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Skyrocket to the top of the CN Tower, hit the patois for great eats and people-watching, sail on Lake Ontario, wander through the Hockey Hall of Fame, or browse the art at a downtown gallery - Fodor's Toronto 2007 offers all these experiences and more! Our local writers have traveled throughout the country to find the best hotels, restaurants, attractions and activities to prepare you for a journey of stunning variety. Before you leave for your trip be sure to pack your Fodor's guide to ensure you don't miss a thing.
The San Francisco Chronicle sums it up best –"Fodor's guides are saturated with information."
- We frequently update our Toronto guide, and we make every effort to bring you the most accurate and thorough book. Plus we provide timely updates about the area at Fodors.com.
- Unlike other travel books, Fodor's guides rely heavily on local experts who know the territory best–so you know you're seeing the real Toronto.
- We give you the planning tools you need to tailor your trip. We give options for all budgets. You make the choices
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Skyrocket to the top of the world's tallest freestanding tower, ferry out for an island getaway on Lake Ontario, bring on the maple syrup for the best French toast around, or browse the Inuit art at a well-established downtown gallery—Fodor's Toronto 2006 offers all these experiences and more! Our local writers have traveled throughout the area to find the best hotels, restaurants, attractions and activities to prepare you for a journey of stunning variety. Before you leave for your trip be sure to pack your Fodor's guide to ensure you don't miss a thing.
The San Francisco Chronicle sums it up best —"Fodor's guides are saturated with information."
- We update our Toronto guide every year. You won't find a more accurate, current guidebook anywhere.
- Unlike other travel books, Fodor's guides rely heavily on local experts who know the territory best—so you know you're seeing the real Toronto.
- We give you the planning tools you need to tailor your trip. We give options for all budgets. You make the choices.
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Average customer rating:
- decent, but not great
- A fine book and great for first time travelers
- Reasonable city guide but mildly bland for Toronto.
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Fodor's Toronto 2004 (Fodor's Gold Guides)
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As Canada's cultural and communications capital, Toronto is a bustling city that draws millions of visitors each year. Our resident writers have hit the pavement in search of the perfect hotels, restaurants, attractions and activities to make your trip both worthwhile and memorable. Whether you are attending the Toronto Film festival or standing on the glass floor of the CN Tower observation deck overlooking the city, you are sure to be impressed by this vibrant city. Before you leave for this exciting and dynamic city be sure to pack your Fodor's guide to ensure you don't miss a thing!
The San Francisco Chronicle sums it up best "Fodor's guides are saturated with information."
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Customer Reviews:
decent, but not great.......2004-01-09
Fodor's guidebooks are decent in that they provide short, simple facts and info on destinations. The Toronto guidebook is no different. The big complaint is the lack of good maps (though i can't be too picky, you can't really rely on maps in a paperback guidebook!). I tend to prefer frommer's guides, as i find their recommendations to be more bang on, and to my budget. I recommend using a combination of good guidebooks like frommers and Let's Go, in addition to the traveler-submitted hotel review sites like www.zoomandgo.com, or the ones on travelocity.
A fine book and great for first time travelers.......2001-04-25
I mainly use and still buy Fodor's series for most of my traveling for ease of use of the book and familiarity. However, I do have to admit that the maps could be more detailed. For budget or more seasoned travelers who prefer a detailed map of the walking tours and do not need the section about how to pack and where to keep your passport try the awesome Lonely Planet or something else. On the historical stuff, I would say this book is just fine. On my next travel (not to Toronto) I'll try Let's Go and Frommer's, heard lots of goody stuff about them and never use them before.
Reasonable city guide but mildly bland for Toronto........1999-07-03
This book begins with a short yet reasonable first orientation to the city with much of its bulk devoted to simple data in categorized lists.
Probably quite useful to someone who has never been to Toronto before but not the stimulating read the present-day "Megacity" deserves.
My personal impression was that while the guide does explicitly note the excitement of this new, diverse first city of Canada, it doesn't go far enough to actually capture or express it.
Yes, it is a fine book for what it is -- a city guide with lots of basic information -- but even there I had a couple of points of contention.
For one thing, as soon as I opened the book and saw the map of Toronto's location between Michigan and New York state, which I did like, I wondered, however, why one of the major freeways -- the 402 from Port Huron -- was left off.
Another example was the piece of information connecting Canada's federal official French-English language policy and highway signs. One has nothing to do with the other since traffic signs, regulations and highways are totally under Provincial not Federal jurisdiction. What concerned me here was the thought of visiting drivers getting the impression that driving regulations might be consistent throughout Canada.
It seems like the book is primarily targeted to Americans. If I am correct, Americans already know that Toronto is a new, big and exciting city before they even bother to pick up a book on it. The city guide which describes Toronto deserves to be a lot more motivating than that level of excitement which Fodor's standard format relegates to it's run-of-the-mill city guides.
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Title: 2 KL Gold will be a busy place in '06.(Top 5 Junior Mining Companies)
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Title: 3 Gold Eagle eyes new gold deposit.(Gold Eagle Mines Ltd.)(Company overview)
Author: Ian Ross
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Title: 5 Former Goldcorp CEO's legal battle for shareholder votes.(Top 5 Newsmakers of the year)
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Title: 5 Lake Shore Gold project advances underground.(5 hot Junior Mining Companies)
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Title: Bands' deal with mine hinges on environmental assessment.
Author: Jim Hopper
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This study breaks new ground in investigating candidate behavior in American electoral campaigns. It centers on a question of equal importance to citizens and scholars: how can we produce better political campaigns? First, Simon develops the idea of dialogue as a standard for evaluating political campaigns. Second, he reveals that candidates' self-interest in winning leads to avoiding dialogue or substantive campaign discourse. Third, the text demonstrates the beneficial effects produced by the little dialogue that actually occurs and finally, pinpoints the forces responsible for these rare occurrences.
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Pragmatics, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Reduplication is important in language studies. Its linguistic form at the lexical level has long been explored in terms of various formalist theories. However, the linguistic function at other levels such as the discourse layer tends to be ignored. A reduplication corpus (ongoing compilation; 1687 items in total thus far) has been constructed as the baseline for an integrated approach to the interplay of various kinds of repetition in the use of language. The frequency of each token was calculated based on its occurrence in the British National Corpus (BNC). Then a wordlist with the top 102 items was proposed for related research topics such as frequency, percentage coverage, concordance, and collocation in terms of McCarthy's framework (1990 and later) using MonoConc Pro, WordSmith 4.0 and the SARA 3.2 software. The probability of collocation was calculated in terms of mutual information (MI). The higher the MI score, the more genuine the association between two items (Church and Hanks, 1990). A powerful search engine, Google, was further employed to locate relevant texts on websites for the analysis of reduplication from lexical to discourse levels. Both reduplication and repetition do play a significant role and exhibit extensively a certain language musicality in our everyday life.
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The second-edition of The Discourse of Advertising has been substantially revised and includes new material and advertisements. Cook argues that advertisements are always engaged in a complex interaction with the texts around them-music and images-and the people who make and experience them.
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Linguists who have studied simplified varieties of a given language, such as pidgins or the language of care-givers, have tended to explain similarities in their structure by the fact that they use the same mechanisms of simplification. Bruthiaux tests this idea by looking at the structure of classified ads in American English, using a body of 800 ads from four categories: automobile sales, apartments for rent, help wanted, and personal ads. Bruthiaux's thesis is that strict, uniform constraints on space should result in uniformly simple texts, no matter which category they are in, and that any variation would be due to the particular needs of each category. To prove this he describes the linguistic structure of classified ads, and shows that they are characterized by a minimal degree of morphosyntactic elaboration. He then examines aspects of their conventions to highlight the role of pre-patterned and prefabricated segments whose collocational rigidity may force the inclusion of otherwise dispensable items. He finds that there is indeed significant variation across ad categories in terms of morphosyntactic elaboration, and concludes that this is due to a greater or lesser need to be explicit, as well as a greater or lesser anticipation of interaction. Finally, he examines the implications of these findings for the study of linguistic simplification and register variation.
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on October 24, 2001. The length of the article is 1424 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Idioma y publicidad.(extractos de un discurso de Jacobo Zabludovsky, periodista)(TT: Language and advertising.)(TA: excerpts of a discourse by Jacobo Zabludovsky, journalist)
Author: Jacobo Zabludovsky
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Siempre! (Refereed)
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The Language of Advertising:
* looks at the relationship between advertising and culture
* focuses on the interrelation of language, image, typeface
* draws on literary and linguistic theory for analysis of texts
* explores specific advertising strategies such as hooklines, puns, connotations
* examines a wide range of adverts from British Airways to Castlemaine XXXX
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This digital document is an article from Fund Raising Management, published by Hoke Communications, Inc. on January 1, 1990. The length of the article is 1500 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: A learned discourse on NAHD, AAHP, HighButtonShoeThink, and getting some boogie into your buns. (National Association for Hospital Development, Association for the Advancement of Healthcare Philanthropy) (Health Care Fund Raising) (column)
Author: Willard Bailey
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Fund Raising Management (Magazine/Journal)
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MediaSpeak: Three American Voices
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This book defines and analyzes the content, structure, and values of three predominant types of public discourse, which are labeled Doublespeak, Salespeak, and Sensationspeak. These media messages are examined to determine how they are constructed and how they influence individuals, ideology, and culture. Discussions are illustrated with a diverse range of examples from popular culture, magazines, Internet sites, politics, television, and film. Fox argues that the Information Age has replaced actual reality with representations of reality. He states that electronic media dominates our lives. Together, these three voices saturate media and technology, profoundly influencing American culture. Fox suggests specific strategies for recognizing and understanding these coded messages. This lively and informative discussion will appeal to anyone who is interested in learning how print and electronic media manipulate both individuals and society as a whole. The extensive research will appeal to media, communications, journalism, and cultural studies scholars alike.
Customer Reviews:
How to Know What They're REALLY Saying!.......2001-01-12
This book is a fascinating read for anyone curious about the ways that language (including both words and images) is being used and abused in society today.
The first part of the book sets out some guidelines for analyzing and interpreting "mediaspeak," using some basic principles from rhetoric, logic, and general semantics, but presenting them in a lively, readable discussion with lots of current examples. This sets the tone of the whole book, as it shows how to "read between the lines" of current media messages and images.
MediaSpeak would be a great textbook for advanced high school or college classes in composition, speech, linguistics, social psychology, applied logic, or cultural studies. Using the methods Fox presents, students could examine the many, MANY examples of "doublespeak," "salespeak," and "sensationspeak" that surround and bombard them every day. Nothing could be more important to citizens in a democracy than the kind of logical literacy that such a study would promote.
I especially like the way the author melds stories-current, historical, and his own personal ones-into a thoughtful yet entertaining mix. For instance, discussing the history of Doublespeak, Fox observes that "by the mid-1700s America's landowning aristocracy mainly feared that those groups they were exploiting the most-the poor whites, the Indians, and the slaves-would somehow unite against them. . . . The ruling class resolved this dilemma by creating a wondrous invention-not liberty and equality, but the language of liberty and equality-not the real thing, but a representation of the real thing. The flaming prose of Thomas Paine and others was perfect for keeping poor whites, Native Americans, and black slaves off the backs of the ruling class. The patricians' patriotic rhetoric galvanized just enough poor whites to fight against Britain." (65)
In addition to such historical background, Fox names and discusses the unexamined assumptions that allow doublespeak to work its magic so effectively on the American psyche, such as a belief in "rugged individualism," "newer is always better," and various questionable myths about technology. In the latter discussion we learn that Microsoft technicians have been instructed not to use the term "bugs" in conjunction with computer malfunctions but to call problems, instead, "known issues, undocumented behaviors, and design side effects." (77) Along the way, Fox cites his own experiences, such as discovering Sartre and Warhol in the Kansas City Public Library, as well as referring to research he has conducted on the effect of TV commercials on school-age children.
MEDIASPEAK, it seems to me, would appeal to any reader who is interested in making sense of the blooming, buzzing confusion of our new electronic world. Thumbs Up!
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This investigation analyzes pragmatic ways in which Spanish is used to achieve persuasion in television advertising. The author applies pragmatic models to commercials for products and services from three countriesChile, Spain, and the United States. She addresses the questions:
(1) Which pragmatic devides occur most frequently?
(2) How are these devices linguistically coded?
(3) Are any differences evident between regional varieties of Spanish? and
(4) How are pragmalinguistic features of television advertising used to effect persuasion? The most representative variables include speech acts, indexicals, politeness, implicatures, violations of Grice's Maxims, and speaker considerations.
The study contributes to the cross-linguistic understanding of pragmatics and of persuasion in Spanish by
(1) offering a procedure that may be replicated;
(2) addressing multiple pragmatic categories; and
(3) examining the relationship between pragmatic strategies and persuasion among Spanish speakers. Given the vital role of the media in society, Spanish television advertising reflects the pragmatic communication of persuasion by and to Spanish speakers.
Pragmática de discurso persuasivo de publicidad de television en español
Esta investigación analiza las maneras pragmáticas en las cuales se usa el español para persuadir en la publicidad de televisión y contribuye al entendimiento lingüístico de pragmática y persuasión en español. El libro está escrito en inglés.
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1.1 Media language
1.2 Goals of this study
1.3 Advertising and persuasive discourse
1.4 Overview
Procedure and Method
2.1 Design of the study
2.2 Method of analysis
2.3 Sample analysis of an ad
Analysis and Results
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Pragmatic strategies reflected in the data
3.3 Linguistic realization of strategies in the data
3.4 Distributive patterns
3.5 Summary of analysis and results
Pragmatics and Persuasion
4.1 Introduction
4.2 How pragmatic strategies effect persuasion in the data
Conclusions and Implications
5.1 Conclusions
5.2 Support of existing literature
5.3 Applications, limitations, and implications
5.4 Conclusion
Appendix A: A Critical Review of Literature
A brief history of advertising
The language of advertising
Pragmatic categories addressed in this study
The Cooperative Principle and Grice s Maxims
Other strategies in advertising
Appendix B: Database Sample
Appendix C: Number of Comparable Ads by Product in Each Country
Appendix D: Distribution of Pragmatic Strategies: Preference by Country
References
SIL International and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics 137
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