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UPRT 2019
A collection of papers presented at UPRT 2019 at the University of Pécs, Hungary
The Bitter Taste of Hope
Essays that critically evaluate Americas domestic and foreign policy landscape since President Obama took office. President Barack Obama was elected to office on a wave of hope. With his tenure as President of the United States now concluded it is time to take stock of his record at home and abroad. The Bitter Taste of Hope is a collection of essays that critically evaluate Americas domestic landscape on the one hand, particularly new social movements, and the nations foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East, on the other. Stephen Eric Bronner engages a wide-ranging set of political and ideological conflicts that defined the Age of Obama, especially the most pressing interna...
UPRT 2017
A collection of studies in applied linguistics
UZRT 2014
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Language of the Revolution
This edited book fills a void in the existing research concerning anti-communist movements in Central and Eastern Europe, outlining the linguistic implications of the cultural, social and political metamorphoses brought about by the (change of) regime. The authors included in this volume approach the topic from a variety of perspectives, but, ultimately, focus on language seen as a fundamental tool for simultaneously subjugating and liberating, concealing and revealing truth, discouraging dissidence and fostering revolt. Readers are invited to discover the linguistic implications of the many shapes and forms that the 1989 anti-communist revolutions took. Equally interesting are the investiga...
UPRT 2015
An edited volume of applied linguistic studies
The Assault on the State
What if the state as we know it didn’t exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S., attacks on the modern state and its workforce are intensifying. They are morphing into power grabs by self-aggrandizing politicians who attempt to seize control of the state for themselves and their cronies. What replaces the modern state once it is fatally undermined is not the free market and the flowering of personal liberty. Instead, the death of government agencies organized under the rule of law inevitably leads to the only realistic alternative: the rule of men. In the A...
Dunya
Het Turkse platteland, rond 1930. Simon en Otto, twee Hollanders, zijn na de Eerste Wereldoorlog tewerkgesteld bij de bouw van het eerste Turkse luchtschip. Zij hebben een dochter, Julia, die niet beter weet dan dat Simon haar vader is en haar moeder een jonggestorven Turkse. De rijke en mondaine DÃ nya Suman, betrapt op diefstal, wordt gedwongen de Hollanders te verzorgen. Op een dag hoort zij hoe Simon in werkelijkheid aan het kind is gekomen. Alles is gebaseerd op één grote leugen, beseft ze. Maar haar band met Julia is dan al zo sterk dat zij de leugen in stand houdt - en haar kans op eerherstel opoffert.
