This volume contains 30 chapters on communication and technology, focusing on semiotic codes and technologies and their changes and innovations in newspaper wire services, telecommunication networks,
The renowned German reference work The Handbuch der Zoologie/Handbook of Zoology was founded in the 1920's by Professor Willi Kükenthal in Berlin and treated the complete animal kingdom from single ce
Citing the fundamental role in contemporary ontology that notions of substance and causality still play, the editors hope to reveal some aspects worthy of debate that could stimulate further inquiry.
Nicolai Hartmann’s Possibility and Actuality is a landmark work of modal analysis that describes the logical relations between possibility, actuality, and necessity. It deals with such questions as: H
Based on the Workshop on Prosody and Meaning in Barcelona on September 17-18, 2009, this volume brings together researchers working on issues of the prosodic encoding and expression of sentence-level
This volume includes papers by leading figures in phonetics and phonology on two topics central to phonological theory: tones and phonological features. Papers address a wide range of topics bearing o
The contributors to the present volume examine, from a wide variety of perspectives, the issues of war and peace in the Middle Ages and early modern time, probing the direction of the relevant discour
A scholar of religion and a Sanskritist who share overlapping interests in history, the history of religion, philosophy, and the field of ethno-Indology combined their efforts to prepare this extraord
The 14 essays expand the project of the 2004 anthology Narrative Across Media by examining a wider variety of storytelling media, among them photographs, television, and blogs along with film, literat
Culture and Explosion is the English translation of the final book written by legendary semiotician Juri Lotman. The volume demonstrates, with copious examples, how culture influences the way that hum
In the research on the Pentateuch, Genesis 14 is regarded as an enigmatic text. Being one of the few texts where Abraham seems to be related to world history, it could potentially tell uswhen the patr
The book is the first corpus-based study giving a comprehensive overview of English items which have been used as adverbial connectors ('conjuncts', 'linking adverbials'), from Old English to Present-
Grammar and Conceptualization documents some major developments in the theory of cognitive grammar during the last decade. By further articulating the framework and showing its application to numerous
Provides an accessible collection of 12 representative and significant writings showing the continued development of the theory of cognitive grammar and illustrating its application to diverse problem
In der Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) erscheinen Arbeiten zu samtlichen Gebieten der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Im Zentrum steht die Hebraische Bibe
