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Andrew Spencer

    Linguistics
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    Technology Adoption in the Caribbean Tourism Industry
    • Technology Adoption in the Caribbean Tourism Industry

      Analyzing Service Delivery in the Digital Age

      • 248 Seiten
      • 9 Lesestunden

      Focusing on the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Caribbean travel firms, the book explores how these companies navigate the decision-making process regarding digital capabilities and artificial intelligence for sales and marketing. It examines the influence of external factors like culture and internal elements such as leadership on strategy and resource allocation. Amidst the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, this study highlights the urgent need for transformation in the tourism sector, offering insights for organizational behavior and strategic management.

      Technology Adoption in the Caribbean Tourism Industry2020
    • The first in-depth study of the way languages can use a noun, as opposed to an adjective, to modify another noun. It surveys a wide range of languages and provides a detailed, explicit theoretical analysis of a range of previously unexplored constructions. It will be of interest to scholars and students of syntax, morphology and semantics.

      Mixed Categories2019
    • Linguistics

      An Introduction - Second Edition

      • 447 Seiten
      • 16 Lesestunden

      Written by a team based at one of the world's leading centres for linguistic teaching and research, the second edition of this highly successful textbook offers a unified approach to language, viewed from a range of perspectives essential for students' understanding of the subject. Using clear explanations throughout, the book is divided into three main sections: sounds, words, and sentences. In each, the foundational concepts are introduced, along with their application to the fields of child language acquisition, psycholinguistics, language disorders, and sociolinguistics, giving the book a unique yet simple structure that helps students to engage with the subject more easily than other textbooks on the market. This edition includes a completely new section on sentence use, including an introduction and discussion of core areas of pragmatics and conversational analysis; coverage of sociolinguistic topics, introducing communities of practice; a wealth of new exercise material and updated further reading.

      Linguistics2008