In the long tradition of the anti-hero in English literature, award-winning author Daniel Jacob has created a whole bunch of them - each able to stand shoulder to shoulder with a Flashman or anyone from the pages of a Waugh novel. With the touch of a Tom Sharpe for grand farce, the grotesque Crooke-Wells siblings trace their mean, mendacious and downright nasty steps through a series of plots and pitfalls in their attempt to accumulate unearned and entirely unmerited wealth. Standing like a beacon in this sea of iniquity is the mother, whose string of illicit love affairs seems positively honest by comparison. This is the story of an upper-crust English family which is part of a sub-group known as The Hereditary Rich. Beautifully written and splendidly wicked, The Silence of the Shaggy Rug is not for the faint-hearted or politically correct.

This volume explores the interface between linguistics and literary studies. Theoretical and textual analyses help illustrate the common features between everyday discourse and literature, and show the potentials for a collaborative approach between literary scholars and linguists in understanding speech acts and reference; inference, cognitive and cultural background; rhetoric, styles of speaking and writing; as well as perspectives and genres.

This edited volume helps bridge the elusive gap between theory and practice in dealing with the issue of "security" broadly conceived. A quarter of a century has passed since the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. Yet our notions of security remain mired in Cold War thinking whose realist ethos is predicated on holding the nation state's power, interests, and survival as the guiding unit of analysis in international relations. Security is ever changing. Confronting new dangers to the individual, the state, and the international order calls for new categories that speak to the new influence of globalization, international institutions, and transnational threats. Composed of original essays by a cosmopolitan mix of leading figures inside and outside the academy, this book proves relevant to any number of classes and courses, and its controversial character makes it all the more necessary and appealing.

The analytic literature has heretofore been silent about the issues inherent in the nuclear threat. As a groundbreaking exploration of new psychological terrain, Psychoanalysis and the Nuclear Threat will function as a source book for what, it is hoped, will be the continuing effort of analysts and other mental health professionals to explore and engage in-depth nuclear issues. This volume provides panoramic coverage of the dynamic and clinical considerations that follow from life in the nuclear age. Of special interest are chapters deling with the developmental consequences of the nuclear threat in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and those exploring the technical issues raised by the occurrence in analytic and psychotherapeutic hours of material related to the nuclear threat. Additional chapters bring a psychoanalytic perspective to bear on such issues as the need to have enemies; silence as the "real crime"; love, work, and survival in the nuclear age; the relationship of the nuclear threat to issues of "mourning and melancholia"; apocalyptic fantasies; the paranoid process; considerations of the possible impact of gender on the nuclear threat; and the application of psychoanalytic thinking to nuclear arms strategy. Finally, the volume includes the first case report in the English language - albeit a brief psychotherapy - involving the treatment of a Hiroshima survivor. A noteworthy event in psychoanalytic publishing, Psychoanalysis and the Nuclear Threat betokens analytic engagement with the most pressing political and moral issue of our time, a cultivating of Freud's "soft voice of the intellect" in an area where it is desperately needed.

Drawing on a broad range of approaches in the fields of sociology, anthropology, political science, history, philosophy, medicine and nursing, Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus exposes psychiatric practices that are mobilized along the continuum of repression, transformation and assistance. It critically examines taken for granted psychiatric practices both past and current, shedding light on the often political nature of psychiatry and reconceptualizing its central and sensitive issues through the radical theory of figures such as Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Goffman, and Szasz. As such, this ground-breaking collection embraces a broad understanding of psychiatric practices and engages the reader in a critical understanding of their effects, challenging the discipline's altruistic rhetoric of therapy and problematizing the ways in which this is operationalized in practice. A comprehensive exploration of contested psychiatric practices in healthcare settings, this interdisciplinary volume brings together recent scholarship from the US, Canada, the UK, Europe and Australia, to provide a rich array of theoretical tools with which to engage with questions related to psychiatric power, discipline and control, while theorizing their workings in creative and imaginative ways.

Drawing on a broad range of approaches in the fields of sociology, anthropology, political science, history, philosophy, medicine and nursing, Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus exposes psychiatric practices that are mobilized along the continuum of repression, transformation and assistance. It critically examines taken for granted psychiatric practices both past and current, shedding light on the often political nature of psychiatry and reconceptualizing its central and sensitive issues through the radical theory of figures such as Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Goffman, and Szasz. As such, this ground-breaking collection embraces a broad understanding of psychiatric practices and engages the reader in a critical understanding of their effects, challenging the discipline's altruistic rhetoric of therapy and problematizing the ways in which this is operationalized in practice. A comprehensive exploration of contested psychiatric practices in healthcare settings, this interdisciplinary volume brings together recent scholarship from the US, Canada, the UK, Europe and Australia, to provide a rich array of theoretical tools with which to engage with questions related to psychiatric power, discipline and control, while theorizing their workings in creative and imaginative ways.

Dieser Band betrachtet das soziolinguistische Konzept der sprachlichen Unsicherheit aus panromanischer Perspektive, indem er Untersuchungen aus verschiedenen Regionen der Romania unter einer einheitlichen Theorie zusammenfuhrt. Die Beitrage des Sammelbandes bieten neue Anreize zur Definition und Einbettung von sprachlicher Unsicherheit in die soziolinguistische Theoriebildung. Das Konzept der sprachlichen Unsicherheit wird in diesem Band auf verschiedene Sprechergruppen und Sprach(kontakt)situationen in der Romania angewendet. Hierzu werden unterschiedliche empirische Methoden zur Untersuchung von sprachlicher Unsicherheit verwendet und diskutiert.

El futuro es una cuestion que ha preocupado a fisicos, filosofos y linguistas desde siempre. Desde una perspectiva linguistica, su analisis ha generado una serie de interrogantes: ?Es una forma temporal o modal? ?Que categoria linguistica describe mejor el futuro, la modalidad o la evidencialidad? Recientemente, ademas, ha entrado en el debate su comportamiento discursivo. El futuro en espanol ofrece una explicacion sistematica de los distintos valores de esta forma verbal, basada en la instruccion deictica de distancia hacia delante, que justifica su funcionamiento como una forma temporal (en el ambito del contenido), como una forma de conocimiento (en el ambito epistemico), o como una forma de inter-accion (en el ambito del discurso).

Frente a la consideracion generalmente aceptada segun la cual la fraseologia pertenece a la sintaxis fija, el presente libro pretende rescatar la variacion inherente al discurso repetido desde su perspectiva diacronica y dar a la luz buena parte de los testimonios que la fraseologia ha ido legando a la lengua castellana a lo largo de su historia. A traves de sus paginas se aportan los datos necesarios, ademas de contrastados y fiables, para facilitar el estudio de la informacion contenida en los testimonios pasados que hoy retienen en su idiomaticidad las unidades pluriverbales de la lengua, resistentes al analisis gramatical regular. Esta perspectiva filologica muestra, ademas, la estrecha relacion existente entre la creatividad fraseologica y la literatura.

These articles all revolve around the complex imaging relations between semantic roles and diathetic categories such as active, passive and medium in Romance languages. The varying functional scope of these categories and the correspondingly multifarious relations between semantics, syntax and information structure of the sentence can only be appropriately discussed with a multi-factorial descriptive approach. Hence the perspective informing many of these articles is prototype-oriented and non-discrete. In most cases the authors take their bearings from the transitivity hypothesis proposed by Hopper and Thompson.

Esta obra estudia la expresion de la (des)cortesia verbal en espanol medieval a traves del analisis de los actos de habla y de la modulacion discursiva. El objetivo principal es proponer un entendimiento de (des)cortesia historica que tome en cuenta el contexto y los roles interaccionales que se establecen en situaciones discursivas determinadas. Para identificar las funciones de la (des)cortesia, en esta investigacion se emplea una metodologia cualitativa. Esto permite interpretar la dinamica de la (des)cortesia en la interaccion y analizar su complejidad estructural desde el nivel del discurso. Como corpus, se recurre a pasajes dialogicos seleccionados de varios tipos de obras literarias. Se mantiene que los textos de ficcion son una fuente importante dentro de la pragmatica historica.

Los primeros capitulos de esta monografia estan dedicados a los recursos puestos en marcha con exito en Espana y America durante los inicios del s. XXI: corpus de diversos tipos, diccionarios, atlas linguisticos, etc., al tiempo que muestran la vigencia que han recobrado antiguos proyectos con la digitalizacion de sus materiales. La proliferacion de recursos y la falta de estandares ha planteado, no obstante, problemas teoricos y practicos que son analizados por dos especialistas en historia de la lengua. La ultima parte del libro recoge algunas muestras de analisis diacronico del lexico realizadas gracias a la apuesta por la creacion de corpus documentales y lexicograficos en red.

Dieses Buch untersucht den sprachlichen und textuellen Erfahrungsraum indigener Schreiber in der oeffentlich-rechtlichen Sphare wahrend des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts in Peru, der bislang von der Hispanistik und der historischen Forschung kaum beachtet worden ist. Die empirische Grundlage bilden erstmals zuganglich gemachte juristisch-administrative Texte, die im Jauja-Tal in den zentralen Anden Perus auf Spanisch entstanden. Die Autorin unterzieht sie einer pragmatisch orientierten Textanalyse. Die Berucksichtigung der historischen Verortung der Daten und der Sprachkontaktsituation Spanisch-Quechua im Jauja-Tal, die diese Studie durch eine qualitative Analyse gewahrleistet, erweist sich als Schlussel zu einer angemessenen Interpretation der Texte.

Este volumen cubre lagunas en la investigacion linguistica sobre el espanol del siglo XVII, cenido hasta ahora fundamentalmente a obras literarias y autores prestigiosos, en conjuncion con el XVI. Tomando como eje transversal a Cervantes y su legado, estos trabajos comparten la idea de la existencia de un modelo linguistico distinto, que va transformandose, no solo en el plano morfosintactico, sino tambien en el discursivo, y desemboca en el "espanol moderno". La lengua de este periodo se analiza desde perspectivas de analisis diferentes y una gran variedad de corpus, que logran aproximar al lector a la complejidad del espacio variacional de la epoca a ambos lados del Atlantico y a las concepciones teoricas sobre la lengua del XVII, subyacentes a la codificacion normativa.