Clusivity
This book develops an original framework for analyzing inclusion and exclusion in political discourse. It proposes a model explaining how speakers create ‘us’ vs. ‘them’ through tactics of association and dissociation to legitimize their power.
The Sochi Predicament
Sochi was an unlikely host for the Winter Olympics, a prestige project for Russia. This book analyzes the profound challenges of identity, security, and ethnic relations from Russian, Georgian, Abkhazian, and Circassian perspectives.
For engineers and students, this volume presents articles by international experts on themes at the interface between engineering and society, including ethics, education, and the future of engineering. Each chapter contrasts distinct perspectives to develop critical thinking.
Spaces Imagined, Places Remembered
In post-war Australia, planners and architects envisioned ideal environments for children. But for the children who grew up there, these abstract spaces were places imbued with personal meanings, a perspective markedly different from the expert notions of the era.
This work traces how Oxford and Cambridge colleges, founded for celibate men, clung to a monastic way of life into the nineteenth century. It explores the struggle of courageous individuals who finally overturned the statutes in 1882, allowing Fellows to marry.
Balkans and Islam
This multidisciplinary volume offers a special approach to the evolution of Islam in the Balkans. Accessible to students, academics, and the general reader, it provides knowledge of the region’s past and present, with hope for an integrated future.
Socio-Cultural Construction of Recognition
This book fills a crucial research gap by examining the representation of Islam and Muslims in the British Christian media. It takes a different turn from previous studies, analyzing these portrayals through the lens of the politics of recognition.
This book situates African literature as a site of artistic and cultural production within postcolonial politics. It evaluates the literature as a cultural contestation with imperial knowledge and as an ideological strategy for societal self-knowledge.
This book presents current developments in Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), investigating controversial areas of linguistic theory in a variety of languages. It also illustrates RRG’s application to sign languages, language acquisition, and machine translation.
Comparative Philosophy Today and Tomorrow
With a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this collection of essays juxtaposes philosophical views on shared themes, stimulating fresh insight into contemporary issues from self-cultivation to global justice and the connections between East and West.
The Respectability of Late Victorian Workers
This study of Victorian York’s working classes places respectability at the heart of their culture. Through personal testimony, it shows how workers creatively built identities and communities, defining the respectable citizen in their own moral terms.
Reimagining Regional Analyses
Reimagining Regional Analysis explores the interplay between new methods and theory. Using GIS, satellite imagery, and non-traditional data, this volume examines the contingent, recursive relationships between people, their social activities, and the environment.
The Narcissism Conundrum
This psycho-biographic analysis dissects Hemingway’s works and letters to reveal the man behind the glamorous persona. It unearths a tradition of narcissistic self-fictionalization, enabling aficionados to decipher the conundrum of his mystic persona.
This volume examines the resurgent influence of Language Learning in Translation Studies and the contemporary ways translation is used in Language Teaching. It explores the possibilities and limitations of this interplay, raising important questions for a new era.
English Tags
This is the first study of English question tags from an integrated pragmatic and translational perspective. Analysing their syntactic and prosodic properties, it uses film language to compare their functions in English, Italian, and dubbed versions.
This book overcomes the fragmentation of moral philosophy by synthesizing aspects like consequences, duties, and values. It proposes a scale where each component is fulfilled in the next, culminating in the unique person as a loving being, our highest end.
Language Education Today
For modern language teachers, these essays explore the tension between linguistic identity and multilingualism, covering language education, English language teaching, and key linguistic issues.
Wit’s End
This book studies the “Great Movies,” the enduring works of cinematic history. It attempts to “make sense” of these films to understand what they express about the universality of human life and the worlds they recreate on screen.
This volume examines important themes in medical sociology, documenting the thinking and frameworks shaping research today. It covers topics from the morality of death to conflicts between health providers, and will interest students and professionals.
Great Power Politics in Cyprus
This volume approaches foreign interventions in Cyprus from two angles: a case-by-case historical analysis and the implementation of systemic models. It also deals with domestic perceptions and their impact on the politics and public rhetoric of the Cyprus problem.
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