Tag: Silences

Free Download Laur Vallikivi, "Words and Silences: Nenets Reindeer Herders and Russian Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic"
English | ISBN: 0253068754 | 2024 | 360 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Words and Silences tells the story of an extraordinary group of independent Nenets reindeer herders in the northwest Russian Arctic. Under socialism these nomads managed to avoid the Soviet state and its institutions of collectivization, but soon after the atheist regime collapsed, while some staunchly resisted, many of them became fervent fundamentalist Christians.

Free Download Gazes, Words, and Silences in Pragmatics
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031425707 | 256 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7 MB
This book describes the role of eye contact in human communication by investigating the relationship between the eye gaze and the development of language and pragmatic skills. The author reveals that although the need for eye contact is an innate human characteristic, neurodevelopmental disorders can have adverse outcomes and delays in language and pragmatic skills. A comparative approach compares childhood disorders that affect pragmatics in animal species that are phylogenetically related to humans with those species that are not. This text appeals to students and researchers working in pragmatics and the philosophy of language.

Free Download Alexandra Petri, "A Field Guide to Awkward Silences"
English | 2016 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 0451469615, 0451469607 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri shares her stories of awkwardness in this insightful and supremely funny debut.