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  • Teaching Business Discourse

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents research in business discourse and offers pedagogical approaches to teaching business discourse in both classroom and consultancy contexts that address the key issues of dealing with different types of learners, developing teaching materials and evaluation. Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience of researching business discourse from a variety of different perspectives ... Read more

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  • Challenging Leadership Stereotypes Through Discourse

    Power, Management and Gender

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This multidisciplinary volume brings together wide-ranging empirical research that goes behind the scenes of diverse organizations dealing with business, politics, law, media, education, and sports to unravel stereotypes of discursive leadership practices as they unfold in situ. It includes contributions that explore how leadership discourse is impacted by increasing pressures of “glocalization” ... Read more

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  • Parliament and Parliamentarism

    A Comparative History of a European Concept

    Series Book 2 - European Conceptual History
    Parliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern politics. Taking a broad historical perspective, this cross-disciplinary, innovative, and rigorous collection locates the essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects—deliberation, representation, responsibility, and sovereignty—and explores the different ways in which they ... Read more

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  • Perception and Misperception in International Politics

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