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This book treats the faculty of language as part of the Universe subject to physical laws. It presents phenomena from syntax and semantics in the interdisciplinary context. The author analyses the origin of syntax and semantics as autonomous modules (asymmetry), even though they display parallelisms (symmetry).

This book is a comparative reading of selected contemporary fictions from Australia and South Africa. By drawing on postcolonial theory and trauma theory, the book argues that specific genres such as the Bildungsroman, the historical novel and the pastoral are transformed in distinctive ways to address the continuing presence of the colonial past.

The book deals with how language acquisition and learning may take place in the classroom and at home. Monolingualism, bilingualism and multilingualism are viewed through the perspective of language acquisition studies, classroom research findings, Polish, European, international legislation and statistical reports on language learning/teaching.

This book focuses on Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, philosopher and controversial artist. It expresses the opinions of philosophers, museologists and artists, for whom Stanislaw Ignacy Witkacy's 130th birthday anniversary became an opportunity to view his works from the perspective of postmodernity.

The author describes the linguistic and discursive behavior of students and teachers from the same educational level from different countries (Germany and Brazil). She analyzes how similarities and differences in individual behavior explain the institutional culture of school.

This book provides a discussion of consequences of label-theoretic developments of the Minimalist Program for the theory of the syntax-semantics relationship. It provides a debate of a proper modeling of interpretive reflexes of syntactic adjunction and syntactic displacement.

This book analyzes the patron-client relationship over both space and time. It covers such areas of the globe as Europe, Africa and Latin America, and such periods in time as ancient Rome, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Poland, and twentieth-century America.

This collection of essays discusses Sweden's current transformation in European perspective. The book addresses changing frameworks of citizenship, migration and asylum, urban segregation, labour market segmentation and politics of securitization. It juxtaposes xenoracist populism with new social justice and antiracist movements.

The contributions in this book focus on U.S. migration policies, receiving society, ethnic communities and return migration. The authors analyze various aspects of migratory history ranging from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

The book approaches the language experiments with great apes performed in the last 50 years from the point of view of logical semantics, speech act theory, and philosophy of the social sciences. The author shows that modern scientific research into great apes has shifted from natural science to social science.

This volume offers an original view on education for sustainable and solidary development (ESSD). It proposes reflections and practices across disciplines on: various means and methods for an effective teaching/learning process; transversal skills related to ESSD; and the importance of financial resources and quality assurance in education.

This book analyzes how the public character of judgments of taste makes implicit statements in moral and political philosophy. The author regards Friedrich Schiller's and Hannah Arendt's approaches on the normative resources of Kant's aesthetics for moral and political thought.

This collection of papers explores various issues in English language teaching in Poland, mainly at the secondary and tertiary levels. The topics include Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), English for Specific Purposes (ESP), and e-learning. It also explores language education from the perspective of cognitive linguistics.

This book reconstructs the history of skepticism ranging from ancient to contemporary times. The main skeptical stances and the historical reconstruction of the concept of skepticism are connected with an analysis of their recurrent inconsistency. The author reveals that this inconsistency is not a logical contradiction but a pragmatic one.

The First World War is a crucial yet divisive event in Irish history that has brought the complexity of Irish identity politics into sharp focus. This study shows how Irish drama and prose have responded to the war and its legacy, offering intriguing views on long marginalised Irish identities, revealing a modern nation grappling with its past.

The author analyses why European right-wing populist parties gain support. Based on an analysis of the Austrian Freedom Party under Joerg Haider he argues that the main reason behind their electoral success was not constituted by elitism but by populism and anti-elitism.

This book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human world in a broad spectrum of material in French.

The book is a collection of chapters that adopt a systemic functional perspective on linguistics. Chapters challenge theoretical notions, refine concepts, expand SFL to historical domains and across languages and transcend boundaries between different linguistic schools.

Each paper is either a "vision" or a "revision" of some selected issue in theoretical and applied linguistics. Taking a structural and/or functional orientation in their analyses, the authors contribute to the on-going polarization between generatively- and cognitively-oriented linguistic paradigms.

This is the first of two thematically arranged volumes with papers that were presented at the "World Conference of Pluricentric Languages and their non-dominant Varieties" (WCPCL). It comprises papers about 20 PCLs and 14 NDVs: African, Arabic, Asian and European pluricentric languages, Berber, Basque, Kazakhstan Russian and many more.

Sonia Delaunay is one of the most important artists of European Modernism and known for transcending the boundaries between fine and applied art. Tom Sandqvist focuses on the impact of Delaunay's Jewish roots on her oeuvre, with a special attention on her early contributions to Simultanism and Orphism within the interwar Parisian Avant-Garde.

The objectives of this book are threefold: First, conceptually examining the specific marketing-mix for luxury goods. Second, applying this marketing-mix to the online world. Third, empirically testing the effects of the online accessibility of luxury goods on consumer perceptions of scarcity and desirability.

Russian-speaking immigrants residing in the Czech Republic or Germany are faced with the challenge of acquiring the Slavic or Non-Slavic language of the country. This volume analyses the acquisition of a related language compared to a non-related one and explores how the non-homogeneous language of the new environment influences this acquisition.

This publication contributes to a discussion about the future of public employment and HR policies in the context of a changing statehood and new financial pressures. It presents comparative quantitative and qualitative data in the field of public employment and human resources management.

Rating agencies have been accused of exacerbating the financial crisis 2007-2008, triggering calls to regulate rating agencies to ensure transparency and competiveness. This highly informative study discusses theoretically and investigates empirically how revealed shortcomings can be solved and what proposals should be advanced or implemented.

This book's aim is to bring together current original works in communication studies and business communication fields. The volume provides an intellectual, multi-faceted and balanced collection of writings from various academic fields with a communication focus. The articles range from branding cases to advertising studies and to media education.

This book presents a collection of papers written by educators and researchers. The topics include the analysis of social science textbooks to the teacher image in newspapers, the relationship between self-efficacy and cognitive level and the role of organizational silence on the loneliness of academics in work life.

This book is a collection of papers on cultural studies written by educators and researchers. The topics include women rights in Turkey, witness statement as evidence in Turkish law, legal regulations about organ or tissue trafficking, the new social movements in Turkey, humorous discourse on social media and the traditional country fairs in Turkey

The book explores in-depth the life and work of Herta Herzog (1910-2010), an Austrian-American social psychologist. The chapters written by international scholars for the first time show the amazing scope of Herzog's work as both, one of the founders of empirical communication research and the "grand dame" of market and motivation research.