In the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond
Beginning with the forced conversion of Iberian Jews and Muslims, this volume examines the effects on their respective diasporas, focusing on a variety of approaches, from language and culture to identity discourses and interchanges between those communities.
This volume explores identity formation in Afro-Hispanic and African contexts, re-contextualizing diaspora beyond debates of voluntary migration versus traumatic exile. Essays cover countries like Cuba, Spain, and Angola, and themes from religion to politics.
Islamic Postcolonialism
This book forges a new path with Islamic postcolonialism, using a Muslim perspective to challenge colonial legacies in Western writing. It explores the construction of Muslim identity in fiction by Kureishi, Ali, Aboulela, and Rushdie.
In a clashing socio-economic climate, managers face unforeseen challenges. This book provides direction and insight on finding innovative solutions, presenting research and ideas that transcend conventional theory and have practical implementations.
The future of higher education depends on responding to rising costs, changing labour markets, and new technologies. Pervasive technology has transformed the sector, demanding new business models. A rupture with the past is needed to prepare learners for an uncertain world.
Is There an End of Ideologies?
Is ideology just a political pejorative? Can we be free from it? To clarify misunderstandings about the key concepts of ideology and discourse, this book traces their origins, their appropriation by Marxist theorists, and examines the relationship between them.
In the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond
Beginning with the forced conversion of 16th–17th century Iberian Jews and Muslims, this volume examines the effects on their diasporas, focusing on language, culture, identity discourses, and interchanges between those communities.
English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is a necessary skill for career advancement. This comprehensive volume brings together insightful papers from an international conference, offering rich insights into innovative teaching practices and worthwhile research.
The United States and China
As the US and China vie to shape East Asia’s future, this book dissects their clashing worldviews, the balance of power, and the grave consequences for the region’s security.
These essays explore how conversational exchanges in Early Modern England informed cultural productions. Conversation functioned as a method for creation and interpretation, a metamorphic force that did not simply reproduce, but transformed with each interaction.
How Peripheral is the Periphery? Translating Portugal Back and Forth
This volume reflects on Portugal’s position through the literary assets imported and exported via translation. Scholars question the peripherality of the Portuguese cultural system in essays honoring prominent scholar João Ferreira Duarte.
Interpersonal Prominence and International Presence
This book analyzes the translation of diplomatic discourse, which conveys uncertainty. Using the 2001 Sino-US Air Collision as a case study, it establishes a three-dimensional model for configuring implicitness in language and re-expressing it through translation.
This book explores the significance of historical bibliography for historical science. Bibliographers, historians and librarians from across Europe compare different methodological and technological approaches, and discuss the future of the field.
This volume is composed of 22 peer-reviewed contributions from the 2014 International NooJ Conference. NooJ is a linguistic development environment and corpus processor used to formalize linguistic phenomena and develop Natural Language Processing applications.
Facing Challenges
This collection of essays focuses on the realities of conducting feminist work within Christian universities and churches. These honest, heartfelt essays describe the ongoing resistance feminists face while envisioning more liberating ways to integrate feminism with faith.
This is the first woman’s travel narrative from late 19th-century colonial India. Krishnabhabini Das defied convention by writing about her life in England to educate fellow Indians on British culture, offering a rare female perspective on the colonial world.
This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to music in Turkey. Chapters explore topics ranging from the cognitive responses of musicians listening to atonal chords, to Turkey’s heavy metal scene, and the historical mission to “contemporize” music.
This book presents achievements in industrial and applied mathematics, offering new methods and algorithms for solving real-life problems. It promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and covers topics like numerical methods, control systems, and scientific computing.
This book assesses the descriptive and explanatory power of various linguistic theories. It brings together contributions addressing formal theoretical issues and studies that put these theories to the test. For linguists, advanced students, and scholars.
Averting a Global Environmental Collapse
Averting environmental catastrophe is a socio-political, not technical, challenge. This volume presents papers from international experts exploring how anthropology and indigenous knowledge can provide solutions for sustainable environments, resource management, and justice.
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