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The first book to provide a clear, accessible, user-friendly
introduction to the area of ethics in translation and interpreting
*ethics is widely taught within translation and interpreting
courses, being a key competence for the European Masters of
Translation framework and a vital aspect of professional practice
*carefully structured with a strong range of in-text and online
resources, ensuring it can be used in a wide range of contexts and
teaching environments, including online teaching
Many writers dream of having their work published by a respected
publishing house, but don't always understand publishing contract
terms - what they mean for the contracting parties and how they
inform book-publishing practice. In turn, publishers struggle to
satisfy authors' creative expectations against the industry's
commercial demands. This book challenges our perceptions of these
author-publisher power imbalances by recasting the publishing
contract as a cultural artefact capable of adapting to the
industry's changing landscape. Based on a three-year study of
publishing negotiations, Katherine Day reveals how relational
contract theory provides possibilities for future negotiations in
what she describes as a 'post negotiation space'. Drawing on the
disciplines of cultural studies, law, publishing studies and
cultural sociology, this book reveals a unique perspective from
publishing professionals and authors within the post negotiation
space, presenting the editor as a fundamental agent in the
formation and application of publishing's contractual terms.
Marking the 50th anniversary of one among this philosopher’s most
distinguished pieces, Blumenberg’s Rhetoric proffers a decidedly
diversified interaction with the essai polyvalently entitled
‘Anthropological Approach to the Topicality (or Currency,
Relevance, even actualitas) of Rhetoric’ ("Anthropologische
Annäherung an die Aktualität der Rhetorik"), first published in
1971. Following Blumenberg’s lead, the contributors consider and
tackle their topics rhetorically—treating (inter alia) the
variegated discourses of Phenomenology and Truthcraft, of
Intellectual History and Anthropology, as well as the interplay of
methods, from a plurality of viewpoints. The diachronically
extensive, disciplinarily diverse essays of this
publication—notably in the current lingua franca—will
facilitate, and are to conduce to, further scholarship with respect
to Blumenberg and the art of rhetoric. With contributions by Sonja
Feger, Simon Godart, Joachim Küpper, DS Mayfield, Heinrich
Niehues-Pröbsting, Daniel Rudy Hiller, Katrin Trüstedt, Alexander
Waszynski, Friedrich Weber-Steinhaus, Nicola Zambon.
The continuing importance of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin
American culture. The Hispanic Baroque is a Janus-faced phenomenon,
one of its faces peering at the sunset of feudalism, the other at
the dawn of European modernity. This collection of essays seeks to
engage with this paradox and its consequencesfor understanding
Spanish and Latin American literary and cultural history. Conceived
in response to Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria's influential
Celestina's Brood: Continuities of the Baroque in Spain and Latin
America, and spanning many years of Beverley's own intellectual
trajectory, it includes material already in the public domain,
together with much that is new, previously unpublished or long
unavailable. An Introduction outlines the ongoing scholarly
discussion about the nature of the Baroque in both Spain and
Spanish America. The essays deal respectively with Luis de
Gongora's Soledades; the picaresque novel; the Baroque pastoral;
Gracian's theory of "wit" andthe equation of wit and power; and the
relation among Baroque writing, colonial hegemony, and the
formation of a criollo culture in Spanish America. A section on
Baroque historicism suggests some ways of using the Baroqueto
reflect on our contemporary situation, and the volume concludes
with a wide-ranging conversation about the Baroque and Hispanism
between the author and Fernando Gomez Herrero, a young scholar
strongly influenced by postcolonialstudies. JOHN BEVERLEY is
Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature and Cultural
Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
Historical Imagination examines the threshold between what
historians consider to be proper, imagination-free history and the
malpractice of excessive imagination, asking where the boundary
between the two sits and the limits of permitted imagination for
the historian. We use "imagination" to refer to a mental skill that
encompasses two different tasks: the reconstruction of previously
experienced parts of the world and the creation of new objects and
experiences with no direct connection to the actual world. In
history, imagination means using the mind's eye to picture both the
actual and inactual at the same time. All historical works employ
at least some creative imagination, but an excess is considered
"too much". Under what circumstances are historians permitted to
cross this boundary into creative imagination and how far can they
go? Supporting theory with relatable examples, Staley shows how
historical works are a complex combination of mimetic and creative
imagination and offers a heuristic for assessing this ratio in any
work of history. Setting out complex theoretical concepts in an
accessible and understandable manner and encouraging the reader to
consider both the nature and limits of historical imagination, this
is an ideal volume for students and scholars of the philosophy of
history.
Ancient graphs provided to illustrate early meanings and extended
meanings Reconstructed sounds given to illustrate the basis for
borrowed meanings Parts of speech and syntactic components
illustrated for each usage Detailed explanations of special usage
and pronunciation Contextual examples to illustrate usage and show
connections to contemporary culture
We live in an era of economic fabling where often fantastic
representations of economic life in popular culture sit
uncomfortably alongside a neoliberal capitalist fairy tale that the
Earth's resources can continue to be exploited into an indefinite
future. This book examines a variety of animated movies, TV shows,
written fictions, adventure travelogues, Paleo archeologies (and
diets) to suggest that popular culture poses a multiform challenge
to the failing theories and practices of neoclassical economics.
Popular Culture and Political Economic Thought: Fables of
Commonwealth contends that it does so most successfully by
implementing older formations of political economic thought: stages
theory, bioeconomics, and a robust discourse on commonwealth. An
era of eco-crisis demands a new economics. It therefore also
requires a new appraisal of the popular imaginary and its potential
for leveraging alternative conceptions of economic and political
relations. This book begins that conversation.
An engaging and comprehensive introduction to discourse analysis
ideal for undergraduate students studying this topic for the first
time Covers four key approaches to analysing discourse Uses
authentic spoken or written texts in all examples Features data
from the Wellington Language in the Workplace database Includes a
wide range of language examples from around the world
Linguistic Morphology is a unique collection of cutting-edge
research in the psycholinguistics of morphology, offering a
comprehensive overview of this interdisciplinary field. This book
brings together world-leading experts from linguisics, experimental
psychology and cognitive neuroscience to examine morphology
research from different disciplines. It provides an overview of how
the brain deals with complex words; examining how they are easier
to read, how they affect our brain dynamics and eye movements, how
they mould the acquisition of language and literacy, and how they
inform computational models of the linguistic brain. Chapters
discuss topics ranging from subconscious visual identification to
the high-level processing of sentences, how children make their
first steps with complex words through to how proficient adults
make lexical identification in less than 40 milliseconds. As a
state-of-the-art resource in morphology research, this book will be
highly relevant reading for students and researchers of
linguistics, psychology and cognitive neuroscience. It will also
act as a one-stop shop for experts in the field.
During the early modern period, regional specified compendia -
which combine information on local moral and natural history, towns
and fortifications with historiography, antiquarianism, images
series or maps - gain a new agency in the production of knowledge.
Via literary and aesthetic practices, the compilations construct a
display of regional specified knowledge. In some cases this display
of regional knowledge is presented as a display of a local cultural
identity and is linked to early modern practices of comparing and
classifying civilizations. At the core of the publication are
compendia on the Americas which research has described as
chorographies, encyclopeadias or - more recently - 'cultural
encyclopaedias'. Studies on Asian and European encyclopeadias,
universal histories and chorographies help to contextualize the
American examples in the broader field of an early modern and
transcultural knowledge production, which inherits and modifies the
ancient and medieval tradition.
This lively and engaging text introduces readers to the core
interpersonal and organizational skills needed to effectively
collaborate on group projects in the classroom and the workplace.
Group projects are critical in preparing students for the realities
of today's workplace, but many college students despise group
work-often because they have not been prepared with the necessary
skills to effectively collaborate. This guide teaches core
collaboration skills such as active listening, interviewing,
empathy, and conflict resolution. It examines the research and
theory behind these skills, and provides tangible ways to practice
these skills both alone and in groups. This guide can be used a
supplementary text for any courses involving group projects, and
will also be of interest to professionals in communication,
business, and many other fields.
Loanwords and Japanese Identity: Inundating or Absorbed? provides
an in-depth examination of public discussions on lexical borrowing
in the Japanese language. The main objective of this book is to
explore the relationship between language and identity through an
analysis of public attitudes towards foreign loanwords in
contemporary Japanese society. In particular, the book uncovers the
process by which language is conceived of as a symbol of national
identity by examining an animated newspaper controversy over the
use of foreign loanwords. The book concludes that the fierce debate
over the use of loanwords can be understood as a particular
manifestation of the ongoing (re-)negotiation of Japanese national
identity. This book will appeal to scholars and students in
sociolinguistics, translation studies, and discourse analysis,
while its cultural and geographic focus will attract readers in
Japanese studies and East Asian studies.
This open access book addresses the protection of privacy and
personality rights in public records, records management,
historical sources, and archives; and historical and current access
to them in a broad international comparative perspective.
Considering the question "can archiving pose a security risk to the
protection of sensitive data and human rights?", it analyses data
security and presents several significant cases of the misuse of
sensitive personal data, such as census data or medical records. It
examines archival inflation and the minimisation and reduction of
data in public records and archives, including data anonymisation
and pseudonymisation, and the risks of deanonymisation and
reidentification of persons. The book looks at post-mortem privacy
protection, the relationship of the right to know and the right to
be forgotten and introduces a specific model of four categories of
the right to be forgotten. In its conclusion, the book presents a
set of recommendations for archives and records management.
First published in 2013. An unabashed and accurate translation of
the wonderful and enchanting tales of the Arabian Nights, complete
in four volumes.
"A valuable contribution to understanding and interpreting a
visually and philosophical ambitious and at the same time
provocatively eccentric film maker."--"German Studies Review"
This book offers both a scholarly and practical overview of an
integrated language and literature approach in the 16-19 English
classroom. Providing a comprehensive overview of the identity of
the subject, it outlines the pedagogical benefits of studying a
unified English at post-16 and provides case studies of innovative
classroom practice across a range of topics and text types.
Including contributions from practising teachers and higher
education practitioners with extensive experience of the post-16
classroom and drawing on a range of literature, this book covers
the teaching of topics such as: Mind style in contemporary fiction
Comparative poetry analysis Insights from linguistic cohesion
Criticality through creative response Written to complement the two
other Teaching English 16-19 titles in the NATE series, Teaching
English Language and Literature 16-19 is the ideal companion for
all practising A-level English teachers, of all levels of
experience.
Special Focus: "Omission", edited by Patrick Gill Throughout
literary history and in many cultures, we encounter an astute use
of conspicuous absences to conjure an imagined reality into a
recipient's mind. The term 'omission' as used in the present study,
then, demarcates a common artistic phenomenon: a silence, blank, or
absence, introduced against the recipient's generic or experiential
expectations, but which nonetheless frequently encapsulates the
tenor of the work as a whole. Such omissions can be employed for
their affective potential, when emotions represented or evoked by
the text are deemed to be beyond words. They can be employed to
raise epistemological questions, as when an omission marks the
limits of what can be known. Ethical questions can also be
approached by means of omissions, as when a character's voice is
omitted, for instance. Finally, omission always carries within it
the potential to reflect on the media and genres on which it is
brought to bear: as its efficacy depends on the recipient's generic
expectations, omission is frequently characterized by a high degree
of meta-discursiveness. This volume investigates the various
strategies with which the phenomenon of omission is employed across
a range of textual forms and in different cultures to conclusively
argue for its status as a highly effective and near-universal form
of artistic signification.
This book offers readers a collection of 50 short chapter entries
on topics in the philosophy of language. Each entry addresses a
paradox, a longstanding puzzle, or a major theme that has emerged
in the field from the last 150 years, tracing overlap with issues
in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, ethics, political
philosophy, and literature. Each of the 50 entries is written as a
piece that can stand on its own, though useful connections to other
entries are mentioned throughout the text. Readers can open the
book and start with almost any of the entries, following themes of
greatest interest to them. Each entry includes recommendations for
further reading on the topic. Philosophy of Language: 50 Puzzles,
Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments is useful as a standalone
textbook, or can be supplemented by additional readings that
instructors choose. The accessible style makes it suitable for
introductory level through intermediate undergraduate courses, as
well as for independent learners, or even as a reference for more
advanced students and researchers. Key Features: Uses a
problem-centered approach to philosophy of language (rather than
author- or theory-centered) making the text more inviting to
first-time students of the subject. Offers stand-alone chapters,
allowing students to quickly understand an issue and giving
instructors flexibility in assigning readings to match the themes
of the course. Provides up-to-date recommended readings at the end
of each chapter, or about 500 sources in total, amounting to an
extensive review of the literature on each topic.
Combining theory with practical application, this collection of
real-life, provocative case studies on social issues in sports
provides students with the opportunity to make the call on ethical
and professional dilemmas faced by a variety of sport and
communication professionals. The case studies examine the successes
and failures of communication in the corporate culture of sport
intersecting with social issues including race, gender, religion,
social media, mass media, public health, and LGBTQ+ issues. Topics
include the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement,
sexual abuse scandals, domestic violence, cultural appropriation,
and mental health. Each chapter contextualizes a specific issue,
presents relevant theory and practical communication principles,
and leads into discussion questions to prompt critical reflection.
The book encourages students to view the evidence themselves,
consider competing ethical and professional claims, and formulate
practical responses. This collection serves as a scholarly text for
courses in sport communication, business, intercultural
communication, public relations, journalism, media studies, and
sport management.
Ancient graphs provided to illustrate early meanings and extended
meanings Reconstructed sounds given to illustrate the basis for
borrowed meanings Parts of speech and syntactic components
illustrated for each usage Detailed explanations of special usage
and pronunciation Contextual examples to illustrate usage and show
connections to contemporary culture
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