1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457066303321

Autore

Joseph John Earl

Titolo

Language and politics / / John E. Joseph [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2006

ISBN

0-7486-7145-5

9786610501649

1-280-50164-2

0-7486-2697-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 170 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Edinburgh textbooks in applied linguistics

Disciplina

401.4

Soggetti

Language and languages - Political aspects

Language policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [150]-162) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Overview : how politics permeates language (and vice versa) -- 2. Language and nation -- 3. social politics of language choice and linguistic correctness -- 4. Politics embedded in language -- 5. Taboo language and its restriction -- 6. Rhetoric, propaganda and interpretation -- 7. Conclusion : power, hegemony and choices.

Sommario/riassunto

Language, this book argues, is political from top to bottom, whether considered at the level of an individual speaker’s choice of language or style of discourse with others (where interpersonal politics are performed), or at the level of political rhetoric, or indeed all the way up to the formation of national languages. By bringing together this set of topics and highlighting how they are interrelated, the book will function well as a textbook on any applied or sociolinguistic course in which some or all of these various aspects of the politics of language are covered. The chapter headings include:  *How politics permeates language (and vice-versa)  *Language and nation  *The social politics of language choice and linguistic correctness  *Politics embedded in language  *Taboo language and its restriction  *Rhetoric, propaganda and interpretation  *Power, hegemony and choices



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830176503321

Titolo

Statistical practice in business and industry [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Shirley Coleman ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons, c2008

ISBN

1-281-31234-7

9786611312343

0-470-99748-6

0-470-99747-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (449 p.)

Collana

Statistics in practice

Altri autori (Persone)

ColemanShirley

Disciplina

338.00727

658.4

658.4/033

658.4033

Soggetti

Commercial statistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Statistical Practice in Business and Industry; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 A History of Industrial Statistics; 3 Statistical Consultancy; 3.I. A Statistician in Industry; 3.II Black Belt Types; 3.III Statistical Consultancy Units at Universities; 3.IV Consultancy? . . . What's in It for Me?; 4 The Statistical Efficiency Conjecture; 5 Management Statistics; 6 Service Quality; 7 Design and Analysis of Industrial Experiments; 8 Data Mining; 9 Using Statistical Process Control for Continual Improvement; 10 Advanced Statistical Process Control; 11 Measurement System Analysis

12 Safety and Reliability12.I. Reliability Engineering: The State of the Art; 12.II Stochastics for the Quality Movement: An Integrated Approach to Reliability and Safety; 13 Multivariate and Multiscale Data Analysis; 14 Simulation in Industrial Statistics; 15 Communication; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book covers all the latest advances, as well as more established methods, in the application of statistical and optimisation methods within modern industry. These include applications from a range of industries that include micro-electronics, chemical, automotive,



engineering, food, component assembly, household goods and plastics. Methods range from basic graphical approaches to generalised modelling, from designed experiments to process control. Solutions cover produce and process design, through manufacture to packaging and delivery, from single responses to multivariate problems.