Understanding Meaning and Knowledge Representation
This title examines and discusses recent work in meaning and knowledge representation within theoretical linguistics and cognitive linguistics given the current need to develop natural language processing (NLP) systems from deeper linguistic approaches.
Learning Across Borders
Given the growing numbers of students in cross-border spaces, educators have had to revise their curricula and pedagogical approaches. This edited collection contributes to the body of research in international education by examining globalisation’s impact on higher education.
Bakhtin and Translation Studies
This book investigates translation using Bakhtin’s dialogical principles, questioning extreme tendencies. It proposes a new model for cultural encounters by uniquely examining Western theory through examples from Indian literatures.
In Search of Corporate Accountability
Given current debates on corporate social responsibility, Lo uses a theory of interactive (corrective) justice to argue that it is necessary to ensure that responsible persons are accountable under law so as to promote compliance with legal regulations in the corporate context.
Current Issues in Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Development
Representing presentations given at the 17th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, the chapters here discuss issues related to second language acquisition, teaching and teacher education in a variety of contexts from around the world.
A World in Discourse
This collection of essays gathers together work presented at the Uehiro Graduate Philosophy Conference in 2013. The contributions reflect the growing influence of comparative philosophy throughout the world, and demonstrate the ever-enlarging boundaries of comparative analysis.
This monograph provides comprehensive description of the structure of Cameroonian Pidgin, including an overview of its socio-cultural context, writing system, sounds, word formation, word classes and sentence structures, in addition to a corpus of 540 Cameroonian Pidgin proverbs.
From Truth and truth
Francis Etheredge investigates the interrelationship between reason and sense through a philosophical exploration of “being”, noting that “sense” is subtly sensitive through reason.
2014 was the centenary of the start of the First World War and saw violent conflict in Ukraine and the rise of the Islamic State in parts of Syria and Iraq. This monograph discusses these and a number of other events alongside a variety of general issues.
Despite its great historical and cultural importance, the Southern Caucasus has been inadequately researched. This two-volume publication compiles 75 articles from an international symposium exploring the region’s cultures from earliest times to the Middle Ages.
Dante and Milton
This anthology explores synchronic and diachronic constructions of Dante Alighieri and John Milton as culturally produced icons, deeply engrained in the world’s cultural memory, offering a perspective that goes beyond merely national contexts.
Laughter and War
This book explores the impact of World War One in four countries, and breaks new ground by exploring this through the medium of what their respective populations laughed at, investigating four humorous-satirical magazines of the period.
Home and Away
The first contribution to literary juvenilia studies in the past decade, this volume theorises the current state of this field and exemplifies it in action, showing the importance of the familiar world of home and the territory of adulthood to the imaginations of young authors.
Inspired by the renewed interest in Medieval culture, literature and society evident in recent fictional works, this collection of essays discusses a wide range of issues related to Medieval England, from the Beowulf saga to echoes of Medieval literature in contemporary fiction.
The contributions here represent the result of discussions at the European Sport Development Network’s conference in 2014. They are all written from the perspective of academic researchers and practitioners working in sport development.
This double-blinded peer-reviewed journal offers a forum for practitioners, students, community members, and faculty interested in all facets of business anthropology to exchange ideas and research.
Curating Differently
This title offers critical perspectives on, and analyses of, intersections of feminisms, art exhibitions, and curatorial spaces from the 1970s onward, bringing together case studies from Australia, Israel, Europe, and North America.
International Symposium on East Anatolia—South Caucasus Cultures
The Southern Caucasus is a region of great historical and cultural importance, yet it remains an under-researched field. This publication presents 75 selected articles from an international symposium on the region’s cultures from earliest times to the Middle Ages.
Growing Democracy in Africa
This edited collection critically examines the record on democratization in Africa thus far, questioning the state of governance in sub-Saharan Africa, and seeks a new, integrated, focused approach to the study of governance.
An Ethnography in an Irish Girls Secondary School
This ethnographic study explores the cultural experiences of a group of Irish 6th year girls, and provides a feminist perspective on the agency-structure debate. It highlights how hegemony is evident in visible and invisible ways in interactions among the cultural group.
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