Metaphysical Themes, Medieval and Modern (Volume 11
These essays engage the metaphysics of substance over eight centuries, shedding light on contemporary disputes and their historical roots. Topics range from the substance ontology of Thomas Aquinas to modern debates on hylomorphism and natural theology.
This book combats modern scholarship’s marginalization of women in antiquity, proving their roles in the home, workplace, and society were essential for survival. Using archaeology and textual studies, it highlights women’s extensive accomplishments.
Mythologizing the Vietnam War
As the Vietnam War evolves from memory into history, it has been changed into a set of mythologies. This collection of critical essays explores the cultural legacies of the war, reassessing the role of visual media in its coverage, memorialisation, and memory.
This collection of articles presents the most important research in Pragmalinguistics and Speech Practices. The book consists of two parts and will be of interest to philologists, teachers, and students.
Language Studies
Language is a cornerstone of human identity and culture. This collection explores its centrality across an array of subjects—from social psychology and forensics to computer science—demonstrating that the study of language offers limitless possibilities to understand our world.
Musicians and dancers draw upon relationships between sound and movement. Sound, Music and the Moving-Thinking Body brings together diverse topics on the subject, raising issues concerning the collaborative aspects of creating and performing new work.
Which tasks are most successful for language learning, and what instructions work best? This book examines the effects of different task types on both immediate performance and long-term acquisition, revealing surprising results with major implications for teaching.
This collection of papers explores interfaces in language, including diachronic and synchronic approaches, generative and non-generative frameworks, as well as typological and theory-driven perspectives. The result is a truly eclectic mix.
Explore the preaching and teaching of Rudolf Bultmann and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Often misunderstood, this book objectively views their methods of biblical interpretation, showing how both sought to communicate the Gospel in a relevant manner during a challenging time.
The unifying factor of these essays is ambiguity. The volume explores this essential feature of the postmodern age—its definition, purpose, and historical use by writers—and its appearance not only in literature, but in wider social issues.
The English Language and Anglo-American Culture
This book explores the impact of the English language and Anglo-American culture on Spanish language and society. It compiles studies on shop windows, film titles, and magazines, providing evidence of the pervasive presence of English in Spanish daily life.
This collection of papers from linguistics and anthropology explores the intricate relation between language, gender, and sexuality. Contributors cover topics from heterosexual, lesbian, gay, and queer experience to voice, silence, and nationalism.
This volume offers a critical evaluation of interculturality, capturing vigorous debates across four continents. Scholars break with tradition to challenge the tired old notion of ‘culture’ and establish new ways of engaging with the concept.
Lexical Issues of UNL
This book explores the Universal Networking Language (UNL), an artificial language designed for machines to represent knowledge independently of human languages. It highlights UNL’s fundamental principles and shows how their materialization has evolved over time.
This book identifies effects of the European monetary integration on the financial systems of euro area member countries. It presents a rich collection of original studies by scholars, central bankers, and practitioners on the most relevant issues debated today.
Disability and Medieval Law
Disability and Medieval Law considers how medieval societies dealt with crime, punishment, and mental illness. When did law take disability into account? When did it choose to cause disabilities? How did authors use disability to discuss law and human nature?
Life Writing
In our age of testimony, what are we to make of all this telling of lives? This collection of essays from leading writers and academics demonstrates the fluidity and diversity of life writing, presenting both the state of the art and the spirit of our age.
Dimensions of Social Exclusion
This book revolves around the societal institutions that exclude, discriminate, and deprive groups based on identities such as caste or ethnicity. It examines social exclusion as a complex, multi-dimensional process across a wide spectrum of societies.
Yesterday’s Words
Yesterday’s Words explores scholarly issues in historical lexicography and lexicology. Contributions discuss dictionaries of former ages, the vocabulary of the past, current projects, and the modern technology essential for studying yesterday’s words.
Knowing and Being
Michael Polanyi’s ideas, from his theory of tacit knowledge to a new picture of science where a scientist’s passion and trust are essential, are contributions to epistemology and ontology. This volume’s critical essays analyze and develop his thought.
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