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Hidden Gospels
Step into the mysterious world of the New Testament Apocrypha-a rich collection of ancient texts that offer fascinating insights into the spiritual and theological diversity of early Christianity. In Hidden Gospels, Laurin Winter unravels the stories behind these lesser-known writings, exploring their origins, contents, and their impact on the development of Christian thought. From the mystical sayings in the Gospel of Thomas to the enigmatic visions of the Apocalypse of Peter, this book sheds light on how these texts shaped debates about faith, authority, and orthodoxy. Discover how apocryphal writings challenge conventional narratives, reveal forgotten voices, and expand our understanding of early Christian traditions beyond the canonical scriptures. Whether you are a scholar, a curious believer, or simply fascinated by the mysteries of early Christianity, Hidden Gospels invites you on a journey through a captivating and often overlooked chapter in religious history. Prepare to uncover the untold stories and theological treasures that continue to intrigue and inspire. Laurin Winter brings a deep passion for history and theology to this compelling exploration, blending rigorous research with an accessible narrative style.
Rebel with a Cause
In a world marked by chaos and contradiction, Albert Camus emerged as a powerful voice of reason and rebellion. From the sun-drenched streets of Algeria to the intellectual salons of Paris, Camus's life was a journey through personal adversity, philosophical exploration, and unrelenting pursuit of justice. "Rebel with a Cause: Albert Camus" invites readers to explore the fascinating story of a man who refused to accept life's absurdities without a fight-and inspired generations to do the same. This compelling biography by Ilham Ferrier delves into Camus's transformative works, from The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus to The Plague, uncovering the profound humanity behind his philosophy. As a journalist, novelist, and philosopher, Camus confronted the moral dilemmas of his time with courage and clarity, addressing universal themes of freedom, rebellion, and the search for meaning. Perfect for admirers of Camus and newcomers alike, this book sheds light on his enduring relevance in a modern world still grappling with injustice and alienation. Discover the man behind the philosophy-an existentialist who rejected despair and a rebel who fought for dignity and hope. "Rebel with a Cause" is not just a biography; it is an invitation to rethink life's most profound questions through the lens of one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers.
Hidden Gospels
Step into the mysterious world of the New Testament Apocrypha-a rich collection of ancient texts that offer fascinating insights into the spiritual and theological diversity of early Christianity. In Hidden Gospels, Laurin Winter unravels the stories behind these lesser-known writings, exploring their origins, contents, and their impact on the development of Christian thought. From the mystical sayings in the Gospel of Thomas to the enigmatic visions of the Apocalypse of Peter, this book sheds light on how these texts shaped debates about faith, authority, and orthodoxy. Discover how apocryphal writings challenge conventional narratives, reveal forgotten voices, and expand our understanding of early Christian traditions beyond the canonical scriptures. Whether you are a scholar, a curious believer, or simply fascinated by the mysteries of early Christianity, Hidden Gospels invites you on a journey through a captivating and often overlooked chapter in religious history. Prepare to uncover the untold stories and theological treasures that continue to intrigue and inspire. Laurin Winter brings a deep passion for history and theology to this compelling exploration, blending rigorous research with an accessible narrative style.
Rebel with a Cause
In a world marked by chaos and contradiction, Albert Camus emerged as a powerful voice of reason and rebellion. From the sun-drenched streets of Algeria to the intellectual salons of Paris, Camus's life was a journey through personal adversity, philosophical exploration, and unrelenting pursuit of justice. "Rebel with a Cause: Albert Camus" invites readers to explore the fascinating story of a man who refused to accept life's absurdities without a fight-and inspired generations to do the same. This compelling biography by Ilham Ferrier delves into Camus's transformative works, from The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus to The Plague, uncovering the profound humanity behind his philosophy. As a journalist, novelist, and philosopher, Camus confronted the moral dilemmas of his time with courage and clarity, addressing universal themes of freedom, rebellion, and the search for meaning. Perfect for admirers of Camus and newcomers alike, this book sheds light on his enduring relevance in a modern world still grappling with injustice and alienation. Discover the man behind the philosophy-an existentialist who rejected despair and a rebel who fought for dignity and hope. "Rebel with a Cause" is not just a biography; it is an invitation to rethink life's most profound questions through the lens of one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers.
Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Dante Alighieris G繹ttliche Kom繹die ist weit mehr als ein Meisterwerk der Weltliteratur - es ist ein zeitloser Spiegel der menschlichen Natur. In Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso nimmt Helmut Keller Sie mit auf eine faszinierende Reise durch Dantes epische Visionen und zeigt, wie die universellen Lektionen dieses mittelalterlichen Werks uns auch heute Orientierung bieten k繹nnen. Keller beleuchtet die H繹llenkreise als Allegorien unserer modernen Schw瓣chen, erkundet den L瓣uterungsberg als Sinnbild f羹r pers繹nliche Transformation und stellt das Paradies als Ziel von innerer Harmonie und spirituellem Gleichgewicht dar. Mit scharfsinnigem Blick und leicht verst瓣ndlichen Analysen verbindet er Dantes Welt mit den Herausforderungen und M繹glichkeiten des 21. Jahrhunderts. Dieses Buch l瓣dt dazu ein, die menschlichen Abgr羹nde und H繹henfl羹ge neu zu entdecken - und sich inspirieren zu lassen, die eigene Reise mutig und reflektiert zu gestalten. Egal, ob Sie Dante-Kenner oder neugieriger Neuling sind: Dieses Werk bietet einen frischen Zugang zu einem Klassiker, der aktueller ist denn je.
Expressing emotions in English and Russian
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2+, University of Cologne, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction There is no better way to explore different cultures than through analysing the languages spoken by members of ethnical communities. Indeed, the best evidence for differences and similarities between people, as bearers and products of cultures, comes from languages. Besides body language and facial mimics, speech is essential for expression of thoughts or feelings and emotions for every human being. However, the way of expressing emotions differs from culture to culture and from continent to continent according to the indigenous values and norms of the persons concerned. Anna Wierzbicka together with Cliff Goddard and their colleagues did linguistic research on many European and exotic languages, comparing them in order to find differences and similarities. They gained many interesting insights about the language as an "indicator" of culture, as it necessarily reflects on it. The Russians and the Anglo seem to be very different from each other as to expression of emotions due to their general attitude to having them and above all, to expressing them. In order to provide an objective analysis for all languages which can be understood by everybody, a Natural Semantic Metalanguage based on semantic primitives, has been developed. This new mean allowed to produce cultural scripts and to develop "models of a person", representing the culture-specific norms and values. Further, in this work, the Natural Semantic Metalanguage and the Russian and Anglo models of a person are explained in greater detail. Finally, it concentrates on the linguistic evidence pertaining to expression of emotions in English and Russian. [...]
Spanish as a Contact Language
Languages do not exist beyond their speakers, but the history of individual languages has often been told as if they had a life of their own, emerging from other languages, growing and sometimes dying. When applied to Spanish, this story line commonly begins in spoken Latin, with the language taking shape in medieval Spain before spreading beyond Europe in the colonial period.This book proposes a new take on this narrative. Instead of seeing Spanish as a linguistic entity with linear development, what would its history look like if we think of it as a centuries-long constellation of contact events? A History of Spanish as a Contact Language revisits the evolution of Spanish from the perspective of the ecology of language, centring speakers as the only historical agents of language transmission and change. Taking the speakers' vantage point opens up exciting possibilities to rethink what Spanish is, how it has changed, and who has played a role in this process.
Spanish as a Contact Language
Languages do not exist beyond their speakers, but the history of individual languages has often been told as if they had a life of their own, emerging from other languages, growing and sometimes dying. When applied to Spanish, this story line commonly begins in spoken Latin, with the language taking shape in medieval Spain before spreading beyond Europe in the colonial period.This book proposes a new take on this narrative. Instead of seeing Spanish as a linguistic entity with linear development, what would its history look like if we think of it as a centuries-long constellation of contact events? A History of Spanish as a Contact Language revisits the evolution of Spanish from the perspective of the ecology of language, centring speakers as the only historical agents of language transmission and change. Taking the speakers' vantage point opens up exciting possibilities to rethink what Spanish is, how it has changed, and who has played a role in this process.
African public administration and administrative writing
COMMUNICATION is designed to promote exchanges between individuals. Language has a dual function: to communicate between people, and to symbolize an idea by means of a sign. In fact, communication is defined as a process that enables information or a message to be transmitted, using a code issued at source by a receiver or sender.The message, in turn, is aimed at a target: the addressee or receiver via a channel or path. And French-speaking African public administrations seem to be ill with administrative drafting. Sick in the sense that administrative writing is by no means familiar, popular, standard or personally sought-after. Clearly, administrative writing has its own rules and standards that need to be understood and mastered. As the heart of the State, administrative writing is a way of measuring the functional health of the administration from an editorial point of view. This leaflet is designed to help you master the professional writing that forms the backbone of public administration in Burkina Faso and the French-speaking world.
Food Matters
Food Matters provides insightful readings and engaging prompts that examine the complexities of our food infrastructure through a diverse lens to challenge you to think deeply about the role food plays in our society and how it intertwines with our culture and identity.
Morality in Discourse
Morality is pervasive, touching all aspects of social life. The contributors to this volume provide an introduction to research on how morality is socially constructed in and through discourse, and the implications of this for the empirical analysis and theorization of morality. The volume addresses both how morality gets done through everyday practices, as well as the practical concerns that discussions of morality inevitably entail. It does so by delving into how morality is socially constructed in an array of communicative environments through the lens of a range of different discourse analytic traditions. Drawing on the conceptual tools of moral stance, positioning, responsiveness and authority, the chapters address the ways in which morality is enacted, interactionally negotiated, contested and policed. What emerges from these discussions and analyses is an understanding of morality from a discursive perspective that encompasses both morality as action, in which moral stances become the articulated object of action, and moral framing, in which the situated context itself is morally charged for evaluation.
Language in Its Social Context
This textbook provides an accessible overview of the field of sociolinguistics. Blending qualitative and quantitative approaches and including examples drawn from different contexts and societies all over the world, the author introduces progressively complicated topics to help students build their confidence and understanding gradually as they work through the book. The chapters cover all the core topics on an introductory sociolinguistics course, including language and power, dialects, language and gender, language planning and multilingualism, and each chapter ends with a set of exercises, suggestions for small-scale projects which the author has used successfully with his own students and suggested further readings (both classic and more recent). This book assumes no background in Linguistics and is intended as an introduction to sociolinguistics that can be used at any level of undergraduate or graduate study, or by interested outsiders to the field.
Brainrot
In a world where Gen-A speaks in words that sound like the inanities uttered by a stroke victim, Brainrot is your ultimate skibidi guide to decoding the chaos of meme culture, post-Covid slang, and TikTok virality. This is more than a book with definitions for slang words. It's a deep dive into the history of each word, a manual to understanding why the future sounds like "GYATT!" and looks like a Fortnite dance-off between Twitch streamers and Instagram influencers. Master the sacred art of "Rizz", delve into the existentialism of being a main character or an NPC, and boost your aura points by the hundred thousands as you looksmaxx your way to becoming a sigma mogger. In this book, we break down the culture-shifting language of today's youth, from "Fanum Tax" to "Pookie" and everything in between! Whether you're a confused parent trying to keep up with your kids or a millennial realizing that "lit" simply won't cut it anymore, Brainrot has got your back. Packed with irreverent humor and cultural commentary, this book will ensure that you stay relevant in a world moving faster than 5G. The future is here and it's brainrotten. Grab this book and start stacking your aura points, because if you don't know what "edging" means, you're already in Ohio. Perfect For: Internet culture enthusiasts, meme lovers, confused adults, and anyone ready to cook in the kitchen of Internet slang.
Bhagavad Gita
Discover timeless wisdom and profound guidance in Bhagavad Gita: The Path to Inner Harmony. In this engaging exploration, Priya Sharma distills the ancient teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, weaving together philosophical insights with practical lessons to navigate the complexities of modern life. Through vivid storytelling and accessible explanations, this book brings the Gita's eternal principles to life-whether it's the pursuit of inner peace, the balance between action and detachment, or the alignment of personal goals with universal truths. Sharma's modern perspective makes these sacred teachings relatable and actionable, guiding readers toward clarity, purpose, and harmony in their daily lives. Ideal for spiritual seekers, scholars, or anyone yearning for deeper meaning, Bhagavad Gita: The Path to Inner Harmony is a profound journey into self-discovery and the art of living with wisdom. Let this book inspire you to embrace your true path and achieve the balance between mind, body, and soul.
Bhagavad Gita
Discover timeless wisdom and profound guidance in Bhagavad Gita: The Path to Inner Harmony. In this engaging exploration, Priya Sharma distills the ancient teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, weaving together philosophical insights with practical lessons to navigate the complexities of modern life. Through vivid storytelling and accessible explanations, this book brings the Gita's eternal principles to life-whether it's the pursuit of inner peace, the balance between action and detachment, or the alignment of personal goals with universal truths. Sharma's modern perspective makes these sacred teachings relatable and actionable, guiding readers toward clarity, purpose, and harmony in their daily lives. Ideal for spiritual seekers, scholars, or anyone yearning for deeper meaning, Bhagavad Gita: The Path to Inner Harmony is a profound journey into self-discovery and the art of living with wisdom. Let this book inspire you to embrace your true path and achieve the balance between mind, body, and soul.
Language: The Unknown
In this wide-ranging introduction, Julia Kristeva presents the evolution and emergence of linguistics. For Kristeva, the object of linguistic investigation is not "What is language?" but rather "How can language be thought?" In a series of carefully documented analyses, she examines the links between philosophical speculation and linguistic practice. She traces postmodern linguistic theory back to its roots, using sources that range from Egyptian hieroglyphics, Mayan and Phoenician writings, and the Hebrew Bible to the Prague School of Structuralism. Thorough and far-reaching in its analysis, Language: The Unknown provides fascinating insights into the history of graphic cultures, philosophy, anthropology, and semiotics.
Semantic Change of English in the Early Modern English Period
Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,7, University of Bayreuth, language: English, abstract: This manuscript examines the semantic change in the English language during the Early Modern English (EME) period. It highlights how the meanings of words have changed over time and what social, historical, and psychological factors influenced these changes. The focus is on the various types of semantic change, such as narrowing, broadening, amelioration, and pejoration of meaning. Additionally, the role of Latin during the EME period, as well as the standardization of the English language and the Great Vowel Shift, are discussed. In the final part of the manuscript, a detailed analysis of Sir Thomas Malory's *Le Morte d'Arthur* is conducted to illustrate specific examples of semantic changes through literary texts.
Easy Dialogues in Modern Greek
Levels A1-A2.This book has been designed for beginner-level learners of Modern Greek. It can be used for self-study or in a classroom. It is written in everyday language that is actually used in Greece. The dialogues are mainly written in the present tense; as we progress in the book, past and future tenses are introduced for some basic verbs. The most important words are explained in the Vocabulary section and the most common verbs are conjugated in the Grammar section. The exercises are meant to help students practice their skills using the words and grammatical structures found in the dialogues. Answers to the exercises are provided at the end of each chapter.
Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon (Greek and English Edition)
This is the abridged version of 1909 edition, often called the "Little Liddell". A Greek-English Lexicon. is the standard lexicographical work of the Ancient Greek language. Based on the earlier Handw繹rterbuch der griechischen Sprache by the German lexicographer Franz Passow it has served as the basis for all later lexicographical work on the ancient Greek language. No student of Classical Greek or indeed New Testament Greek could possibly be without this Lexicon. Although it is an abridgement of a larger work, it is by no means incomplete and in some respects is a better option than the larger editions. If you study the New Testament Koine Greek, or study Classical Greek, this book will be invaluable to you. The entries are succinct yet informative, and each entry will tell you how a word has been used in different periods of Greek literature. Therefore, if one word has been employed in different uses in Homeric literature, compared to the New Testament, this Lexicon will let you know. This edition of the Liddell and Scott is a comprehensive lexicon of the classical Greek and remains the best lexicon for the New Testament, as the definitions offered in the Little Liddell are so precise you will rarely find them to be wrong. It was edited by Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott, It is now conventionally referred to as Liddell & Scott. The first editor of the LSJ, Henry George Liddell, was Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and the father of Alice Liddell, the eponymous Alice of the writings of Lewis Carroll.
Face: (New) Facets of a Sociopragmatic Concept
Face has become a key-concept in current socio-pragmatics. By virtue of its metaphorical force, it enables researchers to explain universal processes of human communication mostly reflected in language use. Yet being an English construct, in intercultural comparison, face provokes critical debates putting in doubt namely its relation to im/politeness-theories. The 8 articles in this volume tie on these issues putting face under linguistic scrutiny: With different approaches and methods, some re-consider the notion of face comparing labels and expressions in lingua-cultures other than English; others explore the verbal enactment of face in selected speech acts, conversational moves and interactional settings.
Better Practices
Featuring a range of better practices related to online writing instruction (OWI) and assessment, this edited collection offers instructors and writing program administrators theoretically grounded approaches from teacher-scholars of online writing. First, the contributors highlight what instructors have been doing in online and hybrid writing classrooms, pointing to innovative theoretical trends in the scholarship of online writing studies and related position statements. Second, they provide access to instructional materials that can be immediately adapted for local contexts, offering a starting point for enacting better practices in OWI. Third, they offer writing program administrators useful perspectives on professional development and curriculum design. Better Practices expands the conversation about online learning and writing studies, providing an opening for educators to come together to explore what it means to teach writing in ways that involve online real-time, online anytime, and hybrid writing courses.
The ritual of presentations
This book is the memory of the presentations made by Gloria Elena Espinoza de Tercero in a very broad time frame, from 1992 to 2019, which with her essay "Three Women in Leonese Literature" inaugurated her successful work of becoming the first recipient of the reception of the works it presents, and mediate before the receiving public as an instance of opinion and informed knowledge.The presentations contain keys to locate and understand the plastic, intellectual and literary work of third parties, whom she introduces, evaluating and weighing through the evaluative, reflective essay free of ties and impositions of the argumentative-academic.
Extensive Reading
This Element focuses on extensive reading (ER), a language learning and teaching approach that encourages language learners to read a large amount of interesting and level-appropriate reading materials. Extensive reading has been adopted across educational spectrums, including higher, secondary, and elementary levels, and implemented in diverse language contexts such as English, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, and French. The primary objective of this Element is to offer comprehensive insights into the theoretical foundations of ER, analyze its multifaceted benefits to language learning, address the challenges encountered in its implementation, and propose effective strategies drawn from research for these challenges. The Element concludes with an overview of the latest trends and developments in ER.
Morphosyntactic Variation in Bantu
This volume explores the rich and complex pattern of morphosyntactic variation in the Bantu languages, providing a comprehensive overview of the wealth of empirical and conceptual work in the field. The chapters discuss data from some 80 Bantu languages as well as drawing on a wider comparative set of more than 200 languages from across Central, Eastern and Southern Africa: some studies focus on one specific language in a comparative context; some investigate fine-grained variation among a close-knit group of languages; and others present large-scale comparative studies spanning the whole of the Bantu-speaking area. The contributors address a range of topics from a micro-variation perspective, primarily in the areas of nominal and verbal morphology and syntax and information structure. The volume highlights key aspects of contemporary research in Bantu morphosyntax and outlines distinct and novel approaches to prominent questions; it combines the most recent thinking on morphosyntactic variation in Bantu with different theoretical and methodological approaches and novel empirical data from a wide range of languages.
Extensive Reading
This Element focuses on extensive reading (ER), a language learning and teaching approach that encourages language learners to read a large amount of interesting and level-appropriate reading materials. Extensive reading has been adopted across educational spectrums, including higher, secondary, and elementary levels, and implemented in diverse language contexts such as English, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, and French. The primary objective of this Element is to offer comprehensive insights into the theoretical foundations of ER, analyze its multifaceted benefits to language learning, address the challenges encountered in its implementation, and propose effective strategies drawn from research for these challenges. The Element concludes with an overview of the latest trends and developments in ER.
Researching Multilingually
This book examines what 'researching multilingually' means in practice and theory. It is multinational and transnational in scope, including the voices of both experienced and emerging scholars who reflect on the process of conducting, analyzing and reporting multilingual research in various settings. Together the chapters address issues including theorizing multilingualism and collaborative research with multilingual scholars and research participants; navigating insider or outsider positioning with research participants; making and accepting language choices among researchers and participants during research; translating and interpreting multilingual data; and confronting policy challenges of multilingual research design and reporting in English-dominant contexts. The book ties these processes to existing theories of multilingualism in research and proposes new ways of understanding best practices while also wrestling with challenges and at times 'failures' in the research process.
Betting
The phenomenon of betting has increasingly permeated modern society, often perceived as a harmless form of entertainment. However, this book posits that betting functions as a "cankerworm," insidiously eroding the moral and financial foundations of individuals before they even realize its impact. Through an exploration of the psychological, social, and economic dimensions of betting, this book reveals how it entraps individuals in a cycle of dependency and despair. The analysis draws on empirical data and case studies to illustrate the detrimental effects of betting on personal well-being and societal norms. By and large, this book raises awareness about the hidden costs of betting, advocating for a more informed and cautious approach to gambling behaviors.
Uzbek translation of Korean fairy-tales
The monograph "Uzbek Translation of Korean Fairy Tales" explores the methods and challenges of translating Korean fairy tales into Uzbek. It focuses on capturing cultural elements, especially flora and fauna, that are central to Korean folklore, and discusses how these elements are adapted to resonate with Uzbek readers. This work also highlights the cultural exchanges between Korea and Uzbekistan and offers insights into linguistic and cultural translation issues in rendering Korean literature accessible in Uzbek.
Learning English through Skills
Learning English through Skills.A workbook for intermediate ESOL learners. Featuring Grammar, Vocabulary and Employability skills.Each chapter will introduce vocabulary and a grammar gap fill exercise to complete as well as showcasing an employability skills. Answers are found in the back of the book.
Language City
From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible history of the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and--because many have never been recorded--when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and co-director of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: contemporary New York. In Language City, Perlin recounts the unique history of immigration that shaped the city, and follows six remarkable yet ordinary speakers of endangered languages deep into their communities to learn how they are maintaining and reviving their languages against overwhelming odds. Perlin also dives deep into their languages, taking us on a fascinating tour of unusual grammars, rare sounds, and powerful cultural histories from all around the world. Seke is spoken by 700 people from five ancestral villages in Nepal, a hundred of whom have lived in a single Brooklyn apartment building. N'ko is a radical new West African writing system now going global in Harlem and the Bronx. After centuries of colonization and displacement, Lenape, the city's original Indigenous language and the source of the name Manhattan ("the place where we get bows"), has just one fluent native speaker, bolstered by a small band of revivalists. Also profiled in the book are speakers of the Indigenous Mexican language Nahuatl, the Central Asian minority language Wakhi, and the former lingua franca of the Lower East Side, Yiddish. A century after the anti-immigration Johnson-Reed Act closed America's doors for decades and on the 400th anniversary of New York's colonial founding, Perlin raises the alarm about growing political threats and the onslaught of "killer languages" like English and Spanish. Both remarkable social history and testament to the importance of linguistic diversity, Language City is a joyful and illuminating exploration of a city and the world that made it.
In the Palm of Your Hand
Ideal for teachers who have been searching for a way to inspire students with a love for writing--and reading--contemporary poetry.It is a book about shaping your memories and passions, your pleasures, obsessions, dreams, secrets, and sorrows into the poems you have always wanted to write. If you long to create poetry that is magical and moving, this is the book you've been looking for.Here are chapters on the language and music of poetry, the art of revision, traditional and experimental techniques, and how to get your poetry started, perfected, and published. Not the least of the book's pleasures are model poems by many of the best contemporary poets, illuminating craft discussions, and the author's detailed suggestions for writing dozens of poems about your deepest and most passionate concerns.
Linguocultural and Gender Analysis of the Concept of "Love"
The basic concepts of culture are important in the collective language consciousness. The concept of love is an empirical feeling that occurs in relation to human consciousness. Emotion, on the other hand, is the subjective attitude of an individual to a certain object or phenomenon that has quality and intensity. Love is an intimate and strong feeling towards a person, or a group of people, an idea, or a practical activity.In this monograph, the concept of love and the feeling expressed by this concept was demonstrated through the prism of human linguistic consciousness and the landscape of the emotional world, and the concept of love, through examples of what its subconceptions are made up of, and the concept of love and its subconceptions were determined on the basis of surveys conducted between Uzbek and Russian-speaking people.
Word Order Variation in Italian and Spanish Why-Interrogatives
Questions that are introduced by the wh-element 'why' are special. For instance, in Italian and Spanish, they allow the subject to occur in preverbal position in contrast to other wh-interrogatives. The overall goal of this book is to investigate the syntactic (and discourse) particularities of why-interrogatives in Italian and Spanish. More specifically, based on a parallel corpus study and several experimental studies, the factors that affect subject positioning in why-interrogatives are determined. In Italian, focus plays a determining role, while subject type and the heaviness of the subject affect its position in Spanish. After discussing previous accounts that address the differences between the two languages, an alternative approach is presented that builds on differences in the checking of the extended projection principle. Additionally, the special syntactic position of why is further supported by investigating a so far unnoticed intervening element in the context of why-interrogatives, namely vocatives. Finally, subject positioning in Italian why-interrogatives is examined in heritage bilingualism in order to contribute to the debate on the general vulnerability of the syntax-discourse interface.
Promoting Research in Anglophone Studies in Africa
When research findings are successfully valorized, they greatly contribute to the development of communities. Promoting Research in Anglophone Studies in Africa exposes contextual milestones of Anglophone studies in Africa. It highlights the wide range of works produced in literature, linguistics, and didactics within the field of Anglophone Studies. The book discusses the complexities of teaching, learning, and use of English in settings where it is not always the native language. One of its key strengths lies in the fact that the contributors come from a variety of academic backgrounds including literature, culture, didactics, linguistics, translation, etc. This multidisciplinary expertise has contributed, to a large extent, to understanding and solving issues related to diverse challenges involved in valorizing Anglophone Studies within the African context. The book is a collection of selected papers presented at the 2nd International Conference organized by the Anglophone Studies Research Team in Togo in June 2024.
Anna de Noailles
In an era of "globalization" of literature and culture, women writers of the late 19th century are no longer of such interest. The aim of this book is to examine the social and poetic implications of a work that has long remained in the shadows.Given that very few people still read the work of Anna de Noailles, this book brings up to date a poetry that may seem old-fashioned today.Anna de Noailles had been so glorified during her lifetime, her contemporaries had shown her excessive admiration; she had also been much caricatured, unfairly, but the memory of a being who was akin to the greatest of her time deserves to be illuminated and relived.Throughout the pages, there is a constant search for and interpretation of the poetic particularities that so well define the cosmopolitan spirit of the poetess of the "Innumerable Heart".
Corpus Linguistics for Virtual Workplace Discourse
Corpus Linguistics for Virtual Workplace Discourse provides a thorough and practical step-by-step guide to constructing and analysing a multi-modal corpus of virtual meetings. It draws from original data from video recordings of virtual meetings with a variety of participant profiles from various industries.
Travellers in the Mediterranean: Linguistic and Cultural Encounters
Spanning a variety of journeys from the nineteenth century to modern times, this collection of essays o ers important insights into cultural encounters, practices and perceptions, as American, Arab, British and French travellers experienced and still experience them in the Mediterranean, and in countries such as Greece, Italy, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. Through an investigation of travelogues, diaries, letters, novels, poems, tourist guides, and blogs, the authors of this collection navigate the intricate relationship between Self and Other. In so doing, they contribute to a wider understanding of travel - and of writing about travel - in mediating cultural exchange, while shedding light on the major challenges posed by issues of stereotyping and socio-cultural bias.
The Semiotics of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Focusing on the discursive dimension of the COVID-19 pandemic from a semiotic perspective, this book uses semiotic theory and methods to analyse the meaning-making mechanisms and dynamics that occurred during, and revolved around, the pandemic. Demonstrating the utility of semiotic theory, concepts and analytical methods to make sense of discursive phenomena like those triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the book explores in detail: - the blame-attribution discourses that emerged at the beginning of the pandemic; - how the coronavirus was brought to life in plastic and visual manifestations as a monster that poses a threat to humans; - how the collective actor 'the healthcare workers' was constructed in discourse and axiologised in positive terms; - the semiotics of the body during the pandemic, with a focus on the face, facemasks, social distancing and the uses of the body in online environments; - the idea of a 'new' normality following the pandemic. The book examines different dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic, including examples from Europe, Latin America and the United States and a wide range of images, texts, practices and objects, in order to highlight the importance of its discursive and semiotic nature.
Language Policy in Action
Language is part of social life, and efforts to control it can be viewed in light of broader struggles for social power around issues like migration, education, class and race. This book explores how people act within institutions and communities to try and control the language of others. It conceptualises language policy as a form of discourse management, involving attempts to reorder hierarchies of knowledge, reframe social relationships, control what identities and ideologies may be expressed, and limit who can access particular social spaces. Real-life case studies are included, allowing readers to understand the functioning of language policy in different contexts. A holistic framework is also introduced, showing how language policies are enacted though five key actions: creating, debating, interpreting, enforcing and resisting. Each action is explained with reference to current theories in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, and methodological suggestions, discussion questions and examples of further reading are also provided.
Writing for the Reader's Brain
What makes one sentence easy to read and another a slog that demands rereading? Where do you put information you want readers to recall? What about details you need to reveal but want readers to forget? Drawing on cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and psycholinguistics, this book provides a practical guide on how to write for your reader. Its chapters introduce the five 'Cs' of writing - clarity, continuity, coherence, concision, and cadence - and demonstrate how to use these features to bring your writing to life. This science-based guide also shows you how to improve your writing while also making the writing process speedier and more efficient. Brimming with examples, this humorous, surprisingly irreverent book provides writers with the tools they need to master everything from an email to a research project. If you believe good writers are simply born that way, Writing for the Reader's Brain will change your mind - and, quite possibly, your life.
Ethical Global Citizenship Education
Global Citizenship Education (GCE) plays a central role within UNESCO's education sector, focusing on cultivating the values and knowledge essential for students to evolve into well-informed and responsible global citizens. This Element conceptualises an ethical GCE framework grounded in critical, cosmopolitan, humanistic, value-creating, and transformative principles. Guided by those principles, ethical GCE goes beyond the banking model of education by emphasising a global ethic. Ethical GCE is inclusive, ethically reflective, and socially responsible. It extends beyond imparting knowledge and employable skills, important as they are, focusing on holistic and sustainable development. With further theoretical development and implementation strategies, the ethical GCE framework holds promise for future research and evaluation of the intricate teaching and learning processes within global citizenship, particularly from a values-based perspective.
Decoding Terrorism
This Element is an interdisciplinary analysis of the language evidence produced before, during and following a lone-actor terrorism attack in Halle, Germany, on October 9, 2019, resulting in two casualties. During his final preparations, the perpetrator, twenty-seven-year-old Stephan Balliet, announced his attack online and disseminated a targeted violence manifesto shortly before live-streaming his violent act. This post-hoc investigation introduces a multi-method approach that synchronizes well-established qualitative methodologies for forensic text analysis - genre, text linguistics, appraisal and uptake - to elucidate these data types. Furthermore, a retroactive threat assessment based on language data from the trial transcripts provides a holistic review of the assailant's background, red flags, triggering events and warning behaviors that could have signaled his movements along the pathway to violence. The results are considered in an organizational context to highlight current challenges faced by security agencies when mitigating the risk of lone-actors who radicalize in online environments.
Language Policy in Action
Language is part of social life, and efforts to control it can be viewed in light of broader struggles for social power around issues like migration, education, class and race. This book explores how people act within institutions and communities to try and control the language of others. It conceptualises language policy as a form of discourse management, involving attempts to reorder hierarchies of knowledge, reframe social relationships, control what identities and ideologies may be expressed, and limit who can access particular social spaces. Real-life case studies are included, allowing readers to understand the functioning of language policy in different contexts. A holistic framework is also introduced, showing how language policies are enacted though five key actions: creating, debating, interpreting, enforcing and resisting. Each action is explained with reference to current theories in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, and methodological suggestions, discussion questions and examples of further reading are also provided.
Decoding Terrorism
This Element is an interdisciplinary analysis of the language evidence produced before, during and following a lone-actor terrorism attack in Halle, Germany, on October 9, 2019, resulting in two casualties. During his final preparations, the perpetrator, twenty-seven-year-old Stephan Balliet, announced his attack online and disseminated a targeted violence manifesto shortly before live-streaming his violent act. This post-hoc investigation introduces a multi-method approach that synchronizes well-established qualitative methodologies for forensic text analysis - genre, text linguistics, appraisal and uptake - to elucidate these data types. Furthermore, a retroactive threat assessment based on language data from the trial transcripts provides a holistic review of the assailant's background, red flags, triggering events and warning behaviors that could have signaled his movements along the pathway to violence. The results are considered in an organizational context to highlight current challenges faced by security agencies when mitigating the risk of lone-actors who radicalize in online environments.
Ethical Global Citizenship Education
Global Citizenship Education (GCE) plays a central role within UNESCO's education sector, focusing on cultivating the values and knowledge essential for students to evolve into well-informed and responsible global citizens. This Element conceptualises an ethical GCE framework grounded in critical, cosmopolitan, humanistic, value-creating, and transformative principles. Guided by those principles, ethical GCE goes beyond the banking model of education by emphasising a global ethic. Ethical GCE is inclusive, ethically reflective, and socially responsible. It extends beyond imparting knowledge and employable skills, important as they are, focusing on holistic and sustainable development. With further theoretical development and implementation strategies, the ethical GCE framework holds promise for future research and evaluation of the intricate teaching and learning processes within global citizenship, particularly from a values-based perspective.
