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Fire Metaphors: Discourses of Awe and Authority (2016)
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Charteris-Black, J. (2016). Fire Metaphors: Discourses of Awe and Authority. (1). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474219556

This detailed study of fire metaphors provides a deep understanding of the purposeful work of metaphor in discourse. It analyses how and why fire metaphors are used in discourses of awe (mythology and religion) and authority (political speeches and m... Read More about Fire Metaphors: Discourses of Awe and Authority.

How to Teach Entrepreneurship to Communication and Creative Industries Students (2016)
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Stenvall-Virtanen, S., Grönlund, M., Malinen, P., Foà, C., Crespo, M., Cardoso, G., …Picard, R. (2016). ISCTE (Ed.), How to Teach Entrepreneurship to Communication and Creative Industries Students. CreBiz

This handbook has been written as a result of work undertaken in the "CreBiz - Business Development Laboratory Study Module for Creative Industries" project. The objective of creating the study module is to enhance the business knowledge of undergrad... Read More about How to Teach Entrepreneurship to Communication and Creative Industries Students.

Pragmatic Markers in British English: Meaning in Social Interaction (2016)
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Beeching, K. (2016). Pragmatic Markers in British English: Meaning in Social Interaction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Fundamental to oral fluency, pragmatic markers facilitate the flow of spontaneous, interactional and social conversation. Variously termed ‘hedges’, ‘fumbles’ and ‘conversational greasers’ in earlier academic studies, this book explores the meaning,... Read More about Pragmatic Markers in British English: Meaning in Social Interaction.

The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century (2016)
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(2016). J. Fisher, E. G. H. Pedaliu, & R. Smith (Eds.), The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46581-8

This book addresses the interface of the British Foreign Office, foreign policy and commerce in the twentieth century. Two related questions are considered: what did the Foreign Office do to support British commerce, and how did commerce influence Br... Read More about The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century.