselwirken und Instabilität erzeugen. Ihre globale Vermittlungsfunktion erfüllen Politik, Wirtschaft und Medien noch nicht verlässlich. Menschen und Gesellschaften schwanken zwischen Vernetzung zu einer Weltgemeinschaft und nationaler Abschottung bis hin zu rassistischer Abwehr. Das Handbuch bietet die erste Gesamtübersicht aller wesentlichen Felder der globalen Kommunikation in organisierten Sozialsystemen (Massenmedien, Politik, Wirtschaft, Zivilgesellschaft) und Lebenswelten (Netzgemeinschaften, Kleingruppen, Individuum) auf einer einheitlichen und interdisziplinären theoretischen Basis.
Childcare Workers, Global Migration and Digital Media
This book explores the transnational mobility, everyday life and digital media use of childcare workers living and working abroad. Focusing specifically on Filipina, Indonesian, and Sri Lankan nannies in Europe, it offers insights as to the causes and implications of women’s mobility, using data drawn from ethnographic research examining transnational migration, work experiences, family, and relationships. While drawing attention to the hidden, largely invisible and marginalized lives of these women, this research reveals the ways in which digital media, especially the use of mobile phones and the Internet, empower them but also continue to reinforce existing power relations and inequalities. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives from media and communications, sociology, cultural studies and anthropology, the book combines theoretical perspectives with grounded case studies.
Global Warming in Local Discourses
Global news on anthropogenic climate change is shaped by international politics, scientific reports and voices from transnational protest movements. This timely volume asks how local communities engage with these transnational discourses.The chapters in this volume present a range of compelling case studies drawn from a broad cross-section of local communities around the world, reflecting diverse cultural and geographical contexts. From Greenland to northern Tanzania, it illuminates how different understandings evolve in diverse cultural and geographical contexts while also revealing some community.
"Emerging Church" – ein dekonversiver Konversationsraum
Etwas regt sich. Ein Wunsch nach Überleben, nein, nicht bloß nach Überleben, nach Blühen! Will man in einer Umwelt blühen, der selbst nicht ganz klar ist, warum gerade dieses Gewächs für sie relevant sein sollte, muss sich das Gewächs verändern, ja, transformieren. Das geschieht im Zurücklassen von Vertrautem und Aufnehmen von Unvertrautem. Das tut die im anglo-amerikanischen Raum aufgekommene "Emerging Church". Die Kirche greift nach Raum. Todjeras fragt sich erstmals für den deutschsprachigen Bereich, wie in der "Emerging Church"-Bewegung dekonversive Prozesse anregt werden.
Veränderung von Deutungsmustern und Schemata der Erfahrung
Anhand der Analyse von Therapiegesprächen nähert sich die Studie einer kognitiven Kultur-Soziologie an. Ulrike E. Schröder befasst sich in ihrer zentralen Fragestellung mit den Bedingungen, unter denen eine Veränderung von Deutungsmustern und Schemata der Erfahrung möglich wird. Dabei geht es um die Praktiken der Therapeuten, die eine Veränderung bei den Patienten bewirken sollen, um ihre Interaktion mit den Patienten und um die Komponenten und Dynamiken des Veränderungsprozesses selbst. Für die Beobachtung solcher Veränderungsprozesse werden vermittels Ethnomethodologie und Konversationsanalyse verschiedene Beobachtungsebenen und sprachliche Mittel eruiert. Die Autorin entwickelt zwei theoretische Konzepte: ein Konzept zur Unterscheidung von Kognition und Kommunikation und ein Konzept über (kognitive) Veränderungsprozesse und deren Bedingungen.
Invasion Biology
There are many hypotheses describing the interactions involved in biological invasions, but it is largely unknown whether they are backed up by empirical evidence. This book fills that gap by developing a tool for assessing research hypotheses and applying it to twelve invasion hypotheses, using the hierarchy-of-hypotheses (HoH) approach, and mapping the connections between theory and evidence. In Part 1, an overview chapter of invasion biology is followed by an introduction to the HoH approach and short chapters by science theorists and philosophers who comment on the approach. Part 2 outlines the invasion hypotheses and their interrelationships. These include biotic resistance and island susceptibility hypotheses, disturbance hypothesis, invasional meltdown hypothesis, enemy release hypothesis, evolution of increased competitive ability and shifting defence hypotheses, tens rule, phenotypic plasticity hypothesis, Darwin's naturalization and limiting similarity hypotheses and the propagule pressure hypothesis. Part 3 provides a synthesis and suggests future directions for invasion research.
Politeness in the History of English
From the Middle Ages up to the present day, this book traces politeness in the history of the English language.
