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Philosophy and anthropology : border crossing and transformations /

Table of Contents: “…hybridization, postoccidentalism, postdevelopment and transmodernity / Ivan Marquez -- Philosophical anthropology and philosophy in anthropology / Vaclav Brezina -- The engagement of philosophy and anthropology in the interpretive turn and beyond: towards an anthropology of the contemporary / Heike Kämpf -- Mediation through cognitive dynamics: philosophical anthropology and the conflicts of our time / Piet Strydom -- Philosophy as anthropocentrism: language, life and aporia / Prasenjit Biswas -- Sources of philosophical anthropology -- Kant and anthropology / Ananta Kumar Giri -- Dilthey's theory of knowledge and its potential for anthropological theory / Daniel Šuber -- Malinowski and philosophy / Peter Skalník -- Ground, self, sign: the semiotic theories of charles sanders peirce and their applications in social anthropology / Lars Kjaerholm -- Ricoeur's challenge for a twenty-first century anthropology / Betsy Taylor -- Clifford geertz: the philosophical transformation of anthropology / Gernot Saalmann -- Bakhtin's heritage in anthropology: alterity and dialogue / Marcin Brocki -- The philosophy of slavoj ¿i¿ek and anthropology: the current situation and possible futures / Lars Kjaerholm -- Border crossings between anthropology and buddhist philosophy / Susantha Goonatilake -- Philosophical anthropology at work -- Anthropology of philosophy in africa: the ethnography of critical discourse and intellectual practice / Kai Kresse -- Albinos do not die: belief, philosophy and anthropology / João de Pina-Cabral -- Anthropology, development and the myth of culture / Robert Feleppa -- Notions of friendship in philosophical and anthropological thought -- Heidrun friese -- Afterword the return of philosophical anthropology / Fred Dallmayr.…”
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Reframing Latin America a cultural theory reading of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / by Ching, Erik Kristofer

Table of Contents: “…(Not) An Abbreviated Introduction -- Saussure, Signs, and Semiotics, or Lots of Words That Begin with S -- Narrating about Narrative -- Part II: Theory -- An Opening Jaunt: El Salvador in 1923 -- A Gringo in Mañana-land / Harry Foster -- Be Here (or There) Now: Ethnicity -- Identity and Difference / Stuart Hall -- Identity Construct #1: Race -- I'm Not a Racist But... / Lawrence Blum -- Race and Ethnicity in Latin America / Peter Wade -- Identity Construct #2: Class -- The Idea of the Middle Class / David Parker -- Identity Construct #3: Gender -- Doing Gender / Candace West and Don Zimmerman -- Masculinities / R. …”
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Recognizing the stranger recognition scenes in the Gospel of John / by Larsen, Kasper Bro

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Odysseus' scar and Jesus' wound marks -- Previous studies in Johannine recognition -- The present study : aim, method, and outline -- Anagnorisis in a theoretical and historical perspective -- Anagnorisis in Aristotle's poetics -- The embarrassments of recognition -- Anagnorisis and the cognitive dimension of John's Gospel -- The semiotics of recognition -- The dual appearance of the observed -- How to display the recognition Mark : showing, telling, and whispering -- Aspects of recognition : identification and social recognition -- Anagnorisis as a type-scene in ancient literature -- The meeting -- The move of cognitive resistance -- The move of displaying the token -- The moment of recognition -- Attendant reactions and physical (re-)union -- Anagnorisis and arrival (John 1-4) -- Anagnorisis within the matrix of John's narrative -- Prologue and prejudice : prefatory whisperings -- The prologue's web of identity relations -- The logos changes its guise -- Recognizing a stranger : comparing Jesus with Odysseus -- Establishing Jesus' presence in the story-world (1:19-51) -- John the Baptist : recognizing the wrong man (1:19-28) -- Jesus and John the Baptist : from baptismal scene to recognition scene (1:29-34) -- Jesus and the disciples : call narratives in the form of recognition scenes (1:35-51) -- Semeia as Semata : tokens of Jesus' divine doxa -- Jesus and the Samaritan woman (4:4-42) : betrothal and recognition -- Recognition in conflict (John 5-19) -- John 5:1-18 : a recognition parody -- "I am" : a recognition formula -- John 9 : blindness and insight -- The recognition scenes of the hour -- The exposure of Judas as traitor (13:18-30) -- Jesus' arrest : from discovery to self-disclosure (18:1-12) -- Peter's denial (18:15-18, 25-27) -- Jesus judged by Pilate : by what law? …”
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Discourse analysis and austerity : critical studies from economics and linguistics /

Table of Contents: “….; Part I Approaching austerity through discourse; 1 Deep interdisciplinarity and responses to crisis; Systems; Deep interdisciplinarity; Semiotics: Saussure; Political economy disciplines and Marx; Conclusion; References…”
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Language Parasites: Of Phorontology / by Braune, Sean, 1985-

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Translation in second language learning and teaching

Table of Contents: “…making L2 word order visible in the L1 through word-by-word translations / Michael Merlein -- Learning, translating and teaching language : cultural resonance, individual research and the contribution of information technology / Graham Howells -- Translation as a fifth skill in EFL classes at secondary school level / Neide Ferreira Gaspar -- Translating as a way of improving language control in the mind of an L2 learner : assets, requirements and challenges of translation tasks / Boguslawa Whyatt -- Language learning through sight translation / Jeanne Van Dyk -- Terminology as an aid to enhancing reading skills / Rossa O'Muireartaigh -- Inter-semiotic translation in foreign language acquisition : the case of subtitles : reading and translating literature in the foreign language classroom / Laura Incalcaterra Mcloughlin -- Teaching poetry translation to undergraduate students in Hong Kong / Kar Yue Chan -- Zwischen tür und angel? …”
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Humour translation in the age of multimedia

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Becoming-social in a networked age / by Thomas, Neal

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Song and significance virtues and vices of vocal translation /

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Early Geometrical Thinking in the Environment of Patterns, Mosaics and Isometries by Swoboda, Ewa, Vighi, Paola

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Linguistic relativity today : language, mind, society, and the foundations of linguistic anthropology / by Danesi, Marcel, 1946-

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Sounding Islam : Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World / by Eisenlohr, Patrick, 1967-

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Post Memes : Seizing the Memes of Production

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The performative presidency crisis and resurrection during the Clinton years /

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Reading Death in Ancient Rome / by Erasmo, Mario

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Lapidari 1: Texts by Eagles, Department

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