Publications
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A Two-Dimensionalist Guide to Conceptual Analysis
(2013)
According to epistemic two-dimensionalism, or simply twodimensionalism, linguistic expressions are associated with two intensions, one of which represents an expression’s a priori implications. The author investigates the ...
Über Wissenschaft reden. Studien zu Sprachgebrauch, Darstellung und Adressierung in der deutschsprachigen Wissenschaftsprosa um 1800
(2019)
The volume examines the relationship between scientific self-understanding and scientific language usage in the German-speaking world around 1800. It discusses the re-founding of the university, the fraught relationship ...
Understanding Material Text Cultures. A Multidisciplinary View
(2016)
The present volume comprises 6 highly original studies on material text cultures in different nontypographic societies stretching from the 3rd millennium cuneiform textual record of Ancient Mesopotamia to 20th century ...
Teaching Political Science to Undergraduates. Active Pedagogy for the Microchip Mind
(2015)
By 2020, half of the world’s population and most university students will have a supercomputer in their pockets. This revolution will affect the way students respond to higher education. The university classroom must ...
Time and History. Proceedings of the 28. International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria 2005
(2006)
This wide-ranging collection of essays contains eighteen original articles by authors representing some of the most important recent work on Wittgenstein. It deals with questions pertaining to both the interpretation and ...
Sustainability Indicators in Practice
(2015)
The goal of sustainable development is to meet the socio-economic and environmental objectives without comprising the needs of future generations. Since the Rio Summit of 1992, the concept of sustainability has captured ...
A Typological Perspective on Latvian Grammar
(2014)
Theoretical studies of Latvian grammar have a great deal to offer to contemporary linguistics. Although traditionally Lithuanian has been the most widely studied Baltic language in diachronic and synchronic linguistics ...
Un(intended) Language Planning in a Globalising World: Multiple Levels of Players at Work
(2018)
This first book provides a comprehensive overview of the different levels of players who have been involved in both intended and unintended language planning and policy, and shows how they have impacted multilingual language ...
Umwelt und Herrschaft in der Geschichte. Environnement et pouvoir: une approche historique
(2013)
Das Verhältnis zwischen Umwelt und Herrschaft gehört zu den zentralen Strukturmerkmalen jeder menschlichen Gesellschaft. Der Band versammelt die Beiträge der ersten Tagung, die diesem Thema gewidmet war, und spannt einen ...
The Szczecin Lagoon Ecosystem. The Biotic Community of the Great Lagoon and its Food Web Model
(2013)
The Great Lagoon is a central part of the Szczecin Lagoon, a major component in the Odra River estuary system. It is also an important European natural heritage site and one of the largest resting places for migratory birds ...
Töchter der Revolte? Frauenbewegung und Feminismus der 1970er Jahre in München
(2011)
In den 1960er Jahren schlug die Stunde der Frauen - endlich. Ihr Leben veränderte sich, ihr politisches Engagement in eigener Sache gewann eine neue Qualität, ihre Forderungen nach Emanzipation und Selbstbestimmung fanden ...
Topografien des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die memoriale ‹Poetik des Stolperns› in Haroldo de Campos «Galáxias»
(2020)
Galáxias (1984), the polyphonic world poem by the Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos, has been discussed to date mainly in the context of concrete poetry and the Latin American neo-baroque. By means of a new reading, Jasmin ...
Tous les hommes sont-ils égaux? Histoire comparée des pensées raciales 1860-1930
(2009)
Die Beiträge dieses Ateliers veranschaulichen die vielfältige wissenschaftliche und politische Verwendung des Rassenbegriffs in so unterschiedlichen Gesellschaften, wie Brasilien, Deutschland, Frankreich, Japan, Kamerun, ...
Toward a Cognitive Classical Linguistics. The Embodied Basis of Constructions in Greek and Latin
(2019)
This volume gathers a series of papers that bring the study of grammatical and syntactic constructions in Greek and Latin under the perspective of theories of embodied meaning developed in cognitive linguistics. Building ...
Tra i libri di Isacco Argiro
(2020)
This investigation sheds light on Isaac Argyrus and his scholarly work in 14th-century Constantinople on the basis of his book production: it thus fills a major desideratum of cultural-historical, paleographical, and textual ...
Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present
(2020)
After World War II, tracing and documenting Nazi victims emerged against the background of millions of missing persons and early compensation proceedings. This was a process in which the Allies, international aid organizations, ...
Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space through Paratexts
(2016)
As records of the link between a manuscript and the texts it contains, paratexts document many aspects of a manuscript’s life: production, transmission, usage, and reception. Comprehensive studies of paratexts are still ...
Transatlantic Democracy in the Twentieth Century. Transfer and Transformation
(2016)
Transatlantic democracy in the 20th century - this concept goes beyond the idea of an American civilizing mission in Europe after two World Wars, and certainly beyond the notion of re-educating Germans, and making them fit ...
Translating Chinese Tradition and Teaching Tangut Culture
(2015)
This book is about Tangut translations of Chinese literary texts. Although most of the extant Tangut material comprises Buddhist texts, there are also many non-religious texts, which are mostly translations from Chinese. ...
Transport, Fluids, and Mixing
(2018)
The aim of this volume is to present the state of the art in the mathematical analysis of transport and mixing phenomena in fluids and associated problems. It supplements current literature on the subject with a unique ...
Soziale Elite und Christentum
(2015)
The notion that early Christianity was a "lower class religion" is surely outdated. Yet the extent to which members of the social elites turned to the new faith remains a matter of intense scholarly dispute. Many researchers ...
Linear Algebra
(2017)
In order not to intimidate students by a too abstract approach, this textbook on linear algebra is written to be easy to digest by non-mathematicians. It is also designed such that no other material is required for an ...
Developing Heritage – Developing Countries
(2020)
Seven Ethiopian heritage sites were among the first sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List – a stunning number for an African country at the time and the product of extended international technical assistance and tourism ...
Poetische Gerechtigkeit
(2023)
The discussions on an ethics of literature and a specifically aesthetic form of justice make it clear: the question of the aesthetic and ethical valuation and evaluation of literature has recently moved back into the centre ...
La Table des rois
(2023)
The Table of Kings by Ptolemy, a second-century Alexandrian astronomer, presents a continuous list of rulers from the Neo-Assyrian Empire to the Roman Empire. It is a crucial source for our chronological approach to the ...
Vernakuläre Wissenschaftskommunikation
(2018)
Der sich vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert vollziehende Übergang der weitgehend lateinbasierten europäischen Gelehrtenkultur zu einem vernakulär-mehrsprachigen „modernen“ Wissenschaftssystem ist bislang für den deutschen ...
Jewish Studies in the Digital Age
(2022)
The digitisation boom of the last two decades, and the rapid advancement of digital tools to analyse data in myriad ways, have opened up new avenues for humanities research. This volume discusses how the so-called digital ...
Empire and Politics in the Eastern and Western Civilizations
(2022)
The volume includes the proceedings of the 2nd Roma Sinica conference held in 2019 and aims to compare some features of the ancient political thought in the Western classical tradition and in the Eastern ancient thought. ...