The study of media and contemporary cyberculture has produced a vast repertory of notions, ideas, techniques, theories, and methods of analysis. Many of these are borrowed and adapted from cognate disciplines; but others are...

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Perhaps the oldest and most intriguing conundrum of all is the question: What is the mind? In the last decade an interdisciplinary approach, known as cognitive science, has emerged to study the mind with the ideas and methods forged by...

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction to Giambattista Vico: The Anglo-American perspective / Danesi, Marcel -- Vico, Burke, and Frye's flirtation with the sublime / Cotrupi, Nella -- Metaphor and language learning: A...

This book shows how language can be used strategically to manipulate beliefs.From Machiavelli to P. T. Barnum to Donald Trump, many have perfected the art of strategically using language to gain the upper hand, set a tone, change the...

Learn to speak Italian as fluently as Italians do-an indispensable guide, now with a timely new chapter on remote communicationWhether you're learning Italian now at an intermediate level or looking to brush up on your Italian...

"Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives" von Marcel Danesi bietet eine umfassende Einführung in das Studium der Populärkultur. Das Buch untersucht die verschiedenen Aspekte und Einflüsse der Populärkultur auf die Gesellschaft und...

This book provides a fundamental reassessment of mathematics education in the digital era. It constitutes a new mindset of how information and knowledge are processed by introducing new interconnective and interactive pedagogical...

This book explores the many disciplinary and theoretical links between language, linguistics, and mathematics. It examines trends in linguistics, such as structuralism, conceptual metaphor theory, and other relevant theories,to show that...

This book looks at classic puzzles from the perspective of their structures and what they tell us about the brain. It uses the work on the neuroscience of mathematics from Dehaene, Butterworth, Lakoff, Núñez, and many others as a lens to...

Problem-solving in mathematics is seen by many students as a struggle. Since the capacity to count and understand basic arithmetical concepts (adding, taking away, etc.) is innate and emerges effortlessly in childhood, why does this...

Practice Makes Perfect Complete Italian Grammar. Premium Edition von Danesi, Marcel