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Current Research in Applied Linguistics
This volume offers a representative selection of the papers presented at the Third ELC International Postgraduate Conference on Language and Cognition (ELC3), held in Santiago de Compostela, 21–22 September 2012. The book is structured into four parts. Part I comprises syntactic studies on the auxiliary verb get in Indian English, the grammar of verbs capable of occurring with or without an object in Contemporary English, and isolated if-clauses. Part II includes two papers dealing with word formation patterns and with crosslinguistic influences on motion expression in English and Spanish. The studies in Part III discuss topics related to second language acquisition, such as the difficulties encountered by Spanish speakers in learning English pronunciation, verbal morphology production by Japanese learners of English, and the effects of elicitation on students’ production of English past tense forms. The papers in Part IV revolve around discourse analysis and psycholinguistics, addressing topics such as automatic sentiment detection, perspectival construal patterns in language and cognition, and the effect of emotional valence on disambiguation processes.
Fregean Realism
Fregean Realism: Frodo Lives! and Other Fictions argues that literary fictions, pictures, and other artworks are modes of access to Gottlob Frege’s “third realm” of objective thoughts, about both what is in the real world and what is not, but might, or might not, be. Starting with a critique of fictionalism—the doctrine that art makes no ontological commitments because it depends on acts of pretending—Andrei Pop shifts focus to the shared meaning addressed by acts of pretending and other audience reactions to works of art. This book shows that a Fregean theory of sense, assertion, and concepts does justice to the context-specificity of artistic meaning while allowing for durable—indeed eternal—conceptual content. It explores implications for venerable problems such as the truth of art, the reality of aesthetic properties, beauty and ugliness, but also for specific genres or modes, like sculpture, allegory, the relation between image and caption, and the first-person picture.
Mind Reading as a Cultural Practice
This book provides a genealogical perspective on various forms of mind reading in different settings. We understand mind reading in a broad sense as the twentieth-century attempt to generate knowledge of what people held in their minds – with a focus on scientifically-based governmental practices. This volume considers the techniques of mind reading within a wider perspective of discussions about technological innovation within neuroscience, the juridical system, “occult” practices and discourses within the wider field of parapsychology and magical beliefs. The authors address the practice of, and discourses on, mind reading as they form part of the consolidation of modern governmental...
Faces of Community in Central European Towns
Concepts of visual communication form an explanatory framework for discussing the visual expressions of urban symbolic communication in urban life in towns in the center of Europe in the late medieval and early modern period, including the dramatic times of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. This book examines the role of images and visual representation by concentrating on the varieties of symbolic communication in towns that made a range of relationships visual: the status and role of urban civic, professional, and religious communities and the relations between the town and its lord or powerful families and individuals. The geographical framework of this book is the region in the fo...
Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas on Justice and Human Rights
"A type of book we always long to read for peace and joy in any nation, Father Dr. JoeBarth Abba touched many areas amidst orgies of circles of terrorisms, Islamic insurgents with key solutions for psycho-dialogical ways on cultural ethnic tensions for conflicts resolution." --Gerhard Ludwig Cardinal Mueller, Vatican, Rome ***The book presents an inquiry into the thoughts and scholasticism of Thomas Aquinas, his classical philosophical synthesis, his insights, and the quest for Justice and Human Rights as a panacea or desired urgent solution to racial justice, abuse of human life, and human rights. Dissertation. (Series: Philosophy / Philosophie, Vol. 108) [Subject: African Studies, Human Rights Studies, Philosophy, Christian Studies, Thomas Aquinas]
Freiheit von Wissenschaft
Die Wissenschaft als Leitinstanz der Wissensgesellschaft verspricht Fortschritt, Wohlstand und die Befreiung des Menschen, die weitestgehende individuelle Autonomie – wenn man ihr nur selbst ausreichend Freiheit gewährt. Doch das Dogma von der Wissenschaft als Heilsbringerin ist brüchig geworden. In seinem Essay zeigt Christian Bachhiesl negative Auswirkungen dieses Wechselverhältnisses auf: Was die Wissenschaft und im Verbund mit ihr die Technik uns an Fortschritt auch bringen, es wird neue Abhängigkeiten, normative Imperative und die Kontrolle von immer mehr Lebensvollzügen geben. Kaum ein Bereich unseres alltäglichen Lebens bleibt vom Einfluss der Wissenschaft verschont. Der Exzes...
The Culture of the Case
How artists in twentieth-century Germany adapted the idea of the medical or legal case as an artistic strategy to push to the fore sexualities, scandals, and crimes that were otherwise concealed. In early twentieth-century Germany, the artistic avant-garde borrowed procedures from the medical and juridical realms to expose and debate matters that society preferred remain hidden and unspoken. Frederic J. Schwartz explores how the evocation or creation of a “case” provided artists with a means to engage themes that ranged from blasphemy to Lustmord, or sexual murder. Shedding light on the case as a cultural form, Schwartz shows its profound effect on artists and the ways it dovetailed with...
Digital Cultural Heritage
This book provides an overview of various application spheres and supports further innovations needed in information management and in the processes of knowledge generation. The professions, organizations and scientific associations involved are unusually challenged by the complexity of the data situation. Cartography has always been the central field of application for georeferencing digital cultural heritage (DCH) objects. It is particularly important in enabling spatial relation analysis between any number of DCH objects or of their granular details. In addition to the pure geometric aspects, the cognitive relations that lead to knowledge representation and derivation of innovative use pr...
Yoga für Kletterer und Bergsportler
Yoga ist die perfekte Ergänzung für Kletterer und Bergsportler zum oft kraftintensiven Bergsport. Denn um den Körper im Gleichgewicht zu halten, ist es wichtig, nicht nur die Muskulatur zu kräftigen, sondern auch ihre Beweglichkeit zu erhalten. Mit Yogaübungen kann man diese auf eine Art und Weise trainieren, die Spaß macht und motiviert. Yoga fördert die Balance und das Wohlbefinden zugleich. Ob im Wohnzimmer, auf der Bergwiese oder der Bouldermatte – Yoga kann man überall ausüben. Man benötigt weder Geräte noch besondere Ausrüstung. Und jede Übungseinheit lässt sich an die eigenen Bedürfnisse und Fähigkeiten anpassen. Im Buch »Yoga für Kletterer und Bergsportler« stell...
