The aim of this paper is twofold: 1) to examine the nature, scope and function o f the paralinguistic features on the basis o f a survey of the previous studies, and 2) to make an attempt to search and exempli fy paralinguistic features operating at vari ous linguistic and non-linguistic units in s everal languages. A special emphasis will be placed on the paralinguistic functions o f phonetic ...

Production of multimedia artifacts demands guidance for both engineers developing software and designers generating content. This paper distinguishes conceptually between media, multiple media and multimedia and defines the multimedia document as both communicative object and system, thus identifying integration as a fundamental of production; it proposes media transformations as a means of des...

This chapter gives an exploratory overview of the emergence and growth of new media in Uganda and how the alternative nature of new media is scaffolding the notion of citizenship and deliberative democracy. The chapter also suggests that despite the new found vigour, it is too early to say whether the Ugandan new media landscape have so far become a true alternative or complementary participato...

Innovation in a company’s design process is increasingly a matter of cooperation between the company and its customers. New Information and Communication Technology (ICT) possibilities such as electronic communication (EC) media generate even more opportunities for companies to collaborate with customers during the early stages of research and development. This exploratory study examined the de...

There is a tendency to think of World Englishes in the noun form; as products rather than as processes (implying that one receives both ready-made, controlling the development of neither). Conceptualising World Englishes as processes in which one can participate as an agent raises the question of what skills are needed in their active construction. The author will argue that since culture resid...

The ability to create and read different kinds of media products is seen as an important skill for citizenship. In Finland media education (in communicational education) has been taken into the official curriculum as a cross-curriculum subject in 1994 at the primary school level, after the first finnish dissortation in media education had been published (Härkönen 1994). At the same time finnish...