Linguistics and the Parts of the Mind
This book criticizes the neglect of “macrolinguistics”—the rules of sequence in dialogue. Its central thesis concerns the influence of these larger linguistic units on theories of the mind, developing consequences of interest to both philosophers and linguists.
This peer-reviewed volume is a selection of papers from an international symposium. Featuring contributions from the world’s leading researchers, it offers an excellent overview of the current state of research in linguistics and related disciplines.
Linguistics, Literature and Culture
Sixteen essays by academics explore the changing realities in Asian linguistics, literature, and culture resulting from globalization. This book showcases original research on the interface between the global and the local in a variety of multicultural settings.
Linguists of Tomorrow
This collection of papers by established and up-and-coming researchers covers topics from theoretical linguistics to psycholinguistics and applied linguistics. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in current issues in linguistics.
This monograph researches the development of English vocabulary in new computer technologies. It studies the linguistic and ontological parameters of innovative cyber-vocabulary, from word-formation to how we perceive the technosphere through human concepts.
Liquidity and Asset Pricing
Explore the role of liquidity in asset pricing models, from risk premiums to market crises. This book empirically tests how augmented liquidity factors improve models and explains policy implications relevant to researchers, regulators, traders, and portfolio managers.
Literacy, Literature and Identity
This volume shows how literature and language shape the identities of individuals and societies. With a truly global reach, it draws on diverse contexts: from women in North America and African identity challenges to New Zealand’s Maoris.
This collection of essays explores the intersections of public and private life in eighteenth-century Britain, an era of major change. Scholars offer fresh perspectives on canonical works, cultural exchange, fashion, gossip, and gender issues.
Literary and Cultural Readings of Goddess Spirituality
Mukhopadhyay examines goddess spirituality in cultural critique, and presents literary readings and cultural phenomena from this perspective. He contemplates the possibilities of inserting the figure of the Great Mother into the critical domain of cultural pluralism.
For the curious reader, these essays explore Shakespeare and his re-envisioners; modern novels that interrogate identity; and underappreciated writers. They conclude with a series of pensees that reflect upon the interpretative craft itself.
Literary Hermeneutics
This book analyses the evolution of literary hermeneutics, tracing its transformation from a methodology of reading to an ontological instrument for redefining the self, highlighting its vital role in contemporary debates over interpretation.
By exploring the nature of book production and changing images of peasants in Livonia and Courland in the 18th and 19th centuries, Daija investigates the complex historical relationship between Latvians and Baltic Germans and the regional specifics of the Baltic Enlightenment.
Alshammari considers the ways in which madness has been portrayed in writing by women authors, readdressing the madwoman trope from a transnational approach set in contrast to the traditional Eurocentric approach to literary madness.
Literary Misogyny and Praise of Women in the Middle Ages
This book examines two major traditions in medieval literature: the praise of women and misogyny. It explores misogyny from the Church Fathers to secular authors and discusses the major literary works that praised women as a response to their misogynist counterparts.
Literary Nuances
This series of critical pieces is variously structured, with conventional essays, extended meditations, and short analytic notes appealing to differing tastes and offering meticulous close readings of a huge range of authors, from Akhmatova to Yeats.
Daskalova investigates works by prominent poets and writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular focus on (post)Romantics and modernists. She provides an original reading of the literary text as a means of representing and shaping the dialogism of different cultures.
Filmmaker Billy Wilder considered himself a writer. This book offers academic yet accessible literary readings of nine of his most significant films, informed by literary criticism, Gender Studies, and Film Studies. For film students, English students and Wilder fans alike.
Literary Secularism
Literary Secularism shows how writers like Joyce, Rushdie, and Eliot struggled with religious orthodoxy. Their novels are not anti-religious manifestos, but reflect the continued power of religion, a force that is, in Eliot’s words, “still throbbing” in modern life.
This collection explores how traditions shape society through movies, music, and literature. It reveals connections between culture and media that simplify our understanding of humanity, offering a guide to the evolving dimensions of African literature and popular culture.
Literary Translation
This manual applies linguistic pragmatics to literary translation. Using Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy as a guide, it bridges theory and practice to show how translators can preserve implied meaning and improve their work.
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