A Divided Hungary in Europe
Despite fragmentation and Ottoman pressure, early modern Hungary flourished through intense cultural exchange. This series draws an alternative map of Hungary, replacing centre-periphery conceptions with new narratives that balance Western-Hungarian relationships.
Global Safari
Global Safari is a memoir-travelogue chronicling a journey from a local village in the Congo to the global village. It is a story of courage, international friendship, hope, and homecoming—the quest and conquest of a new self through transits and transitions.
Where Theory and Practice Meet
Wong focuses on the translation process, on theory formulation, on getting to grips with translation problems, and on explaining translation in language. He covers language pairs and discusses, among other things, translations, such as those of Dante’s La Divina Commedia.
Renewable Energy
The chapters collected here summarise ten years of work on the challenges that renewable energy faces, and represent a selection of the best papers presented at the International Conferences on Renewable Energy and Power Quality (ICREPQ) from 2003 to 2012.
International Conference on Use-Wear Analysis
This volume explores use-wear studies as a proxy for prehistoric techno-cultural reconstruction. Discussing various research methods, techniques, chronologies, and regions, this book will be of interest to both archaeologists and anthropologists.
Rituals of Death and Dying in Modern and Ancient Greece
This study examines women’s crucial role in the cult of the dead in ancient and modern Greece. It combines ethnography with historical sources to offer a female perspective on death rituals, challenging a history written almost exclusively by men.
Muge 150th
This publication explores a number of archaeological themes, and is divided into two volumes, with the first focusing on Mesolithic finds in the Muge and Sado valleys. The second volume discusses the general Mesolithic period and its transition to the Neolithic across Europe.
The search for identity is a challenge in our global world. Placing the topic against an intercultural background, this book addresses the relationship between self, identity, and society from an academic perspective, with research from around the world.
Northrop Frye’s Lectures
This collection provides a transcription of fifteen sets of notes taken by Northrop Frye’s students in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and is the only available extended record of the courses taught by the great Canadian literary critic and humanist.
Inductive or Deductive?
This book presents the first systematic analysis of inductive vs. deductive instruction for pragmatic competence in EFL learners. The results suggest the advantage of the inductive approach. A valuable resource for researchers and teachers, with materials and insights.
Stemming from a corpus linguistics and language variation workshop, this text brings together studies on specialist knowledge dissemination in English. It describes how knowledge dissemination’s essential aspect is the analysis of the language that builds trust in interactions.
This work discusses, on contrastive principles, important questions of word-formation in a sample of 26 languages, an area not extensively covered by morphologists. Its focus, on a whole, is on typological features of word-formation in the languages sampled.
Verbs, Clauses and Constructions
This volume offers contributions on the role of verbs, clauses, and constructions in a rich variety of languages. Using empirical data, the book contributes to current literature on functional-oriented linguistics, incorporating linguistic typology and corpus-based perspectives.
Bianaca discusses topics like monist dualism, nomiotic theory of the mind, differences between brain processes and configurations and mind processes and configurations, and the architecture of the mind. He formulates a nomiotic-wave theory of the mind grounded in 6 key aspects.
Communication and Work Systems
Pace provides a practical definition and explanation of “communicative behavior” for use in understanding interaction in work settings. He suggests a clear model of the elements of a work system, and describes how to solve both communication and organization problems.
In an era of volatile and integrated markets, regulators worry about economic growth and financial crisis. This book analyzes key issues from risk assessment, corporate governance, and debt’s role in crises to international investments and innovative solutions.
Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise
This volume explores various aspects of corporate communication from the viewpoint of language and discourse, giving special attention to emerging issues and recent developments in times of rapid sociotechnical evolutions.
Compiling analyses of a wide range of economic and financial subjects, this collection discusses economic transition and the future prospects of developing countries. It serves to raise awareness of the important opportunities and risks inherent in the global financial system.
Language for Specific Purposes
This volume aligns three aspects of Language for Specific Purposes: translation, linguistic research, and domain-specific web communication. It presents work in various LSP areas, like legal discourse, highlighting issues of specialised communication and its social implications.
This book discusses international and regional telecommunication regimes and their role in facilitating economic integration. It examines regulations from organizations like the ITU, WTO, and the African Union, providing insights for policymakers, regulators, and investors.