In this dictionary, 300 Greek maxims and proverbs are given, accompanied by their counterparts in 8 European languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, and Russian. Moreover, the introduction relates the history, origin and importance of proverbs.
Northern Atlantic Islands and the Sea
This anthology delves into the shared Nordic cultural and linguistic heritage of Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Orkney, Shetland and the Hebrides, showing how the experience of being surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean has been a constant in the islanders’ history and identities.
This book investigates assertions of community identity in the multilingual context of Kashmir. It demonstrates that changes in language roles, motivated by various factors, may lead to the demise of the Kashmiri linguistic-cultural identity in favour of Urdu.
Can language be truly absorbing? For thirty years, Aristide’s witty and elegant grammar columns for Le Figaro entertained France. This book on his work, for lovers of the French language, is both entertaining and instructive, peppered with extracts from his original writings.
This title is a passionate scholarly inquiry focused on some of the most pressing issues confronting architectural practice, urbanism, and city-making today. It offers an array of conversations with leading architects, urbanists, architectural historians and urban thinkers.
This volume presents some of the key approaches to war reporting and suggests trajectories for further critical research into media visualisation of conflict. It highlights the visual culture of conflict, specifically the claim that images are central to contemporary geopolitics.
While chiefly a site of popular pleasure and merriment, popular culture also functions as a site and source through which identities are inhabited, brokered and contested. This volume offers theoretical reflections on the significance of particular elements of popular culture.
Renovating the Sacred
In this exploration of the cultural context of the English Reformation, Larking places the emphasis not just on law makers or the major players, but also, and more importantly, on those individuals and parish communities that lived through the twists and turns of reform.
Marginal Urbanisms
This collection reflects on urban development strategies that have been implemented recently in Latin American cities. It argues that infrastructural insertions need to be considered as the baseline for urban development, not as its main goal.
Communication as a Life Process
This volume presents the ecolinguistic paradigm, a dynamic, multilayer approach to human communication. Founded on a holistic paradigm, these contributions complement the mainstream focus on cognitive systems by pointing to non-cognitive modalities in the communication process.
The Century of the Emerging World
Dobrescu explores how the first decade of the 21st century was nothing short of “les années folles”. He shows that the long-term tendencies inaugurated during this decade represent a silent revolution, which will lead to a geopolitical reconfiguration hard to envision at present.
War on the Human
The essays here explore the question of the human, both as a contested concept and as it relates to the wider global conjuncture. They explore the theoretical underpinnings of the term “human,” inviting the reader to reflect upon the contemporary human condition.
This text discusses various ways of approaching the problems associated with specialist languages, such as the languages of law and business, which can be perceived as highly conventionalized and not fully autonomous communication codes limited to specific situations.
This title endeavours to create a general aesthetics to face the problem of mimesis and subordination of art, using the ancient concept of continuity. As such, it is of special interest to readers of aesthetic and critical thinking, and literary and sociocultural scholars.
At heart, this is a tale of humanity’s poignant relationship with nature. Told in illustrated vignettes, it explores the role of plants in love, murder, and the rise and fall of empires, selecting moments from history and science that amaze, shock, or move us to disbelief.
This volume studies complexity theory and offers elements that support the continued and ever-growing need for its use. It probes technology, culture, and science to navigate systems within organisations, to divulge the broad spectrum in which complexity theory may be utilised.
History Making a Difference
Timely direction and informed debate is given here, about the importance of history, considering why we should care about, teach, research and write history. The compilation offers new approaches that consider the ability and potential for history to ‘make a difference’ today.
Romanowski introduces intercultural communication, giving examples of classroom activities, as well as presenting empirical research. He offers a novel model of intercultural sensitivity assessment and outlines the results of intercultural communicative competence research.
This collection considers the challenges for the EU as an international actor deeply influenced by migration. It centres on aspects related to East-West migration, such as the economic importance of migration and the impact of migration on both sending and recipient countries.
Economic Behaviour
A selection of investigations that deal with economic behaviour are presented here, both at the macro and micro level. The chapters give some well-defined aspects and build on a new understanding of decision-making and economic development based on ethics and knowledge.
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