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Nietzsche is perhaps best known for his diagnosis of the problem of nihilism. Though his elaborations on this diagnosis often include descriptions of certain beliefs characteristic of the nihilist (such as beliefs in the meaninglessness or worthlessness of existence),...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-10
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The book comprises a selection of papers concerning the general theme of cultural conceptualizations in language.The focus of Part 1, which includes four papers, is on Metaphor and Culture, discussing general as well as language-specific metaphoricity.Part 2, which also...
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Springer
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2020-06-10
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What skills do journalists exhibit in sensationalising, exaggerating and otherwise ‘tabloiding’ the truth, while usually stopping short of stating unambiguous falsehoods? Why has the tabloid news not collapsed as predicted, but thrived as a medium in an age of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-09
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This book presents a comparative reconstruction of the common phonology of the Chinese dialects using representative data from living dialects. The resulting phonology includes all categories and phonological distinctions that are represented in the dialect data. It...
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Springer
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2020-06-08
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Gegenstand des Bandes sind die sogenannten «kleineren» romanischen Sprachen, die die Romania «minor» ausmachen. Obwohl diese für die romanistische Forschung eine hohe Relevanz besitzen, ist ihre Erforschung in vielerlei Hinsicht noch lückenhaft. Die Sprachen der Romania...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-06-05
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This book presents new research on sight translation using cutting-edge eye-tracking technology. It covers various aspects of sight translation processes of both novice and professional interpreters, such as their textual processing behaviors, problem-solving patterns...
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Springer
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2020-06-05
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This book shows that reading-writing is a two-way street that is burgeoning with research activity. It provides a comprehensive and updated view on reading-writing connections by drawing on extant research and findings. It puts forward a new conception of literacy, one...
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Springer
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2020-06-02
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"Indispensable.... for anyone who cares about journalism." - Professor Karin Wahl-Jorgensen How can we understand the complex relationship between journalism and emotion? In a world of live-streamed terror, polarised political debates and fake news, emotion has...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2020-06-01
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This book explores the ways in which Eastern and Western medical knowledge inform each other in the treatment of people in Asia across a wide range of health issues. To do so, it brings together health communication scholars from diverse disciplines both in Hong Kong...
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Springer
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2020-06-01
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Anarchist Socialism in Early 20th Century Spain is the first English translation of and critical introduction to Ideario, a collection of newspaper and journal articles written by Spanish anarchist Ricardo Mella. Given that Mella is virtually unknown to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-28
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This book explores heterogeneity in the Indian academic setting. Presenting a study on the performance of Bachelor of Engineering students from various parts of the county, it analyzes the subjects’ language skills on the basis of selected sociolinguistic variables and...
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Springer
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2020-05-27
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Dieses Buch beleuchtet das Verhältnis von Grammatik und Ideologie im Russischen und Polnischen. Anhand der Regeln und Normen, die die sprachliche Darstellung von Geschlecht – insbesondere des weiblichen Geschlechts – bestimmen, illustriert der Autor, wie Sprachnormen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-05-26
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This textbook provides a clear and concise overview of the main schools of linguistic thought and scholarship from the late 18th century to the present day, examining the key tenets and leading figures of each approach and assessing their impact on the field. Combining...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-21
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One of the well-known properties of Slavic languages is that they show subject-oriented reflexives. This book presents this phenomenon in Polish in great empirical detail and provides its up-to-date syntactic analysis, couched in the minimalist model of grammar. The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-05-20
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On Literary Plasticity: Readings with Kafka in Ecology, Voice, and Object-Life calls to Franz Kafka, and in particular ‘Die Sorge des Hausvaters’, for aid in charting the long reach of plastic on the human mind and world. In this book, Heather H. Yeung builds a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-15
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This open access book introduces a general framework that allows natural language researchers to enhance existing competence theories with fully specified performance and processing components. Gradually developing increasingly complex and cognitively realistic...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-14
Collection :
Language, Cognition, and Mind
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In this dizzying post-truth, post-fact, fake news era, the onslaught and speed of potentially untrue, incorrect, or fabricated information (some crafted and weaponized, some carelessly shared) can cause a loss of our intellectual bearings. If we fail to have a common...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-05-13
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This book offers one possible solution in the pursuit of linguistic equality by exploring how the Structural Inquiry of Stigmatized English (SISE) approach to linguistics pedagogy can be used to empower linguistics students and researchers as ambassadors for change. By...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-11
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This book offers a novel perspective on the intersection of translation and narration in literary translation by investigating how three translations of Shuihu Zhuan present the original narrative mode to the target readership in terms of four narrative elements—voice,...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-09
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At the heart of Communication and Critical Cultural Studies is a discipline that has been slowly expanding its borders around the issues of racism, sexism, ability, privilege, and oppression. As Latinx, African American, Asian Pacific American, Disability and LGBTQ...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-05-07
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