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Intercultural dialogue in the european education policies : a conceptual appr…
This open access book analyses intercultural dialogue as a concept, policy and ideal in European education policy documentation. The core European transnational organizatons – the Council of Europe and the European Union – have actively promoted policies to engender inclusive societies and respond to challenges that diversification may entail. This book, in turn, offers suggestions for impr…
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- 9783030415174
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- xiv, 114p. : ill.
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- 370.117 LAH i
Rethinking health care ethics
The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals than the now-dominant approaches that focus, for example, on the application of ethical principles. The book elaborates the view that health professionals have the emotional and intellectual resources to discuss and address ethical issues in …
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- 9789811308307
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- xv, 169p.
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- 171.7 SCH r
Voices and practices in applied linguistics : diversifying a discipline
"Voices and Practices in Applied Linguistics comprises a selection of original applied linguistics-based research on the theme of the diversity of Applied Linguistics and in Applied Linguistics. It is a unique collection of reflections and cutting-edge research relating to academic, policy and professional fields of Applied Linguistics, featuring chapters written by founders of the field, e…
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- 9781912482177
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- VI, 286 p.
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- 418 VOI v
Finding Jerusalem : archaeology between science and ideology
Archaeological discoveries in Jerusalem capture worldwide attention in various media outlets. The continuing quest to discover the city’s physical remains is not simply an attempt to define Israel’s past or determine its historical legacy. In the context of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is also an attempt to legitimate—or undercut—national claims to sovereignty. Bridging …
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- 9780520968073
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- xxi, 248p. : ill.
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- 933.442 GAL f
Entity-oriented search
This open access book covers all facets of entity-oriented search—where “search” can be interpreted in the broadest sense of information access—from a unified point of view, and provides a coherent and comprehensive overview of the state of the art. It represents the first synthesis of research in this broad and rapidly developing area. Selected topics are discussed in-depth, the goal…
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- 9783319939353
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- xix, 351p. : ill.
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- 025.04 BAL e
Computational conflict research
This open access book brings together a set of original studies that use cutting-edge computational methods to investigate conflict at various geographic scales and degrees of intensity and violence. Methodologically, this book covers a variety of computational approaches from text mining and machine learning to agent-based modelling and social network analysis. Empirical cases range from migra…
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- 9783030293338
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- xviii, 264p. : ill
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- 300.00285 COM c
Definiteness across languages
Definiteness has been a central topic in theoretical semantics since its modern foundation. However, despite its significance, there has been surprisingly scarce research on its cross-linguistic expression. With the purpose of contributing to filling this gap, the present volume gathers thirteen studies exploiting insights from formal semantics and syntax, typological and language specific stud…
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- 9783961101931
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- Studies in Diversity Linguistics
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- 400 DEF d
Gaming the stage : playable media and the rise of English commercial theater
Rich connections between gaming and theater stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when England's first commercial theaters appeared right next door to gaming houses and blood-sport arenas. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theaters succeeded in London's new entertainment marketplace largely because watching a play and playi…
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- 9780472073818
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- xii, 276p. : ill.
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- 792.094209031 BLO g
Online hate speech in the European Union : a discourse-analytic perspective
Although ‘hate speech’ is often incorporated in legal and policy documents, there is no universally accepted definition, which in itself warrants research into how hatred is both expressed and perceived. The research project synthesises discourse analytic and corpus linguistics techniques, and presents its key findings here. The focus is especially on online comments posted in reaction to n…
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- 9783319726045
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- VIII, 90 p.
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- SpringerBriefs in Linguistics
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- 323.443094 ASS o
A Gender-based approach to parliamentary discourse
Does gender condition politicians’ discourse strategies in parliament? This is the question we try to answer in A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse: The Andalusian Parliament. This book, written by experts in the field of discourse analysis, covers key aspects of political discourse such as gender, identity and verbal and nonverbal strategies: intensification, enumerative serie…
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- 9789027266330
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- 401.43 GEN g
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