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This book applies relational dialects to risk and crisis communication to show how organizations handle stress and tensions with stakeholders and the public. Its novel use of interpersonal theory, which describes how couples face tensions as they maintain their relationship, is exemplified through seven case studies that focus on a common tension.

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The fifteen chapters in this volume deal with science, medicine, technology, disaster, and hazard coverage by the media from the perspectives of sociology, psychology, philosophy, and journalism.

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A spirited expose of the rapid and unexpected transformations generated by market forces unleashed under globalisation, and the impact on people's lives around the world.

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This book uses examples from pop culture and everyday life to provide an examination of current research on romantic relationships and media, with an emphasis on entertainment and digitally-mediated communication. Valerie Kretz covers a wide range of relationship experiences and processes, from getting together to breaking up.

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This reference combines a critical analysis of Ronald Reagan's style as a public speaker with a set of selected speeches and an extensive bibliography.

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This study examines a particularly successful rural development program: the partnership of the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) and the small farmers of northern Pakistan.

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The volume then applies specific analytic methods of measuring impact to each component.

The opening chapters address two aspects of each componentthe concept of using that component to achieve rural development and the concept of measuring its impact.

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This book is a rhetorical study of the writings of Republic of Texas presidents Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar. The author analyzes the frames applied in Houston and Lamars writings to define Native Americans. This book highlights the implications of such rhetorical framing historically and through the modern day for a wide array of social groups.

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This book explores how the El Centro de la Raza has become part of a nationally significant work in progress on human rights and relations based on Dr. Martin Luther Kings concept of a Beloved Community that crosses all ethnic, racial, and other social boundaries.

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This book explores how the El Centro de la Raza has become part of a nationally significant work in progress on human rights and relations based on Dr. Martin Luther Kings concept of a Beloved Community that crosses all ethnic, racial, and other social boundaries.

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With the end of white-dominated South Africa, many observers have argued for a positive transformation of the whole of Southern Africa based upon market integration and increased cooperation among the states of the region.

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This book explores societys problems with interpersonal communication amid increasingly technological environments. The author argues that the work of Gabriel Marcel reveals the root of our issues with communication to be issues with being with others, ultimately suggesting that seeking communion is a way to bridge our disconnections.

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Landscapes generate meaning and impact on three major areas of scholarly interest: language and visual discourse, spatial practices and global capitalism.

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Offers a look at how landscape generates meaning. This title combines three major areas of scholarly interest each concerned with central dimensions of contemporary life: language and visual discourse, spatial practices, and also the changes bought about by global capitalism and mediatization.

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A systemic functional linguistics study analysing how a wide range of modalities, other than language, make and communicate meaning.

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A systemic functional linguistics study that analyses how a wide range of modalities, other than language, make and communicate meaning. It analyses the meaning making potential of not only language, but modalities like laughter, music, colour, and architectural spaces.

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Integrates structural and historical perspectives on the semiotics of religion and gives an account of the distinctive features of religious language and symbolism.

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Integrates structural and historical perspectives on the semiotics of religion and gives an account of the distinctive features of religious language and symbolism.