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Visual Learning eBook Series

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  • Beyond Words

    Pictures, Parables, Paradoxes

    Edited by András Benedek, Kristóf Nyíri ...
    Series Book 5 - Visual Learning
    Human thinking depends not only on words but also on visual imagery. Visual argumentation directly exploits the logic of the pictorial, while verbal arguments, too, draw on figurative language, and thus ultimately on images. In the centuries of handwritten documents and the printed book, our educational culture has been a predominantly verbal one. Today the challenge of the pictorial is explicit ... Read more

    PHP4,299.39

  • Virtual Reality – Real Visuality

    Virtual, Visual, Veridical

    Edited by András Benedek, Ágnes Veszelszki ...
    Series Book 7 - Visual Learning
    This book raises the question of what visuality really is and how it is possible to explain it. Virtual reality is connected to our current environment with multiple ties. It affects the everyday operation of the media and hence all of our lives. The authors connect the concepts of pictorial turn and virtual reality from different perspectives and disciplines, from philosophy through communication ... Read more

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  • The Power of the Image

    Emotion, Expression, Explanation

    Edited by András Benedek, Kristof Nyiri ...
    Series Book 4 - Visual Learning
    We think primarily in images, and only secondarily in words, while both the image and the word are preceded by the bodily, the visceral, the muscular. This holds even for mathematical thinking. It is the entire motor system, including facial expressions and bodily gestures, that underlies not just emotions but also abstract thought. Communication, too, is a primordially visual task, spoken and ... Read more

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  • In the Beginning was the Image: The Omnipresence of Pictures

    Time, Truth, Tradition

    by András Benedek, Ágnes Veszelszki ...
    Series Book 6 - Visual Learning
    The authors outline the topic of visuality in the 21st century in a trans- and interdisciplinary theoretical frame from philosophy through communication theory, rhetoric and linguistics to pedagogy. As some scholars of visual communication state, there is a significant link between the downgrading of visual sense making and a dominantly linguistic view of cognition. According to the concept of ... Read more

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    by Mads Nygaard Folkmann ...
    Series series Design Thinking, Design Theory
    A theoretically informed investigation that relates the philosophies of aesthetics and imagination to understanding design practice.In The Aesthetics of Imagination in Design, Mads Folkmann investigates design in both material and immaterial terms. Design objects, Folkmann argues, will always be dual phenomena—material and immaterial, sensual and conceptual, actual and possible. Drawing on formal ... Read more

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  • Making Design Theory

    by Johan Redstrom ...
    Series series Design Thinking, Design Theory
    A new approach to theory development for practice-driven research, proposing that theory is something made in and through design.Tendencies toward “academization” of traditionally practice-based fields have forced design to articulate itself as an academic discipline, in theoretical terms. In this book, Johan Redström offers a new approach to theory development in design research–one that is ... Read more

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  • The Map

    A Beginner's Guide to Doing Research in Translation Studies

    by Jenny Williams, Andrew Chesterman ...
    The Map is a practical guidebook introducing the basics of research in translation studies for students doing their first major research project in the field. Depending on where they are studying, this may be at advanced undergraduate (BA) or at postgraduate (MA/PHD) level.The book consists of ten chapters. Chapter 1 offers an overview of 12 research areas in translation studies in order to help ... Read more

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  • Digital Art and Meaning

    Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations

    by Roberto Simanowski ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting a given piece and explaining how it operates, while scholars and critics remain unsure about how to interpret and evaluate them. This is where Roberto Simanowski intervenes, demonstrating how such ... Read more

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  • Teaching Translation

    Programs, courses, pedagogies

    Edited by LAWRENCE VENUTI ...
    Over the past half century, translation studies has emerged decisively as an academic field around the world, and in recent years the number of academic institutions offering instruction in translation has risen along with an increased demand for translators, interpreters and translator trainers. Teaching Translation isthe most comprehensive and theoretically informed overview of current ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Translation Studies

    by Jeremy Munday ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Translation Studies brings together clear, detailed essays from leading international scholars on major areas in Translation Studies today.This accessible and authoritative guide offers fresh perspectives on linguistics, context, culture, politics and ethics and contains a range of contributions on emerging areas such as cognitive theories, technology, interpreting and ... Read more

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  • Qualitative Data Analysis Using a Dialogical Approach

    by Paul Sullivan ...
    In this important new text, Paul Sullivan introduces readers to a qualitative methodology rooted in the analysis of dialogue and subjectivity: the dialogical approach. Sullivan unpacks the theory behind a dialogical approach to qualitative research, and relates issues of philosophy and methodology to the practical process of actually doing qualitative research.Sullivan′s book foregrounds the role ... Read more

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  • The Semiotics of Emoji

    The Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the Internet

    by Professor Marcel Danesi ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
    Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2017Emoji have gone from being virtually unknown to being a central topic in internet communication. What is behind the rise and rise of these winky faces, clinking glasses and smiling poos? Given the sheer variety of verbal communication on the internet and English's still-controversial role as lingua mundi for the web, these icons have emerged as a ... Read more

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