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Reinventing Professionalism: Journalism and News in Global Perspective
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Reinventing Professionalism: Journalism and News in Global Perspective

Current anxiety about the future of news makes it opportune to revisit the notion of professionalism in journalism. Media expert Silvio Waisbord takes this pressing issue as his theme and argues that “professional journalism” is both a normative and analytical notion. It refers to reporting that observes certain ethical standards as well as to collective efforts by journalists to exercise control over the news. Professionalism should not be narrowly associated with the normative ideal as it historically developed in the West during the past century.
 
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Tags: normative, notion, Professionalism, journalism, exercise
Context
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Context

Robert Stalnaker explores the notion of the context in which speech takes place, its role in the interpretation of what is said, and in the explanation of the dynamics of discourse. He distinguishes different notions of context, but the main focus is on the notion of context as common ground, where the common ground is an evolving body of background information that is presumed to be shared by the participants in a conversation.
 
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Tags: context, ground, notion, common, evolving
Grammatical Constructions: Back to the roots (Constructional Approaches to Language)
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Grammatical Constructions: Back to the roots (Constructional Approaches to Language)Grammatical Constructions: Back to the roots (Constructional Approaches to Language)

This volume brings into focus the conceptual roots of the notion ‘grammatical construction’ as the theoretical entity that constitutes the backbone of Construction Grammar, a unique grammatical model in which grammatical constructions have the status of elementary building blocks of human language. By exploring the analytic potential and applicability of this notion, the contributions illustrate some of the fundamental concerns of constructional research.
 
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Tags: grammatical, roots, notion, applicability, contributions, Grammatical, Language, Approaches
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
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Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the WorldReality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

People who spend hours playing video or online games are often maligned for “wasting their time” or “not living in the real world,” but McGonigal argues persuasively and passionately against this notion in her eminently effective examination of why games are important.
 
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Tags: games, effective, examination, eminently, notion, Reality, Change, World, Better
All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
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All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffreyAll the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

The dream of generations of Dragonriders draws within reach as, with the aid of an intelligent computer, the possibility of destroying the devastating phenomenon known as "Thread" becomes a reality. Having exposed Pern's civilization to technology in Renegades of Pern McCaffrey proceeds with her customary skill and humor to explore all the ramifications of culture shock. Despite some weaknesses in plot and an odd notion of time travel, the latest novel in a popular series will not lack for readers. Especially for libraries owning the previous Pern titles.
 
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Tags: McCaffrey, shock, Despite, weaknesses, culture, Weyrs, notion