This collection presents selected papers on the acquisition of Romance languages from a generative perspective. It reflects a diversity of learning contexts, linguistic properties in syntax and phonology, and languages, including comparative studies.
Civilisation and Fear
Civilisation promises to shelter us from fear, but has only created new anxieties. This volume explores the many relations between fear and society, culture, and civilisation, investigating the objects, causes, and various shades of fear itself.
Translating Identities on Stage and Screen
This book uses linguistic analysis to explore translating for the stage and screen. It reveals how meaning is made when adapting works by authors like Shakespeare, Wilde, and Austen for Greek audiences in the 20th century.
The Future of Post-Human History
Are those who cannot remember the past condemned to repeat it, or is history written by the victor? This book rejects these opposing views, offering a new theory to understand history in the context of universality and relativity.
This volume presents original research on grammar and discourse in modern Lithuanian and Latvian. Moving beyond historical-comparative linguistics, these studies explore the languages from a synchronic, non-normative point of view.
This book explores major cases of HateSpeak in contemporary Arabic discourse, from Arabs vs. Israel and Sunnis vs. Shi’ites to the Arab Spring. The ultimate goal is to diagnose hate and provide remedies that may help convert HateSpeak into HeartSpeak.
A World of Popular Entertainments
The first of its kind, this groundbreaking collection examines popular entertainments from a global and multi-disciplinary perspective, considering their social, cultural, and political significance across five continents.
Parallel Discourses
To make public health programs in Botswana more effective, we must understand local religious and cultural beliefs. This book explores the parallel discourses on HIV between faith and public health, suggesting common ground for collaborative and effective prevention.
Crisis and Change
One cannot understand religion and ethics without paying attention to context. As late modern conditions pose new challenges to established theology, this volume rethinks religion and Christian ethics, exploring how they appear in new ways and new contexts.
Automatic Processing of Various Levels of Linguistic Phenomena
This volume contains papers from the NooJ 2011 Conference. Researchers use the NooJ linguistic environment to analyze diverse corpora, from ancient texts to astronaut conversations, covering topics like machine translation and information extraction.
Elizabeth Taylor
A centenary tribute to Elizabeth Taylor, one of the 20th century’s master storytellers. This volume pairs new critical essays with her uncollected stories, essays, and letters, including correspondence with Virginia Woolf.
The Balkans and Caucasus
The Black Sea is a bridge between peoples and a border between powers. This volume brings together scholars to ask: Is this a coherent zone whose past, present, and future suggest a shared destiny?
Art and Identity
This book explores European visual culture from the 13th to 17th centuries as a product of patronage, politics, and religion. It offers new perspectives on how art constructed identities and projected values, revealing the interaction between artists, patrons, and viewers.
Local Agri-food Systems in a Global World
This collection of essays analyzes the market, social, and environmental challenges of local agri-food systems in a global world. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it explores the links between local and global strategies, governance, and rural development.
The Future is Now
This collection of essays from new voices in African Diaspora Studies explores art, literature, film, and music across the Americas and Europe. Scholars interrogate themes of memory, power, and identity to uncover forgotten episodes of history.
Peripheral Transmodernities
This collection of essays explores the critical dialogue between the Hispanic/Latino world and Asian and Arab cultures. Bypassing old colonial centers, these South-to-South dialogues provide vivid examples of de-colonizing impetus and cultural resistance.
Crafting Identities, Remapping Nationalities
In multicultural societies, identity is a battleground between myths of purity and the need to belong. This book explores how people use the politics of memory to forge personal and communal narratives of self-definition and belonging.
How Writing Touches
Five scholars began an experiment in autoethnography, exploring intimacy and connection through collaborative writing. This book offers stories of how writing touches and writes bodies into being—an affecting, radical work on love as a messy, complex methodology.
Linguists and translators address fundamental questions about text: What is it? Why do we study it? What are we looking for? This volume helps the reader appreciate the richness of text as a treasure-trove for scholars with various approaches to language.
CLIL pedagogy is a revolution in language education but involves complex challenges. This publication provides a collection of original papers covering essential aspects of CLIL. It is a helpful handbook for teachers, student teachers, and teacher trainers.
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