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The collection of articles examines different aspects of revolution, evolution and endurance in Anglophone literature and culture. Subjects covered include, cognitive poetics, 18th-century British prose, 20th-century English and Irish drama, American and British history, contemporary transculturation and American economy.

This book addresses the issues of radicalism and terrorism. Each of the two phenomena are analyzed from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book contains articles which explore legal, political, psychological, economic and social aspects of radicalism and terrorism.

The book employs the concepts of utopia, dystopia, and anti-utopia in the analysis of a variety of phenomena such as literature, cinema, rock music, literary/cultural theories, as well as the practice of literature (socialist realism) and socio-political life.

This book presents a collection of papers written by educators and researchers. The topics include the analysis of social science textbooks, 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 offers a collection of essays in literary and cultural studies. The articles explore a wide range of distinct problems and texts with the aim to question the already known and to interrogate the realms of ethics, literature, history and cultural identities.

The papers collected in this volume examine selected aspects of the interaction of phonology with phonetics, morphosyntax and the lexicon in a variety of languages. To approach the interface issues, the international contributors employ different methods of analysis and theoretical frameworks (such as Optimality Theory and Government Phonology).

The book shows not only the causes and consequences of the occurrence of the organizational pathologies, but also a unique model of combating corruption - the bribe buyer behavior model. The book provides a methodology of diagnosing the susceptibility of an organization and its staff to corruption and fraud.

The book contains 28 contributions on the link(s) between academia and belles lettres. It deals with academia across time and media, represented in multiple genres and within national literatures, novels, poems, films and plays, from the 16th to the 21st century.

This volume explores multiple dimensions of openness in ICT-enhanced education, presents a number of exemplary solutions in the area, involving the use of open source software, innovative technologies and methods, and examines potential benefits for teachers and students.

The study presents a chronotope of linguistic changes that took place within Welsh and English speech communities (4th-8th c.). It encompasses the adaptation of runic, ogham and Latin scripts, whereas inscriptions are treated as designed text occurrences with well-planned content distribution and intentional placing in the public space.

This study explores the poetics and politics of self in J. M. Coetzee's "autre"-biographical works "Scenes from Provincial Life". The author provides a detailed analysis of Coetzee's conception of self in his fictionalized memoirs, as well as of philosophical, aesthetic and political implications of "autre"-biography.

The book focusses on transitional justice policies implemented in Ukraine since the beginning of 2014. The author comes to the conclusion that there is no evidence supporting the thesis that the implementation of these policies provides visible effects in terms of democratisation of the country.

This book offers a collection of papers pertaining to the most thought-provoking problems in the areas of theoretical and contrastive linguistics. The contributions are devoted to developments in morphological and semantic theorizing. The contrastive analyses conducted by the authors examine the structure of English and selected Slavic languages.

Twitter was extensively used during the 2014 European Parliamentary elections. This volume analyses campaign-related microblogging activity in six countries, providing insights into communication styles and strategies observed in different languages and outlining methodological solutions for collecting and analysing political tweets.

The book treats different aspects of language norms. One focus is on standardization and language policy. Other contributions investigate the construction of L2 norms by learners and norms in classroom interaction. Discourse norms are theorized and the way language users make them relevant and explicit is examined in various communicative contexts.

This book investigates philosophical and formal approaches to predication. The topics discussed include Aristotelian predication, a conceptualist approach to predication, possible formalizations of the notion, Fregean predicates and concepts, and Meinongian predication.

The book offers a novel exploration into the semantic development of English terms concerning the concept of 'joy' ("bliss", "cheer", "delight", "dream", "game", "gladness", "glee", "joy", and "mirth"). The author adopts a panchronic perspective, according to which language reflects the way speakers experience the world.

The author describes the psycho-linguistic therapy "touching the World" for the visually impaired and explores language as a therapeutic tool with great possibilities for a teaching-learning process.

The volume examines the complex interplay between knowledge and persuasion. It focuses on the cultural concept of knowledge society and strategies of knowledge transmission. The authors discuss both sociological and philosophical issues, as well as rhetorical and discursive strategies in different genres that aim to communicate knowledge.

Located at the crossroads of Performance Studies and transnational American Studies, the volume critically explores a rich field of on- and off-stage, aesthetic and everyday performances. It demonstrates that performance constitutes both a primary method and an object of study for transnational phenomena and America's position in the world.

The author studies the synonyms of 'skinny' and 'fatty' from the cognitive linguistic perspective. The quantum of the analysed lexical items is subdivided into the following type-groups: zoosemy (animal metaphor), foodsemy (food metaphor), plantosemy (plant metaphor), metonymy, reification, eponymy, onomatopoeia, rhyming slang and varia.

Institutional approaches to the study of transformation processes have been proven insufficient. The book draws the political culture approach as one focal point providing a more comprehensive and deeper understanding of democratic transformations. Embedded transformation as an analytical tool can be used in the reconstruction of transformations.

This book deals with the main promoters of the causal and descriptivist reference theories on natural kind terms. It alleges that the ostensive reference fixing and reference borrowing theories should be descriptive-causal and adduces that the relation of kind-identity depends on the views on kind-identity and thus involves descriptive elements.

The author analyses the multi-layered and multidimensional theme of identity construction recurring in Tony Harrison's work from the seventies onwards looking at the way it evolved throughout the years. The book examines identity as present in Harrison's verse in the frame of sociological and philosophical thought.

This is the first anthology in cognitive semiotics, the transdisciplinary study of meaning, mind and communication, which integrates semiotics, cognitive science and linguistics. The four parts are Meta-theoretical perspectives, Semiotic development and evolution, Meaning across media, modes and modalities, and Language, blends and metaphors.

This study weaves tropes from New Rhetoric into Hollywood film practice from the 1920s to the present. Institutional narratives combine with a central focus on the careers of notable directors - Bogdanovich, Scorsese, Michael Cimino and Francis Ford Coppola.

The authors of this book combine questions on multilingualism in an interdisciplinary perspective in order to provide an insight into the variety and diversity of the research problems of multilingualism.

The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of diverse aspects of non-professional interpreting and translation in the media. It consists of a collection of essays by eminent international scholars and researchers from the field of Translation and Interpreting Studies, and focuses on television and film, radio, the Internet, and fansubbing.