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  • 1
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    Leiden : Brill | 's-Gravenhage : Mouton | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Reidel | Dordrecht : Kluwer | Dordrecht : Springer ; 1.1957 -
    ISSN: 0019-7246 , 1572-8536
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1957 -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Indo-Iranian journal
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    Keywords: Indoiranisch ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Indoiranisch ; Zeitschrift
    Note: Index 1/20.1957/78=26.1983,1/3
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9783319496092 , 3319496093 , 9783319496115
    Language: English , French
    Pages: vii, 349 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Series Statement: Multilingual education volume 20
    Series Statement: Multilingual education
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sociolinguistics in African Contexts
    DDC: 370
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Soziolinguistik
    Abstract: This volume offers a new perspective on sociolinguistics in Africa. Eschewing the traditional approach which looks at the interaction between European and African languages in the wake of colonialism, this book turns its focus to the social dynamics of African languages and African societies. Divided into two sections, the book offers insight into the crucial topics such as: language vitality and endangerment, the birth of ?new languages?, a sociolinguistics of the city, language contact and language politics. It spans the continent from Algeria to South Africa, Guinea-Bissau to Kenya and addresses the following broad themes: 0Language variation, contact and changeThe dynamics of urban, rural and youth languagesPolicy and practice0This book provides an alternative to the Eurocentric view of sociolinguistic dynamics in Africa, and will make an ideal read or supplemental textbook for scholars and students in the field/disciplines of African languages and linguistics, and those interested in southern theory or ?sociolinguistics in the margins?
    Note: Teilweise mit französischen Abstracts , References: Seiten 347-349 , This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature , Beiträge teilweise englisch, teilweise französisch
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9789402410631
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 488 p. 66 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Argumentation Library 29
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
    Series Statement: Bücher
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
    Series Statement: Social Sciences
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rocci, Andrea Modality in argumentation
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    Keywords: Logic ; Language and languages Philosophy ; Semantics ; Sociolinguistics ; Linguistics ; Language and languages Philosophy ; Linguistics ; Logic ; Semantics ; Sociolinguistics ; Modalität ; Argumentationstheorie ; Argumentstruktur ; Italienisch ; Modalität
    Abstract: This book addresses two related questions that have first arisen in Toulmin’s seminal book on the uses of argument. The first question is the one of the relationship between the semantic analysis of modality and the structure of arguments. The second question is the one of the distinctive place, or role, of modality in the fundamental structure of arguments. These two questions concern how modality, as a semantic category, relates to the fundamental structure of arguments. The book addresses modality and argumentation also according to another perspective by looking at how different linguistic modal expressions may be taken as argumentative indicators. It explores the role of modal expressions as argumentative indicators by using the Italian modal system as a case study. At the same time, it uses predictions/forecasts in the business-financial daily press to investigate the relation between modality and the context of argumentation
    Abstract: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Meaning and argumentation -- Chapter 2: Three views of modality in Toulmin -- Chapter 3: Relative modality and argumentation -- Chapter 4: Types of conversational backgrounds and arguments -- Chapter 5: Case studies of Italian modal constructions in context -- Conclusion -- Index
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9783658014360 , 9783658014377 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 165 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658014377
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 305
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    Keywords: Berufslaufbahn ; Diskriminierung ; Qualitatives Interview
    Abstract: Wenn beispielsweise Frauen mit Migrationsgeschichte oder SchwarzafrikanerInnen muslimischen Glaubens Diskriminierung am Arbeitsmarkt erfahren, liegen jeweils mehrere Diskriminierungsmotive vor ? diese Personen werden potentiell mehrfach diskriminiert. In der Untersuchung wird auf der Basis von Interviews mit ExpertInnen, von Mehrfachdiskriminierung Betroffenen und ArbeitgeberInnen den Fragen nachgegangen: 1) wie sich Mehrfachdiskriminierungen im Bildungsbereich und am Arbeitsmarkt außern; 2) welche Personen hiervon besonders betroffen sind; und 3) und welche Auswirkungen diese Erfahrungen auf ...
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  • 5
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    ISBN: 9783658060930 , 9783658060947 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 321 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658060947
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 306.8742
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    Keywords: Vater ; Vorlesen ; Deutungsmuster ; Familie ; Lesen ; Sozialisation ; Geschlechterrolle
    Abstract: Forschungsergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass Vater deutlich seltener vorlesen als Mutter - dennoch bewerten sie das Vorlesen als sehr bedeutsam fur ihr Kind. Jasmin Bastian hat Deutungsmuster herausgearbeitet, die Vater gegenuber dem Vorlesen entwickelt haben und die mit einer je unterschiedlichen Vorlesehaufigkeit einhergehen. Dabei zeigen sich mehrere starke Zugange und Blockierungen fur eine Beteiligung am Vorlesen, etwa die Vater-Kind-Beziehung, die Rollenorientierung des Vaters, die eigene Lesekompetenz oder ein padagogisches Konzept.
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  • 6
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9783658065850 , 9783658065867 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 191 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658065867
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 302.2
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    Keywords: Unternehmen ; Big Data
    Abstract: Stefanie King geht in ihrem Buch der Frage nach, weshalb Big Data, trotz des hohen Wertschopfungspotentials, bis heute nicht in allen Industriezweigen und Unternehmen genutzt wird. Im ersten Teil des Buches behandelt sie die technologischen und kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Grundlagen sowie die Einsatzgebiete von Big Data. Anschließend untersucht sie die Barrieren und entwickelt potentielle Losungsansatze. Die Autorin zeigt, dass die Herausforderungen von Big Data primar die Bereiche Daten, Ethik, Gesellschaft, Organisation, Rechtslage sowie Technologie betreffen, und erklart, wie Unternehm...
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9783658070847 , 9783658070854 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 235 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658070854
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: Studien der NRW School of Governance
    DDC: 306.3
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    Keywords: Nordrhein-Westfalen ; Geschichte 2005-2010 ; Energiepolitik ; Klimaschutz ; Europäisierung ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: ?In der vorliegenden Fallstudie untersucht Simon Wiegand die Positionen, Einflussstrategien und Funktionen von Landesregierung und Landtagsfraktionen in Nordrhein-Westfalen im Politikprozess zum ?Europaischen Energie- und Klimapaket" in der Regierungszeit von CDU/FDP von 2005 bis 2010. Lassen sich die in der politikwissenschaftlichen Diskussion oftmals vertretenen Thesen vom Bedeutungsverlust der deutschen Lander durch die europaische Integration und von der Entparlamentarisierung subnationaler Politik bestatigen Die vorliegende Studie geht diesen und weiterfuhrenden Fragen nach und untersucht...
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9783658006020 , 9783658006037 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 366 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658006037
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: Organisationssoziologie
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Organisationsstruktur ; Standardisierung ; Informelle Organisation ; Organisationsforschung ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Dass Formalitat und Informalitat in Organisationen zusammenspielen, ist fur die Organisationsforschung nicht neu, aber immer wieder aktuell: Organisationen bewaltigen Unsicherheit einerseits durch steigende Regelungsdichte und Standardisierung und andererseits dadurch, dass sie klassische formale Organisationsstrukturen abbauen und auf Flexibilitat, Selbstmotivation und Kooperation setzen. Beide Entwicklungslinien fuhren zu Folgeproblemen. Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Entwicklungen thematisiert dieser Band folgende Fragestellungen: Wann findet warum eine Formalisierung des Informellen ? oder umg...
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9783658052805 , 9783658052812 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 335 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658052812
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Öffentlicher Verkehrsbetrieb ; Schienennahverkehr ; Privatisierung ; Wettbewerb ; Institutionenökonomie ; Governance ; Daseinsvorsorge
    Abstract: Auf Basis der Neuen Institutionenokonomik und des Governance-Ansatzes wertet Florian Krummheuer Beispiele von privatisierten kommunalen Bahnsystemen im europaischen Ausland sowie die Erfahrungen bei der Marktoffnung aus dem Schienen- und Busverkehr in Deutschland aus. Dabei liegt der Fokus auf der Interaktion der Akteure im durch Wettbewerb gepragten Rechtsrahmen. Er verfolgt dazu einen planungswissenschaftlichen Zugang: So werden die Interaktionsformen, Informationsasymmetrien und Interessendivergenzen in der Steuerung, bei der Ubertragung von Verfugungsrechten oder der Wahrnehmung von Fahrga...
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9783658069506 , 9783658069513 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 249 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658069513
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Online-Publikation
    Abstract: ?Brigitte Petendra beschaftigt sich mit der raumlichen Dimension von Arbeit in einer flexibilisierten Arbeitswelt. Als Analysefall zieht sie den spezifischen Ort ?Buro" heran, der im Zuge des Abbaus burokratischer undfordistisch-tayloristischer Arbeitsweisen sowie der Pluralisierung vonArbeitsorten zunehmend reorganisiert wird. Ausgehend von diesen Reorganisationsprozessen wird das moderne Buro als symbolisch-materielles Arrangement der Flexibilisierung von Arbeit betrachtet. Anhand von Interviews, Kognitiven Karten und Ortserkundungen werden vier Falle komparativ analysiert und Wahrnehmungspr...
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9783658038021 , 9783658038038 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 151 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658038038
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftsgeografie ; Wörterbuch
    Abstract: Von der Arrondierung uber Footloose Industry und Isolinien bis zur Zeitdistanzmethode: Die Sprache der Wirtschaftsgeografie ist von zahlreichen Fachtermini und Anglizismen gepragt. Einen ersten schnellen Uberblick verschafft das vorliegende Nachschlagewerk. Anhand von 222 ubersichtlichen Schlusselbegriffen werden die Grundkonzepte und -theorien der Wirtschaftsgeografie erlautert. Die Erklarungen sind kompakt und verstandlich formuliert und bieten somit Basiswissen fur alle, die einen schnellen Einstieg suchen, sich fur die Grundlagen der Wirtschaftsgeografie interessieren oder ihre vorhandenen...
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9789400778559 , 9789402406085
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 327 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Educational linguistics volume 20
    Series Statement: Educational linguistics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Blackledge, Adrian, 1959 - Heteroglossia as Practice and Pedagogy
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    Keywords: Education ; Applied linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; Language and languages ; Applied linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; Language and languages ; Education ; Mehrsprachigkeit ; Soziolinguistik ; Erziehung
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9789400770829
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 280 p. 7 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Advances in Business Ethics Research, A Journal of Business Ethics Book Series 4
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Accounting for the public interest
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Auditing ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Auditing ; Rechnungslegung ; Ethik ; Rechnungslegung ; Ethik
    Abstract: This volume explores the opportunities and challenges facing the accounting profession in an increasingly globalized business and financial reporting environment. It looks back at past experiences of the profession in attempting to meet its public interest obligation. It examines the role and responsibilities of accounting to society including regulatory requirements, increased emphasis on corporate social responsibility, accounting fraud and whistle-blowing implications, internationalization of public interest obligations, and providing the education needed to be successful. The book incorporates an ethical dimension in making these assessments. Its focus is a conceptual, theoretical one drawing on classical philosophy, the sociology of professions, economic theory, and the public interest dimension of accountants as professionals. The authors of papers are long-time contributors to the annual symposium on Research in Accounting Ethics sponsored by the Public Interest Section of the AAA.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 14
    ISBN: 9783658029777 , 9783658029784 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 172 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658029784
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1990-2013 ; Modernisierung ; Soziokultureller Wandel ; Politischer Wandel ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; China ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Der vorliegende Band stellt einen neuen Zugang für das Verständnis der Modernisierung Chinas seit den 1990er Jahren vor. Die Umstellung von der Plan- zur Marktwirtschaft verstehen wir nur dann angemessen, wenn wir die sozial-strukturellen Veränderungen der chinesischen Gesellschaft erfassen. Mit diesem Buch erhalten China-Interessierte aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik einen Einblick in die Modernisierung Chinas, ihrer besonderen Eigenart und ihrer zu erwartenden zukünftigen Veränderungen. Die LeserInnen bekommen ein Verständnis des Hintergrunds der chinesischen Gesellschaft, das ...
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  • 15
    ISBN: 9783658023164 , 9783658023171 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 356 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658023171
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Innovation ; Interdisziplinarität
    Abstract: ?Innovationen sind Ursache und Folge des sozialen Wandels, politischer Umbrüche und wirtschaftlicher Entwicklungen. Renommierte Vertreter aus Wissenschaft und Praxis stellen in diesem Handbuch verschiedene Aspekte von Innovationen dar und reflektieren sie kritisch.
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  • 16
    E-Resource
    E-Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9783658010980 , 9783658010997 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 480 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658010997
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: Europa – Politik – Gesellschaft
    DDC: 303.3094
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    Keywords: Europäische Kommission ; Politische Rede ; Europäische Integration ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Es gehört mittlerweile zum einigermaßen gesicherten Wissensbestand der Soziologie der europäischen Integration, dass im durch eine spezifische institutionelle Architektur geprägten Entscheidungsgefüge der Europäischen Union gesellschaftliche Konflikte wie Verteilungs-, Interessen- und Wertkonflikte weitgehend entpolitisiert werden. An die Stelle von „Politik"" treten dadurch vermehrt „technokratische Lösungen"" und „sachbezogene Verwaltung"", diese beiden werden wiederum permanent von „politischer Rhetorik"" überlagert. Gegenwärtig ist in der Europaso­zio­logie immer deutlicher die Ansicht zu ...
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  • 17
    ISBN: 9783658040482 , 9783658040499 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 175 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658040499
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Familienbetrieb ; Lobbyismus ; Region ; Politische Kommunikation ; Deutschland
    Abstract: In Berlin und Brüssel vertreten ca. 22.000 Lobbyisten die Interessen von Publikumsgesellschaften. Doch rund 90 Prozent der deutschen Wirtschaft, die Familienunternehmen, verzichten bislang auf strategische politische Kommunikation: Sie interagieren auf regionaler Ebene intensiv mit der Politik. Die dort erfolgreiche, persönliche politische Kommunikationskultur ist auf überregionaler Ebene nicht realisierbar: Zu viele Issues und Stakeholder erfordern den Konsens und die Professionalisierung. Lars Schatilow führt erstmals die Differenzierung Familien- vs. „Nicht-Familien“-Unternehmen in ...
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  • 18
    ISBN: 9783658043490 , 9783658043506 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 415 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658043506
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    Series Statement: Organisationskommunikation
    DDC: 302.2
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    Keywords: Gesundheitswesen ; Vertrauen ; Erwartung
    Abstract: Patricia Grünberg leistet eine Bestandsaufnahme der sozialwissenschaftlichen Vertrauensforschung und überträgt diese Erkenntnisse, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Theorie öffentlichen Vertrauens, auf das deutsche Gesundheitssystem. Im empirischen Teil wird mittels 17 qualitativer Leitfadeninterviews mit Patienten untersucht, wie unterschiedliche Erfahrungen die vertrauensrelevanten Erwartungen an das Gesundheitssystem und seine Akteure beeinflussen.
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  • 19
    ISBN: 9783658023287 , 9783658023294 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 283 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658023294
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    DDC: 302.2
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    Keywords: Organisation ; Kommunikation ; Soziale Software ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Die AutorInnen dieses Sammelbandes analysieren das Einsatzpotenzial und die Anwendungsfelder von Social Media in der Organisationskommunikation verschiedener Branchen (Finanzdienstleister, Tourismusorganisationen etc.) ebenso wie in verschiedenen Kommunikationsbereichen, z. B. Business-to-Business, Markenkommunikation, politische Kommunikation und Non-Profit-Kommunikation. Neben theoretischen Aspekten werden dabei jeweils die Ergebnisse empirischer Studien vorgestellt. Fazit: Die Rolle von Social Media als Haupt- oder Nebendarsteller moderner Organisationskommunikation ist derzeit noch umstrit...
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  • 20
    ISBN: 9400755732 , 9789400755734
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 202 Seiten
    Series Statement: Advances in group decision and negotiation volume 6
    Series Statement: Advances in group decision and negotiation
    DDC: 303.4820113
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  • 21
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789400762688
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 190 p. 36 illus)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2013
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Human Geography ; Sustainable Development ; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning ; Human Geography ; Sustainable development ; Regional planning ; Lebensunterhalt ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Nigeria ; Nigeria ; Lebensunterhalt ; Nachhaltigkeit
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
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  • 22
    ISBN: 9789400762688
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 190 p. 36 illus) , digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Sustainable development ; Human Geography
    Abstract:  We all view the ubiquitous term ‘sustainability’ as a worthwhile goal. But how can we apply the principles of sustainability in the real world, at the sharp end of communities in developing nations where income insecurity is the troubled norm? This volume provides some practical answers, explaining the precepts of the ‘sustainable livelihood approach’ (SLA) through the case study of a microfinance scheme in Africa. The case study, centered around the work of the Catholic Church’s Diocesan Development Services organization, involved an SLA implemented over two years designed in part to help enhance its existing microfinance operation through closer links between local communities and international donors. The book’s central conclusion is that we must move beyond the concept of sustainable livelihood itself, with its in-built polarities between developed and developing nations, and embrace a more global notion of ‘sustainable lifestyle’; a more nuanced and inclusive approach that encompasses not just how we make a sustainable living, but how we can live sustainable lives
    Description / Table of Contents: Sustainable Livelihood Approach; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Sustainability and Sustainable Livelihoods; 1.1 The Future of Sustainability; 1.2 The Multiverse of Sustainability; 1.3 Practicing Sustainability; 1.4 Structure of the Book; 2 The Theory Behind the Sustainable Livelihood Approach; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The SLA Framework; 2.3 Definitions of SLA; 2.4 Origins of SLA; 2.5 Capital in SLA; 2.6 Vulnerability and Institutional Context; 2.7 Representation Within SLA; 2.8 The Attractions and Popularity of SLA; 2.9 Critiques of SLA
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.10 SLA for Evidence-Based Intervention2.11 Conclusion; 3 Context of the Sustainable Livelihood Approach; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Governing an African Giant; 3.3 Economic Development in Nigeria; 3.4 A Kingdom Discovered; 3.5 Igala Livelihoods; An Overview; 3.6 The Diocesan Development Services in Igalaland; 3.7 New Pastures; 3.8 Choice of Villages for the SLA; 3.9 Conclusions; 4 The Sustainable Livelihood Approach in Practice; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Sample Households; 4.3 Human Capital: The Households; 4.3.1 Household M1 (Headed by the Village Chief)
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3.2 Household M2 (Headed by a Senior Igbo)4.3.3 Household M3(Igbo Community Leader); 4.3.4 Household M4 (farmer and business man); 4.3.5 Household E1 (Farmer and Vigilante); 4.3.6 Household E2(Madaki of Edeke); 4.3.7 Household E3 (Farmer and Fisherman); 4.3.8 Household E4 (Madaki in Edeke); 4.4 Natural Capital: Land and Farming; 4.5 Natural Capital: Trees; 4.6 Social Capital: Networks; 4.7 Physical Capital: Assets for Income Generation; 4.8 Financial Capital: Household Budgets; 4.9 Vulnerability and Institutional Contexts; 4.10 Did SLA Succeed?; 4.11 Conclusions; 5 Livelihood into Lifestyle
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.1 Introduction5.2 How SLA?; 5.3 Where SLA?; 5.4 Transferability of SLA; 5.5 Livelihood into Lifestyle; 5.6 Conclusions; References; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 23
    ISBN: 9783658012953
    Language: German
    Pages: Online-Ressource (208 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Zwischen Reformeifer und Ernüchterung : Ãœbergänge in beruflichen Lebensläufen
    DDC: 306.3
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    Keywords: School-to-work transition ; Vocational education ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift 2012
    Abstract: Bei der Frage der Reformierung des Übergangssystems können wir auf eine über drei Jahrzehnte dauernde Geschichte zurückblicken. Als temporäres Unterstützungsangebot gedacht, zeugen Begriffe wie 'Maßnahmedschungel' und 'Warteschleife' von einer Ernüchterung hinsichtlich der Realisierung von Reformansprüchen beim Übergang von der Schule in die Ausbildung. Dennoch ist der Reformeifer nach wie vor ungebrochen. Die Vielzahl an Programmen und Initiativen signalisieren nicht nur ein wachsendes Problembewusstsein, sondern auch, dass nicht zuletzt durch die Reformen der Reformbedarf steigt. A
    Description / Table of Contents: Inhalt; Zwischen Reformeifer und Ernüchterung: Übergänge in beruflichen Lebensläufen; Abstract; 1. Das Übergangssystem als Maßnahmen- und Reformdscbungel; 2. Neue Qualität in der Debatte um Reformen des Übergangssystems; Literatur; Zur Bedeutung und künftigen Entwicklung des Übergangsbereiches - Welche Informationen liefert die integrierte Ausbildungsberichterstattung (iABE)?; Abstract; 1. Ausgangslage; 2. Ausbildungsmarkt und Übergangsprobleme; 3. Datenlage zum Übergangsbereich:Die integrierte Ausbildungsbericbterstattung (iADE)
    Description / Table of Contents: 4. Der Übergangsbereich im Vergleich der anderen Bildungssektoren5. Künftige Entwicklung des Übergangsbereiches; 6. Fazit; Literatur; Ausdifferenzierung von Übergangswegen von der Schule in dieAusbildung. Ergebnisse aus Längsschnittstudien des DJI; Abstract; 1. Ausgangssituation; 2. FragesteUungen; 3. Datengrundlage; 4. Ergebnisse; 4.1 Pläne und Wege nach Beendigung der Schule; 4.2 Verlaufstypen von Bildungs- und Ausbildungswegen in den ersten fünf Übergangsjahren3; 4.3 Determinanten der Verlaufstypen; 4.4 Ergebnisse der qualitativen Interviews; 5. Fazit; Literatur
    Description / Table of Contents: Biographische Risiken und schulpädagogische MaßnahmenAbstract; 1. Einleitung; 2. Gesellschaftliche Anforderungen, Kompetenz und Lernen; 3. Das Forschungsprojekt; 3.1 Empirische Befunde: Jugendleben in pädagogischen Maßnahmen; 3.2 Jugendphase und Gesellschaftlichkeit; Literatur; Werkschulen in Bremen - Ergebnisse des ESF-Pilotvorhabens""Entwicklung und Implementation eines Konzeptszur Förderung lernbenachteiligter Jugendlicher durchpraxisorientiertes Lernen""; Ahstract; 1. Einleitung; 2. Konzept der Werkschule; 2.1 Vorläufer der Werkschule und gesetzlicher Rahmen
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2 Gestaltungsprinzipien des Werkschulkonzepts3. Ergebnisse der Befragung; 3.1 Befragungsergebnisse - Werkschulteam; 3.2 Befragungsergebnisse - Schülerinnen und Schüler; 4. Zusammenfassung und Empfehlungen; Literatur; ""Und Sie bewegt sich doch"" - Das HamburgerAusbildungsmodell und die Veränderungen im Übergangssystem; Abstract; 1. Der ""pädagogische Zwischenraum"" - Chancenlosigkeit durch Bildung; 2. Quantitative Veränderungen: Kehrtwende?; 3. Das ""Hamburger Ausbildungsmodell""; 3.1 Politische Entwicklungslinien der Reform der beruflichen Bildung in Hamburg
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2 Erste Konturierung des ""Hamburger Ausbildungsmodells""3.2.1 Neue Übergangsstrukturen; 4. Zwischenstand; 5. Fazit; Literatur; Zielkonßikte beruflicher Qualifizierung zwischen Bildungs-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik; Abstract; 1. Vorbemerkungen; 2. Die These vom Übergangssystem als Kollateralschaden der dualenBerufsaushildung; 3. Das strukturelle Dilemma eines weltweit anerkannten Qualifizierungskonzeptes; 4. Fazit; Literatur; Das Übergangsgeschehen - ein neues ""Dispositiv der Macht""?Bericht über eine Verblüffung; Abstract; 1. Einleitung; 2. Eine merkwürdige Gemengelage
    Description / Table of Contents: 3. Wahrnehmungen und Diskurse
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    ISBN: 9789400745995 , 128363385X , 9781283633857
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 255 p. 102 illus., 12 illus. in color, digital)
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 357
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Betz, Gregor Debate dynamics: how controversy improves our beliefs
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Artificial intelligence ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Logic ; Science Philosophy ; Artificial intelligence ; Argumentationstheorie ; Debatte
    Abstract: Is critical argumentation an effective way to overcome disagreement? And does the exchange of arguments bring opponents in a controversy closer to the truth? This study provides a new perspective on these pivotal questions. By means of multi-agent simulations, it investigates the truth and consensus-conduciveness of controversial debates. The book brings together research in formal epistemology and argumentation theory. Aside from its consequences for discursive practice, the work may have important implications for philosophy of science and the way we construe scientific rationality as well.
    Description / Table of Contents: Debate Dynamics: How Controversy Improves Our Beliefs; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: General Introduction; 1.1 The Aims of Argumentation; 1.2 An Example of a Controversial Argumentation; 1.3 Modeling Controversial Debate; 1.4 Results Pertaining to Consensus-Conduciveness; 1.5 Results Pertaining to Truth-Conduciveness; 1.6 Objections and Caveats; 1.7 Putting the Approach in Perspective; Chapter 2: An Introduction to the Theory of Dialectical Structures; 2.1 Fundamental Concepts; 2.2 Degrees of Justification; 2.3 The Space of Coherent Positions; 2.4 Normalized Closeness Centrality
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.5 Inferential Density2.6 The General Design of the Simulations; Part I: Why Do We Agree? On the Consensus-Conduciveness of Controversial Argumentation; Chapter 3: Introduction to Part I; 3.1 Outline of Part I; 3.2 Main Results and Their Justification; Chapter 4: The Consensual Dynamics of Simple Random Debates; 4.1 Setup; 4.2 Results; 4.3 Discussion; 4.4 Results, Continued; 4.5 Discussion, Continued; Chapter 5: The Consensual Dynamics of Random Debates with Explicit Background Knowledge; 5.1 Setup; 5.2 Results; 5.3 Discussion
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Comparing the Consensual Dynamics of Four Proponent-Specific Argumentation Strategies in Dualistic Debates6.1 Setup; 6.2 Results; 6.3 Discussion; Chapter 7: The Consensual Dynamics of Argumentation Strategies in Many-Proponent Debates; 7.1 Setup; 7.2 Results; 7.3 Discussion; Chapter 8: The Consensual Dynamics of Debates with Core Updating; 8.1 Setup; 8.2 Results; 8.3 Discussion; Chapter 9: The Consensual Dynamics of Debates with Core Argumentation; 9.1 Setup; 9.2 Results; 9.3 Discussion; Part II: How Do We Know? On the Truth-Conduciveness of Controversial Argumentation
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 10: Introduction to Part II10.1 Outline of Part II; 10.2 Main Results and Their Justification; Chapter 11: The Veritistic Dynamics of Simple Random Debates; 11.1 Setup; 11.2 Results; 11.2.1 Truth's Attraction: How Rapidly Does the Proponents' Verisimilitude Increase?; 11.2.2 The Verisimilitude of Consensus Positions: Is Mutual Agreement a Good Indicator of Having Reached the Truth?; 11.2.3 The Verisimilitude of Stable Positions: Are Proponent Positions Which Remain Relatively Stable Closer to the Truth?; 11.3 Discussion
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 12: The Veritistic Dynamics of Random Debates with Explicit Background Knowledge12.1 Setup; 12.2 Results; 12.3 Discussion; Chapter 13: Comparing the Veritistic Dynamics of Four Proponent-Specific Argumentation Strategies in Dualistic Debates; 13.1 Setup; 13.2 Results; 13.3 Discussion; Chapter 14: The Veritistic Dynamics of Argumentation Strategies in Many-Proponent Debates; 14.1 Setup; 14.2 Results; 14.2.1 Truth's Attraction: How Rapidly Does the Proponents' Verisimilitude Increase?
    Description / Table of Contents: 14.2.2 The Verisimilitude of Consensus Positions: Is Mutual Agreement a Good Indicator of Having Reached the Truth?
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    ISBN: 9789400751071 , 1283698145 , 9781283698146
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 232 p. 14 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 17
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Tchibozo, Guy Cultural and social diversity and the transition from education to work
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    Keywords: Labor economics ; Education ; Education ; Labor economics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Schule ; Berufsbildung ; Übergang
    Abstract: This edited volume provides multidisciplinary and international insights into the policy, managerial and educational aspects of diverse students transitions from education to employment. As employers require increasing global competence on the part of those leaving education, this research asks whether increasing multiculturalism in developed societies, often seen as a challenge to their cohesion, is in fact a potential advantage in an evolving employment sector. This is a vital and under-researched field, and this new publication in Springers Technical and Vocational Education and Training series provides analysis both of theory and empirical data, submitted by researchers from nine nations including the USA, Oman, Malaysia, and countries in the European Union. The papers trace the origins of business demand for diversity in their workforces skill set, including national, local and institutional contexts. They also consider how social, demographic, cultural, religious and linguistic diversity inform the attitudes of those seeking workand those seeking workers. With clear suggestions for future research, this work on a topic of rising profile will be read with interest by educators, policy makers, employers and careers advisors.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cultural and Social Diversity and the Transition from Education to Work; Preface; Springer: Technical and Vocational Education and Training Series; Contents; About the Contributors; About the Editor; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1: Leveraging Diversity to Promote Successful Transition from Education to Work; 1 Problem Statement; 2 Theoretical Approach and Research Procedure; 3 Concepts; 3.1 Concept of School-to-Work Transition System; 3.1.1 School-to-Work Transition Process; 3.1.2 School-to-Work Transition System; 3.2 Concept of Organisations' Demand for Diversity; 3.2.1 Diversity
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2.2 Reasons for the Demand for Diversity3.2.3 Organisations' Demand for Diversity; 4 How Can the School-to-Work Transition System Address the Demand for Diversity?; 4.1 Role of the Education Subsystem; 4.2 Role of the Employment Subsystem; 5 Conclusion; References; Part II: The Demand for Cultural and Social Diversity; Chapter 2: Cultural and Social Diversity in the United States: A Compelling National Interest; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Demand for Cultural and Social Diversity; 1.1.1 Cultural Competency; 1.1.2 Representative Bureaucracy; 2 Confrontations Over Educational Access; 3 Summary
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 Future ResearchReferences; Chapter 3: Perceptions of the Demand for Cultural Diversity in the Omani Workplace and Its Availability Among Secondary School Students; 1 Cultural Diversity in the Workplace; 2 Role of Education in Shaping Cultural Diversity Orientations and Skills; 3 Cultural Diversity in Oman; 4 Demand for Cultural Diversity in the Omani Workplace; 5 Theoretical Framework; 6 Importance of the Study; 7 Research Questions; 8 Study Instrument; 8.1 Awareness of Local and Global Factors; 8.2 Awareness of Cultural Types; 8.3 Attributes; 8.4 Skills/Competencies; 9 Study Samples
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Data Analysis11 Attributes and Skills; 12 Discussion and Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Cultural Diversity and the School-To-Work Transition: A Relational Perspective; 1 Introduction; 2 The Concept of Cultural Diversity; 2.1 Background to Cultural Diversity in Europe; 2.2 Workforce Diversity; 3 Approaches to Managing Diversity; 4 The European Tourism Sector; 4.1 Human Resources in Tourism; 5 Workplace Diversity in European Tourism; 6 Theoretical Framework; 6.1 Capital; 6.2 Habitus; 6.3 Field; 7 Methods; 7.1 Limitations; 8 Findings and Discussion; 8.1 The Macro Socio-Economic Context
    Description / Table of Contents: 8.2 Student Reflections8.3 Human Capital/Cultural Capital; 8.4 International Experience; 8.5 Physical/Cultural Characteristics; 9 Survey of Jobseekers; 10 Survey of Employers; 11 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Workforce Diversity in Malaysia: Current and Future Demand of Persons with Disabilities; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Demand of PWDs as Workforce; 1.2 Challenges and Strategies in Employing PWDs; 1.3 Future Trends; 2 Research Objectives; 2.1 To Compare the Profiles of Organizations That Hired and Did Not Hire PWDs as Workforce
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2 To Examine Organizations' Views About Demands on PWDs as Workforce
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    ISBN: 9789400747593 , 1283634082 , 9781283634083
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 221 p, digital)
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    Keywords: Education ; Education ; Education Philosophy ; Arbeit ; Lebenslanges Lernen
    Abstract: This book's original contribution to a crowded literature on work and learning will attract strong international interest. Its focus on the philosophy of learning at work brings a fresh perspective on a topic normally viewed through psychological, anthropological and sociological eyes. It assembles a host of internationally recognized scholars who reflect on the various philosophies of work-based learning. Full of distinctive and original contributions that provide perceptive insights into the subject, the work will be a practical support to teachers, trainers and researchers at the same time
    Abstract: This books original contribution to a crowded literature on work and learning will attract strong international interest. Its focus on the philosophy of learning at work brings a fresh perspective on a topic normally viewed through psychological, anthropological and sociological eyes. It assembles a host of internationally recognized scholars who reflect on the various philosophies of work-based learning. Full of distinctive and original contributions that provide perceptive insights into the subject, the work will be a practical support to teachers, trainers and researchers at the same time as it gives readers a clear philosophical grounding in learning at work. It is, however, not simply a book about philosophy, but a gazetteer of approaches to education in work that will sustain and inspire those who provide, engage in, and support the learning of new knowledge and skills in the workplace. With adaptability to new employment opportunities so vital to existing workers, the authors stand behind continued provision of work-based learning in the face of tightening economic constraints.
    Description / Table of Contents: Learning, Work and Practice: New Understandings; Foreword; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Thinking About Work in Work Based Learning; References; Part I; Chapter 2: The Workplace as a Site of Learning: Reflections on the Conceptual Relationship Between Workplace and Learning; Introduction: The Concept of a Workplace; The Concept of Work; Constraints on the Workplace as a Learning Environment; Why Some Learning Has to Take Place in the Workplace; Operational Conditions and the Workplace; Collective Knowledge in the Workplace; IVET and CVET
    Description / Table of Contents: Towards the Development of Professional Agency Through the Workplace as a Site of LearningReferences; Chapter 3: The Role of On-the-Job and Off-the-Job Provision in Vocational Education and Training; The Disappearing Knowledge Trick; A Different Approach; References; Chapter 4: Tacit Knowledge and the Labour Process; Introduction; Knowledge and Wealth: Retreat from Human Capital?; Braverman's Labour Process Theory; Importance of Knowledge at Work; The Knowledge Worker; Is Knowledge Work Rampant?; Knowledge Management and the Labour Process; Knowledge Sharing
    Description / Table of Contents: Commodification of Knowledge: A Global/Local QuestionEspoused Reasons for Knowledge Management; Resisting Standardization at Work; Rise of Tacit Knowledge; Knowledge Ownership at Work; Conclusion; Implications; References; Chapter 5: Workplace Identity, Transition and the Role of Learning; The Concept of Workplace Identity; Research into Graduate Identity; Constructing Graduate Identity; Values; Intellect; Performance; Engagement; From Graduate Identity to Workplace Identity; Developing Workplace Identity; References; Part II
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Ontological Distinctiveness and the Emergence of PurposesIntroduction: Beyond 'Mere Castles in the Air'; Ontologically Distinctive Properties; Unpredictability; Irreducibility; Inexplicability; The Significance of Purpose; Pushing on with Purpose; Projective Practices; Building Capacities; Identity and Agency; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: Practice as a Key Idea in Understanding Work-Based Learning; Introduction; The Scope of the Term 'Work-Based Learning'; Changing Understandings of Work-Based Learning; Early Theories Influenced by Psychology; Sociocultural Theories
    Description / Table of Contents: Postmodern TheoriesDiverse Understandings of Practice; MacIntyre's Account; Green's Analysis of Less Attenuated Theories; Implications of More Recent Learning Theories and the Practice Turn for Understanding Work-Based Learning; Conclusion; References; Part III; Chapter 8: Aristotelian Gnoseology and Work-Based Learning; Introduction; Work-Based Learning and the Critique of Aristotle; Other Knowledge Is Valuable: For Aristotle Too; The Phronimoi , Their Leisure (Skholi) and Their Occupation (Askholia); References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 9: Working Our Way Through Murky Coordinates: Philosophy in Support of Truth Processes
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    ISBN: 9789400753105
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 207 p. 220 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 92
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Different kinds of specificity across languages
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    Keywords: Comparative linguistics ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Comparative linguistics ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Definiteness (Linguistics) ; Semantics ; Konferenzschrift 2007 ; Definitheit ; Kontrastive Semantik
    Abstract: This anthology of papers analyzes a range of specificity markers found in natural languages. It reflects the fact that despite intensive research into these markers, the vast differences between the markers across languages and even within single languages have been less acknowledged. Commonly regarded specific indefinites are by no means a homogenous class, and so this volume fills a gap in our understanding of the semantics and pragmatics of indefinites. The papers explore differences and similarities among these specificity markers, concentrating on the following issues: whether specificity is a purely semantic or also a pragmatic notion; whether the contribution of specificity markers is located on the level of the at-issue content; whether some kind of speaker-listener asymmetry concerning the identification of the referent is involved; and the behavioral scope of these indefinites in the context of other quantifiers, negation, attitude verbs, and intensional/modal operators
    Abstract: This anthology of papers analyzes a range of specificity markers found in natural languages. It reflects the fact that despite intensive research into these markers, the vast differences between the markers across languages and even within single languages have been less acknowledged. Commonly regarded specific indefinites are by no means a homogenous class, and so this volume fills a gap in our understanding of the semantics and pragmatics of indefinites.The papers explore differences and similarities among these specificity markers, concentrating on the following issues: whether specificity is a purely semantic or also a pragmatic notion; whether the contribution of specificity markers is located on the level of the at-issue content; whether some kind of speaker-listener asymmetry concerning the identification of the referent is involved; and the behavioral scope of these indefinites in the context of other quantifiers, negation, attitude verbs, and intensional/modal operators.
    Description / Table of Contents: Different Kinds of Specificity Across Languages; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; References; Chapter 2: Specificity Markers and Nominal Exclamatives in French; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Un N Précis Versus un N; 2.2.1 An Anti-singleton Indefinite; 2.2.2 A Selective Indefinite; 2.2.3 Background and Scope; 2.3 Un Certain N Versus un N (Précis); 2.3.1 Un Certain N And un N Précis; 2.3.2 Un Certain N Versus un N; 2.3.2.1 The Uses of un Certain N; 2.3.2.2 The Evidential Value of un Certain N; 2.3.3 Intermediate Conclusion; 2.4 The Puzzle of Exclamative Nominal Sentences
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4.1 The Guise of the Surprise2.4.2 A Temporal Conflict; 2.4.3 Some Speculations About Evaluative Items; 2.5 Conclusions; References; Chapter 3: The Interpretation of the German Specificity Markers Bestimmt and Gewiss; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Syntax of Bestimmt and Gewiss; 3.3 Semantic Differences Between Bestimmt and Gewiss; 3.3.1 Identifiability; 3.3.2 The Scope-Taking Behaviour of `Bestimmt' and `Gewiss'; 3.3.2.1 Negation; 3.3.2.2 Nominal Quantifiers; 3.3.2.3 Conditionals; 3.3.2.4 Intensional Operators; 3.4 A Comparison to Other Specificity Markers; 3.5 A Formal Analysis
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5.1 Technicalities: Concealed Questions Under Cover3.5.2 The Meaning of `Bestimmt'; 3.5.2.1 Pragmatic Issues; 3.5.2.2 Identifiability; 3.5.2.3 Scope: Nominal Quantifiers; 3.5.2.4 Scope: Negation; 3.5.2.5 Scope: Intensional Operators and Conditionals; 3.5.3 Technicalities: Conventional Implicatures; 3.5.4 The Meaning of `Gewiss'; 3.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Pragmatic Variation Among Specificity Markers; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Specificity Marking in English and Russian; 4.3 Felicity Conditions on Specificity; 4.3.1 ThisR-Indefinites and Noteworthiness
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3.2 OdinR-Indefinites and Identifiability4.3.3 Felicity Conditions: Noteworthiness vs. Identifiability; 4.3.4 Shades of Identifiability; 4.3.5 Crosslinguistic Evidence; 4.4 Anti-uniqueness; 4.4.1 A Possible Answer: Maximize Presupposition; 4.4.2 Deriving the Anti-uniqueness Effects on OdinR; 4.5 Possessive Constructions; 4.5.1 Types of Possessive Constructions in Russian; 4.5.2 Possessive Constructions and Specificity in Russian; 4.5.3 The Puzzle; 4.6 Conclusion and Further Questions; References; Chapter 5: Certain Presuppositions and Some Intermediate Readings, and Vice Versa
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.1 Introduction5.2 Choice Functions and Intermediate Readings; 5.2.1 Wide-Scope Indefinites and Choice Functions; 5.2.2 Existential Closure versus Choice Functions from Context; 5.3 Different Kinds of Exceptional Scope: A Certain and Some; 5.4 The Meaning for Some and a Presuppositional Explanation of Schwarz's Generalization; 5.5 Presuppositions of a Certain; 5.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Exceptional Scope: The Case of Spanish; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Domain Restriction and Exceptional Scope: Un vs. Algún; 6.2.1 Singleton Indefinites; 6.2.2 Un vs. Algún
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.2.3 Testing the Prediction: Un vs. Algún in Relative Clauses and Conditionals
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    ISBN: 9781299702011 , 9789400762688
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 190 S. 36) , Ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Sustainable development ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Sustainable development ; Human Geography
    Abstract: We all view the ubiquitous term ‘sustainability’ as a worthwhile goal. But how can we apply the principles of sustainability in the real world, at the sharp end of communities in developing nations where income insecurity is the troubled norm? This volume provides some practical answers, explaining the precepts of the ‘sustainable livelihood approach’ (SLA) through the case study of a microfinance scheme in Africa. The case study, centered around the work of the Catholic Church’s Diocesan Development Services organization, involved an SLA implemented over two years designed in part to help enhance its existing microfinance operation through closer links between local communities and international donors. The book’s central conclusion is that we must move beyond the concept of sustainable livelihood itself, with its in-built polarities between developed and developing nations, and embrace a more global notion of ‘sustainable lifestyle’; a more nuanced and inclusive approach that encompasses not just how we make a sustainable living, but how we can live sustainable lives
    Description / Table of Contents: Sustainable Livelihood Approach; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Sustainability and Sustainable Livelihoods; 1.1 The Future of Sustainability; 1.2 The Multiverse of Sustainability; 1.3 Practicing Sustainability; 1.4 Structure of the Book; 2 The Theory Behind the Sustainable Livelihood Approach; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The SLA Framework; 2.3 Definitions of SLA; 2.4 Origins of SLA; 2.5 Capital in SLA; 2.6 Vulnerability and Institutional Context; 2.7 Representation Within SLA; 2.8 The Attractions and Popularity of SLA; 2.9 Critiques of SLA
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.10 SLA for Evidence-Based Intervention2.11 Conclusion; 3 Context of the Sustainable Livelihood Approach; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Governing an African Giant; 3.3 Economic Development in Nigeria; 3.4 A Kingdom Discovered; 3.5 Igala Livelihoods; An Overview; 3.6 The Diocesan Development Services in Igalaland; 3.7 New Pastures; 3.8 Choice of Villages for the SLA; 3.9 Conclusions; 4 The Sustainable Livelihood Approach in Practice; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Sample Households; 4.3 Human Capital: The Households; 4.3.1 Household M1 (Headed by the Village Chief)
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3.2 Household M2 (Headed by a Senior Igbo)4.3.3 Household M3(Igbo Community Leader); 4.3.4 Household M4 (farmer and business man); 4.3.5 Household E1 (Farmer and Vigilante); 4.3.6 Household E2(Madaki of Edeke); 4.3.7 Household E3 (Farmer and Fisherman); 4.3.8 Household E4 (Madaki in Edeke); 4.4 Natural Capital: Land and Farming; 4.5 Natural Capital: Trees; 4.6 Social Capital: Networks; 4.7 Physical Capital: Assets for Income Generation; 4.8 Financial Capital: Household Budgets; 4.9 Vulnerability and Institutional Contexts; 4.10 Did SLA Succeed?; 4.11 Conclusions; 5 Livelihood into Lifestyle
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.1 Introduction5.2 How SLA?; 5.3 Where SLA?; 5.4 Transferability of SLA; 5.5 Livelihood into Lifestyle; 5.6 Conclusions; References; Index
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    ISBN: 9789400764767
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIV, 241 p. 50 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Multilingual Education 5
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Language alternation, language choice and language encounter in international tertiary education
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    Keywords: Applied linguistics ; Language and languages ; Education ; Education ; Applied linguistics ; Language and languages ; Hochschule ; Sprachkontakt
    Abstract: Reflecting the increased use of English as lingua franca in today’s university education, this volume maps the interplay and competition between English and other tongues in a learning community that in practice is not only bilingual but multilingual. The volume includes case studies from Japan, Australia, South Africa, Germany, Catalonia, China, Denmark and Sweden, analysing a range of issues such as the conflict between the students’ native languages and English, the reality of parallel teaching in English as well as in the local language, and classrooms that are nominally English-speaking but multilingual in practice. The book assesses the factors common to successful bilingual learners, and provides university administrators, policy makers and teachers around the world with a much-needed commentary on the challenges they face in increasingly multilingual surroundings characterized by a heterogeneous student population. Patterns of language alternation and choice have become increasingly important to the development of an understanding of the internationalisation of higher education that is occurring world-wide. This volume draws on the extensive and varied literature related to the sociolinguistics of globalisation - linguistic ethnography, discourse analysis, language teaching, language and identity, and language planning - as the theoretical bases for the description of the nature of these emerging multilingual communities that are increasingly found in international education. It uses observational data from eleven studies that take into account the macro (societal), meso (university) and micro (participant) levels of language interaction to explicate the range of language encounters - highlighting both successful and problematic interactions and their related language ideologies. Although English is the common lingua franca, the studies in the volume highlight the importance of the multilingual resources available to participants in higher educational institutions that are used to negotiate and solve their language problems. The volume brings to our attention a range of important insights into language issues found in the internationalisation of higher education, and provides a resource for those wishing to understand or do research on how language hybridity and multilingual communicative practices are evolving there. Richard B. Baldauf Jr., Professor, The University of Queensland
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Notes on Contributors; Hybridity and Complexity: Language Choice and Language Ideologies; References; Part I: The Local Language as a Resource in Social, Administrative and Learning Interactions; Kitchen Talk - Exploring Linguistic Practices in Liminal Institutional Interactions in a Multilingual University Setting; 1 Introduction; 2 Data and Method; 3 Analysis; Changing Engagement Frameworks and Language Choice; Language Consistency; Language Alternation; Negotiating Language Choice and Social Identity; Enforcing English as the Norm; Language and Identity: Playing with Stereotypes
    Description / Table of Contents: Identity Potential and Potential Problems with Using the Local LanguageLanguage/Medium Alternation as Proficiency Practice; 4 Discussion; Appendix: Transcription Conventions; References; Japanese and English as Lingua Francas: Language Choices for International Students in Contemporary Japan; 1 Introduction; 2 The Current Study; Participants; Methods of Data Collection and Analysis; 3 Data Analysis; Insertive Use of English as a LF; Example 1; Example 2; Example 3; Preference for English as LF; Example 4; Example 5; Example 6; Example 7; Example 8; Persistent Use of Japanese as the LF
    Description / Table of Contents: Example 94 Beyond a Matter of LF Selection: Styling in Lingua Franca Talk; Example 10; Example 11; 5 Conclusion; References; Plurilingual Resources in Lingua Franca Talk: An Interactionist Perspective; 1 Introduction; 2 Lingua Franca Talk and Interactional Accomplishment; The Accomplishment of Lingua Franca Talk; Choosing a Lingua Franca; Fragment 1; Fragment 2; Fragment 3; Assessments of Competence; Fragment 4; Lingua Franca and the Accomplishment of Interaction; Fragment 5; 3 Plurilingual Resources in ELF Talk; Fragment 6
    Description / Table of Contents: Code-Switching in Lingua Franca Interactions and the Accomplishment of Socio-institutional GoalsFragment 7; Code-Switching in Lingua Franca and the Accomplishment of Teaching/Learning Goals; Fragment 8; Fragment 9; 4 Conclusions; References; Language Choice and Linguistic Variation in Classes Nominally Taught in English; 1 Introduction; 2 The Example of Sweden; 3 Earlier Studies and Theoretical Views; 4 A Study of Language Choice; 5 Patterns of Language Choice; A Multilingual Milieu?; The Functions of Other Languages; Example 1; Example 2; Attitudes to Languages and Language Choice
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Characteristics of the MilieuNorms for Language Choice, What Are They Like?; International or National Context?; 7 Conclusion; References; Active Biliteracy? Students Taking Decisions About Using Languages for Academic Purposes; 1 Introduction: Moving from One Academic Language to Another; 2 The Design of the Study; 3 The Research Participants; Victor; Language Background; Language Challenges; John; Language Background; Perceived Language Challenges; Karin; Language Background; Perceived Language Problems; Francois and Yolande; Language Background; Perceived Language Problems
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 Learning in a New Language
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    ISBN: 9789400751316
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 175 p. 4 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 37
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Education Philosophy ; Industrial management ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Education Philosophy ; Industrial management ; Unternehmensethik ; Unternehmen ; Komplexes System ; Metareflexion
    Abstract: Corporations, and the environments in which they operate, are complex, with changing multiple dimensions, and an inherent capacity to evolve qualitatively. A central premise of this study is that a postmodern reading of ethics represents an expression of, and an engagement with, the ethical complexities that define the business landscape. In particular, the deconstructive philosophy of Jacques Derrida offers a non-trivial reading of a complex notion of ethics, and thereby helps us to develop the skills necessary to critique and intervene in our practices, and to develop robust strategies for living in the absence of prescriptive ethical frameworks. Although a central premise of this study is that substantive ethical claims can only be generated within a given context, the study nevertheless presents readers with a meta-position that illustrates the type of considerations that should inform ethical reflection from a complexity perspective. In order to illustrate the value that this meta-position holds for business ethics, these considerations are explored in terms of the implications that they hold for our understanding of corporate social responsibility, for the practice of responsible management and leadership practices, and for teaching business ethics.
    Description / Table of Contents: On the (Im) Possibility of Business Ethics; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Part I: Theoretical Foundation; Chapter 1: Towards a Postmodern Understanding of Business Ethics; Introduction; Characterising Postmodernism; Analytic Distinctions; (Anti)Ideological Distinctions; The Crisis of Representation; The Provisionality of Meaning; Reflexivity; The Decentring of the Subject; Assessing the Viability of a Postmodern Business Ethics; Walton´s Scepticism; Gustafson´s Defence of Postmodernism; Postmodern Insights: Redefining the Agenda for Business Ethics
    Description / Table of Contents: The Status of Contesting Knowledge ClaimsThe Ethical Task: Learning to Reflect on, and Engage with, Ethical Problems; Performative Reflexivity and Moral Judgement; The Ethical Task: Broadening Perspectives on Available Choices; The Contextually-Defined Nature of Ethical Practices; The Ethical Task: Nurturing a Critical Disposition; Critical Challenges: Problematising the Fact-Value Distinction; The Fields of Business Ethics; The Normative Field; The Descriptive Field; The Postmodern Challenge; Problematising Descriptive Ethics; Problematising Normative Ethics; Implications
    Description / Table of Contents: Postmodern Ethics as an Ethics of PracticeReferences; Chapter 2: The Ethics of Complexity and the Complexity of Ethics; Introduction; Characterising Critical Complexity; Two Understandings of Complexity Theory; Restricted Complexity; General Complexity; Features of Complex Systems; Complex Systems Are Not Complicated Systems; Complex Systems Are Characterised by Richly Interconnected Components; The Component Parts of Complex Systems Have a Double-Identity; Upward and Downward Causation Give Rise to Complex Structures; Complex Systems Are Non-additive
    Description / Table of Contents: Complex Systems Exhibit Self-Organising and Emergent BehaviourComplex Systems Are Structured; Complex Systems Are Open and Bounded Systems; Ethical Implications; The Ethics of Complexity and the Limits of Knowledge; The Status of Our Models; Reductionism in the Social Sciences; Modelling and the Importance of a Double-Consciousness; The Embeddedness of Ethical Practices: Positioning the Moral Agent; Static Versus Fluid Conceptions of Identity; Moral Agency in a Complex World; The Complexity of Ethics and Responsible Action; Towards a Meta-Ethical Position; The Provisional Imperative
    Description / Table of Contents: Postmodernism, Complexity, and Theories of the OrganisationReferences; Chapter 3: Introducing a Deconstructive Ethics; Introduction; Derrida´s Central Concepts; Beyond Logocentricism; Hierarchy and Authority; (Con)text; The Example of Speech and Writing; On Deconstructing; The First and Second Movements of Deconstruction; Revisiting the Example of Speech and Writing; Beyond a Binary Logic; Supplementary Complications; Play, Différance, and the Trace; Deconstructing Plato´s Pharmacy; Deconstruction Is Hymeneal; Complexity, Deconstruction, and Ethics; The Ethics of Deconstruction
    Description / Table of Contents: Ethical Testimony
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    ISBN: 9789400754737 , 128393616X , 9781283936163
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 183 p. 6 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 38
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. The heart of the good institution
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    Keywords: Ethik ; Management ; Verantwortung ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Operations research ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Operations research ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Organisationskultur ; Führungsstil ; Tugendethik
    Abstract: This book addresses the question: how can institutions develop and maintain a good purpose? And how can managers contribute to this endeavour? Twelve contributions explore this question, using MacIntyrean inquiry as a basis for exploring four main themes: Can management be considered a practice in the MacIntyrean sense? What is the role of specific virtues in the development of a virtuous institution? What are management vices and what are the conditions in which they flourish? And, can we use MacIntyrean ideas to consider the management of all forms of institutions? The volume is an international and multidisciplinary collection, with contributions from well-known writers in the field of management ethics, and innovative contributions that use MacIntyrean inquiry as a lens to examine fields such as hospitality, user generated music content and social sustainability. The papers are unified by their concern for the achievement of organizational excellence and integrity through ethical management.Unlike single author texts this edited volume brings together multiple perspectives on the topic of virtue ethics in management. In doing so, it explores the topic both more deeply and more widely than a single author can do. Because of its breadth, this book has the potential to become a turn-to research tool for those interested in virtue theory’s relevance to other academic interests such as organizational behavior (including motivation theory and social psychology), literature, contemporary social issue criticism, and business management.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Section 1 intro: Can management be a practice? -- 1 Re-imagining the morality of management: A modern virtue ethics approach; Geoff Moore -- 2 Management as a practice; Tony O’Malley -- 3 Judgment, virtue and social practice; Chris Provis -- 4 Courage as a management virtue; Howard Harris -- Section 2 Intro Leadership, Vice and Virtue -- 5 Virtue ethics in leadership operations: A pathway for leadership development; Erich C. Fein -- 6 The process of conscious corporate growth: A utopian interpretation or a possible virtuous practice?; Mario Carrassi -- 7 Organisational narcissism: A case of failed corporate governance?; Patricia Grant and Peter McGhee -- 8 YouTube as a nascent practice: A MacIntyrean analysis of user-generated content; Helen Rusak and Stephen McKenzie -- Section 3 Intro Case Studies -- 9 Embedded moral agency: A MacIntyrean perspective on the HR professional’s dilemma; Tracey Wilcox -- 10 The contribution of virtue ethics to the pedagogy and Sustainable Practice Of Hospitality Work; Gayathri Wijesinghe -- 11The problem of the empty circle: Thoughts on a virtue approach to social sustainability; Stephen McKenzie -- Conclusion:  A Concluding Reflection: Narratives of Virtue in Responsible Management -- 12 Murdoch, Trollope and Drucker: Virtue ethics as conveyed by stories; Michael Schwartz -- Contributors..
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    ISBN: 9789400760073 , 1299198252 , 9781299198258
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 132 p, digital)
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Law 9
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Wellman, Carl, 1926 - 2021 Terrorism and counterterrorism
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Religion (General) ; Criminology ; Law ; Law ; Ethics ; Religion (General) ; Criminology
    Abstract: This book presents a definition of terrorism that is broad and descriptive and much needed to prevent misunderstanding. The book identifies the features that make terrorism ‘wrong’, including coerciveness, the violation of rights and undermining of trust. Next, it evaluates reasons given for terrorism such as the protection of human rights and the liberation of oppressed groups as not normally justified. Following this, the book identifies and evaluates international responses to terrorism, taking into account General Assembly and Security Council resolutions, United Nations conventions and criminalization in international law. It also looks at national responses which often take the shape of surveillance, detention, interrogation, trials, targeted killings, intrusion and invasion. Finally, the book discusses how, if at all, the moral norms of personal morality apply to the actions of nation states.​
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.What is Terrorism? -- 2.Why is Terrorism Wrong? -- 3.How Could Terrorism be Justified? -- 4.International Responses -- 5.State Responses -- 6.Moral Limits on State Responses -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9789400759831
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 252 p. 21 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 93
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Studies in the composition and decomposition of event predicates
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    Keywords: Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Verbalphrase ; Ereignissemantik
    Abstract: This detailed, perceptive addition to the linguistics literature analyzes the semantic components of event predicates, exploring their fine-grained elements as well as their agency in linguistic processing. The papers go beyond pure semantics to consider their varying influences of event predicates on argument structure, aspect, scalarity, and event structure.The volume shows how advances in the linguistic theory of event predicates, which have spawned Davidsonian and neo-Davidsonian notions of event arguments, in addition to ‘event structure’ frameworks and mereological models for the eventuality domain, have sidelined research on specific sets of entailments that support a typology of event predicates. Addressing this imbalance in the literature, the work also presents evidence indicating a more complex role for scalar structures than currently assumed. It will enrich the work of semanticists, psycholinguists, and syntacticians with a decompositional approach to verb phrase structure
    Description / Table of Contents: Studies in the Composition and Decomposition of Event Predicates; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: The (De)composition of Event Predicates; 1.1 Subatomic Semantics of Event Predicates; 1.2 Aspectual Composition; 1.2.1 Event-Argument Homomorphism; 1.2.2 Scales, Degrees, Generalized Paths; 1.2.3 The Contribution of the Verb vs. Other Elements; 1.2.4 Aspectual Tests, Coercion, Quantified Incremental Arguments; 1.3 Adverbial Modification; 1.3.1 Interaction with Event Structure; 1.3.2 Interaction with Scales; 1.3.3 Interaction with Temporal Structure; 1.4 Experimental Studies of Event Predicates
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.5 ConclusionReferences; Chapter 2: On the Criteria for Distinguishing Accomplishments from Activities, and Two Types of Aspectual Misfits; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Criteria for the Distinction Between Activities and Accomplishments; 2.2.1 Telos; 2.2.2 The Subinterval Property (Homogeneity) and Cumulativity; 2.2.3 Specifying Temporal Extent; 2.2.4 Entailments Between Simple Tense and Progressive Sentences; 2.2.5 Result States; 2.2.6 Iteration; 2.2.7 Accomplishments Can Have Two Readings Where Activities Have Only One; 2.2.8 Partial Completion; 2.3 Accomplishments Entail Activities
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4 Delimited Situations Without a Predetermined Telos2.4.1 The Problem; 2.4.2 Hallman's Solution; 2.4.3 A Pragmatic Explanation; 2.5 Predicates with Selected Non-specific DPs; 2.5.1 (Unstressed) Some, a Few, Many/a Lot Of; 2.5.2 At Most, at Least; 2.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Lexicalized Meaning and Manner/Result Complementarity; 3.1 Manner/Result Complementarity: A Constraint on Verb Meaning?; 3.2 Manners, Results and the Relation Between Them; 3.3 Putative Counterexamples to Manner/Result Complementarity; 3.4 A Potential Counterexample from the Change of State Domain
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5 A Potential Counterexample from the Motion Domain3.5.1 The Manner Lexicalized by Climb; 3.5.2 Where Does the Inference of Upwardness Come From?; 3.5.3 Transitive Climb Does Not Lexicalize Direction; 3.5.4 The Direction-Only Use of Climb; 3.6 Potential Counterexamples Are Systematic, Even if Sporadic; 3.7 Concluding Words: The Lesson from the Problematic Verbs; References; Chapter 4: Oriented Adverbs and Object Experiencer Psych-Verbs; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Subjective Adverbs: Typology and Ambiguities; 4.2.1 Dispositional Adverbs; 4.2.1.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2.1.2 The Manner Reading: Two Previous Analyses4.2.2 Psychological Adverbs; 4.2.2.1 Ernst 2002; 4.2.2.2 Geuder 2000/2004; 4.2.3 Relative and Absolute Transparent Adverbs; 4.2.4 The Manner Reading of Adverbs with a Transparent Use; 4.2.5 Evaluative Reading; 4.2.6 Result Reading; 4.3 Subjective Adverbs and Weakly Agentive Predicates; 4.3.1 Convince Cleverly; 4.3.2 Convince Patiently; 4.3.3 Psychological Adverbs; 4.4 Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: Two Sources of Scalarity Within the Verb Phrase; 5.1 Scalarity and the Verb Phrase; 5.2 Eventive and Evaluative Uses of Half
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.2.1 Two Readings
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Boban Arsenijević, Berit Gehrke & Rafael Marín: Introduction: The (De)composition of Event Predicates -- 2. Anita Mittwoch: On the Criteria for Distinguishing Accomplishments from Activities, and Two Types of Aspectual Misfits -- 3. Beth Levin & Malka Rappaport Hovav: Lexicalized Meaning and Manner/Result Complementarity -- 4. Fabienne Martin: Oriented Adverbs and Object Experiencer Psych-verbs -- 5. M. Ryan Bochnak: Two Sources of Scalarity within the Verb Phrase -- 6. Jens Fleischhauer: Interaction of Telicity and Degree Gradation in Change of State Verbs   -- 7. Kyle Rawlins: On Adverbs of (Space and) Time -- 8. Oliver Bott: The Processing Domain of Aspectual Information -- 9. Evie Malaia, Ronnie B. Wilbur & Christine Weber-Fox: Event End-Point Primes the Undergoer Argument: Neurobiological Bases of  Event Structure Processing.
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    ISBN: 9789400763623
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 252 p. 43 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Educational Linguistics 16
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    Keywords: Language and languages ; Education ; Education ; Language and languages ; Fremdsprachenlernen ; Universalgrammatik
    Abstract: This book proposes that research into generative second language acquisition (GenSLA) can be applied to the language classroom. Assuming that Universal Grammar plays a role in second language development, it explores generalisations from GenSLA research. The book aims to build bridges between the fields of generative second language acquisition, applied linguistics, and language teaching; and it shows how GenSLA is poised to engage with researchers of second language learning outside the generative paradigm. Each chapter of Universal Grammar and the Second Language Classroom showcases ways in which GenSLA research can inform language pedagogy. Some chapters include classroom research that tests the effectiveness of teaching particular linguistic phenomena. Others review existing research findings, discussing how these findings are useful for language pedagogy. All chapters show how generative linguistics can enhance teachers’ expertise in language and second language development. “This groundbreaking volume ably takes on the gap that currently exists between generative linguistic theory in second language acquisition (GenSLA) and second language pedagogy, by gathering chapters from GenSLA researchers who are interested in the relevance and potential application of their research to second/foreign language teaching. It offers a welcome and thought-provoking contribution to any discussion of the relation between linguistic theory and practice. I recommend it not only for language teachers interested in deepening their understanding of the formal properties of the languages they teach, but also for linguists interested in following up on more practical consequences of the fruits of their theoretical and empirical research.” Donna Lardiere, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. NNMMIMH
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgement; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: Generative Second Language Acquisition and Language Pedagogy; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Conceptual Foundations; 1.2.1 Generative Linguistic Theory; 1.2.2 Generative Second Language Acquisition; 1.3 Overview of the Volume; 1.3.1 Part I: GenSLA Applied to the Classroom; 1.3.2 Part II: GenSLA and Classroom Research; 1.3.3 Part III: GenSLA, the Language Classroom and Beyond; References; Part I: GenSLA Applied to the Classroom; Chapter 2: What Research Can Tell Us About Teaching: The Case of Pronouns and Clitics; 2.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2 Object Pronouns in Spanish2.3 Research on the Position of Clitics; 2.4 Application to Language Teaching; References; Chapter 3: L2 Acquisition of Null Subjects in Japanese: A New Generative Perspective and Its Pedagogical Implications; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Null Subjects in Generative Syntax; 3.2.1 Previous Literature; 3.2.2 Null Subjects in Japanese; 3.3 The L2 Data; 3.3.1 Research Questions; 3.3.2 Experiment; 3.3.3 Participants, Procedure, and Method of Analysis; 3.3.4 Results of the Experiment; 3.4 Discussion; 3.4.1 Why "Focus on Form"?; 3.4.2 Further Pedagogical Implications
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5 SummaryReferences; Chapter 4: Verb Movement in Generative SLA and the Teaching of Word Order Patterns; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Linguistic and Theoretical Foundations; 4.2.1 The Linguistic Background; 4.2.2 Full Transfer/Full Access; 4.2.3 The Learning/Acquisition Distinction; 4.3 Input, Negative Evidence, and Grammar Restructuring; 4.3.1 Resetting the Verb-Movement Parameter; 4.3.2 Losing Verb Second; 4.3.3 The Difficulties of English Word Order; 4.4 Teaching English Word Order; 4.4.1 Grammaring Word Order; 4.4.1.1 Adverbs; 4.4.1.2 Verb Second; 4.5 Conclusions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: Modifying the Teaching of Modifiers: A Lesson from Universal Grammar5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Hierarchies of Modifiers: Beyond the Textbook; 5.3 L2 Acquisition of P-Modifier Order; 5.3.1 Experiment I: Aladdin Preference Task; 5.3.2 Experiment II: Aladdin Grammaticality Judgment Task; 5.4 L2 Acquisition of Adjective Order; 5.5 Conclusion; 5.6 Appendix I: The Aladdin Slides; References; Chapter 6: The Syntax-Discourse Interface and the Interface Between Generative Theory and Pedagogical Approaches to SLA; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Interface Properties
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.3 Topic-Comment Structures in Spanish and English6.3.1 Learnability and Interface Properties; 6.4 Methodology; 6.4.1 Research Questions; 6.4.2 Participants; 6.4.3 Tasks; 6.4.3.1 Sentence Selection Task; 6.4.3.2 Sentence Completion Task; 6.4.4 Results; 6.4.4.1 Study 1, L2 Spanish: Sentence Selection Task; 6.4.4.2 Study 1, L2 Spanish: Sentence Completion Task; 6.4.4.3 Study 2, L2 English: Sentence Selection Task; 6.4.4.4 Study 2, L2 English: Sentence Completion Task; 6.5 Discussion and Implications for the L2 Classroom; 6.6 Conclusion; References; Part II: GenSLA and Classroom Research
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7: Alternations and Argument Structure in Second Language English: Knowledge of Two Types of Intransitive Verbs
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    ISBN: 9789400762503
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 296 p. 58 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Yearbook of corpus linguistics and pragmatics ... 1
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    Keywords: Information systems ; Applied linguistics ; Language and languages ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Information systems ; Applied linguistics ; Language and languages ; Applied linguistics ; Information systems ; Language and languages ; Linguistics ; Korpus ; Pragmatik
    Abstract: The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2013 discusses current methodological debates on the synergy of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics research. The volume presents insightful Pragmatic analyses of corpora in new technological domains and devotes some chapters to the pragmatic description of spoken corpora from various theoretical traditions. The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics series will give readers insight into how Pragmatics can be used to explain real corpus data, and, in addition, how corpora can explain Pragmatic intuitions, and from there, develop and refine theory. Corpus Linguistics can offer a meticulous methodology based on mathematics and statistics, while Pragmatics is characterized by its efforts to interpret intended meaning in real language. This yearbook offers a platform to scholars who combine both research methodologies to present rigorous and interdisciplinary findings about language in real use
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; New Domains and Methodologies in Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics Research, an Introduction; References; Part I: Current Theoretical Issues in Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics Research; Advancing the Research Agenda of Interlanguage Pragmatics: The Role of Learner Corpora; 1 Pragmatics in Second Language Acquisition Research: A Critical Assessment; 1.1 Interlanguage Pragmatics and Its Scope of Inquiry; 1.2 Modeling L2 Pragmatic Knowledge; 2 Going Beyond Speech Acts: The Role of Learner Corpora; 3 Case Studies; 3.1 Data and Methodology; 3.2 Emphatic Do; 3.3 Demonstrative Clefts
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 ConclusionReferences; Corpus Linguistics and Conversation Analysis at the Interface: Theoretical Perspectives, Practical Outcomes; 1 Introduction; 2 Corpus Linguistics: Epistemology and Ontology; 3 Conversation Analysis: Epistemology and Ontology; 4 A CLCA Methodology; 5 Discussion; 6 Conclusion; References; Small Corpora and Pragmatics; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Small Corpora in Corpus Linguistics; 2 The Use of Small Corpora in Pragmatic Research: A Selective Review; 3 A Case Study: 'We' in Small Corpora; 3.1 Frequency; 3.2 Family Discourse: Inclusive and Exclusive WE
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3 Workplace Discourse: The Indexical Ground of WE4 Summary and Conclusions; References; Part II: New Domains for Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics; Multiword Structures in Different Materials, and with Different Goals and Methodologies; 1 Introduction; 2 Forerunners: Concordances, Collocational Frames and Collocation; 3 Three Methods Exploring MWSs in SLA; 3.1 The Phraseological Method; 3.2 The Lexical Bundle Method; 3.3 The Comprehensive Method; 4 Comparison Between the Phraseological, Lexical Bundles and Comprehensive Methods: Time-Economy and Quality; 4.1 Time-Economy and Quality
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2 Qualitative Aspects: The Phraseological Method4.3 Qualitative Aspects: The Lexical Bundle Method; 4.4 Qualitative Aspects: The Comprehensive Method; 4.5 Main Points of Comparison Between the Three Methods; 5 An Empirical Study: Two Methods Illustrated on the Basis of the Same Material; 5.1 Material; 5.2 Task; 5.3 The Comprehensive Method: Categories and Inclusion; 5.4 The Lexical Bundle Method: Length of Bundles; 6 Comparison of a Selection of Results from the Empirical Study; 6.1 Numbers of MWS and LB Types in the Four Sub-corpora; 6.2 The Most Frequent MWSs and LBs
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.3 Types Captured by Both Methods6.4 Patterns Captured by One Method Only; 7 Conclusions; Appendices; Appendix A. Lexical Bundles - English; Appendix B. MWS - English; Appendix C. NSs and NNSs: Alphabetical Lists of Bundles; Example: A- Headed Bundles in the English Material; NS: Alphabetical List of A- Headed Bundles; NNS: Alphabetical List of A- Headed Bundles; Appendix D. Lexical Bundles - Spanish; Appendix E. MWSs - Spanish; References; Discourse Functions of Recurrent Multi-word Sequences in Online and Spoken Intercultural Communication; 1 Introduction; 2 What Are Multi-word Sequences?
    Description / Table of Contents: 3 Multi-word Sequences and Functional Language Use
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    ISBN: 9789400714946
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVI, 1582 p. eReference, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Lütge, Christoph, 1969 - Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics
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    Keywords: Economics ; Philosophy (General) ; Law—Philosophy. ; Law—History. ; Philosophy (General) ; Economics ; Ethics ; Ethics ; Philosophy ; Business ; Management science. ; Law ; Law ; Wirtschaftsethik ; Unternehmensethik ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Aristotelian Foundations of Business Ethics -- Scholastic Thought and Business Ethics -- Morality and Self-Interest I: Hume, Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment -- Morality and Self-Interest II: Contemporary Perspectives -- Kantian and Hegelian Thoughts on Business Ethics -- Marxist Thoughts on Business Ethics -- Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Business Ethics -- Christian Foundations of Business Ethics -- Jewish Foundations of Business Ethics -- Islamic Foundations of Business Ethics -- Eastern Cultural, Philosophical and Religious Foundations of Business Ethics -- Discourse Ethics and Business -- Contractarianism -- Sen’s “Capabilities”, Poverty and Economic Welfare -- Human Rights, Globalization and Business Ethics -- Gender Issues and Business Ethics -- Justice and Business Ethics -- Philosophical Issues of Sustainability and the Environment -- Free Markets, Morality and Business Ethics -- Property Rights: Material and Intellectual -- Philosophical Issues of Management and Corporations -- Methodology and Business Ethics
    Abstract: The Handbook of Business Ethics: Philosophical Foundations is a standard interdisciplinary reference handbook in the field of business ethics. Articles by notable philosophers and economists examine fundamental concepts, theories and questions of business ethics: Are morality and self-interest compatible? What is meant by a just price? What did the Scholastic philosophers think about business? The handbook will cover the entire philosophical basis of business ethics. Articles range from historical positions such as Aristotelianism, Kantianism and Marxism to systematic issues like justice, religious issues, rights and globalisation or gender. The book is intended as a reference work for academics, students (esp. graduate), and professionals
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    ISBN: 9789400754409
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 693 p. 4 illus., 1 illus. in color, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buch-Ausgabe Climate change and the law
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    Keywords: Renewable energy sources ; Climatic changes ; Economics ; Law ; Law ; Renewable energy sources ; Climatic changes ; Economics ; Climatic changes ; Law and legislation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Klimaänderung ; Internationales Umweltrecht
    Abstract: Climate Change and the Law is the first scholarly effort to systematically address doctrinal issues related to climate law as an emergent legal discipline. It assembles some of the most recognized experts in the field to identify relevant trends and common themes from a variety of geographic and professional perspectives.In a remarkably short time span, climate change has become deeply embedded in important areas of the law. As a global challenge calling for collective action, climate change has elicited substantial rulemaking at the international plane, percolating through the broader legal system to the regional, national and local levels. More than other areas of law, the normative and practical framework dedicated to climate change has embraced new instruments and softened traditional boundaries between formal and informal, public and private, substantive and procedural; so ubiquitous is the reach of relevant rules nowadays that scholars routinely devote attention to the intersection of climate change and more established fields of legal study, such as international trade law.Climate Change and the Law explores the rich diversity of international, regional, national, sub-national and transnational legal responses to climate change. Is climate law emerging as a new legal discipline? If so, what shared objectives and concepts define it? How does climate law relate to other areas of law? Such questions lie at the heart of this new book, whose thirty chapters cover doctrinal questions as well as a range of thematic and regional case studies. As Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), states in her preface, these chapters collectively provide a “review of the emergence of a new discipline, its core principles and legal techniques, and its relationship and potential interaction with other disciplines.”
    Description / Table of Contents: Climate Change and the Law; Foreword; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction: Climate Change and the Law; 1.1 Exploring the Relationship Between Climate Change and the Law; 1.2 Structure and Organization; Part I: Climate Law as an Emerging Discipline; Chapter 2: Implementing Climate Governance: Instrument Choice and Interaction; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Exploring the Boundaries of Domestic Climate Law; 2.2.1 Instrument Choice at the Domestic Level; 2.2.2 Instrument Interactions at the Domestic Level
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2.2.1 Internal and External Conflicts - An Analytical Framework2.2.3 Coherence by Design: Envisioning a Domestic Climate Management Regime; 2.2.3.1 The Legal Context - Identifying a Mandate; 2.2.3.2 Integrated Greenhouse Gas Management - Clinching the Objective; 2.3 Instrument Choice at the International Level; Chapter 3: Exploring the Landscape of Climate Law and Scholarship: Two Emerging Trends; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Mapping the Landscape of Climate Change Law; 3.2.1 Role of the UNFCCC; 3.2.2 Regulation of the CDM: Multiple Layers, Diverse Actors and Deformalization
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3 Climate Law: Interactions Between Sources of Legal Authority3.3.1 Background: Globalization and Law; 3.3.2 Climate Law and Interaction Between Different Sources of Legal Authority; 3.3.2.1 Vertical Interaction: International and National Law; 3.3.2.2 Vertical Interaction: Sub-national Initiatives; 3.3.2.3 Interaction Between National Jurisdictions; 3.4 Climate Law: Non-state Actors and Deformalization; 3.4.1 Public-Private Partnerships and Other Hybrid Initiatives; 3.4.2 Private Sector Engagement and Voluntary Regulatory Initiatives; 3.4.3 Non-state Actors and Climate Law Research
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5 ConclusionsChapter 4: Climate Change and Justice: Perspectives of Legal Theory; 4.1 Theoretical Background: Ethical and Legal Considerations; 4.2 Human Rights: Only Subordinate and Vague "Duties of Protection" with Regard to Sustainability? The Traditional Legal Point of View in Europe and Germany; 4.3 Intergenerational and Global Scope of Human Rights, Protecting the Conditions of Freedom, and Multipolarity of Freedom; 4.4 The Case of Climate Change; 4.5 The Problem of Historical Emissions; 4.6 On the Path to a Justice-Based Framework for Global Climate Governance
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II: International Climate Law - Architecture and InstitutionsChapter 5: Foundations of International Climate Law: Objectives, Principles and Methods; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Objective of the Climate Change Regime; 5.2.1 Mitigation Objectives; 5.2.2 Adaptation Objectives; 5.3 Principles of the Climate Change Regime; 5.3.1 State Sovereignty and Responsibility; 5.3.2 Principle of Preventative Action; 5.3.3 Principle of Cooperation; 5.3.4 The Concept of Sustainable Development; 5.3.5 The Precautionary Principle; 5.3.6 The Polluter Pays Principle
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.3.7 The Principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibility
    Description / Table of Contents: Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Climate Change and the Law; Erkki J. Hollo, Kati Kulovesi and Michael Mehling -- Part I: Climate Law as an Emerging Discipline -- 2. Implementing Climate Law: Instrument Choice and Interaction; Michael Mehling -- 3. Exploring the Landscape of Climate Law and Scholarship: Two Emerging Trends; Kati Kulovesi -- 4. Climate Change and Justice: Perspectives of Legal Theory; Felix Ekardt -- Part II: International Climate Law -- Section I: Architecture and Institutions -- 5. Foundations of International Climate Law: Objectives, Principles and Methods; Rowena Maguire -- 6. Alternative Venues of Climate Cooperation: An Institutional Perspective; Camilla Bausch and Michael Mehling -- 7. Analyzing Soft Law and Hard Law in Climate Change; Antto Vihma -- 8. Compliance and Enforcement in the Climate Change Regime; Meinhard Doelle -- Section II: Cross-Cutting Issues -- 9. The New Framework for Climate Finance under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: A Breakthrough or an Empty Promise?; Yulia Yamineva and Kati Kulovesi -- 10. Climate Justice: The Clean Development Mechanism as a Case Study; Tomilola Eni-ibukun -- 11. Legal Aspects of Climate Change Adaptation; Jonathan Verschuuren -- 12. Climate Change and Human Rights; Timo Koivurova, Sébastien Duyck and Leena Heinämäki -- Section III: Sectoral Issues -- 13.  Managing the Fragmentation of International Climate Law; Harro van Asselt -- 14. No Need to Reinvent the Wheel for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Tackling Climate Change: The Contribution of International Biodiversity Law; Elisa Morgera -- 15. The Role of REDD in the Harmonization of Overlapping International Obligations; Annalisa Savaresi -- 16. Climate Change and Trade: At the Intersection of Two International Legal Regimes; Kati Kulovesi -- 17. Climate Law and Geoengineering; Ralph Bodle -- Part III: Comparative Climate Law -- 18. Climate Law in the United States: Facing Structural and Procedural Barriers; Michael Mehling and David Frenkil -- 19. Canada and the Kyoto Protocol: An Aesop Fable; Jane Matthews Glenn and Jose Otero -- 20. Climate Law in the European Union: Accidental Success or Deliberate Leadership?; Michael Mehling and Kati Kulovesi -- 21. Climate Law in Germany; Felix Ekardt -- 22. Climate Law in the United Kingdom; Colin T. Reid -- 23. Climate Law and Policy in Russia: A Peasant Needs Thunder to Cross Himself and Wonder; Yulia Yamineva -- 24. Australia: From ‘No Regrets’ to A Clean Energy Future?; Sharon Mascher and David Hodgkinson -- 25. Climate Law and Policy in Japan; Hitomi Kimura -- 26. Sustainable Development and Climate Policy and Law in China; Christopher Tung -- 27. India’s Evolving Climate Change Strategy; Namrata Patodia Rastogi -- 28. Climate Change Responses in South Africa; Ed Couzens and Michael Kidd -- 29. Climate Change Policy and Legislation in Brazil; Haroldo Machado Filho -- 30. Climate Law in Latin American Countries; Soledad Aguilar and Eugenia Recio..
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    ISBN: 9789400753518 , 1283936070 , 9781283936071
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 315 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 298
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Agassi, Joseph, 1927 - 2023 The very idea of modern science
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Science ; Europe ; History ; 16th century ; Science ; Europe ; History ; 17th century ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie ; Citizen Science ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie ; Citizen Science
    Abstract: This book is a study of the scientific revolution as a movement of amateur science. It describes the ideology of the amateur scientific societies as the philosophy of the Enlightenment Movement and their social structure and the way they made modern science such a magnificent institution. It also shows what was missing in the scientific organization of science and why it gave way to professional science in stages. In particular the book studies the contributions of Sir Francis Bacon and of the Hon. Robert Boyle to the rise of modern science. The philosophy of induction is notoriously problematic, yet its great asset is that it expressed the view of the Enlightenment Movement about science. This explains the ambivalence that we still exhibit towards Sir Francis Bacon whose radicalism and vision of pure and applied science still a major aspect of the fabric of society. Finally, the book discusses Boyle’s philosophy, his agreement with and dissent from Bacon and the way he single-handedly trained a crowd of poorly educated English aristocrats and rendered them into an army of able amateur researchers.​
    Description / Table of Contents: The Very Idea of ModernScience; Abstract; Preface; Acknowledgement; Contents; Part I: Bacons Doctrine of Prejudice (A Study in a Renaissance Religion); Introductory Note; Chapter 1: The Riddle of Bacon; 1.1 The Problem of Methodology; 1.2 The Criticism of Bacon's Writings; 1.3 The Past Suggested Solutions; Chapter 2: Bacon's Philosophy of Discovery; 2.1 Bacon's Utopianism; 2.2 Bacon's Metaphysics; 2.3 Bacon's Induction; 2.4 Bacon's Inductive Machine; Chapter 3: Ellis' Major Difficulty; Chapter 4: The Function of the Doctrine of Prejudice; 4.1 Radicalism; 4.2 Radicalism Invented
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3 Radical MethodologyChapter 5: Bacon on the Origin of Error and Prejudice; Chapter 6: Prejudices of the Senses; 6.1 The Problem of Observation; 6.2 Prejudices of the Senses; 6.3 Bacon's Theory of Discovery; 6.4 Whewell's Theory of Discovery; 6.5 Popper's Theory of Discovery; 6.6 Bacon's "Mark" of Science; Chapter 7: Prejudices of Opinions; 7.1 Suspension of Judgment; 7.2 What Is a Prejudice?; 7.3 Bacon and the Logical Empiricists; 7.4 Bacon's Double Game; 7.5 The Origin of Scientific Theories; 7.6 Science and Imagination; Chapter 8: Bacon's Influence; 8.1 Influence on Immediate Posterity
    Description / Table of Contents: 8.2 Permission to Propose a Hypothesis and to Assert Metaphysics8.3 Permission De Jure and de Facto; 8.4 Legitimation Versus Criticism; 8.5 Bacon's Influence; Chapter 9: Conclusion : The Rise of the Riddle of Bacon; Part II: The Religion of Inductivism as a Living Force; Quasi-Terminological Notes; "The Inductive Style"; "Speculation" and "Hypothesis"; "Hypothesis" and "Fact"; On the Recent Literature; Homage to Robert Boyle; Chapter 10: Philosophical Background; 10.1 Inductivism Classical and Modern; 10.2 Metaphysical Views, Classical and Modern; 10.3 The Doctrine of Prejudice
    Description / Table of Contents: 10.4 The Moral Code of the Fraternity10.5 Conclusion; Chapter 11: The Social Background of Classical Science; 11.1 Researchers as Amateurs; 11.2 Researchers as Experts; 11.3 Researchers as Inventors; 11.4 Researchers as Dilettantes; Chapter 12: The Missing Link Between Bacon and the Royal Society; 12.1 The Rise of the Royal Society; 12.2 Boyle's Spirit; 12.3 Boyle's Views on the Spread of Science; Chapter 13: Boyle in the Eyes of Posterity; 13.1 The Eighteenth Century; 13.2 Herschel's Unfair Comment; 13.3 Who Discovered Boyle's Law?; 13.4 Modern Views on Boyle; 13.5 Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 14: The Inductive Style14.1 The Discussion of Style; 14.2 The Inductive Style Versus the Argumentative Style; 14.3 Reporting on Experiments and Writing Systems; 14.4 Boyle on some Systems; 14.5 Thinking and Experimenting; 14.6 The Inductive Style; 14.7 Encyclopedia of Facts or a Just History of Nature; 14.8 Boyle's Promiscuous Experiments; 14.9 Boyle on Attempts to Create some Theories; 14.10 Methodological Tolerance; 14.11 The Usefulness of Hypotheses; 14.12 Civilized Argument; 14.13 Boyle on the Method of Quoting; 14.14 Circumstantial Descriptions A: The Problem
    Description / Table of Contents: 14.15 Circumstantial Descriptions B: Recent Solutions
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgement -- PART I: BACONS DOCTRINE OF PREJUDICE -- (A study in a Renaissance Religion) Introductory Note -- I The Riddle of Bacon -- (1)  The Problem of Methodology -- (2)    II Bacon’s Philosophy of Discovery -- III Ellis’ Major Difficulty -- IV The Function of the Doctrine of Prejudice -- V Bacon on the origin of error and prejudice -- VI Prejudices of the Senses -- VII Prejudices of Opinions -- VIII Bacon’s Influence -- IX Conclusion: The rise of the commonwealth of learning -- PART II: A RELIGION OF INDUCTIVISM AS A LIVING FORCE -- A Quasi-Terminological Note -- On the recent literature -- Homage to Robert Boyle -- I Background Material -- II The social background of classical science -- III The Missing Link between Bacon and the Royal Society of London -- IV Boyle in the Eyes of Posterity -- V The Inductive Style -- VI Mechanism -- VII The new doctrine of prejudice -- Appendices. ​.
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    ISBN: 9789400762749
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 269 p. 14 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 20
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Farm economics ; Social sciences ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Farm economics ; Social sciences
    Abstract: This edited volume presents ethical and economic analyses of agrifood competition. By systematically examining fairness and openness in agricultural markets, it seeks to answer the question of whether there is adequate competition in the agrifood industry and whether the system is fair to all participants. It outlines ethical and economic principles important for understanding agrifood competition, presents arguments for and against consolidation, globalization and the integration of agrifood industries, and looks at the implications of globalization on the nature of competition in specific agricultural contexts
    Abstract: This edited volume presents ethical and economic analyses of agrifood competition. By systematically examining fairness and openness in agricultural markets, it seeks to answer the question of whether there is adequate competition in the agrifood industry and whether the system is fair to all participants. It outlines ethical and economic principles important for understanding agrifood competition, presents arguments for and against consolidation, globalization and the integration of agrifood industries, and looks at the implications of globalization on the nature of competition in specific agricultural contexts
    Description / Table of Contents: The Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Introduction to the Ethics and Economics of Agrifood Competition: Connotations, Complications and Commentary; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Meaning of Adequacy; 1.3 The Meaning of Fairness; 1.4 Analyses of Agrifood Competition; 1.5 The Lesson; References; Part I Conceptualizing Agrifood Competition; Chapter 2: Conceptualizing Fairness in the Context of Competition: Philosophical Sources; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Fair Treatment and Fair Play; 2.3 Fairness and the Social Contract
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4 Fairness and Efficient Competition2.5 Fairness and Outcomes; 2.6 Fairness and Rules; 2.7 Assessing Fair Competition; 2.8 Fair Agrifood Competition; References; Chapter 3: Are Ethics and Efficiency Locked in Antithesis?; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 What Is Ethics?; 3.3 What Is Efficiency?; 3.4 The Relation Between Ethics and Efficiency; 3.4.1 Ethical Duties as a Constraint on Production; 3.4.2 Ethical Consumption and Ethical Production; 3.4.3 Institutionalizing Ethical Considerations in the Sector; 3.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: The Fallacy of "Competition" in Agriculture
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.1 Introduction4.2 The True Central Question of Competition: What Is It?; 4.2.1 The Nature of Competition; 4.2.2 `Free and Fair' Competition; 4.2.2.1 Free Competition; 4.2.2.2 Fair Competition; 4.3 The Problem of Perfect Competition; 4.4 Competition in Agriculture; 4.4.1 The Demise of Competition in Agriculture?; 4.4.2 The Shortcoming of Government Intervention; 4.4.3 Competition in Agriculture Today; 4.4.4 So Whence Concerns About Competition in Agriculture Today?; 4.4.5 What Does This Tell Us About Competition in Agriculture?; 4.4.6 Ethics and the Fallacy of Competition; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: Efficiency, Power and Freedom5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Overview; 5.3 Aggregate Economic Efficiency; 5.3.1 The Free Market; 5.4 Morals of Monopoly and Competition; 5.5 Antitrust and Competition Policy; 5.5.1 Collusion in Fixing the Rules of the Marketplace; 5.5.2 Knightian Welfare Economics; 5.5.3 Economic Freedom for Farmers and Ranchers; 5.5.4 Serfdom; 5.5.5 Economic Freedom for Consumers; 5.5.6 Innovation and Democracy; 5.6 Concluding Remarks: Back to the Agrifood System; References; Chapter 6: Networks, Power and Dependency in the Agrifood Industry; 6.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.2 Previous Research on Agrifood Industry Structure6.3 Networks, Dependency and Power; 6.4 Differential Dependencies in Stylized Agrifood Networks; 6.4.1 Broilers; 6.4.2 Beef; 6.4.3 Corn and Soybeans; 6.5 Ethics of Dependency; 6.6 Conclusions; References; Chapter 7: Reaping and Sowing for a Sustainable Future: The Import of Roman Catholic Social Teaching for Agrifood Competition; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Roman Catholic Social Teaching; 7.3 Agrifood Competition in Roman Catholic Social Teaching; 7.3.1 Rerum Novarum (1891); 7.3.2 Quadragesimo Anno (1931); 7.3.3 Excursus: César Chávez
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.3.4 Mater et Magistra (1961)
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    ISBN: 9789400762237
    Language: English
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    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Silver, David Business Ethics in the 21st Century, by Norman E. Bowie. Dordrecht: Springer, 2013. 235 pp. ISBN: 978-9400762220 2015
    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 39
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Economics ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Economics ; Wirtschaftsethik
    Abstract: This work provides a critical look at business practice in the early 21st century and suggests changes that are both practical and normatively superior. Several chapters present a reflection on business ethics from a societal or macro-organizational point of view. It makes a case for the economic and moral superiority of the sustainability capitalism of the European Union over the finance-based model of the United States. Most major themes in business ethics are covered and some new ones are introduced, including the topic of the right way to teach business ethics. The general approach adopted in this volume is Kantian. Alternative approaches are critically evaluated
    Description / Table of Contents: Business Ethics in the 21st Century; Introduction by the Series Editors; Preface; Editorial Board Issues in Business Ethics; Editorial Board Eminent Voices in Business Ethics; Contents; Part I: Economic Issues in Business Ethics; Chapter 1: Fair Markets Revisited; Morality as a Ground of Legal Decisions; A Rejoinder and Reply; Advice for Managers; Characteristics of Fairness; Objections and Replies; Conclusion; Chapter 2: What's Wrong with Efficiency and Always Low Prices; Introduction; The Problem; Some Observations from Home and Abroad; What Some Others Are Saying; The Issue or Issues
    Description / Table of Contents: What's to Be DoneObjections and Replies; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Economics, Friend or Foe of Ethics; Economics as Foe; Foe: Adherence to Psychological Egoism; Foe: Assumptions of Agency Theory; Dropping the "No Transaction Costs" Assumption: Transaction Cost Economics; Turning Economics from Foe to Friend; Codes of Ethics; The Importance of a Good "Ethical Climate"; Multinationals and Universal Standards; The Argument for Universal Ethical Values; An Argument for Truly Universal Standards of Business Ethics; A Complication; Fairness as an Explanatory Variable in Economics and Management Theory
    Description / Table of Contents: ConclusionPart II: Philosophical Issues in Business; Chapter 4: Kantian Themes; Why Kant; Organization of This Chapter; Rethinking and Defending Business Ethics : A Kantian Perspective; Chapter 1 Immoral Business Practices; Chapter 2 Treating the Humanity of Stakeholders as Ends Rather than as Means Merely; Chapter 3 The Firm as a Moral Community; Chapter 4 Acting from Duty: How Pure a Motive?; Chapter 5 The Cosmopolitan Perspective; The New Generation of Scholars Applying Kant to Business Ethics; Aristotle-Not Kant; Kantian Accounts of Corporate Social Responsibility; Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: Limitations of the Pragmatist Approach to Business EthicsBackground; Rorty's Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity; Why Literature Misleads; Rorty's Address Before the Society for Business Ethics; The Pragmatism of Ed Freeman and Some of His Students; Should Stakeholder Theorists Adopt a Pragmatist Methodology?; Concluding Thought; Part III: International Issues in Business Ethics; Chapter 6: Varieties of Corporate Social Responsibility; The Maximization of Shareholder Wealth Capitalism-American Finance Based Capitalism; Corporate Social Responsibility as Charity
    Description / Table of Contents: An Addendum to the Classical American View: Stakeholder CapitalismSocial Responsibility Under the Stakeholder Model; The European Sustainability Version of Capitalism; Philanthropy, the Safety Net, and Human Rights; The Business Case for Social Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia; Japan; India; China; Evidence That China Seems to Lack a Sense of Corporate Social Responsibility; Which Version of Corporate Social Responsibility Should a Country Adopt?; The Moral Argument for Sustainability; Why Philanthropy Is Not Enough
    Description / Table of Contents: Does China Need Corporate Social Responsibility to Survive
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 95 p. 28 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Akbari, Syed A. Immigrants in regional labour markets of host nations
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    Keywords: Arbeitsmigranten ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Studierende ; Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt ; Kanada (Atlantikprovinzen) ; Emigration and immigration ; Economics ; Labor economics ; Population ; Demography ; Migration ; Labor economics ; Population ; Economics ; Demography ; Maritime Provinzen ; Einwanderer
    Abstract: List of charts -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Chapter1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Some Demographic Trends in Atlantic Canada: Potential Consequences and Policy Response -- Chapter 3: Immigration Trends in Atlantic Canada -- Chapter 4: Immigrants in the Labour Force of Atlantic Canada -- Chapter 5: International Students in Atlantic Canada -- Chapter 6: Summary and Policy Recommendations -- List of References
    Abstract: This book is the first to present a detailed analysis of economic integration of immigrants in smaller areas of their host nations. It uses Atlantic Canada as a case in point and uses unpublished data based on several databases of Statistics Canada and Citizenship and Immigration, Canada. It identifies best policy practices that can also be used in other countries to address demographic challenges similar to those facing Canada, for example population ageing and youth out-migration from smaller regions to larger regions, through immigration. Economic integration of immigrants in Atlantic Canada is faster and better than it is nationally. An overarching result is that an analysis of regional data can lead to very different policy conclusions than the analysis of national data, which means that it can be risky to devise immigration policy based only on national data. A clear message is that economic benefits from immigration can be enhanced by facilitating a broader geographic distribution of immigrants, rather than maintaining their concentration in a few larger urban regions. A must read for immigration and population policy makers, immigrant settlement agencies and academic researchers
    Description / Table of Contents: Immigrants in Regional Labour Markets of Host Nations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction; Some Immigration Policy Initiatives Towards Regionalization in Australia, Canada, Germany and New Zealand; Australia; Canada; Germany; New Zealand; The Impact of Immigrant Regionalization on the Geographic Distribution of Immigrants in Canada; About This Book; References; 2 Some Demographic Trends in Atlantic Canada: Potential Consquences and Policy Response; Potential Consequences of Population Decline and Aging; Some Economic Consequences; Some Political Consequences
    Description / Table of Contents: 1…Nova Scotia's Aging WorkforcePublic Policy and Community Responses to Population Decline and Aging; 2…Employment Assistance to New Immigrants in Newfoundland and Labrador; 3…An Example of Cooperation Between Stakeholders in the Integration of Professional Immigrants in Nova Scotia; References; 3 Immigration Trends in Atlantic Canada; 1…The Rise and Fall of Immigration in Nova Scotia in the 1990s; The Rural--Urban Settlement Pattern of the Immigrant Population; Age Distribution Among New Immigrants; Composition of Immigrant Classes; Immigrant Source Countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Immigrant Retention in Atlantic CanadaEducation Levels Among Recent Immigrants; References; 4 Immigrants in the Labour Force of Atlantic Canada; Labour Market Performance of Immigrants; Labour Force Participation Rates; Unemployment Rates; Labour Market Earnings; Immigrants' Home Country Educational Credentials and Labour Force Activity; Skilled and Business Immigrants in the Atlantic Economy; Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to Atlantic Canada; Provincial Distribution of Highly Skilled Immigrants; Business Immigration; 1…Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada
    Description / Table of Contents: 2…The Immigrant Investor ProgramRural--Urban Labour Force Division; Immigrants' Use of Government Transfer Payments; References; 5 International Students in Atlantic Canada; 1…International Students Contribute Significantly to the Atlantic Economy; Annual Inflows of International Students; International Students by Level of Study; Source Countries of International Students; 2…Majority of International Students Want to Live in Atlantic Canada After Finishing Their Education (Results of Another Survey); References; 6 Summary and Policy Recommendations; Abstract
    Description / Table of Contents: Immigration Trends in Atlantic CanadaImmigrants in the Labour Market; International Students; Some Policy Implications that Emerge from Statistical Findings of Present Study; References; Epilogue; Appendix; References
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    ISBN: 9789400755642 , 1283909006 , 9781283909006
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 109 p, online resource)
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    Keywords: Epistemology ; Economics ; Ethics ; Economic history ; Social sciences ; Genetic epistemology ; Economics ; Ethics ; Economics Methodology ; Social sciences Methodology ; Wirtschaftswissenschaften ; Praktische Vernunft ; Theoretische Vernunft ; Wirtschaftsphilosophie
    Abstract: Table of contents -- Summary -- Preface -- Chapter I: Introduction -- Chapter II: Nancy Cartwright, Capacities and Nomological Machines: The Role of Theoretical Reason in Science -- Chapter III: Sen’s Capability Approach: The Role of Practical Reason in Social Science -- Chapter IV: The Contributions of Aristotle’s Thought to the Capability Approach -- Chapter V: Socio-Economic Machines and Practical Models of Development: The Role of the Human Development Index -- Chapter VI: Conclusion: Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics
    Abstract: The aim of the book is to argue for the restoration of theoretical and practical reason to economics. It presents Nancy Cartwright and Amartya Sen’s ideas as cases of this restoration and sees Aristotle as an influence on their thought. It looks at how we can use these ideas to develop a valuable understanding of practical reason for solving concrete problems in science and society. Cartwright’s capacities are real causes of events. Sen’s capabilities are the human person’s freedoms or possibilities. They relate these concepts to Aristotelian concepts. This suggests that these concepts can be combined. Sen’s capabilities are Cartwright’s capacities in the human realm; capabilities are real causes of events in economic life. Institutions allow us to deliberate on and guide our decisions about capabilities, through the use of practical reason. Institutions thus embody practical reason and infuse certain predictability into economic action. The book presents a case study: the UNDP’s HDI
    Description / Table of Contents: Theoreticaland PracticalReason in Economics; Preface; Contents; Summary; 1 Introduction; References; 2 Nancy Cartwright, Capacities and Nomological Machines: The Role of Theoretical Reason in Science; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Cartwright-Aristotle Connection; 2.2.1 The Connection; 2.2.2 The Ontology of Capacities; 2.2.3 The Epistemology of Capacities; 2.3 Cartwright's Skepticism About Capacities in the Social Realm; 2.3.1 Cartwright's Skepticism; 2.3.2 Julian Reiss's Interpretation and Proposal; 2.4 Socio-Economic Machines; 2.5 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 3 Sen's Capability Approach: The Role of Practical Reason in Social Science3.1 Introducing the Capability Approach; 3.2 Some Problems in Sen's CA; 3.2.1 Identification of Valuable Capabilities: The Debate Over Lists of Capabilities; 3.2.2 Heterogeneity and Incommensurability; References; 4 The Contributions of Aristotle's Thought to the Capability Approach; 4.1 Aristotle on Lists; 4.1.1 The Supposedly Aristotelian List; 4.1.2 The True Aristotelian List; 4.1.3 Back to Sen; 4.2 "Practical Comparability" as a Way of Overcoming Incommensurability14; 4.2.1 The Aristotelian Conception
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2.1.1 Commensuration4.2.1.2 Comparison by Intensity or Degree of Quality; 4.2.1.3 Comparison by Priority; 4.2.2 Back to Sen; 4.3 Some Conclusions Regarding the Aristotelian Contribution to the CA; 4.4 Capabilities and Capacities; 4.5 Conclusion; References; 5 Chapter Socio: -Economic Machines and Practical Models of Development: The Role of the HDI; 5.1 Socio-Economic Machines; 5.2 The HDI4; 5.3 Some Problems with Index Numbers and the HDI; 5.4 Theoretical and Practical Reason in the HDI
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.5 Conclusion: The Role of the HDI for the Construction of a Normative Socio-Economic Machine of Human DevelopmentReferences; 6 Conclusion: Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics; Reference
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    ISBN: 9783658005467 , 9783658005474 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: German
    Pages: 354 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9783658005474
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 304.6
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    Keywords: Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Bevölkerungspolitik ; Gemeinde ; Handlungsspielraum ; Deutschland ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: ?Das „Gespenst" des Demographischen Wandels geht um in Europa. Geburtenrückgang und die prognostizierte Alterung und Schrumpfung der Gesellschaft wird im öffentlichen Diskurs häufig mit einer Überlastung des Sozialstaates oder katastrophalen ökonomischen Zukunftsszenarien gleichgesetzt. Christian Rademacher prüft die finanz- und arbeitsmarktpolitische Leistungsfähigkeit lokaler Daseinsfürsorge durch praktische externe Evaluationen von familien- und seniorenpolitischen Maßnahmen auf lokaler Ebene. Er zeigt, dass entgegen weit verbreiteter populationistischer Krisenannahmen deutsche Kommunen übe...
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  • 44
    ISBN: 9400744315 , 9789400744318 , 9789400796522
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiv, 300 Seiten , Diagramme, Karten
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Demographic research monographs 10
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Max-Planck Institut for Demographic Research (MPIDR) 2010
    DDC: 304.640943
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    Keywords: Sterbeziffer ; Regionale Disparität ; Deutschland ; Hochschulschrift
    Note: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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    ISBN: 9789400739956
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 134 p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Responsible Leadership
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    Abstract: These chapters on ‘Responsible Leadership’ represent the latest thinking on a topic of increasing relevance in a connected world. There are many challenges that still remain when it comes to establishing responsible leadership both in theory and practice. Whilst offering conceptualisations for the improvement of leadership is a first and perhaps easier response, what is more difficult is to facilitate the actual change to happen. These chapters will not only generate interest in the emerging domain of studies on responsible leadership, but also will pave the way for future research in this area in the years to come. Previously Published in the Journal of Business Ethics, Volume 98 Supplement 2, 2011​
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Foreword to Special Issue on 'Responsible Leadership'; Responsible Leadership: Pathways to the Future; Abstract; Why Responsible Leadership?; What is Responsible Leadership?; How Does Responsible Leadership Differ from Related Theories?; Stakeholder Theory and Responsible Leadership; Ethical Leadership; Servant Leadership; Authentic Leadership; Transformational Leadership; Perspectives on Responsible Leadership: Special Issue Overview; Values, Authenticity, and Responsible Leadership; Responsible Leadership as Virtuous Leadership
    Description / Table of Contents: Responsible Leadership Outcomes Via Stakeholder CSR ValuesMeasuring Responsible Leadership; Moving Forward with the Concept of Responsible Leadership; Responsible Leadership Helps Retain Talent; Exploring the Interface Between Strategy-Making and Responsible Leadership; The Human Resources Contribution to Responsible Leadership; Conclusion: Pathways for Further Research; References; Values, Authenticity, and Responsible Leadership; Abstract; Introduction; The Essential Self and the Problem of Authenticity; The Poetic Self: Enlargement, Connection, and Aspiration
    Description / Table of Contents: The Poetic Self and Responsible Leadership: Creating Self and CommunityReferences; Responsible Leadership as Virtuous Leadership; Abstract; The Meaning of Virtuousness in Leadership; Virtue Versus Virtuousness; Examples; Attributes of Virtuousness; The Eudaemonic Assumption; Inherent Value Assumption; Amplification Assumption; Benefits of Virtuous Leadership; Virtuousness as a Fixed Point; Virtuousness and Positive Organizational Outcomes; Conclusion; Open Access; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Responsible Leadership Outcomes Via Stakeholder CSR Values: Testing a Values-Centered Model of Transformational LeadershipAbstract; Introduction; Theoretical Background; Theories of Responsible and Transformational Leadership; Values-Centered Model and Hypotheses; Values-Centered Model of Transformational Leadership; Leader Values; Follower Values Congruence; Responsible Leadership Outcomes; Method; Participants, Sample Organizations, and Procedures; Participants; Sample Organizations; Procedures; Measures; Leader Values; Leadership Style; Values Congruence
    Description / Table of Contents: Follower Corporate Social Responsibility BeliefsOrganizational Citizenship Behaviors; Control Variables; Analyses; Level of Analysis; Control for Same-Source Bias; Results; Preliminary Analyses; Hypothesis Testing; Hypotheses 1--2; Hypotheses 3--4; Hypotheses 5--6; Comparing Alternative Models; Discussion; Implications for Organizations; Limitations and Future Research; Conclusion; References; Development of a Scale Measuring Discursive Responsible Leadership; Abstract; The Responsible Leadership Concept; Responsible Leadership in Relation to Transformational and Ethical Leadership
    Description / Table of Contents: Transformational Leadership
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword to Special Issue on ‘Responsible Leadership’; Nicola M. Pless, Thomas Maak, Derick de Jongh.-  Responsible Leadership: Pathways to the Future;  Nicola M. Pless  and Thomas Maak -- Values, Authenticity, and Responsible Leadership; R. Edward Freeman  and Ellen R. Auster -- Responsible Leadership as Virtuous Leadership; Kim Cameron -- Responsible Leadership Outcomes Via Stakeholder CSR Values: Testing a Values-Centered Model of Transformational Leadership; Kevin S. Groves and Michael A. LaRocca -- Development of a Scale Measuring Discursive Responsible Leadership; Christian Voegtlin -- Moving Forward with the Concept of Responsible Leadership: Three Caveats to Guide Theory and Research; David A. Waldman -- Responsible Leadership Helps Retain Talent in India; Jonathan P. Doh, Stephen A. Stumpf, Walter G. Tymon Jr. -- Exploring the Interface Between Strategy-Making and Responsible Leadership; Rachel Maritz, Marius Pretorius, Kato Plant -- The Human Resources Contribution to Responsible Leadership: An Exploration of the CSR-HR Interface; Jean-Pascal Gond, Jacques Igalens, Vale´rie Swaen, Assaâd El Akremi. ​.
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 127 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 91
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. Dekker, Paul Dynamic semantics
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    Keywords: Pragmatism ; Semantics ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Pragmatism ; Semantics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Linguistik ; Pragmatik ; Semantik ; Semantik
    Abstract: The integrated theory of dynamic interpretation set out here will be a surprise to advanced researchers in linguistics. It combines classical formal semantics and modern dynamic semantics without altering the fundamental paradigm. At the book's core lies a pragmatically motivated notion of a dynamic conjunction of meanings, an idea that is worked out in full formal detail. This is applied to linguistic phenomena that involve anaphora, quantification and modality. The author demonstrates that in each area of application existing data can be neatly combined with new dynamic insights, but more im
    Abstract: The integrated theory of dynamic interpretation set out here will be a surprise to advanced researchers in linguistics. It combines classical formal semantics and modern dynamic semantics without altering the fundamental paradigm. At the books core lies a pragmatically motivated notion of a dynamic conjunction of meanings, an idea that is worked out in full formal detail. This is applied to linguistic phenomena that involve anaphora, quantification and modality. The author demonstrates that in each area of application existing data can be neatly combined with new dynamic insights, but more importantly, there is a genuine further pay-off: the work generates treatments of phenomena that were not initially intended, with functional readings of pronouns and quantifiers, Hob-Nob sentences, and insights into what we now call Pierces Puzzle. The outcome of a decade of work by the Amsterdam School of dynamic semantics, this volume condenses and reflects upon a vital body of research.
    Description / Table of Contents: Dynamic Semantics; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Predicate Logic with Anaphora; 2.1 Static and Dynamic Semantics; 2.2 First Order Satisfaction in PLA; 2.3 Logical Properties of PLA; 2.4 On the Representation of Information; References; 3 Information Update and Support; 3.1 Coreference and Modality; 3.2 Update and Support; 3.3 Information Exchange; 3.4 On the Contextualist Debate; References; 4 Quantification and Modality; 4.1 Terms and Quantifiers; 4.2 Knowing Who and Believing What; 4.3 Alethic and Epistemic Modality; 4.4 On Situations and States; 4.4.1 E- and D-type Pronouns
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4.2 Information StatesReferences; Conclusion; Index;
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    ISBN: 9783540775683
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    Series Statement: Environmental protection in the European Union
    DDC: 307.14160940905
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    Keywords: Umweltschutz ; Natürliche Ressourcen ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Umweltpolitik ; Ressourcenpolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book represents the collected works of Environmental and Resource Management (ERM) Alumni as well as young professionals and researches who are involved in the field of ERM. The connecting theme of these works is the successful implementation of ERM in a wide range of issues including: energy innovation and management, climate change response and sustainable development aspects of resource management in developing countries. This book aims to expose some of the research outputs of ERM Alumni and present perspectives and critical questions of ERM application. ...
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    ISBN: 9789400703759
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 197 p. , ill. (some col.), col. map.
    Series Statement: Logic, epistemology and the unity of science v. 19
    DDC: 160
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    Keywords: Vagueness (Philosophy) ; Electronic books
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    ISBN: 9781402095023 , 9781402055591 , 9781402055607
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 235 S. , graph. Darst. , 235 mm x 155 mm, 540 gr.
    Series Statement: Higher education dynamics 18
    Series Statement: Higher education dynamics
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Herbst, Marcel Financing Public Universities
    DDC: 378.44
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    Keywords: Hochschulfinanzierung ; Nonprofit-Management ; Hochschulreform ; Hochschulpolitik ; Public universities and colleges Finance ; Public universities and colleges Finance ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Hochschulfinanzierung ; Internationaler Vergleich
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    ISBN: 9781402099489
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 234 S. , Ill. , 235 mm x 155 mm
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Series Statement: GeoJournal Library 98
    Series Statement: Geojournal / Library
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kong, Lily; O'Connor, Justin Creative economies, creative cities
    Parallel Title: Online-Ressource u.d.T. Kong, Lily, 1965 - Creative Economies, Creative Cities
    DDC: 338.90091732
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    Keywords: Kultursektor ; Regionales Cluster ; Soziale Schicht ; Standortpolitik ; Stadtentwicklung ; Europa ; Asien ; Cultural industries ; Cultural industries ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Kulturindustrie ; Cluster ; Stadtentwicklung ; Asien ; Europa ; Kulturindustrie ; Cluster ; Stadtentwicklung ; Asien
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    ISBN: 9781402064975
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    Pages: Online-Ressource
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 72
    DDC: 400
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Comparative linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Subjekt ; Markiertheit ; Nominalphrase
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  • 52
    ISBN: 1402048130 , 9781402048135 , 9781402083440
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 530 S. , graph. Darst. , 25cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Introduction to Biosemiotics
    DDC: 302.2
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  • 53
    ISBN: 1402068204 , 9781402068201
    Language: English
    Pages: XXXI, 312 S. , Ill., graph. Darst. , 24 cm
    Series Statement: Text, speech and language technology 39
    Series Statement: Text, speech and language technology
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue
    DDC: 300
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    Keywords: Discourse analysis Congresses Data processing ; Dialogue analysis Congresses Data processing ; Speech processing systems Congresses ; Automatic speech recognition Congresses ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Konversationsanalyse ; Dialog ; Kommunikation ; Philosophie ; Diskursanalyse
    Note: Literaturangaben , Based on a selected subset of papers from the successful 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discouse and Dialogue , Lisbon, September 2005 in conjuction with the 9th Eurospeech (Interspeech) conference
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    ISBN: 1402065493 , 9781402065491
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    Pages: X, 234 S , graph. Darst , 235 mm x 155 mm
    Series Statement: Studies in natural language and linguistic theory v. 73
    Series Statement: Studies in natural language and linguistic theory
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. The Linearization Of Affixes: Evidence From Nuu-Chah-Nulth
    Dissertation note: Zugl.: Vancouver, Univ., Diss., 2005
    DDC: 497.9555
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    Keywords: Nootka language Morphosyntax ; Grammar, Comparative and general Affixes ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Nootka-Sprache ; Affigierung ; Morphosyntax
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP
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    ISBN: 9781402088902 , 1402088906
    Language: English
    Pages: 201 S. , 24cm
    Series Statement: Language policy 10
    Series Statement: Language policy
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. u.d.T. Orman, Jon Language Policy and Nation-Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Orman, Jon Language policy and nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa
    DDC: 306.44968
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    Keywords: Language policy South Africa ; Nationalism South Africa ; South Africa Social conditions ; 1994- ; Südafrika ; Sprachpolitik ; Politischer Wandel ; Geschichte 1993-2007
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    ISBN: 9781402064227
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook Of Phenomenological Research 96
    DDC: 801.9
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Metaphysics ; Phenomenology ; Konferenzschrift 2006 ; Literatur ; Wert ; Phänomenologie
    Abstract: The Human Condition prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. This book explains how the emergence of Human Condition lifts natural endowment of the individual to the level of excellence. It shows how natural forces and promptings of life transmute through creative Human Condition subliminal passions of the soul into innumerable streaks of spiritual significance.
    Abstract: Paradoxically, our human virtues that maintain our societal fabric, emerge from passional grounds/sources in individual existence. It is the Human Condition that prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. Our full possibilities allow our singular existence: excellence of individual character, courage, engagement, and wisdom to unfold. The transformations that the virtues work with a timing of human progress, never entirely accomplished, lift us toward personal fulfilment. Papers by: Lawrence Kimmel, Tsung-I Dow, Bernard Micallef, Victor Ger
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Historical and Contemporary Virtues As Reflected in Chinese Literatre; Revisiting the Traditional Virtues of the Hero; Beauty, Taste, and Enlightenment in Hume's Aesthetic Thought; Virtues of the Heart; The Willing Subject and the Non-Willing Subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche's Hyperborean; Virtue in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead; Inherent and Intentional Inquiries on Virtues; Striving and Accepting Limits As Competing Meta-Virtues; Happiness, Division, and Illusions of the Self in Plato's Symposium; The Virtue of Responsibility
    Description / Table of Contents: Enlightenment, Humanization, and Beauty in The Light of Schiller's "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man"Beyond Adaptation; Between the Ironic and the Irenic; Phenomenological Temporality and Proustian Nostalgia; Art and Awareness; The Image in the History of Thought; The Narrative Model; Political Symbolism in the Saint Antoine Gate, 1585-1672; Music Theory and Phenomenology of Musical Performance; Back Matter
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 73
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Indic philology ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Hochschulschrift ; Nootka-Sprache ; Affigierung ; Morphosyntax
    Abstract: This book examines the problem of linearization from a new perspective: that of the linearization of affixes. The author's driving proposition is that affixation provides a means of satisfying the universal requirement to linearize linguistic outputs. This proposition is tested using original data from Nuu-chah-nulth ('Nootka'; Wakashan family), an endangered Amerindian language that is remarkable for its complex morphology.
    Abstract: "The linearization of syntactic constructs stands at the forefront of current research on the syntax-phonology interface. This book examines the problem of linearization from a new perspective: that of the linearization of affixes. The driving proposal of this book is that affixation provides a means of satisfying the universal requirement that linguistic outputs be linearized. This hypothesis is tested against extensive original data from Nuu-chah-nulth (""Nootka"", Wakashan family), an endangered Amerindian language remarkable for its complex morphology. This volume introduces typologically rare affixation effects to current theoretical debates surrounding the division of labour between the modules of the grammar."
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; PF Incorporation; Clausal Architecture of Nuu-chah-nulth; Nominal Complements of Affixal Predicates; Verbal Complements of Affixal Predicates; Implications; Back Matter
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    ISBN: 1402050372 , 9781402050374
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 216 S , graph. Darst
    Series Statement: Studies in natural language and linguistic theory 69
    Series Statement: Studies in natural language and linguistic theory
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Harbour, Daniel Morphosemantic Number
    DDC: 415
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    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general Number ; Grammar, Comparative and general Morphosyntax ; Semantics ; Kiowa language Grammar ; Numerus ; Morphosyntax ; Kiowa-Sprache ; Grammatik
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    ISBN: 9781402056352
    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 287 S. , graph. Darst.
    DDC: 306.446
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    Keywords: Interculturele communicatie ; Taalonderwijs ; Vreemde talen ; Englisch ; Fremdsprachenunterricht ; Interkulturelle Kommunikation ; English language Study and teaching ; Foreign speakers ; Intercultural communication ; Language and culture ; Languages in contact ; Multicultural education ; Second language acquisition ; Sociolinguistics ; Mehrsprachigkeit ; Interkulturelles Lernen ; Fremdsprachenunterricht ; Sprachkontakt ; Kulturkontakt ; Fremdsprachenlernen ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fremdsprachenlernen ; Interkulturelles Lernen ; Mehrsprachigkeit ; Sprachkontakt ; Fremdsprachenunterricht ; Kulturkontakt ; Kulturkontakt ; Fremdsprachenlernen
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    ISBN: 9781402059346 , 1402059345
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 362 Seiten , Diagramme
    DDC: 404.2019
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    Keywords: Bilingualism Psychological aspects ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Kognition
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    ISBN: 9781402048470 , 9781402048463
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 442 S. , Ill., graph. Darst.
    Series Statement: International Studies in Population 4
    Series Statement: International studies in population
    DDC: 304.645
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    Keywords: Sterblichkeit ; Ältere Menschen ; Alternde Bevölkerung ; Altersstruktur ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Life expectancy ; Longevity ; Mortality Tables ; Old age ; Longevity Statistics ; Aged, 80 and over statistics & numerical data ; Life Expectancy Statistics trends ; Mortality Statistics ; Kongressschrift ; Buch ; Sammelwerk ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Langlebigkeit ; Alter ; Lebensdauer
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    ISBN: 9781402049897
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
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    Series Statement: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 5
    DDC: 306.3/4
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    Keywords: Education ; Humanities ; Personnel management ; Social sciences ; Industriesoziologie ; Identität ; Selbst ; Arbeitsplatz ; Psychologie
    Abstract: This book examines continuity and change of identity formation processes at work under conditions of modern working processes and labor market flexibility. By bringing together perspectives from sociology, psychology, organizational management, and vocational education and training, it connects the debates of skills formation, human resources development, and careers with individual's work commitment and professional orientations.
    Abstract: This edited volume on Identities at Work brings together international theory and empirical research that deals with continuity and change of identity formation processes at work under conditions of modern working processes and labour market flexibility. By bringing together perspectives from sociology, psychology, organisational management and vocational education and training the contributions in this volume connect the debates of skills formation, human resources development and careers with individual s work commitment and professional orientations in various ways. With this focus the volume presents a new research perspective based on an interdisciplinary and international approach. We argue that in times of globalisation and rapidly changing work realities such an approach is needed to better understand and analyse what is required to equip and prepare the workforce to meet international labour market demands. In this sense the publication shall serve as a useful resource to researchers and policy makers working in the fields of skills formation, human resources development and organisational management.
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Series Scope; Introduction by the Series Editors; CONTENTS; List of Figures and Tables; Contributors; Introduction and Overview; Part One: Vocational Identity in Theory and Empirical Research; 1 Decomposing and Recomposing Occupational Identities-A Survey of Theoretical Concepts; 2 Tensions in the Vocational Identity of Danish Bankers; 3 The Role of Developing a Vocational Identity for Women- The Example of Young Single German Mothers; 4 The 'Double' Vocational Identity of the Working Population in the Greek Tourist Industry; 5 Vocational Education and Training-A European Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: Part Two: Work and Personal Identity6 Career Changes and Identity Continuities-A Contradiction?; 7 Exercising Self Through Working Life: Learning, Work and Identity; 8 The Much Vaunted 'Flexible Employee'-What Does it Take?; Part Three: Work and Commitment; 9 The Dynamics Between Organisational Commitment and Professional Identity Formation at Work; 10 Apprentices' Experiences of Occupational and Organisational Commitment: An Empirical Investigation in a German Automobile Company; 11 The Individualisation of Identification with Work in a European Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: 12 Work Identity in the Japanese Context: Stereotype and RealityPart Four: Modern Work and the Creation of New Professional Identities; 13 The Construction of a New Professional Self: A Critical Reading of the Curricula for Nurses and Computer Engineers in Norway; 14 US Efforts to Create a New Professional Identity for the Bioscience Industry; Concluding Chapter; Index
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    ISBN: 1402049889 , 9781402049880
    Language: English
    Pages: 406 S.
    Series Statement: UNESCO-UNEVOC book series : technical and vocational education and training: issues, concerns and prospects 5
    Series Statement: Technical and vocational education and training
    DDC: 306.3/4
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    Keywords: Arbeitsplatz ; Persönlichkeitspsychologie ; Industrial sociology ; Identity (Psychology) ; Self-perception ; Work Brown ; Kirpal ; Rauner ; Sammelwerk ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Industriesoziologie ; Identität ; Selbst ; Arbeitsplatz ; Psychologie
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    ISBN: 9781402059353
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Applied linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Language and languages ; Consciousness ; Kognition ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Psycholinguistik
    Abstract: This work has a uniquely cognitive-functional perspective on bi-lingualism. This means that it makes a clear distinction between real world and projected world. Information conveyed by language must be about the projected world. Both the experimental results and the systematic claims in this volume call for a weak form of whorfianism. The authors examine too some relatively unexplored issues of bilingualism, such as, among others, gender systems in the bilingual mind, synergic concepts, and ontological categorization.
    Abstract: A unique feature of this book is that chapters favor that line of cognitive linguistics which makes a clear distinction between real world and projected world. Information conveyed by language must be about the projected world. Both the experimental results and the systematic claims in this volume call for a weak form of whorfianism. Also, chapters add some relatively unexplored issues of bilingualism to the well-known ones, such as gender systems in the bilingual mind, context and task, synergic concepts, blending, the relationship between lexical categorization and ontological categorization among others.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; The Neurofunctional Components of the Bilingual Cognitive System; Synergic Concepts in the Bilingual Mind; Matrix: Schematic Universals. How Many Minds Does a Bilingual Have?; Grammatical Gender in the Bilingual Lexicon: A Psycholinguistic Approach; Bilingualism and Cognitive Arithmetic; The Role of Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Experiences in Bilinguals' Divergent Thinking; Task and Context Effects in Bilingual Lexical Processing; Representation and Skill in Second Language Learners and Proficient Bilinguals
    Description / Table of Contents: Second Language Gender System Affects First Language Gender ClassificationBeyond Language: Childhood Bilingualism Enhances High-Level Cognitive Functions; Cross-Linguistic and Cognitive Structures in the Acquisition of WH-Questions in an Indonesian-Italian Bilingual Child
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    ISBN: 9781402055607
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    Series Statement: HIGHER EDUCATION DYNAMICS 18
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    Keywords: Hochschulfinanzierung ; Nonprofit-Management ; Hochschulreform ; Hochschulpolitik ; Education ; Education, Higher ; Finance ; Social policy ; Political science ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Hochschulfinanzierung
    Abstract: This crucial book addresses newer practices of resource allocation which tie university funding to indicators of performance. It covers the evolvement of mass higher education and the associated curtailment of funding, the public management reform debate within which performance-based budgeting or funding evolved, and sketches alternative governance and management modes which can be used instead. Four appendices cover more technical matters.
    Abstract: "Financing Public Universities addresses newer practices of resource allocation which tie funding to indicators of performance. The gist of these efforts is to raise the quality of institutional systems. Performance-based budgeting and funding of public universities is part of broader efforts to reform public management, and it is being promoted and implemented by various government agencies around the globe. In particular, European universities with their normally strong governmental ties, or higher education systems molded on European universities, are prime targets of such reforms. Performance funding has made its inroads in attempts to grant university systems managerial autonomy: autonomy was to be granted in exchange for funding modes which are tied to the measurement of performance indicators. Unfortunately, performance-based budgeting or funding measures cannot meet the various expectations: they do not raise the quality of teaching or learning, they do not raise research performance, they take back a great deal of managerial autonomy which is commonly judged to be essential for the well being of higher education institutions, in particular research universities, and they act as automata in place of proper governance and management. ""Financing Public Universities"" addresses policy makers, higher education administrators, scholars and students of higher education management. After an introduction to the theme and to the book (Chapter 1), ""Financing Public Universities"" covers the evolvement of mass higher education and the associated curtailment of funding (Chapter 2), the public management reform debate (Chapter 3) within which performance-based budgeting or funding evolved (Chapter 4), sketches alternative governance and management modes which can be used instead (Chapter 5), and epitomizes inertia or challenges (Chapter 6). Four appendices cover more technical matters, such as a comparative exposition of the research performance of universities by nation (Appendix C) and examples of funding systems in the UK and in the USA (Appendix D)."
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; Mass Higher Education and Funding Bases; Public Management Reform Debate; Performance-Based Budgeting or Funding; Alternative Governance and Management Modes; Inertia and Challenges; Back Matter
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    ISBN: 9781402059735
    Language: English
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    DDC: 361.65
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    Keywords: Alternde Bevölkerung ; Sozialstaat ; Generationengerechtigkeit ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Social sciences ; Population ; Social policy ; Aging Research ; Demography ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lebenserwartung ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Wohlstandsgesellschaft ; Altern ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Familienbeziehung
    Abstract: In this important and timely book, researchers from different countries compare their experiences and offer contrasting views on the future of social protection. They consider the theoretical aspects of the intergenerational debate, relations between generations within the family, the living standards of elderly people, and the question of social time. For the first time in history, three and sometimes four generations are living at the same time; this book examines the new interactions between family change, labour force participation and population ageing.
    Abstract: Our societies are ageing. The Family is changing. Labour force behaviour is evolving. How is the organisation of family and collective solidarity adapting in this context of longer life spans, low fertility, and work that is simultaneously scarce and abundant? The welfare states are currently facing three main challenges: ensure satisfactory living conditions for the elderly without increasing the cost burden on the active population, reduce social inequality, and maintain equity between successive generations. In this book, researchers from different countries compare their experiences and offer contrasting views on the future of social protection. They consider the theoretical aspects of the intergenerational debate, relations between generations within the family, the living standards of elderly people, and the question of social time.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Demographic Change, Welfare, and Intergenerational Transfers: A Global Overview; Demographic Context of the Social Contract in Developed Countries: Unity and Diversity; Economics of the Intergenerational Debate: Normative, Accounting and Political Viewpoints; Reorganizing the Activity Cycle: The Stakes in a New Social Contract; Social Contract and Age at Retirement: Some Elements of a Franco-American Comparison; Longevity and Work; Changes to the Legal Relationship Between Grandparents and Grandchildren in Quebec: A Disconcerting Evolution
    Description / Table of Contents: Demographic Change and the Social Contract of Informal Support Within the FamilyChange and Reciprocity in Intergenerational Relationships: The Discourse Of Spanish Working Mothers; Intergenerational Exchanges in Older Populations; Family Solidarities at the Beginning of Retirement in France; Pensions and Income Redistribution in a Comparative Perspective: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study; Social Spending: Recent Changes and Conditions for its Long-Term Viability; Pensions, Privilege and Poverty: Another "Take" on Intergenerational Equity
    Description / Table of Contents: Toward a 24-Hour Economy: Implications for the Temporal Structure and Functioning of Family LifeWorking Schedules: In Search of a Balance Between Family Time and Economic Wellbeing; Determinants of Paths of Transition to Total-Work Retirement: A Preliminary Empirical Analysis; Back Matter
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    ISBN: 9781402057564
    Language: English
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    DDC: 658.4/07124
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    Keywords: Education ; Curriculum planning ; Education, Higher ; Economics ; Führungskraft ; Ausbildung ; Problemorientiertes Lernen
    Abstract: This book describes the use of problem-based learning (PBL) in management education. The authors draw upon their experience in using PBL in a broad array of management education programs at the Bachelor, Master, Doctoral and Executive levels, in North American and in Asia. The book explores how PBL can make knowledge about management locally relevant, and clarifies how PBL can enable students to apply their knowledge to real problems.
    Abstract: The past two decades have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of management education around the world. At the same time, however, influential scholars - Mintzberg, Bennis, Pfeffer and others - have levelled pointed critiques at these programs questioning their quality and relevance, as well as their approaches to teaching and learning. 'Preparing Managers for Action' is a timely contribution for management schools as well as other higher education institutions seeking the means to increase the relevance and quality of their professional education programs. The book describes the use of problem-based learning (PBL) in management education. PBL is an active learning approach first pioneered in medical education, but whose use has grown steadily in a variety of professional fields over the past two decades. The authors draw upon their experience in using PBL in a broad array of management education programs at the Bachelor, Master, Doctoral and Executive levels, in North American and in Asia. This book is designed to provide both novice and experienced users of PBL with resources for designing and implementing problem-based management education. The book provides the novice with useful theoretical and practical background on how design a PBL curriculum, use PBL in a classroom, and develop PBL materials. At the same time, the book will challenge experienced users of PBL and case teaching to extend their applications through the use of learning technologies and more systematic approaches to assessment and curriculum design.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; About the Authors; Foreword; Preface; PART I: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 Preparing 'Managers for Action'; Chapter 2 PBL: A Promising Approach to Education in the Professions; Chapter 3 Developing Problem-based Learning Materials; Chapter 4 Implementing Problem-based Learning in the Classroom; Chapter 5 Integrating Technology and Problem-Based Learning; Chapter 6 Student Assessment in a PBL Environment; Chapter 7 Problem-Based Learning as a Curriculum Approach; Chapter 8 Implementing Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education Programs; PART II: INTRODUCTION
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 9 Leading Organizational Change PHILIP HALLINGERChapter 10 Data to Intelligence KAMONTIP SNIDVONGS; Chapter 11 New Product Positioning RANDALL SHANNON; Chapter 12 Retail to e-Tail VICHITA VATHANOPHAS; Chapter 13 Reorganizing for Competitiveness SOOKSAN KANTABUTRA; Chapter 14 Employee Selection PHILIP HALLINGER & EDWIN M. BRIDGES; Chapter 15 PHILIP HALLINGER & BRIAN HUNT; Index
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    ISBN: 9781402056529
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 336
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    Keywords: Genetic epistemology ; Phenomenology ; Pragmatism ; Comparative Literature ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Husserl, Edmund 1859-1938 ; Peirce, Charles S. 1839-1914 ; Semiotik
    Abstract: Diagrammatology investigates the role of diagrams for thought and knowledge. Based on the general doctrine of diagrams in Charles Peirce's mature work, Diagrammatology claims diagrams to constitute a centerpiece of epistemology. This book reflects Peirce's work on the issue in Husserl's contemporaneous doctrine of categorical intuition and charts the many unnoticed similarities between Peircean semiotics and early Husserlian phenomenology.
    Abstract: "Diagrammatology investigates the role of diagrams for thought and knowledge. Based on the general doctrine of diagrams in Charles Peirce's mature work, Diagrammatology claims diagrams to constitute a centerpiece of epistemology. The book reflects Peirce's work on the issue in Husserl's contemporanous doctrine of ""categorial intuition"" and charts the many unnoticed similarities between Peircean semiotics and early Husserlian phenomenology. Diagrams, on a Peircean account, allow for observation and experimentation with ideal structures and objects and thus furnish the access to the synthetic a priori of the regional and formal ontology of the Husserlian tradition. The second part of the book focuses on three regional branches of semiotics: biosemiotics, picture analysis, and the theory of literature. Based on diagrammatology, these domains appear as accessible for a diagrammatological approach which leaves the traditional relativism and culturalism of semiotics behind and hence constitutes a realist semiotics."
    Description / Table of Contents: 0stjfm.pdf; 0stj01.pdf; 0stj02.pdf; 0stj03.pdf; 0stj04.pdf; 0stj05.pdf; 0stj06.pdf; 0stj07.pdf; 0stj08.pdf; 0stj09.pdf; 0stj10.pdf; 0stj11.pdf; 0stj12.pdf; 0stj13.pdf; 0stj14.pdf; 0stj15.pdf; 0stj16.pdf; 0stj17.pdf; 0stj18.pdf; 0stjpers.pdf; 0stjapp.pdf; 0stjnotes.pdf; 0stjbib.pdf; 0STJERNauthorindex.pdf; 0STJERsubjectindex.pdf
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    ISBN: 9781402059513
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: United Nations University Series on Regionalism 1
    DDC: 337.1
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    Keywords: Internationale Handelspolitik ; Regionale Wirtschaftsintegration ; Wirtschaftsintegration ; Welt ; Development Economics ; Human Geography ; International economics ; Political science ; Social sciences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Handel ; Regionalismus ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Integration ; Finanzinvestition
    Abstract: In 2001, the United Nations University launched UNU-CRIS, a research and training programme on comparative regional integration to study the role of regional integration in global governance. This is a timely product of the research undertaken at UNU-CRIS. The report represents a unique collaboration between all regional UN Economic Commissions. It focuses on one of the central issues in the debate on global governance.
    Abstract: Global governance is a concern of not only global organisations but also of all individual states and of regional co-operation agreements among sovereign states. In 2001, the United Nations University has launched UNU-CRIS, a research and training programme on comparative regional integration to study the role of regional integration in global governance. The present first volume of the World Report on Regional Integration is a timely product of the research undertaken at UNU-CRIS. This new series of World Reports will certainly contribute to the discussion on the interaction between regional and global governance. And by bringing together insights from different parts of the UN system, in particular the five UN regional economic commissions and UNCTAD, this report will also contribute to a better understanding of the role of regions in the UN. (Hans van Ginkel, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Rector of UNU) The World Report on Regional Integration brings together a well-balanced mix of economic analysis, facts and political perspectives on the topic of regional integration. The most valuable and unique contribution of this volume is the enhanced clarity it brings to the complex picture of trade and investment integration, the entanglement of which points to the need for more effective regional governance as a building block of multilateral governance in this area. As the world's most dynamic trading region, Asia and the Pacific is a key player in this process, and the UNESCAP secretariat, in its service to the region, will continue to accord high priority to this policy objective. (Kim Hak-Su, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of UNESCAP)
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Developing Countries' Participation in Regional Integration: Trends, Prospects and Policy Implications; Preferential Trading Arrangements for Developing Countries; Making Multi-Level Rules Work: Trade and Investment Rules in Regional and Bilateral Agreements; Reconciling Regionalism and Multilateralism: Towards Multilevel Trade Governance; Asia-Pacific Regionalism Quo Vadis? Charting the Territory for New Integration Routes; Regional Integration in the Western Hemisphere: An Overview; Regional Economic Integration in Africa
    Description / Table of Contents: Developments in Regional Integration in Western Asia and Arab RegionTrade and Integration in (South) East Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia; Regional Integration in the European Union: Enlargement Without Constitution; Back Matter
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    ISBN: 9781402057847
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    Series Statement: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 37
    DDC: 404.2083
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Applied linguistics ; Germanic languages ; Romance languages ; Beispielsammlung ; Kind ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Sprachwechsel ; Deutsch ; Sprachwechsel ; Italienisch
    Abstract: This volume demonstrates that mixed utterances in young bilinguals can be analyzed in the same way as adult code-switching. It provides new insights not only in the field of code-switching and of language mixing in young bilinguals, but also in issues concerning general questions on linguistic theory which are difficult to be answered with monolingual data.
    Abstract: The goal of this volume is to prove that mixed utterances in young bilinguals can be analyzed in the same way as adult code-switching. Analyzing a rich corpus of spontaneous child data, the author provides detailed empirical evidence for latest minimalist assumptions on the architecture of mind and confirms that code-switching is only constrained by the two grammars of the languages involved. The data show that the quantity of mixing in children depends on an individual choice rather than on language development, language dominance, or other factors. Besides critically reviewing the literature on language mixing in children and adults, this work offers a thorough grammatical analysis of the code-switching data of five Italian/German children. The book provides new insights not only in the field of code-switching and of language mixing in young bilinguals, but also in issues concerning general questions on linguistic theory which are difficult to be answered with monolingual data.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Bilingualism and Bilingual First Language Acquisition; Early mixing; The theoretical framework; Code-switching; Data; The analysis of early mixing; The analysis of code-switching; Findings and conclusions; Back Matter
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    ISBN: 9781402061318
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    Series Statement: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 12
    DDC: 338.19
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Economic policy ; Social policy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethik ; Hunger ; Globalisierung ; Religion ; Hunger ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: Ethics, Hunger and Globalization adds an ethics dimension to the debate and research about poverty, hunger, and globalization. Outstanding scholars and practitioners from several disciplines discuss what action is needed for ethics to play a bigger role in action by governments, civil society, and the private sector to reduce poverty and hunger within the context of globalization. The book concludes that much of the rhetoric by policy makers is not followed up with appropriate action, and discusses the role of ethics in attempts to match action with rhetoric. The book also concludes that a better understanding of the values underlying both public and private sector action towards the alleviation of poverty and hunger would lead to more enlightened policies and greater success in attempts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The interaction between ethical, economic, and policy aspects is discussed and scholars and experienced practitioners from several disciplines suggest how such integration may be promoted.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction and Summary; Eliminating Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries: A Moral Imperative or Enlightened Self-Interest?; Ethics, Globalization, and Hunger: an Ethicist's Perspective; The Ethics of Hunger: Development Institutions and the World of Religion; What Hunger-Related Ethics Lessons can we Learn from Religion? Globalization and the World's Religions; Freedom from Hunger as a Basic Human Right: Principles and Implementation; Millennium Development Goals and Other Good Intentions
    Description / Table of Contents: What We Know About Poverty and What We Must Do: Ethical and Political Aspects of EmpowermentEthics and Hunger: A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Perspective; Economic Development, Equality, Income Distribution, and Ethics; On The Ethics and Economics of Changing Behavior; Agricultural and Food Ethics in the Western World: A Case of Ethical Imperialism?; Ethics, Hunger, and The Case for Genetically Modified (GM) Crops; Reforming Agricultural Trade: Not Just for the Wealthy Countries; Agricultural Subsidy and Trade Policies; Food Safety Standards in Rich and Poor Countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Concluding Reflections on the Role of EthicsBack Matter
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    ISBN: 1281066672 , 9781402062209 , 9781281066671
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Political science ; Economic policy ; Social policy ; Political science Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Neoliberalismus ; Global Governance
    Abstract: This book explores the relationship between neo-liberalism, state power and global governance, exploring national differences in the exercise of state power in a variety of industrialized and developing economies. Among the strengths of this volume are its detailed global scope, its range of case studies in diverse policy areas, its analysis and critique of neo-liberalism, in theory and practice, and its impact upon state power and global governance.
    Abstract: The volume explores the relationship between neo-liberalism, state power and global governance. It seeks to show how neo-liberalism has failed to deliver a framework for state power and global governance capable of delivering stability and enduring prosperity. It also contends that the role of politics in general, and the state and global governance in particular, should be defined more broadly than the simple neo-liberal construction of institutions for the market. Part One explores the pattern of national differences in the exercise of state power in a variety of industrialized and developing economies, despite the pressure to converge towards the dominant neo-liberal paradigm. Part Two analyses a variety of trans-national policy prescriptions for neo-liberalism and state power. Part Three explores whether the governance of labour markets is a special case in the global economy. Part Four sets out the need for institutional reform of the neo-liberal order in trade and finance. The volume concludes that there is the prospect of a more plural approach to state power and global governance, and one that recognizes the importance of the public domain of citizenship for delivering the global public goods of security, prosperity and environmental sustainability in the twenty-first century. The distinctive features of this book are: Its range of case studies of the impact of neo-liberalism upon state power in both industrialized (i.e. Germany, Canada, England) and emergent market economies (i.e. Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Nicaragua), Its range of case studies in different policy areas (i.e. education, labour markets, competitiveness policy, competition policy, financial markets' governance, monetary policy), Its range of case studies of different institutions of global governance (i.e. OECD, WTO), and Its analysis and critique of neo-liberalism, in theory and practice, and its impact upon state power and global governance.
    Description / Table of Contents: Lee-FM.pdf; Lee-Ch01.pdf; Lee-Ch02.pdf; Lee-Ch03.pdf; Lee-Ch04.pdf; Lee-Ch05.pdf; Lee-Ch06.pdf; Lee-Ch07.pdf; Lee-Ch08.pdf; Lee-Ch09.pdf; Lee-Ch10.pdf; Lee-Ch11.pdf; Lee-Ch12.pdf; Lee-Ch13.pdf; Lee-Ch14.pdf; Lee-Ch15.pdf; Lee-Ch16.pdf; Lee-Index.pdf
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    ISBN: 9781402058172
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    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 37
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Computer science ; Computational linguistics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Gesprochene Sprache ; Automatische Spracherkennung ; Dialogsystem ; Evaluation
    Abstract: In its nine chapters, this book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art and best practice in several sub-fields of evaluation of text and speech systems and components. The evaluation aspects covered include speech and speaker recognition, speech synthesis, animated talking agents, part-of-speech tagging, parsing, and natural language software like machine translation, information retrieval, question answering, spoken dialogue systems, data resources, and annotation schemes. With its broad coverage and original contributions this book is unique in the field of evaluation of speech and language technology. This book is of particular relevance to advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, academic and industrial researchers, and practitioners.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Speech and Speaker Recognition Evaluation; Evaluation of Speech Synthesis; Modelling and Evaluating Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in Talking Animated Interface Agents; Evaluating Part-of-Speech Tagging and Parsing; General Principles of User-Oriented Evaluation; An Overview of Evaluation Methods in TREC Ad Hoc Information Retrieval and TREC Question Answering; Spoken Dialogue Systems Evaluation Niels Ole Bernsen, Laila Dybkjær and Wolfgang Minker; Linguistic Resources, Development, and Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems
    Description / Table of Contents: Towards International Standards for Language ResourcesBack Matter
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    ISBN: 1402051344 , 9781402051340
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 395 S. , graph. Darst., Kt.
    Series Statement: International studies in population 5
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    Keywords: War and society ; Demography ; War casualties ; Guerre et société Congrès ; Guerre Congrès Aspect démographique ; Démographie Congrès ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Bewaffneter Konflikt ; Demographie
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    ISBN: 9781402041761 , 1402041764
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 273 S. , graph. Darst. , 25cm
    Series Statement: Synthese library 332
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Pragmatics ; Semantics ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-267) and index
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  • 76
    ISBN: 1402048467 , 9781402048463 , 1402048483 , 9781402048487
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 442 S.
    Series Statement: International Studies in Population 4
    DDC: 304.645
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    Keywords: Lebensdauer ; Langlebigkeit ; Alter ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Kongressschrift ; Buch ; Sammelwerk
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    ISBN: 9781402048890
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 216 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 34
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Nivre, Joakim, 1962 - Inductive dependency parsing
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    Keywords: Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Artificial intelligence ; Translators (Computer programs) ; Information systems ; Computational linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general ; Dependenzgrammatik ; Syntaktische Analyse
    Abstract: Natural Language Parsing -- Dependency Parsing -- Inductive Dependency Parsing -- Treebank Parsing -- Conclusion
    Abstract: This book provides an in-depth description of the framework of inductive dependency parsing, a methodology for robust and efficient syntactic analysis of unrestricted natural language text. This methodology is based on two essential components: dependency-based syntactic representations and a data-driven approach to syntactic parsing. More precisely, it is based on a deterministic parsing algorithm in combination with inductive machine learning to predict the next parser action. The book includes a theoretical analysis of all central models and algorithms, as well as a thorough empirical evaluation of memory-based dependency parsing, using data from Swedish and English. Offering the reader a one-stop reference to dependency-based parsing of natural language, it is intended for researchers and system developers in the language technology field, and is also suited for graduate or advanced undergraduate education
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  • 78
    ISBN: 9781402048487
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: International Studies in Population 4
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    Keywords: Sterblichkeit ; Ältere Menschen ; Alternde Bevölkerung ; Altersstruktur ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Geriatrics ; Aging Research ; Demography ; Longevity Statistics ; Aged, 80 and over statistics & numerical data ; Life Expectancy Statistics trends ; Mortality Statistics ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Langlebigkeit ; Alter ; Lebensdauer
    Abstract: Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century. Why has such a substantial extension of human lifespan occurred? How long can we live? In this book, these fundamental questions are explored by experts from diverse fields. They report on recent cutting-edge studies about essential issues of human longevity and social factors of long survival in old age.
    Abstract: Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century. Life expectancy in wealthy countries has increased, on average, from 65 years in 1950 to 76 years in 2005. The rise was more spectacular in some countries: the life expectancy for Japanese women rose from 62 years to 86 years during the same period. Driven by this longevity extension, the population aged 80 and over in those countries has grown fivefold from 8.5 million in 1950 to 44.5 million in 2005. Why has such a substantial extension of human lifespan occurred? How long can we live? In this book, these fundamental questions are explored by experts from such diverse fields as biology, medicine, epidemiology, demography, sociology, and mathematics: they report on recent cutting-edge studies about essential issues of human longevity such as evolution of lifespan of species, genetics of human longevity, reasons for the recent improvement in survival of the elderly, medical and behavioral causes of deaths among very old people, and social factors of long survival in old age.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; Research Issues On Human Longevity; Patterns In Mammalian Ageing: Demography And Evolution; Life Span Extension In Humans Is Self-Reinforcing: A General Theory Of Longevity; Oldest-Old Mortality In China; Central and Disperson Indicators Of Individual Life Durations: New Methods; Recent Trends In Life Expectancy And Rectangularisation Of The Survival Curve At Advanced Ages In The Netherlands; The Validation Of Exceptional Male Longevity In Sardinia; Mortality at Extreme Ages and Data Quality: The Canadian Experience
    Description / Table of Contents: Causes of Death Among the Oldest-Old: Validity and ComparabilityCauses of Death Among the Oldest-Old: Age-Related Changes in the Cause-of-Death Distribution; Genetic Factors Associated with Individual Life Duration: Heritability; Mortality among the Least Frail: Lessons from Research On The Apoe Gene; Social Determinants of Mortality in the Oldest-Old: Social Class and Individual Way-Of-Life; Social Differences in Older Adult Mortality in the United States: Questions, Data, Methods, and Results; Mortality Differences by Sex Among the Oldest-Old
    Description / Table of Contents: Explanation of the Decline in Mortality among the Oldest-Old: The Impact of Circulatory DiseasesExplanation of the Decline in Mortality among the Oldest-Old: A Demographic Point of View; Marital Status and Family Support for the Oldest-Old in Great Britain; Back Matter
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    ISBN: 1402041764 , 9781402041778
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 273 S.)
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    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Referenz ; Pragmatik ; Modelltheoretische Semantik ; Propositionale Einstellung ; Sprechsituation ; Mögliche-Welten-Semantik ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Propositionale Einstellung ; Referenz ; Mögliche-Welten-Semantik ; Modelltheoretische Semantik ; Pragmatik ; Sprechsituation
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  • 80
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    ISBN: 9781402041853
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 22
    DDC: 362.10973
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Economics ; Health Services Administration ; Health Services Administration ethics
    Abstract: This book traces the growth of managed care as a mechanism for curbing excessive growth in health costs, and the controversies that have risen around for-profit health care. Also examined are decentralization in US health care, and the absence of comprehensive health care planning, access rules, and minimum health care benefit standards. Finally, the author proposes a framework for improving access to quality, affordable health care in a competitive market environment.
    Abstract: The effective management of appropriate health care should be able to contain medical care costs and improve accessibility while addressing rationing concerns. However, managed care in the United States has not lived up to the expectations set for it.Managed care quickly gained popularity among employers and public policy makers as a mechanism for curbing the excessive growth of health care insurance costs. Nonetheless, since its introduction, the system of largely for-profit managed care has been the subject of much public and political debate. The change from a fee-for-service system toward a system in which the health care insurance component is combined with the delivery of a broad range of integrated health care services for populations of plan enrollees that are financed prospectively from a limited budget has been widely criticized and has even been called repugnant. Instead of placing the blame on managed care organizations, however, we need to keep in mind that such organizations operate without societal agreement on critical issues such as a workable definition of health, an authoritative standard for defining the scope of entitlements, and on the distribution of labor between public and private sector entities. The health care system in the United States is also characterized by decentralization as well as the absence of a comprehensive health care planning or budgeting system, substantive access rules, and agreed-upon minimum health care benefit package. Therefore, managed care organizations only have limited responsibilities. The nonexistence of a shared, unifying paradigm of responsibility has been called the leading cause of the inability to manage health care appropriately. The stakeholders in health care operate on a set of widely varying interpretations of the notion of responsibility. The concept of genuine responsibility, recognizing the complexity of health care and the need for stakeholder-specific interpretations of responsibility, proposes as the underlying premise of responsibility (at least in regard to health care) the social agreement that distributive choices should be made on the basis of the premise of deliberate reciprocity. When all parties share the same foundation on which the notion of responsibility is built the resulting trust and cooperation among stakeholders enables them to find morally appropriate solutions in reforming health care.
    Description / Table of Contents: HEALTH CARE COSTS AND SCARCITY OF HEALTH CARE RESOURCES; THE CONCEPT OF MANAGED CARE AND ITS PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS; IDEOLOGY: THE SILENT PARTNER; THE CONCEPT OF GENUINE RESPONSIBILITY; REVISING THE TEMPLATE FOR MODELING HEALTH CARE; THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS; IMPLEMENTATION IN THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
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    ISBN: 9781402038280
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 3
    DDC: 331.2525920967
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    Keywords: Education ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Kleinstbetrieb ; Berufsbildung ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb ; Berufsbildung
    Abstract: In Sub-Sahara Africa, the sector of informal micro-enterprises (IMEs) is already employing a large share of the labour force in both urban and rural areas. There are even indications that in the past decade it has been a source of employment and incomes for nine out of every 10 new entrants to the labour market. This study reviews the ways in which the owners and workers of IMEs have acquired the vocational and management skills that they are using in the operation of these ventures. It reviews the contributions of all the different training providers, including public sector training institutes, private sector training providers, and training centres run by NGOs and other non-profit organizations. Its findings confirm the notion that the training efforts of these formal training providers are only to a limited extent relevant for the IME operators, and that many of the poor and other vulnerable groups do not have ready access to these programmes. The study finds that informal apprenticeship training is by far the most common source of various skills - in some countries it is likely to be responsible for 80-90% of all ongoing training efforts. Informal apprenticeship training presents a number of important advantages: it is practical, hands-on training at an appropriate level of technology, takes place in the real world of work, offers good prospects for post-training employment and is essentially self-financing. At the same time it has a number of limitations: the training quality is often modest, there is a risk of 'incomplete' transfer of skills and knowledge, limited infusion of technological progress, and uncertainties with regard to the duration of the apprenticeship period, the training programme and the skills acquired at the end of the training. The study concludes that there is a major challenge to improve the transfer of relevant skills to IME operators, through both pre-employment training and skills upgrading. In view of the scope of the challenge to provide hundreds of thousands IME owners and workers, as well as large numbers of out of school youths, with relevant practical and management skills, it suggests to build upon the strengths of the existing practices of informal apprenticeship training and to remedy its weaknesses by involving professional training providers in upgrading its training organization and delivery, quality and efficiency, and final training outcomes. It reviews the results of a number of innovative interventions in different African countries that are working in this direction. Finally, the study suggests that there is an interesting potential in'business-embedded training' provided by private companies as part of their regular business operations.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Informal Micro-enterprises in Sub-Sahara Africa; Brief Overview of Education and Training in Sub-Sahara Africa; Public Training Providers and the IME Sector; Private Training Providers and the IME Sector; NGOs and ISAs and Training for the IME Sector; Informal Apprenticeship Training; Summary and Conclusions
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    ISBN: 9781402041884
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 65
    DDC: 415
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Ergativ ; Ergativ
    Abstract: The overarching theme of this volume is the formal expression of the range and limits of ergativity. The book contains cutting-edge theoretical papers by top authors in the field, who also conduct original field work and bring new data to light. It contains articles that apply the most recent theoretical tools to the area of ergativity, and then explore the issues that emerge. Languages investigated in the text include Basque, Georgian, and Hindi.
    Abstract: This book contains cutting edge theoretical papers by top authors in the field, who also conduct original field work and bring new data to light. It contains articles that apply the most recent theoretical tools to the area of ergativity, and explore issues that emerge. The articles are written by linguists with expertise in bringing original data to bear on complex theoretical issues. The overall theme of the volume is the formal expression of the range and limits of ergativity. The main sections are on the nature of ergative and absolutive case, the antipassive, split ergativity, and ergativity in languages not generally considered to be ergative. Languages investigated are Basque, Chukchi, Georgian, Halkomelem Salish, Hindi, Inuktitut, Kirundi, Malagasy, Niuean, Nuumiipuutímt, Russian, Tongan, and Warlpiri.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Locus of Ergative Case Assignment: Evidence from Scope; Neither Absolutive nor Ergative is Nominative or Accusative; Eccentric Agreement and Multiple Case Checking; Syntactic Ergativity in Tongan; A Parametric Syntax of Aspectually Conditioned Split-Ergativity; Split Absolutive; Deriving Split Ergativity in the Progressive; On 'Ergativity' in Halkomelem Salish; Tree-Geometric Relational Hierarchies and Nuumiipuutímt (Nez Perce) Case; Antipassive Morphology and Case Assignment in Inuktitut; The Ergativity Parameter: A View from Antipassive; Ergativity and Change in Inuktitut
    Description / Table of Contents: Ergativity in Austronesian LanguagesThe Split Verb as a Source of Morphological Ergativity
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    ISBN: 9781402044854
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    Series Statement: Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics v. 35
    DDC: 401.43
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    Keywords: Comparative Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Semantics ; Semantik ; Spracherwerb
    Abstract: Contains a collection of writings that focuses on semantic phenomena and their interpretation in the analysis of the language of a learner. This volume addresses a variety of phenomena such as: temporal aspect and tense, specificity, quantification, scope, finiteness, focus structure, and focus particles
    Description / Table of Contents: 'Mismatches' of Form and Interpretation; Watching Noun Phrases Emerge: Seeking Compositionality; Cross-Linguistic Acquisition of Complement Tense; Everybody Knows; The Effect of Context on Children'S Interpretations of Universally Quantified Sentences; Structure and Meaning in the Acquisition of Scope; Time for Children: An Integrated Stage Model of Aspect and Tense; State Change and Temporal Reference in Inuktitut Child Language; Temporal Adverbials and Early Tense and Aspect Markers in the Acquisition of Dutch; On Finiteness; Functions of Finiteness in Child Language
    Description / Table of Contents: Additive Particles and Scope Marking in Child German(Un)Stressed ook in Child Dutch
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  • 84
    ISBN: 9781402047961
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Studies in Linguistics & Philosophy S., v. 82
    DDC: 100
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Applied Linguistics ; Phonology ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Konferenzschrift 2001 ; Bedeutung ; Intonation ; Thema-Rhema-Gliederung
    Abstract: Contains a collection of papers exploring the cross-linguistic expression of topic and focus. This book presents a collection of a diverse set of perspectives from some of the leading scholars in the areas of semantics and intonation. It examines both semantic and intonational features of topic and focus from a broad typological perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Preface; Gorka Elordieta; Constraints on Intonational Prominence of Focalized Constituents; Ardis Eschenberg; Polish Narrow Focus Constructions; David Gil; Intonation and Thematic Roles In Riau Indonesian; Matthew Gordon; The Intonational Realization of Contrastive Focus in Chickasaw; Carlos Gussenhoven; Types of Focus in English; Nancy Hedberg and Juan M. Sosa; The Prosody of Topic and Focus in Spontaneous English Dialogue; Emiel Krahmer and Marc Swerts; Perceiving Focus; Manfred Krifka; The Semantics of Questions and the Focusation of Answers; Chungmin Lee
    Description / Table of Contents: Contrastive (Predicate) Topic, Intonation and Scalar MeaningsKimiko Nakanishi; Prosody and Scope Interpretations of the Topic Marker WA in Japanese; Ho-Hsien Pan; Focus and Taiwanese Unchecked Tones; Elisabeth Selkirk; Bengali Intonation Revisited: An Optimally Theoretic Analysis in which FOCUS Stress Prominence Drives FOCUS Phrasing; Mark Steedman; Information-Structural Semantics for English Intonation; Klaus Von Heusinger; Discourse Structure and Intonational Phrasing;
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    ISBN: 9781402043086
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 66
    DDC: 415
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; San Lucas Quiavini ; Zapotekisch ; Syntax
    Abstract: San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec, an endangered and little-examined indigenous language of Mexico, shows a range of syntactic and morphological phenomena incompatible with standard Minimalist accounts of verb movement. This work proposes a VP-remnant raising account for these phenomena, motivated by Kayne's (1992) antisymmetry program. The book also examines the consequences of phrasal remnant movement for negation constructions, and the interpretation of tense, aspect, and mood.
    Abstract: San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec, an endangered and little-examined indigenous language of Mexico, shows a range of syntactic and morphological phenomena incompatible with standard Minimalist accounts of verb movement: verbs and clearly phrasal constituents behave identically in a number of syntactic constructions, and the ordering of verbal morphemes is problematic for standard assumptions of verbal head movement. This work proposes a VP-remnant raising account for these phenomena, motivated by Kayne’s (1992) Antisymmetry program. This work also examines consequences of phrasal remnant movement for negation constructions, question formation, and the interpretation of tense, aspect, and mood.
    Description / Table of Contents: An Introduction to San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec; Background and Theoretical Assumptions; The Syntax of Verb Raising in SLQZ: Arguments for VP Raising; Further Consequences of VP-Remnant Movement: Some Common Negation Structures in SLQZ; More on the Structure of the Left Periphery: The Syntax of Questions; The Interaction of Tense and Aspect in San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec;
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    ISBN: 9781402040689
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    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 31
    DDC: 415.9
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Computational Linguistics ; Computer science ; Konferenzschrift 2002 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wortlänge ; Wortlänge
    Abstract: Required reading for computational linguists, this work contains a series of important contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length. The book includes an introduction to the history and state of the art of word length studies. The studies included unify contributions from three crucial fields of study in linguistics: linguistics and text analysis, mathematics and statistics, and corpus and database design. Together they provide a comprehensive approach to the quantitative study of text and language.
    Abstract: This volume contains a collection of contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length in particular. Within a synergetic framework, the word turns out to be a central linguistic unit, as is clearly outlined in the Editor's preface. The book's first chapter is an extensive introduction to the history and state of the art of word length studies. The studies included unify contributions from three important linguistic fields, namely, linguistics and text analysis, mathematics and statistics, and corpus and data base design, which together give a comprehensive approach to the quantitative study of text and language and word length studies. The broad spectrum of word length studies covered within this volume will be of interest to experts working in the fields of general linguistics, text scholarship and related fields, and, understanding language as one example of complex semiotic systems, the volume should be of interest for scholars from other fields as well.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introductory Remarks: on the Science of Language in Light of the Language of Science; History and Methodology of Word Length Studies; Information Content of Words in Texts; Zero-Syllable Words in Determining Word Length; Within-Sentence Distribution and Retention of Content Words and Function Words; On Text Corpora, Word Lengths, and Word Frequencies in Slovenian; Text Corpus as an Abstract Data Structure; About Word Length Distribution; The Fall of the Jers in the Light of Menzerath's Law; Towards the Foundations of Menzerath's Law; Aspects of the Typology of Slavic Languages
    Description / Table of Contents: Multivariate Statistical Methods in Quantitative Text AnalysesWord Length and Word Frequency; Developing the Croatian National Corpus and Beyond; About Word Length Counting in Serbian; Word-Length Distribution in Present-Day Lower Sorbian Newspaper Texts; Towards a Unified Derivation of Some Linguistic Laws; Back Matter
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    ISBN: 9781402041969
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    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, And the New Medicine 27
    DDC: 174.957
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    Keywords: Law ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Public health laws ; Internationality ; Jurisprudence ; Public Health ; Bioethics ; Biotechnology ; Bioethik
    Abstract: As a result of globalization, issues in health law and bioethics can no longer be understood solely within political boundaries that define traditional notions of individuals and communities. This book explores ethical and legal dilemmas in healthcare arising from globalization
    Description / Table of Contents: Travel in a small world; Globalization and health; Globalization and clinical trials; Ethics, disease and obligation; Regulating the bio-economy; The global context for risk governance; Global intellectual property protection of "innovative" pharmaceuticals; Directing consumption; Globalization and biotechnology policy; The rights of donor-conceived children to know the identity of their donor; Globalization and English medical law; Health practitioner regulation;
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    ISBN: 9781402047633
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    Series Statement: Advances in global change research v. 25
    DDC: 363.7
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    Keywords: Umweltpolitik ; Internationale Umweltpolitik ; Umweltschutz ; Umweltorganisation ; Nichtregierungsorganisation ; Klimawandel ; Grenzüberschreitende Umweltbelastung ; Artenvielfalt ; Entwaldung ; Umweltabkommen ; Environmental Law ; Political Science ; Environmental sciences ; Social sciences ; Umweltpolitik ; Nationalstaat ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: This book assesses and compares the political response of nations to the environment. The book explores five major topics: state-society relations; environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs); Green parties and environmental movements; institutions of government and policy-making; variations in the capacities of states to protect the environment; and national responses to global problems. It compares and contrasts rich and poor nations, large and small countries, liberal democracies and authoritarian states.
    Abstract: Looks at the way countries vary politically and assesses the impact this may have on response to global environmental issues, such as climate warming, biodiversity loss, deforestation, and trans-boundary air pollution. This book concludes that understanding the global environmental future depends on an understanding of the domestic circumstances
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; State-society relations; Political processes and organizations; Political institutions and the environment; National capacity to protect the environment; National responses to global environmental problems; Summary and conclusions
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    ISBN: 9781402049842
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    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 23
    DDC: 174.4
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Unternehmensethik ; Wirtschaftsethik
    Abstract: Includes a selection of the articles on ethics, business ethics, teaching ethics, agency theory, postmodernism, employee rights, and ethics in accounting and the financial services industry. These articles reflect the author's underlying philosophical concerns and their application to the real-world challenges of practitioners
    Description / Table of Contents: What is Ethics?; The Why's of Business Revisited; Business Ethics: Oxymoron or Good Business?; Aristotle: A Pre-Modern Post-Modern? Implications for Business Ethics; The Religious Roots of Business Ethics; Life Boat Ethics: A Problem in Economic Justice; What's the Point of a Business Ethics Course?; Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty; Why Be A Loyal Agent? A Systemic Ethical Analysis; Employee Rights; Ethical Issues in Financial Services; The Corruption of Financial Markets: Systemic Inevitability or Aberration?; Should Mutual Fund Managers Be Banned From Personal Trading?
    Description / Table of Contents: The Responsibilities of AccountantsFinancial Planning-The New Century Ethics;
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  • 90
    ISBN: 1402039336 , 9781402039331 , 1402039328 , 9781402039324
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 373 S. , lll.
    Series Statement: Text, speech and language technology 30
    Series Statement: Text, speech and language technology
    DDC: 302.346
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    Keywords: Mens-computer-interactie ; Conversation analysis Congresses ; Nonverbal communication Congresses ; Diskursanalyse ; Nichtverbale Kommunikation ; Konferenzschrift 2002 ; Konferenzschrift 2002 ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift 2002 ; Diskursanalyse ; Nichtverbale Kommunikation
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    ISBN: 1402030630
    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 243 S. , graph. Darst., Tab.
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Beck, Stefan Surviving Globalization?
    DDC: 303.482
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Deutschland ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Strukturkrise ; Deutschland ; Wirtschaftssystem ; Deutschland ; Volkswirtschaft
    Description / Table of Contents: Literaturangaben
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    ISBN: 1402039328 , 1402039336 , 9781402039324 , 9781402039331 , 9781402039331
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 373 S.) , lll.
    Series Statement: Text, speech and language technology 30
    Series Statement: Text, speech and language technology
    DDC: 302.346
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    Keywords: Nichtverbale Kommunikation ; Diskursanalyse ; Konferenzschrift 2002 ; Konferenzschrift 2002 ; Diskursanalyse ; Nichtverbale Kommunikation
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    ISBN: 1402026870 , 9781402026874
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 884 S , graph. Darst , 25 cm
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Handbook of New Institutional Economics
    DDC: 330
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    Keywords: Neue Institutionenökonomik ; Transaktionskosten ; Institutionelle Infrastruktur ; Institutionenökonomik ; Institutional economics ; Economic development ; Institutionenökonomie ; Global Institution ; Neue Institutionenökonomik ; Innere Organisation von Institutionen/Organisationen ; Management (funktional) ; Wirtschaftstheoretischer Ansatz ; Wirtschaftstheorie ; Politische Institution Wirtschaftliche Institution ; Bedeutung/Rolle ; Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Produktionsfaktoren ; Handbuch ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Institutionenökonomie ; Institutionenökonomie
    Abstract: New Institutional Economics (NIE) has skyrocketed in scope and influence over the last three decades. This first Handbook of NIE provides a unique and timely overview of recent developments and broad orientations. Contributions analyse the domain and perspectives of NIE; sections on legal institutions, political institutions, transaction cost economics, governance, contracting, institutional change, and more capture NIE's interdisciplinary nature. This Handbook will be of interest to economists, political scientists, legal scholars, management specialists, sociologists, and others wishing to learn more about this important subject and gain insight into progress made by institutionalists from other disciplines. This compendium of analyses by some of the foremost NIE specialists, including Ronald Coase, Douglass North, Elinor Ostrom, and Oliver Williamson, gives students and new researchers an introduction to the topic and offers established scholars a reference book for their research.
    Description / Table of Contents: Literaturangaben
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    ISBN: 9781402023019
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    Series Statement: En]Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 81
    DDC: 415
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    Keywords: Semantics ; Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Artificial intelligence ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Ellipse ; Satz
    Abstract: The papers in this volume address two main topics:Q1: What is the nature, and especially the scope, of ellipsis in natural language? Q2: What are the linguistic/philosophical implications of what one takes the nature/scope of ellipsis to be? Each of these main topics includes a large sub-part that deals specifically with nonsentential speech. Within the first main topic, Q1, there arises the sub-issue of whether nonsentential speech falls within the scope of ellipsis or not, within the second main topic, Q2, there arises the sub-issue of what linguistic/philosophical implications follow, if nonsentential speech does/does not count as ellipsis. This book is unique in that it offers the reader, Papers on the boundary between philosophy and linguistics, Applications of advanced work in theoretical linguistics to traditional philosophical questions, It is the only volume of papers ever published on sub-sentential speech, Major contribution to our understanding of ellipsis in natural language, presently a central topic in syntactic theory. This book is of interest to professionals and advanced graduate students in the fields of philosophy of language, semantics, and syntax.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Against Reconstruction in Ellipsis; The Semantics of Nominal Exclamatives; Nonsententials in Minimalism; A Note on Alleged Cases of Nonsentential Assertion; On the Interpretation and Performance of Non-Sentential Assertions; Non-Sentences, Implicature, and Success in Communication; The Link between Sentences and 'Assertion': An Evolutionary Accident?; Knowledge by Acquaintance and Meaning in Isolation; Co-Extensive Theories and Unembedded Definite Descriptions; The Ellipsis Account of Fiction-Talk; Quinean Interpretation and Anti-Vernacularism
    Description / Table of Contents: Saying What You Mean: Unarticulated Constituents and Communication
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    ISBN: 9781402032325
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    Series Statement: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics 32
    DDC: 401.9
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Germanic Languages ; Romance Languages ; Semantics ; Slavic languages ; Konferenzschrift 2001 ; Tempus ; Kontrastive Linguistik ; Aspekt
    Abstract: This book offers both a retrospective view on how theories of aspectuality have developed over the past 30 years, and presents current, new directions of aspectuality research.The articles in this book take a wide crosslinguistic scope including aspectual analyses of the following languages: English and two varieties of English: African American English and Colloquial Singapore English, Italian, French, Bulgarian, Czech, Mandarin Chinese, West-Greenlandic, Wakashan languages, and Nahk-Daghestanian languages.
    Abstract: The aim of this book is two-fold: to offer a retrospective view on the past thirty years of research on aspectuality and temporality as well as to develop new perspectives on the future development of the field. Articles contain overviews of the development of the field and/or present the state of the art of current research, suggesting new and upcoming lines of research. An important theme throughout the book is typological variation, and the relevance of empirical data for theory formation. Together the articles in the book take a wide crosslinguistic scope including aspectual analyses of English, and two varieties of English: African American English and Colloquial Singapore English, Italian, French, Bulgarian, Czech, Mandarin Chinese, West-Greenlandic, Wakashan languages, and Nakh-Daghestanian languages. Audience: Scholars and students of aspectuality in semantics and at the syntax-semantics interface.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introducing Perspectives on Aspect; Aspectual Composition: Surveying the Ingredients; Quantized Direct Objects Don't Delimit After All; Quantification and Aspect; Prepositions and Results in Italian and English: An Analysis from Event Decomposition; Atelicity, Pluractionality, and Adverbial Quantification; On Accumulating and Having IT All; Adverbs of Completion in an Event Semantics; Eventualities, Grammar, and Language Diversity; From Habituals to Futures; Perfective Aspect and Accomplishment Situations in Mandarin Chinese; The Past Perfective and Present Perfect in African-American English
    Description / Table of Contents: Tense and Aspectual be in Child African American EnglishUnmarked Already
    Note: "In December 2001 the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics hosted a conference entitled Perspectives on Aspect"--pref , Includes bibliographical references , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    ISBN: 9781402040948
    Language: English
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    DDC: 121.3
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    Keywords: Logic ; Philosophy (General) ; Computer science ; Artificial intelligence ; Economics, Mathematical ; Wirtschaftstheorie ; Wirtschaftsethik
    Abstract: Contemporary epistemological and cognitive studies, as well as recent trends in computer science and game theory have revealed an increasingly important and intimate relationship between Information, Interaction, and Agency. Agents perform actions based on the available information and in the presence of other interacting agents. From this perspective Information, Interaction, and Agency neatly ties together classical themes like rationality, decision-making and belief revision with games, strategies and learning in a multi-agent setting. Unified by the central notions Information, Interaction, and Agency, the essays in this volume provide refreshing methodological perspectives on belief revision, dynamic epistemic logic, von Neumann games, and evolutionary game theory, all of which in turn are central approaches to understanding our own rationality and that of other agents.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminary; Logics for Epistemic Programs; A Counterexample to Six Fundamental Principles of Belief Formation; Comparing Semantics of Logics for Multi-Agent Systems; A Characterization of Von Neumann Games in Terms of Memory; An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Perspective on Learning in Mult-Agent Systems; Evolution of Conventional Meaning and Conversational Principles; Nonmonotonic Inferences and Neural Networks; A Model of Jury Decisions Where All Jurors Have the Same Evidence; A Sat-Based Approach to Unbounded Model Checking for Alternating-Time Temporal Epistemic Logic
    Description / Table of Contents: Update Semantics of Security ProtocolsBack matter
    Note: "Reprinted from Synthese 139:2 and 142:2 (2004), Special section: Knowledge, rationality & action , Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    ISBN: 9781402030512
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    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 27
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    Keywords: Computational Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Computer science ; Artificial intelligence ; Translators (Computer programs) ; Multimedia systems ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sprache ; Information ; Präsentation
    Abstract: Intelligent Multimodal Information Presentation relates to the ability of a computer system to automatically produce interactive information presentations, taking into account the specifics about the user, such as needs, interests and knowledge, and engaging in a collaborative interaction that helps the retrieval of relevant information and its understanding on the part of the user. The volume includes descriptions of some of the most representative recent works on Intelligent Information Presentation and a view of the challenges ahead.
    Abstract: Intelligent Multimodal Information Presentation relates to the ability of a computer system to automatically produce interactive information presentations, taking into account the specifics about the user, such as needs, interests and knowledge, and engaging in a collaborative interaction that helps the retrieval of relevant information and its understanding on the part of the user. The volume includes descriptions of some of the most representative recent works on Intelligent Information Presentation and a view of the challenges ahead
    Description / Table of Contents: Greta. A Believable Embodied Conversational Agent; Multimodal Communication in Virtual Environments; Generating Embodied Information Presentations; Resource-Adaptive Personal Navigation; Intelligent Interactive Information Presentation for Cultural Tourism; Supporting Mobile Users through Adaptive Information Presentation; Autobriefer: A System for Authoring Narrated Briefings; Generating Tailored Worked-Out Problem Solutions to Help Students Learn from Examples; Multilingual Personalized Information Objects; Generating Multimedia Presentations from Plain Text to Screen Play
    Description / Table of Contents: Intelligent Information Presentation for Tutoring SystemsMaintaining Visibility Constraints for View Management in 3D User Interfaces; Simulation Meets Hollywood; Presentation Technologies for People with Disabilities; Fusion and Coordination for Multimodal Interactive Information Presentation
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    ISBN: 9781402039058
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Trends in Logic, Studia Logica Library 24
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Logic ; Computational Linguistics ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Mathematische Logik
    Abstract: Develops a hybrid architecture that allows to incorporate anaphora resolution into grammatical deduction. After giving an introduction into Type Logical Grammar in general, this book discusses the formal properties of this connective
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; Contents; List of Tables; 1 TYPE LOGICAL GRAMMAR THE FRAMEWORK; 2 THE PROBLEM OF ANAPHORA; 3 LAMBEK CALCULUS WITH LIMITED CONTRACTION; 4 PRONOUNS AND QUANTIFICATION; 6 INDEFINITES; References; Index
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    ISBN: 9781402032448
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 63
    DDC: 492.456
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Semantics ; Semitic Languages ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Hebräisch ; Morphosyntax ; Wortwurzel ; Hebräisch ; Morphosyntax ; Wortwurzel
    Abstract: In-depth investigation of Hebrew verb morphology in light of cutting edge theories of morphology and lexical semantics An original theory about the semantic content of roots An account of how roots function in word-formation A wide empirical basis containing a complete corpus of verb-creating roots in Hebrew
    Abstract: This book is simultaneously a theoretical study in morphosyntax and an in-depth empirical study of Hebrew. Based on Hebrew data, the book defends the status of the root as a lexical and phonological unit and argues that roots, rather than verbs or nouns, are the primitives of word formation. A central claim made throughout the book is the role of locality in word formation, teasing apart word formation from roots and word formation from existing words syntactically, semantically and phonologically. The book focuses on Hebrew, a language with rich verb morphology, where both roots and noun- and verb-creating morphology are morphologically transparent. The study of Hebrew verbs is based on a corpus of all Hebrew verb-creating roots, offering, for the first time, a survey of the full array of morpho-syntactic forms seen in the Hebrew verb. While the focus of this study is on how roots function in word-formation, a central chapter studies the information encoded by the Hebrew root, arguing for a special kind of open-ended value, bounded within the classes of meaning analyzed by lexical semanticists. The book is of wide interest to students of many branches of linguistics, including morphology, syntax and lexical semantics, as well as of to students Semitic languages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Roots: Where Syntax, Morphology, and the Lexicon Meet; The Noun-Verb Asymmetry in Hebrew: When Are Patterns Obligatory?; The Contents of the Root: Multiple Contextualized Meaning in Hebrew; The Morphological Consequences of MCM: An Intermediate Summary; Roots Across Patterns in Hebrew; A Theory of Hebrew Verbal Morpho-Syntax; Roots in Word-Formation: The Root Hypothesis Revisited
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    ISBN: 9781402030338
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 62
    DDC: 415/.63
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Semantics ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Aspekt
    Abstract: The study of the linguistic reflexes of aspect has been an active field of research in various sub-disciplines of linguistics, such as syntax, semantics (including discourse theory) and acquisition studies. However, communication and dissemination of results across these various subfields has often been indirect. The different angles brought together give us a comprehensive picture of the representation of aspect in the mind/brain of the speaker. The papers in this volume represent the results of a workshop on the syntax, semantics and acquisition of aspect held in 2002 whose purpose was to foment active cross-disciplinary communication. A number of the papers examine the syntactic representation of lexical or situation aspect, while others focus on the syntactic interaction of lexical aspect with grammatical aspect, and of grammatical aspect and tense. Other papers examine the role of aspect in discourse representations, while a third group of papers reports on results of empirical studies on the acquisition of aspect in both first and second language acquisition, and patterns of loss of morphosyntactic reflexes of aspect in language attrition.
    Description / Table of Contents: Issues and Interfaces in the Study of Aspect; Topic or Aspect; Some Notes on the Syntax of Quantity; Articulated vPS and the Computation of Aspectual Classes; Flavors of v; Semi-Copulas; PP, FP and the Telic/Atelic Distinction in Norwegian Motion Constructions; The Spatio-Temporal Path and Aspectual Composition; Aspect and Temporal Modification; Aspectual Entities and Tense in Discourse; Stage Structure and Stage Salience for Event Semantics; Aspectual Viewpoints, Speech Act Functions and Discourse Structure; Child Non-Finite Clauses and the Mood-Aspect Connection; Imperfect Imperfectives
    Description / Table of Contents: L2 Acquisition of Aspectual Distinctions in PolishAspect Lost, Aspect Regained; Tracking the Elusive Imperfect in Adult L2 Acquisition
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-449) and index , The papers in this volume represent the results of the Workshop on the Syntax, Semantics, and Acquisition of Aspect, held at the University of Iowa in May 2002 , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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