Communication Studies

Out of all the media that today’s children encounter, what makes a particular TV character a child’s favorite? Based on 80 case studies, in-depth f...

We usually think of signs as fixed relations: a red light signifies 'Stop'. In his bold new book, James Williams argues that signs are processes: y...

Common patterns of interactions are altered in the digital world and new patterns of communication have emerged, challenging previous notions of wh...

Die internationalen Aspekte von Fachsprachen werden besonders seit der EU-Erweiterung zunehmend wichtiger. Gründe dafür sind die Wirtschaftsglobali...

New technologies and new media have significantly influenced the process of political communication. They have created new opportunities such as th...

Nation branding--a set of ideas rooted in Western marketing--gained popularity in the post-communist world by promising a quick fix for the identit...

This volume assembles a distinguished group of international scholars whose chapters on classic and emerging issues in research on attitudes provid...

This book analyses the use of communication in resolving conflicts, with a focus on de-escalation and processes of peacebuilding and peace formatio...

Literature on the American woman suffrage movement is plentiful, but no work has systematically analyzed the visual aspect in the quest for woman s...

The recognition that identity is mutable, multi-layered and subject to multiple modes of construction and de-construction has contributed to proble...

This volume is dedicated to the subject of mobile communication and the transition in everyday life. Mobile media have become a part of the media e...

This book provides a diverse collection of studies reporting the effects of social influence processes in multiple cultures at both the universal a...

Scientists who cooperated in producing this volume wrote on topics important to the European society nowadays and in the past. The result is an int...

First published in 1984, this is a study of categorization practices: how people categorize each other and their actions; how they describe, infer,...

This book presents an empirical approach to virtual communication. Based on the socio-cultural arguments of the postmodern paradigm, it demonstrate...

Using an interdisciplinary framework, this book offers a fresh perspective on the issues of diaspora culture and border crossings in the films, pop...

«This collection of articles is a sociolinguistic response to the recent explosion of scholarly interest in issues of identity. Identity is central...

Crossmedia and transmedia are keywords of increasing importance for media professionals and scholars alike. Although these phenomena are older than...

As an issue of controversy, corrective or negative feedback has been a much debated and investigated topic in theory and research on second-languag...

In public relations, people talk about positioning an idea, a persona, a political ideal, an ideology – but what are they talking about? Why do som...

Sexy Girls, Heroes and Funny Losers: Gender Representations in Children’s TV around the World presents the most comprehensive study to date of gend...

In today's multicultural and multireligious societies, humour and comedy often become the focus of controversy over alleged racist or offensive con...

Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaki...