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Book Eyebrow Raising in Dialogue

Download or read book Eyebrow Raising in Dialogue written by M. L. Flecha-Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eyebrow Raising in Dialogue

Download or read book Eyebrow Raising in Dialogue written by María Luisa Flecha-García and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dialogue and Culture

Download or read book Dialogue and Culture written by Marion Grein and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume deals with the relationship between language, dialogue, human nature and culture by focusing on an approach that considers culture to be a crucial component of dialogic interaction. Part I refers to the so-called ‘language instinct debate’ between nativists and empiricists and introduces a mediating position that regards language and dialogue as determined by both human nature and culture. This sets the framework for the contributions of Part II which propose varying theoretical positions on how to address the ways in which culture influences dialogue. Part III presents more empirically oriented studies which demonstrate the interaction of components in the ‘mixed game’ and focus, in particular, on specific action games, politeness and selected verbal means of communication.

Book Translating Fictional Dialogue for Children and Young People

Download or read book Translating Fictional Dialogue for Children and Young People written by Martin B. Fischer and published by Frank & Timme GmbH. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary and multimodal texts for children and young people play an important role in their acquisition of language and literacy, and they are a flourishing part of publishing and translating activities today. This book brings together twenty-one papers on the particular aspect of the translation of feigned orality. As the link between the literary and the multimodal text, fictional dialogue is the appropriate place for evoking orality, lending authenticity and credibility to the narrated plot and giving a voice to fictitious characters. This is illustrated with examples from narrative and dramatic texts as well as films, cartoons and television series, in their respective modes of mediation: translating, interpreting, dubbing and subtitling. The findings are of interest from the scholarly point of view of contrastive linguistics, for the professional practice of translating, interpreting, dubbing and subtitling and in the educational context.

Book Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces

Download or read book Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces written by Mark Maybury and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compilation of the classic readings in intelligent user interfaces. This text focuses on intelligent, knowledge-based interfaces, combining spoken language, natural language processing, and multimedia and multimodal processing.

Book How To Write Realistic Dialogue

Download or read book How To Write Realistic Dialogue written by Jon Adams and published by Green Mountain Computing. This book was released on with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the heart of narrative craftsmanship with "How To Write Realistic Dialogue," a definitive guide designed for writers striving to infuse their work with authentic, engaging, and compelling conversations. This comprehensive book demystifies the art and science behind crafting dialogue that breathes life into characters and drives narratives forward. Whether you're a budding novelist, a seasoned author, or a creative writing enthusiast, this book is your gateway to mastering the subtleties of realistic dialogue. Contents: Understanding Dialogue Fundamentals: Begin your journey with a foundational overview of dialogue writing, setting the stage for more advanced techniques. (Pg 8) Character Voice and Authenticity: Learn how to create distinct, believable voices for your characters, ensuring they speak in a way that's true to their identities. (Pg 19) Mechanics of Dialogue: Punctuation and Formatting: Master the technical aspects of writing dialogue, from commas to quotation marks, to enhance readability and flow. (Pg 34) Real Speech Versus Readable Dialogue: Discover the balance between mimicking real speech patterns and maintaining clarity and engagement in written dialogue. (Pg 47) Subtext and Conflict Through Dialogue: Explore how to weave subtext and conflict into conversations to add depth and complexity to your narrative. (Pg 63) Dialogue as a Narrative Driver: Uncover the secrets to using dialogue as a tool to advance your plot and reveal key information without resorting to exposition. (Pg 83) Editing for Powerful Dialogue: Refine your dialogue to its most potent form, learning techniques for cutting filler and enhancing impact. (Pg 100) Genre-Specific Dialogue Considerations: Tailor your dialogue to fit various genres, understanding the nuances that differentiate dialogue in a romance novel from that in a sci-fi epic. (Pg 117) The Final Word: Crafting Memorable Dialogue: Put the finishing touches on your dialogue, ensuring it leaves a lasting impression on your readers. (Pg 132) Realistic Dialogue Examples: Study examples of effective dialogue across genres, gaining insights and inspiration for your own work. (Pg 144) "How To Write Realistic Dialogue" serves as a comprehensive guide, offering a deep dive into the craft of creating dialogue that captures the essence of real human interaction. This book bridges the gap between the theoretical and the practical, providing writers with the tools, techniques, and insights needed to elevate their dialogue. From understanding the fundamentals to mastering the nuances of character voice and authenticity, this guide covers every aspect of dialogue writing. It emphasizes the importance of subtext, the role of dialogue in driving the narrative, and the fine balance between authenticity and readability. Whether you're working on your first novel or looking to refine your skills, this book is an invaluable resource that will help you give your characters a voice that resonates with readers and brings your narrative to life. Embrace the journey of transforming your dialogue from mundane to memorable with "How To Write Realistic Dialogue."

Book Cues

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vanessa Van Edwards
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2022-03-01
  • ISBN : 0593332199
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Cues written by Vanessa Van Edwards and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wall Street Journal bestseller! For anyone who wants to be heard at work, earn that overdue promotion, or win more clients, deals, and projects, the bestselling author of Captivate, Vanessa Van Edwards, shares her advanced guide to improving professional relationships through the power of cues. What makes someone charismatic? Why do some captivate a room, while others have trouble managing a small meeting? What makes some ideas spread, while other good ones fall by the wayside? If you have ever been interrupted in meetings, overlooked for career opportunities or had your ideas ignored, your cues may be the problem – and the solution. Cues – the tiny signals we send to others 24/7 through our body language, facial expressions, word choice, and vocal inflection – have a massive impact on how we, and our ideas, come across. Our cues can either enhance our message or undermine it. In this entertaining and accessible guide to the hidden language of cues, Vanessa Van Edwards teaches you how to convey power, trust, leadership, likeability, and charisma in every interaction. You’ll learn: • Which body language cues assert, “I’m a leader, and here’s why you should join me.” • Which vocal cues make you sound more confident • Which verbal cues to use in your résumé, branding, and emails to increase trust (and generate excitement about interacting with you.) • Which visual cues you are sending in your profile pictures, clothing, and professional brand. Whether you're pitching an investment, negotiating a job offer, or having a tough conversation with a colleague, cues can help you improve your relationships, express empathy, and create meaningful connections with lasting impact. This is an indispensable guide for entrepreneurs, team leaders, young professionals, and anyone who wants to be more influential.

Book The Conversation Frame

Download or read book The Conversation Frame written by Esther Pascual and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume brings together the latest research on fictive interaction, that is the use of the frame of ordinary conversation as a means to structure cognition (talking to oneself), discourse (monologues organized as dialogues), and grammar (“why me? attitude”). This follows prior work on the subject by Esther Pascual and other authors, most of whom are also contributors to this volume. The 17 chapters in the volume explore fictive interaction as a fundamental cognitive phenomenon, as a ubiquitous discourse-structuring device, as a possibly universal linguistic construction, and as an effective communicative strategy in persuasion and language pathology. The data discussed involve a wide variety of unrelated languages (spoken and signed) and modes of communication (oral, written, visual), across cultural contexts and historical time. The research presented combines linguistics and cognitive science, while bridging the gap between core grammatical studies and modern conversation and discourse analysis. The volume further reaches across what may be the most basic divide in linguistics: that between descriptive, theoretical, and applied linguistics.

Book Intonation and Its Parts

Download or read book Intonation and Its Parts written by Dwight Bolinger and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's not what she said, it's the way that she said it," is a complaint we have all heard (or made) some time or another. What does it refer to? It obviously relates to the various forms of wordless communication, but especially to the speaker's use of intonation—the rise and fall of the pitch of the voice—to convey sarcasm or resignation, anger or apprehension, or any of scores of other moods. In this summation of over forty years of investigation and reflection, the author analyzes the nature, variety and utility of intonation, using some 700 examples from everyday English speech. The work looks at both accent (pitch shift that points up individual words) and overall configurations (melodies that shape the meaning of whole sentences). It shows that most easily understood utterances employ one or another of a surprisingly small stock of basic melodies, and it shows both intonation and visible gesture to be parts of a larger complex that conveys grammatical as well as emotional information. Though it is one of the major divisions of the science of linguistics, intonation is of great interest to others outside of linguistics—to actors and lawyers who must use the voice to assert, to downplay, or to emote; to English teachers as an essential ingredient of idiomatic speech; to musicians for its many common elements in music theory; and to psychologists and anthropologists as a gauge of emotional tension and a clue to behavior.

Book CoffeeTime Dialogues

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  • Author : Cláudio Canas Dorotea
  • Publisher : Claudio Canas Dorotea
  • Release : 2024-08-19
  • ISBN : 1068752114
  • Pages : 737 pages

Download or read book CoffeeTime Dialogues written by Cláudio Canas Dorotea and published by Claudio Canas Dorotea. This book was released on 2024-08-19 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the CoffeeTime Universe, where history's greatest minds converge in a cosy inter-dimensional café! Imagine sharing a table with Socrates and Genghis Khan, bridging millennia in a single conversation. This captivating philosophical adventure invites you to join the CoffeeTime crew for discussions that dance between the profound and the whimsical. As you turn each page, you'll find yourself debating the nature of justice with the father of Western philosophy, exploring leadership and conquest with the founder of the Mongol Empire, and unravelling the mysteries of existence through unexpected dialogues. But beware: this is no ordinary book. Once you cross the threshold into this interdimensional bubble, you'll be swept into a whirlwind of ideas that challenge your perceptions and expand your mind. Prepare to laugh, ponder, and perhaps shed a tear as you confront truths that shake the very foundations of your beliefs. CoffeeTime isn't just a read — it's an experience. As a member of the crew, you'll uncover hidden jokes and delightful moments, discover intriguing connections between characters and concepts, and have the chance to question everything you thought you knew about yourself and the universe. Join us for a cup of cosmic wisdom, a dash of humour, and a journey that transcends time and space. Welcome to CoffeeTime — where every sip brings a new perspective!

Book Body   Language   Communication  Volume 2

Download or read book Body Language Communication Volume 2 written by Cornelia Müller and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II of the handbook offers a unique collection of exemplary case studies. In five chapters and 99 articles it presents the state of the art on how body movements are used for communication around the world. Topics include the functions of body movements, their contexts of occurrence, their forms and meanings, their integration with speech, and how bodily motion can function as language. By including an interdisciplinary chapter on ‘embodiment’, volume II explores the body and its role in the grounding of language and communication from one of the most widely discussed current theoretical perspectives. Volume II of the handbook thus entails the following chapters: VI. Gestures across cultures, VII. Body movements: functions, contexts and interactions, VIII. Gesture and language, IX. Embodiment: the body and its role for cognition, emotion, and communication, X. Sign Language: Visible body movements as language. Authors include: Mats Andrèn, Richard Asheley, Benjamin Bergen, Ulrike Bohle, Dominique Boutet, Heather Brookes, Penelope Brown, Kensy Cooperrider, Onno Crasborn, Seana Coulson, James Essegby, Maria Graziano, Marianne Gullberg, Simon Harrison, Hermann Kappelhoff, Mardi Kidwell, Irene Kimbara, Stefan Kopp, Grigoriy Kreidlin, Dan Loehr, Irene Mittelberg, Aliyah Morgenstern, Rafael Nuñez, Isabella Poggi, David Quinto-Pozos, Monica Rector, Pio Enrico Ricci-Bitti, Göran Sonesson, Timo Sowa, Gale Stam, Eve Sweetser, Mark Tutton, Ipke Wachsmuth, Linda Waugh, Sherman Wilcox.

Book Handbook of Multimodal and Spoken Dialogue Systems

Download or read book Handbook of Multimodal and Spoken Dialogue Systems written by Dafydd Gibbon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictation systems, read-aloud software for the blind, speech control of machinery, geographical information systems with speech input and output, and educational software with `talking head' artificial tutorial agents are already on the market. The field is expanding rapidly, and new methods and applications emerge almost daily. But good sources of systematic information have not kept pace with the body of information needed for development and evaluation of these systems. Much of this information is widely scattered through speech and acoustic engineering, linguistics, phonetics, and experimental psychology. The Handbook of Multimodal and Spoken Dialogue Systems presents current and developing best practice in resource creation for speech input/output software and hardware. This volume brings experts in these fields together to give detailed `how to' information and recommendations on planning spoken dialogue systems, designing and evaluating audiovisual and multimodal systems, and evaluating consumer off-the-shelf products. In addition to standard terminology in the field, the following topics are covered in depth: How to collect high quality data for designing, training, and evaluating multimodal and speech dialogue systems; How to evaluate real-life computer systems with speech input and output; How to describe and model human-computer dialogue precisely and in depth. Also included: The first systematic medium-scale compendium of terminology with definitions. This handbook has been especially designed for the needs of development engineers, decision-makers, researchers, and advanced level students in the fields of speech technology, multimodal interfaces, multimedia, computational linguistics, and phonetics.

Book Plato s Dialogues

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  • Author : Gerald Alan Press
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780847678365
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Plato s Dialogues written by Gerald Alan Press and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays by philosophers, philologists and historians exemplify both the pluralism and shared values of recent scholarship on Plato's dialogues and philosophy. They emphasise the interdependence of ideas, literary and dramatic elements, and the historical and cultural contexts.

Book The Sunlight Dialogues

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  • Author : John Gardner
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2010-09-21
  • ISBN : 1453203664
  • Pages : 629 pages

Download or read book The Sunlight Dialogues written by John Gardner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV DIVDIVJohn Gardner’s sweeping portrait of the collision of opposing philosophical perspectives in 1960s America, centering on the appearance of a mysterious stranger in a small upstate New York town/divDIV /div/divDIVOne summer day, a countercultural drifter known only as the Sunlight Man appears in Batavia, New York. Jailed for painting the word “LOVE” across two lanes of traffic, the Sunlight Man encounters Fred Clumly, a sixty-four-year-old town sheriff. Throughout the course of this impressive narrative, the dialogue between these two men becomes a microcosm of the social unrest that epitomized America during this significant historical period—and culminates in an unforgettable ending. /divDIV /divDIVBeautifully expansive and imbued with exceptional social insight, The Sunlight Dialogues is John Gardner’s most ambitious work andestablished him as one of the most important fiction writers in post–World War II America. /divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives./div /div

Book Speech  Image  and Language Processing for Human Computer Interaction  Multi Modal Advancements

Download or read book Speech Image and Language Processing for Human Computer Interaction Multi Modal Advancements written by Tiwary, Uma Shanker and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book identifies the emerging research areas in Human Computer Interaction and discusses the current state of the art in these areas"--Provided by publisher.

Book Solutions for Writing Dialog

Download or read book Solutions for Writing Dialog written by and published by Sandra Haven. This book was released on with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Greek Dialogues

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  • Author : Betty Mallett Smith
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2010-08-31
  • ISBN : 146910704X
  • Pages : 673 pages

Download or read book The Greek Dialogues written by Betty Mallett Smith and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek gods, goddesses, and heroes come alive as they fight, love, bicker, and give advice to confused human beings in these imaginative dialogues. It is easy to find their experiences and emotions reflected in our own lives. The author, Betty Mallett Smith, brings a trained philosophical mind, as well as a long study of Greek literature and art, to bear on the ancient myths. The work also reflects her deep experience of modern depth psychology, especially that of C. G. Jung.