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Fact and Fiction
Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and literature as disciplines first began to be defined, the contributors to this collection probe how authors from that time onwards have assessed and affe…
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- 9781487511401
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- 830.936 LEH f
Origins of human language: continuities and discontinuities with nonhuman pri…
This book proposes a detailed picture of the continuities and ruptures between communication in primates and language in humans. It explores a diversity of perspectives on the origins of language, including a fine description of vocal communication in animals, mainly in monkeys and apes, but also in birds, the study of vocal tract anatomy and cortical control of the vocal productions in monkeys…
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- 9783631737262 (hardcover)
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- 365 pages ; 22 cm.
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- Speech production and perception ; vol. 4
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- 401 ORI o
Handwritten newspapers
"This book is the first edited volume focusing on handwritten newspapers as an alternative medium from a wide interdisciplinary and international perspective. Our primary focus is on handwritten newspapers as a social practice. The case studies contextualize the source materials in relation to political, cultural, literary, and economic history. The analysis reveals both continuity and change a…
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- 9789518581591
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- 229p.: ill.
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- 070.9 HAN h
Multilingualism and bilingualism
Research in the area of bilingualism and multilingualism invariably produces fascinating insights. In the Europe of yesteryears, the paradigm of one nation one language was dominant and fashionable as a nation-building ideology that multilingualism was considered a curse, a demon that had to be exorcised. Today, the avalanche of empirical evidence of research findings has established multilingu…
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- 9781838813321
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- 184 p.; 23 cm.
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- 306.449 MUL m
Archaelogist in print: publishing for the people
Archaeologists in Print is a history of popular publishing in archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a pivotal period of expansion and development in both archaeology and publishing. It examines how British archaeologists produced books and popular periodical articles for a non-scholarly audience, and explores the rise in archaeologists’ public visibility. Notably, it analyses…
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- 9781787352575
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- xii, 295p.: ill.
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- 930.109 THO a
The Alor-Pantar languages: history and typology. Second edition.
The Alor-Pantar family constitutes the westernmost outlier group of Papuan (Non-Austronesian) languages. Its twenty or so languages are spoken on the islands of Alor and Pantar, located just north of Timor, in eastern Indonesia. Together with the Papuan languages of Timor, they make up the Timor-Alor-Pantar family. The languages average 5,000 speakers and are under pressure from the local Mala…
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- 2nd Edition
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- 9783961100224
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- 509 p.; 23 cm.
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- 499.12 KLA a
The cultural net: early modern drama as a paradigm
This volume offers a new theoretical approach to cultural production inspired by the metaphor of culture as a virtual network. Following a thorough outline of this approach, the theoretical framework is elucidated in a second part through examples drawn from early modern European drama. A third and final part then presents a critical discussion of the concept of national culture and literature,…
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- 9783110536638
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- vi, 328p.
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- 800 KUP t
Introduction to scientific programming with Python
This open access book offers an initial introduction to programming for scientific and computational applications using the Python programming language. The presentation style is compact and example-based, making it suitable for students and researchers with little or no prior experience in programming. The book uses relevant examples from mathematics and the natural sciences to present prog…
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- 9783030503567
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- xiv, 148p. : ill.
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- 005.133 SUN i
Uncertainty in deliberate lexical interventions: Exploring Esperanto speakers…
Language managers in their different forms (language planners, terminologists, professional neologists …) have long tried to intervene in the lexical usage of speakers, with various degrees of success: Some of their lexical items (partly) penetrate language use, others do not. Based on electronic networks of practice of the Esperanto speech community, Mélanie Maradan establishes the foundati…
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- 9783732992379
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- 373p.: ill.
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- 414 MAR u
Multiculturalism and conflict reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific : migration,…
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This edited collection focuses on theories, language and migration in relation to multiculturalism in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. Each chapter aims to provide alternative understandings to current conflicts that have arisen due to immigration and policies related to education, politics, language, work, citizenship and identity.
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- 9781137403605
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- xiv, 237p. : ill.
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- 305.80095 MUL m
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