Successfully combing an academically robust account of the major theories and models of leadership, this text uses a consistent format for each chapter so students can compare the various theories. ...More info...
This book provides an outline of listening theory, offers practical listening methods, and presents how metacognitive instruction can be integrated into real lesson practice. A useful resource for academics, educators, and curriculum designers in...More info...
Series: Developments in English as a Lingua Franca [DELF]
(Pub. Date: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783111294667)
This book explores the possibilities of designing, implementing, and evaluating an English language teaching programme based on research in English as a lingua franca (ELF). Drawing on the editors and authors experiences in applying ELF research to...More info...
Based on Soviet narratology, this book offers a genealogy of spatial, user-centric story design and its current applications as a counternarrative to agonal games, classical novels and cinema. It will appeal to performance art, game design, interact...More info...
(Pub. Date: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111736846)
This volume offers a detailed description of how media propaganda shapes public perception in conflict zones, drawing on key communication theories like framing and agenda-setting. It analyzes disinformation campaigns by Hamas and Israel, showing...More info...
Becoming Digital Citizens explores the relationship between disability, citizenship, and information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the Chinese context. Based on rich empirical evidence, this book examines the citizenship status of...More info...
Learners are always motivated; they just may not be motivated to learn what you want them to. This book shows leaders and trainers how to foster learner engagement in workplace training contexts, using the powerful construct of motivational immedi...More info...
Learners are always motivated; they just may not be motivated to learn what you want them to. This book shows leaders and trainers how to foster learner engagement in workplace training contexts, using the powerful construct of motivational immedi...More info...
This book examines how Black women navigate and reclaim space in a city often deemed unlivable for them. Through personal stories and community case studies, it highlights fearless speech, love, and community as tools for resistance and collective li...More info...
The second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Media Psychology explores facets of human behavior, thoughts, and feelings experienced in the context of media use and creation. The volume spans foundational theories and methodological approaches, prese...More info...
Welfare racism is a combination of racial discrimination in the welfare system and racist discourses used in the name of the welfare state. Presenting a global overview of discourses of welfare racism across the world by institutional actors, publ...More info...
Russia, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, North Korea and India are engaged in foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) in the democratic practices of countries in Europe, America, Africa and Asia. The Ukraine, in particular, has...More info...
Drawing on expertise from communication scholars who examine resilience within and across individual, relational, group/team, organizational, inter-organizational, and community levels, this handbook provides a wide-ranging resource for theory bui...More info...
This edited volume is the fifth in the Japan Decides series and the premier venue for scholarly research on the 2024 general election for the Japanese House of Representa...More info...
(Pub. Date: 14-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271096780)
Almost one hundred years have passed since Walter Lippmann and John Dewey published their famous reflections on the problems of the public, but their thoughts remain surprisingly relevant as resources for thinking through our current crisis-plagued...More info...
As the first comprehensive book on theorizing indigenous Nigerian knowledge systems in communication, media and culture, this seminal work seeks to excavate, reclaim and recenter indigenous knowledge and pe...More info...
This book examines the experiences of single professionals living in shared housing in London, focusing on how language, communication, and social inequalities shape these living arrangements. It frames shared housing not only as an economic condi...More info...
This book offers a comprehensive account of social media as a tool for connecting the world, and how its ameboid growth pattern has led it to where it is today. Fuelled by rapid advances in communication technologies, Social Media platforms are gr...More info...
This book offers a comprehensive account of social media as a tool for connecting the world, and how its ameboid growth pattern has led it to where it is today. It articulates a specific theme, beginning with foundational concepts, followed by an...More info...
This book offers a profound exploration, backed by rigorous field research on Internet, into the disruptive effects of cutting-edge technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and algorithms on the political realm. With a criti...More info...
Since the Limits to Growth report was published in 1972 it has been widely known that a commitment to endless growth was putting us on course for environmental disaster—so why have we failed to take decisive political action in the half-cen...More info...
What if the key to a deeper, more meaningful life lies in the questions you ask?In The Art of Asking Better Questions, J.R. Briggs offers a thoughtful exploration of how intentional, well-crafted questions can transform relati...More info...
This book is the first of its kind to apply a global perspective to Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann’s Spiral of Silence theory within the context of the social media era. Drawing on contributions from scholar...More info...
This collection explores innovative ways to embody translingual practices in academic writing, showcasing how multilingual authors can effectively leverage their linguistic resources in research and publication. Recognizing that traditional academ...More info...
Creating accessible communications is no longer an optional extra but a business necessity.With so many rules and regulations, it can feel like an insurmountable challenge, but it doesnt have to be that way.Overlooking acces...More info...
Creating accessible communications is no longer an optional extra but a business necessity.With so many rules and regulations, it can feel like an insurmountable challenge, but it doesnt have to be that way.Overlooking acces...More info...
This book explores the narrative accounts of southwestern herbalists, healers, teachers, and farmers as they describe their reciprocal relationships with the local flora and frame plants as intelligent, relational, and communicative. Em...More info...
Reflecting the latest technological innovations and challenges of the social media landscape, the fifth edition of Social Media: How to Engage, Share, and Connect helps students build success in integrated PR practice.Regina...More info...
Reflecting the latest technological innovations and challenges of the social media landscape, the fifth edition of Social Media: How to Engage, Share, and Connect helps students build success in integrated PR practice.Regina Luttrel...More info...
An in-depth study analysing the relationship between the Italian ready-to-wear fashion industry and the Chinese fast fashion industry, focussing on the 2000s and 2010s. In this in-depth study, author Gaoheng Zhang analyses the relations...More info...
This textbook traces the history, sociolinguistics and structure of World Englishes and examines the complexities of World Englishes and their users in modern-day international workplaces. The authors walk readers through the various frameworks an...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Michigan State University Press, ISBN-13: 9781611865424)
Intersectional Activism in Environmental Communication explores global environmental activism around the world, from Indigenous women’s activism in Brazil and India to energy protests in South Korea, to the Dakota Access pipeline construction...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Michigan State University Press, ISBN-13: 9781611865400)
Intersectional Activism in Environmental Communication explores the representation of environmental activism around the world. Exploring issues from Indigenous women’s activism in Brazil and India to energy protests in South Korea, to the Dako...More info...
Series: USChina Relations in the Age of Globalization
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Michigan State University Press, ISBN-13: 9781611865615)
The Lost Chance in China and the Rise of Cold War Populism offers a rollicking retelling of the fate of America’s diplomats stationed in China during World War II and the start of the Chinese Civil War, documenting how their efforts to find pe...More info...
Series: USChina Relations in the Age of Globalization
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Michigan State University Press, ISBN-13: 9781611865431)
The Lost Chance in China and the Rise of Cold War Populism offers a rollicking retelling of the fate of America’s diplomats stationed in China during World War II and the start of the Chinese Civil War, documenting how their efforts to find pe...More info...
This book describes challenges in accessing, collecting, processing, and disseminating information on pandemics, with a focus on Covid-19 communication. This book will interest scholars and students of health communication, social media communicat...More info...
This book is an essential read for today’s rapidly changing globalized business setting. Integrating current theories and practices, it provides a pragmatic insight into the aspects of organizational change and development. It also implements a fr...More info...
This book is an essential read for todays rapidly changing globalized business setting. Integrating current theories and practices, it provides a pragmatic insight into the aspects of organizational change and development. It also implements a frame...More info...
This thoroughly revised textbook is a friendly step-by-step guide that invites readers to view speaking as a life-long journey. The book serves as an accessible core textbook for Public Speaking and Introduction to Communication courses and also p...More info...
This thoroughly revised textbook is a friendly step-by-step guide to public speaking that explores the fundamental skills necessary to present a natural and rewarding speech to any audience. By providing an overview of speech construction,...More info...
This book offers readers a comprehensive insight into Chinese negotiation principles, shaped by centuries of cultural tradition and contemporary global business dynamics. It serves as a valuable resource for business professionals, scholars, and pol...More info...
Provocative, interdisciplinary, and daringly critical, AI for Critical Interculturality doesn’t spoon-feed ready-made answers but rather inspires readers to think, question and interrogate interculturality alongside AI. Provo...More info...
Provocative, interdisciplinary, and daringly critical, AI for Critical Interculturality doesn’t spoon-feed ready-made answers but rather inspires readers to think, question and interrogate interculturality alongside AI. Provo...More info...
First published in 1984, in Rhetoric of Everyday English Texts, the author uses over 100 short texts from educated writers in all walks of life to demonstrate that when we communicate there is a powerful unspoken linguistic consensus as to...More info...
This book covers the period from the approach of Allied and Soviet armies to the Reich frontiers in late summer 1944 right up to the final collapse in May 1945. With Nazi Germany facing invasion and eventual defeat, Nazi broadcasters now had the i...More info...
