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  • 1
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    Singapore : Springer Singapore | Singapore : Springer
    ISBN: 9789811546969
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 399 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021
    Series Statement: Cultural Linguistics
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    DDC: 306
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    Keywords: Cultural Studies ; Philosophy of Language ; Intercultural Communication ; Linguistics, general ; Cultural studies ; Language and languages—Philosophy ; Intercultural communication ; Linguistics ; Englisch ; Weltsprache ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Englisch ; Weltsprache
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9789811302039
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 599 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme
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    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Cultural Studies ; Cross Cultural Psychology ; Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary ; Development and Sustainability ; Asian Business ; Language and Literature ; Applied psychology ; Economic development—Environmental aspects ; International business enterprises ; Asia—Economic conditions ; Linguistics ; Ingenieurwissenschaften ; Ingenieurwissenschaften
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9789811069581
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 200 p. 29 illus., 25 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: New Frontiers in Translation Studies
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    Series Statement: Social Sciences
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
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    Keywords: Computational linguistics ; Translation and interpretation ; Linguistics
    Abstract: This book comprehensively examines the development of translator and interpreter training using bibliometric reviews of the state of the field and empirical studies on classroom practice. It starts by introducing databases in bibliometric reviews and presents a detailed account of the reasons behind the project and its objectives as well as a description of the methods of constructing databases. The introduction is followed by full-scale review studies on various aspects of translator and interpreter training, providing not only an overall picture of the research themes and methods, but also valuable information on active authors, institutions and countries in the subfields of translator training, interpreter training, and translator and interpreter training in general. The book also compares publications from different subfields of research, regions and journals to show the special features within this discipline. Further, it provides a series of empirical studies conducted by the authors, covering a wide array of topics in translator and interpreter training, with an emphasis on learner factors. This collective volume, with its unique perspective on bibliometric data and empirical studies, highlights the latest development in the field of translator and interpreter training research. The findings presented will help researchers, trainers and practitioners to reflect on the important issues in the discipline and find possible new directions for future research
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Outline -- 1. Bibliometric methods in translation and interpreting research -- 2. The construction and development of the T&I English Journal Article Database (TIEJAD) -- 3. TIEJAD: Exploratory findings & implications -- Chapter 2: An overview of research in translator and interpreter training - findings of the TIEJAD training sub-database (2000-12) -- Chapter 3: Research in translator training vs. interpreter training - findings of the TIEJAD training sub-database (2000-13) -- Chapter 4: Research in translator training: A global survey - findings of the TIEJAD translator training sub-database (2000-14) -- Chapter 5: Research in interpreter training: A glimpse of the field - findings of the TIEJAD interpreter training sub-database (2000-12) -- Chapter 6: Mapping interpreting studies - findings of the TIEJAD interpreting sub-database (2000-10) -- Chapter 7: Idiosyncratic features of T&I journals in pedagogical research: A case study of Meta - findings of the TIEJAD training sub-database (2000-14) -- Chapter 8: Conclusions -- Outline -- 8.1 Current trends in the field of pedagogical research on translation and interpretation: Implications of the TIEJAD -- 8.2 TIEJAD: Future developments and applications
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9789811059513
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 200 p. 4 illus, online resource)
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    Series Statement: Social Sciences
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Women in the Indian diaspora
    DDC: 305.8914
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Literature ; Social Sciences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Ausland ; Inderin ; Indische Einwanderin ; Inderin ; Diaspora
    Abstract: This volume brings into focus a range of emergent issues related to women in the Indian diaspora. The conditions propelling women’s migration and their experiences during the process of migration and settlement have always been different and very specific to them. Standing ‘in-between’ the two worlds of origin and adoption, women tend to experience dialectic tensions between freedom and subjugation, but they often use this space to assert independence, and to redefine their roles and perceptions of self. The  central idea in this volume is to understand women’s agency in addressing and redressing the complex issues faced by them; in restructuring the cultural formats of patriarchy and gender relations; managing the emerging conflicts over what is to be transmitted to the following generations,; renegotiating their domestic roles and embracing new professional and educational successes; and adjusting to the institutional structures of the host state. The essays included in the volume discuss women in the Indian diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives involving social, economic, cultural, and political aspects. Such an effort privileges diasporic women’s experiences and perspectives in the academia and among policy makers. 
    Abstract: 1. Women in Indian Diaspora: Redefining Self between Dislocation and Relocation Amba Pande.- Part I The Context of Theory and Identity -- 2. Centring Gendered Narratives of the Indian Diaspora Sandhya Rao Mehta -- 3. The Rhetoric of Deliberation and the Space of the Hyphen: Identity Politics of the Indian Women Diaspora in the Fictions of Jhumpa Lahiri Nabanita Chakraborty -- 4. Freedom or subjugation: Interpreting the subjectivity of women in Indian Diaspora Communities Sheetal Sharma. Part II Revisiting Historical Narratives -- 5. Indian Indentured Women in the Caribbeans and the Role Model of Ramayana's Sita:  An Unequal Metaphor Archana Tewari -- 6. “The Men Who Controlled Indian Women” - Indentureship, Patriarchy and Women's 'Liberation’ In Trinidad Radica Mahase -- 7. Tamil Women of the Diaspora - From Indentured to Independence Bernard D' Sami -- Part III The Contemporary Challenges -- 8. Fitting In: The Joys and Challenges of Being an Indian Woman in America Mahua Bhattacharya -- 9. Three Tamil Diasporic Women's One Mission: Discover New Identities  Arts Gopalan Ravindran -- 10. Gender-differentials of Indian Knowledge and Service Workers in the US Labour Market: A Comparative Analysis in the Context of ‘Age, Wage, and Vintage’ Premia Narender Thakur and Binod Khadria -- 11. Unemployed Female Skilled Migrants from India in the Netherlands: The Entrepreneurial Self under Structural Dependency Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff & Dr. Kate Kirk. Part IV Diasporas across the World -- 12. Curry and Race: Gender, Diaspora, and Food in South Africa Movindri Reddy -- 13. Diversities, Continuities and Discontinuities of Tradition in the Contemporary Sikh Diaspora: Gender and Social Dimensions Shinder S. Thandi -- 14. Anglo-Indian Women:  A Narrative of Matriarchy in a Global Diaspora Ann Lobo -- 15. Lived Experiences of Sikh Women in Canada: Past and present Amrit Kaur Basra.  
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9789811057533
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XX, 232 p. 19 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Cultural Linguistics
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    Series Statement: Social Sciences
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    Keywords: Comparative linguistics ; Historical linguistics ; Philology ; Cognitive grammar ; Linguistic anthropology ; Linguistics
    Abstract: This book analyses the emotional message of Hungarian folksongs from a Cultural Linguistic perspective, employing a wide range of empirical devices. It combines theoretical notions with analytical devices and has a multidisciplinary essence: it relies on the latest Cultural Linguistic findings, employing spatial semantics, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology and ethnography. The book addresses key questions including: How is nature conceptualized by a folk cultural group? How are emotions and other mental states expressed via nature imagery with respect to metaphors and construal schemas? The author argues that folksongs reflect the Hungarian peasant communities’ specific treatment of emotions, captured in an underlying cultural schema ‘reservedness.’ This schema is grounded in principals of morality and tradition, and governs the various levels of representation. The main topics discussed are related to two core issues: cultural metaphors and cultural sche mas of construal in folksongs. It provides a detailed example, based on over 1000 folksongs, of how a cultural group’s cognition can be analyzed and better understood through a representative corpus-based linguistic approach. The research is also pioneering in constructing a comprehensive analysis framework adapted to folk poetry, and offers an example of how cultural conceptualizations can be investigated in various discourse types. Last but not least, the book offers insights into the work of Hungarian linguists and folklorists concerning cultural conceptualizations, which have largely been unavailable in English
    Abstract: Folksongs from a Cultural Linguistic perspective.- Spatial metaphors in the natural imagery -- Cultural metaphors in folksongs -- Cultural schemas of construal.- Cultural conceptualisations of folksongs: cross-cultural and intra-cultural studies.- Conclusions.
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  • 6
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    Singapore : Springer
    ISBN: 9789811072796
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 167 p. 46 illus, online resource)
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    Series Statement: Social Sciences
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Photography ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: This book focuses on photography within the social research field, building a solid foundation for photography as a social research method and describing different techniques and applications of photo research. It provides a comprehensive approach to research photography, from preparation and the ethical considerations that need to be understood prior to going into the field, to collecting data, analysis and preparing research for publication. It also introduces artistic genres of photography to help readers with the choices they make when pursuing photographic research and as a reminder that when collecting photographs that they are in fact producing art. The ethical issues examined place a new focus on dignity and considerations of participant anonymity and recognition, informed consent, working with vulnerable groups, unequal power relationships and possible intervention. Combining preparation and ethics, it examines how best to collect and take good photographs, and explores the practical issues of stigma and introduces Verstaendnis (german: understanding) to aid researchers in the field. Subsequently, the book discusses the different photo-analytical approaches for researchers and provides examples of how to analyse photographs using the different techniques. Lastly, it offers guidelines, with examples, for researchers wanting to publish their work
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Foundations -- 1.1: The role of research photography within visual research methods -- 1.2: Different application and benefits of photo research -- 1.3: Photographs as a foundation and a serious data source for social research -- Chapter 2:Field Preparations -- 2.1: Lenses and their Function -- 2.2: Foundations of Photography -- 2.3: Photo perspectives and their different uses -- 2.4: RAW is the new JPG -- Chapter 3: Ethical Considerations in Research Photography -- 3.1: Current ethical considerations in research photography -- 3.2: Dignity in photo research -- 3.3: Verstaendnis, perceived realities, and power -- Chapter 4: In the Field -- 4.1: Equipment usage in the field -- 4.2: Translating research ethics into practical ethics in field work -- 4.3: Achieving dignity and Verstaendnis in field work to bridge power relations -- 4.4: Generating authentic data -- Chapter 5: Data Analysis -- 5.1: Photos as ‘data’ -- 5.2: Deconstructing images from basics to specifics -- 5.3: Introduction to QSR NVivo - basic coding and theming functions -- 5.4: Photo coding and creation of themes in NVIVO -- Chapter 6: Presentation and Publication -- 6.1: Retouching and presentation foundations -- 6.2: Colour and black and white presentation of images -- 6.3: Legalities in the publication of images -- 6.4: Choosing an appropriate journal.
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  • 7
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    Singapore : Springer
    ISBN: 9789811047299
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXVI, 361 p. 64 illus., 39 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Rights-based Direct Practice with Children
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Desai, Murli, 1951 - Introduction to rights-based direct practice with children
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Human rights ; Well-being ; Children ; Child psychology ; School psychology ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: The Sourcebook introduces the theoretical and ideological foundation and methodological basis of Rights-based Direct Practice with Children. It starts with the methodology of participatory group workshops to facilitate learning of the content. The content draws linkages among the foundation of life skills; psychosocial, sociological and critical theories of childhood; and child rights values, categories and principles; with the approaches, methods and skills of direct practice with children. The book takes examples from India but makes significant contribution to training and reference material for child rights teachers, trainers, facilitators and field workers, across the world, especially in the developing countries
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  • 8
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    Singapore : Springer
    ISBN: 9789811061844
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 135 p. 22 illus., 19 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics 1
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    Keywords: Ontology ; Computational linguistics ; Semantics ; Linguistics
    Abstract: This book studies Chinese opposites. It uses a large corpus (GigaWord) to trace the behavior of opposite pairings’ co-occurrence, focusing on the following questions: In what types of constructions, from window-size restricted and bi-syllabic to quad-syllabic, will the opposite pairings appear together? And, on a larger scale, i.e. in constrained-free contexts, in which syntactic frames will the opposite pairings appear together? The data suggests aspects that have been ignored by previous theoretical studies, such as the ordering rules in co-occurrent pairings, the differences between the three main sub-types of opposites (that is, antonym, complementary, converse) in discourse function distributions. The author also considers the features of this Chinese study and compares it to similar studies of English and Japanese. In all, it offers a practical view of how opposites are used in a certain language as a response to the puzzles lingering in theoretical fields. This study appeals to linguists, computational linguists and language-lovers. With numerous tables, illustrations and examples, it is easy to read but also encourages readers to link their personal instincts with the results from a large corpus to experience the beauty of language as a shared human resource.
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Motivations -- 1.2 Research Questions -- 1.3 Organization of Chapters -- 2. Literature Review -- 2.1 Definition and Categorization -- 2.2 Some Properties of Being Opposites -- 3. Opposites in Constructions -- 3.1 Research Question -- 3.2 Methodology, Candidate List and Corpus -- 3. 3 Results.- 3. 4 Discussion -- 3.5 Summary -- 4. Opposites in Discourse -- 4.1 Research Question and Previous Experiments -- 4.2 Methodology, Candidate List and Corpus -- 4.3 Result -- 4.4 Discussion -- 4.5 Summary -- 5. Opposites and Negation -- 5.1 Research Question.- 5.2 Methodology, Candidate List and Corpus -- 5.3 Result -- 5.4 Discussion -- 5.5 Summary -- 6. Conclusion.
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9789811076626
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XX, 221 p. 6 illus, online resource)
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    Keywords: Applied linguistics ; Language and education ; Educational psychology ; Education Psychology ; Linguistics
    Abstract: Already the focus of much interest for 50 years, the study of foreign language learning anxiety (FLLA) still remains a popular research topic among scholars in Western countries. FLLA is believed to be an important cause of students’ “dumb English”. Considering the paucity of monographs on FLLA in China, this book represents an important step towards filling this gap. The author uses his PhD dissertation as a foundation for reviewing and discussing previous literature, as well as the current status of and major issues concerning FLLA worldwide. The book explores FLLA in China by using innovative triangulated research methodology, combining both quantitative and qualitative methods, namely surveys, focused interviews, and classroom observations. It also highlights the significance and implications of the research results and predicts the future of global FLLA research with a particular focus on China. Readers will discover the latest developments and issues concerning FLLA, causes of FLLA, and verified, effective strategies for alleviating such anxiety
    Abstract: Foreword.- About the Author.- Acknowledgements.- List of Abbreviations.- List of Tables.- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Origin and Major Developments of FLLA Abroad -- Developments in the Field of FLLA in China -- Major reasons leading to FLLA -- Effective strategies Coping with FLLA -- FLLA: Present and Prospects.- Bibliography.- Appendices.- Index
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  • 10
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    Singapore : Springer
    ISBN: 9789811070105
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 158 p. 13 illus, online resource)
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    Keywords: Discourse analysis ; Language and languages Style ; Linguistics
    Abstract: This book presents an innovative exploration of linguistic prefabrication in the travel advertising discourse from a functional perspective. Most of the previous studies on prefabricated language have adopted a structural, systematic point of view. This study, however, aims at exploring its functions in discourse. The material examined here is the discourse of travel advertising, which has become one of the candidates for ‘late modern discourse par excellence’ and rarely been discussed before. The study covers a wide range of topics, essentially attempting to model linguistic idiomaticity in Systemic Functional Grammar. It assesses how the two fundamental principles of language use, the ‘idiom principle’ and the ‘open-choice principle’, interact with each other to construct English texts. As a counterweight to the traditional structural approach to collocations and idiomatic expressions, this study investigates the ‘phraseology’ of the register of travel advertising, and explores prefabrication and conventionalization in language use and human behavior. It seeks to answer the age-old question of whether human beings are ‘primarily like buses, which travel along regular routes’ or ‘like taxis, which move about freely’. Ritualization, as sociological and anthropological theory have long since recognized, is simply characteristic of all aspects of human behavior and its contexts.
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9789811074585
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIX, 293 p. 75 illus., 17 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dash, Niladri Sekhar, 1967 - History, features, and typology of language corpora
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    Keywords: Computational linguistics ; Corpora (Linguistics) ; Language and languages Study and teaching ; Linguistics ; Korpus
    Abstract: This book discusses key issues of corpus linguistics like the definition of the corpus, primary features of a corpus, and utilization and limitations of corpora. It presents a unique classification scheme of language corpora to show how they can be studied from the perspective of genre, nature, text type, purpose, and application. A reference to parallel translation corpus is mandatory in the discussion of corpus generation, which the authors thoroughly address here, with a focus on Indian language corpora and English. Web-text corpus, a new development in corpus linguistics, is also discussed with elaborate reference to Indian web text corpora. The book also presents a short history of corpus generation and provides scenarios before and after the advent of computer-generated digital corpora. This book has several important features: it discusses many technical issues of the field in a lucid manner; contains extensive new diagrams and charts for easy comprehension; and presents discussions in simplified English to cater to the needs of non-native English readers. This is an important resource authored by academics who have many years of experience teaching and researching corpus linguistics. Its focus on Indian languages and on English corpora makes it applicable to students of graduate and postgraduate courses in applied linguistics, computational linguistics and language processing in South Asia and across countries where English is spoken as a first or second language
    Abstract: 1. Definition of Corpus -- 2. Features of Corpus -- 3. Genre of Text -- 4. Nature of Data -- 5. Type and Purpose of Text -- 6. Nature of Text Application -- 7. Parallel Translation Corpus -- 8. Web Text Corpus -- 9. Pre-Digital Corpora (Part-I) -- 10. Pre-Digital Language Corpora (Part-2) -- 11. Digital Text Corpora (Part-I) -- 12. Digital Text Corpora (Part-II) -- 13. Digital Speech Corpora -- 14. Utilization of Language Corpora -- 15. Limitations of Language Corpora
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  • 12
    ISBN: 9789811069710
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 160 p. 17 illus., 9 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Ethnology ; Public policy ; Religion and culture ; Economic development ; Social change ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: This book, a collection of previously published articles, focuses on the role of the Singaporean State in social cultural engineering. It deals with the relationship between the Singaporean state and local agencies and how the latter negotiated with the state to establish an acceptable framework for social cultural engineering to proceed. The book also highlights the tensions and conflicts that occurred during this process. The various chapters examine how the Singaporean state used polices and regulatory control to conserve and maintain ethno-cultural and ethno-religious landscapes, develop a moral education system and how the treatment of women and its morality came into alignment with the values that the state espoused upon from the 1980s through the 1990s
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9789811062025
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 207 p. 16 illus, online resource)
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    Keywords: Applied linguistics ; Assessment ; Linguistics
    Abstract: This book explores the effectiveness of listen-to-summarize tasks as a tool to assess lecture comprehension ability. It especially focuses on listen-to-summarize tasks that represent listeners’ meaning building and the discourse construction of the lecture for listening assessment purposes. It discusses in depth the nature of lecture comprehension and introduces the approaches to assessing it. It also presents teachers’ and students’ perceptions of listen-to-summarize task demands and their respective implications. By observing interactions between test-takers’ cognitive processes and the task itself, the book explores the effectiveness of these tasks. It also examines the discrepancy in cognitive processes between different language competence levels in detail, shedding light upon current research on lecture comprehension assessment and offering insights into listening comprehension instruction
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Theory of Academic Lecture Comprehension -- Chapter 3 Using Listen-to-summarize Tasks to Assess Lecture Comprehension -- Chapter 4 Task Characteristics of TEM 8 Mini-lecture Comprehension -- Chapter 5 Exploring Task Demands of TEM 8 Min-lecture Tasks -- Chapter 6 Employing Tap Methods to Explore Listeners’ Cognitive Processes -- Chapter 7 Designing Recalling Tasks to Explore Listeners’ Mental Representations of Two Mini-lecture -- Chapter 8 Linking Task Demands, Cognitive Processes and Language Competence -- Chapter 9 Conclusion and Recommendations
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    ISBN: 9789811075575
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 334 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme
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    DDC: 306
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    Keywords: Social Sciences ; Cultural Studies ; Asian Culture ; Development Policy ; Social sciences ; Ethnology / Asia ; Cultural studies ; Economic policy ; Moderne ; Gesellschaft ; Indien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Indien ; Gesellschaft ; Moderne
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    ISBN: 9789811049323
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXV, 317 p. 45 illus., 40 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Exploring Urban Change in South Asia
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Sustainable urbanization in India: challenges and opportunities (Veranstaltung : 2015 : Kalkutta) Sustainable urbanization in India
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Urban geography ; Urban economics ; Sociology, Urban ; Social Sciences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Indien ; Verstädterung ; Stadtplanung ; Indien ; Verstädterung ; Stadtplanung
    Abstract: This comprehensive volume contributes to the existing and emerging body of literature on contemporary urbanization and the interactions between cities and the environment. The volume is contextualized against latest theories, debates and discussions on 'sustainable urbanization', the post-2015 development agenda of the United Nations and India's official launching of the 'smart city' agenda. Reflecting on three major components of urban sustainability: investments and infrastructures, waste management, and urban ecologies and environmentalisms, it moves beyond the bi-centric approach of only looking into the differences between the ‘developed’ and the ‘developing’ world and reflects on cities across India using polycentric methods and approaches. The Indian urban scenario is extremely complex and diverse, and solutions laid out in official and non-official documents tend to miss these complexities. This volume includes innovative research across different parts of India, identifying city-specific sources of unsustainability and challenges along with strategies and potentials that would make the process of urban transition both sustainable and equitable. Complex explorations of non-linear, bottom-up, multisectoral process-based local urban contexts across north, south, east and west Indian cities in this volume critique a general acceptance of the universalized concept of ‘sustainable urbanization’ and suggest ways that might be important for transcending inclusive theories to form practical policy-based recommendations and actions
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Indian Urban Trajectories: Addressing ‘Sustainability’ across Micro-political Settings Jenia Mukherjee -- Chapter 2. Towards Sustainable Cities in India Annapurna Shaw. Section 1: Governing Investments and Infrastructures -- Chapter 3. Structural Limits to Equitable Urbanization Achin Chakraborty.-Chapter 4. Alternative Provision of Tenure Security and Rights to the Urban Poor: A Case Study from Ahmedabad Atanu Chatterjee.- Chapter 5. State, Governance and Urban Poor: Insights from Visakhapatnam City Debapriya Ganguly -- Chapter 6. Performing Governance in Urban Patna Sheema Fatima -- Chapter 7. Sustainability of Urban Fringe Development and Management in NCT - Delhi: A Case Study Ramkrishna Nallathiga, Suhani Taneja, Anusha Gupta & Bitul Gangal. Section 2: Managing Wastes and Wetlands -- Chapter 8. Evaluating Municipal Solid Waste Management in Indian Cities: A Comparative Assessment of Three Metros in South India Sajith Shaik & Avinash Y. Kumar.- Chapter 9. Electronic Waste in Urban India: A Major Sustainability Challenge Anwesha Borthakur.- Chapter 10. How Expensive is the Decay of East Kolkata Wetlands? An Estimation of Opportunity Cost for Kolkata Debanjana Dey & Sarmila Banerjee.- Chapter 11. Urban Ecologies in Transition: Contestations and Negotiations surrounding Waste in Mumbai Sneha Sharma & D. Parthasarathy. Section 3: Exploring Ecologies and Environmentalisms.-Chapter 12. Sustainability or (Sustain)ability? Environmentalism and Shades of Power in a Metropolis Amit Jain.- Chapter 13. Gentrification and Rising Urban Aspirations in the Inner City: Redefining Urbanism in Mumbai Dwiparna Chatterjee & D. Parthasarathy.- Chapter 14. Communities in a ‘Protected’ Urban Space and Conservation Politics in Mumbai’s Sanjay Gandhi National Park Amrita Sen & Sarmistha Pattanaik.- Chapter 15. Urban at the Edges: Mumbai’s Coastline Urbanisms Hemant Kumar Chouhan, D. Parthasarathy & Sarmistha Pattanaik.- Chapter 16. Contested Urban Waterscape of Udaipur Neha Singh, D. Parthasarathy & N.C. Narayanan
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    ISBN: 9789811061998
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 215 p. 35 illus., 17 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: New Frontiers in Translation Studies
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    Keywords: Applied linguistics ; Comparative linguistics ; Translation and interpretation ; Communication ; Linguistics
    Abstract: This book presents a collection of state-of-the-art work in corpus-based interpreting studies, highlighting international research on the properties of interpreted speech, based on naturalistic interpreting data. Interpreting research has long been hampered by the lack of naturalistic data that would allow researchers to make empirically valid generalizations about interpreting. The researchers who present their work here have played a pioneering role in the compilation of interpreting data and in the exploitation of that data. The collection focuses on both of these aspects, including a detailed overview of interpreting corpora, a collective paper on the way forward in corpus compilation and several studies on interpreted speech in diverse language pairs and interpreter-mediated settings, based on existing corpora
    Abstract: Overview of Corpus-based Interpreting Studies: an Introduction -- 1 Corpus-based Interpreting Studies (CIS): Past, Present and Future Developments of a (wired)Cottage Industry -- 2 Towards a Common Methodological Framework for Corpus-based Studies -- 3 Over-uh-load. The Occurrence of uh(m) between Elements of Compounds during Interpreting -- 4 Acquiring the Language of Interpreters -- 5 Interpretese vs. Non-native Language Use -- 6 Exploring Language Specificity as a Variable in Chinese-English Interpreting. A Corpus-based Investigation -- 7 Lost in Interpreting or… maybe not Strings of Nouns as a Challenge for Simultaneous Interpreters Working from Polish into Italian -- 8 Studying Figurative Language in Simultaneous Interpreting: the IMITES (Interpretación de la Metáfora entre ITaliano y ESpañol) Corpus -- 9 Politics Interpreted on Screen. A Corpus-based Investigation on the Interpretation of Televised Political Discourse -- 10 “Interpreter-mediated Football Press Conferences: a Study on the Question/Answer Group” -- 11 Speech Patterns and Gender: Trends Emerging from EPIC
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  • 17
    ISBN: 9789811064159
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 141 p. 46 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Corpora and Intercultural Studies 4
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    Keywords: Applied linguistics ; Philology ; Language and education ; Linguistics
    Abstract: This book offers up-to-date insights into the long-standing controversy of whether or not Chinese learners of English adequately express their attitudes in written English. It compares four writing datasets from three groups of student writers (e.g., English-speaking students’ English texts, Chinese-speaking students’ Chinese texts, and both English and Chinese texts produced by the same group of Chinese-speaking students majoring in English), and applies the appraisal framework, an analytical tool developed in the field of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The book provides a nuanced view of the deployment of attitudinal patterns and the linguistic resources used for attitudinal evaluation in Chinese students’ English writing. Accordingly, it offers a valuable resource for all those interested in second language writing, contrastive rhetoric, second language acquisition and systemic functional linguistics.
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Contrastive Rhetoric -- Chapter 2 Evaluation in Student Writing: Constructing Interaction, Voice and Stance -- Chapter 3 Linguistic Study of Evaluation in Writing.- Chapter 4 A Study of Attitude in Student Writing -- Chapter 5 Appraisal Analysis.- Chapter 6 Conclusions and Implications.- References.- Appendices
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  • 18
    ISBN: 9789811049606
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 176 p. 30 illus., 8 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: The Humanities in Asia 5
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Culture Study and teaching ; Linguistic anthropology ; Cultural studies ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: This book offers the first comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the way Chinese humor fits into broader discourses on Chinese identity and modernity in an increasingly globalized world throughout the period of modern China. It brings together the expertise of scholars from a variety of disciplines - history, literature, linguistics, anthropology, sociology and the study of popular culture - to examine the many forms and modes in which political humor is expressed in modern China: films, cartoons, the visual arts, oral performances and online satire
    Abstract: Introduction -- Section one: Humor in the Late Qing and Early Republic -- Section Two: Cartoons for the Communist Cause -- Section Three: Humor in Cinema, from the Mao Era to the 21st Century -- Section Four: Spoken Humor in China -- Section Five: Spoken Humor in Hong Kong -- Section Six: High Technology and Satire
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  • 19
    ISBN: 9789811054969
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIX, 203 p. 48 illus., 30 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Climate change ; Regional planning ; Urban planning ; Sociology ; Sociology, Urban ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: This book explores the planning knowledge that can be gleaned from the experiences of the urban poor, a group frequently affected by floods. Further, it examines the relationship between lifeworld analysis and adaptation planning through the sociology of knowledge, which plays a significant part in determining the adaptation pathway of the urban poor. The book brings together empirical data to translate self-reflective planning theory into the practical context, examines community planning, and enriches the discourse on urban adaptation. Lastly, it provides an adaptation-planning model that can benefit academics, practitioners and policymakers who wish to provide more socially accepted plans
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    Singapore : Springer
    ISBN: 9789811061813
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXII, 144 p. 31 illus., 18 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics 4
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    Keywords: Chinese language ; Linguistics
    Abstract: This book conducts a thorough investigation of the variation in tone sandhi patterns of Shanghai and Wuxi Wu using quantitative rating experiments. Although Shanghai Wu has been well documented, to date there has never been any quantitative study that systematically investigates the factors that influence variability - a research gap this book fills. Further, Wuxi Wu is investigated as an additional case that demonstrates the unique phonological nature of tone sandhi, and how it changes how speakers learn and internalize the variable tone sandhi pattern. The findings presented here will shed new light on important issues of wordhood, the interface of morphosyntax and phonology, and the formal model of variability in phonology
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    ISBN: 9789811088810
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XX, 255 p. 51 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Asia in Transition 7
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    DDC: 333.70959
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Climate change ; Natural resources ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Climate change ; Natural resources
    Abstract: This edited volume introduces dynamic approaches to the study of Southeast Asia’s environmental diversity from different disciplinary perspectives, mainly through a natural and social science interface. It brings together scholars whose research on the region’s environmental resource use and shared ecological challenges under the effects of present day globalization, offers insights for possible future directions. The volume introduces unique approaches to the study of Southeast Asia’s environmental changes and resource management under the effects of intensifying economic change in the region. It also looks at the slow erosion of Southeast Asia’s rich environment and confronts serious issues such as the decrease of biodiversity and tropical forests, and the degradation of peat lands. Concurrently, the volume addresses social issues which are tied to energy-dependent growth and have intensified over the last two decades. It also looks at new roadmaps that are being created to protect, conserve, and manage the environment. By investigating the many ecological issues surrounding us, the volume brings to light the constant struggles we are facing whilst trying to develop a more inclusive and equitable approach to natural resources governance. This volume is relevant for students, academics and researchers who have an interest in the Southeast Asian environment and the way in which we use and interact with it
    Abstract: Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Geospheric Circulations -- Chapter 1 Reconsidering Development Mechanisms of Tropical Agriculture: Focusing on Micro-development in Mainland Southeast Asia -- Chapter 2 Fueling Transformation in the Mekong: Thailand’s Trade in Agro-energy -- Part 2: Eco-resources and their Economic Significance -- Chapter 3 Towards Carbon Certificate in Vietnam: Net Ecosystem Production and Basic Income for Local Community -- Chapter 4 Soil Information as a Reforestation Decision-making Tool and Implication for Sustainable Forest Management in the Philippines -- Chapter 5 Indonesian Peatland Functions: Peatland Restoration and Sustainable Peatland Management for the Benefit of Local Community, Case Study in Riau and West Kalimantan Provinces -- Chapter 6 Agribusiness, Overdevelopment and Palm Oil Industrial Restructuring in Malaysia -- Chapter 7 Honey Bees in Modernized Southeast Asia: Adaptation or Extinction? -- Part 3: The Politics of Energy and Resources-use -- Chapter 8 The Rise of Organic Agriculture in the Philippines and its Development -- Chapter 9 Livelihood after the Dams: Experiences of Tributary dams in the Mekong River -- Chapter 10 Livelihoods Activities of Swiddeners Under the Transition of Swidden Agriculture: A Case Study in a Khmu Village, Northern Laos -- Chapter 11 Conclusion: Towards a Research-based Praxis on Southeast Asia’s Ecosystems
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , Tradeoffs Between the Environmental and Development Objectives
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    ISBN: 9789811072390
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIII, 247 p. 21 illus., 15 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Language and education ; Teaching ; Linguistic anthropology ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: This book offers a comprehensive overview of the changes in foreign language teachers' cognition and practices during a four-year innovation project at a Chinese secondary school, and explores the factors that influenced the trajectory of those changes. It makes a substantial contribution to research on educational change by offering a longitudinal observation of the facts and voices in EFL settings in China; as such, the book offers a valuable resource for scholars, teacher educators, teachers, and others interested in initiating, managing and evaluating innovations in EFL classrooms
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  • 23
    ISBN: 9789811068355
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 156 p. 16 illus., 4 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Keywords: Applied linguistics ; Language and education ; Linguistics
    Abstract: This book provides readers a better understanding of the interaction-learning relationship in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. It introduces theories on input, output, and learners’ internal mechanisms, and presents the pedagogical implications of how to adapt focus-on-form instruction in Chinese EFL classrooms. As such, it will be of particular interest to those readers who want to explore the relationship between interaction and language acquisition
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  • 24
    ISBN: 9789811301704
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 240 p. 39 illus., 25 illus. in color, online resource)
    Series Statement: Studies in East Asian Linguistics
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    Keywords: Chinese language ; Historical linguistics ; Pragmatics ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Chinese language ; Historical linguistics ; Pragmatics
    Abstract: This book deals with synchronic variation in Chinese through a diachronic lens, based on the evidence from a quantitative, longitudinal corpus study. Departing from the traditional analysis in diachronic changes in Chinese linguistics, the cognitive constructionist approach employed in this book is able to capture incremental changes by combining syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Topics such as word order, focus, scopes of quantifiers, information structure, and negation have been important issues in linguistics, but they are rarely integrated as a whole. The book makes their diachronic interactions available to the students and researchers in the fields of general and Chinese linguistics
    Abstract: Introduction -- The Development of ‘One’-phrases as Minimizers in Chinese -- The Development of the Polysemous Fixed ‘One’-phrase in Mandarin Chinese -- The Emergence of Scalar Particles DOU and YE in OV Order in Mandarin Chinese.-‘One’-phrases as Minimizers in Numeral Classifier Languages -- Synchronic Variations: ‘One’-phrases as Minimizers in Modern Mandarin Chinese -- Conclusion
    Note: 4.1 Differences and Similarities of dou and ye in Modern Mandarin , Description based upon print version of record
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    Singapore : Springer
    ISBN: 9789811062087
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 174 p. 16 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics 3
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    Keywords: Chinese language ; Semantics ; Linguistics
    Abstract: This book concerns two focus particles (jiu, dou) and wh-expressions (shenme = ‘what’, na geren = ‘which person’) in Mandarin Chinese. These items are systematically ‘ambiguous’ and have played important roles in various aspects of Mandarin grammar. An idea based on alternatives and varieties of alternatives in particular - following Chierchia’s 2013 analysis of the polarity system - is pursued to account for the systematic ambiguities. The unambiguous semantics of jiu, dou and wh-expressions are maintained and ‘ambiguity’ explained through varieties of alternatives interacting with other independently motivated aspects of the structure they occur in. By examining these aspects in detail, the book will help readers gain a better understanding of a broad range of phenomena that involve these items - including exhaustivity, distributivity, questions and conditionals
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    Singapore : Springer
    ISBN: 9789811061875
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXII, 290 p. 1 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics 2
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    Keywords: Chinese language ; Syntax ; Linguistics
    Abstract: This book defines Chinese middle constructions as generic constructions, with their highest syntactically saturated argument always understood as an arbitrary one. This working definition sets “middle construction” apart from “middle voice” in that it can be instantiated by various constructions in Chinese. By scrutinizing these constructions in the framework of Generative Syntax, the book concludes that their formation takes place at the lexical level, without resorting to any syntactic mechanisms and thus that Chinese falls into the category of “lexical middle languages”, which are in contrast to “syntactic middle languages”
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  • 27
    ISBN: 9789811083662
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 169 p, online resource)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Sociology ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: This book explores the growing up experiences of gay and lesbian individuals within their homes, schools, neighbourhoods, among friends; and their journeys of finding themselves and their communities while living in a heterosexually constructed society. It is based on an exploratory, qualitative study with young gay and lesbian persons in two cities of Maharashtra, India and employs a life course perspective. The author has written this book from two primary loci: those of a mental health professional and activist, and a queer feminist activist. Through layered narratives and psychosocial analyses of experiences that are simultaneously attentive to subjectivities and to social and interpersonal processes, the author provides insights into the lives of children who grow up feeling ‘different’ from their siblings, peers and friends, and receive constant messages about correct ways of being and expression from their parents, teachers, friends and counsellors/doctors; the unique challenges to growing up as gay or lesbian, alongside complex processes involved in the decision of ‘coming out’; and the experience of meeting others like oneself, forming intimate, romantic relationships, bonds of friendship, political solidarity, families of choice and so on. In this book, the author employs a critical stance towards mainstream life span development studies, developmental psychology, child development and childhood studies that make universal assumptions of heteronormativity and gender binarism. This book is of interest to a wide readership, from psychologists, mental health and human rights scholars, to scholars of youth and childhood studies, gender studies, cultural studies, social work, sociology and anthropology
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Growing Up Gay: Interrogating Disciplinary Frames -- Chapter 2 Researching Same-Sex Sexuality -- Chapter 3 Exploring Early Years: Childhood & Adolescence of Young Gay And Lesbian Persons -- Chapter 4 Exploring Identity Development & the Symbolic Meaning/s of ‘Coming Out’ in the Process of Identity Work -- Chapter 5 Living life as a queer person: Role of intimate relationships and queer community/s in consolidation of identity -- Chapter 6 Living Life As A Queer Person - Role Of Queer Community/S In Consolidation Of Identity -- Chapter 7 In Lieu of a Conclusion
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    ISBN: 9789811084713
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 1016 p, online resource)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Southeast Asia History ; Asia Politics and government ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: This book examines how business, the social sciences, science and technology will impact the future of ASEAN. Following the ASEAN VISION 2020, it analyses the issues faced by ASEAN countries, which are diverse, while also positioning ASEAN as a competitive entity through partnerships. On the 30th anniversary of ASEAN, all ASEAN leaders agreed to the establishment of the ASEAN VISION 2020, which delineates the formation of a peaceful, stable and dynamically developed region while maintaining a community of caring societies in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia. In keeping with this aspiration, Universiti Teknologi MARA Perlis took the initial steps to organise conferences and activities that highlight the role of the ASEAN region. The Second International Conference on the Future of ASEAN (ICoFA) 2017 was organised by the Office of Academic Affairs, Universiti Teknologi MARA Perlis, to promote more comprehensive integration among ASEAN members. This book, divided into two volumes, offers a useful guide for all those engaged in research on business, the social sciences, science and technology. It will also benefit researchers worldwide who want to gain more knowledge about ASEAN countries
    Abstract: Part A : Earth & Environmental Sciences -- Part B : Information Technology & Computer Science (ICT) -- Part C : Pure Sciences (Biology, Physics & Chemistry) -- Part D : Sports Science & Recreation -- Part E : Engineering Sciences -- Part F : Nano Technology
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    ISBN: 9789811070655
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 152 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: Asia in Transition 6
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Culture Study and teaching ; Comparative literature ; Sociology ; Cultural studies ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: This collection of essays examines how Southeast Asian women writers engage with the grand narratives of nationalism and the modern nation-state by exploring the representations of gender, identity and nation in the postcolonial literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Bringing to light the selected works of overlooked local women writers and providing new analyses of those produced by internationally-known women authors and artists, the essays situate regional literary developments within historicized geopolitical landscapes to offer incisive analyses and readings on how women and the feminine are imagined, represented, and positioned in relation to the Southeast Asian nation.The book, which features both cross-country comparative analyses and country-specific investigations, also considers the ideas of the nation and the state by investigating related ideologies, rhetoric, apparatuses, and discourses, and the ways in which they affect women’s bodies, subjectivities, and lived realities in both historical and contemporary Southeast Asian contexts. By considering how these literary expressions critique, contest, or are complicit in nationalist projects and state-mandated agendas, the collection contributes to the overall regional and comparative discourses on gender, identity and nation in Southeast Asian studies
    Abstract: Love, Penetration and the Nation: Angela Manalang Gloria’s “Revolt for the Hymen” -- Women Writing Wayang: A Comparative Study of Fictional Interventions in Mythology and National History in Post-Reform Indonesia -- Women in Urban Spaces in Singapore: Cisgender and Transgender Women in the works of Suchen Christine Lim and Alfian Sa’at -- State Motherhood and the United Family: Polygamous Bodies and the Patriarchal Nation in Contemporary Indonesian Literature -- Female Subjectivities in the Time of Authoritarian Rule
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789402412901
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 359 Seiten)
    Series Statement: International handbooks of population volume 8
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    DDC: 304.6
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Sociology ; Demography ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; Social Sciences ; Demography ; Gender Studies ; Sociology, general
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    ISBN: 9789811022876
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 329 p. 36 illus, online resource)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Sociology, Urban ; Economic development ; Social Sciences ; China ; Städtebau ; Ökologie
    Abstract: This book presents an in-depth study on and summary of the current practice and theories for the construction of eco-cities in China in the context of the country’s rapid urbanization. It argues that by 2020, 60% of China’s population will live in cities. And the evolution from “green cities” to “eco- cities”, and subsequently to “smart cities” is crucial to China’s sustainable development. The book presents a feasible and objective quantitative evaluation system for the sustainable and healthy development of eco-cities. It summarizes the Chinese experience in building eco- cities as the coordinated development of economy, society, resources and environment, with the goal being “to make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”. This is essential to achieving a number of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. In addition, the book defines the current stage of development Chinese cities have reached in terms of ecological construction, and offers guidance on selecting suitable urban ecological construction modes and improvement approaches. It provides a valuable reference source and guidebook for research on and the practice of eco-city construction. Accordingly, it will help other countries around the world, especially the developing countries, to benefit from China’s successful experience
    Abstract: Preface -- Part I: The Exploration of the Theory and Practice of the Eco City Construction in China -- The Principle of “Following the Way the Human Body Works” in the Construction of an Eco City -- Construction of Eco Cities in China in an Information Age -- The Economic Development and the Environmental Protection of the Eco City -- The Space Layout and Planning of the Eco City Construction in China -- The Evaluation Report of the Health Conditions of the Eco Cities in China -- Part II: The Development Pattern of the Eco City Construction with Chinese Characteristics -- The Evaluation Report on the Construction of Environment-friendly Cities -- The Development Mode of the Resource-Saving City -- The Evaluation Report on the Construction of the Circular Economy Oriented City -- The Development Mode of the Landscape and Leisure Oriented City -- The Distribution Pattern and Practical Exploration of the Green Consumption City in China -- The Development Mode of the Comprehensive Innovative City -- Part III: Typical Cases of the Eco City Construction -- Cases of the Eco City -- Cases of New Energy Development -- Cases of Ecological Engineering -- Appendix
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    Singapore : Springer
    ISBN: 9789811040504
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 237 p. 25 illus, online resource)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Social justice ; Human rights ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: The book examines corruption control in post-reform China. Contrary to the normal perception that corruption is a type of behavior that violates the law, the author seeks to approach the issue from a social censure perspective, where corruption is regarded as a form of social censure intended to maintain the hegemony of the ruling bloc. Such an approach integrates societal structure, political goals, and agency into a single framework to explain dynamics in corruption control. With both qualitative data from officials in power and officials in jail and quantitative data from university students, the book explores how the censure on corruption was created and has been applied from 1978 to the present. Though primarily intended for academics, the book is also accessible for general audiences, especially given its intriguing perspective and use of firsthand data on corruption that cannot be found anywhere else
    Abstract: Corruption and anticorruption in China -- Corruption-Theories and Perspectives -- A Contextualized Approach: Theory of Social Censure -- Methods -- Shift of mode: from a mass line approach to a bureaucratic approach -- Status of Law -- Creation of Social Censure on Corruption -- Application of social censure on corruption -- Outcome of social censure on corruption -- Conclusion
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    ISBN: 9789811047084
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 146 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Keywords: Applied linguistics ; Language and languages Study and teaching ; Linguistics
    Abstract: This book presents empirical findings that reveal various teaching strategies and responses from two sub-cultural groups of students, i.e. local Hong Kong and Mainland students, with regard to their English studies. It puts forward a constructive model for innovative teaching strategies to enhance language attainment and classroom interaction in a multicultural learning environment in Hong Kong. It highlights inclusive teaching strategies with instructional, inspirational and interactional components to accommodate diverse learners and promote their classroom interaction. In addition to contributing to innovation in higher education in Hong Kong, the lessons learned here can be universally applied to ESL/EFL teaching and education reform around the world. Further, they support better learning and teaching at universities in the context of internationalization. The book will above all benefit undergraduate students in ESL/EFL teacher training programs, and post-graduate research students in applied linguistics, language education and second language teacher education. It also offers a valuable reference book for university lectures in teacher education, researchers in higher education in China, and TESOL/TEFL instructors in English-speaking countries (the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc.)
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Research Development -- Chapter 3: Research Design and Methodology -- Chapter 4: Findings from Fieldwork -- Chapter 5: Developing Inclusive Teaching Strategies -- Chapter 6: Conclusion
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  • 34
    ISBN: 9789811044304
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 170 p. 17 illus, online resource)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Ethnology Asia ; China History ; Asia Politics and government ; Sociology Research ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: This book illustrates how the one-dot theory, which is a dialectical study, is well suited to describing, explaining and inferring contemporary China’s past, present and future. It argues that since October 1949, the field of contemporary China studies has been dominated by modified and abandoned non-dialectical theories and models. It also challenges selected non-dialectical theories and models which were first generated in the West, such as the game theory and rational (choice) theory. With its emphasis on methodology, the book offers a valuable resource for academics, researchers and practitioners alike with an interest in logically, systematically and coherently unraveling Taiwan’s and mainland China’s contemporary politics and international relations
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Launching a New Methodology for the Study of Contemporary China -- Chapter 2. Applying the One-dot Theory Again to the Study of Contemporary China -- Chapter 3. Finding Fault with the Non-One-Dot-Theory Study of Contemporary China -- Chapter 4. Challenging Other Theories and Models in General and Those Related to Contemporary China in Particular -- Chapter 5. Sharing Some Major Findings in This Study of Contemporary China -- Chapter 6. Closing and Non-Closing This Book on the Study of Contemporary China
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  • 35
    ISBN: 9789811046698
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 206 p. 1 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social policy ; Social service ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: This book systematically reviews the development of social policy since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. As such, it begins by investigating the establishment of the Insurance System in the early period, then moves on to the planned economy period, the Cultural Revolution period, and the Reform and Opening Up period, characterized by efforts to adapt to a market economy. For each period, the book examines the effect of the economic system, the mode of production and forms of employment for social policy design, so as to clarify the developing context of Chinese social policy, and to help readers grasp the legal aspects of social policy development and the main problems China faces in its present economic developmental stage
    Abstract: Introduction -- Take Realizing Social Insurance as a Guiding Aim: 1921-1949 -- Employment and Social Security under the Planned Economy: 1949-1978 -- From “Enterprise Insurance” to Social Insurance -- Socialist Market Economy and Preliminary Establishment of the Social Security System: Development in 1990s -- Towards Social Equity - Reform in 21st Century -- Great Social Transformation -- References -- Index
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  • 36
    ISBN: 9789811034435
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 81 p. 1 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
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    Keywords: Applied linguistics ; Chinese language ; Sociolinguistics ; Linguistics
    Abstract: This book makes an original contribution to the fields of sociolinguistics, language planning policy and Chinese language studies. It examines the effectiveness of the Singapore’s Speak Mandarin Campaign in changing the language use of dialect speakers towards Mandarin. Singapore may be only “a small red dot” and barely visible on the world’s map. However, its complex and dynamic linguistic diversity and its quadrilingual educational system make it a unique and fascinating research site for examining deliberate language planning on the part of governmental authorities. 2016 marks the 37th anniversary of the Speak Mandarin Campaign, a focused language-planning policy aimed at changing the deeply entrenched sociolinguistic habits of Chinese Singaporeans who are used to speaking Chinese dialects. This book provides a revealing update on dialect speakers’ attitudes towards the campaign by including discussions and other related issues such as the recent call for the revitalisation of Chinese dialects by younger dialect speakers, Chinese students’ attitude towards learning Mandarin in schools, the encroachment of English in the home environment, the spread and dominance of English in the local linguistic landscape, and the challenges of maintaining Mandarin as a language of use and preference
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Review of literature on Planning for Language -- Chapter 3 Singapore: The contextual background -- Chapter 4 Review of literature on the Speak Mandarin Campaign (SMC) -- Chapter 5 Quantitative analysis: Reported language use and attitudes -- Chapter 6 Qualitative analysis: Views towards the Speak Mandarin Campaign -- Chapter 7 Conclusion
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    ISBN: 9789811047053
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 148 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Springer series on cultural computing
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Popper, Frank ; Haacke, Hans ; Bergson, Henri ; Burnham, Jack ; Social sciences ; Culture / Study and teaching ; Communication ; Application software ; Cultural studies ; Social Sciences ; Cultural Studies ; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities ; Cultural Theory ; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet) ; Media and Communication ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Ästhetik ; Medienkunst ; Zeit ; Kunst ; Neue Technologie ; Kinetik ; Moderne ; Kinetische Kunst ; Haacke, Hans 1936- ; Burnham, Jack 1931- ; Popper, Frank 1918-2020 ; Kinetische Kunst ; Kunst ; Kinetik ; Neue Technologie ; Medienkunst ; Moderne ; Zeit ; Bergson, Henri 1859-1941 ; Ästhetik
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    ISBN: 9789402411065
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 232 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Series Statement: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
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    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Climate change ; Zoology ; Geoecology ; Environmental geology ; Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Social Sciences ; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts ; Geoecology/Natural Processes ; Archäologie ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Umweltveränderung ; Anthropogene Klimaänderung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Anthropogene Klimaänderung ; Umweltveränderung
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  • 39
    ISBN: 9789811036866
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 76 p. 18 illus., 5 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Keywords: English language ; Discourse analysis ; Linguistics
    Abstract: This book analyzes how the English as a Second Language (ESL) pedagogic genre has been re-contextualized in the Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press National College English Teaching Contest (SFLEP) for presentation to the contest judges and audience. Departing from prior research on contest discourse, it focuses on the role of teaching contests in re-contextualizing educational practices. Moreover, it addresses the processes of genre blurring and solidification at work in new discourse events. The results presented here serve to frame teaching contest discourse in a fuller contextual configuration and will help contest sponsors, participants, and audience members better understand this popular social event and its relations to real-world teaching practices, while simultaneously helping teachers to understand the relevance of such contest practice. Moreover, the research methods will benefit those linguists who are interested in researching other types of event discourses
    Abstract: Abstract -- A Key to Abbreviations -- List of Figures and Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Theoretical Foundation -- Chapter 3 Methodology -- Chapter 4 Register Configuration of Mock Teaching Discourse -- Chapter 5 Blurring ESL Pedagogic Genre in Mock Teaching Discourse -- Chapter 6 Solidification of Mock Teaching Genre in Contest Adjudicators' Post-Contest Comments -- Chapter 7 Conclusion and Implications -- Bibliography -- Appendix A Example of Data Transcription
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  • 40
    ISBN: 9789402408294
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XX, 280 p. 16 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research 14
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Child development ; Social work ; Well-being ; Children ; Psychology ; Social Sciences ; Kind ; Wohlbefinden
    Abstract: The book presented here describes an outstanding attempt, not only to include children’s views but to partner with children to develop the concept of well-being and to study the phenomenon as the children understand it. The authors do this by placing the concept of children’s well-being within the existing discourses on the topic and by developing their unique theoretical approach to the concept. Then, and based on what children told them, the authors identify different domains and dimensions of children’s well-being and touch upon its multifaceted nature. The book concludes with drawing research and policy implications from an integrated summary of the study’s findings and lists indicator concepts that present an alternative framework and conceptualisation of well-being from a child standpoint
    Abstract: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter 1. Tracing Conceptualizations of Well-Being: Locating the Child in Well-Being Discourse -- Chapter 2. Researching Children’s Understandings of Well-Being -- Part II -- Chapter 3. Overviewing a Child Standpoint on Well-Being -- Chapter 4. Agency, Autonomy and Asymmetry in Child-Adult Relations -- Chapter 5. Safety and Ontological Insecurity: Contesting the Meaning of Child Protection -- Chapter 6. Self, Identity and Well-Being -- Part III -- Chapter 7. Activities as Autonomy and Competence: The Meaning and Experience of Leisure for Well-Being -- Chapter 8. Money, Markets and Moral Identity: Exploring Children’s Understandings and Experiences of Economic Well-Being -- Chapter 9. Children’s Health and Well-Being -- Part IV.-Chapter 10. Findings and Conclusions on Well-Being from the Unique Vantage Point of Children -- Appendix
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  • 41
    ISBN: 9789811019098
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 264 p. 76 illus., 59 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. The WordNet in Indian languages
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    Keywords: Computational linguistics ; Languages ; Language and languages ; Language and education ; Linguistics ; Indische Sprachen ; Lexikografie ; Computerlinguistik ; Datenverarbeitung ; Indische Sprachen ; Lexikografie ; Computerlinguistik ; Datenverarbeitung
    Abstract: This contributed volume discusses in detail the process of construction of a WordNet of 18 Indian languages, called “Indradhanush” (rainbow) in Hindi. It delves into the major challenges involved in developing a WordNet in a multilingual country like India, where the information spread across the languages needs utmost care in processing, synchronization and representation. The project has emerged from the need of millions of people to have access to relevant content in their native languages, and it provides a common interface for information sharing and reuse across the Indian languages. The chapters discuss important methods and strategies of language computation, language data processing, lexical selection and management, and language-specific synset collection and representation, which are of utmost value for the development of a WordNet in any language. The volume overall gives a clear picture of how WordNet is developed in Indian languages and how this can be utilized in similar projects for other languages. It includes illustrations, tables, flowcharts, and diagrams for easy comprehension. This volume is of interest to researchers working in the areas of language processing, machine translation, word sense disambiguation, culture studies, language corpus generation, language teaching, dictionary compilation, lexicographic queries, cross-lingual knowledge sharing, e-governance, and many other areas of linguistics and language technology
    Abstract: Chapter 1. IndoWordNet Pushpak Bhattacharyya -- Chapter 2. Insights on Hindi WordNet Coming from the IndoWordNet Laxmi Kashyap, Salil Rajeev Joshi and Pushpak Bhattacharyya -- Chapter 3. Defining Language Specific Synset (LSS) in IndoWorNet: Some Theoretical and Practical Issues Niladri Sekhar Dash -- Chapter 4. Problems in Translating Hindi Synsets into the Bangla WordNet Niladri Sekhar Dash -- Chapter 5. Development of Punjabi WordNet, Bilingual Dictionaries, Lexical Relations Creation and its Challenges R.K. Sharma and Parteek Kumar -- Chapter 6. Insights on the Konkani WordNet Development Process Shilpa N. Desai, Shantaram W. Walawalikar, Ramdas N. Karmali, and Jyoti D. Pawar -- Chapter 7. Malayalam WordNet S. Rajendran and K. P. Soman -- Chapter 8. Creating Marathi WordNet Lata Popale and Pushpak Bhattacharyya -- Chapter 9. Gujarati WordNet: A Profile of the IndoWordNet Brijesh S. Bhatt, C. K. Bhensdadia, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Dinesh Chauhan and Kirit Patel -- Chapter 10. Issues in the Creation of Synsets in Odia WordNet: A Report Panchanan Mohanty, Ramesh C. Malik and Bhimasena Bhol -- Chapter 11. Building Telugu WordNet using Expansion Approach S. Arulmozi and M.C. Kesava Murty -- Chapter 12. Challenges, Problems and Issues Faced in Language Specific Synset Creation and Linkage in the Kashmiri WordNet Aadil Amin Kak, Farooq Ahmad, Nazima Mehdi, Mansoor Farooq, and Muneera Hakim -- Chapter 13. Language Specific Synsets and Challenges in Synset Linkage in Urdu WordNet Rizwanur Rahman, Mazhar Mehdi Hussain and Niladri Sekhar Dash -- Chapter 14. Sanskrit Wordnet at IITB Malhar Kulkarni -- Chapter 15. Word Sense Disambiguation Using IndoWordNet Sudha Bhingardive and Pushpak Bhattacharyya -- Appendix I: The Team of the IndoWordNet
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    ISBN: 9789811046216
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXIII, 260 p. 27 illus., 24 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Keywords: Applied linguistics ; Semiotics ; Linguistics
    Abstract: This book reflects the chronological changes in Chinese cultural values, social relations, economy and politics by critically analyzing the Chinese advertising discourse. The work is based on research into the ideological values portrayed in Chinese household appliance advertisements in the 1980s - 1990s. The analytical framework covers a variety of methods: critical discourse analysis, chronological analysis, visual and verbal analysis, and qualitative and quantitative analysis. The findings suggest that ideological values consciously or unconsciously manifested by the visual and verbal devices in the Chinese advertisements moved in a pattern from simplicity to diversity, from being politically-oriented to being economically and profit-oriented, from conservatism to globalization and westernization, in keeping with the progression of the Chinese economic reform. The findings further indicate that the ideological values in the Chinese household appliance advertisements are embedded in the advertising language and illustrations. Lastly, the work reveals the reality of Chinese politics, economy and society at a time when China experienced the growth of the market economy and evolution of Chinese mainstream ideologies, and demonstrates the impacts of these changes on the ideological meanings in advertisements. This book will help readers discover the more profound meanings behind the superficial content of Chinese advertisements
    Abstract: Abstract -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Context of Chinese Advertising Development before and after 1978 -- Chapter 2 Review of the Literature -- Chapter 3 Methodology and Research Design -- Chapter 4 Analysis of Profiles and Visual Discourse -- Chapter 5 Verbal Discourse Analysis -- Chapter 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendices
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  • 43
    ISBN: 9789811022364
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 220 p. 28 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Urban geography ; Urban economics ; Sociology, Urban ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: Through the analysis of Indian metropolises, this volume critiques the reality of “entrepreneurial governance” that has emerged as a major urban development practice in cities of the global south. In neoliberal India, the use of management rhetoric in urban development has rapidly led to the growth of urban/peri-urban structures and spaces that are supposedly “smart” and “entrepreneurial”, which are networked within global systems of production, finance, technology/ telecommunication, culture and politics. Through diverse empirical evidence from India, particularly from the metropolises of New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai, this volume focuses on the fallout of the deployment of “entrepreneurial governance” practices at national, state and local levels. Foremost, it explores the impact of specific institutional and organizational reorientations and changing urban spatial landscapes at the local level; secondly, it discusses the socio-economic implications of rollback of the state and involvement of non-state organizations in governance as part of urban entrepreneurialism; further, it discusses the regulation of urban development projects by local governments and the impact of "entrepreneurial governance" for citizens, often resulting in social exclusion and inequality. Finally, it explores the inherent contradictions within political and institutional landscapes that can be described as “entrepreneurial”. Written by scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, and focusing on different facets of entrepreneurial governance in Indian metropolises, this book is of interest to researchers of urban politics, public policy, urban sociology, anthropology, urban geography, planning and architecture
    Abstract: Chapter 1: Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India: A Framework Smitha Kanekanti Chandrasekhar -- Part I: Urban Governance and Institutions -- Chapter 2: Introducing Urban Entrepreneurialism in India: An Analysis of Programmatic Interventions Debolina Kundu -- Chapter 3: Entrepreneurial Governance in a resilient city: Bengaluru, India Sudhira H.S. -- Part II: Political Economy of Urbanisation -- Chapter 4: From Hierarchy to Heterarchy: Moving Beyond Entrepreneurial, Governance, Municipal Reforms Programme in Karnataka, India Anjali Karol -- Chapter 5: “Speculative Spaces”: The Material Practices of Urban Entrepreneurialism Bhuvaneswari Raman -- Chapter 6: The Politics of Entrepreneurial Vision Group Plans and their impact at the Local (government) Level, Bengaluru Vinay Baindur -- Part III: Urban Inclusion and Exclusion -- Chapter 7: Remaking the ‘mohalla’: Muslim basti-dwellers and Entrepreneurial Urbanism in Mumbai Qudsiya Contractor -- Chapter 8: Fragile Entrepreneurialism: The Mumbai Airport Slum Redevelopment Project Xuefei Ren -- Chapter 9: Planning their own homes in Entrepreneurial City: The Capacities of urban poor and the constraints of public policy Swetha Rao Dhananka -- Chapter 10: Spatial Reproduction of Urban Poverty in Entrepreneurial City: Bengaluru, India Smitha Kanekanti Chandrasekhar
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  • 44
    ISBN: 9789811056437
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVII, 168 p. 4 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Welfare economics ; Social policy ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: This book reviews the development of China’s social security system from 1949 onwards and analyzes its features in each stage. By emphasizing the role of the social security system in regulating income distribution, it points out some problems in the current social security framework that are becoming apparent as the income gap continues to grow. It proposes various measures such as intensifying the reform of the social insurance fund, expanding old age insurance coverage, promoting health equality, and establishing a new rural medical security system that could be employed to improve the system’s equitability, sustainability, and inclusivity
    Abstract: Prologue -- The Development of China’s Social Welfare System -- The Deviation of China’s Social Insurance Fund Mode and Its Corrections -- Health Problems and Health Equality in the Transitional Period -- Establishing a Basic Rural Medical Security System -- Analysis of Factors Affecting Rural Residents’ Satisfaction with Medical Services -- Analysis of Social Security Expenditures by the Chinese Government -- Several Major Issues in the Reform and Development of China’s Social Security System: Comments and Suggestions on China’s Social Security Report -- A Study on the Income Redistribution Effect of Social Security in China: A Case Study on Social Insurance -- Establishing a More Equitable and Sustainable Social Security System -- Bibliography -- Postscript
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  • 45
    ISBN: 9789811038099
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 204 p. 1 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Social work ; Social service ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: This book demonstrates the central role of ethical character in effective social work practice. Showcasing select biographies of social workers, it reveals how skilled practitioners have developed such core virtues as compassion, love, commitment, prudence, respect for human dignity and a critical sense of social justice through the course of their working lives, and how they apply these virtues in a wide variety of settings and situations to enhance the well-being of the people and communities they work with. As such, the book offers a powerful and inspiring resource to help educators, students and practitioners understand the unbreakable link between what social workers and other social welfare and social development professionals do and who they are, and thereby cultivate core qualities that should be promoted. “Pawar, Hugman, Alexandra and Anscombe have found a novel and creative way to explore virtues in social work by examining the career contributions of a group of social work practitioners engaged in ‘virtuous action’. Their stories are inspiring and they provide much-needed role models for students and practitioners embarking on empowering practice” - Dr. Mel Gray, Professor of Social Work, The University of Newcastle. New South Wales, Australia. "In an age where the virtues of truth, cooperation and “doing the right thing” are increasingly being eroded in public life, this book serves as both an inspiration and invaluable resource to all social work practitioners seeking to reflect on, and improve their practice" - Dr. Martin Ryan, Social Worker, Counsellor/Community Educator, Jesuit Social Services, Melbourne. “The editors are to be commended for examining the virtuous characters of these ten professional social workers. The use of detailed biographies is an innovative and important approach which helps us to appreciate just what a tremendous impact the virtues can have." - Dr. Christian B. Miller, A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy, Director, The Character Project, Wake Forest University, USA
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction: The role of virtues in social work practice -- Chapter 2. Voice to the voiceless -- Chapter 3. But you can push and push and push -- Chapter 4. Empower people to take control of their own lives -- Chapter 5. Respect and integrity -- Chapter 6. What can we do to make changes? -- Chapter 7. A people world, rather than a paper world -- Chapter 8. I cannot give up, I cannot give up on the children -- Chapter 9. You roll up your sleeves and work with people help people -- Chapter 10. Hunger for movement and action -- Chapter 11. What you know plays out in action -- Chapter 12. Virtue-led social work practice
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  • 46
    ISBN: 9789401775830
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 169 p. 11 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Douglas, Emily M., 1973 - Child maltreatment fatalities in the United States
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Maternal and child health services ; Criminology ; Social work ; Child psychology ; School psychology ; Social Sciences ; USA ; Kindesmisshandlung ; Kindesvernachlässigung ; Tötung ; Prävention ; USA ; Kindesmisshandlung ; Kindesvernachlässigung ; Tötung ; Prävention
    Abstract: This book focuses on the prevention of child abuse and neglect deaths in the U.S. In 2013 1,520 children died from maltreatment. This book defines child maltreatment fatalities (CMFs) and discusses the prevalence of deaths in the U.S. over the last several decades. It addresses the known risk factors for maltreatment deaths including child, parent, the parent-child relationship, and household risk factors. The main focus of the book addresses the responses and interventions that have been put in place in order to prevent CMFs: the child welfare profession, child death review teams, safe haven laws, criminal justice responses, public education, and new, federal efforts in the U.S. to reduce CMFs in the U.S. The book finishes by making recommendations for researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers about how to prevent fatal maltreatment among children in the U.S
    Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction and Justification for the Book -- Chapter 2: What is Fatal Child Maltreatment -- Chapter 3. Risk Factors for Fatal Child Maltreatment -- Chapter 4. The Intersection of the Child Welfare Profession and Maltreatment Fatalities -- Chapter 5. Child Death Review Teams -- Chapter 6. State Safe Haven Laws -- Chapter 7. Criminal Justice and Legal Reforms in Response to Fatal Maltreatment -- Chapter 8. Prevention of Fatal Child Maltreatment: What Are We Doing That Is Working? -- Chapter 9. Conclusions and Recommendations Moving Forward in the Arena of Fatal Child Maltreatment
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    ISBN: 9789811040146
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 184 p. 16 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Encounters between East and West, Intercultural Perspectives
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Intercultural communication with China
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Ethnology Asia ; Language and education ; Religion and culture ; Social Sciences ; Interkulturalität ; Relation ; Wahrnehmung ; Fremdbild ; Ausland ; Stereotyp ; Theorie ; Praxis ; Beispiel ; Westliche Welt ; Europa ; China ; Aufsatzsammlung ; China ; Kulturkontakt
    Abstract: A major objective of this book is to identify the key determinants of the “East” and the “West” in the field of intercultural communication. It examines but also counter-attacks essentialist and culturalist analyses of intercultural communication between China and the rest of the world. Offering a cross-country examination and comparison of drought awareness and experience, this book shows two fields of research, which are complementary but rarely found side by side, i.e. the Arts and Intercultural Encounters, serve as illustrations for theoretical and methodological discussions about intercultural communication between China and the West. Scholarly and media discourses will find this work thought-provoking, instructive and informative
    Abstract: Introduction -- Hopeful Disappointment. Cultural Morphology and the Relation between China and Europe -- Self as Other. Indigenous Psychology and the Defining of a Chinese Subjectivity -- The Chineseness of Huang Yong Ping and the risks of essentialisation -- The attempt of the Xieyi (essentialist) Theatre 寫意話劇 in the history of the Chinese Spoken Theatre -- Manzhouli or Manchzhuriya? Linguistic and Cultural Hybridization in the Border City -- Making sense of communication and cultural differences in the workplace: The case of Sino-Scandinavian collaborations -- Mediating or Exacerbating Cultural Differences: The Role of Interpreters in Official Intercultural Interaction -- Chinese ‘Enormous Hospitality’ versus Finnish ‘Meeting among Friends’: Guest-Host Positioning in China-Finland Delegation Visits -- Stereotyping in the teaching of intercultural communication with China -- Voices from the “East” in the “West”: An Analysis of the Cultural Discourse of Chinese Lecturers in France
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    ISBN: 9789402408812
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 1459 p. 264 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Handbook of linguistic annotation ; Volume 1
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    Keywords: Database management ; User interfaces (Computer systems) ; Application software ; Computational linguistics ; Linguistics ; Computerlinguistik ; Annotation
    Abstract: This handbook offers a thorough treatment of the science of linguistic annotation. Leaders in the field guide the reader through the process of modeling, creating an annotation language, building a corpus and evaluating it for correctness. Essential reading for both computer scientists and linguistic researchers. Linguistic annotation is an increasingly important activity in the field of computational linguistics because of its critical role in the development of language models for natural language processing applications. Part one of this book covers all phases of the linguistic annotation process, from annotation scheme design and choice of representation format through both the manual and automatic annotation process, evaluation, and iterative improvement of annotation accuracy. The second part of the book includes case studies of annotation projects across the spectrum of linguistic annotation types, including morpho-syntactic tagging, syntactic analyses, a range of semantic analyses (semantic roles, named entities, sentiment and opinion), time and event and spatial analyses, and discourse level analyses including discourse structure, co-reference, etc. Each case study addresses the various phases and processes discussed in the chapters of part one
    Abstract: Part One -- Introduction -- Designing annotation schemes: from theory to model -- Designing Annotation schemes: from model to representation -- Community standards -- Creating annotations -- Using annotations -- Part Two: Case Studies -- General Corpora -- Treebanks -- Semantic annotation -- Discourse level annotation -- Speech (transcribed) -- Biomedical annotations
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  • 49
    ISBN: 9789402410631
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 488 p. 66 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Argumentation Library 29
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    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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    ISBN: 9789811039157
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 211 p, online resource)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Ethics ; Religion and culture ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: 〈characteristics. this="" model="" can="" be="" applied="" to="" many="" countries="" around="" the="" globe.="" additionally,="" author="" points="" out="" that in="" construction="" of="" chinese="" national="" spirit="" it="" is="" also="" important="" consider="" positive="" elements="" from="" different cultures="" in="" other="" nations. This book discusses the Chinese nation’s spiritual home in a modern context. It analyzes various aspects of the problem, including background, theory, history, recent advances and solutions, from a global view. In discussing the development of Chinese national spirit, it also refers to western experiences of national culture and national spirit. To build the spiritual home, the traditional culture, values and faith need to be learned, analyzed and adapted to the modern context. Doing so helps to maintain the traditional characteristics while at the same time reinforcing new characteristics. This model can be applied to many countries around the globe. Additionally, the author points out that in the construction of Chinese national spirit it is also important to consider positive elements from different cultures in other nations
    Abstract: National Spirit and Spiritual Home -- Connotation, characteristics and functions of national spirit -- Chinese national spirit: generation, development and modern transformation Approaches to the Challenges and Development Confronting the Chinese -- National Philosophy in Modern Times -- Integration of the Patriotism and the Homeland of Mankind
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    ISBN: 9789811005541
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 230 p. 120 illus., 69 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Cultural heritage ; Climate change ; Geoecology ; Environmental geology ; Archaeology ; Social Sciences ; Konferenzschrift ; Alter Orient ; Zivilisation ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This book explores aspects of the ancient civilization in West Asia, which has had a great impact on modern human society-agriculture, metallurgy, cities, writing, regional states, and monotheism, all of which appeared first in West Asia during the tenth to first millennia BC. The editors specifically use the term "West Asia" since the "Middle East" is seen as an Eurocentric term. By using this term, the book hopes to mitigate potential bias (i.e. historical and Western) by using a pure geographical term. However, the "West Asia" region is identical to that of the narrower "Middle East," which encompasses modern Iran and Turkey from east to west and Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula from north to south. This volume assembles research from different disciplines, such as the natural sciences, archaeology and philology/linguistics, in order to tackle the question of which circumstances and processes these significant cultural phenomena occurred in West Asia. Scrutinizing subjects such as the relations between climate, geology and human activities, the origins of wheat cultivation and animal domestication, the development of metallurgy, the birth of urbanization and writing, ancient religious traditions, as well as the treatment of cultural heritage, the book undertakes a comprehensive analysis of West Asian Civilization that provided the common background to cultures in various areas of the globe, including Europe and Asia. These contributions will attempt to demonstrate a fresh vision which emphasizes the common cultural origin between Europe and West Asia, standing in opposition to the global antagonism symbolized by the theory of "Clash of Civilizations
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    ISBN: 9789811048319
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 227 p. 35 illus., 26 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Ethnology ; Sociology, Urban ; Demography ; Human geography ; Social Sciences ; China ; Verstädterung ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; China ; Verstädterung ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel
    Abstract: This book examines the impacts of China’s urbanization on the country’s economic development, clan culture, rural societies, minority resident areas, natural environment, women, and public policy reforms, drawing on official statistics, independent survey data, archives, and fieldwork research to do so. Adopting a cross-disciplinary perspective, the book places special emphasis on issues that have been neglected in prior studies, and provides up-to-date information, reports, and analyses based on the latest events. Further, it considers future directions and strategies regarding urban development, discusses regional urbanization in selected poor and “backward” western provinces, analyzes changes in traditional clan culture brought on by urbanization, and explores evolutions in local clan societies in the Qin and Han Dynasties when cities expanded and business flourished. Lastly, the book examines the effects of infrastructure-related determinants on urban expansion rates and urban land prices, demonstrates the ebbs and flows of public opinion regarding various environmental issues, discusses planned real estate tax reform, and assesses the impact of demographic and socioeconomic changes on young unmarried women
    Abstract: Chapter 1 New Directions and Transformations of Urbanization in China -- Chapter 2 New Urbanization and Industrial Performance: Implications for Western China -- Chapter 3 Regional Differences in China’s Urbanization: The Case of Northwestern City Agglomerations -- Chapter 4 Urban Development in China’s Ethnic Minority Areas -- Chapter 5 Infrastructure Development and Urbanization in China -- Chapter 6 Urbanization and Sustainable Development in China: Converging Paths? -- Chapter 7 Chinese Perceptions of Air and Water Pollution -- Chapter 8 Real Estate Tax Reforms in Urban Areas -- Chapter 9 Women, Work, Marriage, and Challenges of Gendered Mobility in Urban China -- Chapter 10 Urbanization, Migration, and Children’s Social Development in China -- Chapter 11 Urbanization and Changes in Clan Culture -Investigations in Anhui Rural Areas -- Chapter 12 Local Clan Societies and Migrants to Cities in the Qin and Han Dynasties
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    ISBN: 9789811022678
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 159 p. 2 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: The Humanities in Asia 2
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Culture Study and teaching ; Chinese language ; China ; Hongkong ; Taiwan ; Geisteswissenschaften
    Abstract: This book brings together the perspectives of eminent and emerging scholars on contemporary issues relevant to the practice, pedagogy and institutionalization of the humanities in the three Chinese contexts of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. It addresses the need to investigate how humanities discussions, often exclusively drawn from, and grounded in, western contexts, are today being played out in these three places. The humanities in contemporary Chinese contexts may have different social and pedagogical roles, and a consideration of them will enable people to moderate, and perhaps even refute, claims made in the recent (re)readings of the humanities. As Asian universities rise in the global rankings and as east-west university collaborations and partnerships become more common, it is important that the nature, practice and institutionalization of the humanities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China are explored and described for English readers. Exploring new perspectives arising from an examination of the humanities in these places, this volume aims neither to establish a position of polarity, which would pit western sites against Chinese ones, nor to argue for universal sameness. Rather, the goal is to find nuanced correspondences and differences between these various backgrounds, so that there is a greater understanding of the specificities of Chinese contexts. This will help shed light not only on the contexts in question, but also potentially on how to rearticulate the importance of the humanities in general, creating an intercultural dialogue focused on the humanities. As the global university strives to move the different traditions of learning closer together through international rankings, rubrics, and shared research agendas, it is important that we explore these locations of potential cultural exchange
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    ISBN: 9789811025198
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVII, 573 p. 10 illus., 6 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Semantics ; Curriculums (Courses of study) ; Education Curricula ; Learning. ; Instruction.
    Abstract: This book offers an accessible, practical and engaging guide that provides sample instructional activities supported by theoretical background information, with a focus on the nature of the instructional process in relation to several variables. It approaches instructional models, strategies, methods, techniques, tactics and planning from a new perspective and shares effective tips to help readers better understand the instructional process and its theoretical elements. The book addresses the following questions: What is the nature of the instructional process? What are the classifications of contemporary models and strategies developed within the instructional process? Which groups yield the most effective methods and techniques, and how can they best be practically implemented? What are the instructional tactics teachers need to take into consideration, in which groups are they collected, and which tips can help us employ each tactic? Additionally, readers can adapt the book’s ready-to-use sample activities to their own educational settings. Overall, this book offers an enlightening discussion on contemporary practices related to the teaching process, a broad and holistic theoretical framework, and an ideal reference source for all students and scholars who are interested in the educational sciences
    Abstract: PART ONE: INSTRUCTION PROCESS -- Chapter 1: Instructional Strategies -- Chapter 2: Instructional Methods -- Chapter 3: Instructional Techniques -- Chapter 4: Instructional Tactics -- Chapter 5: Planning for Instruction -- PART TWO: ACTIVITY SAMPLES -- Chapter 6: Language of English -- Chapter 7: Language of Turkish -- Chapter 8: History -- Chapter 9: Geography -- Chapter 10: IT (Information Technologies) -- Chapter 11: Sociology, Psychology and Counseling -- PART THREE: EFFECTS OF INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES -- Chapter 12: Effects of Instructional Activities -- Appendix -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Bibliography
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    ISBN: 9789811017933
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XX, 302 p. 292 illus., 266 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The language and iconography of Chinese charms
    Keywords: Social sciences ; History ; Social Sciences ; Cultural heritage ; Archaeology ; China—History.
    Abstract: This book offers an in-depth description and analysis of Chinese coin-like charms, which date back to the second century CE and which continued to be used until mid 20th century. This work is unique in that it provides an archaeological and analytical interpretation of the content of these metallic objects: inscriptive, pictorial or both. As the component chapters show, these coin-like objects represent a wealth of Chinese traditional folk beliefs, including but not limited to family values, social obligations and religious desires. The book presents a collection of contributed chapters, gathering a diverse range of perspectives and expertise from some of the world’s leading scholars in the fields of archaeology, religious studies, art history, language and museology. The background of the cover image is a page from Guang jin shi yun fu 廣金石韻府, a rhyming dictionary first published in the ninth year of the Kangxi Reign (1652 CE). The metal charm dates back to the Song Dynasty (960-1279 CE), depicting two deities traditionally believed to possess the majic power of suppressing evil spirits. The stich-bound book in the foreground is a collection of seal impressions from the beginning of the 20th century. Its wooden press board is inscribed da ji xiang 大吉祥 by Fang Zhi-bin 方質彬 in the year of bing yin (1926 CE)
    Abstract: 1 Chinese Charms and the Iconographic Language of Good Luck and Heavenly Protection -- 2 Charms Decorated with Liu bo Patterns from the Han Dynasty -- 3 Not an Ordinary Hoard: The Coins in the Hejiacun Treasure -- 4 The Language of Protective Power: Star Worship and the Four Spirits Charms -- 5 Coin Charms Featuring Gods and Spirits during the Song and the Jin Dynasties -- 6 Horse Coins: Pieces for Da ma, the Chinese Board Game “Driving Horses” -- 7 The Liao Dynasty Coins Inscribed Ten Thousand Years -- 8 Temple Coins of the Yuan Dynasty -- 9 Lucky Charms from the Ming and the Qing Dynasties -- 10 Writing against Evil: Epigraphy on Chinese Ya guai Charms -- 11 The Vietnamese Charms in the Department of Coins and Medals of the French National Library -- 12 Fuhonsen Coins and the Ancient Japanese Theology -- 13 A Book Review of Chinese Charms: Arts, Religion and Folk Belief -- 14 A List of Historical Texts -- 15 Bibliography -- 16 Index -- 17 A Chronology of Chinese Dynasties and Periods
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    ISBN: 9789812877789
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 382 p. 14 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Religion and culture ; Social Sciences ; Religion ; Philosophy, Asian ; Culture. ; Islam ; Naturwissenschaften ; Technik
    Abstract: Preface -- Part I: Opening Section -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Opening Address by Former Prime Minister of Malaysia and Chairman, IAIS -- Chapter 3: Science and Technology for Mankind’s Benefit: Islamic Theories and Practices - Past, Present and Future -- Chapter 4: The Necessity of Studying the Natural Sciences from the Qur’anic Worldview -- Part II: Philosophy of Science, Cosmology and Emergence of Biological Systems -- Chapter 5: Philosophy of Science in Epistemological Perspective -- Chapter 6: Rūmī On the Living Earth: A Sufi Perspective -- Chapter 7: Sayyid Qutb’s Understanding of the Universe as a Living and Meaningful World -- Chapter 8: The New Approach in Western Science towards Understanding the Nature of Life and Mind, in Terrence Deacon’s ‘Incomplete Nature’: An Analysis from Islamic Perspectives -- Part III: Tawhidic Science - Principles -- Chapter 9: Islam Can Give a Proper Orientation to Science and Technology Development -- Chapter 10: Vision in Action: Operationalising the Islamisation of Science and Technology -- Chapter 11: Maqāsid al-Shari‘ah: A Traditional Source for Ensuring Design and Development of Modern Technology for Humanity’s Benefit -- Part IV: Tawhidic Science - General Applications -- Chapter 12: Islam and the Environment: An Examination of the Source Evidence -- Chapter 13: Reducing Wasteful Consumption Towards Sustainability by Waste Avoidance Using Self-Improvement (Tazkiyah) and Contentment (Qana‘ah) Approaches -- Chapter 14: Integrating Spirituality Into Efforts for Improving Value Chains of Farm Products -- Chapter 15: Neurotechnological Advances in Exploring Melodic Recitation of the Noble Qur’an: Uncovering the Neural Circuitry in the Human Brain -- Chapter 16: A New Quantum Theory in Accordance with Islamic Science -- Part V: Tawhidic Science - Bioethics -- Chapter 17: Breakthroughs in Biosciences and the Question of Morality: Interactions Between Ethics and Bioscience Practices -- Chapter 18: Implementation of an Islamic Approach to Harm Reduction Among Illicit Drug-Users in Malaysia -- Chapter 19: Genetically Modified Food and Humanity’s Well-Being: An Islamic Perspective Elmira Akhmetova -- Chapter 20: Advances in Tri-Parent Baby Technology: The Bio-ethical Challenge for Muslims -- Part VI: Islamic Teaching of Science -- Chapter 21: Integrating the Qur’anic Worldview with the Natural Sciences: Answering the Call for Islamic Secondary Schools -- Chapter 22: Teaching of Values in Science: Defining its Universal Values -- Chapter 23: Positing a Spiritual Dimension for Science Education: Brunei Darussalam’s Experience -- Chapter 24: Displayed Features of a Student with High Functioning Autism During Quranic Learning -- Part VII: History of Science & Technology in Islamic Civilisation -- Chapter 25: Emotional Blasting Therapy: A Psychotherapeutic Technique Invented by Early Muslim Physicians -- Chapter 26: Tracing the History of Astrolabe Inventions Across Civilisations
    Abstract: This book presents 25 selected papers from the International Conference on “Developing Synergies between Islam & Science and Technology for Mankind’s Benefit” held at the International Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, in October 2014. The papers cover a broad range of issues reflecting the main conference themes: Cosmology and the Universe, Philosophy of Science and the Emergence of Biological Systems, Principles and Applications of Tawhidic Science, Medical Applications of Tawhidic Science and Bioethics, and the History and Teaching of Science from an Islamic Perspective. Highlighting the relationships between the Islamic religious worldview and the physical sciences, the book challenges secularist paradigms on the study of Science and Technology. Integrating metaphysical perspectives of Science, topics include Islamic approaches to S&T such as an Islamic epistemology of the philosophy of science, a new quantum theory, environmental care, avoiding wasteful consumption using Islamic teachings, and emotional-blasting psychological therapy. Eminent contributing scholars include Osman Bakar, Mohammad Hashim Kamali, Mehdi Golshani, Mohd. Kamal Hassan, Adi Setia and Malik Badri. The book is essential reading for a broad group of academics and practitioners, from Islamic scholars and social scientists to (physical) scientists and engineers
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    ISBN: 9789811000508
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 347 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karte
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public policy ; Economic geography ; Anthropology ; Emigration and immigration ; Social Sciences ; Migration ; Public Policy ; Economic Geography ; Migration ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Integration ; Mobilität ; Migration ; Migration ; Mobilität ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Integration
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    ISBN: 9789812879226
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 259 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karten
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    DDC: 306.3
    Keywords: Internationales Recht ; Recht ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Social sciences ; International law ; Intellectual property / Law and legislation ; Economic policy ; Economic sociology ; Social Sciences ; Massenmedien ; Vietnam ; Philippinen ; Philippinen ; Vietnam ; Massenmedien
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    ISBN: 9789402408744
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 331 p. 148 illus., 90 illus. in color)
    Series Statement: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
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    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Paleontology ; Geobiology ; Environmental geography ; Evolutionary biology ; Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Social Sciences ; Biogeosciences ; Environmental Geography ; Evolutionary Biology ; Archäologie ; Paläontologie ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Archäologie ; Paläanthropologie ; Balkanhalbinsel ; Anatolien ; Konferenzschrift 2012 ; Konferenzschrift 2012 ; Balkanhalbinsel ; Anatolien ; Paläanthropologie ; Archäologie
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    ISBN: 9789811017995
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 216 p. 22 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: 4243 Erscheint auch als Embodiment in language ; 2: Food, emotion and beyond
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Comparative linguistics ; Semantics ; Language and education ; Embodiment ; Kontrastive Linguistik
    Abstract: This book provides useful strategies for language learning, researching and the understanding of social factors that influence human behavior. It offers an account of how we use human, animal and plant fixed expressions every day and the cultural aspects hidden behind them. These fixed expressions include various linguistic vehicles, such as fruit, jokes and taboos that are related to speakers’ use in the real world. The linguistic research in Mandarin Chinese, Hakka, German and English furthers our understanding of the cultural value and model of cognition embedded in life-form embodiment languages
    Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I. Embodiment and Food -- Chapter 2 Food Metaphors in Taiwan Hakka -- Chapter 3 Pragmatic Functions of Hakka Proverbs: Humor, Praise and Food -- Chapter 4 Fruit and Some Plant Vehicles in Mandarin Chinese, English and German -- Part II. Embodiment and Emotion -- Chapter 5 How do Men and Women Express Emotion Differently -- Chapter 6 Taboos in Animal Fixed Expressions in Mandarin Chinese -- Chapter 7 Euphemisms in Animal-Fixed Expressions in Mandarin Chinese -- Part III. Embodiment in Broader Contexts -- Chapter 8 The Punchlines of Jokes about Women in Italian, English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese -- Chapter 9 Legendary Animal Metaphors in Political and Economic Discourse -- Chapter 10 Prototypical Effect and Cultural Implication of Hakka Proverbs -- Chapter 11 How do Taiwanese Second Language Learners Learn English Body Part Metonymy -- Chapter 12 Conclusion
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    ISBN: 9789811009044
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIV, 269 p. 158 illus., 138 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social Sciences ; Asia History ; Archaeology
    Abstract: This book presents the proceedings of the international academic workshop on “Early Navigation in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Maritime Archaeological Perspective” held from June 21-23, 2013 at Harvard University campus and organized by Harvard-Yenching Institute. It includes high-quality papers focusing on the historical shipwrecks investigated by underwater archaeologists from Eastern Asian, including southern China, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia, and North America, including California, Oregon and Washington in the US, as well as Mexico. These investigations reveal the history of the early pan-Pacific navigation and maritime globalization from the 16th to the 18th century, covering the background and formation, concept and practice, as well as the results and influence of this early globalization and global economy, emphasizing the maritime archaeological evidence of Spanish exploration of transportation between East Asia and North America. The book provides an excellent opportunity for maritime archaeologists from both sides of the Pacific to share the latest findings and new developments in maritime archaeological exploration. It discusses 16-18th century nautical trade and maritime cultural history and provides a comprehensive overview of research work in the Asia-Pacific region
    Abstract: 1. A Summary Study on Shipwrecks of the Pre-contact Period and the Development of Regional Maritime Trade Network in East Asia -- 2. Of Ships and Shipping: The Maritime Archaeology of 15th Century Southeast Asia -- 3. Cinnamon, Ceramics, and Silks: Tracking the Manila Galleon Trade in the Creation of the World Economy -- 4. From Magellan to Urdaneta: the early Spanish exploration of the Pacific and the Establishment of the Manila Acapulco Galleon Trade -- 5. The Archaeology of San Diego Shipwreck in Philippine and Related Manila Galleon Maritime Trade History -- 6. The Manila Galleons of the 16th Century: a Nautical Perspective -- 7. Sixteenth-Century Manila Galleon Cargos on the American West Coast and A Kraak Plate Chronology -- 8. The Beeswax Wreck, A Manila Galleon in Oregon, USA -- 9. Analysis of the Beeswax Shipwreck Porcelain Collection, Oregon, USA. -- 10. A Study on Exported Chinese Ceramics from Shipwrecks of 16-17th Centuries in South China and Southeast Asia -- 11. Consumption of Chinese and European Ceramics at the Sultanate of Banten, Java, Indonesia from the Seventeenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: Material Culture of Early Colonialism -- 12. The Investigation and Excavation of Xiaobaijiao No.Ⅰ Shipwreck Site in Ningbo, Eastern Sea of China -- 13. Portuguese and Spanish in Southeast China during 16th-17th Century: A Perspective of Maritime Ethno-archaeology
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    ISBN: 9789811008535
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 285 p. 38 illus, online resource)
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Languages ; Language and languages ; Brunei ; Sprache ; Sprachtypologie
    Abstract: This book provides an overview of the linguistic situation in Brunei, including a historical overview and a synopsis of the current education system. It investigates pronunciation, particularly the intelligibility of Brunei English and the vowels of Brunei Mandarin, and it also describes the acquisition of Malay grammar, Malay politeness strategies, the use of language online, language in the courts, a comparison of Malay and English newspapers, the language of shop signs, the status of Dusun, and lastly, English literature in Brunei. “This kaleidoscopic collection of reports of language use in Brunei demonstrates that Brunei is ‘A Kingdom of Unexpected Linguistic Diversity’, a diversity represented by varieties of Malay, Chinese dialects, English and indigenous languages including Kedayan, Dusun, Tutong, Murut and Iban. The chapters show how these languages operate in social interactions, education, the courtroom, the media, on the web, and in literature. Brunei’s linguistic diversity and the relationships between its indigenous languages and Malay, Chinese and English exemplify the complex interplay of local and global discourses. Readers of this book - and these should be all those interested in linguistic diversity as well as language policy makers and planners - will come to recognise how linguistic diversity supplies the vital cultural energy that enables human communities to thrive and how this cultural energy is under threat of being extinguished as indigenous language struggle to maintain their status and roles in society.” Professor Andy Kirkpatrick, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
    Abstract: 1 Introduction -- Section A: Language Status -- 2 The Language Situation in Brunei Darussalam -- 3 The State of Indigenous Languages in Brunei -- 4 The Language of Shop Signs in a Modern Shopping Centre in Brunei -- Section B: Pronunciation and Grammar -- 5 The Role of Fast Speech in Misunderstandings in Brunei English -- 6 A Comparison of the Vowels of Brunei Mandarin and Beijing Mandarin -- 7 Comprehension of Aspect Markers by Brunei Malay L1 learners -- Section C: Language Choice -- 8 The Attitudes of University Students towards their Native and Non-native English Speaking Lecturers in Brunei -- 9 Patterns of Language Choice and Use in Interactions among Foreign Workers in Brunei Darussalam: A Preliminary Study -- 10 Courtoom Discourse: A Case Study of the Linguistic Strategies in Brunei Courtrooms -- Section D: Discourse -- 11 Politeness Strategies of Bruneian Malay Youths in Compliment Speech Acts -- 12 The Discourse of Online Texts in Brunei: Extending Bruneian English -- 13 Identity Representation in Press Releases of a Brunei-based Banking Institution -- 14 Similar Story, Different Angles? A Comparative Study of 'Hard News' Texts in the Malay and English Print Media in Brunei Darussalam -- Section E: Literature and Language in Education -- 15 Contemporary English and Malay Literature in Brunei: A Comparison -- 16 Bilingual Education Revisited: The Role of Ugama Schools in the Spread of Bilingualism -- 17 Changing Patterns of Education in Brunei: How Past plans have shaped Future Trends
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    ISBN: 9789811008436
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 137 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Zaytsev, Alexandr A guide to english–russian and russian–english non-literary translation
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Russian language ; Translation and interpretation ; English language
    Abstract: Lying at the intersection of translatology, cognitive science and linguistics, this brief provides a comprehensive framework for studying, investigating and teaching English-Russian/Russian-English non-literary translation. It provides a holistic perspective on the process of non-literary translation, illustrating each of its steps with carefully analyzed real-life examples. Readers will learn how to choose and process multidimensional attention units in original texts by activating different types of knowledge, as well as how to effectively devise target-language matches for them using various translation techniques. It is rounded out with handy and feasible recommendations on the structure and content of an undergraduate course in translation. The abundance of examples makes it suitable not only for use in the classroom, but also for independent study
    Abstract: PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1. TRANSLATION AND CHEESE -- CHAPTER 2. TYPES OF TRANSLATION: AN OVERVIEW -- §2.1. Types of translation summarized in a diagram -- §2.2. R. Jakobson’s approach -- §2.3. Machine translation vs. human translation -- §2.4. ‘Stylistic’ types of translation -- §2.5. ‘Psycholinguistic’ types of translation -- CHAPTER 3. WHAT IS IT THAT WE TRANSLATE? -- §3.1. The problem of terminology -- §3.2. The notion of ‘speech product’ -- §3.3. Speech product as a complex communicative entity -- CHAPTER 4. WRITTEN TRANSLATION OF NON-LITERARY SPEECH PRODUCTS -- §4.1. Can you translate word-for-word? -- §4.2. The three stages in the process of translation -- CHAPTER 5. TEACHING AND STUDYING ENGLISH-RUSSIAN AND RUSSIAN-ENGLISH NON-LITERARY TRANSLATION -- §5.1. Notes to Educators -- §5.2. Notes to Trainees -- §5.3. Sample Assignments -- REFERENCES
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    ISBN: 9789812873231
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIX, 215 p. 18 illus., 10 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Maclean, Kirsten Cultural hybridity and the environment
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social Sciences ; Community development Case studies ; Environmental aspects ; Community development Environmental aspects ; Environmental management Case studies ; Social aspects ; Environmental management Social aspects ; Indigenous peoples Case studies ; Environmental aspects ; Indigenous peoples Environmental aspects ; Umwelt ; Lokales Wissen
    Abstract: This book highlights the importance of diversity in overcoming issues of social and environmental degradation. It presents conceptual and practical strategies to celebrate local and Indigenous knowledge for improved community development and environmental management. David Harvey has proclaimed, “The geography we make must be a peoples’ geography.” This clarion call challenges geographers around the world to consider the power and potential of geographic knowledge as the basis for social action - a call this book answers, providing readers the theoretical and conceptual tools needed to understand the social world and empowering them to mobilize social change. The author uses empirical case studies of two environmental management and community development projects to document how knowledge generation is “essentially locally situated and socially derived.” In doing so she charts a path for moving beyond what Vandana Shiva so aptly describes as “monocultures of the mind.” The book argues that local and Indigenous knowledge must not be seen in opposition to scientific knowledge, as none of these knowledge traditions hold all the answers to localized socio-environmental problems. Rather, as the author explores through a set of processes and strategies to enable, support and celebrate ‘cultural hybridity’ at the local environmental governance scale, these respective knowledge systems can learn to speak to each other. Such dialogue has the potential to support more sustainable outcomes at multiple environmental governance locales. This book will be of interest to everyone involved in environmental policy, planning or politics, and for those who want to make this planet a more sustainable and just place
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    ISBN: 9789812872364
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 396 p. 530 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Garrett, Daniel Paul Counter-hegemonic resistance in China's Hong Kong
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social Sciences ; Politische Bewegung ; Soziale Bewegung ; Politischer Protest ; Politische Beteiligung ; Protestbewegung ; Demonstration ; Gesellschaft ; Entwicklung ; Hongkong ; China
    Abstract: This book and associated collection of visual data and sociological observations examine how the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) has been visually re-imagined, transformed, and utilized by its subalterns in the post-Handover period to reproduce their aspirations and demands for greater democracy and social justice while simultaneously contesting the hegemonic pressure exerted by China under the “One Country, Two Systems” ideology. It provides a rich visual description and narrative of how Hong Kong’s many repressed social and political actors have struggled to make their voices heard under its competitive authoritarian political system. The book addresses the growing scholarly interest in the visual analysis of global protests and social movements as salient sources of sociological data and on the creation of meaning. By innovatively tackling the visual culture and visuality of subaltern resistance in Hong Kong it contributes to our understanding of contentious SAR-China politics and the New Social Movement, and will be of great interest to Hong Kong, resistance, social movement, and visual studies scholars.
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    ISBN: 9789812873293
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 269 p. 26 illus, online resource)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Political science Philosophy ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: This book uses Chinese version of dialectics to present interpretations of ocean governance, international regimes, issues in the South China Sea in general and the Chinese U-shaped line in particular, through the one-dot theory. It especially serves as a tool for non-Chinese researchers and experts interested in analyzing international relations issues from a Chinese perspective. The dialectical one-dot theory, which is a superior model to the dialectical Yin and Yang or the dialectical crab and frog motion model, provides research and findings that more closely mirror reality than do other, non-dialectical approaches and research methods. Further, it can be applied to both the natural and social sciences. The book is divided into three parts - Methodology, Case Studies Related to International Regimes and Non-“International Regimes,” and Issues Related to the U-shaped Line in the South China Sea - with each chapter structured in terms of the one-dot theory. In addition to researchers and experts involved in marine and maritime affairs, this book will also appeal to all readers interested in Chinese Philosophy, International Relations, and Strategic Culture
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    ISBN: 9789812875525
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 144 p. 61 illus., 13 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Keywords: Computational linguistics ; Linguistics
    Abstract: This book presents a comprehensive overview of semi-supervised approaches to dependency parsing. Having become increasingly popular in recent years, one of the main reasons for their success is that they can make use of large unlabeled data together with relatively small labeled data and have shown their advantages in the context of dependency parsing for many languages. Various semi-supervised dependency parsing approaches have been proposed in recent works which utilize different types of information gleaned from unlabeled data. The book offers readers a comprehensive introduction to these approaches, making it ideally suited as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in the fields of syntactic parsing and natural language processing
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  • 68
    ISBN: 9789812873569
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 152 p. 52 illus, online resource)
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    Keywords: Computational linguistics ; Linguistics
    Abstract: This book provides a wide variety of algorithms and models to integrate linguistic knowledge into Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). It helps advance conventional SMT to linguistically motivated SMT by enhancing the following three essential components: translation, reordering and bracketing models. It also serves the purpose of promoting the in-depth study of the impacts of linguistic knowledge on machine translation. Finally it provides a systematic introduction of Bracketing Transduction Grammar (BTG) based SMT, one of the state-of-the-art SMT formalisms, as well as a case study of linguistically motivated SMT on a BTG-based platform. Deyi Xiong is a professor at Soochow University. Previously he was a research scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research of Singapore from 2007-2013. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007. His research interests are in the area of natural language processing, including parsing and statistical machine translation. Min Zhang is a professor at Soochow University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at Harbin Institute of Technology in 1997. His research interests include machine translation, natural language processing and text mining
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    ISBN: 9789812873873
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 180 p. 9 illus., 7 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Wong, Stan Hok-wui Electoral politics in post-1997 Hong Kong
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social Sciences ; Hongkong ; Wahl ; Demokratisierung ; Medien ; Geschichte 1997-
    Abstract: This book offers a novel and parsimonious framework to help understand Hong Kong’s lengthy democratic transition by analyzing the electoral dynamics of the city’s competitive authoritarian political system, where pro-Beijing and pro-democracy parties have struggled to keep each other in check. The author demonstrates how a relatively liberal media environment has shaped the electoral incentives of the opposition and the pro-establishment elite differently, which has helped the latter improve its basis of electoral support. The political explanation the book puts forward seeks to shed new light on why many autocracies are interested in regularly holding elections that are considered somewhat competitive. This book will be of great interest not only to specialists in comparative studies of democratization, but also to all those concerned with Hong Kong’s democratic transition
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    ISBN: 9789401793469
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 244 p. 25 illus, online resource)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Development Economics ; Social policy ; Social Sciences
    Abstract: Developing and ‘transition’ economies face myriad challenges in their attempts to achieve and maintain political stability and foster the economic growth essential for national security, the social well-being of current citizens, and sustainable environments for future generations. Governments in the Western Balkans have striven to achieve all of the above, and this volume assesses the nature of their experiences as well as the level of their success in doing so. Featuring detailed case studies of public policy reforms in the region as well as comparative analysis on a range of indicators, the book analyzes the role of key players in setting the political agenda as well as implementing policy reforms. It also distils the lessons that can be learned from the Western Balkan experience, recommending strategies for enhancing the policy making process. In addition, it examines the developmental role played by the full spectrum of policy actors, including the private sector, NGOs, special interest groupings, international financial institutions, donor nations and the EU. Each case study has been prepared by academics with deep knowledge and experience of the western Balkans, and addresses a core set of questions: identifying the policy issue and its broader context, defining the roles of specific individuals in formulating policy and reform, and assessing the influence of networks and coalitions in the policy making process. With so little detailed literature on public policy making in a group of nations strategically positioned between Europe, Russia and the near East, the detailed insights provided by this volume will be widely welcomed. Our book provides case studies of specific public policy reform episodes in selected Western Balkan post-conflict and transition countries. The focus of these case studies extends beyond the technical aspects and entails substantive examination of the policy actors, constituencies, and politics that ultimately shape the policy that emerges from the policy making process. This analysis draws lessons for strengthening the quality of policies, the transparency, consistency, and governance of the policy making process, and ultimately for contributing to economic and social development of the region
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    ISBN: 9789400772076 , 9789400772083
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVI, 588 p. 17 illus., 11 illus. in color, online resource)
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaften ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Quality of Life / Research ; Developmental psychology ; Social Sciences ; Kindesmisshandlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kindesmisshandlung
    Note: Child Maltreatment, Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy ; 2
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    ISBN: 9789814585484
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 106 p, online resource)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social Sciences ; Asien ; Humanitäre Intervention ; Responsibility to Protect
    Abstract: This book reviews the global dilemma and tensions over whether to intervene or not to intervene in severe civil conflicts which test the validity of the new doctrine of Responsibility to Protect or R2P. It particularly assesses R2P’s relevance for Asia, which is defined broadly in this book to include West Asia or the Middle East and the region’s emergence as the most severe threat to international order in the form of the Arab Uprisings. While East Asia and South Asia have their share of situations that warrant R2P-justified interventions, it is the conflicts in West Asia that have severely tested the viability of R2P. Has this new norm been effective as a tool for international law and diplomacy? Are there prospects for a tweaking or repositioning of R2P as advocated by some scholars and governments to make the concept more acceptable to the global community, including Southeast Asia? Has the Westphalian doctrine of state sovereignty and non-intervention become superfluous as a result of the rise of R2P? Will a new doctrine of “Eastphalia” or “non-intervention with East Asian characteristics” emerge in its place, led by China as well as like-minded Asian and other states?
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    ISBN: 9789401789592
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXV, 261 p. 38 illus., 2 illus. in color, online resource)
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    Keywords: Ecology ; Environmental geology. ; Geoecology. ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Human Geography ; Physical geography.
    Abstract: In this edited volume leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration opportunities and challenges. This book explores the growing concern of how best to achieve effective integration of the social science disciplines as a means for furthering natural resource social science and environmental problem solving. The chapters provide an overview of the history, vision, advances, examples, and methods that could lead to integration. The quest for integration among the social sciences is not new. Some argue that the social sciences have lagged in their advancements and contributions to society due to their inability to address integration related issues. Integration merits debate for a number of reasons. First, natural resource issues are complex and are affected by multiple proximate driving social factors. Single disciplinary studies focused at one level are unlikely to provide explanations that represent this complexity and are limited in their ability to inform policy recommendations. Complex problems are best explored across disciplines that examine social-ecological phenomenon from different scales. Second, multi-disciplinary initiatives such as those with physical and biological scientists are necessary to understand the scope of the social sciences. Too frequently there is a belief that one social scientist on a multi-disciplinary team provides adequate social science representation. Third, more complete models of human behavior will be achieved through a synthesis of diverse social science perspectives
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    ISBN: 9789401786454
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 186 p. 22 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Lu, Xiaofei Computational methods for corpus annotation and analysis
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Computational methods for corpus annotation and analysis
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    Keywords: Translators (Computer programs) ; Applied linguistics ; Linguistics ; Korpus ; Computerlinguistik
    Abstract: In the past few decades the use of increasingly large text corpora has grown rapidly in language and linguistics research. This was enabled by remarkable strides in natural language processing (NLP) technology, technology that enables computers to automatically and efficiently process, annotate and analyze large amounts of spoken and written text in linguistically and/or pragmatically meaningful ways. It has become more desirable than ever before for language and linguistics researchers who use corpora in their research to gain an adequate understanding of the relevant NLP technology to take full advantage of its capabilities. This volume provides language and linguistics researchers with an accessible introduction to the state-of-the-art NLP technology that facilitates automatic annotation and analysis of large text corpora at both shallow and deep linguistic levels. The book covers a wide range of computational tools for lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse analysis, together with detailed instructions on how to obtain, install and use each tool in different operating systems and platforms. The book illustrates how NLP technology has been applied in recent corpus-based language studies and suggests effective ways to better integrate such technology in future corpus linguistics research. This book provides language and linguistics researchers with a valuable reference for corpus annotation and analysis.
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    ISBN: 9789400770522
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 213 p. 33 illus, online resource)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Elsenbroich, Corinna Modelling norms
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Computer simulation ; Social sciences Data processing ; Criminology ; Social sciences Methodology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Computer simulation ; Social sciences Data processing ; Criminology ; Social sciences Methodology ; Modellierung ; Methode ; Online-Ressource ; Soziale Norm ; Kriminalitätstheorie ; Modellierung
    Abstract: The book focusses on questions of individual and collective action, the emergence and dynamics of social norms and the feedback between individual behaviour and social phenomena. It discusses traditional modelling approaches to social norms and shows the usefulness of agent-based modelling for the study of these micro-macro interactions. Existing agent-based models of social norms are discussed and it is shown that so far too much priority has been given to parsimonious models and questions of the emergence of norms, with many aspects of social norms, such as norm-change, not being modelled. Juvenile delinquency, group radicalisation and moral decision making are used as case studies for agent-based models of collective action extending existing models by providing an embedding into social networks, social influence via argumentation and a causal action theory of moral decision making. The major contribution of the book is to highlight the multifaceted nature of the dynamics of social norms, consisting not only of emergence, and the importance of embedding of agent-based models into existing theory.
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionTheorising Norms -- Theorising Crime -- Agent-based Modelling -- The Environment and Social Norms -- Punishment and Social Norms -- Imitation and Social Norms -- Socially Situated Social Norms -- Internalisation and Social Norms -- Modelling Norms -- Delinquent Networks -- Social Construction of Knowledge -- Morality -- We-Intentionality -- Conclusion -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9789400742765
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXI, 636 p. 29 illus, digital)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2013
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Handbook of the sociology of mental health
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Psychiatry ; Psychology, clinical ; Consciousness ; Social Sciences ; Social psychiatry ; Mental illness ; Social aspects ; Psychische Störung ; Psychische Gesundheit ; Medizinsoziologie
    Abstract: This second edition of the Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health features theory-driven reviews of recent research with a comprehensive approach to the investigation of the ways in which society shapes the mental health of its members and the lives of those who have been diagnosed as having a mental illnessThe award-winning Handbook is distinctive in its focus on how the organization and functioning of society influences the occurrence of mental disorder and its consequences. A core issue that runs throughout the text concerns the differential distribution of mental illness across various social strata, defined by status characteristics such as gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and age. The contributions to this volume shed light on the social, cultural, and economic factors that explain why some social groups have an elevated risk of disorder. They also address the social repercussions of mental disorder for individuals, including stigmatization within the larger society, and for their families and social networks.The second edition of this seminal volume includes substantial updates to previous chapters, as well as seven new chapters on: -The Individuals Experience of Mental Illness.--The Medicalization of Mental Illness.---Age, Aging, and Mental Health.- -Religion and Mental Health.- -Neighborhoods and Mental Health.- -Mental Health and the Lawand Public Beliefs about Mental Illness.
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    ISBN: 9789400746084 , 1283633876 , 9781283633871
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 348 p. 32 illus, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Philosophy (General) ; Applied psychology ; Law Psychological aspects ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Philosophy (General) ; Applied psychology ; Law Psychological aspects ; Hautfarbe ; Bleichen ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Rassendiskriminierung
    Abstract: In the aftermath of the 60s "Black is Beautiful movement and publication of The Color Complex almost thirty years later the issue of skin color has mushroomed onto the world stage of social science. Such visibility has inspired publication of the Melanin Millennium for insuring that the discourse on skin color meet the highest standards of accuracy and objective investigation. This volume addresses the issue of skin color in a worldwide context. A virtual visit to countries that have witnessed a huge rise in the use of skin whitening products and facial feature surgeries aiming for a more Caucasian-like appearance will be taken into account. The book also addresses the question of whether using the laws has helped to redress injustices of skin color discrimination, or only further promoted recognition of its divisiveness among people of color and Whites. The Melanin Millennium has to do with now and the future. In the 20th century science including eugenics was given to and dominated by discussions of race category. Heretofore there remain social scientists and other relative to the issue of skin color loyal to race discourse. However in their interpretation and analysis of social phenomena the world has moved on. Thus while race dominated the 20th century the 21st century will emerge as a global community dominated by skin color and making it the melanin millennium.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Melanin Millennium; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: The Bleaching Syndrome: Western Civilization vis-à-vis Inferiorized People of Color; References; Chapter 2: The Historical and Cultural Influences of Skin Bleaching in Tanzania; Historical and Cultural Influences: Institutions That Placed Tanzanians in a Color-Conscious Society; Enslaved by the Arabs; Controlled by the British, Colonized by the Germans; The Cycle Continues: Postcolonization; Westernization and Neocolonialism
    Description / Table of Contents: How Color-Conscious Societies Fuel Potent Skin-Color Ideals That Result in Efforts to Assimilate into Dominant GroupsIntrapsychic Conflict and Motivation to Assimilate; The Psychological Consequences of Living in Color-Conscious Societies; Inferiority and Low Self-Esteem; Identity Development; Where to Go from Here; Research Implications; Policy and Practice Implications; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Pathophysiology and Psychopathology of Skin Bleaching and Implications of Skin Colour in Africa; Introduction; Skin Colour: Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Physiology
    Description / Table of Contents: Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)What Are the Causes of Somatoform Disorders?; The Light Skin Fad; Pathophysiology of Skin Bleaching; Mechanisms of Skin Bleaching; Trigger Factors: Psychosocial Disturbances; Exposure to Bleaching Agents; Alteration of the Skin Biochemical and Anatomical Composition; In Contemporary Africa; References; Chapter 4: An Introduction to Japanese Society's Attitudes Toward Race and Skin Color; Introduction; Historical Japanese Treatments of Foreigners, Based Upon Skin Color; Roots of the Coloring of the World: Fukuzawa Yukichi's Theories of "Civilization"
    Description / Table of Contents: The Otaru Onsens Case and Japan's Judicial Valuation of Skin ColorContemporary Japanese Media Expressions of Valuation of Skin Color; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Mapping Color and Caste Discrimination in Indian Society; Foregrounding Racism in India; Revisiting the Mythical "Aryan Supremacy"; What Scriptures Say; Aryans, Varna, and Jāti; Revisiting the Aryan Supremacy; Questioning the Aryan Supremacy Myth: Non-Brahmanical Contestations; Notion of Beauty and Contemporary Forms of Preserving White Superiority; Notions of Femininity and Beauty in India; Whitening Cream Culture; Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: ReferencesChapter 6: Indigeneity on Guahan: Skin Color as a Measure of Decolonization; Introduction; Traditional Concepts of Skin Color; The Impact of Colonization and Western Values; Indigeneity and Decolonization; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: A Tale of Two Cultures; References; Chapter 8: Where Are You From?; Introduction: The "Where Are You From?" Question; How to Answer the "Where Are You From?" Question; The Founding Migration; The Founding Origin; Melanin: An Insuperable Sign of Otherness?; Promise and Delusion of a Project?; Assimilation and Integration
    Description / Table of Contents: Ethnic Statistics in France: Wishes and Fears
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    ISBN: 9789400715189
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 414 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica, Series Founded by H.L. van Breda and Published Under the Auspices of the Husserl-Archives 206
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Schütz, Alfred, 1899 - 1959 Collected papers ; 6: Literary reality and relationships
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Linguistics ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Phenomenology ; Linguistics ; Literatur ; Interaktion
    Abstract: This book contains texts devoted by Alfred Schutz to the 'normative' areas of literature and ethics. It includes writings dealing with the author-reader relationship, multiple realities, the literary province of meaning, and Schutz's views on equality. Never published in English commentaries on Goethe's novel and the account of personality in the social world appear in this volume.
    Abstract: The three essays in this volume illuminate Alfred Schutz’s understanding of literature and literary relationships. The first, “Life Forms and Meaning Structures,” presents such ideal life-forms as duration, memory, the speaking ego, and the I in relation to the Thou. This essay also describes the fundamental nature of human experience, its pluralized realms, the passage of time, perspectival interpretation, action and its impediments-all concepts which make possible an understanding of literature and literary themes. The essay goes on to discuss opera, and the relationship between music and language in opera. The second essay, “The Problem of Personality in the Social World,” offers insights into the unity the social person achieves, temporality, and the role of the body and the importance of pragmatic relevances. This shows how, even before he arrived in the United States, Schutz went beyond his 1932 Phenomenology of the Social World in a pragmatic direction. This essay anticipates Schutz’s 1945 essay, “On Multiple Realities,” by discussing reality-spheres of working, phantasy, dreams, and theory. Reality-spheres are vital for understanding literature, as shown in the third essay, which translates for the first time two Goethe manuscripts produced by Schutz in 1948. The first text, on Lehrjahre, reveals Schutz actually interpreting a piece of literature, tracing the themes of art and life and fate and freedom through the text. The second, a commentary on Goethe’s Wanderjahre, presents an inchoate theory of literature. Defending Goethe’s 1829 version of the Wanderjahre novel, Schutz argues that critics miss the point that readers of literature adopt a specific kind of epoché in which they enter a reality-sphere governed by “the logic of the poetic event,” whose rules are not those of everyday life or theoretical contemplation. In sum, this volume brings out the distinctive character of literary reality and the relationships between author and reader, and invites the reader to derive a sense of how Schutz himself read literature.
    Description / Table of Contents: Editorial Introduction by Michael Barber -- Life Forms and Meaning Structures -- The Problem of Personality in the Social World” -- Two Goethe Texts: “Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre” (Wilhelm Meister’s Year of Apprenticeship) and “Zu Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahren” (On Wilhelm Meister’s Years of Travel).
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  • 79
    ISBN: 9781299702011 , 9789400762688
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 190 S. 36) , Ill.
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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: 9789400762503
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 296 p. 58 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Yearbook of corpus linguistics and pragmatics ... 1
    Series Statement: Yearbook of corpus linguistics and pragmatics ...
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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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  • 81
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    ISBN: 9789400761285
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 231 p. 17 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Social morphogenesis
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Konferenzschrift ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: The rate of social change has speeded up in the last three decades, but how do we explain this? This volume ventures what the generative mechanism is that produces such rapid change and discusses how this differs from late Modernity. Contributors examine if an intensification of morphogenesis (positive feedback that results in a change in social form) and a corresponding reduction in morphostasis (negative feedback that restores or reproduces the form of the social order) best captures the process involved. This volume resists proclaiming a new social formation as so many books written by empiricists have done by extrapolating from empirical data. Until we can convincingly demonstrate that a new generative mechanism is at work, it is premature to argue what accounts for the global changes that are taking place and where they will lead. More concisely we seek to answer the question whether or not current social change can be regarded as social morphogenesis. Only then, in the next volumes will the same team of authors be able to remove the question mark
    Description / Table of Contents: Social Morphogenesis; Contents; 1 Social Morphogenesis and the Prospects of Morphogenic Society; 1.1…Part 1. Social Morphogenesis and Societal Transformation?; The Rapidity of Social Change and Empiricism's Shortcomings; Social Morphogenesis: From Toolkit to Theory; Three Levels of Social Morphogenesis; Transformations of the Third-Order; References; Part I Social Morphogenesis and Societal Transformation?; 2 Morphogenesis and Social Change; 2.1…The Morphogenetic Approach; 2.2…Social Change Understood Morphogenetically; 2.3…The Morphogenetic Approach Versus the Current Conflationisms
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4…Where Are We Now?References; 3 The Morphogenetic Approach and the Idea of a Morphogenetic Society: The Role of Regularities; 3.1…The Topic: Morphogenesis from Meta-Theory to Forms of Social Order; 3.2…Morphogenesis and Regularity: Making Friends with Old Enemies?; 3.3…Duration, Pace, Trajectory, Turning Points, Transitions, and Cycles: New Bricks for the Morphogenetic Fabric; 3.4…Conclusion; References; 4 Emergence and Morphogenesis: Causal Reduction and Downward Causation?; 4.1…Emergence; Causal Reduction and Downward Causation; 4.2…Causal Reduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 Network Analysis and Morphogenesis: A Neo-Structural Exploration and Illustration
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: Social Morphogenesis and the Prospects of Morphogenic Society; Margaret S. Archer -- PART I. SOCIAL CHANGE AS MORPHOGENESIS.- Chapter 2. Morphogenesis and Social Change; Douglas V. Porpora -- Chapter 3. The Morphogenetic Approach and the Idea  of Morphogenetic Society. The Role of Regularities; Andrea M. Maccarini -- Chapter 4. Emergence and Morphognesis: Causal Reduction and Downward Causation; Tony Lawson -- Chapter 5 Morphogenesis, Continuity and Change in the International Political System; Colin Wight -- PART II. SOCIAL FORMATIONS AND THEIR RE-FORMATION -- Chapter 6. Self-Organization: What is it, What isn't it and What's it Got to Do with Morphogenesis; Kate Forbes-Pitt -- Chapter 7. Self-Organization as the Mechanism of Development and Evolution in Social Systems; Wolfgang Hofkirchner -- Chapter 8. Morphogenetic Society: Self-Government and Self-Organization as Misleading Metaphors; Maragaret S. Archer.- PART III. SOCIAL NETWORKS: LINKAGES OR BONDS -- Chapter 9. Network Analysis and Morphogenesis: A Neo-Structural Exploration and Illustration; Emmanuel Lazega -- Chapter 10. Authority's Hidden Networks: Obligations, Roles and the Morphogenesis of Authority; Ismael Al-Amoudi -- Chapter 11. Morphogenesis and Social Networks: Relational Steering not Mechanical Feedback; Pierpaolo Donati.
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  • 82
    ISBN: 9789400746534
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 306 p. 9 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Economic and political change in Asia and Europe
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Population ; Demography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Population ; Demography ; East Asia ; Economic policy ; East Asia ; Economic conditions ; East Asia ; Social policy ; East Asia ; Social conditions ; Europe ; Economic policy ; Europe ; Economic conditions ; Europe ; Social policy ; Europe ; Social conditions
    Abstract: Since the 1973 publication of Alain Peyrefittes prophetic When China Awakens, developments in East Asia have outstripped even the wildest predictions. China has undergone the fastest industrialization and urbanization process in history, yet tensions there are rising as some realize how far they have been left behind. This volume explores the applicability of European economic and social models to our analysis of East Asias and, in particular, Chinas situation. Though millions of Chinese and other Asian people have been lifted out of poverty, inequality is rising nonetheless, and contemporary Europe and Asia are both witnessing collective action against rampant economic neoliberalism in the former and the exclusion of minorities in the latter. It is difficult to overstate the relevance of this assessment, which seeks answers to some central questions: Can events in Europe serve as a model for those in East Asia? Are there similarities or differences between the two regions? To what extent do political, economic or social systems stimulate or inhibit collective action? How culturally equivalent are the collective actions of marginalized/ disadvantaged people in the two locations, or are events in Europe symptomatic of specific cultural attributes? Comparing and contrasting the research tools and dominant paradigms in the social and economic sciences in East Asia and Europe, as this volume does, throws out some revealing results.
    Description / Table of Contents: Economic and Political Change in Asia and Europe; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Appendices; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Collective Action and Relatively Powerless People in Europe and Asia; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Social and Economic Backdrops; 1.3 Recession and Social Movements; 1.4 Common Traits: Asia and Europe; 1.5 Chapter Descriptions; 1.6 Conclusion; References; Part I: Economic, Political and Social Globalization in Asia and Europe; Chapter 2: Economic Change and Social Dynamics: Converging and Diverging Trends Across Different Economies; 2.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2 Growth, Structural Change, and Macro Socioeconomic Performance by Broad World Region2.3 Economic Growth, Development, and Poverty; 2.3.1 Broad Trends in Terms of Poverty and Inequality; 2.3.2 Impact of the Recent and Current Economic Shocks; 2.4 Convergence and Equality in the EU; 2.4.1 Between-Country Economic Convergence; 2.4.2 Convergence Across Socioeconomic Groups in the EU; 2.5 The Case of Asia; 2.5.1 Convergence Across Asian Countries; 2.5.2 Convergence Across Socioeconomic Groups in Asia; 2.6 Conclusions; 2.7 Appendices
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix 2.1 List of Countries Included in the Major World Regions (See Table  2.1)Appendix 2.2 Indicators Developed (or Being Developed) by the Commission so as to Measure Social Cohesion (Sample); References; Chapter 3: European Integration, Social Cohesion, and Political Contentiousness; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The European Structure of Grievances: The Renaissance of "Old" Issues; 3.3 Social Cohesion in Europe: Spatial and Social Cleavages; 3.3.1 Social Cohesion: The Core and the Peripheries; 3.3.2 Social Cohesion and Class
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.4 Discussion and Conclusions: Social Cohesion and the Political Sociology of EuropeReferences; Chapter 4: Images and Frameworks of Collective Action in China; 4.1 Assumptions from a Western Concept; 4.2 Reconstruction of a Chinese Traditional Heritage; 4.2.1 Interpersonal Relations, Intention, Ritual, and Mankind; 4.2.2 Traces of Collectivity in Chinese History; 4.3 The Affirmative Societal Role of Collective Action; 4.3.1 Statehood, Citizens, and Welfare; 4.3.2 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Collective Action; 4.4 Collective Action with Chinese Characteristics; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: European Governance and Democracy5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Immigration and Citizenship: Building the Fortress; 5.3 Organizing the Unemployed Within the Member States; 5.4 European Marches and Alter-Globalization Movements; 5.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Agricultural Markets and Food Riots: The European Union and Asia Compared; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Main Drivers Affecting the Food System; 6.3 Prices Crisis or Food Crisis?; 6.4 Food Riots and Policy Responses; 6.5 Food Aid Policies; 6.6 Concluding Remarks; References; Part II: Social Movements in a Transnational Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7: Marginalization and Transnationalizing Movements: How Does One Relate to the Other?
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  • 83
    ISBN: 9789048189212
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXXVI, 299 p. 18 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Crime, HIV and health
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Criminology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Public health ; Criminology ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Public health ; Kriminologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Öffentliches Gesundheitswesen ; Kriminalität ; HIV ; USA ; Strafjustiz ; HIV ; Gesundheitsgefährdung
    Abstract: Carefully selected to reflect the latest research at the interface between public health and criminal justice in the US, these contributions each focus on an aspect of the relationship. How, for example, might a person's criminal activity adversely affect their health or their risk of exposure to HIV infection? The issues addressed in this volume are at the heart of policy in both public health and criminal justice. The authors track a four-fold connection between the two fields, exploring the mental and physical health of incarcerated populations; the health consequences of crime, substance abuse, violence and risky sexual behaviors; the extent to which high crime rates are linked to poor health outcomes in the same neighborhood; and the results of public health interventions among traditional criminal justice populations. As well as exploring these urgent issues, this anthology features a wealth of remarkable interdisciplinary contributions that see public health researchers focusing on crime, while criminologists attend to public health issues. The papers provide empirical data tracking, for example, the repercussions on public health of a fear of crime among residents of high-crime neighborhoods, and the correlations between HIV status and outcomes, and an individual's history of criminal activity. Providing social scientists and policy makers with vital pointers on how the criminal justice and public health sectors might work together on the problems common to both, this collection breaks new ground by combining the varying perspectives of a number of key disciplines
    Abstract: Carefully selected to reflect the latest research at the interface between public health and criminal justice in the US, these contributions each focus on an aspect of the relationship. How, for example, might a persons criminal activity adversely affect their health or their risk of exposure to HIV infection? The issues addressed in this volume are at the heart of policy in both public health and criminal justice. The authors track a four-fold connection between the two fields, exploring the mental and physical health of incarcerated populations; the health consequences of crime, substance abuse, violence and risky sexual behaviors; the extent to which high crime rates are linked to poor health outcomes in the same neighborhood; and the results of public health interventions among traditional criminal justice populations.As well as exploring these urgent issues, this anthology features a wealth of remarkable interdisciplinary contributions that see public health researchers focusing on crime, while criminologists attend to public health issues. The papers provide empirical data tracking, for example, the repercussions on public health of a fear of crime among residents of high-crime neighborhoods, and the correlations between HIV status and outcomes, and an individuals history of criminal activity. Providing social scientists and policy makers with vital pointers on how the criminal justice and public health sectors might work together on the problems common to both, this collection breaks new ground by combining the varying perspectives of a number of key disciplines.
    Description / Table of Contents: Crime, HIV and Health: Intersections of Criminal Justice and Public Health Concerns; Introduction; References; Contents; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Crime and Public Health in the United States; 1.1 Substance Use and Violence; 1.2 Vulnerable Populations, Negative Health Outcomes, and Incarceration; 1.3 Exploring Common Ground: Criminal Justice and Public Health; 1.3.1 Incarceration; 1.3.2 Health Risk Behaviors Among High-Risk Youth; 1.3.3 Crime, Health, and Space; 1.3.4 Public Health Interventions and Criminal Justice Populations; References; Part I: The Health of Incarcerated Populations
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 2: A Longitudinal Study of the Prevalence, Development, and Persistence of HIV/STI Risk Behaviors in Delinquent Youth: Implications for Health Care in the Community2.1 Methods; 2.1.1 Sampling Procedures; 2.1.2 Procedures to Obtain Assent and Consent; 2.1.3 Participants; 2.1.4 Procedures for Data Collection; 2.1.5 Measures; 2.1.6 Missing Data; 2.1.6.1 Missing Cases; 2.1.6.2 Missing Data from Interviews Conducted by Telephone; 2.1.7 Independent Variables; 2.1.8 Statistical Analysis; 2.2 Results; 2.2.1 Prevalence of HIV/STI Risk Behaviors
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2.1.1 Comparing the Baseline and Follow-up InterviewsMales; Females; 2.2.1.2 Prevalence at Follow-up; Males; Females; 2.2.1.3 Gender Differences; 2.2.1.4 Age Differences (Data Not Shown); 2.2.2 Development of HIV/STI Risk Behaviors; 2.2.2.1 Gender Differences; 2.2.2.2 Racial/Ethnic Differences; 2.2.3 Persistence of HIV/STI Risk Behaviors; 2.2.3.1 Gender Differences; 2.2.3.2 Racial/Ethnic Differences; 2.3 Discussion; 2.4 Limitations; 2.5 Conclusions; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 3: Risky Sexual Behavior and Negative Health Consequences Among Incarcerated Female Adolescents: Implications for Public Health Policy and Practice3.1 Pathways into Delinquency for Female Adolescents; 3.2 Health Service Needs and Service Gaps among Incarcerated Female Adolescents; 3.3 STD Screening and Treatment in Juvenile Detention Settings in California; 3.3.1 Profiles of Project Participants and Qualitative Findings; 3.3.2 Qualitative Findings: Condom Use; 3.3.3 Qualitative Findings: Family Life; 3.3.4 Overlap of Family Conflict, Substance Use and Risky Sexual Behaviors
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.4 DiscussionReferences; Chapter 4: Disparities in Mental Health Diagnosis and Treatment Among African Americans: Implications for the Correctional Systems; 4.1 Disparities in Mental Health Diagnoses and Treatment; 4.1.1 Anxiety; 4.1.2 Depression; 4.1.3 Bipolar Disorder; 4.1.4 Schizophrenia; 4.1.5 Treatment Disparities; 4.2 Implications for Correctional Settings; References; Part II: Health Consequences of Crime and Risk Behaviors; Chapter 5: Methamphetamine Use, Personality Traits, and High-Risk Behaviors; 5.1 Research Methods; 5.1.1 Sample Recruitment; 5.1.2 Measures; 5.2 Study Results
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.2.1 Sample
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    ISBN: 9789400761070
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 382 p. 29 illus., 4 illus. in color, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Wildlife management ; Marine Sciences ; Humanities ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Wildlife management ; Marine Sciences ; Humanities ; Fischerei ; Governance
    Abstract: Following in the footsteps of the book Fish for Life - Interactive Governance for Fisheries (Kooiman et al., 2005), and the interdisciplinary approach it presents, this volume illustrates the contribution of interactive governance theory to understanding core fisheries and aquaculture challenges. These challenges are invariably linked to broader concerns such as ecosystem health, social justice, sustainable livelihoods and food security. The central concept in this perspective is governability - the varied capacity to govern fisheries and aquaculture systems sustainably. Many of these systems are characterized by problems that are inherently 'wicked' and therefore difficult to address. The authors of this edited volume argue that responses to such problems must consider context; specifically the character of the fisheries and aquaculture systems themselves, their institutional conditions, and the internal and external interactions that affect them. Drawing on a diverse set of international experiences, the volume offers a new lens and systematic approach to analysing the nature of governance problems and opportunities in fisheries and aquaculture, exploring pressing challenges and identifying potential solutions. ”It now seems clear that the crisis in the world’s fisheries [is] a much larger and more complex problem than many had imagined. Yet, examining it through the lens of governability may offer the best hope for alleviating it--as well as alleviating similar crises in other social systems.” James R. McGoodwin (Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado)
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    ISBN: 9789400766778
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 223 p. 105 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences 11
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.: Methods for Multilevel Analysis and Visualisation of Geographical Networks
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Computer vision ; Cartography ; Social sciences Methodology ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Anthropogeografie ; Daten ; Netzwerk
    Abstract: This leading-edge study focuses on the latest techniques in analysing and representing the complex, multi-layered data now available to geographers studying urban zones and their populations. The volume tracks the successful results of the SPANGEO Project, which was set up in 2005 to standardize, and share, the syncretic, multinational mapping techniques already developed by geographers and computer scientists. SPANGEO sought new and responsive ways of visualising urban geographical and social data that reflected the fine-grained detail of the inputs. It allowed for visual representation of the large and complex networks and flows which are such an integral feature of the dynamism of urban geography. SPANGEO developed through the ‘visual analytics loop’ in which geographers collaborated with computer scientists by feeding data into the design of visualisations that in turn spawned the urge to incorporate more varied data into the visualisation. This volume covers all the relevant aspects, from conceptual principles to the tools of network analysis and the actual results flowing from their deployment. Detailed case studies set out in this volume include spatial multi-level analyses of flows in airports and sea ports, as well as the fascinating scientific networks in European cities. The volume shows how the primary concern of geography-the interaction of society with physical space-has been revivified by the complexities of new cartographical and statistical methodologies, which allow for highly detailed mapping and far more powerful computer analysis of spatial relationships
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  • 86
    ISBN: 9789400740846 , 1282056964 , 9781282056961
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Child Maltreatment, Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy 1
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. C. Henry Kempe
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Pediatrics ; Quality of Life ; Social work ; Quality of Life Research ; Developmental psychology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Public health ; Pediatrics ; Quality of Life ; Social work ; Quality of Life Research ; Developmental psychology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bibliografie ; Kindesmisshandlung ; Kempe, Charles Henry 1922-1984 ; Kindesmisshandlung ; Kempe, Charles Henry 1922-1984
    Abstract: The book series, 'Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy.' will consist of a state of the art handbook (to be revised every five years) and two to three volumes per year. The first volume in this series is a legacy to C. Henry Kempe. This is a timely publication because 2012 marks 50 years after the appearance of the foundational article by C. Henry Kempe and his colleagues, 'The Battered-Child Syndrome.' This volume capitalizes on this 50 year anniversary to stand back and assess the field from the perspective that Dr. Kempes early contributions and ideas are still being played out in practice and policy today. The volume will be released at the next ISPCAN meeting, also in 2012.
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  • 87
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    ISBN: 9789400746237
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 277 p. 51 illus., 10 illus. in color, digital)
    Series Statement: Understanding Population Trends and Processes 6
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Spatial microsimulation
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Geography ; Economics Statistics ; Quality of Life Research ; Demography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life ; Geography ; Economics Statistics ; Quality of Life Research ; Demography ; Spatial analysis (Statistics) ; Space ; Computer simulation ; Statistical matching ; Demography ; Demographie ; Räumliche Statistik ; Mikrosimulation
    Abstract: This book is a practical guide on how to design, create and validate a spatial microsimulation model. These models are becoming more popular as academics and policy makers recognise the value of place in research and policy making. Recent spatial microsimulation models have been used to analyse health and social disadvantage for small areas; and to look at the effect of policy change for small areas. This provides a powerful analysis tool for researchers and policy makers. This book covers preparing the data for spatial microsimulation; a number of methods for both static and dynamic spatial microsimulation models; validation of the models to ensure the outputs are reasonable; and the future of spatial microsimulation. The book will be an essential handbook for any researcher or policy maker looking to design and create a spatial microsimulation model. This book will also be useful to those policy makers who are commissioning a spatial microsimulation model, or looking to commission work using a spatial microsimulation model, as it provides information on the different methods in a non-technical way.
    Description / Table of Contents: Spatial Microsimulation: A Reference Guide for Users; Foreword; Contents; Part I: Background; Chapter 1: Introduction to Spatial Microsimulation: History, Methods and Applications; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 History of Spatial Microsimulation; 1.3 Applications of Spatial Microsimulation Models; 1.4 Validation of Spatial Microsimulation Models; 1.5 The Future; 1.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 2: Building a Static Spatial Microsimulation Model: Data Preparation; 2.1 Data Sources and Requirements; 2.2 Sample Scope; 2.3 Unit of Analysis; 2.3.1 Non-private Dwellings
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3.2 Non-classifiable Households2.4 Population Imputation; 2.4.1 Imputation of Child Records; 2.4.2 Imputation of a Non-private Dwelling Population; 2.5 Matching Variable Definitions in the Sample Survey and the Census; 2.6 Uprating and Deflating; 2.7 Balancing Data; 2.8 Conclusion; References; Part II: Static Spatial Microsimulation Models; Chapter 3: An Evaluation of Two Synthetic Small-Area Microdata Simulation Methodologies: Synthetic Reconstruction and Combinatorial Optimisation; 3.1 Background; 3.2 Synthetic Reconstruction and Combinatorial Optimisation Methodologies
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2.1 Synthetic Reconstruction3.2.2 Combinatorial Optimisation; 3.3 Innovations in Synthetic Reconstruction; 3.3.1 Modified Monte Carlo Sampling; 3.3.2 Statistical Justification of Reconstruction Order; 3.3.3 Modelled 100% Counts of 10% Data; 3.3.4 Improved Data Linkage; 3.3.5 Data Reconciliation; 3.4 Innovations in Combinatorial Optimisation; 3.4.1 Validated Random Number Generation; 3.4.2 Sequential Table Fitting; 3.4.3 Stratified Household Selection; 3.4.4 RSSZ*: A New Selection Criterion; 3.4.5 Stopping Rules; 3.5 Understanding Between-Area Variation; 3.5.1 Spatial Concentration
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5.2 Multicollinearity3.6 A Framework for Validating Small-Area Microdata; 3.6.1 Identification of Appropriate Measures of Fit; 3.6.2 Innovations in Types of Fit Measured; 3.7 The Impact on Combinatorial Optimisation of Selected Improvements; 3.7.1 Substitution of TAE with RSSZ *; 3.7.2 Stratified Household Selection; 3.8 Synthetic Reconstruction vs. Combinatorial Optimisation; 3.8.1 ED-Level Mean Fit; 3.8.2 ED-Level Fit of the Mean; 3.8.3 Ward-Level Fit; 3.8.4 Fit of Unconstrained Counts; 3.9 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 4: Estimating Small-Area Income Deprivation : An Iterative Proportional Fitting Approach4.1 Background; 4.2 Small-Area Income Estimation Methods; 4.3 The Iterative Proportion Fitting Approach; 4.3.1 Definition of Income; 4.3.2 Choice of Constraint Variables; 4.3.3 Small-Area IPF Algorithm Implementation; 4.4 Results; 4.5 Validation; 4.6 Conclusions and Future Directions; References; Chapter 5: SimObesity: Combinatorial Optimisation (Deterministic) Model; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Why Use Spatial Microsimulation Modelling to Model Disease Data?; 5.2.1 Why Use a Deterministic Model?
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.3 SimObesity Methodology
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Background: Chapter 1: Introduction to spatial microsimulation - History, Methods and Applications: Robert Tanton and Kimberley Edwards -- Chapter 2: Building a static spatial microsimulation model: data preparation: Rebecca Cassells, Riyana Miranti and Ann Harding -- Part 2: Static spatial microsimulation models -- Chapter 3: An Evaluation of Two Synthetic Small-Area Microdata simulation methodologies: Synthetic Reconstruction and Combinatorial Optimisation methodologies: Paul Williamson -- Chapter 4: Estimating Small Area Income Deprivation: An Iterative Proportional Fitting Approach: Ben Anderson -- Chapter 5: SimObesity: Combinatorial Optimisation (deterministic) model: Kimberley Edwards and Graham Clarke -- Chapter 6: Spatial Microsimulation using a generalised regression model: Robert Tanton, Ann Harding and Justine McNamara -- Chapter 7: Creating a Spatial Microsimulation model of the Irish Local Economy: Niall Farrell, Karyn Morrissey and Cathal O’Donoghue -- Chapter 8: Linking static spatial microsimulation modelling to meso-scale models: The Relationship between Access to GP services & Long Term Illness: Karyn Morrissey, Graham Clarke and Cathal O’Donoghue -- Chapter 9: Projections using a static Spatial Microsimulation model: Yogi Vidyattama and Robert Tanton -- Chapter 10: Limits of static Spatial Microsimulation models: Robert Tanton and Kimberley Edwards -- Part 3: Dynamic spatial microsimulation models -- Chapter 11: Moses: A dynamic spatial microsimulation model for demographic planning: Belinda Wu and Mark Birkin -- Chapter 12: Design principles for micro models: Einar Holm and Kalle Mäkilä -- Chapter 13: SimEducation: a dynamic spatial microsimulation model for understanding educational inequalities: Dimitris Kavroudakis, Dimitris Ballas and Mark Birkin -- Chapter 14: Challenges for spatial dynamic microsimulation modelling: Mark Birkin -- Part 4: Validation of spatial microsimulation models and conclusion -- Chapter 15: Validation of spatial microsimulation models: Kimberley Edwards and Robert Tanton -- Chapter 16: Conclusions and the future of spatial microsimulation modelling: Graham Clarke and Ann Harding..
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  • 88
    ISBN: 9789400749146
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 516 p. 185 illus, digital)
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Artificial intelligence ; Social sciences Methodology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Artificial intelligence ; Social sciences Methodology
    Abstract: This book provides a thorough summary of the means currently available to the investigators of Artificial Intelligence for making criminal behavior (both individual and collective) foreseeable, and for assisting their investigative capacities. The volume provides chapters on the introduction of artificial intelligence and machine learning suitable for an upper level undergraduate with exposure to mathematics and some programming skill or a graduate course. It also brings the latest research in Artificial Intelligence to life with its chapters on fascinating applications in the area of law enforcement, though much is also being accomplished in the fields of medicine and bioengineering. Individuals with a background in Artificial Intelligence will find the opening chapters to be an excellent refresher but the greatest excitement will likely be the law enforcement examples, for little has been done in that area. The editors have chosen to shine a bright light on law enforcement analytics utilizing artificial neural network technology to encourage other researchers to become involved in this very important and timely field of study.
    Description / Table of Contents: Dedication -- Preface.- Chapter 1. Introduction to Artificial Networks and Law Enforcement Analytics; William J. Tastle -- Chapter 2. Law Enforcement and Artificial Intelligence; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 3. The General Philosophy of Artificial Adaptive Systems; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 4. A Brief Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms and the Genetic Doping Algorithm; M. Buscema, M. Capriotti -- Chapter 5. Artificial Adaptive Systems in Data Visualization: Pro-Active data; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 6. The Metropolitan Police Service Central Drug Trafficking Database: Evidence of Need; Geoffrey Monaghan and Stefano Terzi -- Chapter 7. Supervised Artificial neural Networks: Back Propagation Neural Networks; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 8. Pre-Processing Tools for Non-Linear Data Sets; Massimo Buscema, Alessandra Mancini and Marco Breda -- Chapter 9. Metaclassifiers; Massimo Buscema, Stefano Terzi -- Chapter 10. Auto Identification of a Drug Seller Utilizing a Specialized Supervised Neural Network; Massimo Buscema and Marco Intraligi -- Chapter 11. Visualization and Clustering of Self-Organizing Maps; Giulia Massini -- Chapter 12. Self-Organizing Maps: Identifying Non-Linear Relationships in Massive Drug Enforcement Databases; Guila Massini -- Chapter 13. Theory of Constraint Satisfaction Neural Networks; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 14. Application of the Constraint Satisfaction Network; Marco Intraligi and Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 15. Auto-Contractive Maps, h Function and the Maximally regular Graph: A new methodology for data mining; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 16. Analysis of a Complex Dataset Using the Combined MST and Auto Contractive Map; Giovanni Pieri -- Chapter 17. Auto Contractive Mapsand Minimal Spanning tree: Organization of Complex datasets on criminal behavior to aid in the deduction of network connectivity; Giula Massini and Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 18. Data Mining Using Non-linear Auto Associative Artificial Neural Networks: The Arrestee Dataset; Massimo Buscema -- Chapter 19. Artificial Adaptive System for Parallel Querying of Multiple Databases; Massimo Buscema.-.
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    ISBN: 9789400754768 , 1283910845 , 9781283910842
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 249 p. 13 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: GeoJournal Library 106
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Architecture ; Regional economics ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Regional planning ; Architecture ; Regional economics ; Human Geography
    Abstract: There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies, planning and practices introduced under the neoliberal agenda can no longer be sustained. As this shortfall was becoming more evident among urban policymakers, planners, and researchers in different parts of the world, a group of discontent researchers began searching for new approaches to addressing the increasing vulnerabilities of urban systems in the wake of growing socio-economic and ecological problems. This book is the joint effort of those who have long felt that contemporary planning systems and policies are inadequate in preparing cities for the future in an increasingly neoliberalising world. It argues that resilience thinking can form the basis of an alternative approach to planning. Drawing upon case studies from five cities in Europe, namely Lisbon, Porto, Istanbul, Stockholm, and Rotterdam, the book makes an exploration of the resilience perspective, raising a number of theoretical debates, and suggesting a new methodological approach based on empirical evidence. This book provides insights for intellectuals exploring alternative perspectives and principles of a new planning approach
    Abstract: There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies, planning and practices introduced under the neoliberal agenda can no longer be sustained. As this shortfall was becoming more evident among urban policymakers, planners, and researchers in different parts of the world, a group of discontent researchers began searching for new approaches to addressing the increasing vulnerabilities of urban systems in the wake of growing socio-economic and ecological problems. This book is the joint effort of those who have long felt that contemporary planning systems and policies are inadequate in preparing cities for the future in an increasingly neoliberalising world. It argues that “resilience thinking” can form the basis of an alternative approach to planning. Drawing upon case studies from five cities in Europe, namely Lisbon, Porto, Istanbul, Stockholm, and Rotterdam, the book makes an exploration of the resilience perspective, raising a number of theoretical debates, and suggesting a new methodological approach based on empirical evidence. This book provides insights for intellectuals exploring alternative perspectives and principles of a new planning approach.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning: Ayda Eraydin and Tuna Taşan-Kok -- Chapter 2: “Resilience Thinking” for Planning: Ayda Eraydin -- Chapter 3: Conceptual Overview of Resilience: History and Context: Tuna Taşan-Kok, Dominic Stead and Peiwen Lu -- Chapter 4: Urban Resilience and Spatial Dynamics: Sara Santos Cruz,  João Pedro Costa, Silvia Ávila de Sousa and Paulo Pinho -- Chaper 5: Analysing the Socio-spatial Vulnerability to Drivers of Globalisation in Lisbon, Oporto, Istanbul, Stockholm and Rotterdam: Tuna Taşan-Kok and Dominic Stead -- Chapter 6: Systems, Cultures, Styles: Spatial Planning in Portugal, Turkey, Sweden and the Netherlands: Sofia Morgado and Luís Dias -- Chapter 7: Managing Urban Change in Five European Urban Agglomerations: Key Policy Documents and Institutional Frameworks: Peter Schmitt -- Chapter 8: Evaluating Resilience in Planning: Paulo Pinho, Vítor Oliveira and Ana Martins -- Chapter 9: Assessing Urban Resilience in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon: the Case of Alcântara: Luís Dias, Sofia Morgado and João Pedro Costa -- Chapter 10: Evaluating Urban Policies from a Resilient Perspective: The Case of Oporto: Vítor Oliveira, Ana Martins and Sara Santos Cruz -- Chapter 11: The Evaluation of Different Processes of Spatial Development from a Resilience Perspective in Istanbul: Ayda Eraydin, Ali Türel and Deniz Altay Kaya -- Chapter 12: Urban Resilience and Polycentricity - the Case of the Stockholm Urban Agglomeration: Peter Schmitt, Lisbeth Greve Harbo, Asli Tepecik Diş and Anu Henriksson -- Chapter 13: Urban Resilience, Climate Change and Land-Use Planning in Rotterdam: Dominic  Stead and Tuna Taşan-Kok -- Chapter 14: The Evaluation of Findings and Future of Resilience Thinking in Planning: Ayda Eraydin and Tuna Taşan-Kok -- Index..
    Note: Includes index , Introduction: Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning , "Resilience Thinking" for Planning , Conceptual Overview of Resilience: History and Context , Urban Resilience and Spatial Dynamics , Analysing the Socio-Spatial Vulnerability to Drivers of Globalisation in Lisbon, Oporto, Istanbul, Stockholm and Rotterdam , Systems, Cultures and Styles: Spatial Planning in Portugal, Turkey, Sweden and the Netherlands , Managing Urban Change in Five European Urban Agglomerations: Key Policy Documents and Institutional Frameworks , Evaluating Resilience in Planning , Assessing Urban Resilience in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon: The Case of Alcântara , Evaluating Urban Policies from a Resilience Perspective: The Case of Oporto , The Evaluation of Different Processes of Spatial Development from a Resilience Perspective in Istanbul , Urban Resilience and Polycentricity: The Case of the Stockholm Urban Agglomeration , Urban Resilience, Climate Change and Land-Use Planning in Rotterdam , The Evaluation of Findings and Future of Resilience Thinking in Planning
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    ISBN: 9789400746855
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 222 p. 7 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Religion and place
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Religion (General) ; Human Geography ; Social Sciences ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Religion ; Ort ; Politik
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  • 91
    ISBN: 9789400755963
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 108 p. 3 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Hamby, Sherry L. The web of violence
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Public health ; Quality of Life ; Social sciences Methodology ; Quality of Life Research ; Psychology, clinical ; Developmental psychology ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Public health ; Quality of Life ; Social sciences Methodology ; Quality of Life Research ; Psychology, clinical ; Developmental psychology ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Risikofaktor ; Korrelation
    Abstract: There is an increasing appreciation of the interconnections among all forms of violence. These interconnections have critical implications for conducting research that can produce valid conclusions about the causes and consequences of abuse, maltreatment, and trauma. The accumulated data on co-occurrence also provide strong evidence that prevention and intervention should be organized around the full context of individuals’ experiences, not narrowly defined subtypes of violence. Managing the flood of new research and practice innovations is a challenge, however. New means of communication and integration are needed to meet this challenge, and the Web of Violence is intended to contribute to this process by serving as a concise overview of the conceptual and empirical work that form a basis for understanding the interconnections across forms of violence throughout the lifespan. It also offers ideas and directions for prevention, intervention, and public policy.A number of initiatives are emerging to integrate the findings on co-occurrence into research and action. The American Psychological Association established a new journal, Psychology of Violence, which is a forum for research on all types of violence. Sherry Hamby is the founding editor and John Grych is associate editor and co-editor of a special issue on the co-occurrence of violence in 2012. Dr. Hamby also is a co-investigator of the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV), which has drawn attention to polyvictimization. Polyvictimization is a focus of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Defending Childhood Initiative and has recently been featured in calls for grant proposals by the Office of Victims of Crime and National Institutes for Justice.
    Description / Table of Contents: 〈p〉Chapter 1: The Case for Studying Co-Occurrence -- Chapter 2:  Tracing the Threads of the Web: The Epidemiology of Interconnections among Forms of Violence & Victimization -- Chapter 3:  The Causes of Interconnection -- Chapter 4:  A Developmental Perspective on Interconnection -- Chapter 5:  Implications for Research: Toward a more comprehensive understanding of interpersonal violence -- Chapter 6 Implications for Prevention & Intervention: A More Person-Centered Approach -- Chapter 7   Conclusion: Toppling the Silos.〈/p〉.
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  • 92
    ISBN: 9789400743847 , 1283612283 , 9781283612289
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XV, 161 p. 21 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Doling, John, 1946 - Demographic change and housing wealth
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    Keywords: Grundeigentum ; Altersvorsorge ; Sparen ; Privater Haushalt ; Vergleich ; Ostasien ; Europa ; Social sciences ; Geography ; Population ; Demography ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Geography ; Population ; Demography ; Home ownership ; Economic aspects ; European Union countries ; Home ownership ; Social aspects ; European Union countries ; Population aging ; Economic aspects ; European Union countries ; Population aging ; Social aspects ; European Union countries ; Pensions ; European Union countries ; Public welfare ; European Union countries ; Europäische Union ; Grundeigentum ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Soziale Situation ; Hauseigentümer
    Abstract: Across the EU, populations are shrinking and ageing. An increasing burden is being placed on a smaller working population to generate the taxes required for pensions and care costs. Welfare states are weakening in many countries and across Europe, households are being increasingly expected to plan for their retirement and future care needs within this risky environment. At the same time, the proportion of people buying their own home in most countries has risen, so that some two-thirds of European households now own their homes.  Housing equity now considerably exceeds total European GDP. This book discusses questions like: to what extent might home ownership provide a potential cure for some of the consequences of ageing populations by realizing housing equity in order to meet the consumption needs of older people? What does this mean for patterns of inheritance and longer-term inequalities across Europe? And to what extent are governments banking on their citizens utilising their housing wealth now and in the future?
    Description / Table of Contents: Demographic Change and Housing Wealth; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Issues and Approaches; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Demographic and Housing Developments: Policy Challenges; 1.2.1 Demographic Change; 1.2.2 An Increasing Number of Homeowners; 1.2.3 Housing Asset-Based Welfare; 1.2.3.1 Asset-Based Welfare; 1.2.3.2 Housing as Pension; 1.3 Saving Through Housing: A Theoretical Framework; 1.3.1 The Life Cycle Model; 1.3.2 The Welfare System; 1.3.3 The Family; 1.3.4 Other Mechanisms; 1.3.5 The Mixed Economy of Saving; 1.3.5.1 Financial Institutions; 1.3.6 The Role of Housing
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.3.6.1 Housing and the Life Cycle Model1.3.6.2 Income Derived from Homeownership; 1.3.7 Cross-Country Variations; 1.4 Methodologies for Researching the Three Questions; 1.4.1 Selection of Cases; 1.4.1.1 Economic and Financial Crisis; 1.5 Content and Structure of the Book; Chapter 2: Homeownership Rates; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Homeownership Across Countries and Time; 2.3 Homeownership Rates and Welfare: A Trade-Off?; 2.3.1 Homeownership and Social Spending; 2.3.2 Homeownership and Welfare Regimes; 2.4 The Drivers of the Homeownership Decision; 2.4.1 Housing Finance
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4.1.1 Funding of Mortgage Loans2.4.1.2 The Innovation in Loan Products; 2.4.2 The Relative Attractions of Home Owning and Renting; 2.4.2.1 Tax Policy and Other Subsidies for Homeownership; 2.4.2.2 Declining Support for Social Housing; 2.4.2.3 Increase of Homeownership; 2.4.2.4 Changes in Rental Housing Sectors; 2.4.2.5 Household Decision Making; 2.4.3 Household Characteristics; 2.4.3.1 Income; 2.4.3.2 Age; 2.4.4 Combining the Factors; 2.5 Conclusions; Chapter 3: Housing Wealth in the Household Portfolio; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Household Wealth; 3.2.1 How Much Wealth Do Households Have?
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2.2 How Much Wealth Is Held in Housing?3.2.3 What Influences the Size and Composition of Wealth?; 3.2.3.1 Quantitative Studies; 3.2.3.2 Qualitative studies; 3.2.3.3 Portfolio Analysis; 3.2.3.4 Regression Analysis; 3.3 Housing Debt; 3.3.1 What Influences the Size of Household Debt?; 3.3.1.1 Quantitative Studies; 3.3.1.2 Qualitative Studies; Why Do People Have a Mortgage?; Priority Placed on Paying Off Mortgage Compared to Other Priorities; 3.3.1.3 Explaining the Level of New Mortgage Debt; 3.4 Conclusions; Chapter 4: Housing Asset Strategies for Old Age; 4.1 Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2 Perceptions of the Adequacy of Pensions4.2.1 Variations in Pension Systems; 4.2.2 Concerns About Pension Adequacy; 4.3 Using Housing Equity in Old Age: Strategies in Principle; 4.4 Using Housing Equity in Old Age: Strategies in Practice; 4.4.1 Using Non-housing Assets; 4.4.2 Using Housing Equity; 4.4.3 Dissaving Housing Assets by Moving; 4.4.4 Dissaving Housing Assets but Not Moving; 4.4.4.1 Reverse Mortgages; 4.4.4.2 Interest-Only Loans; 4.4.4.3 Reverse Mortgage Strategies; 4.4.5 Not Dissaving; 4.4.5.1 Housing Equity as a Precaution; 4.4.5.2 Housing Equity as a Bequest
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.4.6 Changing Attitudes
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    ISBN: 9789048189038
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 300 p. 92 illus, digital)
    Edition: 3rd ed. 2013
    Series Statement: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis 13
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    Series Statement: Humanities, Social Science and Law
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Pol, Louis G. The demography of health and healthcare
    Keywords: Demographie ; Gesundheitswesen ; USA ; Social sciences ; Public health ; Population ; Demography ; Social Sciences
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    ISBN: 9789400767546
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 264 p, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Humanities ; Anthropology ; Consciousness ; Social Sciences ; Politische Psychologie ; Kritische Theorie
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  • 95
    ISBN: 9789400752252 , 128369817X , 9781283698177
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 186 p. 4 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 89
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kagan, Olga, 1977 - Semantics of genitive objects in Russian
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    Keywords: Russian language ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Russian language ; Semantics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Russian language ; Grammar ; Russian language ; Case ; Russisch ; Negation ; Genitiv ; Russisch ; Negation ; Genitiv
    Abstract: The genitive/accusative opposition in Slavic languages is a decades-old linguistic conundrum. Shedding new light on this perplexing object-case alternation in Russian, this volume analyzes two variants of genitive objects that alternate with accusative complements-the genitive of negation and the intensional genitive. The author contends that these variants are manifestations of the same phenomenon, and thus require an integrated analysis. Further, that the choice of case is sensitive to factors that fuse semantics and pragmatics, and that the genitive case is assigned to objects denoting properties at the same time as they lack commitment to existence.Kagan’s subtle analysis accounts for the complex relations between case-marking and other properties, such as definiteness, specificity, number and aspect. It also reveals a correlation between the genitive case and the subjunctive mood, and relates her overarching subject matter to other instances of differential object-marking.
    Description / Table of Contents: Semantics of Genitive Objects in Russian; Preface; 1 Introducing the Problem: Structural Case Alterations; 2 Outline of the Book; 3 Methodology, Data and Judgments; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Non-Canonical Genitive: How Many Cases?; 1.1 Genitive Objects and the Inherent/Structural Distinction; 1.2 Three Subtypes of Non-canonical Genitive Case; 1.2.1 Partitive Genitive; 1.2.2 Genitive of Negation; 1.2.3 Intensional Genitive; 1.3 Reorganization of the Subtypes of Non-canonical Genitive; 1.3.1 The Organization of Non-canonical Genitive in Previously Proposed Accounts
    Description / Table of Contents: 1.3.2 Genitive of Negation and Intensional Genitive as a Single Phenomenon1.3.2.1 Genitive/Accusative Alternation; 1.3.2.2 Native Speakers´ Judgments; 1.3.2.3 Semantic Properties That Affect Case-Assignment; 1.3.2.4 Licensing Operators; 1.3.2.5 GenNeg and Intensional Genitive Cross-Linguistically; 1.3.2.6 Genitive of Negation and Intensional Genitive: A Summary; 1.3.3 Irrealis Genitive as Opposed to Partitive Genitive; 1.3.3.1 Properties of the NP; 1.3.3.2 Verbal Aspect; 1.3.3.3 Second Genitive; 1.3.3.4 Cross-Linguistic Data; 1.3.4 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 2: Previously Proposed Accounts2.1 The Configurational Approach; 2.1.1 Bailyn (1997); 2.1.2 Harves (2002a, b); 2.1.3 Configurational Approach: The Shortcomings; 2.1.3.1 Unaccusativity Hypothesis; 2.1.3.2 Not All Passive and Unaccusative Verbs License GenNeg; 2.1.3.3 GenNeg Assignment to Specific and Definite NPs; 2.1.3.4 Further Shortcomings; 2.2 The Empty Quantifier Approach; 2.2.1 Syntactic Approaches; 2.2.1.1 Pesetsky (1982); 2.2.1.2 Bailyn (2004); 2.2.2 Semantic Approaches; 2.2.2.1 Pereltsvaig (1998, 1999); 2.2.2.2 The [+/-Q] Feature: Neidle (1988)
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3 Perspectival Center: Borschev and Partee2.4 Intermediary Conclusion; 2.5 Unaccusativity Hypothesis; References; Chapter 3: Subjunctive Mood and the Notion of Commitment; 3.1 Subjunctive Mood: An Introduction; 3.2 Farkas (2003): The [+/-Decided] Feature; 3.2.1 The Choice of Mood; 3.2.2 Classes of Propositional Attitude Predicates; 3.2.2.1 Epistemic Predicates; 3.2.2.2 Fiction Predicates; 3.2.2.3 Desiderative Predicates; 3.2.2.4 Directive Predicates; 3.2.2.5 A Note on Weak Intensional Predicates; 3.2.2.6 Subjunctive Mood and the [+Decided] Feature
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.2.3 Subjunctive Mood in Other Environments3.2.3.1 Counterfactual Conditionals; 3.2.3.2 Imperative Sentences; 3.2.3.3 Exclamative Sentences; 3.2.3.4 Negation; 3.2.4 A Summary; References; Chapter 4: Irrealis Genitive: Formulating the Analysis; 4.1 Non-semantic Factors; 4.1.1 Variation in Judgments and Dialects; 4.1.2 Register; 4.1.3 Idiosyncratic Properties of Verbs; 4.2 Analysis; 4.2.1 Property Type; 4.2.2 Existential Commitment; 4.2.3 Relating Semantic Type to EC; References; Chapter 5: Irrealis Genitive and Relative Existential Commitment: Part 1; 5.1 Preview: The Importance of REC
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.2 Case-Assignment and the Strong/Weak Distinction
    Description / Table of Contents: ​ Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface . 1. Introducing the Problem: Structural Case Alterations . 2. Outline of the Book . 3. Methodology, Data and Judgments -- Chapter 1. 1.1 Genitive Objects and the Inherent/Structural Distinction --  Chapter 2. 2.1. The Configurational Approach -- Chapter 3. 3.1. Subjunctive Mood: An Introduction -- Chapter 4. 4.1. Non-Semantic Factors . Chapter 5. 5.1. Preview: The Importance of REC -- Chapter 6. 6.1. Irrealis Genitive in Negative Contexts -- Chapter 7. 7.1. Aspect and Number Affect Case-Assignment -- Chapter 8. 8.1. Differential Object Marking -- Conclusion -- Bibliography..
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  • 96
    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: 9789400744738
    ISSN: 1389-6903
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 406 p. 32 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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    Parallel Title: Druck-Ausg. Franks, David D., 1931 - Handbook of neurosociology
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Neurology ; Psychology, clinical ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Neurology ; Psychology, clinical ; Neurosciences ; Social aspects ; Neurowissenschaften ; Soziologie ; Neurobiologie ; Neurologie ; Soziologie
    Abstract: Until recently, a handbook on neurosociology would have been viewed with skepticism by sociologists, who have long been protective of their disciplinary domain against perceived encroachment by biology. But a number of developments in the last decade or so have made sociologists more receptive to biological factors in sociology and social psychology. Much of this has been encouraged by the coeditors of this volume, David Franks and Jonathan Turner. This new interest has been increased by the explosion of research in neuroscience on brain functioning and brain-environment interaction (via new MRI technologies), with implications for social and psychological functioning. This handbook emphasizes the integration of perspectives within sociology as well as between fields in social neuroscience. For example, Franks represents a social constructionist position following from G.H. Meads voluntaristic theory of the act while Turner is more social structural and positivistic. Furthermore, this handbook not only contains contributions from sociologists, but leading figures from the psychological perspective of social neuroscience.
    Description / Table of Contents: Handbook of Neurosociology; Preface; References; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: Summaries and Comments; David Franks: A Short History; Brain Activity Measures and Limitations; Jonathan H. Turner: Coming on Board as an Editor; What Does Neurosociology Have to Offer?; References; Part I: Large Issues; Chapter 2: Neural Social Science; Reason Is Neural; Back to the Future; How Brain Circuits Become Meaningful; Reason and Social Science; Reason Itself: Enlightenment Fallacies; The Enlightenment Fallacies; The First Fallacy: Reason Is Conscious
    Description / Table of Contents: The Second Fallacy: One Can Reason Directly About the WorldThe Third Fallacy: Thought Is Disembodied; The Fourth Fallacy: Words Are Defined Directly in Terms of Features of the External World; The Fifth Fallacy: Reason Is Unemotional; The Sixth Fallacy: Reason Is Literal and Logical; The Seventh Fallacy: Categories Are Defined by Necessary and Sufficient Conditions; The Eighth Fallacy: Reason Exists Primarily to Serve Self-interest; The Ninth Fallacy: Conceptual Systems Are Monolithic; The Tenth Fallacy: Words Have Fixed Meanings, and Concepts Have Fixed Logics
    Description / Table of Contents: The Eleventh Fallacy: The Truth Will Set You Free If Enough People Know the Truth About Social Issues, They Will Change Their Attitudes, to Society's Bene fi t; Some Brain Basics; Color; Perception and Action; That's Why There Are Basic-Level Concepts; That's Why Verb Roots Are the Same for First- and Third-Person Experiences; Imagining and Doing Use the Same Brain Circuitry; Neural Computation and Simulation; The Centrality of Metaphor in Social Life; Neural Metaphor; The Narayanan-Johnson-Grady Neural Theory of Metaphor; How Are Neural Circuits Learned?
    Description / Table of Contents: The Feldman Functional Circuitry HypothesisPrimary Metaphors; Narayanan on Spike-Time-Dependent Plasticity; Neuromodulators and "Rewards"; Integrating Multiple Neural Systems; Embodiment Evidence in Social Psychology; Real Social and Political Life; The Conservative Advantage; What Can Progressives and Democrats Do?; Systems Thinking; The Point; CODA; Solving a Social Science Puzzle; References; Chapter 3: Why We Need Neurosociology as Well as Social Neuroscience: Or-Why Role-Taking and Theory of Mind Are Different Concepts; History of the Terms Neurosociology and Social Neuroscience
    Description / Table of Contents: Distinguishing Between the Two Fields Using Role-Taking and ToMSome Ways Role-Taking and Power Can be Explored Experimentally; What Social Neuroscience Can Offer Sociological Research on Role-Taking and Power; Empirically Testing the Role-Taking and Power Hypothesis; Conclusions; References; Chapter 4: Social Cognition and the Problem of Other Minds; Where in the World Are Minds?; The Psychology of Individual Minds; Social Psychology and Social Cognition; What Do Minds Learn to Mind?; Brains and Minds Grow Together; Socialized Brains Remain Social Minds; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: Genetic, Hormonal, and Neural Underpinnings of Human Aggressive Behavior
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    ISBN: 9789400744295 , 1283532646 , 9781283532648
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VII, 266 p. 1 illus, digital)
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Transactional perspectives on occupation
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Occupational Therapy ; Social Sciences ; Social sciences ; Occupational Therapy ; Transactional Analysis ; Occupational Therapy methods ; Occupations ; Philosophy ; Beschäftigungstherapie
    Abstract: An occupation is, most simply put, any activity we participate in that engages (occupies) our attention, interests, and/or expectations, at any point throughout the life course. This book offers an emerging and innovative perspective on occupation, based in the work of American philosopher John Dewey and other pragmatists, that challenges accepted ideas. Each chapter presents a lively and multifaceted dialogue on transactional perspectives on occupation. Scholars from Europe, North America, and Australasia have written a diverse set of arguments and case studies about occupation, covering theoretical, methodological and applied issues relevant to the topic. In addition, contributors make connections with significant authors from various disciplines that make clearer the roles of occupation and occupational science across many cultures and contexts. The transactional perspectives articulated in this book both implicitly and explicitly suggest that occupations are forms of activity that create and re-create a multitude of our relationships with the world. Often taken for granted by some academic disciplines, occupation is a core element of human life. This book is a provocative and critical analysis of the focal concept for occupational therapy and science.
    Description / Table of Contents: Transactional Perspectives on Occupation; Contents; Chapter 1: Transactional Perspectives on Occupation: An Introduction and Rationale; 1.1 Introduction and Invitation; 1.2 Development of Transactional Perspectives on Occupation; 1.3 A Pluralistic Approach; 1.4 Structure and Content of the Book; 1.5 Our Hopes; References; Part I: Theoretical Extensions; Chapter 2: Dewey's Concepts of Embodiment, Growth, and Occupation: Extended Bases for a Transactional Perspective; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Embodiment; 2.2.1 Live Creatures; 2.2.2 Embodying the Social; 2.3 Growth; 2.4 Occupation
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4.1 Dewey on Occupation2.4.2 Occupation, Embodiment, and Growth; 2.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Being Occupied in the Everyday; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Habitual; 3.3 The Relational; 3.3.1 Continuity of Time: Past-Present-Future; 3.3.2 Continuity of Relating: Being-with-Others; 3.4 The Precarious; 3.5 Occupational Practice as Listening; 3.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Resituating the Meaning of Occupation: A Transactional Perspective; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Meaning Explored; 4.2.1 Social Science Perspectives on Meaning; 4.2.2 Occupational Perspectives on Meaning
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.2.3 Philosophical Perspectives on Meaning: Heidegger and Dewey4.3 Perspectives on Meaning Uncovered by Research; 4.4 Implications for Occupational Therapy and Science; 4.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Conceptual Insights for Expanding Thinking Regarding the Situated Nature of Occupation; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Governmentality Studies: Shaping Occupational Possibilities; 5.2.1 Discourses; 5.2.2 Differential Shaping of Occupational Possibilities; 5.3 Bourdieu's Theory of Practice: Voicing the Unspoken; 5.3.1 Makane: A Case in Point; 5.4 Conclusion; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 6: Exploring the Transactional Quality of Everyday Occupations Through Narrative-in-Action: Meaning-Making Among Women Living with Chronic Conditions6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Everyday Occupations as Transactions Within Local Cultures; 6.3 "Narrative-in-Action": Meaning Making Endeavors; 6.4 Everyday Transactions, Meaning Making in Everyday Occupations; 6.5 Everyday Transactions in Local Cultures; 6.6 Everyday Occupational Transactions Enacted and Embedded in Local Culture; References; Part II: Case Studies; Chapter 7: Navigating Cultural Spaces: A Transactional Perspective on Immigration
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.1 Introduction7.2 Current Perspectives on Immigration and Settlement; 7.3 A Transactional Perspective on Immigration and Settlement; 7.3.1 Navigating Cultural Spaces: A Case Study; 7.4 Implications for Science and Society; 7.4.1 Occupational Science Research; 7.4.2 Societal Practice; 7.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: The Situated Nature of Disability; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Conceptualizing Disability: An Overview of Recent Controversies; 8.2.1 The International Classi fi cation of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
    Description / Table of Contents: 8.3 Research Projects: Support for the Transactional Perspective on Disability
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    ISBN: 9789400749603
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 301 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Studies in Morphology 2
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Ralli, Angela Compounding in Modern Greek
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    Abstract: One of the core challenges in linguistics is elucidating compounds-their formation as well as the reasons their structure varies between languages. This book on Modern Greek rises to the challenge with a meticulous treatment of its diverse, intricate compounds, a study as grounded in theory as it is rich in data. Enhancing our knowledge of compounding and word-formation in general, its exceptional scope is a worthy model for linguists, particularly morphologists, and offers insights for students of syntax, phonology, dialectology and typology, among others.The author examines first-tier themes such as the order and relations of constituents, headedness, exocentricity, and theta-role saturation. She shows how Modern Greek compounding relates to derivation and inflection, and charts the boundaries between compounds and phrases. Exploring dialectically variant compounds, and identifying historical changes, the analysis extends to similarly formed compounds in wholly unrelated languages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Compounding in Modern Greek; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; References; Chapter 2: Defining a Greek Compound; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Greek as a Stem-Based Language; 2.3 In Search of a Definition; 2.3.1 Single Stress; 2.3.2 Bound Constituents; 2.3.3 Structural Position; 2.3.4 Linking Element; 2.3.5 Semantic Opacity; 2.3.6 Lexical Integrity; 2.3.7 Graphic Unity; 2.3.8 Compounds Versus Syntactic Constructions; 2.4 Summary; References; Chapter 3: Grammatical Category and Constituents; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Nouns; 3.3 Adjectives; 3.4 Verbs
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.5 Other Categories3.5.1 Adverbs; 3.5.2 Compounds with a Pronoun or a Cardinal Number; 3.6 Summary; References; Chapter 4: Compound Marking; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Properties; 4.2.1 Stem-Driven Presence; 4.2.2 Lexically Marked Absence; 4.3 Linking Elements Cross-Linguistically; 4.4 Previous Analyses; 4.5 Morphological Status; 4.6 The Parameter of Overtly Expressed Paradigmatic Inflection; 4.7 Position; 4.8 The Morphological-Category Parameter; 4.9 Origin; 4.10 Summary; References; Chapter 5: Stress and Morphological Structure; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Type of Inflection
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.3 The Position of Stress5.4 Special Categories; 5.4.1 Verbal Compounds; 5.4.2 Compounds Ending in a Derived Item; 5.4.3 Neuters in -i; 5.5 More Compound Structures; 5.6 Recursion in Compounding; 5.7 Summary; References; Chapter 6: Headedness and Classification; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Classification; 6.3 Headedness; 6.3.1 The Notion of Head; 6.3.2 Position; 6.3.3 Exocentricity; 6.4 Summary; References; Chapter 7: Constraints, Allomorphy and Form of Compound Constituents; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 The Bare-Stem Constraint; 7.2.1 Apparent Counter Examples; 7.3 Allomorphy
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.3.1 Allomorphy in Compounding7.3.2 Allomorphs of Ancient Greek Origin; 7.4 Compound Types; 7.4.1 -Learned Compound Constituents; 7.4.2 +Learned Compound Constituents; 7.4.3 Mixed Types; 7.5 Summary; References; Chapter 8: Coordinative Compounds; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 What Is a Coordinative Compound?; 8.3 Classification; 8.4 Headedness; 8.5 Historical Development; 8.6 Coordinative Compounds in Modern Greek Dialects; 8.7 Summary; References; Chapter 9: Verbal and Deverbal Compounds; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Categories; 9.2.1 Exocentric Formations; 9.2.2 Endocentric Formations
    Description / Table of Contents: 9.3 Compound-Internal Theta-Role Saturation9.4 Configurations; 9.5 Meaning; 9.6 Summary; References; Chapter 10: Deverbal Compounds with Bound Stems; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 State of the Art; 10.3 Compounds or Derived Words?; 10.4 Grammatical Category of Bound Stems; 10.5 Headedness and Restrictions; 10.6 Productivity; 10.7 Summary; References; Chapter 11: Compounding Versus Derivation and Inflection; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Compounding Versus Derivation; 11.2.1 Order of Application; 11.2.2 Affixoids; 11.3 Compounding Versus Inflection; 11.4 Summary; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 12: Compounds Versus Phrases
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Tables -- Introduction -- Defining a Greek compound -- 2. Grammatical category and constituents -- 3. Compound marking -- 4. Stress and morphological structure -- 5. Headedness and classification -- 6. Constraints, allomorphy and form of constituents -- 7. Coordinative compounds -- 8. Verbal and deverbal compounds -- 9. Deverbal compounds with bound stems -- 10. Compounding versus derivation and inflection -- 11. Compounds versus phrases -- Appendix I  Greek: a brief history . Periodization . Geography - Dialectal variation . References -- Appendix II Greek inflection: an overview . Verbal inflection . Nominal inflection . References -- Appendix III List of compounds -- Subject Index..
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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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