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This study is concerned with the use of the English modals (may, might,can, could, shall, should, will, would and must) in adverbial, relative and complement clauses. It employs synchronic data from the British National Corpus and quantitative methods to investigate...
“With great power comes great responsibility.” In today’s world, with our growing technological power and the knowledge about its impact, we are considered to be responsible for many instances that not long ago would have been deemed a matter of fate. At the same time,...
There has been little attention to feminism and gender issues in mainstream philosophy of technology and vice versa. Since the beginning of the so-called »second wave feminism« (in the middle of the 20th century), there has been a growing awareness of the urgency of a...
Harold Garfinkel was one of the most important American sociologists. A student of Talcott Parsons who also worked with Alfred Schutz and Kenneth Burke, he sought to craft an empirical and theoretical approach that would combine Parsons’ focus on social systems of...
Many philosophers have shown sympathy to the thought that reality is fundamentally positive. Julio De Rizzo formulates this idea precisely by means of the notion of grounding, and examines how the resulting thesis fares with respect to three much discussed classes of...
The book deals with content acquisition in a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) based chemistry course and represents high level scientific work.The topic of the thesis is current and relevant in the context of up-to-date research in theory of language...
Michael Staack’s multi-year ethnography is the first and only comprehensive social-scientific analysis of the combat sport ‘Mixed Martial Arts’. Based on systematic training observations, the author meticulously analyses how Mixed Martial Arts practitioners conjointly...
Nonmonotonic reasoning is a discipline of computer science, epistemology, and cognition: It models inferences where classical logic is inadequate in symbolic AI, defines normative models for reasoning with defeasible information in epistemology, and models human...
The relationship between our living body and our soul, our mental expressions of life and our physical environment, are both classical topics for discussion and ones which currently present themselves as part of a truly exciting philosophical debate: are we today still...
This two-volume co-authored study explores the history of the concept ‘barbarism’ from the 18th century to the present and illuminates its foundational role in modern European and Western identity. It constitutes an original comparative, interdisciplinary...
Human sociality is shaped and realized most notably in embodied practices of interpersonal interaction. At the same time, the social nature of human beings is open for cultural influences. This book inspects the foundations of human sociality theoretically drawing on...
In this book, Yan Geng examines Mao’s image from the perspective of its producers, focusing on four artists, chosen for both the diverse media they worked in and their diverse backgrounds. The book suggests an alternative perspective on the making of propaganda not only...
Ferdinand Pöhlmann argues that a sense of one’s own basic abilities to move is a constitutive condition on the ability to perceive the world spatially. This constitutive relation explains why egocentric spatial representation is to be regarded as a kind of...
In this book, Catharina Löffler traces the psycho-physical experiences of London walkers in eighteenth-century literature. For this purpose, readings of fascinating, exciting, comical and sometimes disturbing texts grant insights into a culturally, historically and...
Since the financial crisis cannot be explained by looking at the ‘numbers’ alone, Judith Schulz investigates the diverse facets of the economic system, including the emotional response and motivations of the actors. It is precisely in this context that fiction can fill...
Ab der Frühen Neuzeit bis ins 19. Jahrhundert verzeichnete der Leipziger Messkatalog zweimal jährlich die Neuerscheinungen auf dem Buchmarkt. So trocken sein Inhalt, so wichtig seine Rolle in der Formierungsphase des literarischen Feldes: Im Messkatalog wurden...
In der Debatte über Digitalisierung sind Techniken und Praktiken des digitalen Lesens zu einem viel diskutierten Gegenstand geworden. Kulturkritischen Befürchtungen, dass mit dem Ende der ‚Gutenberg-Galaxis‘ die Fähigkeit zu vertieftem Lesen...
Die deutschsprachige Gegenwartslyrik zeichnet sich durch eine intensive Rezeption und Aktualisierung des Barocks aus, deren historische Verbindungslinien die Beiträge in ihren Kontinuitäten und Diskontinuitäten, Diachronien und Anachronien nachzeichnen....
Übersetzungen enthalten per se ein Moment der Verunsicherung – so die These der in diesem Band versammelten Aufsätze. Indem sie Unbekanntes zugänglich machen, ermöglichenÜbersetzungen zwar einerseits Verständigung und wirken...
Die vorliegende intertextuelle Untersuchung behandelt die Zitierweise von Arno Schmidt in seinem letzten fragmentarischen Prosatext „Julia, oder die Gemälde“. Schmidts späte Dialogromane zeichnen sich durch eine in der deutschsprachigen Literatur...
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