An Overview of the Challenges in Climate Change Communication Across Various Audiences -- Climate change engagement: a different narrative -- When facts lie: The impact of misleading numbers in climate change news -- From awareness to action: taking into consideration the role of emotions and cognition for a stage toward a better communication of climate change -- Strengthening Personal Concern…
-- PART I: Written language and semiotics -- Chapter 1: Researching the representation of a crisis -- Chapter 2: Semiotic Discourse Analysis -- PART II: A Barthesian conceptualisation of written language -- Chapter 3: Theoretical foundations -- Chapter 4: Data collection and research principles -- Chapter 5: A Barthesian analysis of the BP data in four stages -- Chapter 6: Stage 1: Contextuali…
1. Introduction: “I Wish I Was a Bird” -- 2. Framing Transnational Family Communication: “It Feels like a Contradiction, Close and Far” -- 3. My Methodological Approach: “It Reminds Me of Lots of Things” -- 4. Cars and Schools and Heart is in Canada: Divergent Communication Pathways of Immigrant Women -- 5. The ICT-Based Networks of Highly Skilled Immigrant Women: “I Had Bigger Am…
Chapter 1: Peer Review in Academic Settings -- Chapter 2: The Genre of Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 3: Pragmatics and Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 4: Politeness and Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 5: Evaluation and Reviewers’ Reports -- Chapter 6: Learning to Do Peer Review -- Chapter 7: Implications for Reviewer Training -- Chapter 8: Conclusions.This book examines reports that are wri…
- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The disciplinary landscape -- Chapter 3. Understanding interdisciplinarity -- Chapter 4. Interdisciplinary interaction -- Chapter 5. Knowledge exchange in initial meetings -- Chapter 6. The collaborative construction of knowledge -- Chapter 7. Disciplinary identity -- Chapter 8. How leadership works -- Chapter 9. Conclusion.This book uncovers exactly what…
Plenary Talk I -- The Distributed Sensor Networks – An Emerging Technology -- Distributed Computing -- Distribute Computing Track Chair’s Message -- Network Protcols -- Efficient Binding Lifetime Determination Schemes in HMIPv6 -- A Fast Search and Advanced Marking Scheme for Network IP Traceback Model -- Design and Performance Evaluation of Token-Based MAC Protocols in WDM Burst Switched R…
Speech research overview -- Speech production and synthesis -- The voice source -- Speech analysis and features -- Speech perception -- Prosody.The overall aim of the book is to provide an integrated view of the separate stages of the speech chain, covering the production process, speech data analysis and speech perception. Analysis of information bearing elements of the speech signal have foun…
Foreword; Terence Lovat -- Introduction: Towards The Simultaneity Of IC?; Fred Dervin & Zehavit Gross -- PART I: ADDING TO PREVIOUS PERSPECTIVES: MAKING IC MORE EFFECTIVE? -- Chapter 1. Meta-Pragmatic Awareness And Intercultural Competence: The Role Of Reflection And Interpretation In Intercultural Mediation; Troy Mcconachy & Anthony J. Liddicoat -- Chapter 2. Intercultural Competence In Host S…
Natural and Multimodal Interactivity Engineering - Directions and Needs -- Natural and Multimodal Interactivity Engineering - Directions and Needs -- Making Dialogues More Natural: Empirical Work and Applied Theory -- Social Dialongue with Embodied Conversational Agents -- A First Experiment in Engagement for Human-Robot Interaction in Hosting Activities -- Annotation and Analysis of Multimodal…
PART ONE: PRESENTERS AND THEIR AUDIENCES -- 1. Making Presentations to Fellow Professionals: A Rationale -- 2. Before the Conference: General Planning Strategies -- 3. Developing Skill as a Presenter -- PART TWO: TYPES OF PRESENTATIONS -- 4. The One-Hour Workshop/Training -- 5. Poster Sessions and Research Roundtables -- 6. Presenting with a Group (Panel Discussions, Seminars, Forums) -- 7. An …