The 21st century is marked by a geopolitical power shift from West to East, creating challenges more difficult than any in the past. Will this new era be defined by rivalry between a weakening US and a rising China? This volume provides expert insights.
This multi-faceted account reveals the complex foundations of conflicts between north and south, and recently within South Sudan itself. Hopes for a new democratic society have devolved to dysfunction as both nations face grave problems in security and stability.
Names in the Economy
Onomastic research has expanded towards names that reflect our commercial culture. Culture produces names and names produce culture. This multidisciplinary book contemplates commercial names from the viewpoints of linguistics, onomastics, marketing, and branding.
Cognitive Approaches to English
This volume presents cognitive approaches to English, discussing motivation in grammar, meaning construction, interlinguistic variation, and TEFL issues. It explores how these phenomena are motivated by metaphorical and metonymic operations.
Lacework or Mirror? This study explores the diary poetics of Frances Burney, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Shelley. It examines their narrative choices and lacunae to illustrate the gradual emergence of the diarists’ individual selves.
We have lost sight of Hamlet itself. This book looks beyond the play that has bedazzled critics for centuries to seek its historical distinctness, unraveling myths about the players, printers, patrons, and Shakespeare himself.
This book offers unique perspectives on Turkish Sign Language (TİD) and sign linguistics. Covering topics from TİD’s history to grammar, this volume is a useful resource for newcomers and gives new momentum to future research.
The Development of Translation Competence
This book presents cutting-edge research from psycholinguistics and cognitive science to understand the development of translation competence. It explores theories and innovative data collection methodologies, serving as a valuable reference for scholars and translators.
Sacred Geography of Goddesses in South Asia
A tribute to David Kinsley, this interdisciplinary anthology explores the sacred geography of goddesses. Essays from scholars of religious studies, geography, and anthropology link ecology and shamanism with landscape as temple and territory as cosmos.
This volume explores new directions in Hispanic linguistics, focusing on understudied topics and speech communities. Presenting new takes on key linguistic and sociocultural issues, its relevance reaches far beyond the confines of the Hispanic World.
This comprehensive biography presents Alexander’s story based on ancient sources, including non-Western evidence. It reveals the Oriental perspective on his epic conquests and offers a balanced portrait, avoiding both idealization and deconstruction.
What is Englishness? Is there a national character? This collection seeks to answer these questions by offering a kaleidoscopic vision of Englishness since the eighteenth century, challenging stereotypes and offering keys to understanding its diverse expressions.
East Central Europe in Exile Volume 2
This two-volume series examines the East Central European émigré experience. The first volume focuses on the reasons for migration and adaptation, while the second explores the negotiation of new identities and maintaining ties to the abandoned homeland.
This collection brings together the latest research into the syntax, semantics, and phonology of the Celtic languages. Leading linguists offer articles on Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh, on a wide variety of topics.
P. Papinius Statius
Volume III on Statius’ Thebaid and Achilleid is divided into two parts. The first discusses the textual transmission, manuscripts, and editions. The second part comprises a secondary apparatus with further evidence and all unrecorded conjectures.
Local and Global Understandings of Creativities
Focusing on creators rather than the object, this volume explores the “polyphony of voices” in music making. Based on fieldwork, it examines how musicians balance personal goals with group cohesion in diverse secular and religious traditions.
Leading scholars from philosophy, psychology, and history cast new light on Sartre. This volume deliberately stresses a middle and final period of his work, exploring diverse topics and offering new insights on authenticity, freedom, and ethics.
Out of the Ordinary
An imaginarium and cultural history, this book finds significance in the minutiae of everyday life. Derham Groves teaches the reader to find stories in overlooked objects, art, and architecture, revealing how unfettered creativity can emerge.
“An Ald Reht”
This volume brings together thirteen essays on the legal system of Anglo-Saxon England. Based on twenty years of research, it offers important insights into English law from the sixth century through to its preservation in twelfth-century manuscripts.
Calling on philosophers as the custodians of rationality to reconsider their responsibility toward their communities and the state of civilization at large, Amir considers philosophy to be a practical discipline.