Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: marcel danesi

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  • POLITICS, LIES AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES
    MARCEL DANESI
    Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception, and belief, and by extension its power to manipulate thoughts and beliefs. This exciting and original work is the first to apply cognitive linguistics to the analysis of political lies and conspiracy theories, both of which have flourishe...

    $999.00

  • THE DARK MAFIA
    ANTONIO NICASO / MARCEL DANESI
    This book explores how organized crime has adapted and evolved in sync with ever-expanding technologies to update its popular image and to conduct its covert operations. It shows how organized crime operates in dark virtual spaces and how it can now form a dynamic interactive system with legitimate online spaces, solidifying its criminal exploits and resources, and making them ...

    $979.00

  • USING AI FOR DIALOGUING WITH TEXTS
    YAIR NEUMAN / MARCEL DANESI / DAN VILENCHIK
    This concise volume offers an accessible introduction to state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) language models, providing a platform for their use in textual interpretation across the humanities and social sciences. The book outlines the affordances of new technologies for textual analysis, which has historically employed established approaches within the humanities. Ne...

    $539.00

  • ORGANIZED CRIME
    ANTONIO NICASO / MARCEL DANESI
    This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communications methods, origin myths, symbols, and the like that imbue the gangsters with the pride and nonchalance that goes hand in hand with their criminal activities. Mobsters are everywhere in the movies, on television, and...

    $979.00

  • LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY TODAY
    MARCEL DANESI
    This is the first textbook on the linguistic relativity hypothesis, presenting it in user-friendly language, yet analyzing all its premises in systematic ways. The hypothesis claims that there is an intrinsic interconnection between thought, language, and society. All technical terms are explained and a glossary is provided at the back of the volume. The book looks at the histo...

    $1,039.00

  • LANGUAGE, SOCIETY, AND NEW MEDIA
    MARCEL DANESI
    This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the scientific study of the relation between language and society, language and culture, language and mind. It integrates frameworks from sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology and emerging strands of research on language and new media, in order to demonstrate how language undergirds human thought and social behaviors. I...

    $1,039.00

  • AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF PUZZLES
    MARCEL DANESI
    An Anthropology of Puzzles argues that the human brain is a "puzzling organ" which allows humans to literally solve their own problems of existence through puzzle format. Noting the presence of puzzles everywhere in everyday life, Marcel Danesi looks at puzzles in society since the dawn of history, showing how their presence has guided large sections of human history, from disc...

    $1,099.00

  • DICTIONARY OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
    MARCEL DANESI
    Accessible to wide range of readers from student to lay people, this authoritative reference provides a complete listing of media concepts, figures, and techniques with illustrations and historical commentaries. Written by distinguished scholar and author Marcel Danesi, and with an Introduction by Arthur Asa Berger, a leading figure in the world of media and communications, the...

    $1,339.00