Computation, Information, Cognition
The Nexus and the Liminal
This book draws together a number of important strands in contemporary approaches to the philosophical and scientific questions that emerge when dealing with the issues of computing, information, cognition and the conceptual issues that arise at their intersections. It discovers and develops the connections at the borders and in the interstices of disciplines and debates, and presents a range of essays that deal with the currently vigorous concerns of the philosophy of information, ontology creation and control, bioinformation and biosemiotics, computational and post- computational ap- proaches to the philosophy of…
This book explores the philosophical and scientific questions at the intersections of computing, information, and cognition through essays on bioinformation, cognitive science, ontology, computational linguistics, ethics, and education.
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Umberto Eco’s Semiotics
Theory, Methodology and Poetics
This text explores four books produced by one of the most prominent semioticians of the previous century, Umberto Eco, in order to create a semiotic meta-theory which enhances a multifarious way of “readability” and scientifically justifies the dichotomy between the creation of a work of art and its being read, visualized and experienced by the audience. It begins by treating the “narration” component as one of the main theoretical challenges of Eco’s theory, specifically focusing on the concept of time, seen from the linguistic and semiotic viewpoints. The book also…
This book explores Umberto Eco’s theories on narration, encoding, and decoding to forge a new meta-theory of “interpretative semiotics.” It analyzes the collaborative relationship between the creator of a work of art and the audience who reads, visualizes, and experiences it.
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This book explores different aspects of metaphoricity in legal discourse, from court proceedings and written institutionalised texts to judges’ argumentation and in spoken records, among others. It brings together linguists and law professionals from six different countries to investigate metaphor as a conceptual phenomenon accessible through language and, more specifically, through actual linguistic contexts of use.
This book explores metaphor in legal discourse. Linguists and law professionals from six countries investigate metaphor as a conceptual phenomenon through actual linguistic contexts, from court proceedings to judges’ argumentation.
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Writing Research Differently
How Community-University Partnerships Re-imagine the Research Article
Community-university engaged research is one of the most important innovations occurring within higher education today. Yet the scholarly literature remains largely untouched by these profound shifts. To better understand why and what can be done about it, this book focuses its attention on the research article itself: a prestigious, conventionalised form of writing that helps shape what knowledge is, how we know it and for what purposes. This highly original book challenges the notion of the empirical research article as neutral–that it just is. Analysis of a range…
This book challenges the notion of the empirical research article as a neutral form. Analyzing texts from engaged research, it reveals how authors resist scientific conventions and proposes a re-imagined article to advance social and cognitive justice in scholarly communication.
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With the advent of new media and technology, the notion of the rhetorical situation has changed, and there is now the exigence of a new theory of the rhetorical situation that better incorporates such new notions. By bringing together critical theory of technology and theory of critical geography, along with rhetoric and language theory, this book proposes a new theory on the rhetorical situation that has more explanatory power, and accounts for, frames, critiques, and analyses the fundamental assumptions and beliefs on the rhetorical situation. This theory conceives the constituents…
This book proposes a new theory of the rhetorical situation for our age of new media. By merging theories of technology, geography, and rhetoric, it frames rhetoric as a non-linear entity, offering an innovative way to broaden the research scope of the field.
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Binary Oppositions in American Society and Culture
A Socio-Semiotic Analysis
This book, which explores the social, psychological, cultural and political significance of the concept of binarism, is intertextual in nature and borrows from the ideas and writings of scholars whose ideas help us understand binarism and from some modified and updated versions of my previous writings. The concept of intertextuality is derived from the writings of the Russian communications theorist M. M. Bakhtin and his theories about dialogism, which are of central importance in this book. Intertextuality is a concept that refers to the interconnectedness of texts, where one text…
Drawing on semiotics, psychoanalysis, and sociology, this book unpacks the power of binarism, revealing how binary oppositions shape the social, cultural, and political landscape of American society.
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Creating Cultural Synergies
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Interculturality and Interreligiosity
The past several decades have seen the re-invigoration of the concept of “intercultural competence” as one of the fundamental and most promising approaches towards studying culture in a respectfully complex way. The introduction of this concept, which has been defined and adapted in manifold ways in various disciplines, offers new ways of exploring the inherent multiplicity and versatility of cultural encounters and mutual understanding. This book brings together a stellar group of international researchers working in such diverse fields as business studies, religious studies, educational studies and communication…
This book brings together international researchers from diverse fields to explore how intercultural competence can work in today’s society. The contributors elucidate the challenges and potentials of interculturality and interreligiosity.
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Being Quantum
Ontological Storytelling in the Age of Antenarrative
Being Quantum: Ontological Storytelling in the Age of Antenarrative is the first collection of its kind in the newly emerging quantum storytelling genre. Quantum storytelling provides an approach to organizational change based on interconnectedness, embeddedness, and entanglement. This volume offers the reader a collection of thoughtful perspectives on organization development, each inspired by quantum physics and its influence on human thought. Chapters are organized into four sections, addressing concepts related to time, space, matter, and spirituality. Each chapter addresses multiple areas to present the reader with a deeply interconnected series…
This collection offers perspectives on organizational development inspired by quantum physics. Based on interconnectedness and entanglement, chapters address concepts of time, space, matter, and spirituality to bring quantum storytelling to life.
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Drawing on political discourse from a wide rage of settings and perspectives, this book is set to provide a descriptive and analytical tool for examining political discourse and will be welcomed by anyone interested in discourse analysis in general, and in political discourse in particular. Topics covered in this book include the study of political discourse styles, the use of rhetorical strategies (vocabulary, metaphors, quotations, parentheticals, etc.), the relation between political discourse and society (legitimization, the private-public interface, identities), role of gestures in relation to speech, methods for analysing political…
This book provides a descriptive and analytical tool for examining political discourse. Topics include rhetorical strategies, the relation between discourse and society, analysis methods, and how to build and exploit a political language corpus.
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This book presents a collection of articles that put forward original research and significant insight regarding several key issues related to knowledge and language in Middle Eastern societies. The aspects studied include: the role of knowledge and language in affirming and negating political agendas and self-identities within areas of conflict and tension; ideas regarding the usefulness and interaction of religious and secular knowledge; and the attributes that render knowledge and language, especially that which is believed to be of divine origin, outstanding and worthy of admiration. The selection of studies…
This book presents research on knowledge and language in Middle Eastern societies, examining their role in politics, conflict, identity, and religion. Spanning diverse languages, faiths, and periods, these studies highlight the substantial commonalities that unite the region.
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TechKnowledgies
New Imaginaries in the Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences
TechKnowledgies: New Imaginaries and Transmigrations in the Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences is a diverse collection of essays, a recently produced technology play by William Kennedy, art, and installations that represent, and at times resist, the ways science and technology are interacting with the arts and the humanities to produce new imaginaries and disciplinary transmigrations that gesture towards a “university” of tomorrow. As theorists’ posit new futures and call for an end to historically grounded, or discipline-based, so-called silo approaches to knowledges, a de facto reorganization of disciplinary boundaries and a…
This collection of essays, art, and installations explores how science and technology interact with the arts and humanities. This fusion breaks down disciplinary silos to produce new imaginaries and integrated knowledges—what we call new TechKnowledgies.
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Current applied linguistic research generally supports the adoption of interdisciplinary approaches in education with the objective of enhancing learners’ progress and teachers’ practices. In this spirit, this edited volume explores the issue of cross-curricular learning and teaching from a wider perspective. The twenty-three papers collected here are categorised in four thematic units, all of which, however, share a common feature: they focus on interdisciplinary learning and promote the integration of knowledge and skills from various subject areas. As such, all the papers brought together in this volume, thus, emphasise the…
This edited volume explores cross-curricular learning and teaching, promoting the integration of knowledge and skills from various subject areas. Themes include Intercultural Education, CLIL, and ICT. For scholars and educators wishing to improve their practices.
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Is it Real? is a collection of twenty-eight papers on the most challenging, provocative – and profound – topics related to the quest for real and virtual realities of vision and other senses, and realities that are either constructed or imagined. There was no school, no theory, no methodology, nor any empirical approach in semiotics which was not forced to take a position, whether implicitly or explicitly, in attempting to discuss this issue. Semiotics is a discipline dealing with signs, and, thus, it is commonly thought that if we say…
The papers in this collection deal with the quest for real and virtual realities of vision and other senses, and realities that are either constructed or imagined. They investigate semiotics, a discipline dealing with signs, focusing on the question of whether it actually exists.
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Discourses in Traffic
Communication between Traffic Signs and Their Users in China
In recent decades, China has transitioned from an inherently agricultural country to an emerging economic titan with a vast transportation network that befits its newly globalized status. Through this fast-paced economic development, the country soon became a nation of drivers. By 2019, the country had 260 million automobiles and 397 million drivers, most of whom were only years from being a novice. In 2019 alone, another 26 million new drivers joined the Chinese roadways. At the same time, China encountered many traffic-related problems: overcrowded urban areas, a deteriorating environment, the…
As China became a nation of drivers, it encountered immense traffic-related problems. This book zeroes in on the authentic discourses in Chinese traffic, demonstrating the interaction between signs and new drivers in Guangzhou to reveal the country’s shift to modern traffic.
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Syllable Structure of Bangla
An Optimality-Theoretic Approach
Syllable Structure of Bangla: An Optimality-Theoretic Approach is a three part study designed to provide students/readers with a better understanding about the structure of Bangla syllables in terms of phonology and morphology. The book is divided into twelve chapters with each chapter focusing on one particular area of the study. The first part of this three part study focuses on the frequency of occurrences of different consonant clusters in Bangla. It argues that these clusters are best described with the help of the Bangla lexicon into three strata that include…
This study analyzes the structure of Bangla syllables in terms of phonology and morphology. It examines consonant clusters and verbal inflections using the frameworks of Optimality Theory and Distributed Morphology to understand the language’s unique structure.
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