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New Media and Popular Imagination - Launching Radio, Television, and Digital Media in the United States - Bok av William ( Boddy - Inbunden

Introduction; 1. Cinema and Wireless in Turn of the Century Imagination; 2. The Wireless Nation: Defining Radio as a Domestic Technology; 3. The Amateur, the Housewife, and the Salesroom Floor: The Hesitations of Postwar US TV; 4. US Television Abroad: 1960 - 1990; 5.

SEK 1036.00

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The Philosophy of Rhythm : Aesthetics, Music, Poetics

With original essays by philosophers, psychologists, musicians, literary critics, and ethno-musicologists, The Philosophy of Rhythm offers a broad perspective on rhythm-the fundamental pulse that animates music, dance, and poetry across all cultures.

SEK 1727.00

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The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 1 - Bok av Alice Dunbar-Nelson - Inbunden

These works are as multi-faceted as their writer, who was a teacher, editor, public speaker, and campaign manager of mixed white, black, and Indian descent, born in New Orleans in 1875.

SEK 1186.00

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Learning from Words - Testimony as a Source of Knowledge - Bok av Jennifer (Northwestern University) Lackey - Inbunden

Jennifer Lackey reshapes the vigorous current debate on testimony by showing that the standard view of the transmission of knowledge by testimony is fundamentally misguided. Her radical new theory holds that testimony is itself an irreducible source of new knowledge, to which both speaker and hearer contribute.

SEK 1730.00

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Pragmatics - A Slim Guide - Bok av Betty J. (Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science Birner - Inbunden

This book offers a concise but comprehensive entry-level guide to the study of meaning in context. Betty Birner explores how we understand the difference between the literal meaning of what is said and what was intended by the speaker, using a wide range of real-life examples.

SEK 1226.00

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About the Speaker - Towards a Syntax of Indexicality - Bok av Alessandra (Professor of Linguistics Giorgi - Inbunden

Alessandra Giorgi considers the semantic and syntactic nature of indexicals - linguistic expressions, as in I, you, this, that, yesterday, tomorrow, whose reference shifts from utterance to utterance. Carefully argued and clearly written her book will appeal widely to semanticists in linguistics and philosophy.

SEK 1660.00

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The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification - Register and Social Meaning - Bok av Elin (Professor of Linguistics McCready - Inbunden

This book explores the semantics and pragmatics of honorifics, expressions that indicate the degree of formality that a speaker feels is required in interacting with another person. The analysis is applied to a variety of empirical examples, particularly from Japanese and Thai, and explores a wide range of related philosophical issues.

SEK 1297.00

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Complex Inferiorities - The Poetics of the Weaker Voice in Latin Literature - Bok - Inbunden

The deliberate adoption of a 'weaker' voice by a speaker not obliged to do so is a widespread phenomenon in Latin literature. This volume traces this strategy across a range of genres, periods, and authors, exploring how it establishes, perpetuates, and challenges hierarchies and values in very different literary and cultural-political contexts.

SEK 1600.00

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The Perception of Speech - from sound to meaning - Bok - Inbunden

Humans are unique in being able to convey such complex information using speech, and in the range of ideas, thoughts and emotions that can be expressed. This crossdisciplinary book explores how the motor gestures of a speaker are transformed to sounds and how those are mapped onto meaning in the comprehension of spoken language.

SEK 2030.00

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Gertrude Bell and Iraq - A life and legacy - Bok - Inbunden

Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was a key figure in the setting up of the Iraqi state and monarchy after the First World War. Arabist, Persian speaker, scholar, and traveller, she was an imperial administrator with a deep concern for the archaeological heritage of Iraq. Her legacy endures both in the shape of the Iraqi state and also in the Iraq Museum.

SEK 1206.00

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The Morphosyntax of Complement-Head Sequences - Clause Structure and Word Order Patterns in Kwa - Bok av Enoch Olade (Professor of Linguistics Aboh -

This is the first book on the syntax of the Niger-Congo language family, which includes most of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Aboh, who is a native speaker of one of the languages (Gungbe) discussed, analyses different aspects of the syntax of the Kwa language group. Aboh also suggests how grammatical pictures for these languages can shed some light on Universal Grammar in general.

SEK 2040.00

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Excited States and Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine - Contributions from Flash Photolysis and Pulse Radiolysis - Bok av R. V. (Directeur de Reche

This book is a synthesis of the key developments in research on excited states and free radicals bringing together theory and research results in biomedical systems. The authors are noted in this field and the text will appeal to those engaged in research on anti-cancer therapies and also on light- and radiation-induced dermatological problems.

SEK 1620.00

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The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume I: The Birth of Broadcasting - Bok av Asa (Vice-President Briggs - Inbunden

Part of a five-volume history of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, this title covers early amateur experiments in wireless telephony in America and in England, the pioneer days at Writtle in Essex and elsewhere, and the coming of organized broadcasting and its rapid growth during the first four years of the BBC's existence as a private Company.

SEK 1166.00

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The Resurrection of Rights in Poland - Bok av Jacek (formerly Deputy Speaker of the first democratically elected Polish Parliament & Dean of the Facul

This study deals with the social, political and normative changes of recent decades in Poland, and aims to synthesize the empirical evidence of the normative aspects, as reflected in attitudes and action, with a theoretical interpretation of this historic process.

SEK 1526.00

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Truth, Language, and History - Philosophical Essays Volume 5 - Bok av Donald ((1917-2003) formerly Department of Philosophy Davidson - Inbunden

Truth, Language, and History is the much-anticipated final volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. In four groups of essays, Davidson continues to explore the themes that occupied him for more than fifty years: the relations between language and the world; speaker intention and linguistic meaning; language and mind; mind and body; mind and world; mind and other minds. He asks: what is the role of the concept of truth in these explorations? And, can a scientific world view make room for..

SEK 1950.00

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The Wireless Past - Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931-1968 - Bok av Emily C. (Columbia University) Bloom - Inbunden

Emily Bloom chronicles the emergence of the British Broadcasting Corporation as a significant promotional platform and aesthetic influence for Irish modernism from the 1930s to the 1960s. She situates the works of W.B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Louis MacNeice, and Samuel Beckett in the context of the media environments that shaped their works.

SEK 1456.00

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Wireless and Empire - Geopolitics, Radio Industry, and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939 - Bok av Aitor (Research Fellow at the Basque Museu

This is the first book to study the relations between radio industry, atmospheric sciences and the British Empire throughout the interwar period.The result is a book displaying an exceptionally high order of originality, authority, and range, over an impressive diversity of national contexts, with Britain as the main focus.

SEK 1420.00

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