De gruyter jan 2011 (108 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Trotz wachsender weltwirtschaftlicher Verflechtung war um 1900 die Platzierung von Massenprodukten durch erste westliche multinationale Unternehmen auf fernen Märkten nur scheinbar ein Selbstläufer. Mit Blick auf das späte Osmanische Reich gibt Yavuz Köse Aufschluss über die neuen Vertriebsformen und Marketingaktivitäten, die den Unternehmenserfolg mit verursachten, und über die Wechselbeziehung mit den örtlichen soziopolitischen und kulturellen Rahmenbedingungen. In der reziproken Beeinflussung von Unternehmen und urbanen Konsumenten markierten die Neuerungen im Marktgeschehen einen wichtigen Aspekt in einer Gesellschaft im Umbruch.; Dissertationsschrift.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Sociophonetics is one of the sub-branches of the discipline that has attracted a great deal of attention over the last decade. Recent advances in speech science and their technological simulations allow increasingly sophisticated studies of the progress of language contact and change. These studies, particularly those at the level of pronunciation, show that language variety is robust and socially embedded in interesting ways. Instrumental studies of language variety contact and change have focused on the role of social categories and attitudes in variety perception as well as production. Some of the studies presented in this volume look at the specific role of social factors in the formation, progress, and deterrence of intralingual contact and change; while others look at the ways in which social identities and beliefs influence a listener's ability to identify and comprehend varieties. These studies use detailed acoustic analyses of production speech data and of responses to samples of data based on such analyses. Although the book assumes some knowledge of basic acoustics and variationist studies, the general introduction provides a review of practices in the field, including those of collection, analysis, and interpretation. 436 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In recent decades, against the background of integrated global trade patterns, the complexity of international marketing and management has increased enormously. Accordingly, the momentum of business opportunities and challenges has accelerated, and a firm has to continuously evaluate its market environment in order to make adjustments that reflect the firm's individual strengths and weaknesses. This book takes as its perspective that the customer undoubtedly is positioned in the center of the firm's overall management activities. True understanding of the customer requires efficient marketing research about the firm's international business environment. As discussed in the first chapters of the book, the firm's business success depends in part on its ethical standards; thus awareness of its environmental and social responsibility is required. The following chapters concentrate on various aspects of culturally biased customer behavior and how the firm ensures sensitivity when planning and selecting its marketing strategies. The most efficient techniques of international market segmentation, targeting, and strategic competitive positioning are introduced. Furthermore, concepts of consumer loyalty programs and their implementation in diversified international markets are presented. An important part is dedicated to describing suitable mixes of marketing policies for firms operating in culturally heterogeneous international markets. Finally, forecasting changes in consumer behavior as a tool of planning international marketing activities is taken into consideration. Marketing control mechanisms that seek to increase efficiency of selected marketing activities further contribute to the valuable insights of this publication. Overall, the authors' intention is to combine the newest theoretical concepts with pragmatic decisions made by firms. The book is particularly suitable for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in international marketing, strategic and cultural management. Executives and practitioners involved in business can take fundamental and updated knowledge from this publication, which hopefully will improve their competitive positions against their rivals in the global arena. 325 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is an introduction to financial mathematics. It is intended for graduate students in mathematics and for researchers working in academia and industry. The focus on stochastic models in discrete time has two immediate benefits. First, the probabilistic machinery is simpler, and one can discuss right away some of the key problems in the theory of pricing and hedging of financial derivatives. Second, the paradigm of a complete financial market, where all derivatives admit a perfect hedge, becomes the exception rather than the rule. Thus, the need to confront the intrinsic risks arising from market incomleteness appears at a very early stage. The first part of the book contains a study of a simple one-period model, which also serves as a building block for later developments. Topics include the characterization of arbitrage-free markets, preferences on asset profiles, an introduction to equilibrium analysis, and monetary measures of financial risk. In the second part, the idea of dynamic hedging of contingent claims is developed in a multiperiod framework. Topics include martingale measures, pricing formulas for derivatives, American options, superhedging, and hedging strategies with minimal shortfall risk. This third revised and extended edition now contains more than one hundred exercises. It also includes new material on risk measures and the related issue of model uncertainty, in particular a new chapter on dynamic risk measures and new sections on robust utility maximization and on efficient hedging with convex risk measures. 556 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Frontmatter -- Inhalt / Contents -- Special Issue on Economic Forecasts: Guest Editorial -- Abhandlungen / Original Papers -- Information or Institution -- Forecasting with Factor Models Estimated on Large Datasets: A Review of the Recent Literature and Evidence for German GDP -- A Factor Model for Euro-area Short-term Inflation Analysis -- Combining Survey Forecasts and Time Series Models: The Case of the Euribor -- Predictive Ability of Business Cycle Indicators under Test -- Forecasting Nonlinear Aggregates and Aggregates with Time-varying Weights -- Forecasting Multivariate Volatility using the VARFIMA Model on Realized Covariance Cholesky Factors -- Practice and Prospects of Medium-term Economic Forecasting -- Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews 176 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Frontmatter -- Inhalt / Contents -- Guest Editorial -- Abhandlungen/Original Papers -- Product Diversification and Profitability in German Manufacturing Firms / Braakmann, Nils / Wagner, Joachim -- Is the Boone-Indicator Applicable - Evidence from a Combined Data Set of German Manufacturing Enterprises / Schiersch, Alexander / Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens -- Which Parameters Determine the Development of Farm Numbers in Germany / Röder, Norbert / Kilian, Stefan -- Energy Use Patterns in German Industry: Evidence from Plant-level Data / Petrick, Sebastian / Rehdanz, Katrin / Wagner, Ulrich J. -- Global Warming Induced Water-Cycle Changes and Industrial Production - A Scenario Analysis for the Upper Danube River Basin / Jeßberger, Christoph / Sindram, Maximilian / Zimmer, Markus -- The Economic Consequences of One-third Co-determination in German Supervisory Boards / Boneberg, Franziska -- Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews / Koning, Ruud H. / Frenkel, Michael / Clausen, Volker 144 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is an introduction to the theory of rings and modules that goes beyond what one normally obtains in a graduate course in abstract algebra. The theme of the text is the interplay between rings and modules. At times rings are investigated by considering given sets of conditions on the modules they admit and at other times rings of a certain type are considered to see what structure is forced on their modules. Standard topics in ring and module theory such as chain conditions on rings and modules, injective and projective modules and semisimple rings are included as well as subjects like category theory and homological algebra. The text also contains presentations on topics such as flat modules and coherent rings, injective envelopes, projective covers and perfect rings, reflexive modules and quasi-Frobenius rings, and graded rings and modules. The book is a self-contained volume written in a very systematic style: allproofs are clear and easy for the reader to understand and allarguments are based on materials contained in the book. A problem sets follow each section. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with concepts such as Zorn's lemma, commutative diagrams and ordinal and cardinal numbers. It is also assumed that the reader has a basic knowledge of rings and their homomorphisms. The text is suitable for graduate and PhD students who have chosen ring theory for their research subject. 466 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die bewährte Einführung in die praktischen und theoretischen Methoden der Regelungstechnik.Dieses bewährte Standardwerk wird seit über zwanzig Jahren immer wieder überarbeitet und kontinuierlich den aktuellen Anforderungen in Ausbildung und Praxis angepaßt. Zuverlässig vermittelt es Studenten und Ingenieuren die grundlegende Methodik des Steuerns und Regelns: exakt, praxisnah, anschaulich und verständlich. 344 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Der Sammelband 'Glanzlichter der Wissenschaft' vereinigt herausragende wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen und Vorträge renommierter Autoren, die im Laufe des Jahres 2011 entstanden sind. Sie spiegeln Entwicklungen, die über den Tag und das Jahr ihrer Veröffentlichung hinaus Bedeutung behalten - als Beispiele für die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit den Themen unserer Zeit. 164 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The series Islamkundliche Untersuchungen was founded in 1969 by the Klaus Schwarz Verlag. Since then, it has become one of the most important venues for publications in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Its more than 350 volumes cover a wide range of topics from the history, culture and societies of the Middle East and North Africa as well as neighboring regions in central, south and southeast Asia.Walter de Gruyter, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 232 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Das Studienbuch stellt eine Anthologie der wichtigsten Grundlagentexte zur Theorie der Biographie dar. In chronologischer Folge werden maßgebende programmatische Texte vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert vorgestellt, darunter Beiträge von Herder, Carlyle, Dilthey, Freud, Kracauer, Woolf, Foucault und Bourdieu. Das Buch präsentiert jeden Text mit einemKommentar, der die Relevanz des jeweiligen Beitrags herausstellt und ihn in Geschichte und Theorie der Biographiesituiert. Der Reader bildet so eine ideale Grundlage für Seminare im Bachelor- und Masterstudiengang, bietet aber auch Literaturwissenschaftlern und Historikern einen fundierten Überblick. 380 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die menschliche Sprachfähigkeit wird in der modernen Linguistik zunehmend durch abstrakte Theorien beschrieben. Das Studienbuch bietet eine übersichtliche Darstellung der gängigen theoretischen Konzepte und Analyseverfahren, zusätzlich vermittelt es die technischen Grundlagen der formalen Semantik. Aufgrund seines didaktisch klar strukturierten Aufbaus sowie vieler Beispiele und Übungsaufgaben eignet es sich nicht nur für das Selbststudium linguistischer Bedeutungstheorien und analytischer Philosophie, sondern auch als Leitfaden für den universitären Unterricht. 444 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Das Studienbuch stellt auf hohem und doch allgemeinverständlichem Niveau moderne Theorien der Phonologie dar. Es richtet sich hauptsächlich an Studierende der allgemeinen und germanistischen Linguistik im Grund- und Hauptstudium, eignet sich aber auch für das Selbststudium. Die elf Kapitel widmen sich jeweils einem Bereich der Phonologie; z. B. den phonetischen Grundlagen, distinktiven Merkmalen, der autosegmentalen Phonologie, Silbenphonologie, prosodischen Phonologie und der Optimalitätstheorie. Jedes Kapitel enthält zur Vertiefung eine Reihe von Aufgaben. 388 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die Reihe präsentiert Beiträge der qualitativen Sozialforschung, die empirisch anspruchsvolle Untersuchungen mit einem Interesse an soziologischer Theorie verbinden. Sie versammelt originelle Beiträge zur Wissenssoziologie, zur Interaktions- und Organisationsanalyse und zur Sprach- und Kultursoziologie, in denen sich weltoffenes Forschen, methodische Reflektion und analytische Arbeit wechselseitig verschränken. 212 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Grundlagenwissen der Internationalen Unternehmensführung aufbereitet in vierzehn Kapiteln zu zentralen Fragen internationalen Managementhandelns. Fallstudienhaft werden die Besonderheiten ausgewählter europäischer und außereuropäischer Märkte behandelt. Zum Abschluss eines jeden Kapitels besteht die Möglichkeit sein Wissen anhand eines Kontrollfrageblocks zu überprüfen. Ergänzt wird dieser Übungsteil durch einen ausführlichen Lösungsteil. Das umfangreiche Literaturverzeichnis kann für die vertiefende Auseinandersetzung mit den einzelnen Themenbereichen genutzt werden. 226 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Reiterated international comparative surveys offer evidences about developments of religion-related scene in Central and Eastern Europe. The present volume is the first one, which presents an extensive and detailed cross-national analysis of sociological data comparing extensively countries, regions and denominations in the past two decades. It displays achievements and shortages of a religious revival in the post-communist region, as well as religion's role in family life, social responsibility and public commitment. It proves the combination of de-Christianization based on previous persecution of religion and an ongoing modernization and the rise and the transformation of religion. In some countries popular religiosity of traditional social strata is dominant. In other countries there is a visible transition from old and low strata religiosity to a more restricted but socially more influential religiosity of young middle and upper strata groups. In final outcome the volume substantiates the growing public role of religion in Eastern and Central Europe as well as the distinct impact of religiosity on individual behaviour. These results contradict the idea of an overwhelming secularization but argue for a more complex process overcoming the communist past. 268 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für 'Strategisches Management von Gesundheitsbetrieben' verfügbar. 276 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is the first study of the typological change of English from a synthetic towards an analytic language that focuses exclusively on the lexical domain of the language. It presents an innovative approach to linguistic typology by focusing on the different encoding techniques used in the lexicon, providing a theoretical framework for the description of structural types (synthetic, analytic) and encoding techniques (fusional, isolating, agglutinative, incorporating) found in the lexicon of a language. It is argued that, in the case of English, the change from syntheticity to analyticity did not only affect its inflectional system and the encoding of grammatical information, but also the derivational component. Based on a cognitive approach to derivation, the book provides empirical evidence for a considerable decline in the use of synthetic structures and a trend towards higher degrees of analyticity in a specific lexical domain of English, the formation of nouns by means of derivation. The full extent of this change surfaced during the transition from Old English to early Middle English, but it was later partly reversed though influence from French. The typological shift was thus the result of a global structural reorganization of the language that resulted in a fundamental change of the structure of words. The book also presents a comprehensive account of the historical development of nominal derivation from the beginnings of Old English until the end of the early Middle English period. Based on empirical data from written sources the study documents the frequency of use of all Germanic-based derivational morphemes for nominalizations over different subperiods and discusses their origin as well as important changes of their semantic and morphological properties. 332 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Editorial / Kaube, Jürgen -- Die Ausgedienten / Simon, Dieter -- Wahrheit, Wissenschaft, Weltverkehr -- Reputation statt Wahrheit: Verdrängt der Nebencode den Code / Schmauk, Uwe -- Verwissenschaftlichung als Globalisierungsdiagnose / Hilgert, Christian / Werron, Tobias -- Ausdifferenzierung von Konkurrenzbeziehungen. Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft im Vergleich / Kieserling, André -- Patente und Publikationen / Mersch, Christian -- Disziplinbildung. Zum Wandel wissenschaftlicher Kommunikation in der Soziologie / Vanderstraeten, Raf -- Universalgeschichte, Weltverkehr, Weltgesellschaft. Begriffsgeschichtliche Anmerkungen / Tyrell, Hartmann -- Universität, Idee, Reform -- Lebensform und Lehrform - oder: die Reformbedürftigkeit der »Humboldtschen« Universität / Tenorth, Heinz-Elmar -- A Systems Primer on Universities / Baecker, Dirk -- Die Universität als Ort der Lektüre. Printkultur trifft Screenkultur / Bohn, Cornelia -- Was ist »die amerikanische Universität« - und was sollen amerikanische Universitäten sein Neun ethnographische Aufnahmen und zwei systemische Fragen / Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich -- Harvard, Princeton, Yale und das Meritokratiemodell / Itschert, Adrian -- Die Bohème als Bildungsmilieu: Zur Struktur eines Soziotopos / Stanitzek, Georg -- Was man an der Uni lernt / Holzer, Boris -- Pendeln Oder: Variable Absenz als Form der Universität / Lehmann, Maren -- Die überforderte Universität / Schreiterer, Ulrich -- Der Sudoku-Effekt Zu den Gründen und Folgen der Komplexitätssteigerung an den Hochschulen / Kühl, Stefan -- Zum Schluss -- Wie kommt die Theorie zum Leser Der Suhrkamp Verlag und der Ruhm der Systemtheorie / Wegmann, Nikolaus -- Abstracts -- Über die Autoren -- Hinweise für unsere Autoren -- Backmatter 276 pp. Deutsch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Eine umfassende und anschauliche Einführung in die Grundlagenund Anwendungen der Statistischen Physik und Thermodynamik.Dieses Lehrbuch eignet sich sowohl als Begleitung und Vertiefungder Vorlesung über Statistische Physik und Thermodynamikals auch zum Selbststudium. Das Herausarbeiten derBegriffe und Konzepte des umfangreichen Fachgebiets sowiedie Beschreibung von Systemen nichtwechselwirkender Teilchenim thermischen Gleichgewicht bilden den Schwerpunktdieser Einführung.Aufgrund der zahlreichen Übungsaufgaben und ihrer komplettenLösungswege stellt es eine hervorragende Prüfungsvorbereitungdar. 244 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Education for all can be more effectively provided through the services, programmes and activities of the school library tailored to the needs of the school community. This inspiring book can foster the school librarian's professional development for school library enhancement. It aims at providing amazing topics, methodologies, approaches and experiences. It presents projects and practices addressing the challenges of supporting basic literacy, including contexts where many children cannot or do not access formal instruction on a regular basis. These may inspire education authorities, public librarians and other cultural professionals who work closely with schools and communities. 344 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Marketing the 21st century library and information organization to its new age customers using Web 2.0 tools is a hot topic. These proceedings focus on the marketing applications and (non- technical) aspects of Web 2.0 in library and information set ups. The papers in English and French are exploring and discussing the following aspects: General concepts of Web 2.0 and marketing of library and information organizations; How libraries are adopting Web 2.0 marketing strategies; Marketing libraries to clients in using Web 2.0 tools; International trends and Interesting cases of marketing through Web 2.0 tools. 176 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Frontmatter -- Inhalt / Contents -- Guest Editorial -- Abhandlungen / Original Papers -- The Production of Historical 'Facts': How the Wrong Number of Participants in the Leipzig Monday Demonstration on October 9,1989 Became a Convention -- 'True Believers' or Numerical Terrorism at the Nuclear Power Plant -- One-eyed Epidemiologie Dummies at Nuclear Power Plants -- Are Most Published Research Findings False -- What Fuels Publication Bias -- The Identification and Prevention of Publication Bias in the Social Sciences and Economics -- Benford's Law as an Instrument for Fraud Detection in Surveys Using the Data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) -- When Does the Second-Digit Benford's Law-Test Signal an Election Fraud -- Difficulties Detecting Fraud The Use of Benford's Law on Regression Tables -- Plagiarism in Student Papers: Prevalence Estimates Using Special Techniques for Sensitive Questions -- Pitfalls of International Comparative Research: Taking Acquiescence into Account -- Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews -- BackmatterDe Gruyter Oldenbourg, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 208 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Initiatives at a cross-cultural level, where libraries, museums and archives work together in creating digital libraries, and making their cultural heritage collections available online, are emerging. Leading academic researchers from the cultural heritage and the publishers sectors approach this issue: Digital library user experience: a focus on current user research; Digital library content: what users want and how they use it; Strategies for institutions: how cultural institutions and publishers respond to the digital challenge. 150 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Reiterated international comparative surveys offer evidences about developments of religion-related scene in Central and Eastern Europe. The present volume is the first one, which presents an extensive and detailed cross-national analysis of sociological data comparing extensively countries, regions and denominations in the past two decades.It displays achievements and shortages of a religious revival in the post-communist region, as well as religion's role in family life, social responsibility and public commitment. It proves the combination of de-Christianization based on previous persecution of religion and an ongoing modernization and the rise and the transformation of religion. In some countries popular religiosity of traditional social strata is dominant. In other countries there is a visible transition from old and low strata religiosity to a more restricted but socially more influential religiosity of young middle and upper strata groups. In final outcome the volume substantiates the growing public role of religion in Eastern and Central Europe as well as the distinct impact of religiosity on individual behaviour. These results contradict the idea of an overwhelming secularization but argue for a more complex process overcoming the communist past.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 268 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This is the first study of the typological change of English from a synthetic towards an analytic language that focuses exclusively on the lexical domain of the language. It presents an innovative approach to linguistic typology by focusing on the different encoding techniques used in the lexicon, providing a theoretical framework for the description of structural types (synthetic, analytic) and encoding techniques (fusional, isolating, agglutinative, incorporating) found in the lexicon of a language.It is argued that, in the case of English, the change from syntheticity to analyticity did not only affect its inflectional system and the encoding of grammatical information, but also the derivational component. Based on a cognitive approach to derivation, the book provides empirical evidence for a considerable decline in the use of synthetic structures and a trend towards higher degrees of analyticity in a specific lexical domain of English, the formation of nouns by means of derivation. The full extent of this change surfaced during the transition from Old English to early Middle English, but it was later partly reversed though influence from French. The typological shift was thus the result of a global structural reorganization of the language that resulted in a fundamental change of the structure of words.The book also presents a comprehensive account of the historical development of nominal derivation from the beginnings of Old English until the end of the early Middle English period. Based on empirical data from written sources the study documents the frequency of use of all Germanic-based derivational morphemes for nominalizations over different subperiods and discusses their origin as well as important changes of their semantic and morphological properties.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 332 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Cognitive linguists are convinced that the nature of linguistic structures is strongly influenced by the way we experience and perceive the world and by how we conceptualize and construe these experiences and perceptions in our minds. At the same time, the study of linguistic structure and usage is credited with the potential to open windows to how our minds work. The present volume collects papers investigating linguistic phenomena that reflect the key cognitive processes of metaphor, metonymy and conceptual blending, which have proven to be highly influential in linguistic conceptualization. Theoretical and methodological issues, such as metaphor identification and the relevance of the target domain for children's understanding of metaphor, are focused on in the first section. The second and third parts are devoted to the application of the theoretical frameworks of the conceptual theory of metaphor and metonymy and the theory of conceptual blending to linguistic data. The contributions critically explore the explanatory potential of these theories, build bridges between them, link them with other approaches and notions (such as construction grammar, common ground and stance/evaluation), and uncover conceptual regularities and cognitive models that underlie and shape our language use in specific domains. The linguistic structures under consideration span the range from compounds and premodified noun phrases to constructions and texts such as jokes and political speeches. Methods applied include psycholinguistic experiments, analyses of data culled from authentic language corpora and discourse-analytical approaches. 324 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Apart from Genesis, Tobit contains more information about marriage than any other biblical book. It reflects third-century beliefs and customs yet also serves a didactic function, teaching Diaspora Jews what they should value in their own marriages. This monograph elucidates these elements by asking four questions: 1) Whom should one marry 2) How does one get married 3) What role does God play in marriage 4) What do actual marriages look like By contextualizing Tobit in light of the Old Testament and relevant Ancient Near Eastern texts, one can appreciate the book's unique claims. Endogamy is defined more narrowly than in other Old Testament texts as Israelites are now enjoined to marry close relatives. Monetary matters such as the payment of the bride-price are downplayed, while adherence to the Mosaic Law is emphasized in the marriage contract and the wedding ceremony. Furthermore, intertextual links with Genesis 24 cast Tobiah and Sarah as founders of a 'new Israel', showing that God becomes involved in their marriage so that the nation of Israel will not die out. Finally, the author's portrayal of three married couples in the book reveals much about gender roles and also creates a realistic portrait of the marital relationship in terms of communication, cooperation, and conflict. 268 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Recent scholars have tended to interpret 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 as an attempt to belittle ecstatic experiences, such as Paul's ascent to paradise, in favor of suffering in the service of the gospel. This study offers an alternative. An analysis of ascent traditions in the Greco-Roman and Jewish worlds investigates ascent as both a literary motif and a religious practice. This analysis probes several issues relevant to 2 Cor 12:1-10, including dynamics of ascent and suffering. The study turns next to religious experiences Paul believes he and his communities have undergone. A pattern emerges in which extraordinary experiences provide the basis for suffering and service. Moreover, Paul expects his communities to have had experiences similar to, if less dramatic than, his ascent to heaven. The author argues that in its context in 2 Corinthians, Paul's ascent should be understood as an encounter with Christ that transcends human language and endows Paul with divine power, which must be refined through suffering. With the help of four premodern interpreters, the study further explores the theological relevance of Paul's ascent. For Paul, mystical encounter with Christ forms the precondition for suffering and service because it enables self-transcending love for God and neighbors. 408 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book explores Adjunct Control in Assamese, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India by about 15 million people. The author works within the Minimalist Program of syntactic theory. Adjunct Control is a relation of co-referentiality between two subjects, one in the matrix clause and one in the adjunct clause of the same structure. The relevant adjuncts in Assamese are non-finite clauses commonly known as Conjunctive Participle (CNP) clauses. Four types of Adjunct Control are examined: (i) Forward Control, in which only the matrix subject is pronounced; (ii) Backward Control, in which only the subordinate subject is pronounced; (iii) Copy Control, in which both subjects are pronounced; and (iv) Expletive Control, in which case the two control elements are expletives. While Forward Control is a cross-linguistically common control pattern, Assamese also allows the other three less common structures. The author analyzes Adjunct Control as movement and provides a detailed account of the conditions that drive and constrain each of the four types of control. The theoretical implications are highlighted. The book is unique both empirically and theoretically. It is the first monograph which deals with Assamese generative syntax. It is also the first book to explore control structures in a single understudied language in such detail. In addition to Assamese, the book provides data from Telugu, Bengali, Konkani, Marathi, Tamil, and Hindi. 240 pp. Englisch.…