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Record Nr.

UNISA996205336103316

Autore

Jansen Sylvia J.T

Titolo

The Measurement and Analysis of Housing Preference and Choice / / edited by Sylvia J.T. Jansen, Henny C.C.H. Coolen, Roland W. Goetgeluk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht, : Springer Nature, 2011

Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2011

ISBN

90-481-8894-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

643.12

Soggetti

Geography

Social sciences

Statistics 

Geography, general

Methodology of the Social Sciences

Statistical Theory and Methods

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based on print record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1: Introduction: Sylvia Jansen, Henny Coolen, Roland Goetgeluk -- 2: Traditional Housing Demand Research: Harry Boumeester -- 3: The Decision Plan Net method: Roland Goetgeluk -- 4: The Meaning Structure Method: Henny Coolen.- 5: The Multi-Attribute Utility Method: Sylvia Jansen -- 6: Conjoint Analysis: Eric Molin -- 7: The Residential Imges Method, Jeroen Singelenberg, Roland Goetgeluk, Sylvia Jansen -- 8: Lifestyle Method, Sylvia Jansen -- 9: Neo-classical Economic Analysis, Marnix Koopman -- 10 Longitudinal analysis: Carola de Groot -- 11: Discussion and directions for future research: Sylvia Jansen, Henny Coolen, Roland Goetgeluk -- About the authors.

Sommario/riassunto

What are the current trends in housing? Is my planned project commercially viable? What should be my marketing and advertisement strategies? These are just some of the questions real estate agents, landlords and developers ask researchers to answer. But to find the answers, researchers are faced with a wide variety of methods that measure housing preferences and choices. To select and value a valid research method, one needs a well-structured overview of the methods



that are used in housing preference and housing choice research. This comprehensive introduction to this field offers just such an overview. It discusses and compares numerous methods, detailing the potential limitation of each one, and it reaches beyond methodology, illustrating how thoughtful consideration of methods and techniques in research can help researchers and other professionals to deliver products and services that are more in line with residents’ needs.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788549103321

Titolo

Ethnopragmatics [[electronic resource] ] : understanding discourse in cultural context / / edited by Cliff Goddard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2006

ISBN

3-11-091111-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Applications of cognitive linguistics, , 1861-4078 ; ; 3

Classificazione

ES 135

Altri autori (Persone)

GoddardCliff

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Pragmatics - Social aspects

Language and culture

Semantics - Social aspects

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

Front matter -- 1. Ethnopragmatics: a new paradigm / Goddard, Cliff -- 2. Anglo scripts against "putting pressure" on other people and their linguistic manifestations / Wierzbicka, Anna -- 3. "Lift your game Martina!": deadpan jocular irony and the ethnopragmatics of Australian English / Goddard, Cliff -- 4. Social hierarchy in the "speech culture" of Singapore / Wong, Jock Onn -- 5. Why the "inscrutable" Chinese face? Emotionality and facial expression in Chinese / Ye, Zhengdao -- 6. Cultural scripts: glimpses into the Japanese emotion world / Hasada, Rie -- 7. The communicative realisation of confianza and calor humano in Colombian Spanish / Travis, Catherine E. -- 8. "When I die, don't cry": the ethnopragmatics of "gratitude" in West African languages / Ameka, Felix K. -- Author index -- General index



Sommario/riassunto

The studies in this volume show how speech practices can be understood from a culture-internal perspective, in terms of values, norms and beliefs of the speech communities concerned. Focusing on examples from many different cultural locations, the contributing authors ask not only: 'What is distinctive about these particular ways of speaking?', but also: 'Why - from their own point of view - do the people concerned speak in these particular ways? What sense does it make to them?'. The ethnopragmatic approach stands in opposition to the culture-external universalist pragmatics represented by neo-Gricean pragmatics and politeness theory. Using "cultural scripts" and semantic explications - techniques developed over 20 years work in cross-cultural semantics by Anna Wierzbicka and colleagues - the authors examine a wide range of phenomena, including: speech acts, terms of address, phraseological patterns, jocular irony, facial expressions, interactional routines, discourse particles, expressive derivation, and emotionality. The authors and languages are: Anna Wierzbicka (English), Cliff Goddard (Australian English), Jock Wong (Singapore English), Zhengdao Ye (Chinese), Catherine Travis (Colombian Spanish), Rie Hasada (Japanese) and Felix Ameka (Ewe). Taken together, these studies demonstrate both the profound "cultural shaping" of speech practices, and the power and subtlety of new methods and techniques of a semantically grounded ethnopragmatics. The book will appeal not only to linguists and anthropologists, but to all scholars and students with an interest in language, communication and culture.