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A British officer falls in love with a Chinese rickshaw coolie as Singapore falls to the Japanese; a singing teacher despairs when his student insists on singing Wagner at her debut recital; and a workman from Bangladesh struggles to cope so far from home: just a few of the characters in this collection of twelve tragicomic stories about Singapore, previously published in Singaporean and South East Asian literary journals. What people are saying: 'Daniel Emlyn-Jones' Eastlit work exhibits a great sensitivity to local culture, which he brings to life in his writing.' Graham Lawrence, co-founder and chief editor of Eastlit, a literary journal for South East Asia. 'Daniel Emlyn-Jones writes with great clarity, sincerity, and cultural sensitivity. His stories made me laugh and made me cry.' Dr. Jock Wong, Lecturer, Centre for English Language Communication, National University of Singapore. Author of 'The Culture of Singapore English'.
This volume examines agenda-setting theory as it applies to the news media’s influence on corporate reputation. It presents interdisciplinary, international, and empirical investigations examining the relationship between corporate reputation and the news media throughout the world. Providing coverage of more than twenty-five countries, contributors write about their local media and business communities, representing developed, emerging, and frontier markets – including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Germany, Greece, Japan, Nigeria, Spain, and Turkey, among others. The chapters present primary and secondary research on various geo-political issues, the nature of the news media, the pra...
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This is an excellent collection of papers dealing with combinatorics on words, codes, semigroups, automata, languages, molecular computing, transducers, logics, etc., related to the impressive work of Gabriel Thierrin. This volume is in honor of Professor Thierrin on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Contents: Some Operators on Families of Fuzzy Languages and Their Monoids (P R J Asveld); Liars, Demons, and Chaos (C S Calude et al.); Conditional Grammars with Restrictions by Syntactic Parameters (J Dassow); Circularity and Other Invariants of Gene Assembly in Ciliates (A Ehrenfeucht et al.); Catenation Closed Pairs and Forest Languages (C-M Fan & H-J Shyr); Valence Grammars with Target Sets...