Author: Anna Nizegorodcrew
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: relevance, language, acquisition, second, input, learners, instructed
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2007-01-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1853599379
ISBN-13: 9781853599378

This book is intended for L2 teacher educators, L2 teachers and teacher trainees. It can be of interest to SLA researchers. It focuses on L2 classroom discourse analysis in the light of Relevance Theory. Input for instructed L2 learners is understood as the language presented by the teacher in order to facilitate the process of L2 learning/acquisition

Author: Eun-Ju Noh
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: amp, new, series, pragmatics, approach, relevance, theory, metarepresentation
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9027250847
ISBN-13: 9789027250841

The metarepresentational ability - the ability to construct mental and public representations of other representations - has received much attention in recent work in philosophy and psychology. This is an exploration of the role of metarepresentation in verbal communication from a relevance-theoretic point of view. It looks in detail at four varieties of "metalinguistic" utterance - quotation, metalinguistic negation, echo questions and metarepresentational conditionals, and argues for a unified approach. Although these "metalinguistic" utterances have been the focus of considerable attention

Author: Dawn Burto
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: practice, relevance, theory, marketing, cultural, cross
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2009-01-02
List price: $53.95
ISBN-10: 041544893X
ISBN-13: 9780415448932

Cross-cultural marketing is an important element of the contemporary business environment. Many conventional accounts of the topic have conflated cross-cultural and cross-national marketing, but in this groundbreaking, new book, Burton argues that these generalizations have little meaning given the extent of multi-culturalism in many societies. Given the importance of new emerging markets in the Far East, Middle East, Asia and Latin America, this book raises important questions about the applicability of existing marketing theory and practice, which was originally developed using the model

Author: Adrian Pilkingto
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: pragmatics, new, series, perspective, theory, effects, relevance, poetic
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2000-03-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 902725091X
ISBN-13: 9789027250919

The main aim of this volume is to examine a problem relevant to both literary theory and pragmatic theory: how is literary (or poetic) communication successful and distinctive as literary communication?

Author: Ajit Singh
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: department, applied, economics, monographs, firm, theory, relevance, stock, market, overs
Number of Pages: 186
Published: 1972-01-28
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0521082455
ISBN-13: 9780521082457

Authors:Charles Dow, Richard Russell, Charles Carlson, Pau
Publisher: W&A Publishing
Keywords: dow, editorials, relevance, original, charles, theory, unplugged
Number of Pages: 391
Published: 2009-03-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1934354090
ISBN-13: 9781934354094

Dow Theory Unplugged is the most complete collection of Charles Dow s original writing ever assembled.Dow Theory is widely credited as the basis for modern technical analysis. Yet its origins, Charles Dow’s original writings, have been all but forgotten. Dow Theory Unplugged contains a critical selection of 220 original Wall Street Journal columns from more than one hundred years ago, the raw material that led to the development of Dow Theory and remains relevant for the twenty-first-century trader. In addition, top Dow Theorists, including Richard Russell, Charles Carlson and Paul Shrea

Author: H. Thomas Johnson
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: regained, relevance
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-01-15
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0743236270
ISBN-13: 9780743236270

Building on his pathbreaking, award-winning bestseller, Relevance Lost, H. Thomas Johnson presents a devastating critique of the top-down hierarchical accounting systems that have dominated American corporations since the 1950s. Johnson shows exactly how "managing by remote control" through results-oriented accounting information has obscured and obstructed the real business objective: to reduce process variation and lead times for the purpose of obtaining and keeping satisfied customers. The failure of most American businesses to be competitive and profitable in recent years, he contends, i