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Human Universals Revisited

By: Christoph Antweiler

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Human Universals Revisited

By: Christoph Antweiler

Since the politicization of anthropology in the 1970s, most anthropologists have been reluctant to approach the topic of universals—that is, phenomena that occur regularly in all known human societies. In this volume, Christoph Antweiler reasserts the importance of these cross-cultural commonalities for anthropological research and for life and co-existence beyond the academy. The question presented here is how anthropology can help us approach humanity in its entirety, understanding the world less as a globe, with an emphasis on differences, but as a planet, from a vantage point open to commonalities.

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Berghahn Books

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1785330942

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Narrative in English Conversation

A Corpus Analysis of Storytelling

By: Christoph Rühlemann

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Narrative in English Conversation

A Corpus Analysis of Storytelling

By: Christoph Rühlemann

Storytelling is a fundamental mode of everyday interaction. This book is based upon the Narrative Corpus (NC), a specialized corpus of naturally occurring narratives, and provides new paths for its study. Christoph Rühlemann uses the NC's narrative-specific annotation and XPath and XQuery, query languages that allow the retrieval of complex data structures, to facilitate large-scale quantitative investigations into how narrators and recipients collaborate in storytelling. Empirical analyses are validated using R, a programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. Using this unique data and methodological base, Rühlemann reveals new insights, including the discovery of turntaking patterns specific to narrative, the first investigation of textual colligation in spoken data, the unearthing of how speech reports, as discourse units, form striking patterns at utterance level, and the identification of the story climax as the sequential context in which recipient dialogue is preferentially positioned.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107650232

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Neutropenia, An Issue of Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America

By: Christoph Klein

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Neutropenia, An Issue of Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America

By: Christoph Klein

This issue of Hematology/Oncology Clinics is guest edited by Dr. Christoph Klein and focuses on the topic of Neutropenia. Article titles include: Homeostasis and migration of neutrophil granulocytes,Granulocyte-colony Stimulating Factor (G-CSF) receptor signaling,New Granulocyte-colony Stimulating Factor (G-CSF) Receptor Signaling Pathways ,Neutrophil elastase (ELANE) – Genetics and Pathophysiology,Autosomal recessive variants of Severe congenital neutropenia (SCN),Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency (LAD), and Genotype-phenotype correlations in Severe congenital neutropenia (SCN).

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455771872

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Warning about War

Conflict, Persuasion and Foreign Policy

By: Christoph O. Meyer,Chiara De Franco,Florian Otto

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Warning about War

Conflict, Persuasion and Foreign Policy

By: Christoph O. Meyer,Chiara De Franco,Florian Otto

Explains how and when public and non-public warnings about future conflicts affect decision-making in Western states and international organisations.

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Cambridge University Press

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110848607X

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Jewish Liberal Politics in Tsarist Russia, 1900-14

The Modernization of Russian Jewry

By: Christoph Gassenschmidt

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Jewish Liberal Politics in Tsarist Russia, 1900-14

The Modernization of Russian Jewry

By: Christoph Gassenschmidt

Contrary general perceptions concerning Russia during this era, Jewish political activities continued beyond 1907, and given the political limits of Tsarist Russia, transformed and modernized Jewish society to the fullest extent possible. From 1900 to 1914 Jewish Liberals initiated, organised and coordinated various forms of Jewish representation in Russian politics in order to achieve legal emancipation, national- cultural autonomy and even more important the integration of Russian Jews into a modernizing Russian society and economy.

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Springer

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1349239445

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Evaluation of German Active Labour Market Policies and their Organisational Framework

By: Christoph R. Ehlert

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Evaluation of German Active Labour Market Policies and their Organisational Framework

By: Christoph R. Ehlert

For selected target groups, such as unemployed and disadvantaged youth, Christoph Ehlert demonstrates that flexible and well-targeted programmes significantly improve employment chances. To be effective, these programmes must combine individual coaching, classroom training and temporary work. Apart from the programmes, the organisational framework in which the programmes are allocated also influences the outcome. The author shows that the introduction of customer service centres, that streamlined the customers through the counselling and placement process, helped little in bringing unemployed back to work, while the introduction of action programmes even worsened the situation for the unemployed and job-seekers. Whereas the introduction of new placement software in German employment agencies led to an increase in regular employment and to more sustainable placements that exhibit longer tenures.

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Springer Gabler

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3658081120

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9783658081126

Compound Intonation Units in Totoli

Postlexical prosody and the prosody-syntax interface

By: Christoph Bracks

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Compound Intonation Units in Totoli

Postlexical prosody and the prosody-syntax interface

By: Christoph Bracks

This book is an investigation into aspects of prosody, intonation and the prosody-syntax interface in Totoli, an endangered Austronesian language. With a strongly data-driven approach, the study integrates a combination of experimental evidence from both production and perception with corpus-based evidence through descriptive and inferential statistics. The study takes the prime structuring unit of speech – the Intonation Unit – as its principal unit of investigation. It presents a thorough description of the IU, develops an intonational model of it, and investigates the syntactic units it contains. The author argues that the data is best analysed by assuming recursive embedding of Intonation Units into Compound Intonation Units. This research represents a significant advancement in our understanding of the nature of prosodic systems found in the languages of the region and in intonational systems in general. It is one of the few investigations into the intonation of Austronesian languages and its analytical proposals are relevant both to prosodic theory and to phonological typology.

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Language Science Press

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3961104360

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Hidden Criticism?

The Methodology and Plausibility of the Search for a Counter-Imperial Subtext in Paul

By: Christoph Heilig

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Hidden Criticism?

The Methodology and Plausibility of the Search for a Counter-Imperial Subtext in Paul

By: Christoph Heilig

Is there a counter-imperial message beneath the surface of the text in Paul? Christoph Heilig analyzes the letters of the apostle and concludes that the hypothesis that we can identify critical "echoes" of the Roman Empire in Paul's letters needs to be modified for it to be maintained.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161537955

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Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work

By: Christoph Wolff

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Bach's Musical Universe: The Composer and His Work

By: Christoph Wolff

A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach’s creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art. Throughout his life, renowned and prolific composer Johann Sebastian Bach articulated his views as a composer in purely musical terms; he was notoriously reluctant to write about his life and work. Instead, he methodically organized certain pieces into carefully designed collections. These benchmark works, all of them without parallel or equivalent, produced a steady stream of transformative ideas that stand as paradigms of Bach’s musical art. In this companion volume to his Pulitzer Prize–finalist biography, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, leading Bach scholar Christoph Wolff takes his cue from his famous subject. Wolff delves deeply into the composer’s own rich selection of collected music, cutting across conventional boundaries of era, genre, and instrument. Emerging from a complex and massive oeuvre, Bach’s Musical Universe is a focused discussion of a meaningful selection of compositions—from the famous Well-Tempered Clavier, violin and cello solos, and Brandenburg Concertos to the St. Matthew Passion, Art of Fugue, and B-minor Mass. Unlike any study undertaken before, this book details Bach’s creative process across the various instrumental and vocal genres. This array of compositions illustrates the depth and variety at the essence of the composer’s musical art, as well as his unique approach to composition as a process of imaginative research into the innate potential of his chosen material. Tracing Bach’s evolution as a composer, Wolff compellingly illuminates the ideals and legacy of this giant of classical music in a new, refreshing light for everyone, from the amateur to the virtuoso.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393651797

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Visual Linguistics with R

A practical introduction to quantitative Interactional Linguistics

By: Christoph Rühlemann

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Visual Linguistics with R

A practical introduction to quantitative Interactional Linguistics

By: Christoph Rühlemann

This book is a textbook on R, a programming language and environment for statistical analysis and visualization. Its primary aim is to introduce R as a research instrument in quantitative Interactional Linguistics. Focusing on visualization in R, the book presents original case studies on conversational talk-in-interaction based on corpus data and explains in good detail how key graphs in the case studies were programmed in R. It also includes task sections to enable readers to conduct their own research and compute their own visualizations in R. Both the code underlying the key graphs in the case studies and the datasets used in the case studies as well as in the task sections are made available on the book’s companion website.

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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9027260982

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Sharing Knowledge

A Functionalist Account of Assertion

By: Christoph Kelp,Mona Simion

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Sharing Knowledge

A Functionalist Account of Assertion

By: Christoph Kelp,Mona Simion

Assertion is the central vehicle for the sharing of knowledge. Whether knowledge is shared successfully often depends on the quality of assertions: good assertions lead to successful knowledge sharing, while bad ones don't. In Sharing Knowledge, Christoph Kelp and Mona Simion investigate the relation between knowledge sharing and assertion, and develop an account of what it is to assert well. More specifically, they argue that the function of assertion is to share knowledge with others. It is this function that supports a central norm of assertion according to which a good assertion is one that has the disposition to generate knowledge in others. The book uses this functionalist approach to motivate further norms of assertion on both the speaker and the hearer side and investigates ramifications of this view for other questions about assertion.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009041002

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Dispossession

Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953

By: Christoph Kreutzmüller,Jonathan R. Zatlin

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Dispossession

Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953

By: Christoph Kreutzmüller,Jonathan R. Zatlin

This collection of essays by a range of international, multidisciplinary scholars explores the financial history, social significance, and cultural meanings of the theft, starting in 1933, of assets owned by German Jews. Despite the fraught topic and the ongoing legal discussions, the subject has not received much scholarly attention until now. This volume offers a much needed contribution to our understanding of the history of the period and the acts. The essays examine the confiscatory taxation of Jewish property, the looting of art and confiscation of gold, the role of German freight forwarders in property theft, salesmen and dispossession in the retail world, theft from the elderly, and the complicity of the banking industry, as well as the reach of the practice beyond German borders.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472126938

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9780472126934

Introduction to Discourse Studies

New edition

By: Jan Renkema,Christoph Schubert

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Introduction to Discourse Studies

New edition

By: Jan Renkema,Christoph Schubert

This new edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies (IDS) is a thoroughly revised and updated version of this successful textbook, which has been published in four languages and has become a must-read for anyone interested in the analysis of texts and discourses. Supported by an international advisory board of 14 leading experts, it deals with all main subdomains in discourse studies, from pragmatics to cognitive linguistics, from critical discourse analysis to stylistics, and many more. The book approaches major issues in this field from the Anglo-American and European as well as the Asian traditions. It provides an ‘academic toolkit’ for future courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping stone to the independent study of professional literature. The chapters are subdivided in modular sections that can be studied separately. The pedagogical objectives are further supported by over 500 index entries covering frequently used concepts that are accurately defined with examples throughout the text; more than 150 test-yourself questions, all elaborately answered, which are ideal for self-study; nearly 100 assignments that provide ample material for lecturers to focus on specific topics in their courses. Jan Renkema is Emeritus Professor of Discourse Quality at the Department of Communication and Information Sciences at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He is also editor of Discourse, of Course (2009) and author of The Texture of Discourse (2009). In 2009, a Chinese edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies was published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. Christoph Schubert is Full Professor of English Linguistics at Vechta University, Germany. He is author of an Introduction to English text linguistics (2nd ed. 2012) and co-editor of Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse (2016) and Variational Text Linguistics (2016).

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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9027263108

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Invariance Entropy for Deterministic Control Systems

An Introduction

By: Christoph Kawan

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Invariance Entropy for Deterministic Control Systems

An Introduction

By: Christoph Kawan

This monograph provides an introduction to the concept of invariance entropy, the central motivation of which lies in the need to deal with communication constraints in networked control systems. For the simplest possible network topology, consisting of one controller and one dynamical system connected by a digital channel, invariance entropy provides a measure for the smallest data rate above which it is possible to render a given subset of the state space invariant by means of a symbolic coder-controller pair. This concept is essentially equivalent to the notion of topological feedback entropy introduced by Nair, Evans, Mareels and Moran (Topological feedback entropy and nonlinear stabilization. IEEE Trans. Automat. Control 49 (2004), 1585–1597). The book presents the foundations of a theory which aims at finding expressions for invariance entropy in terms of dynamical quantities such as Lyapunov exponents. While both discrete-time and continuous-time systems are treated, the emphasis lies on systems given by differential equations.

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Springer

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3319012886

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Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791

By: Christoph Wolff

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Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788-1791

By: Christoph Wolff

A fresh look at the life of Mozart during his imperial years by one of the world's leading Mozart scholars.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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039305070X

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A Sound Tradition

A Short History of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

By: Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz

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A Sound Tradition

A Short History of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

By: Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz

From Vienna into the World What would Vienna be without the Philharmonic? 175 years have passed since the founding of this world-class orchestra in March of 1842, 175 years in which the musicians have provided their public countless glorious musical experiences. Their inimitable and unmistakable sound has aroused truly rapturous enthusiasm everywhere. Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz tells us of the milestones in the Philharmonic's history—collaboration with great conductors, the special quality of the "Viennese sound," the daily work of an international orchestra—and in so doing unearths memorable anecdotes from behind the scenes. With extensive illustrations and photographs from the Vienna Philharmonic archive

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Amalthea Signum Verlag

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3903083852

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Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics

A guide for research

By: Christoph Rühlemann

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Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics

A guide for research

By: Christoph Rühlemann

Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to the growing field of corpus pragmatics. Taking a hands-on approach to showcase the applications of corpora in the exploration of core topics within pragmatics, this book: • covers six key areas of corpus-pragmatic research including speech acts, deixis, pragmatic markers, evaluation, conversational structure, and multimodality; • demonstrates the use of freely-available corpora, corpus interfaces and corpus analysis tools to conduct original pragmatic analyses; • is accompanied by an e-resource which hosts multimodal data sets for additional exercises. Featuring case studies and practical tasks within each chapter, Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics is an essential guide for students and researchers studying or conducting their own corpus-based research in pragmatics.

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Routledge

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0429835604

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9780429835605

Johann Sebastian Bach

The Learned Musician

By: Christoph Wolff

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Johann Sebastian Bach

The Learned Musician

By: Christoph Wolff

Now available in paperback, this landmark biography was first published in 2000 to mark the 250th anniversary of J. S. Bach's death. Written by a leading Bach scholar, this book presents a new picture of the composer. Christoph Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between Bach's life and his music, showing how the composer's superb inventiveness pervaded his career as a musician, composer, performer, scholar, and teacher.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199248842

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Introduction to Geophysics

By: Christoph Clauser

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Introduction to Geophysics

By: Christoph Clauser

This textbook on geophysics is a translated and revised editon from its third German edition Einfhrung in die Geophysik - Globale physikalische Felder und Prozesse in der Erde. Explaining the technical terminology, it introduces students and the interested scientific public to the physics of the Earth at an intermediate level. In doing so, it goes far beyond a purely phenomenological description, but systematically explains the physical principles of the processes and fields which affect the entire Earth: Its position in space; its internal structure; its age and that of its rocks; earthquakes and how they are used in exploring Earths structure; its shape, tides, and isostatic equilibrium; Earth's magnetic field, the geodynamo that generates it, and the interaction between the Earth's magnetosphere and the solar wind's plasma flow; the Earth's temperature field and heat transport processes in the core, mantle, and crust of the Earth and their role in driving the geodynamo and plate tectonics. All chapters begin with a brief historical outline describing the development of each branch of geophysics up to the recent past. Selected biographies illustrate the personal and social conditions under which groundbreaking results were achieved. Detailed mathematical derivations facilitate understanding. Exercises with worked-out results allow readers to test the gained understanding. A detailed appendix contains a wealth of useful additional information such as a geological time table, general reference data, conversion factors, the latest values of the natural constants, vector and tensor calculus, and two chapters on the basic equations of hydrodynamics and hydrothermics. The book addresses bachelor and master students of geophysics and general earth science, as well as students of physics, engineering, and environmental sciences with geophysics as a minor subject. The Author Christoph Clauser accepted the professorship for Applied Geophysics at RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany in 2000. There, from 2007 until his retirement in 2018, he held the Chair of Applied Geophysics and Geothermal Energy at the E.ON Energy Research Center. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences - German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He is specialized in geophysical aspects of reservoir engineering, particularly related to geothermal energy, hydrocarbons, and geological carbon dioxide sequestration.

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Springer Nature

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303117867X

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