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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9781413003512
ADESSO : AN INTRODUCTION TO ITALIAN (WITH AUDIO CD) will help you use the Italian language in real-life situations. You'll learn the practical and formal skills of the language and prepare you for conversational situations....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:560
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9781413003567
The Lab Audio program includes all of the audio corresponding to the listening portions of the Workbook/Lab Manual for additional out-of-class practice....more details Format:CD-Audio
The ADESSO Workbook/Lab Manual is a comprehensive workbook and lab program, including new and updated authentic reading materials, video activities and listening activities....more details Format:Paperback
"Analyzing Cultures" is intended to be a comprehensive introduction to the field of cultural semiotics. It is designed for classroom use for courses in a number of disciplines...more details Format:Paperback Pages:432
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780802074836
The image of restless, apathetic, mopish, awkward teenagers who listen to loud, screeching music when they are not on the phone, and who insist on dressing...more details Format:Paperback Pages:168
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780802044303
Designed to teach the basic elements of the Italian language, this book is a breakthrough in the field of language studies. Its easy, stimulating...more details Format:Paperback Pages:200
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780802083296
Semiotics, Media Studies, and, Communication Studies are Three Closely interlinked fields. Briefly stated, semiotics, the science of signs, looks at how humans search for and construct meaning; communication studies is concerned with how meaning is conveyed; and media studies considers the ways in which messages are transmitted and received...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780802047830
Semiotics, Media Studies, and, Communication Studies are Three Closely interlinked fields. Briefly stated, semiotics, the science of signs, looks at how humans search for and construct meaning; communication studies is concerned with how meaning is conveyed; and media studies considers the ways in which messages are transmitted and received...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:400
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780802086204
The excessive worship of adolescence and its social empowerment by adult institutions is the deeply rooted cause of a serious cultural malaise. So argues semiotician Marcel Danesi in Forever Young...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780802088512
The excessive worship of adolescence and its social empowerment by adult institutions is the deeply rooted cause of a serious cultural malaise. So argues semiotician Marcel Danesi in Forever Young...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:144
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9783110214062
Why do people from different cultural backgrounds often misunderstand each other even when they usea common language to interact? Why do arguments that we find reasonable not seem so to members of other cultural groups? Global Linguistics: An Introduction addresses these and other basic questions about language and discourse in intercultural communication...more details Format:Paperback Pages:270
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9783110214055
Why do people from different cultural backgrounds often misunderstand each other even when they usea common language to interact? Why do arguments that we find reasonable not seem so to members of other cultural groups? Global Linguistics addresses these and other basic questions about language and discourse in intercultural communication...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:270
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780071476591
There's no easier way to untangle the complexities of Italian. "Italian Demystified" provides you with a friendly, nonintimidating method that takes the confusion out of learning a new language...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:465
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780764130731
Designed for both classroom use and as a text for self-teaching language learners, this book consists of 30 work units, an extensive Italian-English and English-Italian vocabulary list...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:560
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780764177569
"On the Go" language learning programs are now available in a choice of either cassette tapes or compact discs. This updated compact disc program emphasizes Italian speaking and listening comprehension on a fundamental level...more details Format:CD-Audio
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780764173509
"On the Go" language learning programs are available in a choice of either cassette tapes or compact discs. This updated cassette program emphasizes Italian speaking and listening comprehension on a fundamental level...more details Format:Paperback Pages:32
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780764129544
The most-often-used Italian regular and irregular verbs are presented with English translations in this quick-reference format. The six-panel card is laminated for long life and punched to fit either a two-ring or a three-ring notebook. The verb tenses are listed and explained in both active and passive voices...more details Format:Loose Leaf Pages:6
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780764175268
This popular series - previously avaialble as book-and-cassette programs and in bookonly versions - can now be purchased in four different languages as book and audio CD packages. These programs...more details Format:Paperback
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780742528543
My Son Is an Alien is an entertaining, informative look at cultural influences on today's youth. Based on interviews with hundreds of teens, pre-teens...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:208
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780742528550
My Son Is an Alien is an entertaining, informative look at cultural influences on today's youth. Based on interviews with hundreds of teens, pre-teens...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780312210847
Why is it that certain members of the human species routinely put their survival at risk by smoking cigarettes? Why is it that some females make walking a struggle for themselves by donning high heel footwear? This book attempts to answer such questions. Such risky behaviors are obviously shaped by forces other than the instincts. Indeed...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:224
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780230605237
Author Marcello Danesi explores the discipline known as semiotics, which endeavours to understand reasons for the risky behaviours of the human species...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:235
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780742555471
What is pop culture? Why do we so often hate to love it and love to hate it? What makes us embrace parts of it and not others? Marcel Danesi explores our human desire for meaning and the need to symbolize it in music...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:315
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780742555464
What is pop culture? Why do we so often hate to love it and love to hate it? What makes us embrace parts of it and not others? Marcel Danesi explores our human desire for meaning and the need to symbolize it in music...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:317
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780253340948
Recalling Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct, the author argues that humans are born with an "instinct for puzzles" that betrays a larger search for the meaning of life....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:269
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780446618649
This brain-teasing collection of 215 sudoku puzzles will provide never-ending entertainment for the millions of people being swept up in the latest tantalising "wordless crossword" craze. Beginners and seasoned players alike will discover all they need to know to join in the fun with easy-to-understand chapters that include The Rules of the Game...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9781894508230
This volume brings together studies and commentaries on the movement known as "global semiotics," initiated and sustained by one of greatest semioticians and intellectuals of the twentieth century...more details Format:Paperback Pages:1
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780253217080
Recalling Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct, the author argues that humans are born with an "instinct for puzzles" that betrays a larger search for the meaning of life....more details Format:Paperback Pages:269
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780802095145
Semiotics is the study of the most critical feature of human consciousness - the capacity for creating and using signs such as words and symbols for thinking...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:193
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780802093684
Semiotics is the study of the most critical feature of human consciousness - the capacity for creating and using signs such as words and symbols for thinking...more details Format:Hardback Pages:193
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780340808832
Media semiotics is a valuable method of focusing on the hidden meanings within media texts. This book offers students an in-depth guide to help them investigate and understand the media using semiotic theory. It assumes little previous knowledge of the field...more details Format:Hardback Pages:264
Media semiotics is a valuable method of focusing on the hidden meanings within media texts. This book offers students an in-depth guide to help them investigate and understand the media using semiotic theory. It assumes little previous knowledge of the field...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780521524254
Using Italian Vocabulary provides the student of Italian with an in-depth, structured approach to the learning of vocabulary. It can be used for intermediate and advanced undergraduate courses...more details Format:Paperback Pages:492
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9781413003581
A new video program now accompanies this edition of ADESSO Featuring a set of short cultural vignettes showcasing areas of Italy and select cultural topics...more details Format:Other
Marcel Danesi is an entertaining and insightful tour guide to decoding the messages woven into the advertisements, commercials, brand names, and logos we see on a daily basis. Guiding readers through the basics of how to interpret ads...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:211
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780742555440
Advertising plays a key role in defining contemporary culture worldwide, creating a variety of meanings in the minds of consumers. Intrigued by this process...more details Format:Hardback Pages:211
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780230610682
Many attack pop culture as a crude "sexual" and "celebrity-based" culture that is purportedly bringing about the end of moral values. Renowned semiotician Marcel Danesi adds his signature insight to the debate by delving deep into pop culture through a consideration of symbols. Danesi's treatment of letters...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:180
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Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780230610675
Many attack pop culture as a crude "sexual" and "celebrity-based" culture that is purportedly bringing about the end of moral values. Renowned semiotician Marcel Danesi adds his signature insight to the debate by delving deep into pop culture through a consideration of symbols. Danesi's treatment of letters...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:180
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Marcel Danesi;Paul J Perrone
ISBN:9780253335678
Designed for classroom use in a number of disciplines, this comprehensive introduction to cultural semiotics is also an easy-to-use reference for those who would like a better understanding of the topic...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:432
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Marcel DANESI
ISBN:9780764133589
Many students of English as a second language are daunted by the complexities of English grammar and its terminology. This user-friendly book was written especially for them. The emphasis here is on practical use of written and spoken English...more details Format:Paperback Pages:330
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Marcel DANESI
ISBN:9780764133077
Books in the innovative" Foreign Language Word Puzzles "series help students of foreign languages learn vocabulary and word meanings by working out a succession of fun-to-do word puzzles. Featured in each book are crosswords...more details Format:Paperback Pages:122
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Marcel DANESI
ISBN:9780764120602
Books in Barron's foreign language Grammar series are small in size but filled with helpful fast-reference information for language students. They make fine supplements to standard textbooks. Topics covered include parts of speech...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Marcel Danesi Ph D
ISBN:9781438000046
Titles in "Barron's Grammar " series are small in size but filled with helpful fast-reference information for language students and translators. Barron's "Italian Grammar " makes a handy supplement to classroom textbooks. Topics covered include parts of speech...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Marcel Danesi Ph D
ISBN:9781438000060
This updated worktext for high school and college introductory courses emphasizes functional use of conversational and written Italian with extensive use of fill-in exercises...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:576
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Marcel DANESI
ISBN:9780764134135
Readers who want to teach themselves Italian at their own pace and outside a formal classroom setting will find this book an excellent source for getting started. Meanwhile...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:308
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Marcel DANESI
ISBN:9780764130243
Here is a fine new, user-friendly supplementary language worktext for students enrolled in high school and college-level Italian courses, as well as for those who know some Italian but want to work independently to improve their knowledge of Italian verbs...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:360
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Marcel Danesi Ph D
ISBN:9780764147692
Release Date: 01 September 2012 Here is a practical carry-along books for Italian language students and travelers to Italy. Purchasers of all titles in "Barron's Vocabulary Series " have expressed special satisfaction with these small-format books because they go beyond the standard vocabulary needs of students taking language courses...more details Format:Paperback
The newly revised and expanded edition of this language helper presents nearly 6,000 English words and phrases categorized by practical subject themes and translated into the Italian equivalents. Subject theme groupings include numbers and measurements...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
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Marcel DANESI
ISBN:9780764133220
Books in the innovative" Foreign Language Word Puzzles "series help students of foreign languages learn vocabulary and word meanings by working out a succession of fun-to-do word puzzles. Featured in each book are crosswords...more details Format:Paperback Pages:132
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Marcel DANESI
ISBN:9780764176814
Updated with helpful facts and tips for international travelers, new third edition of Learn Italian the Fast and Fun Way book with audiocassettes is suitable as a language teacher for adults as well as for older children. This program instructs beginners in the basics of reading...more details Format:Hardback Pages:272
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Marcel DANESI
ISBN:9780764176838
Updated with helpful facts and tips for international travelers, new third edition of Learn Italian the Fast and Fun Way book with audio CDs is suitable as a language teacher for adults as well as for older children. This program instructs beginners in the basics of reading...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Marcel Danesi;Tracy Hohn
ISBN:9780764136306
Middle school and high school students who are taking Italian and finding the learning process painful will change their minds when they open this book. Separate lessons teach important and interesting aspects of Italian culture while also presenting lessons in Italian vocabulary...more details Format:Paperback Pages:278
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Marcel Danesi Ph D
ISBN:9780764147616
Release Date: 01 August 2012 This user-friendly textbook supplement demonstrates that learning a foreign language can be both easy and fun when approached in the proper spirit...more details Format:Paperback
This program is designed to correct pronunciation deficiencies with cassettes that explain rules and encourage practice. This course focuses on vowel sounds...more details Format:Book Pages:132
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Marcel Danesi;M Danesi
ISBN:9781402014895
Second Language Teaching, A View from the Right Side of the Brain:
-offers a practical introduction to the use of neuroscience to teach second languages; -provides information on the relation between how the brain learns and how this can be used to construct classroom activities; -evaluates methods...more details Format:Paperback Pages:188
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Marcel Danesi;M Danesi
ISBN:9781402014888
Second Language Teaching, A View from the Right Side of the Brain:
-offers a practical introduction to the use of neuroscience to teach second languages; -provides information on the relation between how the brain learns and how this can be used to construct classroom activities; -evaluates methods...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:188
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Thomas A Sebeok;Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780802084729
The interpretive science of semiotics offers powerful analytical tools for the application of many disciplines to the study of perception. Semiotics is the study of signs...more details Format:Paperback Pages:193
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Gianrenzo P Clivio;Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780802083388
Here, at last, is a text on Italian linguistics that clearly presents all of the key concepts in a form designed specifically for English-speaking students. This unique book will fill a major gap in the curriculum of undergraduate and graduate programs in Italian linguistics.
The authors explain complex linguistics ideas in a logical...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Gianrenzo P Clivio;Marcel Danesi
ISBN:9780802048004
Here, at last, is a text on Italian linguistics that clearly presents all of the key concepts in a form designed specifically for English-speaking students. This unique book will fill a major gap in the curriculum of undergraduate and graduate programs in Italian linguistics.
The authors explain complex linguistics ideas in a logical...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:256
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PHD Danesi Marcel
ISBN:9780373892433
"Extreme Brain Workout" is a series of puzzles designed to engage the core parts of your brain that are responsible for verbal ability, logical thinking and even your IQ. Each group of puzzles progresses from simple to complex so that they are accessible and challenging for everyone...more details Format:Game Pages:325
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Danesi Marcello
ISBN:9780333749241
Why is it that certain members of the human species routinely put their survival at risk by smoking cigarettes? Why is it that some females make walking a struggle for themselves by donning high heels? This book attempts to answer such questions...more details Format:Hardback
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Danesi Marcello
ISBN:9780333749258
Author Marcello Danesi explores the discipline known as semiotics, which endeavours to understand reasons for the risky behaviours of the human species...more details Format:Paperback
This text is a user-friendly introduction to the semiotic study of advertising. It is intended for advertisers and marketers interested in the use of semiotics as a tool in their field. It can also be used as a basic textbook in semiotic analysis and in media courses. But even the general reader can find much to ponder here...more details Format:Paperback Pages:102