Formalising Natural Languages with NooJ 2013
This volume contains 17 articles from the 2013 International NooJ Conference. NooJ is an open source linguistic development environment and corpus processor used by researchers and companies to build Natural Language Processing applications and analyze large corpora.
Secularisation
This collection of case studies questions the paradigm of secularisation. With meticulous research, an international outlook, and a rare focus on the Southern Hemisphere, it explores the divide between religious life and the secular world.
In 1832, French missionary Eugène Casalis forged an extraordinary friendship with King Moshoeshoe of Lesotho, becoming his trusted advisor and a key ally in the desperate struggle to save his kingdom from Boer expansionism.
Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots
Meyerbeer’s most popular opera, Les Huguenots, is a gigantic drama of faith, love, and self-sacrifice set against the Saint Bartholomew Massacre. Its music reaches sublime heights, capturing the tragedy of religious intolerance with intense passion.
True North
True North is the first book on literary translation in the Nordic countries. It explores genres from novels and children’s literature to crime fiction, analysing authors like Ibsen, Lindgren, and Laxness, and examines key translatorial challenges.
Spatio-Temporal Narratives
This book explores the merchant networks and maritime trade routes of the First Global Age (16th-18th centuries). Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), it visualizes the integration of economies, the organization of trade, and the evolution of networks.
Oceans and Society
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the “Oceans and Society: Blue Planet” initiative, a global effort to coordinate ocean-observing programmes for societal benefit. Readers will learn how ocean observations are integrated and applied to benefit us all.
Masks of Identity
This collection reveals how Otherness, a legacy of colonization, shapes Latin American society. Essays explore how the identities of indigenous peoples, women, and others are constructed, visually represented, performed, and contested.
Platonism for the Iron Age
Language Education and the Challenges of Globalisation
This book focuses on sociolinguistic issues linked to language education in the age of globalisation. It examines these in contexts of immigration and super-diversity, providing a useful look at the current state of the art for scholars and students.
Between English and Arabic
This book is a comprehensive practical course in translation between English and Arabic, invaluable to students. It balances theory and application, covering key lexical, grammatical, and stylistic issues to help develop skills to a graduate standard.
These essays on Canadian, Australian and New Zealand literatures consider texts and authors within the post-colonial paradigm, focusing on diasporic writing, national consciousness, and prominent authors like Margaret Atwood.
Dino Buzzati and Anglo-American Culture
This book investigates Dino Buzzati’s relationship with Anglo-American culture, showing that he was an original reworker of literary motifs. It offers new insights into his fiction’s playful side and reassesses him as a master of fantastic literature.
Networks of Global Governance
This book analyses the relationship between the United Nations and European integration from 1945 to the present. It describes how the dynamic evolved: from UN bodies shaping the integration process to the EU impacting the UN, to today’s complex partnership.
The Beauty of Convention
This volume explores the beauty of convention, viewing form as a keeper of meaning. It asks how conventions generate beauty and gain stability, examining literature, music, dance, and sculpture through diverse cultural and critical perspectives.
The Friulian Language
What is the place of a minor language in a global world? This is the first comprehensive study in English of Friulian, exploring its history, culture, literature from medieval ballads to Pasolini, and the migration of its people.
This is the only study on the acquisition of the Spanish Determiner Phrase by Bantu speakers. It contributes to Second Language Acquisition and Creole formation by comparing the interlanguage of Swahili speakers with Spanish-lexifier Creoles for the first time.
Following the advent of the printing press, Italian humanist Latin texts spread across Europe. This study is the first comprehensive account of their dissemination and impact on the Renaissance curriculum and the rising national literary traditions of the period.
Voyages of Body and Soul
This collection explores India’s “mad” female saint-poets and multifaceted epic women from across history. These icons resisted patriarchal norms, following their chosen paths with monumental courage, creativity, and deep devotion. Their lives are models for the 21st century.
Insanity and Genius
For scientists, beauty is truth. But the author sought truths from a different way of knowing—one not of logic, but of expression. This book explores the greatest minds struggling to understand the deepest truths of the human condition.
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