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Foundations of Pragmatics
Open publication Opening the 9-volume-series Handbooks of Pragmatics, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the foundations of pragmatics. It covers the central theories and approaches as well as key concepts and topics characteristic of mainstream pragmatics, i.e. the traditional and most widespread approach to the ways and means of using language in authentic social contexts. The in-depth articles provide reliable orientational overviews useful to researchers, students, and teachers. They are both state of the art reviews of their topics and critical evaluations in the light of subsequent developments. Topics are thus considered within their scholarly context and also critical...
Placental Politics
From 1898 until World War II, U.S. imperial expansion brought significant numbers of white American women to Guam, primarily as wives to naval officers stationed on the island. Indigenous CHamoru women engaged with navy wives in a range of settings, and they used their relationships with American women to forge new forms of social and political power. As Christine Taitano DeLisle explains, much of the interaction between these women occurred in the realms of health care, midwifery, child care, and education. DeLisle focuses specifically on the pattera, Indigenous nurse-midwives who served CHamoru families. Though they showed strong interest in modern delivery practices and other accoutrement...
Letting Go
A wraith and a human and a brush with death… Falls Creek is a town where supernaturals live out in the open, but only select humans know their existence. Whether it’s in the water or something more sinister, love has come to Falls Creek and nobody is immune. Not even a cantankerous spirit relegated to the shadows. Yet, a horrific accident prompts the former Pretorian guard into action. Uraeleus never thought he’d save the life of a human. He especially didn’t expect to develop feelings for the wheelchair-bound ballerina. When Uraeleus gets a second chance at life, can he let go and learn to love again?
