The essays gathered here presents Icelandic research on the challenges and opportunities of diversity in education at several levels, including preschool, primary, secondary, vocational and higher education in Iceland.
Kassis focuses on Iceland as a nineteenth-century utopian locus in the light of racial theories attached to the country’s national framework, investigating how nineteenth-century travellers defined their national identity and gender in relation to Iceland.
This linguistic study is for anyone interested in cognitive semantics and pragmatics. It establishes a relationship between illocutionary and discursive features of speech acts, emphasizing the shift from arbitrariness to iconicity of linguistic expressions.
Iconicity in Language
This book covers all aspects of linguistic iconicity—the similarity between a sign’s form and meaning—in spoken and signed languages. It contains 678 entries and over 8,500 examples from 400 languages, for scholars and students of linguistics, typology, and semiotics.
The contributions here inform continuing debates concerning the role of ICT in developing communities on the wrong side of all technical and social divides in human societies.
IDEA
This collection of essays by prominent academicians explores current trends in English Studies. Dealing with issues from Shakespeare to translation and postcolonial studies, it presents a diversity of theoretical, cultural, and linguistic perspectives.
Ideas about Agriculture in the Political Economy of Japan
Why do Japanese citizens support agricultural protection that reduces their own welfare? This book argues that ideas—not just economics—are the answer, tracing how historical values evolved into modern concerns for food safety, self-sufficiency, and the environment.
Ideas in Development
This book studies the history of powerful philosophical ideas, treating them as living things that require minds concerned with them. Ideas progress through a conversation between thinkers including Duns Scotus, Leibniz, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Peirce, and James.
Shota Rustaveli’s The Knight in the Panther’s Skin organically unites the cultural traditions of the Christian West and Muslim East. This book conducts comparative research, showing the similarities and differences between the works of Rustaveli and Nizami Ganjavi.
Identities, Cultures, Spaces
Globalisation has led to cultural encounters, which can be conflicts or opportunities for dialogue. This volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach to address issues at the confluence of identity and culture, discussing the role of shared spaces in forging identity.
Identity
This book explores how identity is refashioned in our globalized world. It examines the intersection of “who we are” with mass media, the nation, and social practice, from advertising and sports to activism and online life.
A new identity is emerging among Haitian-American youth. Forged by the consciousness of the black American underclass and its street culture, it now challenges the traditional bourgeois values and the Vodou Ethic of their Haitian heritage.
The search for identity is a challenge in our global world. Placing the topic against an intercultural background, this book addresses the relationship between self, identity, and society from an academic perspective, with research from around the world.
This overview of the debate on nationalism, globalisation, and secessionism in 21st century Catalonia explores the key socio-political questions facing sub-state nations seeking independence.
Besides providing a thorough overview of advances in the concept of identity in Translation Studies, the publication brings together various approaches to identity as seen through translation. It offers first-hand insights into such topics as post-communist translation practices.
This book analyzes values and identity from philosophical, sociological, and psychological perspectives. Contributors explore the meaning of values, their role in defining self-identity, and how politics and aesthetics affect our moral lives.
Identity Issues
A collection of essays exploring the complex phenomenon of identity from diverse angles. Literary explorations discuss class, race, and nation in contemporary literature, while linguistic studies draw on insights from sociology, psychology, and cognitive linguistics.
Identity Mediations in Latin American Cinema and Beyond
This book explores how the flows of music, films, and artists shape cultural identities. It analyzes these transits, mainly in the Ibero-American space but also Soviet and Asian cinema, revealing cultural networks that extend beyond national borders.
In West Africa, military takeovers are fueled by identity politics and discrimination in the distribution of national wealth. This book promotes a sane approach to sharing the national ‘cake’: adopting pragmatism and the Rule of Law to ensure equal participation and opportunity.
This book argues that incorporating identity and culture is essential for community development globally. Treating culture as an intrinsic asset is beneficial for all community action, from social cohesion to economic development.
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