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Kreativität im Schnittpunkt der Observanzen/Creatività e osservanza
(2023)
Italian literature emerged around 1600 at the intersection of poetological and religious attempts at standardization and under the attentive watch of a literary community and its critical discussions as well as the censorship ...
Rethinking Orality II
(2022)
This is the second of two volumes on the mechanisms of oral communication in ancient Greece, focused on epic poetry, which had deep roots in orality. Combining the tools of cognitive science with the historical and literary ...
Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta
(2024)
This monograph analyses metaphysics and epistemology in the medieval Mādhva tradition of Vedānta. It focuses primarily on the ideas of the sixteenth-century philosopher Vyāsatīrtha. The volume explores Vyāsatīrtha’s defence ...
Crossroads of Colonial Cultures
(2018)
The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a little investigated period of transition: from the French Revolution to the abolition of ...
Dictionary Use and Dictionary Teaching
(2024)
Foreign language learners often use online information to solve language problems but have difficulty using dictionaries successfully. However, in today’s digital, global and multilingual world, competence in the use of ...
A Short Media History of English Literature
(2022)
This book explores the history of literature as a history of changing media and modes of communication from prehistory to the present. It argues that literature has evolved, and continues to evolve, in sync with material ...
Chapter Shifting Price Levels Of Books Produced At The Officina Plantiniana In Antwerp, 1580–1655
(2019)
Many scholars assume that European popular print culture had many common features and a transnational infrastructure. A European network of specialists (EDPOP) has recently started to explore the possibilities and challenges ...
La Interfaz Sintaxis-Pragmática Estudios teóricos, descriptivos y experimentales
(2019)
Privileging functionalist approaches—based on descriptions of natural discourse and independent from formal grammatical models—, this collected volume gathers original contributions on the syntax-pragmatics interface in ...
The Notebook of Kamāl al-Dīn the Weaver
(2023)
Only a fragment of the sizeable work of Kamāl al-Dīn survived and is now preserved in the Forschungsbibliothek Schloss Friedenstein in Gotha. It represents the earliest known Arabic notebook of an artisan or merchant and ...
Lament in Jewish Thought
(2014-09-29)
This collection features essays by leading scholars on the philosophical, theological, poetic and cultural aspects of lament, touching on the textual traditions of lament in Judaism, from Biblical, rabbinic and medieval ...
Democratic State and Democratic Society
(2019)
This book focuses on institutional change in Nordic societies. Among the Nordics, the main emphasis is on Norway, in many ways the best example of neo-corporatism. The main emphasise is put on the interplay of democracy ...
Living the End of Antiquity
(2020)
This volume covers the transition period stretching from the reign of Justinian I to the end of the 8th century, focusing on the experience of individuals who lived through the last decades of Byzantine rule in Egypt before ...
Augmented Reality
(2017-03-01)
There is at present no publication specifically dedicated to analyzing the philosophical implications of augmented reality. Applications cover diverse fields like psychopathology and education, implications concern issues ...
Linguistic Corpora and Big Data in Spanish and Portuguese
(2024)
In recent decades, Hispanic corpus linguistics has seen both an increase in corpus size (corpus linguistics as Big Data) and great improvement in document selection and data annotation (corpus linguistics as High Quality ...
Chapter Predicting language-learning difficulty
(2013)
The difficulty people have in learning a foreign language strongly depends on how different this language is from their native tongue (Kellerman 1979). Although this statement seems uncontroversial in the general form as ...
Theaternarratologie
(2018)
How does theater narrate? Theater narratology thinks narrativity and performativity together. On the basis of narratology and theater studies it develops for the first time an heuristic, analytic model of performative ...
Theaternarratologie
(2018)
How does theater narrate? Theater narratology thinks narrativity and performativity together. On the basis of narratology and theater studies it develops for the first time an heuristic, analytic model of performative ...
Wiederverflechtungen
(2024)
Recognizing the dire threats of climate collapse and mass extinction, the global initiative Bauhaus Earth convened a team of scientists, architects, spatial planners, and policymakers from around the world to author a ...
La “descrizione dei tempi” all’alba dell’espansione islamica. Un’indagine sulla storiografia greca, siriaca e araba fra VII e VIII secolo
(2014)
The 7-8th centuries are commonly believed tohave beena stagnant phase of Byzantine historiography. This book investigates the writing of history in Greek and Syriacduring this period through the study of four later chronicles ...
Reflexively Speaking
(2023)
Reflexive language - the capacity of language to speak about itself - is unique to human languages yet little is known of its use in actual dialogue. Fundamental features of language are manifest in dialogic speech and in ...
Dictionary Use and Dictionary Teaching
(2024)
Foreign language learners often use online information to solve language problems but have difficulty using dictionaries successfully. However, in today’s digital, global and multilingual world, competence in the use of ...
Kreativität im Schnittpunkt der Observanzen/Creatività e osservanza
(2023)
Italian literature emerged around 1600 at the intersection of poetological and religious attempts at standardization and under the attentive watch of a literary community and its critical discussions as well as the censorship ...
Combinatory Linguistics
(2012)
The book examines to what extent the mediating relation between constituents and their semantics can arise from combinatory knowledge of words. It traces the roots of Combinatory Categorial Grammar, and uses the theory to ...
The Global Wireless
(2024)
The Global Wireless charts a history of wireless beginning in the 1910s, when it was used as a tool for global communication, and ending as it declined and slowly fell from view after World War I. Examining the political ...
Democratic State and Democratic Society
(2019)
This book focuses on institutional change in Nordic societies. Among the Nordics, the main emphasis is on Norway, in many ways the best example of neo-corporatism. The main emphasise is put on the interplay of democracy ...
Magnetic Hybrid-Materials
(2021)
Externally tunable properties allow for new applications of suspensions of micro- and nanoparticles in sensors and actuators in technical and medical applications. By means of easy to generate and control magnetic fields, ...
Chapter On the optimal weight function in the Goldston–Pintz–Yıldırım method for finding small gaps between consecutive primes
(2013)
We work out the optimization problem, initiated by K. Soundararajan, for the choice of the underlying polynomialused in the construction of the weight function in the Goldston–Pintz–Yıldırım method for finding small gaps ...
Figuren des Messianischen in Schriften deutsch-jüdischer Intellektueller 1900-1933
(2011)
This study investigates the function of the recourse to the messianic tradition of Judaism among German-Jewish intellectuals between 1900 and 1933 (Benjamin, Bloch, Broch, Buber, Landauer, Rosenzweig, Scholem). Messianic ...
City of Caesar, City of God
(2022)
This volume explores the entangled history of Constantinople and Jerusalem in Late Antiquity. The two cities were powerful symbols of Empire and Church, interconnected and interdependent in multiple ways. Covering the ...
Verb-second as a reconstruction phenomenon
(2021)
This investigation of V2-movement addresses the question which role the lexical content of the moved element plays during sentence processing. It draws on original theoretical arguments, empirical data and results from ...
Language Contact and Documentation / Contacto lingüístico y documentación
(2014)
Language Contact; Language Change; Linguistic Areas; Linguistic Typology; Language Documentation; Digital Archives; Language Maintenance; Spoken and Written Language
Tractatus mythologicus Theorie und Methodik zur Erforschung von Mythen als Grundlegung einer allgemeinen, transmedialen und komparatistischen Stoffwissenschaft
(2019)
The volume is a programmatic manifesto for the new series MythoS. The author develops new methods – the hyleme analysis and the stratification analysis – and applies them on mythological materials, reconstructing myths as ...
Cultures and Traditions of Wordplay and Wordplay Research
(2018)
This volume focuses on realisations of wordplay in different cultures and social and historical contexts, and brings together various research traditions of approaching wordplay. Together with the volume DWP 7, it assembles ...
29th Annual Conference of the German Crystallographic Society, March 15–18, 2021, Hamburg, Germany
(2021)
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie. Supplement Volume 41 presents the complete Abstracts of all contributions to the 29th Annual Conference of the German Crystallographic Society in Hamburg (Germany) 2021. - Plenary Talks - ...
Über Wissenschaft reden
(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 ...
Chapter Catastrophes, the Imaginary and Citizenship
(2015)
This article reflects on the relationship between the media and the construction of publics, taking these to be based on identities and the processes of creating identities activated in concrete, well-defined contexts. ...
Ein Imperium wird vermessen
(2023)
This book is about the cartography and measuring of the Tsarist Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It views the topographical and cartographical surveying of the largest country on earth as one aspect ...
Model Order Reduction
(2020)
An increasing complexity of models used to predict real-world systems leads to the need for algorithms to replace complex models with far simpler ones, while preserving the accuracy of the predictions. This two-volume ...
Isaac Orobio
(2018)
In philosophical works that circulated as clandestine manuscripts, the Amsterdam physician and polemicist Isaac Orobio de Castro (1617–1687) defended Judaism intermittently against Christianity and Spinoza’s critique of ...
Variation – Normen – Identitäten
(2018)
The description and analysis of linguistic variation is one of the fields that has recently received much attention in German linguistics. This volume shows in a synopsis of different approaches from attitude to language ...
Influencer Politics
(2024)
Social media influencers are seen as political and promotional actors in today's digital media. Some engage in specific causes, while others publicly support a particular party or ideology. Politicians may also socialize ...
Lascivia mascherata
(2022)
How do Torquato Tasso and Giovan Battista Marino react to the vigilant and normative context between the 16th and 17th centuries? Two evasive tactics designed to safeguard lewdness and enchantment in the poems are considered, ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2015)
This edition, containing approx. 6,000 letters written to and by Johann Christoph Gottsched (and his wife Luise Adelgune Viktoria Gottsched), documents for the first time the correspondence of one of the most significant ...
Die Wiederkehr der Rache
(2024)
Revenge and retribution are making a comeback: aggressive emotions are being assessed more positively, the retribution theory of punishment is back in vogue, and retaliatory practices seem to serve a crucial role from both ...
Galeni in Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum II commentariorum I-VI versio Arabica. Volume II: Commentaria IV-VI
(2016)
This two-volume monograph offers the first critical edition of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on Book 2 of the Hippocratic Epidemics produced by Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. ca. 870). The edition is based ...
The World Jewish Congress During The Holocaust - Between Activism and Restraint
(2014)
Drawing on hitherto neglected archival materials, Zohar Segev sheds new light on the policy of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) during the Holocaust. Contrary to popular belief, he can show that there was an impressive ...
Archive für Literatur
(2018)
The series "Literature and Archive" establishes a common field of conversation between literary and edition science, archive theory, archival and cultural studies as well as the practice of today's archives.
Standardization in the Middle Ages
(2024)
We live in a world riven through with standards. To understand more of their deep, rich past is to understand ourselves better.These two volumes turn to the Middle Ages to give a deeper understanding of the medieval ideas ...
Virtuelle Museen – Ein Plädoyer
(2024)
Digital technologies have opened up new possibilities for the cultural sector. Many museums are represented on the internet with various materials. Augmented reality and virtual reality offer immersion experiences even for ...
Divination on stage
(2021)
Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses ...
Was machen Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz mit der Psychotherapie?
(2024)
Throughout their history, the protagonists of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy research have not only dealt with individual disorders but also with collective conflicts, for example when it comes to dealing with transgenerational ...
Mobility Design
(2022)
Climate change and the scarcity of resources, but also the steadily increasing amount of traffic, make it indispensable to develop new solutions for environmentally friendly and people-friendly mobility. With the expansion ...
Analytic and Continental Philosophy: Methods and Perspectives. Proceedings of the 37th International Wittgenstein Symposium
(2016)
Metaphilosophy; Analytic philosophy; continental philosophy
Rhapsodic Objects
(2021)
Circulation and imitation of cultural products are key factors in shaping the material world.The contributions explore how technical knowledge, immaterial desires, and political agendas impacted the production and consumption ...
Figuren des Messianischen in Schriften deutsch-jüdischer Intellektueller 1900-1933
(2011)
This study investigates the function of the recourse to the messianic tradition of Judaism among German-Jewish intellectuals between 1900 and 1933 (Benjamin, Bloch, Broch, Buber, Landauer, Rosenzweig, Scholem). Messianic ...
Video Games as Art
(2022)
Video games are a relative late arrival on the cultural stage. While the academic discipline of game studies has evolved quickly since the nineties of the last century, it is still only beginning to grasp the intellectual, ...
Damascius' Philosophy of Time
(2023)
The late Platonist philosopher Damascius both resumed and rejuvenated the long Greek thinking about time. In distinguishing between different takes on time, he offered novel perspectives, which can be seen as anticipating ...
50 Essentials on Science Communication
(2024)
Science communication skills are important in both academia and the industry. This book supports interactions between academia and the public by training early career researchers in communicating their research findings ...
Kant on Love
(2018)
What did Immanuel Kant really think about love? This book is the first in-depth study of the concept of love in Kant`s philosophy. It argues that love is much more important to Kant than previously thought, and that ...
The Quest for a New Education
(2024)
This book sheds light on the relation between politics, religion, and education in Norway after World War II with an emphasis of the years between 1945 and 1970. It highlights the diversity of ideas in Norwegian politics ...