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Grammaticalization Paths of English and High German Existential Constructions
A Corpus-based Study
Häftad, 2009
1176 kr
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Existential constructions are a fundamental feature of many Indo-European languages, and constructions with non-referential subjects have developed in all of the latter, albeit at different stages in their histories. High German does not feature a prototypical existential construction that is …
Between History and Fiction
The Early Modern Spanish Siege Play
Häftad, 2010
859 kr
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This study explores a number of early modern comedias that deal with historical siege or military episodes in the history of the Iberian peoples. Cervantes’s La Numancia, Lope de Vega’s El asalto de Mastrique and his lesser known La nueva victoria de don Gonzalo de Córdoba, Calderón de la Barca’s …
Nerval. Recherche de l’autre et conquête de soi
Contribution au suivi d’une genèse du "Voyage en Orient"
Av Aki Taguchi
Häftad, 2010
2067 kr
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Le lecteur des huit cents pages du Voyage en Orient de Gérard de Nerval peut difficilement concevoir les étapes de la constitution de ce riche et long récit. Initialement publié dans divers périodiques entre 1840 et 1850, puis « reconstruit » en 1851, l’ouvrage comporte nombre de variantes. Dans …
Discourses and Tales of Grant-Seeking Activity
Academic Writing and Professional Expertise
Av Haying Feng
Häftad, 2011
1831 kr
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Grant seeking – the first step in knowledge production – has been an indispensable part of academic life, yet a challenging task for neophyte as well as veteran scholars. We are always curious about how grant winners compose their abstracts, cite previous work, present their proposed study, and …
«Fetha Nagast» and its Ecclesiology
Implications in Ethiopian Catholic Church today
Häftad, 2010
1122 kr
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In the field of comparative legal history, Ethiopia is still an unknown country. One of its treasures is the Fetha Nagast, a book of law which had a great influence in the history of Ethiopia and still has great consideration in the society, with its richness in Biblical and Christian …
Procede del Padre y del Hijo
Estudio de la "Clarificación Romana "de 1995 y de sus fuentes patrísticas
Häftad, 2011
1451 kr
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El Filioque es una de las cuestiones más largas y complejas de la historia del dogma cristiano. Se cuenta todavía entre las causas de la división entre católicos y ortodoxos. En 1995, a petición de Juan Pablo II, el Pontificio Consejo para la promoción de la Unidad de los Cristianos publicó un …
Calvin’s «Theodicy»and the Hiddenness of God
Calvin’s «Sermons on the Book of Job»
Häftad, 2012
1503 kr
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Calvin’s Theodicy has been substantially ignored or simply negated until now on the assumption that the issues raised by the modern problem of evil and Calvin’s discussion of providence and evil would be different. The unspoken premise underlying this conviction is that theodicy is a modern …
Illocutionary constructions in English: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization
A study of the syntactic realizations of the directive, commissive and expressive speech acts in English
Häftad, 2013
1079 kr
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Grounded in the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM), a usage-based meaning construction model of language of recent design, this research argues that illocutionary meaning either results from filling in constructional variables such as X in the Can You XVP? construction or from affording access to …
Interrogating Gazes
Comparative Critical Views on the Representation of Foreignness and Otherness
Av Montserrat Cots, Pere Gifra-Adroher m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
1344 kr
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This book focuses on the theme of foreignness and its representation in literature and cognate discourses. The volume brings together essays in English, Spanish and Catalan that consider from original and informed perspectives both the conceptualization of the foreign and foreignness in its human, …
Minority Language Dubbing for Children
Screen Translation from German to Irish
Häftad, 2003
725 kr
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Many minority languages like Irish have tended to survive best in isolated areas while their use has been restricted primarily to domestic, educational and social domains. This has had a negative effect on the development of these languages, especially with regard to new terminology. However, the …
Theme and Rheme
An Alternative Account
Häftad, 2004
1385 kr
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This book argues for the inclusion of a cognitive psychological component in the analysis of theme and rheme, the basic building blocks of the message structure of language. The inference-boundary (IB) model is presented and justified as an explanatory model of the message structure of the clause …
Community and Democracy in South Africa: Liberal Versus Communitarian Perspectives
Liberal versus Communitarian Perspectives
Av Yusef Waghid
Häftad, 2003
959 kr
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The achievement of democratic forms of government ranging from liberal to communitarian strands has been a major priority for developing countries in their post-colonial histories. South Africa’s quest to establish a multi-party democratic system of government has been influenced by liberal and …
Formal and Functional Perspectives on Tense and Related Categories
Häftad, 2004
1155 kr
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This book explores the gap that has developed between two sides in linguistics: the formal tradition and the functional tradition. It discusses fundamental issues such as tense, aspect and action by examining and comparing insights from the two traditions with a view to determining whether there …
Marcel, Girard, Bakhtin
The Return of Conversion
Häftad, 2004
990 kr
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This book is about the human disruption and restlessness in the modern world and the way in which three important 20th century thinkers – Gabriel Marcel, René Girard and Mikhail Bakhtin – dealt with the subject. Although all three emerged from different backgrounds they produced remarkably parallel …
Scope and Limits of Folk Psychology
A Socio-Linguistic Approach
Av David Ohreen
Häftad, 2004
1087 kr
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Explaining behaviour is ubiquitous in our society. We are constantly trying to figure out what other people are doing and will do. This study is a comprehensive investigation of the main philosophical and psychological problems regarding how and why humans explain behaviour. The author answers key …
Variation and Co-operative Communication Strategies in Air Traffic Control English
Häftad, 2004
1078 kr
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The aim of this study is to establish the co-operative communication strategies that are used in air traffic control (ATC) conversations. The research deals with the question: what kind of co-operative communication strategies do pilots and controllers employ in a speech situation with a restricted …
Ethnicity, Children & Habitus
Ethnic Chinese School Children in Northern Ireland
Av Feng-Bing
Häftad, 2004
1054 kr
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This book is concerned with the ethnic experience of Chinese secondary school children living in Northern Ireland. The author analyses two sub-groups of Chinese children: those with parents coming from Hong Kong and those with parents coming from Mainland China. The purpose of this study is to …
Sex, Sailors and Colonies
Narratives of ambiguity in the works of Pierre Loti
Häftad, 2005
1495 kr
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This book focuses on the œuvre of nineteenth-century author and naval captain Julien Viaud (1850-1923) who wrote under the pseudonym Pierre Loti. Considered a best-seller in his day and a distinguished naval figure, Loti’s contribution to French naval and literary history is significant. This work …
Rhetoric of the Abstract in English and Spanish Scientific Discourse
A Cross-Cultural Genre-Analytic Approach
Häftad, 2005
836 kr
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Scientific discourse is increasingly internationalised, as a result of the great influence that the discourse conventions of the international English-speaking academic community exert on scientific communication worldwide. Contrastive rhetoric studies, however, have shown that the particular …
Internet Pricing
Economic Approaches to Transport Services and Infrastructure
Häftad, 2005
1355 kr
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With the development of the Internet from a research network to a commercial and integrated network which must satisfy heterogeneous user demand, prices for Internet usage play an important role. This study analyzes the pricing of Internet transport services and interconnection. It explains why …
Satiric Worlds of William Boyd
A Case Study
Av Juan Francisco Elices Agudo
Häftad, 2006
1262 kr
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This study explores five major narratives of Ghanian-born novelist William Boyd from a satiric point of view. Boyd’s novels and short stories take up some of the particular traits of satire, a genre which has gradually lost the impact it had in the eighteenth century. This book analyses the satiric …
African Communitarian Ethic: The Basis for the Moral Conscience and Autonomy of the Individual
Igbo Culture as a Case Study
Av Ferdinand Chukwuagozie Ezekwonna
Häftad, 2005
1123 kr
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One of the controversial issues in theology in the contemporary, modern world is the issue of moral autonomy. Who determines what is moral and ethical? What part do the individual and the community respectively play in this regard? In this book the author explores and analyses the position of the …
Disturbances and Dislocations
Understanding Teaching and Learning Experiences in Indigenous Australian Women’s Music and Dance
Häftad, 2007
1310 kr
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One of the biggest debates in Australian Indigenous education today revolves around the many contested and competing ways of knowledge about Indigenous cultures and the means by which Indigenous intellectual traditions and knowledges make the journey into mainstream educational settings. Grounded …
Transcendence and Spatiality of the Triune Creator
Av Chan Ho Park
Häftad, 2005
1152 kr
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Since Augustine many philosophers and theologians have discussed the relation of God to time, whereas the relation between God and space has been rarely discussed. This book deals with the relationship of God to space. Divine transcendence is one important aspect of the Christian God. However, God …
Raising Children Bilingually through the ‘One Parent-One Language’ Approach
A Case Study of Japanese Mothers in the Australian Context
Häftad, 2006
1577 kr
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Parents who come from different language backgrounds often hope that their children will be able to speak the languages of both their parents. In families where this is the goal, the ‘one parent-one language’ approach (Ronjat, 1913) is widely used. The ‘one parent-one language’ approach is …
Identity, Diversity and Teaching for Social Justice
Häftad, 2007
1399 kr
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In recent times, educational reformers have proposed ways of using education to reduce inequality, overcome discriminatory values and attitudes, and alleviate social problems. An increasing number of language theorists and practitioners contends that in order to reduce inequality it is essential to …
La lucha contra los extranjerismos en Alemania de 1871 a 1945
Av Irene Doval
Häftad, 2006
2670 kr
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Este trabajo es una investigación diacrónica sobre las actividades contra los extranjerismos (Sprachreinigung) llevadas a cabo en Alemania en el período que abarca desde la fundación del Segundo Imperio en 1871 hasta el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En primer plano está la asociación …
Toward a Fuller Human Identity
A Phenomenology of Family Life, Social Harmony, and the Recovery of the Black Self
Häftad, 2006
1440 kr
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This book is based on the thought of Gabriel Marcel and offers an introduction to the central categories of Marcel’s thought, focusing on his idea of existential humanism. This study deals with the ambivalence of human existence and the concepts of being, ego and bodiliness. The author draws on …
D. H. Lawrence and the Great War
The Quest for Cultural Regeneration
Häftad, 2007
881 kr
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This study focuses on the work of D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930). One of the few major English writers to come from an industrial working-class background, Lawrence contributed to the development of all the major literary genres, bringing to them a fresh perspective and a willingness to experiment …
Reasoning Across Domains
An Essay in Evolutionary Psychology
Häftad, 2006
1198 kr
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Evolutionary psychology’s ultimate goal is to understand the design of the human mind. It is a new approach in psychology, founded upon evolutionary theory and cognitive science. Evolutionary psychologists’ insistence on evolutionary theory has given rise to both controversy and transformations in …
