This book prepares today's readers to successfully navigate our increasingly global community, introducing communication skills and concepts that will enable readers to interact successfully with different cultures and ethnic groups. Jandt offers unique insights into intercultural communication, at home and abroad, through an emphasis on history, culture, and popular media.

‘Er zijn ontzettend veel letters en het worden er steeds meer. Je komt ze tegen op de gekste plekken, vaak enigszins vermomd maar toch nog herkenbaar: appjes, boeken, contracten, dagbladen, e-mails, facturen, gevels, huiswerk, incunabelen, jaarverslagen, kerstkaarten, liefdesbrieven, manuscripten, notitieboekjes, ondertitels, poëzie, quotes, romans, stembiljetten, T-shirts, uittreksels, verhandelingen, websites, xeroxkopieën, ijspapiertjes, yoghurtpakken, zerken.’

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Media and Communication traces the historical development of media and communication studies in the 20th century, forming an invaluable resource for students across the discipline as well as cultural studies and sociology.

Ethnographic fieldwork is something which is often presented as mysterious and inexplicable. How do we know certain things after having done fieldwork? Are we sure we know? And what exactly do we know? This book describes ethnographic fieldwork as the gradual accumulation of knowledge about something you don't know much about. We start from ignorance and gradually move towards knowledge, on the basis of practices for which we have theoretical and methodological motivations.

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Een dun Frans literatuur boek geschreven door Goscinny-Sempe. Het gaat over een Franse schooljongen in de jaren zestig.

Subtitling: Concepts and Practices provides students, researchers and practitioners with a research-based introduction to the theory and practice of subtitling. It offers access to a professional desktop subtitle editor, Wincaps Q4, and a leading cloud-based subtitling platform, OOONA.

A timely and provocative exploration of contemporary political communication from a world-leading author team. In an age of "fake news" and Youtube algorithms it can be tempting to see politics as all mediation, but this book refocuses on the broader contexts or neoliberalism, elites, populism, activism and so on. There's more to Trump than Twitter.

This resource looks at every aspect of intercultural communication from extensive number of insightful angles, including of contexts such as cultural or ethnic, geographic and situational, covering both verbal and non-verbal interaction, alongside a range of theories and perceptions. The 8th edition continues to be a proven resource for media, culture and communications students.

An accessible yet in-depth introductory textbook on the basic concepts of phonetics, fully updated and revised

This broad, interdisciplinary textbook investigates how speech can be written down, how speech is produced, its acoustic characteristics, and how listeners perceive speech. Phonetics: Transcription, Production, Acoustics, and Perception introduces readers to the fundamental concepts of the discipline, providing coverage of all four areas of phonetics. This comprehensive textbook also...