This text provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers. This book provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers. Chapters cover the basic areas of sociolinguistics, including regional and social variations in dialects, language and gender, World English, and intercultural communication. Each chapter has been specially written for this collection by an individual who has done extensive research on the topic explored. This is the first introductory text to address explicitly the pedagogical implications of current theory and research in sociolinguistics. The book will also be of interest to any teachers with students from linguistically diverse backgrounds.
This text provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers. This book provides an introduction to the field of sociolinguistics for second and foreign language teachers.
This important new title explores the adoption and diffusion of information technology. It aims to answer the problems frequently encountered in the practical adoption of the technology by giving recommendations, exploring the overall frameworks of adoption and diffusion (A&D) and examining A&D within sectors and nations. This book examines the following key areas: overall frameworks of adoption and diffusion; important adoption and diffusion issues; recommendations: how to carry out adoption and diffusion; modelling and measuring adoption and diffusion; adoption and diffusion within sectors and nations.
Proceedings of the first IFIP WG 8.6 working conference on the diffusion and
adoption of information technology, Oslo, Norway, ... Hannu Jaakkola Tampere
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This book focuses on negotiation processes and how negotiation modeling frameworks and information technology can support these. A modeling framework for negotiation as a purposeful complex adaptive process is presented and computer-implemented in the first three chapters. Two game-theoretic contributions use non-cooperative games in extensive form and a computer-implemented graph model for conflict resolution, respectively. Two chapters use the negotiators' joint utility distribution to provide problem structure and computer support. A chapter on cognitive support uses restructurable modeling as a framework. One chapter matches information technologies with negotiation tasks. Another develops computer support based on preference programming. Two final chapters develop a stakeholder approach to support system evaluation, and a research framework for them, respectively. Negotiation Processes: Modeling Frameworks and Information Technology will be of interest to researchers and students in the areas of negotiation, group decision/negotiation support systems and management science, as well as to practising negotiators interested in this technology.
Some of these technologies include collaborative computing, electronic
publishing, intelligent systems, and networked communications — all supported
by a network of processors, applications, and data bases. This article explores
these ...
Information technology will be the most pervasive and important influence on individuals and organizations in the next 10 years. Impression management is a growing field of study in the management and organizational sciences, which studies the self-presentational approach of individuals and the organizations. This collection of papers is both exploratory and innovative, examining new ways for the corporation to effect its strategy, its organizational design and its development as they are stimulated by the introduction and evolution of information technology. Understanding impression management theory as it moves further into the mainstream of research and practice is critical to corporate strategists, academics, and students.
This collection of papers is both exploratory and innovative, examining new ways for the corporation to effect its strategy, its organizational design and its development as they are stimulated by the introduction and evolution of ...
This survey of contemporary human resource management offers a blend of practical, realistic perspectives and techniques and the underlying conceptual HRM theory. It reflects the latest in HRM practices, featuring examples that demonstrate how concepts are being used in organizations today.
This survey of contemporary human resource management offers a blend of practical, realistic perspectives and techniques and the underlying conceptual HRM theory.
