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In this fascinating and ground-breaking book, Itzhak Benyamini uses discourse analysis to lay out the way Lacan constructed his own intellectual discourse informed by Judeo-Christianity. Offering an...

This book initiates the discussion between psychoanalysis and recent humanist and social scientific interest in a fundamental contemporary topic - the nonhuman. The authors question where we situate...

Presents a variety of unique perspectives on Posthumanism in its relation to psychoanalysis Offers insight from the arts, the media, the humanities and psychology Places discussions about Lacanian...

Addresses for the first time Ruskin's immense influence on the period of the Irish Revival Represents a pioneering study of the influence of nineteenth-century aesthetic, social and political...

This book explores the existing and diverse institutional bottlenecks of land acquisition, ranging from legal and social to political and even environmental within the Asian context. It identifies...

This volume investigates the use of mortgages in the European countryside between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. A mortgage allowed a loan to be secured with land or other property, and the...

This book brings one of China? most renowned economists?views on systemic reform of the land system- the pillar of China? economic growth. This book goes through the fundamental logic of China? land...

Land, Labour and Livelihoods: Indian Women's PerspectivesAuthor: Bina FernandezPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Dec 15, 2016Number of Pages: 352 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

This book systematically explores how popular Hollywood film portrays environmental issues through various genres. In so doing, it reveals the influence exerted by media consolidation and the drive...

Presents a comprehensive summary of the techniques, problems and possibilities of economic valuation of landscapeStudies the relevance of cost-benefit analysis to land aestheticsContains case studies...

This book describes the way in which landscape and landscape heritage have been - and still are - used to define national identities. It shows how national narratives use different types of...

This book focuses on a single artefact, the Barochan Cross, a ninth century stone sculpture in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Exploring the changing stories, meanings, locations, uses and feelings of the...

Landscapes of Eternal Return: Tennyson to HardyAuthor: Roger EbbatsonPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Nov 04, 2016Number of Pages: 236 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

This comparative and transnational study of landscapes in the First World War offers new perspectives on the ways in which landscapes were idealised, mobilised, interpreted, exploited, transformed...

Why do we love and hate airports at the same time? Have you been a victim of tiresome walks, congestion, long lines, invasive pat-downs, eternal delays and so on? Perhaps no other technological...

This book examines linguistic expressions of emotion in intensional contexts and offers a formally elegant account of the relationship between language and emotion. The author presents a compelling...

This book offers a systematic acoustic phonetic analysis of both language and dialect death in the region of Béarn, southwestern France. Focusing on Béarnais, a localised dialect of Gascon which is...

Language and Migration in a Multilingual Metropolis: Berlin LivesAuthor: Patrick StevensonPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jan 27, 2017Number of Pages: 202 pagesBinding: Hardback or...

​This edited book explores stories of linguistic and spiritual identity in the urban and rural Australian landscape. It is an innovative mix of thirty six personal narratives and eleven...

This book undertakes a systematic analysis of the workings of ideology in discourse, using an interdisciplinary approach that links language, cognition and society. Through examination of two corpora...

This book is a systematic narrative, tracking the colonial language policies and acts responsible for the creation of a sense of ?self-identity? and culminating in the evolution of nationalistic...

This book presents a detailed sociolinguistic study of the traditionally Catalan-speaking areas of Southern France, and sheds new light on language attitudes, phonetic variation, language ideologies...

This open access book sheds light on 21st-Century multilingualism in the Far North of Europe - Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Estonia - an area with multifaceted contacts between many Uralic and...

This edited book explores and illustrates successful practices for online assessment and community-building, based on the authors' own classroom practice during and in the immediate aftermath of the...

Offers comprehensive insight into language teacher language use Maintains a practical focus whilst being based in rigorous Applied Linguistics empirical research Proposes course content based on the...

This text considers contemporary China?s language ideology and how it supports China as a rising global power player. It examines the materialization of this ideology as China?s language order...

This book examines public, political and media discourse in the context of failed states using Lebanon, a country torn by wars and political-financial corruption, as a contemporary case study. Using...

Tracing the treatment of language in international business as represented in the Journal of International Business Studies, this seminal collection critically explores the conceptualizations of...

This textbook provides an accessible overview of the field of sociolinguistics. Blending qualitative and quantitative approaches and including examples drawn from different contexts and societies all...

This book provides a unique insight into negotiations around language investment for employability in the context of public employment services. Drawing on extensive ethnographical research carried...