Power and Truth in Political Discourse
Anastassov deals with the linguistic base of political discourse, providing a theoretical model of the imbalance of power in human interaction. He also uses the basic principles of social semiotics to create a match between sociolinguistics and political science.
Psoni shows the importance of, and the various roles played by, the feminine figure in the work of both W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos, highlighting the essential role assumed by the gynocentric mythology permeating the work of the two poets.
Over the course of eighteen chapters, this title engages with a range of social justice and legal education themes, including clinical legal education, innocence projects, access to justice, cause lawyering, LGBTQ identities, and sustainability in law schools.
This compendium advances analytical perspectives regarding a highly transcultural and changing African continent enmeshed in the vestiges of slavery and the complex dynamics of post-colonialism, with particular emphasis on Africa and its Lusophone and Afro-Hispanic diaspora.
Honors education celebrates excellence, but sorting students by attainment raises questions of diversity, equity, and inclusion. How can honors programs be fair and inclusive? This book, born from a National Society for Minorities in Honors conference, explores solutions.
This book theorises the evolution of English in post-colonial India and the rise of Indian English. It explores the debate: Is this distinct variety a standardized form suitable for teaching, or only for informal use? Through a survey, this book examines its acceptability.
This publication is composed of several articles that explore complexity in its most varied aspects. The solution of contemporary problems, whatever they may be, requires a multifaceted vision, far beyond the reductionist perspective.
Das Sarkhel explores how Achebe’s novels articulate his knowledge of his own people and the manner in which he participates in the politics of representation, showing that he critiques the postcolonial methodology, and provides an alternative narrative of such an experience.
Railway Discourse
Adami considers the train trope in a variety of cultural, literary and linguistic contexts, from contemporary crime fiction and dystopian graphic narratives to postcolonial railway travelogues, by employing a range of methods and frameworks.
Italian Architects and Builders in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey
This collection covers a complex cultural and political geography spanning from the Danubian principalities to Anatolia and the Aegean region. It explores a rich transcultural field of encounters and interactions, analysed on the basis of hitherto uncovered archival materials.
Uncovering Caledonia
Uncover the burning cultural issues of modern Scotland from a non-native point of view. This book offers insight through the analysis of Scottish folk tales, legends, literature, and film, appealing to both scholars and the general reader.
This conference proceedings stems from a prevailing feeling among Palestinians that Palestinian identity is in a state of weakening and retreat. The contributions study, analyse, and suggest solutions to the problems facing Palestinian identity today.
Sak-Wernicka explores the impact of visual impairment on the interpretation of utterances. She identifies common ground between the pragmatic analysis of comprehension and visual impairment, and shows how the study of pragmatics is enriched by the study of visual impairment.
Addressing issues of theorization in linguistics associated with systems of representation, these essays question the very concept of metalanguage and study the relationship between linguistics and cognition from a variety of perspectives.
This volume includes ten essays on American, British and Canadian writers’ biographies and family histories, ranging from Woolf’s Orlando (1928) to Zanganeh’s The Enchanter (2011), analysing the connection between biography and fiction in the light of postmodernism.
Golda Meir’s Foreign Decision-Making Process
Kremer Asaf focuses on Meir’s foreign decision making processes during her tenure as Israeli Prime Minister. She exposes the political-diplomatic aspects of foreign policy, using interviews and analysis of hundreds of formerly secret documents from various national archives.
This volume discusses pressing issues in contemporary artistic education and culture. It explores how artistic education preserves national traditions, contributes to international integration, and navigates the challenges of the 21st century.
This volume contributes to closing the divide that still exists today between the so-called ‘practical’ and ‘classical’ disciplines in seminary curricula. The essays here model a dynamic reading of human situations and biblical texts that reveal their multivalent complexities.
For those who want to understand the reasons behind the Israel-Palestine conflict, this book offers a rational explanation. It takes a world tour of Jewish communities and their thoughts on the Palestinian question, from over a century ago to the present day.
A unique hybrid of historical Gothic, this novel is set amid the sanguinary events of post-revolutionary France. It follows Countess Adelaide de Narbonne’s rebellion against male authority, connecting her story with that of Charlotte Corday, Marat’s murderer.
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