This collection of essays explores the way that Ancient Greek historian Thucydides has influenced both historians as well as literary scholars. The essays are organized into five sections on ideas of
Words do not emerge in a cultural vacuum. They are revealing of speakers' values, cognitive preferences and social practices. With an engaging study of Danish cultural keywords, this book offers a new
European and North American philosophers of science show how scientific concepts can make productive contributions to the investigative practices of scientists. Taking concepts rather than theories as
This book uses a very specific topic (consonant clusters) to sharpen the focus on general issues in spoken language structure, particularly syllable structure and phonotactics, as currently investigat
This first large-scale academic study of employers' liability and workers' compensation is the result of a research project by the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law in collaboration with the I
Biochemists, hematologists, and other medical and biological specialists synthesize the current understanding of the materials and processes in the space between cells of a living organism. They cover
The interdependency of technology and communication presents theoreticians as well as practitioners with a wide range of problems. Among the topics discussed in this interdisciplinary volume are: tech
This volume brings together contributors from cognitive psychology, theoretical and applied linguistics, as well as computer science, in order to assess the progress and future directions of statistic
Debate regarding the ability of children with autism to acquire verbs is both limited and inconclusive. This book explores this understudied area of language development in autism to answer the questi
Yuri (mathematics, Middle Tennessee State U.) and Max (business and economics, Cumberland U., Tennessee) offer a core textbook for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course in an applied mathematics
Droogers (emeritus, cultural anthropology, Vrije U. Amsterdam) has selected 17 essays that reflect the changes in his thinking over the course of a long career. The large themes are margin, inversion,
The second volume in the publisher's Law and Literature Series presents contributions from both legal and literary perspectives on a wide variety of themes. A sampling of topics: medical dilemmas (the
Revised and expanded versions of 11 presentations discuss Nietzchean beginnings and developments; dissolving an opposition; instinct, language, and philosophy; and the critique of morality and the aff
All but one of the 17 papers are from an international conference at Rethymnon, Crete, in May 2007, and that one from the inaugural meeting of the Network for the Study of the Archaic and Classical Gr
The second volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae covers the inscriptions of Caesarea Maritima and the coastal region of the Middle Coast from Tel Aviv in the south to Haifa in the nor
European and North American linguists build on earlier studies of universals and variation in language, and the relationship between what superficially seem contradictory notions. They cover varieties
Editors Hebel (American studies) and Wagner (art history) are both affiliated with the U. of Regnesburg, Germany, as are many of the contributors. This collection of roughly 20 essays offers a notably
Kalra (pathology and lab medicine, U. of Saskatchewan, Canada) considers the causes and prevention of medical errors for physicians, clinical biochemists, research scientists, laboratory technologists
Georgii (mathematics, U. of Munich) examines systems of infinitely random variables attached to the vertices of a multi-dimensional lattice and depending on each other according to their positions, li
Kolokoltsov (statistics, U. of Warwick) presents a textbook explaining the essentials of Markov processes and recent achievements in their construction and analysis, stressing the interplay between pr
Writing for graduate or research mathematicians working in topological algebra and adjacent areas, Zelenyuk explains how ultrafilters are used in constructing topologies on groups with extremal proper
MSP is a timely response to the growing demand for innovative and authoritative monographs and edited volumes from all angles of pragmatics. Recent theoretical work on the semantics/pragmatics interfa
The seventh of nine volumes in the Handbook of Pragmatics, which collectively aims to cover the entire field of pragmatics, defined as the analysis of language use in social contexts, this volume is d
A revised version of King's postdoctoral Habilitationsschrift (philosophy, Ludwig Maximilians U. Munich, Germany), this is a comparative description of the two ancient theories of memory proposed in A
The contributions to this collection deal with the fundamental problem of unity, which plays a decisive role in many contemporary debates (even when this role is not acknowledged). Questions like whet
Thiscollection of original essays investigates the correlation between Nietzsche’s philosophy of time and his philosophy of history. Nietzsche’s attempt to rethink time affects the task of recording h
The book examines the social consequences of courtroom talk through detailed investigation of the cross-examination of three Australian Aboriginal boys in the case against six police officers charged
This wide-ranging volume focuses on changes in language and gender in ten different national sites as a result of globalization. The papers draw on a variety of sociolinguistic methodologies to consid
Designed for college courses in linguistics, this volume is part of an impressive four-volume set describing varieties of English worldwide. Each volume contains the tables of contents for all 4 volum
Designed for college courses in linguistics, this volume is part of an impressive four-volume set describing varieties of English worldwide. Each volume contains the tables of contents for all 4 volum
The assumption underlying the eight-volume series is that an interdisciplinary perspective is required to reconstruct 17th-century scientific practices of presentation, observation, and medial compete
The ever increasing relevance of European law which involves replacement or supplementation of and interaction with national law not only affects the states in Europe but also, and foremost, the citiz
Linguists, philosophers, computer scientists, and researchers from other fields that contribute to cognitive linguistics present 14 studies on the bodily and sensori-motor bases of such phenomena as m
Skandera (business and management, Management Center Innsbruck) presents a collection of 17 papers exploring the cultural dimension of a wide range of preconstructed or semi-preconstructed word combin
The publication of this English translation of the earlier German-language edition increases its accessibility to a wider range of scientists and decision-makers. Designed for both students and resear
In almost every part of the world, minority languages are being threatened with extinction. At the same time, dedicated efforts are being made to document endangered languages, to maintain them, and e
The volume provides transliterations, translations, and autograph copies of approximately 50 Akkadian medical texts relevant to renal and rectal diseases in Babylonia. The introduction makes general o
The author analyzes, from a historical sociolinguistic point of view, selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle EnglishPaston Letters (1421-1503). In thr
Metalanguage brings together new, original contributions on people's knowledge about language and representations of language, e.g., representations of dialects, styles, utterances, stances and goals
Drawing on her participation in advanced Association of Canadian Archivists' workshops on appraisal, Craig (information studies, U. of Toronto) introduces the appraisal concept, purposes, and historic
