Bøger af Marcel Danesi

Helping you learn Italian, this edition includes hundreds of quiz and test questions, chapter-opening objectives, and specific recommendations for difficult subtopics and individual weaknesses to help you learn basic grammar structures and verb tenses, pronunciation, essential vocabulary, and how to communicate with confidence.

In an age where fake news, conspiracy theories, and outright lies by political and cultural leaders are commonplace, we may be becoming accustomed to lying, or worse, even immune to it. Pseudology unravels the reasons for this by describing a "science of lying" that looks at various aspects of this trait, from how it affects the brain to how it distorts perception.Interest in lying goes back to antiquity and writing and debate only increased in our present day, but what is missing is a treatment that synthesizes the work from linguists, political scientists, anthropologists, psychologists and sociologists, tying them to the philosophical and literary views of lying throughout history. Such a treatment can be called pseudology: an interdisciplinary science for classifying, collating and assessing ideas about lying. This book is a comprehensive treatment of pseudology, emphasising the importance of studying lying in our current climate. Pseudology addresses questions like: - What is a lie?- Why do we lie?- Why are we so susceptible to lying?- How does lying activate false beliefs and generate hatred of others?- How has lying shaped the course of history (at least in some part)?- How has lying been adopted as a basic thematic element in literature and the arts?Synthesising research from a broad range of disciplines and from the perspective of a leading cognitive linguist, this text weaves ideas and theories about lying cohesively into an overall interdisciplinary science. This landmark book is vital for students and scholars of language as well as anyone interested in politics, sociology or psychology.

This book gives a general overview of Artificial Intelligence as it is impacting on the world of the arts and culture. What is AI-generated pop culture? What does a movie, a musical work, a novel, or song created entirely by a generative AI imply in terms of our notions of creativity? What is the semiotic dynamic (the meaning-making impulse that humans imprint in sign and textual forms) that is involved in an AI-produced work? No comprehensive treatment exists of the profound implications that AI-generated pop culture entails, including how it might affect cultural evolution and how we interpret artistic artifacts. Such a treatment is critical at this moment, and this book aims to fill this gap.

All the practice and instruction you need to communicate effectively in Italian-now with an enhanced app featuring text-to-speech!If you are a beginner to intermediate Italian language learner, getting a handle on grammar is your key to communicating correctly and effectively. In Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar, you'll find tons of practice and everything else you need-instruction, clear explanations, and comparisons to English grammar-to build your knowledge and communicate more effectively in Italian.Based on the successful approach of the Practice Makes Perfect series, Complete Italian Grammar, Premium Fourth Edition covers all aspects of Italian grammar you'll need to master, from all the key verb tenses to noun, adjective, pronoun, and preposition usage. Crystal-clear explanations, realistic examples and extensive array of engaging exercises help you focus your efforts on the practical aspects of communicating in Italian. With an additional boost from the high-frequency vocabulary used throughout the book and an answer key for reference and quick feedback, Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar is the best, most indispensable workbook to help you upgrade your command of the language.

All the skill-building Italian language practice you need-with five books in one value-packed volume-plus support from the McGraw Hill Language Lab appThe most effective way to learn any new language is to practice, practice, and practice, and no other workbooks put as much emphasis on this as the Practice Makes Perfect series. In Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian All-in-One, you get five skill-building titles to help you build a solid foundation of verbs, vocabulary, grammar and conversational skills-all in one value-packed workbook.This easy-to-use, one-stop resource includes thorough explanations that are reinforced by hundreds of hands-on practice exercises to help you build the skills needed to break through the barrier to competency and fluency in Italian. Enhanced with a comprehensive index that makes it easy to reference all grammar explanations throughout the book, it's an ideal resource for both advanced beginning and intermediate level learning. This Premium Edition also includes extensive support through McGraw Hill's unique Language Learning app, featuring streaming audio recordings of 48 dialogues and the answers to 85 exercises, a helpful "record yourself" feature and much more.Value-packed volume contains core content from five titles in the series: Complete Italian Grammar; Italian Conversation; Italian Verb Tenses; Italian Sentence Builder; Italian Problem SolverIntegrated approach allows you to study and develop your language skills at your own level and paceThis edition is supported by the McGraw Hill Language Lab app, with streaming audio recordings to enhance speaking and listening skills, and online flashcards for all vocabulary lists-now with Text-to-Speech pronunciation guidance

Scientific evidence for the origin of speech is abundant, but evidence for the origin of language as separate from speech as a naming system remains speculative. What evidence can be utilized that will furnish relevant insights on the origin or language? This book attempts to provide an answer by suggesting that the first riddles of humanity, along with the first myths, reveal that language may have emerged as a mode of reflection via metaphora mode that involves blending speech forms together to produce complex, abstract cognition.

Sharpen your mind with fun, brain-boosting logic puzzles Puzzles are an entertaining way to improve your memory and cognitive skills. The Ultimate Brain Health Logic Puzzle Book for Adults offers a wide variety of sudoku, calcudoku, logic grids, masyu, nonograms, and cryptic puzzles in a range of difficulty levels so you can enjoy hours of puzzling fun while keeping your brain happy and healthy. What sets this book of brain games for adults apart: Dynamic brain training—Ease into each type of logic puzzle with simple instructions, a breakdown of what it does for your brain, and a quick warm-up—plus tips and trivia for total brain health. Puzzles for everyone—Build brainpower whether you're actively seeking to improve your memory or simply an avid puzzler looking for fun new material. Different difficulty levels—Decide how much of a challenge you're in the mood for with sections for Warm-Up, Easy, Medium, and Hard puzzles. Go beyond other puzzle books for adults with one that's designed to keep your mind and memory in shape.

Exercise your mind with the next volume in the ultimate collection of brain puzzles You know that keeping your brain healthy is just as important as taking care of your body—and puzzles are a fun way to do it! All puzzles are great for brain health, but different kinds of puzzles strengthen different mental skills: Crossword puzzles boost vocabulary, Cryptograms test deductive reasoning, and Sudoku is good for number sense. This brain puzzles book for adults features 6 different types of puzzles, with a section for each one that includes an instructional warm-up and a quick explanation of its brain health benefits.The puzzles progress through four different challenge levels, so you can watch your skills improve while strengthening your mind. With an updated format, the Ultimate Brain Health Puzzle Book for Adults Vol. 2 lets you choose the puzzle that fits your mood and enjoy hours of brain-boosting fun.Sharpen your pencils and start building brainpower today with the best choice in brain puzzle books for adults.

Sharpen critical thinking skills and power your brain—for life Think of your mind like a muscle. It must be exercised regularly to get stronger—and for you to get smarter. Master Your Mind will get your brain in shape by helping you cultivate the principles of critical thinking through perplexing puzzles, engaging exercises based on real-world scenarios, interesting case studies, and practical strategies. This modern critical thinking workbook will teach you how to be on your toes mentally, filtering information, decoding it logically and with reason, and assessing it for validity. You'll learn to think twice—perhaps three times—and become a better decision-maker and problem-solver. Master Your Mind delivers: An effective approach—Get a concise look at critical thinking skills, including analysis, objectivity, evaluation, reasoning, deduction, problem-solving, and decision-making. Fun activities—Explore challenging, logic-based exercises that are based on real-world experiences, and learn to develop essential skills in your personal and professional life, especially in the digital age. Mental fitness for life—Learn best practices to incorporate critical thinking into your daily existence for the long term, always keep an open mind, and become a lifelong learner. Train your brain so you can become smarter and more creative with this complete critical thinking workbook.

BOOST YOUR BRAIN POWER! FLEX YOUR MENTAL MUSCLE WITH: BRAINTEASERS ¥ WORD SEARCHESCRYPTOGRAMS ¥ OPTICAL ILLUSIONSSUDOKU ¥ FRAMEWORKSLOGIC PUZZLES ¥ TRIVIA PUZZLESAND MUCH MORE!Did you know that different parts of your brain control different functions, and that with exercise, you can make each part of your brain stronger?In The Total Brain Workout you'll find 450 fun, challenging and absorbing puzzles designed to specifically target the core parts of your brain that control language, logic, memory, reasoning and visual perception. Each set of puzzles ranges from easy to challenging, and is presented with information on the area of your brain being targeted and the functions it controls, so you can customize your own workout to the specific areas you want to improve.

Give your brain a test. Give your eyes a rest. Looking for a way to keep your brain on its toes? Well, there is nothing more mentally stimulating or fun than good old-fashioned brain teasers. And since everyday life doesn't throw perplexing riddles at us very often, Brain Teasers for Adults offers a variety of tricky, yet "doable" puzzles to help build your logic, math, and wordplay. The unique skills derived from solving brain teasers helps put you in a better position to resolve important problems from work to daily life. Go in order of difficulty or skip around—the decision is yours! Solve all 75 brain teasers and stand tall, knowing you have outsmarted the puzzle-maker himself. Inside Brain Teasers for Adults, you'll find: Choose your difficulty—Moving from simple Duck Soup Puzzles to Head Scratchers, engage your brain on different levels, with each riddle labeled by difficulty. 5 Categories—Filled with brain teasers categories such as Wordplay, Logic, Card puzzles, and more are meant to stimulate your thoughts in different ways. Clues to use—An optional clues section has been provided for each question in case a little extra help is needed! Time to discover how fun and rewarding puzzle-solving can be with Brain Teasers for Adults!

Put your noggin to the test with the most famous brain games of all time!Puzzles and brainteasers can be found throughout history and around the world (did you know that coded messages date all the way back to 2500 BCE?). This book collects 125 of the most popular and challenging mind-benders for hours of fun-filled entertainment that can sharpen your creative thinking skills. Get ready to dive into famous math, logic, and word puzzles like Odd One Out, Fibonacci's Legacy, the Polybius Cipher, and more. Bring it on road trips, to family game night, or give it as a gift, and get everyone involved in the puzzle-solving fun!Fun for anyone—You don't need any special skills to solve these puzzles, and clues and answer keys are there to help you if you get stumped.5 challenge levels—A wide variety of puzzle types and challenge levels ensures there's something to solve for puzzle masters of all ages and skills.Hints of history—Every time you tackle a new puzzle, you'll learn fun facts about where it comes from and how long it's been around.Get ready to sharpen your mind with the ultimate book of mind-blowing brain teasers.

The second volume of this brand-new puzzle book features 200 logic questions of varying types and difficulty.Mental workout warriors and logic lovers will adore The Everything Book of Logic Puzzles Volume II. You’ll learn ten different kinds of puzzles and how to solve each, with the difficulty slowly increasing from basic to expert as you go along. And every single puzzle is specifically designed to improve memory, vocabulary, and logical reasoning. With increasingly difficult puzzles ranging from introductory to fiendish, and comprehensive answers to explain each puzzle, this book is perfect for puzzlers of all ages and skill levels!

Learn to speak Italian as fluently as Italians do-an indispensable guide, now with a timely new chapter on remote communicationWhether you're learning Italian now at an intermediate level or looking to brush up on your Italian conversational skills, Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Conversation offers a unique and effective way to learn to speak the language fluently and spontaneously. You'll get a handle on sentence building right away, through extensive exercises that let you practice what you've learned through engaging dialogues and numerous real-life examples.Based on the successful approach of the Practice Makes Perfect series, Practice Makes Perfect: Italian Conversation, Premium Third Edition is organized around 11 units that present specific conversational functions, from Striking Up a Conversation to Giving Opinions, each exemplified with short dialogues that are also available as audio recordings via app. The units provide you the opportunity not simply to converse, but to build and support your knowledge of the language with essential instruction on correct pronunciation, grammar, syntax and word usage.Proven approach to learning helps you get a handle on Italian conversation right away, and build on your learnings as you goSupported by audio recordings, via app, of all 60 dialogues, plus numerous exercise answers850 exercise questions help you practice what you've learned through dialogues and practical examplesA special conversational "markers" table in the index shows important elements of conversation that have no exact equivalents in EnglishNEW: Includes a timely chapter on remote communication (video conferencing)

This book explores the many disciplinary and theoretical links between language, linguistics, and mathematics. It examines trends in linguistics, such as structuralism, conceptual metaphor theory, and other relevant theories,to show that language and mathematics have a similar structure, but differential functions, even though one without the other would not exist.

Science: 300 Crossword Puzzles puts your science knowledge to the test with 300 fun-filled crossword puzzles that will keep you on your toes for hours at a time.

* Sudoku for both beginners and experts

The go-to introductory guide to semiotic theory and practice, this second edition features a new chapter on semiotics in the digital age and sheds light on how we grasp for meaning in the modern world.

Semiotics has had a profound impact on our comprehension of a wide range of phenomena, from how animals signify and communicate, to how people read TV commercials. This series features books on semiotic theory and applications of that theory to understanding media, language, and related subjects. The series publishes scholarly monographs of wide appeal to students and interested non-specialists as well as scholars. AAS is a peer-reviewed series of international scope.