search for books and compare prices
oral communication social aspects matches 9 work(s)
displaying 1 to 9 | at end
show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest
Cover for 9781138101043 Cover for 9780745653808 Cover for 9780745653815 Cover for 9780275984274 Cover for 9789042916128 Cover for 9780814782729 Cover for 9781588111883 Cover for 9789027226914 Cover for 9780415915878 Cover for 9780415915885 Cover for 9780679417118 Cover for 9780520075061
cover image for 9781138101043
Product Description: This book argues that many of the most prominent features of oral epic poetry in a number of traditions can best be understood as adaptations or stylizations of conversational language use, and advances the claim that if we can understand how conversation is structured, it will aid our understanding of oral traditions...read more

Hardcover:

9781138101043 | Routledge, December 1, 2015, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This book argues that many of the most prominent features of oral epic poetry in a number of traditions can best be understood as adaptations or stylizations of conversational language use, and advances the claim that if we can understand how conversation is structured, it will aid our understanding of oral traditions.

cover image for 9780745653808
Product Description: Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and humanism...read more

Hardcover:

9780745653808 | Polity Pr, April 1, 2013, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world.

Paperback:

9780745653815 | Polity Pr, April 1, 2013, cover price $19.95

cover image for 9780275984274
By Anthony Cortese and Richard Delgado (foreword by)

Hardcover:

9780275984274 | Praeger Pub Text, November 30, 2005, cover price $46.00

cover image for 9789042916128
Product Description: Le monde du travail a connu, au cours des dernieres decennies, un ensemble de mutations qui ont engendre une profonde transformation des taches, marquee notamment par l'importance croissante qu'y prennent les "activites langagieres" des travailleurs...read more
By Jean-Paul Bronckart (editor) and Laurent Filliettaz (editor)

Paperback:

9789042916128 | Peeters Bvba, September 1, 2005, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Le monde du travail a connu, au cours des dernieres decennies, un ensemble de mutations qui ont engendre une profonde transformation des taches, marquee notamment par l'importance croissante qu'y prennent les "activites langagieres" des travailleurs.

cover image for 9780814782729
Product Description: Destructive Messages argues that hate speech is dangerous not only when it poses an immediate threat of harm. It is also dangerous when it is systematically developed over time, becoming part of a culturally acceptable dialogue which can foster the persecution of minorities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780814782729 | New York Univ Pr, August 19, 2002, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Destructive Messages argues that hate speech is dangerous not only when it poses an immediate threat of harm.

cover image for 9789027226914
Product Description: This book proposes an original policy framework for addressing hate speech. Gelber argues that a policy designed to provide support to affected groups and communities to enable them to speak back when hate speech occurs, is a more useful way of addressing the harms of hate speech than punitive measures...read more

Hardcover:

9789027226914 | John Benjamins Pub Co, May 3, 2002, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: This book proposes an original policy framework for addressing hate speech.
9781588111883 | John Benjamins Pub Co, February 1, 2002, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: This book proposes an original policy framework for addressing hate speech.

cover image for 9780415915885
With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender, Judith Butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life, looking at several efforts to target speech as conduct that has become subject to political debate and regulation. Reviewing hate speech regulations, anti-pornography arguments, and recent controversies about gay self-declaration in the military, Judith Butler asks whether and how language acts in each of these cultural sites. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780415915878 | Routledge, February 1, 1997, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender, Judith Butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life, looking at several efforts to target speech as conduct that has become subject to political debate and regulation.

Paperback:

9780415915885 | Routledge, February 1, 1997, cover price $48.95

cover image for 9780679417118
Explains how the culture of electronic media is altering cognitive development and social interaction among today's youth, examining literacy in terms of the fundamental issues of personal identity and social alienation. 10,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780679417118 | Pantheon Books, October 1, 1994, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Explains how the electronic media are altering cognitive development and social interaction among youth, and examines literacy, personal identity, and social alienation

cover image for 9780520075061
Product Description: Talk is at the heart of everyday existence, yet social scientists have traditionally treated it as peripheral to human affairs and social structure. This collection of original essays offers a new and different perspective that sees talk as the fundamental framework of social interaction and social institutions...read more

Hardcover:

9780520075061 | Univ of California Pr, December 1, 1991, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Talk is at the heart of everyday existence, yet social scientists have traditionally treated it as peripheral to human affairs and social structure.

displaying 1 to 9 | at end