Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume I
Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies
This collection of essays critically examines linguistic action and how we “do things with words”. Representing different pragmatic approaches, the texts include theoretical discussions, case studies, reports on experimental pragmatics, and corpus studies.
This collection of essays critically examines linguistic action and how we “do things with words”. Representing different pragmatic approaches, the texts include theoretical discussions, case studies, reports on experimental pragmatics, and corpus studies.
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Imagination is the source of creativity. This collection of essays from authors around the world offers new, practical ideas for infusing classrooms with imaginative activities. Explore theories of creativity and their application to curriculum and social issues.
Imagination is the source of creativity. This collection of essays from authors around the world offers new, practical ideas for infusing classrooms with imaginative activities. Explore theories of creativity and their application to curriculum and social issues.
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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.
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.
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Commodore Squib
The Life, Times and Secretive Wars of England’s First Rocket Man, Sir William Congreve, 1772-1828
When England faced Napoleonic France, Sir William Congreve championed secret weapons, notably gunpowder rockets. His was a world of experimental warfare and espionage. Acclaimed and derided, his overlooked influence is commemorated in the American National Anthem.
When England faced Napoleonic France, Sir William Congreve championed secret weapons, notably gunpowder rockets. His was a world of experimental warfare and espionage. Acclaimed and derided, his overlooked influence is commemorated in the American National Anthem.
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PostGender
Gender, Sexuality and Performativity in Japanese Culture
A collection of articles by leading researchers on gender, sexuality, and performativity in Japanese culture. This volume considers representations of the body across contemporary art, manga, photography, and performance art.
A collection of articles by leading researchers on gender, sexuality, and performativity in Japanese culture. This volume considers representations of the body across contemporary art, manga, photography, and performance art.
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Shapes of Openness
Bakhtin, Lawrence, Laughter
This study explores the remarkable affinities between Bakhtin and Lawrence. It uses Bakhtinian theory to challenge damaging biases about Lawrence, finding the shape of his novel Women in Love to be interrogative, where characters are questions personified.
This study explores the remarkable affinities between Bakhtin and Lawrence. It uses Bakhtinian theory to challenge damaging biases about Lawrence, finding the shape of his novel Women in Love to be interrogative, where characters are questions personified.
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I More than Others
Responses to Evil and Suffering
How responsible are we for the world's suffering? Inspired by Dostoyevsky, philosophers and theologians confront the nature of evil, our shared guilt, and the difficult struggle for hope.
How responsible are we for the world’s suffering? Inspired by Dostoyevsky, philosophers and theologians confront the nature of evil, our shared guilt, and the difficult struggle for hope.
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Love, Sorrow and Joy
A New Voice in Irish Avant-Garde Poetry
The poetic and philosophic insights in this book are new and fresh. Like the mystical writers of old, Gillespie explores doubt, hope, and the search for true self-identity, generating a new and profound experience.
The poetic and philosophic insights in this book are new and fresh. Like the mystical writers of old, Gillespie explores doubt, hope, and the search for true self-identity, generating a new and profound experience.
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This collection offers innovative strategies and practical advice for teaching eighteenth-century texts. Authors share a wealth of experience and best practices for engaging students with Western and non-Western literature from this important period.
This collection offers innovative strategies and practical advice for teaching eighteenth-century texts. Authors share a wealth of experience and best practices for engaging students with Western and non-Western literature from this important period.
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This book examines the collective action of marginalised people in Western Europe. It analyses how they organise to overcome obstacles, act collectively, and intervene in public space, exploring their political significance amid new forms of inequality.
This book examines the collective action of marginalised people in Western Europe. It analyses how they organise to overcome obstacles, act collectively, and intervene in public space, exploring their political significance amid new forms of inequality.
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The image of ‘the Turk’ was historically the negative of the European self-image. Assuming the role of the ‘defining other,’ this concept was a constitutive element of European cultural identity. This book explores this past to better understand it.
The image of ‘the Turk’ was historically the negative of the European self-image. Assuming the role of the ‘defining other,’ this concept was a constitutive element of European cultural identity. This book explores this past to better understand it.
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Sacred Geography of Goddesses in South Asia
Essays in Memory of David Kinsley
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.
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.
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This collection explores our relationship with the natural world and how literature clarifies it in ways science and politics cannot. As we face environmental change, literature becomes equipment for living, helping us make sense of our world and decide how to act.
This collection explores our relationship with the natural world and how literature clarifies it in ways science and politics cannot. As we face environmental change, literature becomes equipment for living, helping us make sense of our world and decide how to act.
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Ethical Contexts and Theoretical Issues
Essays in Ethical Thinking
This book makes a philosophical contribution to current ethical debates. It moves beyond traditional approaches to present an alternative foundation for decision-making: a philosophically grounded, relational perspective that replaces an individualistic one.
This book makes a philosophical contribution to current ethical debates. It moves beyond traditional approaches to present an alternative foundation for decision-making: a philosophically grounded, relational perspective that replaces an individualistic one.
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Byron and Bob
Lord Byron’s Relationship with Robert Southey
Byron's most important literary relationship was with Robert Southey, whom he hated and to whom he "dedicated" his masterpiece, *Don Juan*. This book argues Byron's literary distaste became a projected self-distrust, a dislike for his own flaws.
Byron’s most important literary relationship was with Robert Southey, whom he hated and to whom he “dedicated” his masterpiece, *Don Juan*. This book argues Byron’s literary distaste became a projected self-distrust, a dislike for his own flaws.
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Building Asian Families and Communities in the 21st Century
Selected Proceeds of the 2nd Asian Psychological Association Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June, 2008
Psychology is growing more rapidly in Asia than in any other part of the world. This book presents current research showing how the discipline adapts to the philosophies and history of the region, blending Western science with Eastern practices.
Psychology is growing more rapidly in Asia than in any other part of the world. This book presents current research showing how the discipline adapts to the philosophies and history of the region, blending Western science with Eastern practices.
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This collection of essays examines poetic and narrative responses to exile. It features works from rarely studied parts of the world, including Armenia, Egypt, and Tibet, exploring feelings of loss, memories of trauma, and the search for identity.
This collection of essays examines poetic and narrative responses to exile. It features works from rarely studied parts of the world, including Armenia, Egypt, and Tibet, exploring feelings of loss, memories of trauma, and the search for identity.
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New essays on the Frankfurt School explore its dialogue with predecessors like Marx, its key debates, and its continuing significance in the postmodern age. Readers will find a lively debate on technology, “negative dialectics,” the Shoah, and political thought.
New essays on the Frankfurt School explore its dialogue with predecessors like Marx, its key debates, and its continuing significance in the postmodern age. Readers will find a lively debate on technology, “negative dialectics,” the Shoah, and political thought.
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Formal Studies in Slavic Linguistics presents current research by young scholars on challenging phenomena in various Slavic languages. The volume expands its scope to include all areas of theoretical linguistics and will interest Slavic scholars and linguists alike.
Formal Studies in Slavic Linguistics presents current research by young scholars on challenging phenomena in various Slavic languages. The volume expands its scope to include all areas of theoretical linguistics and will interest Slavic scholars and linguists alike.
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Unsettling Stories
Settler Postcolonialism and the Short Story Composite
The first study of postcolonialism and the short story composite, this book considers how the form expresses writing on settler terrain. Uniquely comparing American, Canadian, and Australian literature, it explores difficult affiliations to place, home, and nation.
The first study of postcolonialism and the short story composite, this book considers how the form expresses writing on settler terrain. Uniquely comparing American, Canadian, and Australian literature, it explores difficult affiliations to place, home, and nation.
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