The present volume is the product of several years of collaboration at a distance between two people who both knew Yres R. Simon personally and admired his work. The question raised by Simon more t...więcej »
Posing a powerful challenge to dominant trends in cultural analysis, this book covers the whole history of the concept of culture, providing the broadest study of this notion to date. Johnson an...więcej »
This book explains the detection-based approach to investigating crosslinguistic influence and illustrates the value of the approach through a collection of five empirical studies that use the a...więcej »
This book presents a systematic and pattern-based explanation of food tourism, focusing on how and why change could occur and what the implications could be. In the future will food tourism invo...więcej »
This book represents a shifting of emphasis away from the discourse of authenticity to the process of authenticating ethnic tourism. It focuses upon what authentication is, how it works, who is ...więcej »
This book details a study of teacher education programs that prepare teachers to work with multilingual learners. The book examines how racism and linguicism shape the conditions under which tea...więcej »
This book discusses culture bumps, meaning puzzling or impenetrable wordings which are the result of literal translations of allusions, and how to deal with a culture-specific, source-text allusion...więcej »
This book simultaneously tells a story--or rather, stories--and a history. The stories are those of Greek Leftists as paradigmatic figures of abjection, given that between 1929 and 1974 tens of ...więcej »
An essential companion to Basics of Humanitarian Missions, the first volume in this series, this book is a practical guide to planning and managing relief operations in a range of speci...więcej »
This book addresses recent developments in medical and language education. Both fields have broadened their focus on clinical expertise and linguistic skills to address issues of cultural compet...więcej »
Clifford Geertz, in his 1973 Interpretation of Cultures, brought about an epistemological revolution unprecedented since Lvi-Strauss's structuralism. In place of Lvi-Strauss's deep structures, Geer...więcej »
Clifford Geertz, in his 1973 Interpretation of Cultures, brought about an epistemological revolution unprecedented since Lvi-Strauss's structuralism. In place of Lvi-Strauss's deep structures, Geer...więcej »
This book address media and education in the context of Palestine and Israel. They provide insights and provocative analysis of the status quo in education, including language teaching, educational...więcej »
This book-the culmination of forty years of friendship between J. Hillis Miller and Jacques Derrida, during which Miller also closely followed all Derrida's writings and seminars-is for Derr...więcej »
This volume examines how foreign language learners and teachers think about citizenship and interculturality. It presents a new theory of intercultural citizenship and demonstrates how it can be...więcej »
Heidegger's interpretations of the poetry of Hölderlin are central to Heidegger's later philosophy and have determined the mainstream reception of Hölderlin's poetry. ...więcej »
The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late eighteenth century, when, in the name of public health, measures were taken to drive the latter from the city. Cemeteries were removed from...więcej »