This book proposes adopting African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) for Africa’s renewal and freedom. It offers solutions to the continent’s chronic problems from within, balancing short-term thinking with long-term planning for future generations.
Proposing that “deviance” is a fluid term that advances cultural, gender, and societal norms, Cusack argues that traditional and progressive classifications of human deviance could authentically be reworked in consideration of animals’ anatomy, breeding, gender, and mating.
Motivated by the dearth of textbooks on speech prosody methodology and data, this volume offers a selection of courses from the School of Prosody. This book will contribute to prosody education in Brazil and have a significant impact in other countries.
This book uses cross-linguistic analysis to explore verb constructions. It reveals how seemingly equivalent verbs can differ in meaning across languages, and how similar meanings are often expressed by completely different grammatical constructions.
Ingressive and Egressive Verbs in English
The first study to consider the language-external factors responsible for the configurations of English aspectual verbs, this title explores the semantic-pragmatic and cognitive causes of the various structural representations of ingressive and egressive verbs.
Innovation in Methodology and Practice in Language Learning
This state-of-the-art volume presents 24 papers on the challenges and innovations in university language centres, from new technologies to evolving pedagogy, revealing how these vital institutions adapt and thrive.
Psychoanalysis
Resulting from a conference on “Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society” held in 2014, this volume offers insights into emerging psychoanalytic thought. The contributions utilise various psychoanalytic concepts to discuss a range of problems in philosophy, art and the clinic.
Current Research in African Linguistics
Honoring Ọladele Awobuluyi, international scholars present new research in African linguistics. This important contribution presents data and linguistic analysis from many African languages, covering topics from phonology and morphology to syntax and semantics.
Hegemony and Language Policies in Southern Africa
In southern Africa, language policy is central to identity, power, and politics. This book traces the colonial and postcolonial history of these policies, questioning whose interests they serve and challenging the dominance of theories from the Global North.
Most new medical concepts are first named in English. This volume explores the naming strategies adopted, their consequences for the transparency of English terms, and the challenges of their translation and borrowing into other languages.
Thinking Space, Advancing Art
This book highlights the problems of art theory’s current obsession with theories of spectatorship, and argues that individual aesthetic transformations of pictorial structure change one’s experience of space, using the ideas of Ernst Cassirer and Paul Crowther as support.
Female Beauty Systems
Female beauty systems sort individuals into “more” or “less” desirable. These essays examine Western female beauty systems over the centuries, considering how women have complied with, contributed to, profited or suffered from, and resisted them.
This book brings together leading researchers and practitioners to share knowledge on growth, new technologies, and the environment. It will appeal to academics, professionals, and students in urban design, planning, architecture, and engineering.
Thinking Modally
Bringing together papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Modality in English in 2010, this volume focuses on the notions of modality, evidentiality and temporality, and on the connection between modality and stance and evaluation in specific genres.
City of Empires
This title represents the first volume dedicated entirely to studies of the historic city of Famagusta in the years which followed the siege of 1571, despite the city’s undoubted importance.
The PCI Artists
This book examines the Italian Communist Party’s artistic policies (1944–1951), providing a framework for wider reflections on art and politics. At a time when the world was divided, Italian artists became protagonists of a project to synthesize antagonistic cultural blocs.
Hamlet’s Ghost
Haunted by the mysterious deaths of two wives, Duke Vespasiano Gonzaga forged a new life by building Sabbioneta, the first ideal city. A true Renaissance man, his story reveals a fascinating link to Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the emergence of our modern consciousness.
Islam-Oriented Parties’ Ideologies and Political Communication in the Quest for Power in Morocco
Unlike many other prominent Islam-oriented parties, Morocco’s PJD does not focus on commonly used precepts such as madawiyya and al da’awa al nidaliyya. This book explores the party’s recent political ideologies and its use of the internet in political advertising strategies.
Eva Figes’ Writings
Offering an overview of the life and literary career of the prolific writer Eva Figes, this book places her extensive production within the various literary movements that shaped the previous century, using the theoretical background provided by ethics and trauma studies.
The Nordic literary canon is transforming. This book highlights how migration, minority, and queer literatures challenge national identity. It showcases the plurality of voices questioning the fundamentals of canon formation and Nordic self-understanding.
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