Logical Principles of Proclus' Stoicheiosis Theologike As Systematic Ground of the Cosmos (118P)#(Elementa, Bd 13)

James M.P Lowry

Editions Rodopi

The negotiation of meaning, or, the process of creating, sharing and repairing meaning, is central to communication and to all human social activity. The present volume investigates how speakers of a foreign language collaborate with each other and with native speakers to negotiate meaning in face to face interaction and it underlines how complex that process with its different communicative goals really is. The study further accounts for how the ability of foreign language speakers to negotiate meaning evolves as language is acquired. This book starts by reviewing the main second language acquisition research (SLAR) studies that have been conducted on the subject. An interdisciplinary qualitative framework based on interactive sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse/conversation analysis and ethnography of communication is adopted to investigate meaning processes. The present investigation has as its focal point the study of conversations conducted in Spanish, which means that an important gap within SLAR, which up until now has chiefly concentrated on analysing interactions in English as a second language, has been filled. This is a subtle and detailed investigation which provides much insight into the complex nature of how meaning is negotiated in a foreign language. The book is exceptional because of its broad and interdisciplinary perspective and because of its process-oriented qualitative approach. This study will be of interest to researchers in the field of language acquisition, teaching practitioners, teacher trainers, curriculum compilers and students of applied linguistics.

Collaborative Negotiation of Meaning (Utrecht Studies in Language and Communication)

Jauregi Ondarra, Kristi

Literature & Fiction

At a time when the world, Europe especially, is once more threatened by murderous conflicts between groups of people claiming ethnic and national identity as a basis for sovereignty over specific territories, it is timely to consider the part that literature has played and is playing in the creation of ethnic and national stereotypes. What role do such stereotypes have in literature? How are they created? From what materials are they constructed? What purpose do ethnic and national stereotypes serve? Can it ever be a useful one? Are they avoidable? Can we live without them? What can be done about the deleterious effects they may be thought to produce? Stereotyping is worldwide - is there a tribe, race and nation in existence which escapes being stereotyped by its neighbours? In what sense are these stereotypes accurate? How are these stereotypes reflected in and reinforced by literature? Should and can literature do anything about them? In Beyond Pug's Tour: National and Ethnic Stereotyping in Theory and Literary Practice, literary scholars, as well as academics engaged in sociological and psychological research, consider these and other questions by examining the work of specific authors and the circumstances in which stereotyping plays such a crucial part.

Beyond Pug's Tour. (Dqr Studies in Literature)

BARFOOT, C.C.

History & Criticism

Interart Poetics. Essays on the Interrelations of the Arts and Media. (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 24)

Erik Hedling

LAGERROTH, Ulla-Britta, Hans LUND

Poetry

@Postmodernism and Notions of National Difference examines the critical construction of postmodern fiction raising the question of whether the construction of postmodernism has sufficiently accounted for national difference. Geoffrey Lord argues that current meta-national conceptions of postmodernism need serious reconsideration to take national cultural contexts into account. Through a comparative investigation of the theoretical debate, literary traditions and close textual reading of a number of postmodern texts, Lord makes a persuasive case for his broad claim that national cultural differences are more persistent and powerful than usually allowed by established theories of postmodernity which claim a general collapse of traditional cultural orders and the meta-narratives that justify them.

Holy Scriptures In Judaism, Christianity And Islam.

Jerald D. Gort

VROOM, Hendrik M.

Designed to fill a large gap in American philosophy scholarship, this bibliography covers the first four decades of the pragmatic movement. It references most of the philosophical works by the twelve major figures of pragmatism: Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, George H. Mead, F.C.S. Schiller, Giovanni Papini, Giovanni Vailati, Guiseppe Prezzolini, Mario Calderoni, A.W. Moore, John E. Boodin, and C.I. Lewis. It also includes writings of dozens of minor pragmatic writers, along with those by commentators and critics of pragmatism. It encompasses literature not only concerning pragmatism as an alliance of philosophical theories of meaning, inquiry, belief, knowledge, logic, truth, ontology, value, and morality, but also as an intellectual and cultural force impacting art, literature, education, the social and natural sciences, religion, and politics.This bibliography contains 2,794 main entries and more than 2,000 additional references, organized by year of publication. 2,101 of the references include annotation. Its international scope is focused on writings in English, French, German, and Italian, though many other languages are also represented. Peter H. Hare contributed the Guest Preface. The introduction contains an historical orientation to pragmatism and guides to recent studies of pragmatic figures. This work is extensively cross-referenced, and it has exhaustive and lengthy author and subject indexes.

Pragmatism. (Value Inquiry Book)

Politics & Social Sciences

John R. Shook

Philosophy

The essays in this volume explore in detail many of the ways power structures our daily personal, political and intellectual lives, and evaluate the workings of power using a variety of theoretical paradigms, from Hobbesian liberalism to Foucauldian feminist postmodernism. Taken as a whole, the book aims towards an end to unjust and destructive uses of power and the flowering of an encouraging, educated empowerment for all human beings in a pluralistic world. Section I offers a progressive chain of arguments that moves from the acceptance of domination, through the rejection of domination and, finally, to a new vision of power based on equality and mutual respect. Section II explores the questions, how is the philosophical self, that is, our very understanding of who we are, implicated in the web of power and domination? Section III responds to political realism as it explores morally ideal solutions to the global problems of poverty, war and hunger. Section IV discusses ways in which our thought and practice in both public and private life are bound up in hierarchies of domination.

Philosophical Perspectives On Power And Domination. (Philosophy of Peace)

Duhan-Kaplan, Laura

Laurence F. Bove

Back to the Present Forward to the Past: Irish Writing and History Since 1798 (Costerus)

History

Lynch, Patricia A.

Europe

A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged - Volume 1

Reference

Douglas Q. Adams

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged - Volume 2

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