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Information structure in spoken Japanese : Particles, word order, and intonation
This study explores information structure (IS) within the framework of corpus linguistics and functional linguistics. As a case study, it investigates IS phenomena in spoken Japanese: particles including so-called topic particles, case particles, and zero particles; word order; and intonation. The study discusses how these phenomena are related to cognitive and communicative mechanisms of humans.
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- 978-3-96110-138-2
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- Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface 8
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- 495.6 NAK i
Indigenous Biography and Autobiography
In this absorbing collection of papers Aboriginal, Maori, Dalit and western scholars discuss and analyse the difficulties they have faced in writing Indigenous biographies and autobiographies. The issues range from balancing the demands of western and non-western scholarship, through writing about a family that refuses to acknowledge its identity, to considering a community demand not to write …
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- 9781921536359
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- 809.935 92 IND
India China : Rethinking Borders and Security
Challenging the Westphalian view of international relations, which focuses on the sovereignty of states and the inevitable potential for conflict, the authors from the Borderlands Study Group reconceive borders as capillaries enabling the flow of material, cultural, and social benefits through local communities, nation-states, and entire regions. By emphasizing local agency and regional interde…
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- 9780472130061
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- 320.12 LIN i
In Quest of Tolstoy
Lev Tolstoy has held the attention of mankind for well over a century. A supremely talented artist, whose novels and short stories continue to entrance readers all over the world, he was at the same time a fearless moral philosopher who explored and challenged the fundamental bases of human society—political, economic, legal, and cultural. Hugh McLean, Professor Emeritus of Russian literature…
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- 978-1-934843-02-4
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- Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history
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- 891.733 LEA q
Improving Psychiatric Care For Older People : Barbara Robb’s Campaign 1965-…
Therecould be no better qualified person to document this enlightening storythan Claire Hilton. Claire is a dedicated, talented clinician, a psychiatristworking with older people, who has for some years immersed herself in thehistory of the development of the specialty of old age psychiatry in thetwentieth century. She has illuminated the period by bringing together thecharacters and politics o…
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- 978-3-319-54813-5
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- Mental Health in Historical Perspective
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- 362.2 HIL p
Of Elephants and Toothaches: Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Krzyztof Kiesl…
This collection is the first to offer a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue, a ten-film cycle of modern tales that touch on the ethical dilemmas of the Ten Commandments. The cycle's deft handling of moral ambiguity and inventive technique established Kieslowski as a major international director. Kieslowski once said, Both the deep believer and the habitual s…
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- 9780823267101
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- 790 ELE e
Decentralised Energy : A Global Game Changer
As the contribution of renewable energy increases to meet climate change objectives, so does the extent to which electricity is generated by individuals and communities, moving a centralised system to a more decentralised one, with associated system management and integration challenges. However, new digital and storage technologies are enabling local system management, and reducing the need fo…
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- 9781911529699
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Redesigning Life: Eugenics Biopolitics And The Challenge Of The Techno-human …
The emerging development of genetic enhancement technologies has recently become the focus of a public and philosophical debate between proponents and opponents of a liberal eugenics – that is, the use of these technologies without any overall direction or governmental control. Inspired by Foucault’s, Agamben’s and Esposito’s writings about biopower and biopolitics, the author sees both…
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- 9782875742810
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In The Place Of Utopia: Affect And Transformative Ideas
Considerable socio-political change has re-configured the discursive space once occupied by ‘utopia’. Within the cultures of late capitalism and the organisational matrices of bio-political administration, that space is no longer animated by images of idealised states that are yet to come, or by a sense of simple failure in the production of those same states. Rather, it is overdetermined b…
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- 9783035107142
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Where Community Happens: The Kibbutz And The Philosophy Of Communalism
In reaction to the spread of globalization, recent years have seen considerable growth in the number of intentional communities established across the world. In this collection of articles and lectures, many of them previously unpublished in English, the author analyzes various aspects of the philosophy of the kibbutz and draws parallels with other societies and philosophical trends, in the hop…
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