Since 1998, the “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics” conference has attracted scientists worldwide. This volume gathers the most outstanding articles from the XIIIth conference, with studies of interest to both linguistics professionals and hobbyists.
This volume explores core issues in figurative language and thought across fourteen languages. It examines the relationship between literal and figurative meaning, the role of metaphor and metonymy as cognitive tools, and the import of cognitive models in communication.
Cognitive science reveals how we truly learn. Aimed at teachers, this book provokes intellectual unease, challenging you to replace outdated ‘in-head theories’ with powerful, evidence-based teaching practices.
This volume provides new insights into the dynamic nature of coherence in spoken and written discourse. Combining theoretical insights with practical analyses, it will be of interest to researchers, scholars, and students of English.
Cold War Perceptions
This book investigates Romania’s early 1960s policy change towards the Soviet Union. Drawing on declassified archives, it argues the change was triggered by leaders’ perceptions of Soviet threats, focusing on CMEA reform and the Sino-Soviet dispute.
Coleridge and Hinduism
The only comprehensive study of Coleridge’s profound ties to Oriental Tales, revealing how Hindu works, especially the Bhagavadgītā, shaped his poetic imagination and his quest for the “One life.”
Coleridge’s Chrysopoetics
This book assesses alchemy in Coleridge’s conception of authorship. It argues that for Coleridge, the author must become other to become himself. This alchemical view demonstrates a unique link between plagiarism and creativity, redefining originality itself.
How did Colin Rowe become one of the 20th century’s most influential architecture teachers? This book uncovers his provocative methods—irony, paradox, and subversion—by drawing on his private notes, sketches, and talks to reveal the mischief behind the master.
These essays provide a snapshot of the collaborative and distributed processes employed by today’s contemporary music practitioners. The volume reveals the varied nature of creative approaches in composition, performance, and improvisation.
Collaborative Intelligence
This book describes the steps to transform a company into a social organization. It covers the strategic transformation, how HRM must adapt for collaborative work, and the new leadership skills needed, all supplemented with case studies from managers.
Collaborative Working in Academic Research Projects
This guide to the principles of socioformation offers insights into collaborative working for building knowledge and research. It provides the reader with a clear analysis of collaborative processes, distinguishing them from cooperative working.
This book explores diverse approaches to collaborative writing as critical arts-based inquiry. Not a handbook, but a scrapbook of methods, fragments, and excursions into practices like poetic writing—a gesture against the market-driven academy.
Collapse, Catastrophe and Rediscovery
Shaped by its dictatorial past and current economic crisis, Spain is in a moment of great rediscovery. This collection explores how contemporary Spanish film and literature dialogue with the nation’s social situation, offering a wide range of analyses.
This collection of essays from an international conference presents important research in linguistics. It explores language theory, cross-cultural communication, pragmatics, translation, and teaching methods. An essential volume for scholars and students.
This book presents the most important research from an international linguistic conference, covering Historical linguistics, Lexicology, Grammar, Pragmatics, Ethnolinguistics, and Translation. A key resource for philologists, teachers, and students.
This volume brings together, for the first time, essays authored by the influential British existential philosopher Colin Wilson on seventeen other philosophers from across the globe, including some of those he met personally to discuss their ideas.
Collections reflect the passions of their owners, but how did people get to see them? This book investigates an understudied field: “access” to collections before public museums. The essays show there were diverse types of access that served a range of purposes.
For ruling houses, collecting was a political act driven by dynastic ambition. A family’s collection attested to the age and power of its lineage. This volume presents articles exploring this phenomenon from the Roman Republic to the eighteenth century.
This volume looks at the future of museums, confronting challenges like funding cuts and a dubious art trade. It also explores exciting prospects, from new possibilities in display and visitor experience to the rising visitor numbers at major museums worldwide.
This collection of essays highlights the enduring significance of provenance for historians, authentication, and law. It remains vital to ownership and topical due to ongoing debates over looted art and the illicit trade in antiquities conducted by terrorist groups.
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