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Social Dynamics in Swiss society
Using longitudinal data from the Swiss Household Panel to zoom in on continuity and change in the life course, this open access book describes how the lives of the Swiss population have changed in terms of health, family circumstances, work, political participation, and migration over the last sixteen years. What are the different trajectories in terms of mobility, health, wealth, and family co…
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- 9783319895574
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- 306.094940905 TIL s
Social statistics and nthnic diversity: cross-national perspectives in classi…
This open access book examines the question of collecting and disseminating data on ethnicity and race in order to describe characteristics of ethnic and racial groups, identify factors of social and economic integration and implement policies to redress discrimination. It offers a global perspective on the issue by looking at race and ethnicity in a wide variety of historical, country-specific…
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- 9783319200958
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- 2015
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- 304.60727 SIM s
Ethics and aesthetics of translation
Ethics and Aesthetics of Translation engages with translation, in both theory and practice, as part of an interrogation of ethical as well as political thought in the work of three bilingual European authors: Bernardo Atxaga, Milan Kundera and Jorge Semprún. In approaching the work of these authors, the book draws upon the approaches to translation offered by Benjamin, Derrida, Ricœur and Del…
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- 9781787352070
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- 286 p.; 22 cm.
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- 418.02 HUL e
Reflexive Translation Studies
In the past decades, translation studies have increasingly focused on the ethical dimension of translational activity, with an emphasis on reflexivity to assert the role of the researcher in highlighting issues of visibility, creativity and ethics. In Reflexive Translation Studies, Silvia Kadiu investigates the viability of theories that seek to empower translation by making visible its transfo…
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- 9781787352513
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- ix, 174 p.; 22 cm.
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- 418.02 KAD r
Crossroads between contrastive linguistics, translation studies and machine t…
Contrastive Linguistics (CL), Translation Studies (TS) and Machine Translation (MT) have common grounds: They all work at the crossroad where two or more languages meet. Despite their inherent relatedness, methodological exchange between the three disciplines is rare. This special issue touches upon areas where the three fields converge. It results directly from a workshop at the 2011 German As…
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- 9783946234265
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- 214 p.; 22 cm.
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- Translation and Multilingual NaturalLanguage Processing 4
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- 417.7 CRO c
Nuaulu Religious Practices : The frequency and reproduction of rituals in a M…
How religious practices are reproduced has become a major theoretical issue. This work examines data on Nuaulu ritual performances collected over a 30 year period, comparing different categories of event in terms of frequency and periodicity. It seeks to identify the influencing factors and the consequences for continuity. Such an approach enables a focus on related issues: variation in perform…
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- 9789004253452
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- xxviii, 356 p.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 283
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- 299.9222 ELL n
Modes of philology in medieval South India
In Modes of Philology in Medieval South India, Whitney Cox rethinks the textual practices of a diverse collection of scholars and poets writing in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Prakrit in far southern India between the 11th and the 14th centuries CE.
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- 9789004331679
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- 208 p.; 22 cm.
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- Philological Encounters Monographs; Vol. 1
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- 100 COX m
Digital classical philology
This book describes the state of the art of digital philology with a focus on ancient Greek and Latin. It addresses problems such as accessibility of information about Greek and Latin sources, data entry, collection and analysis of Classical texts and describes the fundamental role of libraries in building digital catalogs and developing machine-readable citation systems.
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- 9783110596786
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- 362 p.; 22 cm.
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- Age of Access? Grundfragen der Informationsgesellschaft ; Vol. 10
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- 100 BER d
Technology enhanced learning integration into organizations
The study presents a framework of responsible and responsive technology enhanced learning integration into organizations. Applying the theories of integration of innovation in an organization, technology enhanced learning integration criteria groups have been identified and validated in this study in the following sequence: 1) Strategy and management, 2) Information communication technologies a…
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- 9786094671418
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- 304 p.; 22 cm
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- 374 TEC t
Thoughts on grammaticalization
After a short review of the history of research, the work introduces and delimits the concepts related to grammaticalization. It then provides extensive exemplification of grammaticalization phenomena in diverse languages, ordered by grammatical domains such as the verbal, pronominal and nominal sphere and clause level relations. The final chapter presents a theory of grammaticalization which i…
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- 3rd edition 2015
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- 9783946234074
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- xiii, 214 p.; 22 cm
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- 410 LEH t
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