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Cass and Hylton explain how technological advances strengthen the case for intellectual property laws, and argue convincingly that IP laws help create a wealthier, more successful, more innovative society than alternative legal systems. Ignoring the social value of IP rights and making what others create “free” would be a costly mistake indeed.
MacKay (applied linguistics, Ball State U.) analyzes the southernmost variety of Totonac, which is spoken in Veracruz, Mexico, in the area between Xalapa and Misantla. She presents the phonological structure and the most productive morphological processes, describes the inflection and derivation of all major word classes, and introduces grammatical agreement and word-order phenomena. She has not indexed her work. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
This dynamic Companion explores the connections - and disconnections - between migration and sustainable development as articulated by the UN’s Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Providing a critical appraisal of Agenda 2030, it examines the extent to which the SDGs encompass migration and migrant-related experiences within the context of the pledge to ‘leave no-one behind’.
The "native speaker" is often thought of as an ideal language user with "a complete and possibly innate competence in the language" which is perceived as being bounded and fixed to a homogeneous speech community and linked to a nation-state. Despite recent works that challenge its empirical accuracy and theoretical utility, the notion of the "native speaker" is still prevalent today. The Native Speaker Concept shifts the analytical focus from the second language acquisition processes and teaching practices to daily interactions situated in wider sociocultural and political contexts marked by increased global movements of people and multilingual situations. Using an ethnographic approach, the...
Twenty-nine specialists offer their perspectives on migration from a wide variety of fields: political science, sociology, economics, and anthropology.
This book offers a unique insight into the character of Austrian economies and collects the recent work of the world's leading authorities in this area. The book will be welcomed by those interested in the legacy of Austrian economics.