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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Cicero was not only a great Roman politician, lawyer and orator: he also dealt extensively with philosophy, which he believed constituted the surest foundation for his commitment to civic affairs. Not limiting himself to the translation of previous philosophical thought, he critically addressed central theoretical questions, and thereby made a lasting impact on Roman intellectual life. This book offers a modern guide to interpretations of Cicero's philosophical studies, one that ranges across his numerous philosophical works. Addressed to students and scholars of ancient philosophy, and to interested readers in the humanities more generally, the volume aims to break down the boundaries between the philosophical, literary and linguistic dimensions of Cicero's highly influential oeuvre. Stefano Maso is a full professor in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Ca' Foscari - Venice. Among his books are: Grasp and Dissent: Cicero and Epicurean Philosophy (Brepols 2015); Epicurus on Eidola: Peri Phuseos Book II. Update, Proposals, and Discussions (ed. with F. Masi, Hakkert 2015). He is co-editor of 'Lexis. Poetica, retorica e comunicazione nella tradizione classica'. 178 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Apuleius¿ tale of Cupid and Psyche has been popular since it was first written in the second century CE as part of his Latin novel Metamorphoses. Often treated as a standalone text, Cupid and Psyche has given rise to treatments in the last 400 years as diverse as plays, masques, operas, poems, paintings and novels, with a range of diverse approaches to the text.Apuleius¿ story of the love between the mortal princess Psyche (or ¿Soul¿) and the god of Love has fascinated recipients as varied as Romantic poets, psychoanalysts, children¿s books authors, neo-Platonist philosophers and Disney film producers. These readers themselves produced their own responses to and versions of the story. This volume is the first broad consideration of the reception of C&P in Europe since 1600 and an adventurous interdisciplinary undertaking. It is the first study to focus primarily on material in English, though it also ranges widely across literary genres in Italian, French and German, encompassing poetry, drama and opera as well as prose fiction and art history, studied by an international team of established and young scholars.Detailed studies of single works and of whole genres make this book relevant for students of Classics, English, Art History, opera and modern film.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Sono passati cinquant¿anni da quando Gianfranco Folena propose l¿etichetta di «veneziano de là da mar» in riferimento ai volgari venezianeggianti diffusi nel Mediterraneo orientale del Medioevo e della prima età moderna, dalla Dalmazia all¿Egeo (con Creta) fino all¿Oltremare crociato. Da allora, su impulso del saggio di Folena, diverse ricerche si sono concentrate su singole aree (Ragusa/Dubrovnik, Candia/Creta, Cipro), facendo luce sulle dinamiche sociolinguistiche del contatto fra il veneziano e le lingue locali e sulle caratteristiche strutturali delle scriptae venezianeggianti attestate.Mancava ancora, però, un¿opera generale, che fungesse al contempo da sintesi delle ricerche già pubblicate e da punto di partenza per indagini future. È questo lo scopo del presente libro, che raccoglie i contributi di alcuni fra i maggiori specialisti del veneziano fuori e anche dentro Venezia. La progressione dei saggi secondo le macroaree (Venezia e l¿Oltremare; Dalmazia; Candia e il Levante), i frequenti rimandi interni e l¿ampio indice onomastico sono concepiti per fare del volume un¿opera di riferimento, interamente dedicata a un capitolo importante e ancora poco noto di storia delle varietà italo-romanze fuori d¿Italia.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 264 pp. Italienisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This is the first modern commentary devoted exclusively to the poems of Hedylus, one of the most important representatives of Greek epigram in a crucial phase of the development of the genre. Although only a few of Hedylus¿ poems survive, he helped shape the genre of literary epigram. His influence is comparable to that of his roughly contemporaries Posidippus of Pella and Asclepiades of Samos, with whom he is associated by Meleager of Gadara in the proem to his Garland.The volume contains an extensive introduction, a new critical text, a translation, and a full literary and philological commentary. Each epigram is preceded by an essay. Particular attention is paid to the different branches of transmission, in order to understand why so few of Hedylus' epigrams survive via the Greek Anthology, while most of his poems are transmitted by Athenaeus in his Deipnosophistai. The commentary is followed by an Auctarium Lectionum, an Appendix Coniecturarum, an Index verborum, an Index locorum, and an Index nominum et rerum notabilium.With its insights into literary Hellenistic epigram in an important phase of its development, this book represents an important tool for all those interested in epigram and Hellenistic literature in general.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 260 pp. Italienisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Der Mathematiker Kurt Gödel hat über einen Zeitraum von 22 Jahren (1934-1955) philosophische Bemerkungen, die so genannten Maximen Philosophie (Max Phil), niedergeschrieben. Sie sind in 15 Notizbüchern in der Kurzschrift Gabelsberger überliefert. Das erste Notizheft enthält allgemeine philosophische Überlegungen, die Hefte zwei und drei bestehen aus Gödels Individualethik. Die dann folgenden Notizbücher machen deutlich, dass Gödel eine Wissenschaftsphilosophie entworfen hat, in der er seine Erörterungen zu Physik, Psychologie, Biologie, Mathematik, Sprache, Theologie und Geschichte in den Kontext einer Metaphysik stellt.Erstmals wird nun an der Kurt-Gödel-Forschungsstelle der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften eine vollständige, historisch-kritische Edition von Gödels philosophischen Notizbüchern vorbereitet. Im Rahmen dieser Edition erscheint jährlich ein Band.Band 1, von Gödel mit 'Philosophie I Max 0' betitelt, umfasst philosophische Überlegungen Gödels sowie anderer für ihn bedeutender Autoren, die er an den Anfang seines philosophischen Gesamtprojektes gestellt hat. Die Einleitung der Herausgeberin Eva-Maria Engelen bietet einen Überblick über das Korpus.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Langjährige Unterrichtserfahrung hat das Autorenteam in der Überzeugung bestärkt, dass die effizienteste Form der Heranführung von Studierenden im ersten Semester an die Grundfragen der romanischen Sprachwissenschaft darin besteht, Kenntnisse in den drei Bereichen (1) Arbeitstechniken/Hilfsmittel, (2) Disziplinen der Linguistik und (3) Romanische Sprachen parallel zu entwickeln, weil so theoretische Reflexion und praktische Fertigkeiten organisch miteinander verknüpft werden. 13 aktualisierte Einheiten geben einen konzentrierten Einblick in das Fach. Ganz besonderer Wert wird auf den reichhaltigen Übungsteil gelegt, der u.a. präzise Leseanleitungen für gezielt ausgesuchte Literatur weiterführenden Charakters gibt.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The numerous and far-reaching socio-political transformations that have taken place on the European continent since the mid-20th century have stipulated the emergence of new approaches and research fields in the social sciences. One of these is the development of a Sociology of Europeanization. This textbook provides an overview of its major topics, concepts, and research approaches. Each of the 14 chapters of this textbook introduces one particular topic of the Sociology of Europeanization - ranging from major conceptual considerations to an exploration of the numerous spatial, cultural, economic, political, judicial, and socio-structural implications of Europeanization. Hence, this book is very suitable as a fundamental introductory reading and for teaching in European studies and related study programs. It is also recommended to everyone who is interested in more recent European history and current sociological studies of transnationalization. Events around the bookLink to a De Gruyter Online Event in which renowned scholars and experts discuss what is necessary for the teaching of European Studies today and what future directions European Studies should take in light of current challenges and crises. The event was moderated by Sebastian Büttner and Susann Worschech, two co-editors of this textbook:https://youtu.be/Deh13FJ1ctE During the annual colloqium of the European General Studies Programme of the College of Europe (Bruges), Sebastian Büttner discussed and presented his co-edited book:https://youtu.be/GLheIHQOEv4.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Human Right to Democracy is the first major study to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the debate. It reconstructs the relevant positions in that debate, identifies the key points of disagreement, and proposes an understanding of the human right to democracy that might form the basis of a wide consensus. The book rejects the idea of a comprehensive right to democratic institutions, and instead argues for a minimal ¿human right to democracy¿ which is best understood as an individual¿s right to voice. The human right to voice is a right, enjoyed by any individual independently of his or her place of residence or nationality, to be heard and supported in cases of severe injustice that is tolerated or condoned by the political community or polity of which the individual is a member. By bringing together human rights discourse and democratic theory, as well as taking into account practical politics, this study broadens the scope of the debatefrom a sometimes overly-narrow focus. The book is of interest not only to political philosophers, but also to international lawyers, diplomats, representatives of civil society, human rights activists, and specialists in development economics.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The publication is attempted to address emerging trends in machine learning applications. Recent trends in information identification have identified huge scope in applying machine learning techniques for gaining meaningful insights. Random growth of unstructured data poses new research challenges to handle this huge source of information. Efficient designing of machine learning techniques is the need of the hour. Recent literature in machine learning has emphasized on single technique of information identification. Huge scope exists in developing hybrid machine learning models with reduced computational complexity for enhanced accuracy of information identification. This book will focus on techniques to reduce feature dimension for designing light weight techniques for real time identification and decision fusion. Key Findings of the book will be the use of machine learning in daily lives and the applications of it to improve livelihood. However, it will not be able to cover the entire domain in machine learning in its limited scope. This book is going to benefit the research scholars, entrepreneurs and interdisciplinary approaches to find new ways of applications in machine learning and thus will have novel research contributions. The lightweight techniques can be well used in real time which will add value to practice.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 156 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Despite the increasing prominence of Klossowski's philosophical work, there exists no full-length or sustained treatment of his writings on Nietzsche. This study analyses Klossowski¿s semiotic of intensity as a conceptual foundation for his philosophy and interpretation of Nietzsche, grounded in the central principles of his theory of signs. It then explores its implications for the categories of chance, causality, individuation and time, drawing a series of parallels between Klossowski's texts and the work of other scholars, such as McTaggart, Eco, D. Z. Albert, M. Silverstein, Meillassoux, N. Land and J. Stambaugh. Throughout, this work lends accessibility to Klossowski's often opaque and idiosyncratic style. It should be relevant to anyone interested in Klossowski¿s philosophical work, in contemporary Nietzsche scholarship, or in the 20th Century linguistic and existential Continental tradition.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Knowledge of facts is essential for the management of life. Most studies of the subject examine how we go about trying to obtain it; they describe the processes and proceedings of rational inquiry. The present work steps back from this to inquire into the limits and limitations of such processes and to identify the assets and the limitabilities of what they are able to supply for us. It examines how knowledge of facts is secured and consolidated as such, and what the resulting information can and cannot provide. It argues that the unavoidable incompleteness of our factual information also endows it with an element of incorrectness. By looking also at the negative side of human inquiry the book¿s perspective clarifies the nature of our grip on the facts that constitute our view of the reality of things.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This research monograph answers the question how sustainability driven entrepreneurs (ecopreneurs) deliver their sustainability goals through their business practices. The research draws on data from 12 case studies set within the food industry. The analysis takes a firm level and a supply chain level perspective and provides insights to the interconnected nature of sustainability goals within and across firms.It provides theoretical propositions that show one approach of how to conduct business in a way that works for the planet and people in addition to shareholders. This presents an alternative understanding of organisational performance that builds the foundation for many avenues of future research into sustainable management.The research combines the remote areas of supply chain management and entrepreneurship at the intersection of sustainability. This novel approach and the insights from the business practice exploration, offer many avenues for further research beyond entrepreneurship and supply chain management. This book will be of interest to academics in management research and also to people with an academic background that work together with sustainability driven and/ or social entrepreneurs, who could benefit from the insights into how sustainability goals are delivered through business practices and the relevant trade-offs faced by ecopreneurs.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The book explores new ways to reconstruct and enhance speech that is compromised by various neuro-motor disorders ¿ collectively known as ¿dysarthria.¿ The authors address some of the extant lacunae in speech research of dysarthric conditions: they show how new methods can improve speaker recognition when speech is impaired due to developmental or acquired pathologies; they present a novel multi-dimensional approach to help the speech system both assess dysarthric speech and to perform intelligibility improvement of the impaired speech; they display well-performing software solutions for developmental and acquired speech impairments, and for vocal injuries; and they examine non-acoustic signals and muted nonverbal sounds in relation to audible speech conversion.deGruyter Boston, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Housing matters, no matter when or where. This volume of collected essays on housing in colonial and postcolonial Africa seeks to elaborate the how and the why.Housing is much more than a living everyday practice. It unfolds in its disparate dimensions of time, space and agency. Context dependent, it acquires diverse, often ambivalent, meanings. Housing can be a promise, an unfulfilled dream, a tool of self- and class-assertion, a negotiation process, or a means to achieve other ends. Our focus lies in analyzing housing in its multifacetedness, be it a lens to offer insights into complex processes that shape societies; be it a tool of empire to exercise control over private relations of inhabitants; or be it a means to create good, obedient and productive citizens.Contributions to this volume range from the field of history, to architecture and urban planning, African Studies, linguistics, and literature. The individual case studies home in on specific aspects and dimensions of housing and seek to bring them into dialogue with each other. By doing so, the volume aims to add to the vibrant academic debate on studying urban practices and their significance for current social change.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Until recently, collaborative efforts between formal linguistics and literary studies have been relatively sparse; this book is an attempt to bridge this gap and add to the hitherto small pool of studies that combine the two disciplines.Our study concentrates on Emily Dickinson¿s poetry, since it displays a highly uncommon and therefore challenging use of language. We argue this to be part of her poetic strategy and consider Dickinson an intuitive linguist: her apparent non-compliance with linguistic rules is a productive exploration of linguistic expression to reveal the flexibility and potential of grammar, leading to complex processes of interpretation. Our study includes a number of in-depth analyses of individual poems, which combine formal linguistic methods and literary scholarship and focus on specific aspects such as ambiguity, reference, and presuppositions. One of our findings concerns the dynamic interpretation of lyrical texts in which the pragmatic step of establishing what a poem means for the reader is postponed to text level.We provide readers with a tool-box of methods for the formal linguistic analysis not just of Emily Dickinson¿s poetry but of linguistically complex literary texts in general.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book examines emblems (or emblematic gestures) from a pragmatic view, that is to say, as autonomous gestures that fulfill communicative functions, embody illocutionary values, and act as signals of cognitive relevance.Emblems are conceived as multimodal tools on the frontier between verbal and nonverbal modes, and are part of the communicative repertoire of individuals and sociocultural groups. Emblems constitute clear cases of embodiment and are susceptible to many processes of metaphorization (contrasting or not with verbal metaphors), metonymy, and interference between modalities. The applications of emblematic analysis are numerous, from lexicography to second language learning, or to natural language processing.De Gruyter Mouton, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In contemporary history, a much-debated issue has been whether European nations have a common identity and what relevance the European Union has for a shared definition of Europeanness. The present book examines the link between historical conceptions of Europe and the contestations over Turkey¿s compatibility with the European Union during the 2000s.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 280 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Almost everyone can run. Only very few can run a marathon. But what is it for agents to be able to do things This question, while central to many debates in philosophy, is still awaiting a comprehensive answer. The book provides just that. Drawing on some valuable insights from previous works of abilities and making use of possible world semantics, Jaster develops the 'success view', a view on which abilities are a matter of successful behavior. Along the way, she explores the gradable nature of abilities, the contextsensitivity of ability statements, the difference between general and specific abilities, the relationship between abilities and dispositions, and the ability to act otherwise. The book is mandatory reading for anyone working on abilities, and provides valuable insights for anyone dealing with agents' abilities in other fields of philosophy.For this book, Romy Jaster has received both the Wolfgang Stegmüller Prize and the De Gruyter Prize for Analytical Philosophy of Mind or Metaphysics/Ontology.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The purpose of this book is to examine the variety, the mechanisms, and the poetological intention of the effect of surprise in Aristophanic comedy, addressing the phenomenon not as a self-evident or unselfconscious element of comedy as a genre, but as an elaborate system which characterises the style of the specific dramatist. More precisely, the book analyses Aristophanes¿ most prominent verbal, thematic, and theatrical modes of surprise from a typological perspective, and interprets them as comprising the key area in which the playwright claims and demonstrates his artistic superiority over rival genres and individual poets. In line with this purpose, two parallel aims of the book are to provide an original commentary on the passages under examination, and to promote the study of modern performances ¿ a practice which has so far been either restricted to Classical Reception or only theoretically acknowledged (if at all) by mainstream philological scholarship. This is a timely book on a topic of wide current interest across a range of interlocking disciplines: emotion studies, semiotics, narratology, information theory, and -most pertinently for this book- humour research.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -While most work on Dionysus is based on Greek sources, this collection of essays examines the god¿s Roman and Italian manifestations.Nine contributions address Bacchus¿ appearance at the crossroads of Greek and Roman cultures, tracing continuities and differences between literary and archaeological sources for the god. The essays offer coverage of Dionysus in Roman art, Italian epigraphy; Latin poetry including epic, drama and elegy; and prose, including historiography, rhetorical and Christian discourse.The introduction offers an overview of the presence of Dionysus in Italy from the archaic to the imperial periods, identifying the main scholarly trends, with treatment of key Dionysian episodes in Roman history and literature. Individual chapters address the reception of Euripides¿ Bacchae across Greek and Roman literature from Athens to Byzantium; Dionysus in Roman art of the archaic and Augustan periods; the god¿s relationship with Fufluns and Liber in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE; Dionysian associations; Bacchus in Cicero; Ovid¿s Tristia 5.3; Bacchus in the writings of Christian Latin writers.The collection sheds light on a relatively understudied aspect of Dionysus, and will stimulate further research in this area.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This pioneering research brings a new insight into derivational processes in terms of theory, method and typology.Theoretically, it conceives of derivation as a three-dimensional system. Methodologically, it introduces a range of parameters for the evaluation of derivational networks, including the derivational role, combinability and blocking effects of semantic categories, the maximum derivational potential and its actualization in relation to simple underived words, and the maximum and average number of orders of derivation.Each language-specific chapter has a unified structure, which made it possible to identify ¿ in the final, typologically oriented chapter ¿ the systematicity and regularity in developing derivational networks in a sample of forty European languages and in a few language genera and families. This is supported by considerations about the role of word-classes, morphological types, and the differences and similarities between word-formation processes of the languages belonging to the same genus/family.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Managers often isolate their innovation teams, but wouldn¿t it be better to engage all the workers in innovation This book describes a framework that makes innovation a daily consideration for all. It involves allowing a knowledge network to develop naturally which complements the existing organizational structure making it more organic. It fosters more extensive collaboration amongst workers to produce more imaginative solutions that maximize value. The workers are encouraged to consult one another spontaneously across their organization and beyond its traditional boundaries. Insightful and constructive exchanges stimulate their thinking making them creative partners. Unsuspected capabilities, ideas and value are revealed.Philippe Davidson describes creative deliberation techniques designed to maximize stakeholder value. The framework also makes organizations nimbler and more resilient to market changes. They become more sustainable in ever-changing conditions because learning and change become the norm. Innovation champions will find powerful arguments for introducing democratized innovation in their organizations. A wealth of practical techniques and handy tips for participative work-based training will help organizational trainers and facilitators to democratize innovation. Management consultants will find invaluable insights to advise their clients on innovation. Your workers are your organization¿s best agents of change - unleash their natural creativity!Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 210 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Additive manufacturing (AM) and subtractive manufacturing (SM) offer numerous advantages in the production of single and multiple components. They provide incomparable design independence and are used to fabricate products in several industries, e.g.: aeronautic, automotive, biomedical, etc. The book presents recent results of processes including 3D printing, SLS (selective laser sintering), EBM (electron beam melting) and Precise Cutting and Drilling.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This study probes the significance of Paul's statement in 1 Corinthians 3:16 announced to a group of believers in Corinth: 'Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwells among you ' The question is framed in the Greek language such that Paul expected an affirmative response (i.e. ¿Yes, we know we are the temple of God¿), and yet mapping such an idea onto a gathering of people is rather unprecedented in antiquity. By surveying relevant literary texts and material culture from the ancient Mediterranean (roughly 400 BCE¿200 CE), the author shows how Paul appropriated the concept of temple in his exhortation to the Corinthians. A few key texts in 1 Corinthians can be read as a cohesive and coherent set of passages that unpack the idea of the Corinthians as 'the temple of God.' While these passages are not typically read together, this study shows how themes such as power and spirit, traditions from Exodus, divine benefits, and sacrificial foods found in these passages reflect similar concerns observed in temples and other sanctuaries in ancient Greek, Roman, and Jewish contexts. Careful analysis of the religious experience of visitors to temples¿an important topic that remains largely ignored in secondary literature¿gives greater clarity to the nuances of Paul¿s temple discourse. As the temple, the Corinthian community not only receives God's power and benefits, but also remains vulnerable to peril posed by insiders and outsiders.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The existence of formulaic patterns has been attested to all languages of the world. However, systematic research in this field has been focused on only a few European standard languages with a rich literary tradition and a high degree of written norm. It was on the basis of these data that the theoretical framework and methodological approaches were developed.The volume shifts this focus by centering the investigation on new data, including data from lesser-used languages and dialects, extra-european languages, linguistic varieties mostly used in spoken domains as well as at previous historical stages of language development. Their inclusion challenges the existing postulates at both a theoretical and methodological level.Areas of interest include the following questions: What is formulaic in these types of languages, varieties and dialects Are the criteria developed within the framework of phraseological research applicable to new data Can any specific types of formulaic patterns and/or any specific features of regular (already known) types of formulaic patterns be observed and how do they emerge What methodological difficulties need to be overcome when dealing with new data Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Founded in 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles as part of the League of Nations¿ system, the ILO is still today the main organization responsible for the international organization of work and the improvement of working conditions in the world. Widely recognized for its efforts in building international labour standards, the ILO remains little studied by development specialists and historians. This book intends to fill this gap and traces the history of international development and its early pioneers, through an analysis of the activities of the International Labour Office, the Secretariat of the International Labour Organization, between 1930 and 1946. In this book, development is used as a key to questioning the ILO's place and function in the expanding inter-war world. The development practices and discourses that emerged in the 1930s were mainly intended to support the ILO's universalization strategy, which was made necessary by the events that shook Europe at the time. Development discourses and practices were also part of the 'esprit du temps', as they were closely linked to the affirmation of the planist and rationalist ideas of the 1930s. However, development for the ILO was not reduced to a project of economic modernization, but was seen as a tool for social engineering, as evidenced by the ILO's missions of technical assistance, organized since 1930. The analysis of the expertise work makes it possible to highlight the logics that prevailed in technical assistance, which was more in line with institutional objectives, than with the dissemination of a genuine expertise. This book therefore hopes to bring new insight on the history of internationalism, and international organizations during the inter-war period and the Second World War, as well as on the role of the ILO in the history of international development thinking and practices.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The realization of information structural units has been intriguing as information packaging has reflections in the semantic, pragmatic, syntactic and prosodic domains. This book extends the investigation by bringing data from all these domains and presenting an analysis for the model of grammar.Based on three-way classification for information packaging, semantic investigation presents insights on compositionality and positional restrictions for topic, focus and discourse anaphoric phrases. The prosodic experimental studies reveal how focus shapes prosody and how diverse languages encode such information packaging. Drawing on the findings of experimental studies reflecting the interaction of information structure with quantifier scope, negation and aspectual markers,clause internal functional projections and scope domains are proposed in the syntactic analysis. The analysis offers new perspectives for movement operations, functional categories, phases which are central themes for the Minimalist Program.Building on the investigation of information structure within semantic, prosodic, syntactic perspectives, the book will appeal to researchers working on either of these domains or their interfaces.De Gruyter Mouton, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 320 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -There is still widespread disagreement among historical linguists about how, or whether, syntactic reconstruction can be done. This book presents a comprehensive methodology for syntactic reconstruction, grounded in a constructional understanding of language. The author then uses that methodology to reconstruct Proto-Sogeram, the ancestor to ten languages in Papua New Guinea. Chapters are devoted to phonology, lexicon, verbal morphosyntax, nominal morphosyntax, and syntactic constructions. The work culminates in a sketch of Proto-Sogeram grammar. Based largely on the author's original fieldwork, this is an innovative application of a novel methodology to new data, and the most complete reconstruction of a Papuan proto-language to date. It will be of interest to scholars of language change, language reconstruction, typology, and Papuan languages.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 356 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -By focusing on the Jewish textual traditions the book series Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts examines both the continuity of a tradition through its transmission of canonical, classical and contemporary texts, as well as the ways that a tradition must continuously adapt itself to respond to new intellectual, historical, social and political contexts. Since there is no reading that is not also an interpretation, imbuing the past with concerns of the present day, the volumes in this series will examine the Jewish textual tradition through questions of its transmissibility, focusing on how these texts give rise to new commentaries, translations and adaptations. By attending to the evolving, topical concerns of Judaism, understood as a living textual tradition, and by fostering dialogue between literary, philosophical, political and religious perspectives, the book series, which consists of original scholarship and proceedings of international conferences, reflects contemporary concerns of Jewish Studies in the broadest sense.Editorial BoardProf. Robert Alter (University of California, Berkeley)Prof. Steven E. Aschheim (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)Prof. Leora Batnitzky (Princeton University, Princeton)Prof. Richard I. Cohen (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)Prof. Mark H. Gelber (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva)Prof. Moshe Halbertal (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)Prof. Christine Hayes (Yale University, New Haven)Prof. Moshe Idel (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)Prof. Samuel Moyn (Columbia University, New York)Prof. Ilana Pardes ((Hebrew University, Jerusalem)Prof. Alvin Rosenfeld (Indiana University, Bloomington)Prof. David Ruderman (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)Prof. Bernd Witte, (Heinrich Heine Universität, Düsseldorf)Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 316 pp. Englisch.