Author: Zoltan J. Ac
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: cities, growth
Number of Pages: 649
Published: 2006-10-30
List price: $325.00
ISBN-10: 184376640X
ISBN-13: 9781843766407

‘Contemporary cities are of at least two kinds: those that are vibrant and growing and those that are lagging. While this is nothing new the reasons are, at least in part, different than in past generations. This book is a collection of "modern classics" about the forces of growth in the late 20th and early 21st Century in general and more specifically in agglomerated concentrations including cities. Human capital, agglomeration, knowledge spread or spillovers, industrial clusters, concentration of creative people, and global competition driven by a huge expansion of low cost labor and explos

Author: Zoltan Acs
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Keywords: foundations, entrepreurship, trends, entrepreneurship, impact
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008-06-16
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 1601981422
ISBN-13: 9781601981424

High Impact Entrepreneurship studies the actions of individuals who respond to market opportunities by bringing inventions to market that create wealth and growth. Foundations of High Impact Entrepreneurship is the first survey of the theoretical literature on high impact entrepreneurship. Foundations of High Impact Entrepreneurship examines: · the question "why do people choose to become entrepreneurs" from the perspective of labor market theories on occupational choice. · the role of entrepreneurship and innovation, paying particular attention to the various modes of available entr

Author: Zoltán Kövecse
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: variation, universality, culture, metaphor
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2005-02-07
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0521844479
ISBN-13: 9780521844475

To what extent and in what ways is metaphorical thought relevant to an understanding of culture and society? More specifically: can the cognitive linguistic view of metaphor simultaneously explain both universality and diversity in metaphorical thought? Cognitive linguists have done important work on universal aspects of metaphor, but they have paid much less attention to why metaphors vary both interculturally and intraculturally as extensively as they do. In this book, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a new theory of metaphor variation. First, he identifies the major dimension of metaphor variatio

Author: Zoltán Kövecse
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: introduction, practical, metaphor
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-01-24
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0195145119
ISBN-13: 9780195145113

This clear and lucid primer fills an important need by providing a comprehensive account of the many new developments in the study of metaphor over the last twenty years and their impact on our understanding of language, culture, and the mind. Beginning with Lakoff and Johnson’s seminal work in Metaphors We Live By, Kövecses outlines the development of "the cognitive linguistic theory of metaphor" by explaining key ideas on metaphor. He also explores primary metaphor, metaphor systems, the "invariance principle," mental-imagery experiments, the many-space blending theory, and the role o

Author: Zoltán Kövecse
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: emotion, studies, social, interaction, feeling, human, language, culture, metaphor
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2000-02-28
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0521641632
ISBN-13: 9780521641630

Many researchers claim that emotions arise either from human biology (i.e., biological reductionism) or as products of culture (i.e., social constructionism). Are human emotions best characterized as biological, psychological, or cultural entities? Zoltan Kovecses demonstrates how cultural aspects, metaphorical language, and human physiology are part of an integrated system. This book challenges the simplistic division between the body and culture by stressing how human emotions are to a large extent "constructed" from individuals’ embodied experiences in different cultural settings. Hb

Author: Zoltan Dornyei
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: linguistics, applied, oxford, methods, research
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-12-29
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0194422585
ISBN-13: 9780194422581

This is a very practical and accessible book that offers a comprehensive overview of research methodology in applied linguistics by describing the various stages of qualitative and quantitative investigations, from collecting the data to reporting the results. It also discusses ’mixed methods research’, that is, the various combinations of qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

Author: Zoltan Dornyei
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associate
Keywords: language, second, acquisition, series, research, differeces, learner, individual, psychology
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2005-11-30
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 0805860185
ISBN-13: 9780805860184

Research results over the past decades have consistently demonstrated that a key reason why many second language learners fail--while some learners do better with less effort--lies in various learner attributes such as personality traits, motivation, or language aptitude. In psychology, these attributes have traditionally been called "individual differences." The scope of individual learner differences is broad--ranging from creativity to learner styles and anxiety--yet there is no current, comprehensive, and unified volume that provides an overview of the considerable amount of research condu