This volume presents original research on grammar and discourse in modern Lithuanian and Latvian. Moving beyond historical-comparative linguistics, these studies explore the languages from a synchronic, non-normative point of view.
The Future of Post-Human History
Are those who cannot remember the past condemned to repeat it, or is history written by the victor? This book rejects these opposing views, offering a new theory to understand history in the context of universality and relativity.
This phonetic investigation of the vowel system of Civili, an indigenous language of Gabon, analyzes articulation and perception. It contributes to establishing a credible orthography, with findings significant for linguistics and human language technologies.
The Proceedings of the 18th Annual History of Medicine Days Conference 2009
This peer-reviewed volume collects papers from the History of Medicine Days conference, exploring topics from Ancient Medicine to Eugenics, Military Medicine, and Surgery. The book features the keynote address on the misuse of genetics by Dr. Garland E. Allen.
This collection presents selected papers on the acquisition of Romance languages from a generative perspective. It reflects a diversity of learning contexts, linguistic properties in syntax and phonology, and languages, including comparative studies.
The first Chinese university journal published abroad in English. This unique series provides a platform for scholars from one of China’s top universities to share cutting-edge reports on the English language with the global community.
Since 1998, the “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics” conference has attracted scientists worldwide. This volume gathers the most outstanding articles from the XIIIth conference, with studies of interest to both linguistics professionals and hobbyists.
Civilisation and Fear
Civilisation promises to shelter us from fear, but has only created new anxieties. This volume explores the many relations between fear and society, culture, and civilisation, investigating the objects, causes, and various shades of fear itself.
With distinguished features in its sound system, syntax, and discourse, Chinese is a unique language. This volume presents new advances in Chinese linguistics, drawing on diverse theoretical models valuable to linguists, educators, and students.
Under-pricing threatens Sri Lanka’s water utility. This book examines alternative pricing strategies to improve efficiency and equity, ensuring the financial viability needed for critical infrastructure expansion and maintenance.
On Exceeding Determination and the Ideal of Reason
This book argues that Kant’s metaphysical system conceals a deeper reality behind phenomenal appearances. Drawing on William Desmond, Shaw critiques Kant’s theological limits and lays the groundwork for a new discourse: “Noumenology”.
Equalities and Education in Europe
This timely book analyzes educational inequities in Europe. Rejecting the idea that education simply reproduces social patterns, the authors argue that educational policies have the potential to challenge inequality and transform the lives of disadvantaged groups.
Housing the Environmental Imagination
For writers like Thoreau, Jeffers, and Snyder, the writing project is inseparable from the living project. This book examines how their houses shaped their work, asking a larger question: How shall we live the best lives we can, every day?
This book brings maritime women’s experiences to the fore. Based on the life stories of seafarers’ wives from the Åland Islands, it explores their perception of leading two parallel lives and investigates their attitudes to the myths surrounding their image.
Out of the Ordinary
This book challenges the ordinariness of heterosexuality by exploring the politics of representing LGBT lives. It demonstrates how representation is a battleground for the visibility of ‘non-normative’ voices and a site for fruitful reinvention.
In 19th-century France, painting asserted its independence from literature as art’s influence on authors grew. This investigation reveals their complex relationship through case studies of David, Hugo, Van Gogh, and Balzac, shedding new light on both fields.
‘A Storme Out of Wales’
This is the first detailed study of the 1648 revolt in Wales, covering the Battle of St. Fagans and Cromwell’s campaign. It offers a radical reinterpretation: not a Royalist uprising, but a localist revolt against a centralising government.
With the peripheral now the center of contemporary culture, this volume examines cultural identity in a global world. It addresses immigration, diaspora, and gender politics, exploring cultural identity as a site of crisis and fragmentation.
The Captivity Narrative
These scholarly essays assess captivity, exploring how captives expressed psychological duress and coped with bondage. Offering historical, literary, and philosophical analyses, topics range from 17th-century captivity to 21st-century prisoner narratives.
Beckett Re-Membered
This collection of recent scholarship on Samuel Beckett offers a diverse and comprehensive survey of his literary and philosophical work. It will appeal to any reader interested in provocative responses to one of the 20th century’s most important writers.
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