Noth leaves no stone unturned, combining historical analysis of its roots in structuralism from its Pierce, Morris, Saussure, Hjelmslev and Jakobson beginnings through Barthes, structuralism, Post and Neo structuralism to present day applications such as in drama, myth, ideology, rhetoric, nonverbal and visual communication(aesthetics, advertizing or comics for example). Very thorough, and useful I found for quick-to-reference definitions of terms, and placing the mass of scholarship within the field and correlating fields depending on its applications.
Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures (6th Edition)
Present a structured coverage regarding theory along with skills, presents readers intercultural abilities with a well-informed background and capabilities necessary to succeed in a multicultural environment nowadays. The mixture involving both useful and theoretical, that book audience will enjoy examining carefully learned and fashionable coverage from the impact involving technologies with intercultural communication and interpersonal deals revolutionary.
Structure Discovery in Natural Language (Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing)
Current language technology is dominated by approaches that either enumerate a large set of rules, or are focused on a large amount of manually labelled data. The creation of both is time-consuming and expensive, which is commonly thought to be the reason why automated natural language understanding has still not made its way into “real-life” applications yet.
Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes
The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former colonial territories on the other.
Semiotics: Theory and Applications (Languages and Linguistics: Media and Communications-Technologies, Policies and Challenges)
Semiotics is the study of sign processes (semiosis), or signification and communication, signs and symbols, and is usually divided into three branches: Semantics, Syntactics, and Pragmatics.
