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Book SynopsisThis edition contains 27 articles, written by scholars and filmmakers who are generally acknowledged as the international authorities in the field, and a new preface by the editor. The book covers ethnographic filming and its relations to the cinema and television; applications of filming to anthropological research, the uses of still photography, archives, and videotape; subdisciplinary applications in ethnography, archeology, bio-anthropology, museology and ethnohistory; and overcoming the funding problems of film production.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTIONVisual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words Margaret Mead ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMING AND THE CINEMAThe History of Ethnographic Film Emilie de Brigard Feature Films as Cultural Documents John H. Weakland McCarty’s Law and How to Break it Mark Mc Carty SOME RECENT APPROACHES TO ANTHROPOLOGICAL FILMThe Camera and Man Jean Rouch Observational Cinema Colin Young Beyond Observational Cinema David MacDougall Idea and Event in Urban Film John Marshall and Emile de BrigardResearch Filming of Naturally Occuring Phenomena: Basic Strategies E. Richard Sorenson and Allison Jablonko VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE PASTEthnographic Film and History Jean Dominique Lajoux Reconstructing Cultures on Film Asen BalikciThe Role of Film in Archeology Stuart StrueverEthnographic Photography in Anthropological Research Joanna Cohan SchererOur Totemic Ancestors and Crazed Masters Jean Rouch SOME SPECIALIZED USES OF FILM AND VIDEOTAPEPhotography and Visual Anthropology John Collier Jr.Videotape: New Techniques of Observation and Analysis in Anthropology Joseph H. SchaefferFilming Body Behavior J. H. ProstAudiovisual Tools for the Analysis of Culture Style Alan LomaxFilm in Ethnographic Research Timothy Asch and Patsy Asch THE PRESENTATION OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL INFORMATIONEthnographies on the Airwaves: The Presentation of Anthropology on American, British, Belgian and Japanese Television Faye GinsburgThe First Videotheque Yasuhiro OmoriFunding Ethnographic Film and Video Productions in America Sabine Jell-Bahlsen Ethnographic Filmmaking for Japanese Television Yasuko IchiokaMatters of Fact Roger Sandall THE FUTURE OF VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGYThe Tribal Terror of Self-Awareness Edmund CarpenterVisual Record, Human Knowledge, and the Future E. Richard SorensonConclusion: Ethnographic Filming and Anthropological Theory Paul Hockings

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Book SynopsisIn the course of the last 15 years, sociolinguistics (or the sociology of language) has established itself as an academic subject in many countries. The discipline promises to be of benefit in solving practical problems in such areas as language planning and standardization, language teaching and therapy, and language policy. Both research projects and publications and university teaching programmes in sociolinguistics now span such a wide field that it is hardly possible even for the experts to review the whole scope of the subject. A number of specialist periodicals and introductions and surveys of the subject exist, but to date there has been no comprehensive and internationally representative account of the subject. The handbook provides this account.Trade Review"The revised edition of the Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguistik handbook is as comprehensive, practical, and user-friendly as its editors attest. Several aspects enhance the accessibility of the handbook, such the brief outlines that begin each article, the cross-referencing of articles, and the cumulative index. [...] the second edition of the handbook stands as an exemplary reference tool which researchers and students alike can turn for concise, yet thorough, current information on nearly any topic of sociolinguistics."Christine Mallinson in: Language in Society, 2008 "[...]every university library should have this important resource available in book or in electronic form."Katharina Barbe in: Linguist List 19.1356

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Book SynopsisSemiotics is long on theoretical, often obscure discourses, but short on applications that demonstrate with clarity the applicability of its methods. This book confronts a challenging object, the circus, and endeavors to describe its performances in ways that explain how circus acts produce meaning and cause a deep emotional involvement for their audiences. The approach is not top-down, such as would be a method that would dogmatically apply a particular theory to fully explain the phenomena in terms of this theory alone. Epistemologically, this book is an example of the bottom-up strategy, which consists of considering first the objects and heuristically calling upon methodological resources in a broad theoretical array to come to grips with the problems that are encountered. Any circus act is a complex event that has cognitive and emotional dimensions. It is also a part of a history and an institution, and cannot be abstracted from its cultural and sociological contexts. Thus the range of relevant theoretical and methodological approaches must include structural semiotics, biosemiotics, pragmatics, socio-semiotics, cultural anthropology, the cognitive sciences, the psychology and sociology of emotions, to name only the most important. But the ultimate focus of this book is to enable the readers to better understand the meaning of circus performances and to appreciate the skills and creativity of this traditional popular art, which constantly renews itself from generation to generation.

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Book SynopsisThe book offers a completely new view of language and of languages such as Russian, Chinese, Bulgarian, Georgian, Danish and English by dividing them into three supertypes on the basis of a step-by-step examination of their relationship to perception and cognition, their representation of situations and their use in oral and written discourse. The dynamic processing of visual stimuli involves three stages: input (experience), intake (understanding) and outcome (a combination). The very choice among three modalities of existence gives a language a certain voice -- either the voice of reality based on situations, the speaker's voice involving experiences or the hearer's voice grounded on information. This makes grammar a prime index: all symbols are static and impotent and need a vehicle, i.e. grammar, which can bring them to the proper point of reference. Language is shown to be a living organism with a determinant category, aspect, mood or tense, which conquers territory from other potential competitors trying to create harmony between verbal and nominal categories. It is demonstrated that the communication processes are different in the three supertypes, although in all three cases the speaker must choose between a public and a private voice before the grammar is put into use.Trade Review"Durst-Anderson's theoretic discussions and illustrations of connections between perception, cognition and communication make for intriguing reading indeed."Anna Cabak Redei in: Cybernetics and Human Knowing,1-2/2014

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Book SynopsisThe volume gives a multi-perspective overview of scholarly and science communication, exploring its diverse functions, modalities, interactional structures, and dynamics in a rapidly changing world. In addition, it provides a guide to current research approaches and traditions on communication in many disciplines, including the humanities, technology, social and natural sciences, and on forms of communication with a wide range of audiences.

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Book SynopsisThis unique volume offers an overview of the diversity in research on communication: including perspectives from biology, sociality, economics, norms and human development. It includes general social science and humanities approaches to communication, from systems theory to cultural theory, as well as perspectives more specifically related to communication acts, such as linguistics and cognition. The volume also features chapters on the participants and various elements in communication processes, on possible effects and on wider consequences of mediation [with technical media]. The scope of the contributions is global, and the volume is relevant to both the empirical and the philosophical traditions in human sciences. Designed as a stand-alone collection to engage undergraduates as well as postgraduates and academics, this is also the first book in, and an introduction to, the de Gruyter Mouton multi-volume Handbooks of Communication Science.

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Book SynopsisCorona, the Lockdown, and the Media investigates media influence on policies to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Bernhagen and Kybelka propose that news reporting on the pandemic pitches human impact against economic consequences of the virus and of restrictive policy measures designed to contain it. They argue that the use of these frames influences governments’ decisions to enact or lift lockdown measures. Using time series data from England, France, and Germany, the authors show that news reporting on COVID-19 was indeed characterized by these media frames. However, there is no evidence of media influence on government policy. Instead, the authors find that anti-pandemic policy decisions were responsive to public opinion in these countries.

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Book SynopsisSport is a universal feature of global popular culture. It shapes our identities, affects our relationships, and defines our communities. It also influences our consumption habits, represents our cultures, and dramatizes our politics. In other words, sport is among the most prominent vehicles for communication available in daily life. Nevertheless, only recently has it begun to receive robust attention in the discipline of communication studies. The handbook of Communication and Sport attends to the recent and rapid growth of scholarship in communication and media studies that features sport as a central site of inquiry. The book attempts to capture a full range of methods, theories, and topics that have come to define the subfield of "communication and sport" or "sports communication." It does so by emphasizing four primary features. First, it foregrounds "communication" as central to the study of sport. This emphasis helps to distinguish the book from collections in related disciplines such as sociology, and also points readers beyond media as the primary or only context for understanding the relationship between communication and sport. Thus, in addition to studies of media effects, mediatization, media framing, and more, readers will also engage with studies in interpersonal, intercultural, organizational, and rhetorical communication. Second, the handbook presents an array of methods, theories, and topics in the effort to chart a comprehensive landscape of communication and sport scholarship. Thus, readers will benefit from empirical, interpretive, and critical work, and they will also see studies drawing on varied texts and sites of inquiry. Third, the handbook of Communication and Sport includes a broad range of scholars from around the world. It is therefore neither European nor North American in its primary focus. In addition, the book includes contributors from commonly under-represented regions in Asia, Africa, and South America. Fourth, the handbook aims to account for both historical trajectories and contemporary areas of interest. In this way, it covers the central topics, debates, and perspectives from the past and also suggests continued and emerging pathways for the future. Collectively, the handbook of Communication and Sport aspires to provide scholars and students in communication and media studies with the most comprehensive assessment of the field available.

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Book SynopsisIn a world of global communication, where each one’s life depends increasingly on signs, language and communication, understanding how we relate and opening ourselves to otherness, to differences in all their forms and aspects is becoming more and more relevant. Today, we often understand the differences in terms of adversity or opposition and forget the value of the similarities.Semiotic approaches can provide a critical point of view and a more general reflection that can redefine some aspects of the discussion about the nature of these semiotic categories, differences and similarities. The dichotomy differences – similarities is fundamental to understanding the meaning-making mechanisms in language (De Saussure, 1966; Deleuze, 1995), as well as in other sign systems (Ponzio, 1995; Sebeok & Danesi, 2000). Meaning always appears in the “play of differences” (Derrida, 1978) and similarities. Therefore, the phenomena of similarities and differences must be considered complementary (Marcus, 2011).This book addresses and offers new perspectives for analyzing and understanding sensitive topics in the world of global communication (humanities education, responsive understanding of otherness, digital culture and new media power).

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Book SynopsisEgyptians are known among the Arabs as awlād al-nukta, Sons of the Jokes, for their ability to laugh in face of adversity. This creative weapon has been directed against socio-political targets both in times of oppression and popular upheaval, such as the 2011 Tahrir Revolution. This book looks at the literary expression of Egyptian humour in the novels of Muḥammad Mustajāb, Khayrī Shalabī, and Ḥamdī Abū Julayyil, three writers who revive the comic tradition to innovate the language of contemporary fiction. Their modern tricksters, wise fools, and antiheroes play with the stereotypical traits attached to the ordinary Egyptians, while laughing at the universal contradictions of life. This ability to combine local and global culture, literary traditions and popular references, makes them a stimulating read in an intercultural perspective. Combining humour studies and literary criticism, this book examines language play and narrative creativity to understand which strategies craft Egyptian literary humour. In doing so, it sheds light on the contribution of humour to literary innovations of Egyptian fiction since the late Seventies, while adding new writers to those who are considered the masters of humour in the Arab novel.

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Book SynopsisDespite their opposite emotional effects, humor and horror are highly similar phenomena. They both can be traced back to (the detection, resolution, and emotional elaboration of) incongruities, understood as semantic violations through unexpected combinations of oppositional information. However, theoretical and experimental comparisons between humor and resolvable incongruities that elicit other emotions than exhilaration have been lacking so far. To gain more insights into the linguistic differences between humor and horror and the cognitive real-time processing of both, a main concern of this book is to discuss the transferability of linguistic humor theories to a systematic horror investigation and directly compare self-paced reading times (SPR), facial actions (FACS), and event-related brain potentials (ERP) of normed minimal quadruplets with frightening and humorous incongruities as well as (in)coherent stimuli. The results suggest that humor and horror share cognitive resources to detect and resolve incongruities. To better distinguish humor from neighboring phenomena, this book refines current humor theories by incorporating humor and horror in a cognitive incongruity processing model.

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Book SynopsisEin hochrangiger Polizeibeamter bietet einer Angestellten eine Beförderung an und fragt sie dabei, ob sie sich „hochschlafen“ wolle. Die Frau weist ihn zurück und behält den Vorfall jahrelang für sich. Zuvor hatte sie in der Polizei vergeblich um Unterstützung ersucht. Erst Jahre später taucht dieser Polizeibeamte in den Schlagzeilen auf, weil er seiner jungen Kripochefin nachgestellt haben soll. Erst daraufhin wird er aufgrund der Anzeige der Angestellten rechtskräftig verurteilt. Diesen konkreten Rechtsfall sexualisierter Grenzüberschreitung, nehmen die Herausgeber des Buches als Anlass interdisziplinär zu untersuchen, wie Mechanismen der Skandal- und Krisenbewältigung und die damit einhergehenden Formen der institutionellen Abwehr in der Organisation Polizei wirken. Das Wegsehen und rationalisierende Verdrängen seitens Vorgesetzter, Kolleginnen und Kollegen ist unbedingt aufklärungsbedürftig. Ziel des Buches ist die Schaffung einer interdisziplinären Grundlage für die Reflexion vergleichbarer Fälle in der „Organisation mit Gewaltlizenz“ und damit die Initiierung eines organisationalen Lernprozesses, der solche Fälle zu verhindern hilft.Table of ContentsGeleitwort.- Einleitung.- Journalistische Aufbereitung des Falls W-Stadt.- Resilienz, Integrität und Führungsverantwortung bei Regelverstößen und Straftaten im Polizeidienst.- Führung als mikropolitisches Regime.- Die Polizei „durchlüften“ – Führung als skandalpräventive Ressource in der Polizei.- Wenn Medien den Bagger ansetzen – Chronik eines Polizeiskandals.- Lieber nicht darüber reden? – Institutionelle Konfliktscheu versus professionelle Krisenkommunikation.- Polizeiliche Superiorität und toxische Männlichkeit – Wenn Menschen eindringen, wo sie wollen.- Grenzverletzungen in Organisationen: Leadership gesucht.- Vogel im Wolfspelz - Über Zivilcourage in einer uniformierten Organisation.- Das „versteckte Narrativ“ in der Geschichte der Claudia P.- Alle Menschen sind vor dem Gesetz gleich - Der Fall W-Stadt aus juristischer Sicht.- Zur Rolle von Recht und formalen Erwartungsstrukturen im Polizeiskandal W-Stadt oder wie eine Behörde im Umgang mit sexueller Belästigung versagt.- Reden oder Schweigen? Zum Umgang der Polizei mit ihrer moralischen Vulnerabilität.- Zwischen Bagatellisierung und Skandalisierung: Mikropolitik im Umgang mit sexueller Belästigung bei der Polizei.- Interne Beratung als Reflexionsangebot für Person und Organisation.- Zur Professionalisierung der Krisenverarbeitung in der Polizei.- Nachwort.

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Book Synopsis Dieses Buch informiert ausführlich und verständlich auf psychologischer Grundlage über Fähigkeiten, wie eine Paarbeziehung gestaltet und aufrechterhalten werden kann. Es geht um das Verständnis von komplexen Prozessabläufen, von Wechselwirkungen und von wertvollen Perspektivänderungen in der Paarbeziehung: Wie sich positive Erlebnisse mit dem Partner wiederholen lassen, Lebenssinn in einer Beziehung zu finden ist, warum unterschiedliche Auffassungen bei gegenseitigem Respekt die Zusammengehörigkeit stärken und warum Turbulenzen oder Chaos im Zusammenleben nicht als bedrohliche Untergangsszenarien sondern als Antrieb zu neuen Erlebnissen zu verstehen sind. Die Leser erfahren wie Krisen entstehen und bewältigt werden können und weshalb eine genaue Selbsteinschätzung ebenso wichtig für den Bestand der Liebe ist wie der angemessene Umgang auch mit intensivsten Gefühlen. Der Autor zeigt auch auf, wie vor allem Romane, Gedichte, Erzählungen, Filme und Musik wesentliche Modell- und Orientierungslinien für Partnerschaften sein können. Die wissenschaftlichen Begründungen erfolgen – alltagspraktisch bezogen – im Rahmen der interdisziplinären, modernen und viel beachteten Systemtheorie. Table of ContentsÜbersicht und Einleitung.- Kisten und Kasten.- Was Sinn macht.- Dynamische Systeme.- Systemkompetenz von Paaren.- Wir – Selbst.- Trennung?.- Kultur – Ressource für den Aufbau und Erhalt einer Paarbeziehung

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Book SynopsisProtokolle stehen im Zentrum unterschiedlichster (interaktiver, papierener oder auch elektronischer) Verwaltungsoperationen: Sie halten ebenso fest, was gesagt und beschlossen wurde, wie sie festlegen, was wie zu tun ist. Sie strukturieren, regulieren und dokumentieren Sprech- und Handlungsabläufe von ministeriellen Zusammenkünften, Gerichtsterminen und anderen komplexen Arbeitsprozessen. Seit Jahrhunderten schreiben Protokolle auf und vor, was zu tun und was zu lassen ist, was als notwendig gilt oder als unwichtig und marginal. Sie filtern aus komplexen Interaktionen das heraus, was jene Vergangenheit gewesen sein wird, auf die man sich künftig bezieht. Dabei arbeiten Protokolle letztlich ein und demselben Zweck zu: dass – auf begründete und regelgeleitete Weise – überhaupt etwas entschieden wird. Vor diesem Hintergrund und mit verwaltungshistorischen und soziologischen ebenso wie medien-, kultur- und literaturwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven greift der zweite Open Access-Band der AdminiStudies drei Hauptformen dieses Verwaltungsmediums auf: Gesprächs- bzw. Verlaufsprotokolle, diplomatische und technische Protokolle.Table of ContentsI Prozedere & Prozess.- Protokoll / protocol.- Das diplomatische Protokoll.- Wort für Wort. Bedingungen der Analyse diplomatischer Wortprotokolle als historische Quellen.- Kritik der Hochschulreform von 1969 in Westberlin. Zur Frage von Protokoll und Protest in Klaus Heinrichs Dahlemer Vorlesungen.- Protokollbücher als Steuerung von Entscheidungsprozessen. Die Kabinettskanzlei und der Schreibtisch des Kaisers.- II Mitschriften.- Administrativ-politische und editorisch-technische Protokolle. Der cisleithanische Ministerrat 1848–1918.- »…für die aufmerksamen Zuhörer eine Pein, für die unaufmerksamen ein Schlafmittel«. Protokolle, Unmittelbarkeit und Wahrheitsfindung im Disziplinarakt öffentlich Bediensteter Die Eitelkeit der Organisation. Protokolle als Vor- und Mitschriften formaler Mitgliedschaft.-Protocol Analysis. Materialien zu einer Kritik; oder Wo bleibt das richtige Protokoll?.- Das Protokoll gibt es nicht.- III TechnikenProtokollieren und Formatieren. Zur Mediengeschichte des credit reports»Everything that happens to a photo«. Über analoge und digitale Protokolle der Bildlogistik.- Über das Protokoll hinaus. Zum Verhältnis von Kontingenz und algorithmischer Kontrolle im militärisch-polizeilichen Phantasma der AutomationOffene Totalität. Internetprotokolle in der spätkapitalistischen Gesellschaft.- Vor- & Mit-Schriften zweiter Ordnung. Das administrative Protokoll und sein Apparat.- IV Schreibweisen.- Punkte und Linien. Zum Sünden-Protokoll in Ignatius von Loyolas Exercitia spiritualia.- Fiktion, Archiv, Funktion. Über Die Protokolle der Weisen von Zion.- ›Prot. auf.‹ Kafkas Mitschriften der Bürokratie Über das literarische Protokoll und seine Ästhetik.

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Book SynopsisDieses Buch stellt sich der Herausforderung, ein zielgruppengerechtes interkulturelles Seminar zu konzipieren sowie eine Anleitung zu erarbeiten, wie derartige Seminare auch für andere vergleichbare Bildungskontexte entwickelt werden können. Im Mittelpunkt des Forschungsvorhabens steht die Frage, wie eine zielgruppenadäquate Vermittlung von interkultureller Kompetenz für chinesische Studierende an deutschen Hochschulen aussehen könnte. Mit dem Versuch, in theoretischer wie methodischer Hinsicht und in Bezug auf die praktische Anwendung ein neues, innovatives Seminarkonzept zu entwerfen, stellt die vorliegende Arbeit nicht nur höchste Ansprüche an ihre Zielsetzung und ihre interdisziplinäre Ausrichtung, sondern kann zugleich als Pionierleistung gewertet werden, die auch für die Strategie der Internationalisierung der Hochschulen in Deutschland von Relevanz ist. Die Arbeit liefert grundlegende Ansätze und wichtige Impulse für die Optimierung des interkulturellen Trainings aus einer neuartigen Sicht und bereitet damit der Förderung von interkultureller Kompetenz neue Wege.Table of ContentsFragestellung und Forschungslandschaft dieser Studie.- Theoretische Grundlagen.- Methodologie.- Vorgehensweise und Durchführung.- Auswertung der empirischen Untersuchungen.- Forschungsergebnisse und ihre Einordnung in den aktuellen Diskurs.- Resümee.- Literaturverzeichnis.

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