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Visual Learning eBook Series

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  • Beyond Words

    Pictures, Parables, Paradoxes

    by András Benedek, Kristóf Nyíri ...
    Series Book 5 - Visual Learning
    Human thinking depends not only on words but also on visual imagery. Visual argumentation directly exploits the logic of the pictorial, while verbal arguments, too, draw on figurative language, and thus ultimately on images. In the centuries of handwritten documents and the printed book, our educational culture has been a predominantly verbal one. Today the challenge of the pictorial is explicit ... Read more

    ₹7,024.53

  • Virtual Reality – Real Visuality

    Virtual, Visual, Veridical

    by András Benedek, Ágnes Veszelszki ...
    Series Book 7 - Visual Learning
    This book raises the question of what visuality really is and how it is possible to explain it. Virtual reality is connected to our current environment with multiple ties. It affects the everyday operation of the media and hence all of our lives. The authors connect the concepts of pictorial turn and virtual reality from different perspectives and disciplines, from philosophy through communication ... Read more

    ₹5,344.44

  • The Power of the Image

    Emotion, Expression, Explanation

    by Kristof Nyiri ...
    Series Book 4 - Visual Learning
    We think primarily in images, and only secondarily in words, while both the image and the word are preceded by the bodily, the visceral, the muscular. This holds even for mathematical thinking. It is the entire motor system, including facial expressions and bodily gestures, that underlies not just emotions but also abstract thought. Communication, too, is a primordially visual task, spoken and ... Read more

    ₹8,181.64

  • In the Beginning was the Image: The Omnipresence of Pictures

    Time, Truth, Tradition

    by András Benedek, András Benedek, Ágnes Veszelszki, Ágnes Veszelszki ...
    Series Book 6 - Visual Learning
    The authors outline the topic of visuality in the 21st century in a trans- and interdisciplinary theoretical frame from philosophy through communication theory, rhetoric and linguistics to pedagogy. As some scholars of visual communication state, there is a significant link between the downgrading of visual sense making and a dominantly linguistic view of cognition. According to the concept of ... Read more

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  • Genre Studies Around the Globe

    Beyond the Three Traditions

    by Natasha Artemeva ...
    Genre Studies around the Globe: Beyond the Three Traditions exemplifies rich and vibrant international scholarship in the area of non-literary genre studies in the early 21st century. Based on the Genre 2012 conference held in Ottawa, Canada, the volume brings under one cover the three Anglophone traditions (English for Specific Purposes, the Sydney School, Rhetorical Genre Studies) and the ... Read more

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  • Areas and Methods of Audiovisual Translation Research

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    by Lukasz Bogucki ...
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    ₹3,682.53

  • The Semiotics of Emoji

    The Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the Internet

    by Professor Marcel Danesi ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
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  • New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality

    Edited by Ruth Page ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Multimodality
    The contributors in this collection question what kinds of relationships hold between narrative studies and the recently established field of multimodality, evaluate how we might develop an analytical vocabulary which recognizes that stories do not consist of words alone, and demonstrate the ways in which multimodality brings into fresh focus the embodied nature of narrative production and ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography

    Edited by Philip Durkin ...
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  • Student Essentials: Essay Writing

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  • Psychoanalysis Comparable and Incomparable

    The Evolution of a Method to Describe and Compare Psychoanalytic Approaches

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