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Positive Psychology in Search for Meaning

Positive Psychology in Search for Meaning

What are the ways in which we can understand the meaning of the psychology of meaning in people’s lives? In the last century mainstream psychology has largely neglected the topic of meaning. More recently the concept has become an academically legitimate one within positive psychology and in some other speciality areas of psychology. This book contains a collection of theoretical methodological and empirical papers written by the acknowledged experts systematically working on the problems of personal meaning within the positive psychology framework. The authors investigate the possibilities and limitations of a scientific study of personal meaning and new perspectives that this concept brings to the field. This book was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Positive Psychology. | Positive Psychology in Search for Meaning

GBP 38.99
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Melville and the Question of Meaning

Melville and the Question of Meaning

This rich volume of essays restores meaning itself as the focal point of one of our most thoughtful modern writers Herman Melville. Melville and the Question of Meaning thinks about thinking in Melville. For if Melville’s concerns with interpretation (the contributors to one recent collection variously read the author for the ‘meaning’ of the characters the meaning of the body recesses of meaning deepest levels of meaning double meaning and the meaning of being and everything else) overlap with our own concerns at a cultural moment when meaning feels especially strained we have lost sight of the central place of meaning making in Melville’s work. My own readings in Melville are a pedestrian’s guide through the self-conscious complications of meaning we meet with in Melville across a range of different disciplines and endeavors. Combining aesthetics and sociolinguistics history and theory rhetoric and politics philosophy and film studies Melville and the Question of Meaning demonstrates that the project of making meaning in Melville remains as vital as ever.

GBP 39.99
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Meaning Semantics Pragmatics Cognition

Meaning Semantics Pragmatics Cognition

Meaning addresses the fundamental question of human language interaction: what it is to mean and how we communicate our meanings to others. Experienced textbook writer and eminent researcher Betty J. Birner gives balanced coverage to semantics and pragmatics emphasizing interactions between the two and discusses other fields of language study such as syntax neurology philosophy of language and artificial intelligence in terms of their interfaces with linguistic meaning. Comics and diagrams appear throughout to keep the reader engaged; and end-of-chapter quizzes data-collection exercises and opinion questions are employed along with more traditional exercises and discussion questions. In addition the book features copious examples from real life and current events along with boxes describing linguistic issues in the news and interesting and accessible research on topics like swearing politics and animal communication. Students will emerge ready for deeper study in semantics and pragmatics – and more importantly with an understanding of how all of these fields serve the fundamental purpose of human language: the communication of meaning. Meaning is an ideal textbook for courses in linguistic meaning that focus on both semantics and pragmatics in equal parts with special attention on philosophical questions related subfields of linguistics and interfaces among these various areas. Appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate-level courses in semantics pragmatics and general linguistics Meaning is essential reading for all students of linguistic meaning. | Meaning Semantics Pragmatics Cognition

GBP 32.99
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Powerful Book Introductions Leading with Meaning for Deeper Thinking

Powerful Book Introductions Leading with Meaning for Deeper Thinking

Effective book introductions during guided reading set the stage for young readers to navigate new texts independently and successfully and often shape the outcome of small-group lessons. Many teachers struggle with decisions about what these introductions should address what they should include and how to conduct them. Powerful Book Introductions: Leading with Meaning for Deeper Thinking literacy leaders Kathleen Fay Chrisie Moritz and Suzanne Whaley speak to these concerns by taking a close look at the purposeful planning that goes into preparing for this small but vital part of today's guided reading lessons. Through relatable classroom examples and the wisdom of their shared teaching experiences the authors show you how to: Select texts for your small-group lessons specifically based on your students' needs Amplify meaning-making from the first moments of your guided reading book introductions and maintain this emphasis Introduce visual and structural information to support your readers in meaning-making No matter where you are in your understanding of guided reading Powerful Book Introductions will help you as you learn to craft student-centered meaning-driven book introductions that prepare your readers for success. | Powerful Book Introductions Leading with Meaning for Deeper Thinking

GBP 26.99
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The Search for Beulah Land

The Search for Beulah Land

This book first published in 1980 describes and analyses the revolutionary years that saw the birth of the first modern Welsh nation and the American Republic. In the last days of the eighteenth century as the Atlantic world responded to the challenge of the American and French revolutions the novel industrial capitalism of England planted itself in the Welsh south and east and disrupted traditional rural community to west and north. Wales a marginal and poverty-stricken country was propelled into modernisation cultural revival a breach with the Establishment a millenarian mitigation and its first politics. | The Search for Beulah Land

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Architecture Mentalities and Meaning

Architecture Mentalities and Meaning

In order to function architectural theory and practice must be shaped to suit current cultural economic and political forces. Thus architecture embodies reductive logic that conditions the treatment of human and social processes – which raises the question of how to define objectivity for architectural mentalities that must conform to a set of immediate conditions. This book focuses on meaning and on the physical and mental processes that define life in built environments. The potential to draw knowledge from aesthetics psychology political economy philosophy geography and sociology is offset by the fact that architectural logic is inevitably reductive cultural socio-economic and political. However despite the duty to conform it is argued that the treatment of human processes and the understanding of architectural mentalities can benefit from interdisciplinary linkages small freedoms and cracks in a system of imperatives that can yield the means of greater objectivity. This is valuable reading for students and researchers interested in architectural theory as a working reality and in the relationships between architecture and other fields. | Architecture Mentalities and Meaning

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Grammar Meaning and Concepts A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar

Grammar Meaning and Concepts A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar

Grammar Meaning and Concepts: A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar is a book for language teachers and learners that focuses on the meanings of grammatical constructions within discourse rather than on language as structure governed by rigid rules. This text emphasizes the ways in which users of language construct meaning express viewpoints and depict imageries using the conceptual meaning-filled categories that underlie all of grammar. Written by a team of authors with years of experience teaching grammar to future teachers of English this book puts grammar in the context of real language and illustrates grammar in use through an abundance of authentic data examples. Each chapter also provides a variety of activities that focus on grammar genre discourse and meaning which can be used as they are or can be adapted for classroom practice. The activities are also designed to raise awareness about discourse grammar and meaning in all facets of everyday life and can be used as springboards for upper high school undergraduate and graduate level research projects and inquiry-based grammatical analysis. Grammar Meaning and Concepts is an ideal textbook for those in the areas of teacher education discourse analysis applied linguistics second language teaching ESL EFL and communications who are looking to teach and learn grammar from a dynamic perspective. | Grammar Meaning and Concepts A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar

GBP 42.99
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Hunger for Connection Finding Meaning in Eating Disorders

Hunger for Connection Finding Meaning in Eating Disorders

Who develops which eating disorder and why? When do eating disorders begin and what fuels them? In Hunger for Connection psychoanalyst and eating-disorder specialist Alitta Kullman expands on the body/mind personality organization she calls the perseverant personality illustrating how food and thought are linked from infancy and for some can become the primary source of nurturance and thought-processing for a lifetime—leading to what we call an eating disorder. Writing in a highly accessible style Kullman brings humor and gentleness to her interactions with patients offering health professionals and mainstream readers alike an essential guide to understanding and/or working with cyclical eating disorders of all types. From psychoanalysts psychotherapists and counsellors to eating disorder specialists researchers and students Hunger for Connection not only provides guidelines for therapists of varying theoretical orientations and levels of expertise but help and hope to people suffering with eating disorders and those who care for and about them. | Hunger for Connection Finding Meaning in Eating Disorders

GBP 18.99
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