Talk That Counts

Author : Ronald K. S. Macaulay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190291679

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Talk that Counts by Ronald K. S. Macaulay Pdf

Talk That Counts is a sociolinguistic study of variation in discourse employing quantitative methods to explore age, gender, and social class differences in the use of features such as you know, I mean, adverbs, and pronouns. Unlike many studies of discourse variation that focus on a single social factor, Talk That Counts examines age, gender, and social class differences in a gender-balanced sample of middle-class and working-class adolescents and adults, recorded under the same conditions. Differences between adults and adolescents provided the greatest number of statistically significant results, followed by differences between males and females. The smallest number of statistically significant differences were related to social class. The range of variation underlines the need to look at more than a single extra-linguistic variable when examining discourse. It also shows the dangers of generalizing about social class, for example, on the basis of a limited sample (e.g., adolescent boys). In Talk That Counts, distinguished sociolinguist Ronald Macaulay presents an important new approach to the sociolinguistic investigation of discourse variation.

Author : Ronald K. S. Macaulay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198038757

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Talk that Counts by Ronald K. S. Macaulay Pdf

Talk That Counts is a sociolinguistic study of variation in discourse employing quantitative methods to explore age, gender, and social class differences in the use of features such as you know, I mean, adverbs, and pronouns. Unlike many studies of discourse variation that focus on a single social factor, Talk That Counts examines age, gender, and social class differences in a gender-balanced sample of middle-class and working-class adolescents and adults, recorded under the same conditions. Differences between adults and adolescents provided the greatest number of statistically significant results, followed by differences between males and females. The smallest number of statistically significant differences were related to social class. The range of variation underlines the need to look at more than a single extra-linguistic variable when examining discourse. It also shows the dangers of generalizing about social class, for example, on the basis of a limited sample (e.g., adolescent boys). In Talk That Counts, distinguished sociolinguist Ronald Macaulay presents an important new approach to the sociolinguistic investigation of discourse variation.

Author : F. Paul Wilson
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Other Sandboxes by F. Paul Wilson Pdf

Pastiche…sounds like something you might eat…but the official definition is “an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period.” A pastiche can be respectful or can descend to parody. Over the course of his long career F. Paul Wilson often has been invited to work with the characters and realms created by iconic writers in varied genres. Usually he would decline, but sometimes the temptation to play in a favorite author’s sandbox was too great and he gave in. As a fan of all the chosen authors, he approached the characters and worlds they created with the greatest respect. So in that sense, his pastiches are also homages. H. P. Lovecraft, Mary W. Shelley, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sax Rohmer, Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Conan Doyle…who could say no to working with their creations? You’ll find them all and more in Other Sandboxes: Stories with Characters and Places Shared with Writers Living and Dead by F. Paul Wilson.

Author : Jennifer Mandelbaum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135652845

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Studies in Language and Social Interaction by Jennifer Mandelbaum Pdf

This collection offers empirical studies and theoretical essays about human communication in everyday life. The writings come from many of the world's leading researchers and cut across academic boundaries, engaging scholars and teachers from such disciplines as communication, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and education. Chapters emphasize empirical, qualitative studies of people's everyday uses of talk-in-interaction, and they feature work in such areas as sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, and ethnography. The volume is dedicated to and highlights themes in the work of the late Robert Hopper, an outstanding scholar in communication who pioneered research in Language and Social Interaction (LSI). The contributors examine various features of human interaction (such as laughter, vocal repetition, and hand gestures) occurring naturally within a variety of settings (at a dinner table, a doctor's office, an automotive repair shop, and so forth), whereby interlocutors accomplish aspects of their interpersonal or institutional lives (resolve a disagreement, report bad medical news, negotiate a raise, and more), all of which may relate to larger social issues (including police brutality, human spirituality, death, and optimism). The chapters in this anthology show that social life is largely a communicative accomplishment and that people constitute the social realities experienced every day through small and subtle ways of communicating, carefully orchestrated but commonly taken for granted. In showcasing the diversity of contemporary LSI research, this volume is appropriate for scholars and graduate students in language and social interaction, communication, sociology, research methods, qualitative research methods, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, linguistics, and related areas.

Author : Roi Cohen Kadosh,Ann Dowker
Publisher : Oxford Library of Psychology
Page : 1217 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199642342

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The Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition by Roi Cohen Kadosh,Ann Dowker Pdf

How do we understand numbers? Do animals and babies have numerical abilities? Why do some people fail to grasp numbers, and how we can improve numerical understanding? Numbers are vital to so many areas of life: in science, economics, sports, education, and many aspects of everyday life from infancy onwards. Numerical cognition is a vibrant area that brings together scientists from different and diverse research areas (e.g., neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, anthropology, education, and neuroscience) using different methodological approaches (e.g., behavioral studies of healthy children and adults and of patients; electrophysiology and brain imaging studies in humans; single-cell neurophysiology in non-human primates, habituation studies in human infants and animals, and computer modeling). While the study of numerical cognition had been relatively neglected for a long time, during the last decade there has been an explosion of studies and new findings. This has resulted in an enormous advance in our understanding of the neural and cognitive mechanisms of numerical cognition. In addition, there has recently been increasing interest and concern about pupils' mathematical achievement in many countries, resulting in attempts to use research to guide mathematics instruction in schools, and to develop interventions for children with mathematical difficulties. This handbook brings together the different research areas that make up the field of numerical cognition in one comprehensive and authoritative volume. The chapters provide a broad and extensive review that is written in an accessible form for scholars and students, as well as educationalists, clinicians, and policy makers. The book covers the most important aspects of research on numerical cognition from the areas of development psychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and rehabilitation, learning disabilities, human and animal cognition and neuroscience, computational modeling, education and individual differences, and philosophy. Containing more than 60 chapters by leading specialists in their fields, the Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition is a state-of-the-art review of the current literature.

Author : Raymond Lombard
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557327058

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More Like Brothers by Raymond Lombard Pdf

Author : J. Storer Clouston
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547023418

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Count Bunker by J. Storer Clouston Pdf

Count Bunker is a novel by J. Storer Clouston. It depicts the humorous escapades of a Count in his aristocratic milieu, using wit and humor when dealing with dilemmas in the upper echelons of society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015080132064

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Railway Signaling and Communications by Anonim Pdf

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1663620407

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Count Me In by Perfection Learning Corporation Pdf

Author : Henri Meilhac,Jacques Offenbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Operas
ISBN : HARVARD:32044044302818

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Barbe-bleue by Henri Meilhac,Jacques Offenbach Pdf

Author : Helen Salter
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781848123267

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Does Glitter Count as Camouflage? by Helen Salter Pdf

‘So, are you going out with him now or what?’ Poppy asked.‘I don’t know.’ I thought about it. ‘I guess I’ll see him soon and we’ll talk about it.’‘Will you be all elusive and distant and coy?’‘Erm . . .’‘Or maybe just avoid him until he goes mad with lust for you?’Gorgeous Luke has just kissed Holly Stockwell. She’s had a crush on him forever. Maybe he’s finally noticed that Holly’s not just his sister’s best friend!But, before anything else can happen, Holly and Poppy go off to Cornwall for a group camping holiday. Will Luke be waiting for Holly when she gets back? And, when having the right image seems so important, will Holly be brave enough to drop the camouflage and be herself?

Author : W. McDowell
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351091039

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Liquid Scintillation Alpha Spectrometry by W. McDowell Pdf

Alpha liquid scintillation was developed to obtain accurate analytical determinations of alpha-emitting nuclides where no other methods were sufficiently accurate. With the present emphasis on clean-up of radiation contamination, alpha liquid scintillation has become an important tool in the determination of low concentrations of alpha-emitting nuclides. This book is the first to address the subject of alpha liquid scintillation in its entirety. It also examines how alpha spectrometry by liquid scintillation can be done without interference from beta/gamma radiation. Scientists interested in the analysis of alpha-emitting nuclides for environmental monitoring, remediation clean-up, accountability, and research will find this to be a valuable book.

Author : George E. Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11001388

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Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, With Notices of his Daughter by George E. Ellis Pdf

Author : E. Phillips Oppenheim
Publisher : Aeterna Classics
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783964542489

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The Pawns Count by E. Phillips Oppenheim Pdf

Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946), was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers. Featured on the cover of Time magazine in 1918, he was the self-styled "prince of storytellers. " He composed more than a hundred novels, mostly of the suspense and international intrigue nature, as well as romances, comedies, and parables of everyday life. Perhaps Oppenheim's most enduring creation is the character of General Besserley, the protagonist of General Besserley's Puzzle Box and General Besserley's New Puzzle Box (one of his last works). His work possesses a unique charm, featuring protagonists who delight in Epicurean meals, surroundings of intense luxury, and the relaxed pursuit of criminal practice, on either side of the law. His first novel was about England and Canada, called Expiation (1887); followed by such titles as The Betrayal (1904), The Avenger (1907), The Governors (1908), The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton (1913), An Amiable Charlatan (1915), The Black Box (1915), The Double Traitor (1915), The Cinema Murder (1917), The Box with Broken Seals (1919), The Devil's Paw (1920) and The Evil Shepherd (1922).

Author : Leo Tolstoi
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732632336

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The Complete Works of Count Tolstoi by Leo Tolstoi Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Complete Works of Count Tolstoi by Leo Tolstoi