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Sociolinguistics from the Periphery

Small Languages in New Circumstances

This leading team of scholars presents a fascinating book about change: shifting political, economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; and altered imaginaries for minority and indigenous languages and their users. The authors refer to this network of interlinked changes as the new conditions surrounding small languages (Sámi, Corsican, Irish and Welsh) in peripheral sites. Starting from the conviction that peripheral sites can and should inform the sociolinguistics of globalisation, the book explores how new modes of reflexivity, more transactional frames for authenticity, commodification of peripheral resources, and boundary-transgression with humour, all carry forward change. These types of change articulate a blurring of binary oppositions between centre and periphery, old and new, and standard and non-standard. Such research is particularly urgent in multilingual small language contexts, where different conceptualisations of language(s), boundaries, and speakers impact on individuals' social, cultural, and economic capital, and opportunities.

Starting from the conviction that peripheral sites can and should inform the sociolinguistics of globalisation, the book explores how new modes of reflexivity, more transactional frames for authenticity, commodification of peripheral ...

Information Technology in Asia

New Development Paradigms

The information and communications technology (ICT) revolution that swept the world through the 1990s has impacted the economic, political, and social structures of countries throughout Asia. These have presented themselves both as digital opportunities as well as challenges. This volume presents a collection of papers by scholars on the new development paradigms afforded by this new technology, from the experience of the software capital of Bangalore to the policy dilemmas faced by transitio...

Information Technology in Southeast Asia: Engine of Growth or Digital Divide?
KENNETH L. KRAEMER and JASON DEDRICK The widespread diffusion of the
personal computer and the explosive growth of the Internet have moved ...

Information Technology in Librarianship

New Critical Approaches

A host of faculty and practitioners consider how and why information technology is vital to the future of the profession, as well as caveats against over/underreliance.

Fifteen years ago one of us edited the first edition of this volume (Buschman,
1993b), and asked in the title of the introductory chapter, “Why do we need a
critical approach to information technology in librarianship?” The answer was that
, given ...

Social Dimensions of Information Technology

Issues for the New Millennium

This anthology brings together multiple viewpoints on the social dimensions of the revolution in information technology. The chapters cover social, political, educational, personal, and international dimensions of information technology impacts. Each chapter focuses on different aspects of the effects of computing and the new information technologies that have accelerated every area of human life. This book raises important issues with profound implications for public policy and societal development.

Chapter IV The Co-Evolution of Society and Multimedia Technology: Issues in
Predicting the Future Innovation and Use of a Ubiquitous Technology James
Stewart and Robin Williams University of Edinburgh, Scotland Multimedia
technology ...

Information Technology & Financial Services

The New Partnership

The development of new electronic virtual markets means that banks can now offer new and improved levels of customer service. Information Technology and Financial Services offers a thorough examination of the benefits that can be gained from the application of the new technologies to banking. The book opens with an overview of the impact of technology on the business of banking and discusses the issues that management needs to consider in order to implement these new technologies successfully. Case studies are used extensively to explore subjects ranging from the view of the customer (Bank One, US) to the role of the branch network (Znrcher Kantonalbank, Switzerland) and from market dealing and settlement (Nikko Securities, Japan) to electronic banking services for customers (The Royal Bank of Scotland, Great Britain).

As hankers face the certainty that technology will increasingly influence the
development of the banking industry. technology firms have come to realize that
hanking is one of the largest and most sophisticated markets for their products.

Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion

New and Classic Essays

Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion: New and Classic Essays is a unique, interdisciplinary collection that brings together contemporary and classic readings to provide significant insights into the practice and theory of propaganda and persuasion. The contents range from seminal essays to articles by well-known writers on propaganda to new essays about responses to contemporary issues and events. This engaging anthology also includes analyses of the relationship between rhetoric, propaganda, and persuasion.

While there are many definitions of brainwashing, depending on the ideological
perspective of the user of the term, in general it pertains to the use of coercive
psychological techniques to forcibly alter a person's beliefs and behavior, usually
to ...

Propaganda Techniques Using Words

Doublespeak, Buzzword, Weasel Word, Newspeak, Code Word, Ideograph, Loaded Language, Glittering Generality