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Disputing citizenship
This unique book presents a new perspective on citizenship by treating it as a continuing focus of dispute. The authors develop a view of citizenship as always emerging from struggle through an exploration of the entanglements of politics, culture and power that are both embodied and contested in forms and practices of citizenship. This book will mainly appeal to scholars and students engaged b…
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- 9781447312529
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- VIII, 214 p.
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- 323.6 DIS d
The social metabolism of Spanish agriculture, 1900–2008 : the mediterranean…
This open access book provides a panoramic view of the evolution of Spanish agriculture from 1900 to the present, offering a more diverse picture to the complex and multidimensional reality of agrarian production. With a clear transdisciplinary ambition, the book applies an original and innovative theoretical and methodological tool, termed Agrarian Social Metabolism, combining Social Metabolis…
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- 9783030209001
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- xix, 281p. : ill.
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- 630.946 SOC s
Sign Bilingualism in education: challenges and perspectives along the researc…
From the first attempts at including sign language in deaf education until today, the status of sign language in deaf education has been marked by changing perspectives on deafness and the needs and abilities of deaf students. The perception of deaf individuals using a sign language and a spoken/written language as bilinguals is a relatively new phenomenon, and so is a bimodal bilingual concept…
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- 9780992922139
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- IX, 114 p.
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- Ishara Research Series, 3
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- 419.03 PLA s
Morphologically complex words in the mind/brain
The question of how morphologically complex words (assign-ment, listen-ed) are represented and processed in the brain has been one of the most hotly debated topics in the cognitive neuroscience of language. Do complex words engage cortical representations and processes equivalent to single lexical objects or are they processed as sequences of separate morpheme-like units? Research on morphologi…
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- 9782889198030
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- 230 p.; 22 cm.
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- Frontiers Research Topics
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- 425 MOR m
Political games : strategy, persuasion, and learning
Political actors navigate a world of incomplete and noisy information. Voters make decisions about turnout and voting amidst campaign promises, credit claiming, and fake news. Policymakers experiment with reforms amidst uncertain predictions from experts and biased interest groups. Parties form coalitions and sign agreements amidst cheap talk and strategic communication. Beyond democracies, aut…
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- 9783039284474
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- VII, 70 p.
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- 320.015193 GRA p
A Gender-based approach to parliamentary discourse
Does gender condition politicians’ discourse strategies in parliament? This is the question we try to answer in A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse: The Andalusian Parliament. This book, written by experts in the field of discourse analysis, covers key aspects of political discourse such as gender, identity and verbal and nonverbal strategies: intensification, enumerative serie…
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- 9789027266330
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- 401.43 GEN g
Developmental, modal, and pathological variation linguistic and cognitive pro…
One significant area of research in the multifaceted field of bilingualism over the past two decades has been the demonstration, validation, and account of the so-called ‘bilingual advantage’. This refers to the hypothesis that bilingual speakers have advanced abilities in executive functions and other domains of human cognition. Such cognitive benefits of bilingualism have an impact on the…
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- 9782889456383
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- 179 p.; 23 cm.
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- Frontiers Research Topics
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- 404.2 DEV d
Anthropology of color : interdisciplinary multilevel modeling
The field of color categorization has always been intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary, since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. The main contribution of this book is to foster a new level of integration among different approaches to the anthropological study of color. The editors have put great effort into bringing together research from anthropology, linguistics, psychology, sem…
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- 9789027291707
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- xx, 485p. : ill.
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- 306.44 ANT a
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