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The book explores two radical changes of cultural and social paradigm that determined the World after 1945. It tries to establish the connection between the central modernistic idea of a radical break and postmodern pluralism. These turnarounds are investigated from various theoretical and historical viewpoints.

The book outlines a new approach to motivation in language. The approach proposes a cognitive theory of the linguistic sign, partly in opposition to classical Saussurean linguistics. The new theory is inspired and informed by Charles S. Peirce's semiotics, especially the distinction between the icon, the index, and the symbol.

This book investigates John Foxe's motivation for inserting a history of the Ottoman Empire into his church history, The Acts and Monuments, and seeks to determine what he hoped to achieve through his virulently negative depiction of Islam and the "Turk", the "common enemy" of Christendom.

This book presents papers of the 1st International Symposium of Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language. It was held in Ghent (Belgium) and presented by the Sakarya University Institute of Education Sciences and the Belgium Turkish Associations with the support of the Turkish Language Association and the Yunus Emre Institute.

This volume results from the international research project "The Migration of Faith: Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity (325-c.600)". It deals with the phenomenon of clerical exile in late antiquity (4th to 6th centuries).

The volume addresses education policy in higher education, vocational/professional education and the reform of education systems. Contributions span Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe. It helps researchers, policy makers, students and practitioners to understand processes of policy making, its theory, practice and outcomes.

The presented analyses are focusing on three predominant theoretical approaches in the philosophy of science and technology: technoscience (STS), technology assessment (TA) and converging technologies (NBIC). On this base are extrapolated the coordinates of the heuristics of technosciences.

The book is about the evolution and transformation of knowledge and knowledge systems in the context of cultural contact, taking Korea as an example. Combining philological and social sciences approaches, it deals with the configuration, dissemination and consolidation of knowledge in certain contexts of the past and present.

Drawing on the work of Georg Misch, this work seeks to give back to the Word its original fullness of meaning. The question of life leads the inquiries undertaken in this study via Misch's anthropological conception on to the phenomenological ontology of Martin Heidegger and Josef Koenig's investigation of 'Being and Thought'.

The book focuses on self-representations of indigenous groups in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. It offers a multifaceted understanding of North American indigenous history, identity, community and forms of culture. The examination of three intersecting themes - recovery, governance and global culture - further advances trans-indigenous studies.

Translation entails transfer of meaning, even if the exact sense of the word "meaning" is vague. The same applies to the term "translation equivalence". Illustrated by numerous examples, this book is an attempt to cope with this and many other conceptual, terminological and practical difficulties resulting from this nebula of issues.

Lyrical, dramatic and light verse in Russian, German and English, critical articles, and translations of Boris Pasternak's poems.

This volume features essays on creative processes in invention, engineering design, architecture, music composition, improvisation, sound recording, authenticity in music, and computer music. It explores what these processes have in common and how they can be investigated and modelled.

The author analyses gender assignment to animal nouns. She looks at grammarians' treatment of gender in present-day English and surveys a corpus of National Geographic and the Journal of Zoology.

This volume addresses the ongoing problem of dissent from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives: political philosophy, intellectual history, literary studies, aesthetics, architectural history and conceptualizations of the political past.

This volume proposes a new, post-Newtonian alley in the study of modern language and communication, which labels the new linguistics as ecolinguistics. This offers new theoretical departure models for educational programs, for psychological/therapeutic interventions, or for self-exploratory and self-educational undertakings of a human communicator.

Karl Hanssen's memoirs of New Zealand-occupied German Samoa and his imprisonment for bypassing war censorship regulations provide a unique perspective on German Samoa and life in New Zealand prisons. This edition also features Hanssen's photos and an introduction on the historical and political background.

The book is designed as an introduction to the basic questions of musical semantics and represents the quintessence of fifty years of the author's researches into music from Beethoven to Nono.

The authors conduct theoretical and jurisprudential research on the interrelations between the sense of individual identity and the sense of national identity. Their aim is to find a common European legal culture.

The volume collects essays discussing the concept of personhood in law from the perspective of the revolutionary advancements in the contemporary science and technology. It offers an overview of what becomes the most important challenge for legal orders today - the evolving concept of who should count for the law and why.

The author asks how far the extension of employer-supported childcare serves as a driver for higher maternal labor supply. She shows that this HRM policy has a positive impact on the length and working volume of mothers after childbirth. Its usage by mothers with pre-school age children influences the working hours positively.

The book presents a collection of papers by researchers from several different institutions on a wide range of football issues: football and media, economy, football violence, football industry, health, symbols and rituals. The book addresses researchers, educators, sociologists, media, health care providers.

The volume is a selection of papers on a wide range of topics in the area of medieval language and literature. The linguistic papers cover a wide range of problems from phonology to grammar, semantics and pragmatics. The literary papers discuss various aspects of Middle English texts.

This book explores the latest EU communication patterns during harsh times. By conjunctively examining media frames and narratives, political discourse and citizens' perceptions, the volume promotes a critical, yet constructive approach to European integration. It also gives coherent answers to the very challenging question: "Why Europe?".

This book examines performative practices of Anglo-Saxon monks and provides fresh insights into the origins of early English theatre. The author argues that modern European theatre was reinvented in medieval monasteries and demonstrates the fundamental incongruences between ancient and Christian performativity.

This book investigates the language of Polish-English bilingual children raised in the United Kingdom and their Polish monolingual counterparts. It exemplifies the lexico-grammatical knowledge and uses corpus-based grammatical inference in order to establish the source of the impediment of the minority language of the bilingual group.

The book argues for the underlying status of the vowel "y" on the basis of palatalization processes in Polish. It is shown that the absence of "y" is empirically unfeasible as it leads to morphologization of completely regular phonological rules and demands an extensive use of diacritics, which may also result in segment indexation.

This book engages with a critical perspective on gender equality and quality of life. It provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical and methodological frameworks for exploring both concepts which is complemented by the analysis of gender equality policies in Poland and Norway.