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This volume deals with the pragmatic dimension of negations and is oriented towards empirical studies of negatives’ meanings and functions in media and public discourses.
By bringing together scholars from different countries, with studies on different languages this volume aims to shed light and contribute to new knowledge about the forms and functionality of negation as an universal phenomenon. Linguists and pragmaticiens generally agree that the use of negatives escapes logic and pure semantic description and is therefore best analysed with tools from cognitive and pragmatic theories.
Based on hypotheses within pragmatics, semantics and discourse analysis, the main assumption is here that forms of expressing negatives emerge and adjust constantly and in accordance with the cultural domain and the social setting of their appearance. This is why this volume focuses on the functions of negative expressions in specific domains and types of discourses.
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The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to numerical modelling of the ocean and the atmosphere. It originates from courses given at Stockholm University and is intended to serve as a textbook for students in meteorology and oceanography with a background in mathematics and physics.
Focus is on numerical schemes for the most commonly used equations in oceanography and meteorology as well as on the stability, precision and other properties of these schemes. Simple equations capturing the properties of the primitive equations employed in models of the ocean and atmosphere will be used.
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Matematikundervisning av idag har en påverkan inom kultur, ekonomi, politik och i relation till makt. Sociopolitiska perspektiv i matematikdidaktisk forskning ger insikter om hur utbildningen i matematik är social och politisk. I bokens kapitel presenteras aktuell forskning om matematikutbildningens sociopolitiska utmaningar i flera sammanhang genom olika filosofiska och empiriska studier, baserade på teoretiska verktyg från filosofi, samhällsvetenskap och kulturstudier, kritiska studier av utbildning samt sociokulturellt-politiska studier av matematikutbildning.
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August Strindberg (1849–1912) kept a diary from February 1896 in Paris until the summer of 1908 in Stockholm. He referred to his diary from this period as his Occult Diary and used it to help him decipher the world as he experienced it. He read and reread his own notations, adding new interpretations, and deleting others. He also drew on the diary as material for creative expression, transforming isolated events and observations into groundbreaking works of literature.
The Occult Diary is published here in its entirety in English translation for the first time, in a final revision by Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams and with an introduction by Per Stam. The Occult Diary is a key resource for international Strindberg scholars and theater professionals and more broadly for scholars focusing on drama, theater history, stage performance, and literary currents at the turn of the previous century. The diary initiates the reader into the writer’s inner world during a crucial transitional period in his personal and literary life. It documents his readings and observations and gives important clues and information about an ongoing process of artistic reorientation. Strindberg was exploring new ways of looking at, interpreting, and writing about nature, science, art, the occult, and his fellow human beings.
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Framing the Nation, Claiming the Hemisphere examines the national and transnational imagination in travel reports by American authors written between 1770 and 1830. Its range is from John and William Bartram’s pre-revolutionary travelogues and Jonathan Carver’s exploratory report on his journey in the Great Lakes region (first published 1778), to early nineteenth-century reports, such as Anne Newport Royall’s Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the United States (1826) and William Duane’s A Visit to Colombia (1826). The chapters of the monograph concentrate on writing about journeys to the North American ‘interior‘, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. The primary sources were written between the beginning of the struggle against British rule, following the end of the French and Indian War, and the beginning of Andrew Jackson’s presidency. The decades between 1770 and 1830 were times of shifting colonial boundaries, nation-building, and emergent discourses of collective identification in North America. The study reads travel writing in the context of the identity-generating discourses of nation-building, imperialism, anti-colonialism, and cosmopolitanism.
Book DetailsThis book zooms in on some currently debated topics of Language Education: The gap between research and practice, the importance of pronunciation in L2/FL, classroom translanguaging, young learners’ exposure of English outside school, and teachers’ attitudes to foreign languages other than English.
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Antologin Teoretiska tillämpningar i konstvetenskap demonstrerar, presenterar och problematiserar tillämpningen av semiotisk teori på konstvetenskapliga studieobjekt. Den centrala ambitionen är att diskutera och exemplifiera de specifika frågor och problem som semiotikens möte med just konstvetenskapliga studieobjekt ger upphov till. Till dessa hör frågor om visuell kommunikation och visuella koder, materialitet och medialitet så som i andra sammanhang förbisedda aspekter av tecknet, samt tecknets och därmed tolkningens historicitet. Antologins sex kapitel inkluderar studier av samtida modefotografi och skulptur, pre- och postindustriella möbler, 1600- och 1800-talets oljemåleri och 1800-talets pressbild.
Book DetailsDenna bok handlar om historievetenskapernas sätt att producera kunskap genom att kontextualisera. Den vänder sig till både studenter och forskare och vill stimulera till ökad reflektion om hur vi går till väga då vi skapar, tolkar eller omtolkar historiska sammanhang.
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The indigenous religious traditions of the peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic areas were and are very diverse. Despite their diversity, these traditions have often been presented as similar. In resent research, however, variations and local characteristics have gained increasing attention. The emphasis in this volume is exactly on differences and on nuances. Therefore, critical analyses of earlier research, different forms of source criticism, and comparative methods that look for more than just similarities are all applied as essential analytical tools.
Some of the chapters focus on aspects of the traditional cultures of these northern peoples, others are critical readings of research about them. The themes of the chapters that deal with traditional practices and narratives vary from hostage traditions to ancestor mountains, from bear rituals and sweat baths to the ritual drum. The research historical chapters discuss source critical and terminological problems, or consider the contributions of scholars in the emergence of what eventually become identified as religions.
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Den franska bokmarknaden är av stor betydelse för det världslitterära systemet. I denna bok beskrivs hur svensk skönlitteratur har översatts till franska, med ett särskilt fokus på tiden efter 1945. Under denna period har antalet utgåvor av svensk skönlitteratur på franska tiofaldigats. Vilka översättare, förlag och andra aktörer har bidragit till denna utveckling? Vilka litteraturtyper och författarskap har varit särskilt framgångsrika? Dessa frågor besvaras utifrån omfattande statistik som bygger på de senaste bibliografiska förteckningarna.
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