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  • 1
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    Book
    Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press
    ISBN: 0197261957
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 535 S.
    Series Statement: Proceedings of the British Academy 98
    DDC: 304.209415
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    Keywords: Soziologie ; Irland ; Nordirland ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316257012
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 295 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in emotion and social interaction. Second series
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    DDC: 302.2
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Expression ; Emotions ; Interpersonal communication ; Emotions / Social aspects ; Emotionales Verhalten ; Interpersonale Kommunikation ; Gefühl ; Ausdrucksverhalten ; Kommunikation ; Gefühl ; Kommunikation ; Interpersonale Kommunikation ; Ausdrucksverhalten ; Emotionales Verhalten
    Abstract: The modern world is forcing us to understand emotion in order to cope with new problems such as road rage and epidemic levels of depression, as well as age-old problems such as homicide, genocide and racial tension. At the same time, scholarly research is leading us to appreciate how emotion helps us to understand and transcend our selfish interests, to connect with others, to feel what is just and moral, and not just think it, and to construct societies and cultures that govern our joint efforts. This book draws upon scholarly research to address, explain and legitimize the role that emotion plays in everyday interaction and in many of the pressing social, moral, and cultural issues that we face today
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9780511488924
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 267 pages)
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    DDC: 302.23/45
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Television broadcasting / Social aspects ; Publikum ; Soziale Wirklichkeit ; Fernsehen ; Soziologie ; USA ; USA ; Fernsehen ; Publikum ; Soziologie ; Fernsehen ; Soziale Wirklichkeit
    Abstract: Television and its Viewers reviews 'cultivation' research, which investigates the relationship between exposure to television and beliefs about the world. James Shanahan and Michael Morgan, both distinguished researchers in this field, scrutinize cultivation through detailed theoretical and historical explication, critical assessments of methodology, and a comprehensive 'meta-analysis' of twenty years of empirical results. They present a sweeping historical view of television as a technology and as an institution. Shanahan and Morgan's study looks forward as well as back, to the development of cultivation research in a new media environment. They argue that cultivation theory offers a unique and valuable perspective on the role of television in twentieth-century social life. Television and its Viewers, the first book-length study of its type, will be of interest to students and scholars in communication, sociology, political science and psychology and contains an introduction by the seminal figure in this field, George Gerbner
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  • 4
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    Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press
    ISBN: 0194372146 , 9780194372145
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 134 S.
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series Statement: Oxford introductions to language study
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Anlambilim ; Cultuur ; Dil ve kültür ; Sosyolinguistik ; Taal ; Kultur ; Language and culture ; Semantics ; Sociolinguistics ; Sprache ; Kultur ; Englisch ; Soziolinguistik ; Einführung ; Einführung ; Einführung ; Sprache ; Kultur ; Englisch ; Soziolinguistik ; Englisch ; Kultur
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511470158
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 212 pages)
    Series Statement: Contemporary Japanese society
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    DDC: 306/.0952
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    Keywords: Popular culture / Japan ; Volkskultur ; Japan / Civilization / 1945- ; Japan ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Japan ; Volkskultur
    Abstract: Dolores Martinez heads an international team of scholars in this lively discussion of Japanese popular culture. The book's contributors include Japanese as well as British, Icelandic and North American writers, offering a diversity of views of what Japanese popular culture is, and how it is best approached and understood. They bring an anthropological perspective to a broad range of topics, including sumo, karaoke, manga, vampires, women's magazines, soccer and morning television. Through these topics - many of which have never previously been addressed by scholars - the contributors also explore several deeper themes: the construction of gender in Japan; the impact of globalisation and modern consumerism; and the rapidly shifting boundaries of Japanese culture and identity. This innovative study will appeal to those interested in Japanese culture, sociology and cultural anthropology
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Sumo in the popular culture of contemporary Japan , Transformational magic , Akira, postmodernism and resistance , Japan's empty orchestras , Vampires, psychic girls, flying women and sailor scouts , Japanese women's magazines , Nonchan's dream , Media stories of bliss and mixed blessings , Cult of Oguricap , Soccer shinhatsubai
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  • 6
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511663796
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 206 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in philosophy
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    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Grice, H. P. / (H. Paul) ; Grice, Herbert Paul ; Philosophie ; Sprache ; Implication (Logic) ; Speech acts (Linguistics) ; Language and languages / Philosophy ; Sprachphilosophie ; Implikatur ; Linguistik ; Implikation ; Grice, Herbert Paul 1913-1988 ; Implikation ; Linguistik ; Grice, Herbert Paul 1913-1988 ; Sprachphilosophie ; Grice, Herbert Paul 1913-1988 ; Implikatur
    Abstract: H. P. Grice virtually discovered the phenomenon of implicature (to denote the implications of an utterance that are not strictly implied by its content). Gricean theory claims that conversational implicatures can be explained and predicted using general psycho-social principles. This theory has established itself as one of the orthodoxes in the philosophy of language. Wayne Davis argues controversially that Gricean theory does not work. He shows that any principle-based theory understates both the intentionality of what a speaker implicates and the conventionality of what a sentence implicates. In developing his argument the author explains that the psycho-social principles actually define the social function of implicature conventions, which contribute to the satisfaction of those principles. This challenging book will be of importance to philosophers of language and linguists, especially those working in pragmatics and sociolinguistics
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Freedom a Eurasian Mosaic , Buddhism and Freedom , Freedom and Freehold: Space, People and State Simplification in Southeast Asia , China and Freedom , The Chinese Search for Freedom as a Universal Value , Freedom and the Family: Gendering Meiji Political Thought , Merdeka: The Concept of Freedom in Indonesia , Slavery and Modernity: Freedom in the Making of Modern Siam , The Idea of Freedom in Burma and the Political Thought of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi , Freedom and Elite Political Theory in Vietnam Before the French
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  • 7
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139163781
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 503 pages)
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: Cambridge approaches to linguistics
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    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Sociolinguistics ; Soziolinguistik ; Sprache ; Gesellschaft ; Soziolinguistik ; Gesellschaft ; Sprache
    Abstract: This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Downes' textbook is an accessible introduction to the social aspects of language and their various explanations. Topics covered include domains of language use, language change, code-switching, speech as social action, and the nature of meaning and understanding. This second edition includes an analysis of language standardisation, language conflict and planning
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9780511558191
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 183 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language 18
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    DDC: 306.44/089/992205986
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Wewewa (Indonesian people) / Rites and ceremonies ; Language and culture / Indonesia / Sumba Island ; Ethnology / Indonesia / Sumba Island ; Linguistic survey ; Ideology ; Wewewa dialect / Social aspects / Indonesia / Sumba Island ; Soziolinguistik ; Sumba ; Sumba ; Soziolinguistik
    Abstract: Indonesia's policy since independence has been to foster the national language. In some regions, local languages are still political rallying points, but their significance has diminished, and the rapid spread of Indonesian as the national language of political and religious authority has been described as the 'miracle of the developing world'. Among the Weyewa, on the island of Sumba, this shift has displaced a once vibrant tradition of ritual poetic speech, which until recently was an important source of authority, tradition, and identity. But it has also given rise to new and hybrid forms of poetic expression. This first study to analyse language change in relation to political marginality argues that political coercion or cognitive process of 'style reduction' may partially explain what has happened, but equally important in language shift is the role of linguistic ideologies
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Introduction , Place, identity, and the shifting forms of cultivated speech: a geography of marginality , Towering in rage and cowering in fear: emotion, self, and verbal expression in Sumba , Changing forms of political expression: the role of ideologies of audience completeness , Ideologies of personal naming and language shift , From miracles to classrooms: changing forms of erasure in the learning of ritual speech , Conclusions
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316036471
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 452 pages)
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    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Keywords: Umwelt ; Technological innovations / Environmental aspects ; Global environmental change ; Technik ; Technische Innovation ; Umwelt ; Umweltveränderung ; Technik ; Umweltveränderung ; Technische Innovation ; Umwelt
    Abstract: Technology and Global Change describes how technology has shaped society and the environment over the last 200 years. Technology has led us from the farm to the factory to the internet, and its impacts are now global. Technology has eliminated many problems, but has added many others (ranging from urban smog to the ozone hole to global warming). This book is the first to give a comprehensive description of the causes and impacts of technological change and how they relate to global environmental change. Written for specialists and nonspecialists alike, it will be useful for researchers and professors, as a textbook for graduate students, for people engaged in long-term policy planning in industry (strategic planning departments) and government (R & D and technology ministries, environment ministries), for environmental activists (NGOs), and for the wider public interested in history, technology, or environmental issues
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- pt. I. What is Technology? 2. Technology: Concepts and Definitions. 3. Technology: Models. 4. Technology: History -- pt. II. Technology and the Environment: Natural and Human. 5. Agriculture. 6. Industry. 7. Services -- pt. III. The Balance of Evidence. 8. Conclusion. 9. Postscript: From Data Muddles to Models. 10. Appendix
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  • 10
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139175074
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 334 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology
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    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Politik ; Mass media / Political aspects ; Mass media and public opinion ; Beeinflussung ; Politisches Verhalten ; Wahrnehmung ; Massengesellschaft ; Massenmedien ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Politische Einstellung ; Politisches Verhalten ; Massenmedien ; Wahrnehmung ; Beeinflussung ; Massengesellschaft ; Politische Einstellung ; Massengesellschaft ; Öffentliche Meinung
    Abstract: People's perceptions of the attitudes and experiences of mass collectives are an increasingly important force in contemporary political life. In Impersonal Influence, Mutz goes beyond simply providing examples of how impersonal influence matters in the political process to provide a micro-level understanding of why information about distant and impersonal others often influence people's political attitudes and behaviors. Impersonal Influence is worthy of attention both from the standpoint of its impact on contemporary politics, and because of its potential to expand the boundaries of our understanding of social influence processes, and media's relation to them. The book's conclusions do not exonerate media from the effects of inaccurate portrayals of collective experience or opinion, but they suggest that the ways in which people are influenced by these perceptions are in themselves, not so much deleterious to democracy as absolutely necessary to promoting accountability in a large scale society
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  • 11
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511620829
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 504 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Print version
    DDC: 306.44/0971
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    Keywords: Sociolinguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; Canada ; Canada ; Languages ; Canada Languages ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Language in Canada provides an up-to-date account of the linguistic and cultural situation in Canada, primarily from a sociolinguistic perspective. The strong central theme connecting language with group and identity will offer insights into the current linguistic and cultural tension in Canada. The book provides comprehensive accounts of the original 'charter' languages, French and English, as well as the aboriginal and immigrant varieties which now contribute to the overall picture. It explains how they came into contact - and sometimes into conflict - and looks at the many ways in which they weave themselves through and around the Canadian social fabric. The public policy issues, particularly official bilingualism and educational policy and language, are also given extensive coverage. Non-specialists as well as linguists will find in this volume, a companion to Language in Australia, Language in the USA and Language in the British Isles, an indispensable guide and reference to the linguistic heritage of Canada
    Abstract: Language in Newfoundland / Sandra Clarke
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  • 12
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    Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press
    ISBN: 0198204345 , 0198206860
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 336 S.
    DDC: 305.40942
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1780-1980 ; Frauenbewegung ; Frauenemanzipation ; Feminismus ; Großbritannien
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  • 13
    ISBN: 0198781725 , 0198781717
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 199 S. , Ill.
    Series Statement: Oxford modern Britain
    DDC: 302.230941
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    Keywords: Macht ; Massenmedien ; Großbritannien
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  • 14
    ISBN: 9781139052542
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 301 pages)
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute
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    DDC: 306.4/2/08931073
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; Geistesgeschichte 1933-1945 ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Germans / United States / History / 20th century ; Germans / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Brain drain / Germany / History / 20th century ; Brain drain / United States / History / 20th century ; Brain drain / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Deutscher Flüchtling ; Wissenschaftler ; Intellektueller ; Auswanderung ; Einwanderung ; Deutschland ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Germany / Emigration and immigration / History / 1933-1945 ; Germany / Emigration and immigration / History / 20th century ; United States / Intellectual life / 20th century ; Great Britain / Intellectual life / 20th century ; Deutschland ; USA ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Wissenschaftler ; Deutschland ; Einwanderung ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; USA ; Wissenschaftler ; Deutschland ; Einwanderung ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; USA ; Wissenschaftler ; Deutschland ; Einwanderung ; Geschichte 1933-1945 ; USA ; Deutscher Flüchtling ; Intellektueller ; Geistesgeschichte 1933-1945 ; Deutschland ; Wissenschaftler ; Auswanderung ; Geschichte 1933-1945
    Abstract: The dismissal of civil servants on racist or political grounds in April 1933 marked the beginning of a massive, forced exodus of mainly Jewish scholars and scientists from Nazi Germany - a phenomenon unprecedented in the modern history of academic life. The essays in this volume examine whether that 'exodus of reason' lead to significant scientific change, and if so, how that change should be characterised. The volume challenges the focus of earlier work on the 'intellectual migration' on losses (for German science) and gains (for British and American science). Instead, the authors proceed from the assumption that the sciences are open, dynamic, and historically contingent systems, and explore the multiple, complex interactions of biographical, social, and cultural circumstances with changes - or lack of change - in the émigrés' scientific thinking and research
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Forced migration and scientific change after 1933 , Identification of emigration-induced scientific change , Physics, life, and contingency : Born, Schrödinger, and Weyl in exile , Emigration from country and discipline : the journey of a German physicist into American photosythesis research , The impact of German medical scientists on British medicine : a case study of Oxford, 1933-45 , Emigré psychologists after 1933 : the cultural coding of scientific and professional practices , Psychoanalytic science : from Oedipus to culture , The impact of emigration on German pedagogy , Dismissal and emigration of German-speaking economists after 1933 , Emigration of social scientists' schools from Austria , The Vienna Circle in the United States and empirical research methods in sociology , From public law to political science? The emigration of German scholars after 1933 and their influence on the transformation of a discipline , The refugee scholar in America : the case of Paul Tillich
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  • 15
    ISBN: 0521473500 , 0521479126
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 365 Seiten , Diagramme
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Zweisprachigkeit ; Sprachwechsel ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511620942
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 251 Seiten)
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    DDC: 302.2/24
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    Keywords: Grammatik ; Oral communication ; Discourse analysis ; Reference (Linguistics) ; Grammar, Comparative and general / Deixis ; Referenz ; Konversationsanalyse ; Mündliche Kommunikation ; Deixis ; Englisch ; Hörverstehen ; Diskursanalyse ; Englisch ; Konversationsanalyse ; Hörverstehen ; Diskursanalyse ; Mündliche Kommunikation ; Referenz ; Diskursanalyse ; Mündliche Kommunikation ; Deixis
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  • 17
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511521164
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages)
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    DDC: 398.2/096
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Politik ; Oral tradition / Africa ; Folklore / Africa ; Narrative poetry, African ; Power (Social sciences) / Africa ; Social structure / Africa ; Marginality, Social / Africa ; Literatur ; Sozialstruktur ; Mündliche Überlieferung ; Volksliteratur ; Mündliche Literatur ; Macht ; Randgruppe ; Afrika ; Africa / Politics and government ; Africa / Social life and customs ; Afrika ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Konferenzschrift 1991 ; Konferenzschrift 1991 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Literatur ; Mündliche Überlieferung ; Afrika ; Sozialstruktur ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Volksliteratur ; Afrika ; Randgruppe ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Mündliche Literatur ; Afrika ; Macht
    Abstract: African oral literature, like other forms of popular culture, is not merely folksy, domestic entertainment but a domain in which individuals in a variety of social roles are free to comment on power relations in society. It can also be a significant agent of change capable of directing, provoking, preventing, overturning and recasting social reality. This collection examines the way in which oral texts both reflect and affect contemporary social and political life in Africa. It addresses questions of power, gender, the dynamics of language use, the representation of social structures and the relation between culture and the state. The contributors are linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnomusicologists and historians, who present fresh material and ideas to paint a lively picture of current real-life situations. The book is an important contribution to the study of African culture and literature, and to the anthropological study of oral literature in particular
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: power, marginality and oral literature / Graham Furniss and Liz Gunner -- 2. Oral art and contemporary cultural nationalism / Penina Mlama -- 3. The letter and the law: the politics of orality and literacy in the chiefdoms of the northern Transvaal / Isabel Hofmeyr -- 4. A king is not above insult: the politics of good governance in Nzema avudwene festival songs / Kofi Agovi -- 5. Igbo enwe eze: monarchical power versus democratic values in Igbo oral narratives / Chukwuma Azuonye -- 6. Tales and ideology: the revolt of sons in Bambara-Malinke tales / Veronika Gorog-Karady -- 7. Images of the powerful in Lyela folktales / Sabine Steinbrich -- 8. Power, marginality and Somali oral poetry: case studies in the dynamics of tradition / John William Johnson -- 9. The function of oral art in the regulation of social power in Dyula society / Jean Derive -- 10. The power of words and the relation between Hausa genres / Graham Furniss
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  • 18
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511519864
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 234 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language 16
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    Keywords: Literacy / Tuvalu ; Language and culture / Tuvalu ; Lesekultur ; Schreiben ; Kultur ; Tuvalu ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Tuvalu ; Schreiben ; Tuvalu ; Lesekultur ; Tuvalu ; Kultur
    Abstract: Literacy continues to be a central issue in anthropology, but methods of perceiving and examining it have changed in recent years. In this 1995 study Niko Besnier analyses the transformation of Nukulaelae from a non-literate into a literate society using a contemporary perspective which emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded in a socio-cultural context. He shows how a small and isolated Polynesian community, with no access to print technology, can become deeply steeped in literacy in little more than a century, and how literacy can take on radically divergent forms depending on the social and cultural needs and characteristics of the society in which it develops. His case study, which has implications for understanding literacy in other societies, illuminates the relationship between norm and practice, between structure and agency, and between group and individual
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , The ethnographic context , The domains of reading and writing , Letter writing and reading , Letters, economics and emotionality , Between literacy and orality: the sermon , Literacy, truth and authority
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511563706
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 422 pages)
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    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Technology assessment / Congresses ; Technology assessment / Europe / Congresses ; Nuclear energy / Social aspects / Congresses ; Information technology / Social aspects / Congresses ; Biotechnology / Social aspects / Congresses ; Neue Technologie ; Technik ; Kernenergie ; Informationstechnik ; Biotechnologie ; Risikoanalyse ; Widerstand ; Technikbewertung ; Europa ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Biotechnologie ; Technikbewertung ; Kernenergie ; Technikbewertung ; Technik ; Risikoanalyse ; Biotechnologie ; Widerstand ; Kernenergie ; Widerstand ; Neue Technologie ; Technikbewertung ; Informationstechnik ; Technikbewertung
    Abstract: This book compares resistance to technology across time, nations, and technologies. Three post-war examples - nuclear power, information technology, and biotechnology - are used in the analysis. The focus is on post-1945 Europe, with comparisons made with the USA, Japan, and Australia. Instead of assuming that resistance contributes to the failure of a technology, the main thesis of the book is that resistance is a constructive force in technological development, giving technology its particular shape in a particular context. Whilst many people still believe in the positive contribution made by science and technology, many have become sceptical. By exploring the idea that modernity creates effects that undermine its own foundations, forms and effects of resistance are explored in various contexts. The book presents a unique interdisciplinary study, including contributions from historians, sociologists, psychologists, and political scientists
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Resistance to new technology and its effects on nuclear power, information technology and biotechnology , The crisis of 'Progress' , Reinterpreting 'Luddism': resistance to new technology in the British Industrial Revolution , The changeability of public opinions about new technology: assimilation effects in attitude surveys , 'Technophobia': a misleading conception of resistance to new technology , Patterns of resistance to new technologies in Scandinavia: an historical perspective , Henry Ford's relationship to 'Fordism': ambiguity as a modality of technological resistance , Resistance to nuclear technology: optimists, opportunists and opposition in Australian nuclear history , New technology in Fleet Street, 1975-80 , The impact of resistance to biotechnology in Switzerland: a sociological view of the recent referendum , The politics of resistance to new technology: semiconductor diffusion in France and Japan until 1965 , User resistance to new interactive media: participants, processes and paradigms , The impact of anti-nuclear power movements in international comparison , In the engine of industry: regulators of biotechnology, 1970-86 , Product, process, or programme: three cultures and the regulation of biotechnology , Learning from Chernobyl for the fight against genetics? Stages and stimuli of German protest movements -- a comparative synopsis , Individual and institutional impacts upon press coverage of sciences: the case of nuclear power and genetic engineering in Germany , Forms of intrusion: comparing resistance to information technology and biotechnology in the USA , Towards a functional analysis of resistance
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511519871
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 428 Seiten) , Diagramme
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    Keywords: Register (Linguistics) ; Contrastive linguistics ; Elliceanisch ; Sprachliche Universalien ; Sprachvariante ; Somali ; Koreanisch ; Englisch ; Kontrastive Linguistik ; Register ; Englisch ; Register ; Somali ; Koreanisch ; Elliceanisch ; Register ; Sprachvariante ; Sprachliche Universalien ; Register ; Kontrastive Linguistik
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