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  • How to Talk to Anyone

    92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

    by Leil Lowndes ...
    Never be at a loss for words again!Perfect your people skills with this fun, witty and informative guide, containing 92 little tricks to create big success in personal and business relationships.In How to Talk To Anyone, bestselling relationships author and internationally renowned life coach Leil Lowndes reveals the secrets and psychology behind successful communication. These extremely usable ... Read more

    S$ 11.87 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thank You for Arguing, Fourth Edition (Revised and Updated)

    What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

    by Jay Heinrichs ...
    The definitive guide to getting your way, revised and updated with new material on writing, speaking, framing, and other key tools for arguing more powerfully“Cross Cicero with David Letterman and you get Jay Heinrichs.”—Joseph Ellis, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Quartet and American SphinxNow in its fourth edition, Jay Heinrichs’s Thank You for Arguing is your master class in the art of ... Read more

    S$ 13.29 SGD

  • The Apology

    by Plato ...
    In "The Apology", Plato has provided posterity with one of the most memorable portraits of his teacher Socrates. In Plato’s view, Socrates was a paragon of virtue. Perhaps the essence of his virtue can be summarized in a single word—integrity. Socrates’ dedication to the truth was so total and so unswerving that the very thought of compromising that truth was repugnant to him.In the spring of 399 ... Read more

    S$ 26.49 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 用說話改變人設的「最高口才訓練法」：流量百萬的說話之道！從聲音、邏輯到情商，一開口就動聽的7堂流利表達課（暢銷紀念版）

    by 陳慕妤 ...
    Series series 思
    在個人品牌成為實力的時代，說出口的話，就是一個人最佳的代言！＼解鎖表達之力，讓好口才成為你與生俱來的「人設」／★ 超過50種自主訓練，完整傳授口條、咬字發音與說故事技巧★ 上萬網友激推！付費課程近10萬學員、系列文逾100萬瀏覽的口才特訓班★ 拍片錄音基本功：循序漸進的4大步驟，短時間帶來大改變▌怎麼說話，決定了你的專業與身分所謂「人設」，不只是外在形象，說話方式也能成為塑造角色的關鍵。不夠外向開朗似乎很吃虧，但想要徹底改頭換面又好難？雖然搖身一變的魔法並不存在，但許多實際案例都證明：人設與口才並不是天生，用對方法一樣能後天練成！多數口才書著重於溝通、談判，卻忽略了口條、咬字發音與敘事技巧，以及面對突如其來的說話場合所需的多重能力。本書提供了系統性的自主訓練法，只要依序練習，就能有效攻克各種說話場景，巧妙打造你在「觀眾」眼裡的形象。4 把自己當素材，超有效「聲音日記」8週計畫4 玩接龍 ... Read more

    S$ 13.57 SGD

  • Storytelling with Children

    by Nancy ...
    Telling stories awakens wonder and creates special occasions with children, whether it is bedtime, around the fire or on rainy days. Encouraging you to spin golden tales, Nancy Mellon shows how you can become a confident storyteller and enrich your family with the power of story. ... Read more

    S$ 17.10 SGD

  • The Truth about Confident Presenting

    All You Need to Know to Make Winning Presentations, Fearlessly and Painlessly

    by James S. O'Rourke, IV ...
    Accomplished public speakers know that just a few enduring principles govern the key to success. Based on scientific evidence and years of careful observation of highly successful public speakers, James O’Rourke has gathered 51 basic truths about confident presenting, organized into ten easily mastered categories in ‘The Truth about Confident Presenting’. Current relevant examples and specific ... Read more

    S$ 48.17 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 廣東人怎樣學習普通話

    by 王力 ...
    作者針對廣東人容易讀錯的語音、用錯的語法以及不同方言的用詞作出分析、比較，並分別挑選出大量例字例句予以糾正，對於操廣州、客家、潮州、海南方言的人學習掌握普通話無疑大有裨益。 ... Read more

    S$ 18.19 SGD

  • Portuguese Morphophonology: A Generative-Markedness Approach

    Volume 2 Nominals

    by Arthur Brakel ...
    ‘Nominals’ examines and evaluates inflectional patterns for unproblematic nouns, adjectives, pronouns and demonstratives. The section on suffixal derivation of ordinary nominals evaluates the productivity and markedness of noun and adjective forming suffixes. An entire chapter demonstrates how the suffix +sion++e+ varies in words such nação ‘nation’ and nacional ‘national’. Problematic phenomena ... Read more

    S$ 145.18 SGD

  • Der Asyldiskurs in Deutschland

    Eine medienlinguistische Untersuchung von Pressetexten, Onlineforen und Polit-Talkshows

    by Maria Becker ...
    Series Book 389 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
    Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit dem in den Jahren 2013 und 2014 in Deutschland geführten Asyldiskurs. Obwohl nur wenige Menschen in Deutschland direkten Kontakt zu Asylbewerbern haben, haben die meisten eine dezidierte Meinung zu Asylbewerberheimen, Asylbewerberzahlen oder dem Asylrecht. Dies lässt sich in erster Linie auf die Rezeption von Medieninhalten als meinungsprägende Instanzen zurückführen. ... Read more

    S$ 66.48 SGD

  • Your Word is Your Wand

    by Florence Scovel Shinn ...
    First published in 1928, "Your Word is Your Wand" by Florence Scovel Shinn is a sequel to her masterpiece "The Game of Life and How to Play It"."Your Word is Your Wand" is a book of affirmations. These affirmations will help you invite the things that you want into your life and to banish those things you do not want. There is power in words, and this book helps you unlock that power.Florence ... Read more

    S$ 1.49 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Psychohistory of Metaphors

    Envisioning Time, Space, and Self through the Centuries

    by Brian J. McVeigh ...
    How have figures of speech configured new concepts of time, space, and mind throughout history? Brian J. McVeigh answers this question in A Psychohistory of Metaphors: Envisioning Time, Space, and Self through the Centuries by exploring “meta-framing:” our ever-increasing capability to “step back” from the environment, search out its familiar features to explain the unfamiliar, and generate “as if ... Read more

    S$ 61.03 SGD

  • Grundlagen der Textsortenlinguistik

    by Bozena Witosz ...
    Series Book 13 - Studien zur Text- und Diskursforschung
    Die Monografie umreißt die polonistische Textsortenforschung in ihren wichtigsten Strömungen und Entwicklungslinien. Teil I führt in den theoretischen Kontext ein und stellt das Begriffsinstrumentarium der Forschungsdisziplin vor. Es wird dabei eine integrative Herangehensweise an literarische und Gebrauchstexte gewählt. Teil II schlägt eine einheitliche methodologische Herangehensweise an ... Read more

    S$ 115.64 SGD

  • Accessing Audiovisual Translation

    by Lukasz Bogucki ...
    Series Book 35 - Lodz Studies in Language
    Audiovisual translation continues to be a dynamically developing genre, stimulated by interdisciplinary research and technological advances. This volume presents recent developments in the area. Renowned scholars in the field discuss aspects of captioning, revoicing and accessibility, as well as research methods such as eyetracking. The discussion occasionally departs from the confines of ... Read more

    S$ 101.90 SGD

  • Aktuelle Tendenzen in der Gegenwartsgermanistik

    Symposium ungarischer Nachwuchsgermanisten

    Edited by Tamás Kispál, Judit Szabó ...
    Series Book 5 - Szegediner Schriften zur germanistischen Linguistik
    Seit den 1990er-Jahren werden regelmäßig Tagungen für junge Germanisten unter der Schirmherrschaft der Gesellschaft ungarischer Germanisten organisiert. Der Band umfasst ausgewählte Aufsätze der ReferentInnen der Tagung von Nachwuchswissenschaftlern aus dem Jahr 2013. Die Veranstaltung mit dem Titel Aktuelle Tendenzen in der Gegenwartsgermanistik fand an der Universität Szeged statt. Die ... Read more

    S$ 77.60 SGD

  • Communication Audit in Globally Integrated R«U38»D Project Teams

    A Linguistic Perspective

    by Justyna Alnajjar ...
    Series Book 23 - Warschauer Studien zur Germanistik und zur Angewandten Linguistik
    Communication audit is a relatively new field of research, which has so far been investigated from a managerial point of view. Linguists have not yet researched it. This book summarises existing, mainly managerial, approaches to communication audits and brings to the forefront a linguistic perspective on them. It showcases that their essence is to capture and assess the actual communication ... Read more

    S$ 135.37 SGD

  • Informalization and Hybridization of Speech Practices

    Polylingual Meaning-Making across Domains, Genres, and Media

    by Amei Koll-Stobbe ...
    Series Book 10 - Sprachkoennen und Sprachbewusstheit in Europa / Language Competence and Language Awareness in Europe
    Speech practices as discursive practices for meaning-making across domains, genres, and social groups is an under-researched, highly complex field of sociolinguistics. This field has gained momentum after innovative studies of adolescents and young adults with mixed ethnic and language backgrounds revealed that they «cross» language and dialectal or vernacular borders to construct their own hybrid ... Read more

    S$ 95.80 SGD

  • Das Passiv im Deutschen und Chinesischen

    Am Beispiel der Fachsprachen der Chemie

    by Ting Huang ...
    Series Book 24 - Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft international
    Dieses Buch befasst sich mit dem Passiv im Deutschen und Chinesischen und führt einen korpusgestützten Sprachvergleich durch. Passiv als eine Subkategorie des Genus Verbi tritt häufig in Fachtexten auf, deshalb liegt der Untersuchung eine Sammlung der Passivsätze aus chemischen Fachzeitschriften zugrunde. Durch parallele Analysen zum Passiv im Deutschen und Chinesischen analysiert die Autorin, ... Read more

    S$ 86.75 SGD

  • Sprachliche Verhaeltnisse und Restrukturierung sprachlicher Repertoires in der Republik Moldova

    by Anna Weirich ...
    Series Book 30 - Sprache, Mehrsprachigkeit und sozialer Wandel. Language. Multilinguism and Social Change. Langue, multilinguisme et changement social
    Die sprachlichen Verhältnisse in der Republik Moldau befinden sich seit der Unabhängigkeit von der Sowjetunion in Veränderung. Maßgeblich hierfür sind eine neue offizielle Sprache, die Förderung der Minderheitensprachen und die Arbeitsmigration. Die Autorin untersucht die Frage, wie Sprecher*innen mit unterschiedlichen sprachlichen Repertoires mit diesen Veränderungen umgehen. Sie zeigt dies am ... Read more

    S$ 183.76 SGD

  • Substantivkomposita des Mittelhochdeutschen

    Eine korpuslinguistische Untersuchung

    by Eckhard Meineke, Eckhard Meineke ...
    Series Book 6 - Deutsche Sprachgeschichte
    Das Buch untersucht die Semantik der Substantivkomposita des Mittelhochdeutschen. Grundlage ist das Korpus des Projekts «Mittelhochdeutsche Grammatik» von Th. Klein, K.-P. Wegera und H.-J. Solms. Der Autor bestimmt die aktuellen Bedeutungen der Belege in ihrem jeweiligen Überlieferungskontext, der möglichst vollständig mitgeteilt wird. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden die Wortbildungsbedeutungen der ... Read more

    S$ 177.99 SGD

  • Identity in Communicative Contexts

    Edited by Kamila Ciepiela ...
    Series Book 48 - Lodz Studies in Language
    The central focus of the book is the identification of the ways people engage in communicative encounters to (re)constitute personal and social identities. Its aim is to identify some principal themes that have emerged from the ample research on identity in a variety of contexts. A common thread of the articles is the role of language in the construction and performance of identities. It embraces ... Read more

    S$ 94.27 SGD

  • Designing Online Communities

    How Designers, Developers, Community Managers, and Software Structure Discourse and Knowledge Production on the Web

    by Trevor Owens ...
    Series Book 72 - New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies
    Discussion on the Web is mediated through layers of software and protocols. As scholars increasingly study communication and learning on the Internet, it is essential to consider how site administrators, programmers, and designers create interfaces and enable functionality. The managers, administrators, and designers of online communities can turn to more than 20 years of technical books for ... Read more

    S$ 53.94 SGD

  • Corpus Analysis for Descriptive and Pedagogical Purposes

    ESP Perspectives

    by Maurizio Gotti ...
    Series Book 200 - Linguistic Insights
    There is hardly any aspect of verbal communication that has not been investigated using the analytical tools developed by corpus linguists. This is especially true in the case of English, which commands a vast international research community, and corpora are becoming increasingly specialised, as they account for areas of language use shaped by specific sociolectal (register, genre, variety) and ... Read more

    S$ 182.56 SGD

  • Medially-Placed Linking Adverbials in Written Academic English

    Usage Patterns and Functions

    by Carolin Harthan ...
    Series Book 49 - MUSE: Munich Studies in English
    In Present-Day English, the only flexible sentence constituent in unmarkeddeclarative sentences is the adverbial, which can often be placed in initial, medial, or end position. This book presents the first empirical and corpus-based study on the usage patterns and functions of medially-placed linking adverbials in conceptually-written academic English. By combining quantitative with detailed ... Read more

    S$ 116.73 SGD

  • Le futur dans les langues romanes

    Edited by Laura Baranzini ...
    Series Book 121 - Sciences pour la communication
    Cet ouvrage recueille douze contributions portant sur la forme verbale du futur ou sur l’expression de la futurité dans les principales langues romanes (italien, français, espagnol, catalan, portugais, occitan et roumain). Par différentes approches, des spécialistes font le point sur un temps verbal particulièrement riche au niveau des formes et des emplois, en étudiant son évolution diachronique, ... Read more

    S$ 132.75 SGD