Performing the Interview
This book articulates a new method for the research interview, transforming it into a living performance space. Theatrically framed sites invite participants to co-create “Data-Dramas,” capturing rich, embodied knowledge with relevance far beyond the arts.
Greening the Guest Experience
Apply sustainability in hospitality with this practical roadmap. Using industry case studies, this guide shows how to integrate eco-friendly practices to reduce environmental impact while enhancing operational efficiency and guest satisfaction.
This book analyses the dramatic changes AI brings to film: from content production and distribution to audience engagement. Moving beyond virtual actors and AI-generated scripts, it discusses the opportunities, ethical challenges, and legal, cultural, and economic implications.
Misperceptions of Christianity in China and Their Impact on China–US Relations
China–US relations are reshaping the world, but discourse overlooks the crucial roles of misperception and American Christian ideologies. This book introduces a unique religious perspective, critically examining the Western narrative of Christian persecution in China.
Science Research and Education in Africa
This conference proceedings discusses how Africa may be about to undergo a profound change in scientific and medical development. Its themes include health research improvement and disease surveillance education, and deadly epidemic diseases.
Contrary to the belief that Judaism was oblivious to art, this book shows that a sophisticated visual language flourished in Byzantine-era synagogues. This probing language of introspection and scrutiny reveals a hidden culture that could rival the best of modern art movements.
This book explores various topics relevant to understanding the complexities of biological effects generated by solar radiation, and evaluates solar-energy-absorbing substances, including sunscreen agents, and their influence on cancers and diseases.
This book explores postcolonial translation studies, questioning its assumptions and critically examining its failures. With perspectives on Africa, the Global South, and the Global North, it considers the postcolony in a variety of settings worldwide.
This text brings together papers, on different hidden and implicit aspects of language and the ways of disclosing and explicating them. Language is interpreted in different ways here, as a cognitive ability, a specific semiotic structure interwoven with culture, and a discourse.
The Nuts and Bolts of Arabic-English Translation
This book contrasts Arabic and English beyond traditional grammar, covering stylistics, cohesion, text-typology, and semantics. It develops professional translation competence in students and trainees by providing a wide range of bidirectional practice materials.
Leadership Theories and Case Studies
Effective leadership does not occur by chance; leaders must be trained for the daunting responsibility of leading organizations. McGiboney shows here that this is possible and illustrates why and how, based on research and case studies from an epidemiological perspective.
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of technological developments that incorporate processing of human language. This compendium promotes work on intelligent natural language processing and related models of information, reasoning, and other cognitive processes.
Statistics can be unappealing. This book brings statistical issues closer to the reader using a science-fiction world, heroes, and everyday language to present an easy-to-follow account of formulas, numbers, and symbols.
Language, Media and Economy in Virtual and Real Life
Bringing together contributions concerning the relationship between languages and the economy, this anthology pays particular attention to the topic of “names in the economy”, opening this relationship to further fields of interest for the study of the role of language.
Empirical Approaches to Cognitive Linguistics
This collection takes a cognitive linguistic view on analyzing language and provides innovative contemporary Finnish research to the international audience. The areas covered vary from semantics to grammatical description, from terminological choices to language acquisition.
Constructing Modern European Private Law
Sammut examines the governance structure of the Europeanisation of European Private Law (EPL). He proves that more can be achieved here through a new approach involving innovative modes of governance in EPL.
Master culture-specific vocabulary for intercultural communication between English and Romanian. This unique dictionary is an easy-to-use tool for translators, students, and professionals, with vocabulary organised thematically to cover cuisine, holidays, sports, and more.
Balkan and South Slavic Enclaves in Italy
This volume deals with several Balkan linguistic varieties spoken in north-eastern, central and southern Italy. It presents new empirical findings and reflects the diversity of current research in the fields of areal linguistics, language variation, and Balkan dialectology.
American Multiculturalism in Context
This text brings together the reflections of a group of experts who met with the leading African American writer Ishmael Reed in 2015. It reports on Reed’s thoughts from the meeting, and looks at the concept “multiculturalism” in the United States, Europe and elsewhere.
Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11
Focusing on language and discourse, this volume explores the construction of “Us” and “Them” in texts before and after 9/11. The book shows how language reflects the tragic event, bringing us closer to understanding its roots, consequences, and relevance today.
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