1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460048703321

Autore

Cutrone Pino

Titolo

Assessing pragmatic competence in the Japanese EFL context : towards the learning of listener responses / / by Pino Cutrone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

ISBN

1-4438-6760-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (375 p.)

Disciplina

420.7

428.24

Soggetti

English language - Study and teaching - Japan

Intercultural communication - Japan

Electronic books.

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES, TABLES AND APPENDICES; KEY TO ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS; KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS IN RESULTS' TABLES; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; APPENDIX C; APPENDIX D; APPENDIX E; APPENDIX F; APPENDIX G; APPENDIX H; APPENDIX I; APPENDIX J; APPENDIX K; APPENDIX L; APPENDIX M; APPENDIX N; APPENDIX O; APPENDIX P; APPENDIX Q; APPENDIX R; APPENDIX S; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

With a focus on intercultural communication between Japanese and Americans, this book describes how differing listening styles and conversational behaviours across cultures can negatively influence intercultural communication. Responding to the many calls for studies examining the teachability of listener responses in the language classroom, the author investigates whether listener responses would be a suitable target for instruction in the EFL/ESL classroom, and, if so, what instructional me...



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910470860403321

Autore

Calvellini, Giovanni <1988- >

Titolo

La funzione del part-time : tempi della persona e vincoli di sistema / Giovanni Calvellini ; prefazione di Vincenzo Bavaro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli, : Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 2020

ISBN

978-88-495-4413-8

Descrizione fisica

351 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Quaderni di Studi senesi, N.S. Monografie ; 6

Disciplina

344.450125727

Locazione

DDRC

FSPBC

FGBC

Collocazione

A-V-73

COLLEZ. 3021 (6)

COLL. 153 NS (6)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782709203321

Autore

Wuthnow Robert

Titolo

Acts of Compassion : Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves / / Robert Wuthnow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2012]

©1991

ISBN

1-4008-0876-6

1-282-75150-6

9786612751509

1-4008-2057-X

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Disciplina

302/.14

361.2

Soggetti

Caring

Helping behavior

Individualism -- United States

Voluntarism -- United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: THE PROBLEM OF INDIVIDUALISM -- CHAPTER ONE: An American Paradox -- CHAPTER TWO: Caring and/for Our Selves -- PART II: LANGUAGES OF COMPASSION -- CHAPTER THREE: Talking about Motives -- CHAPTER FOUR: Finding Fulfillment -- PART III: THE ROLE OF FAITH -- CHAPTER FIVE: Conviction and Community -- CHAPTER SIX: Along the Road -- PART IV: THE LIMITS OF CARING -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Bounded Love -- CHAPTER EIGHT: The Tarnished Image -- PART V: THE WIDER CONTEXT -- CHAPTER NINE: Envisioning a Better Society -- CHAPTER TEN: The Case for Compassion -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Robert Wuthnow finds that those who are most involved in acts of compassion are no less individualistic than anyone else--and that those who are the most intensely individualistic are no less involved in caring for others.