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This volume shows the significance of rhetorical construction of knowledge in the public sphere. It addresses the issues of citizenship and social participation, media agendas, surveillance and manipulation. It offers analyses of trends in specialist communication and critiques of devices used when contested interests or ideologies are presented.

This collection of articles looks at ghost stories ranging from the Middle Ages to contemporary movies from different perspectives, both interdisciplinary and international. Spectral phenomena from Antarctic literature to Haitian Voodoo, Russian poetry to Irish novels are discussed in relation to their places in history and the media.

The topic of this book is martyrdom understood as a philosophical category. The main question pertains to the evidential value of the Christian witness through death. Looking upon martyrdom through the perspective of ancient philosophy clarifies why it might have been considered as an important proof of Christian doctrine also by pagans.

The book explores the potential of the Capability Approach as an alternative critical lens to early childhood education curricula. It investigates pre-primary teachers' beliefs and practices and discusses issues that are likely to be confined and to provoke reflections to several national contexts.

The author examines motherhood and female self-realization in the four waves of feminism and Joyce Carol Oates's recent fiction. Drawing on Gender Studies and, in particular, on the transnational relation between French and American feminism, she demonstrates how Oates takes up and transforms feminist standpoints in her work.

This collection of papers focuses on the role of context in the production and comprehension of metaphors in political discourse and the conceptualization of emotions. Two corpus-based studies offer conceptual models of individual words. It also offers cognitive linguistic analyses of passive voice, aspect and phonological categories.

This book presents remote experiments and remote experimentation gathered in the management system REMLABNET as a new branch of ICT in science and education. It explains the techniques of construction and the required properties. The authors provide useful advice for interested persons to build and use remote experiments.

This book presents new and innovative ideas on the didactics of translation and interpreting. They include assessment methods and criteria, assessment of competences, graduate employability, placements, skills labs, the perceived skills gap between training and profession, the teaching of terminology, and curriculum design.

The publication deals with current multilingual issues focusing on four major areas of investigation: 1) bilingual and multilingual studies focusing on research in foreign, second and lingua franca issues, 2) language policy and planning, 3) translation studies, lexis and lexical relations and 4) experimental research into language processing.

A comparative history of litanic verse in various European regions. The essays on the origin of the Litany are followed by a consideration of litanic verse in Latin poetry and in the Iberian (Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese), Slavic and Central European literatures (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Russian).

Using different methods and representing various academic disciplines, the authors of this anthology analyse Polish memory of the Nazi and Stalinist occupations, which are key components of Polish collective identity. The book presents the shape and social conditions of this memory as well as the conflicts and dilemmas related to it.

The articles in this volume present new and innovative ideas on theoretical issues in Translation Studies and literary translation. A companion volume in this series contains papers on audiovisual translation, translator training and domain-specific issues.

This discussion of Herbert's poetic sequence, The Temple, explores the connections between poetry, philosophy, and theology. It focuses on the inherent aporias of genuinely gratuitous gift and hospitality. It employs the concepts of the saturated phenomenon and the "dative subject".

The main topics of this book relate to dyslexia, traumatic experiences, strain and stress experiences, and some special methodical problems regarding qualitative research methods. The international and interdisciplinary team includes authors from Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Morocco, Sudan, South Africa, South Korea, Iran, China, Portugal, and Germany.

This volume includes contributions offering up-to-date analyses of non-canonical word orders (fronting, inversion, dislocations, and cleft constructions) in Italian and in Italian in a contrastive perspective with other Romance and/or Germanic languages. All studies rely on a strong empirical basis.

The Chinese, the Cham and the Bahnar as ethnic and the Catholics and Protestants as prominent examples of religious minorities present examples of the relations between minorities and the Vietnamese state in past and present.

This volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to the cultural production of emotions. The 17 articles examine how emotions are represented and produced in a variety of genres, from medieval moralities to contemporary novels, from English Romanticism to film studies.

The book provides a new insight into English-Polish comparative sociolinguistics by comparing the attitudes of young native speakers of English and Polish to Standard English and Standard Polish. The author analyses the results of a questionnaire-based study of language attitudes conducted in Poland and the UK.

Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and minister, projected an image of being the "gentleman Nazi" after the war. This work analyses, on the basis of new archival data, how cleverly he distorted history in order to disseminate his image, and the ways in which the "Speer myth" was reinforced by renowned public intellectuals in and outside of Germany.

Conflict, aggression and violence are seen as constructs of mind, types of behaviour, particular experiences and emotional states, specific social interactions or historical and political categories. The study presents the notions of aggression and violence and their determinants in various environments: in childhood, adolescence and adulthood.

The volume casts a new look at the legacy of social phenomenology, demonstrating how such concepts as intersubjectivity, life-world, milieu, social inconsistency and symbolic transcendence can be applied to the study of sociocultural transformations.

This book focuses on the military memoirs of Nathaniel Fick, Colby Buzzell, Clint Van Winkle, John Crawford and Matt Gallagher. It traces their process of soldierization, the loss of innocence, moral responsibility and coping mechanisms for traumatic experiences sustained in a post-draft American military fighting in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

This book presents a new approach to the study of manna by showing interconnections between Ps 78:23-25, Wis 16:20-13; 19:21 and Jn 6:22-59. It asserts that Hellenistic Judaism is not "a second-class Judaism". This is proved with the example of manna, food of immortality, an idea introduced not in the Fourth Gospel, but already present in Wis 19:21

The volume reflects the variety of methods used in the study of "behavior toward language", or language management. The methods will appeal to researchers interested in different types of introspective interview methodology and discourse analysis, and to those looking for ways of linking language policy to everyday social interactions.

Experience regarding the practice of deliberation grows and the position from which we evaluate it changes. This book concerns: contemporary challenges and approaches to the public sphere, Deliberative Polling applied in different contexts, reflection on deliberative quality. It problematizes democratic deliberation as it relates to the politics.

Focusing mainly on Poland and England in the 19th and early 20th centuries, this book looks at the critics of modernity, those who saw doom in the innovations and discoveries of their time and a degenerating civilization. This trend of gloomy forecasts and distaste for modern civilization has left its mark on the European culture of our times.

This volume represents a collection of theoretical and application-orientated contributions which report advances in corpus-based translation and interpreting studies. The theoretical papers reflect the development of the discipline. The applied studies discuss recent results in different areas such as training, practice and the use of CAT tools

The book proves to be a classical work in the history of modern philosophy, especially in ontological phenomenology and ontology. At the same time, Ingarden's major work provides classical argumentation in favor of realism in philosophy. It is the most eminent achievement in the history of Polish philosophy.

If the university should be an open space that meets today's social, cultural and ecological challenges, one must critically review the different disciplines' approaches to education. Our proposals come from various disciplines that contribute in transforming the practical significance of their approaches into knowledge for university education.

Examining experiments in language from a variety of perspectives, this volume asks what form they should take and what should count as evidence. Looking at corpora, intuitions and thought experiments, the collection shows linguists and philosophers how the use of experimental methods can affect the arguments they employ and the claims they make.