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Playing with Mental Models: Humour in the BBC comedy series The Office

Henri de Jongste

In this book, the author uses a mental-model theory of communication to investigate the acclaimed British situation comedy The Office. The approach taken is multi-disciplinary, and focuses on questions as:What are mental models and what role do they play in communication in general, and in creating… read more

[Topics in Humor Research, 9] 2020. xv, 301 pp.

Images in Use: Towards the critical analysis of visual communication

Edited by Matteo Stocchetti and Karin Kukkonen

News coverage of EU negotiations, children’s war memories or TV series glamourising political processes – images pervade both private and public discourse, and visual communication plays a key role in our social negotiation of values. Conceptualising images as “images in use”, this volume considers… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 44] 2011. vi, 298 pp.

Textual Translation and Live Translation: The total experience of nonverbal communication in literature, theater and cinema

Fernando Poyatos

After the many interdisciplinary perspectives on nonverbal communication offered by the author in his previous seven John Benjamins books, which have generated a wide range of scholarly applications, the present monograph is dominated by a very broad concept of translation. This treatment of… read more

[Not in series, 142] 2008. xix, 365 pp.