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Author: Anne-Katrin Ziesak
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2013-07-05
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 3110816660
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A Grammar of Toqabaqita
Author: Frantisek Lichtenberk
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2008-11-03
Total Pages: 1409
ISBN-13: 3110199068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToqabaqita is an Austronesian language spoken by approximately 13,000 people on the island of Malaita in the south-eastern Solomon Islands. This two-volume grammar is the first comprehensive description of the language, based on the author's field work. The grammar deals with the phonology, morphology, syntax, and discourse patterns of the language, as well as with its contact with Solomon Islands Pijin. It will be of special interest to typologists and to specialists in Austronesian linguistics.
World Editors
Author: Gustavo Guerrero
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-12-16
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 311071311X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe existence of World Literature depends on specific processes, institutions, and actors involved in the global circulation of literary works. The contributions of this volume aim to pay attention to these multiple material dimensions of Latin American 20th and 21st century literatures. From perspectives informed by materialism, sociology, book studies, and digital humanities, the articles of this volume analyze the role of publishing houses, politics of translation, mediators and gatekeepers, allowing insights into the processes that enable books to cross borders and to be transformed into globally circulating commodities. The book focusses both on material (re)sources of literary archives, key actors in literary and cultural markets, prizes and book fairs, as well as on recent dimension of the digital age. Statements of some of the leading representatives of the global publishing world complement these analyses of the operations of selection and aggregation of value to literary texts.
Scientific writing and publishing in medicine and health sciences
Author: Daniel Kotz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-04-19
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 3110721627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWriting and publishing scientific papers is the core business of every researcher, but is often experienced as difficult and frustrating. Good scientific content of a paper alone does not guarantee its publication in a good journal, because various aspects affect the writing and publishing process. This book is a quick guide into effective writing and publishing papers. It provides authors with clear and concise key information on 12 major parts of the process, from how to get started to dealing with reviewers’ comments. We describe each part succinct and easy-to-read, structured into background information (‘‘What you should know’’), concrete advice (‘‘What you should do’’), and a checklist of the main points to consider. Authors can read the book as a whole but can also use it as a reference book to look-up advice for a particular part while writing. With the information from this book authors from the medical and health sciences increase their joy in writing papers and their effectiveness in getting them published in good journals.
Algebra in the Stone-Cech Compactification
Author: Neil Hindman
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-12-23
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 3110258358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the second revised and extended edition of the successful book on the algebraic structure of the Stone-Čech compactification of a discrete semigroup and its combinatorial applications, primarily in the field known as Ramsey Theory. There has been very active research in the subject dealt with by the book in the 12 years which is now included in this edition. This book is a self-contained exposition of the theory of compact right semigroups for discrete semigroups and the algebraic properties of these objects. The methods applied in the book constitute a mosaic of infinite combinatorics, algebra, and topology. The reader will find numerous combinatorial applications of the theory, including the central sets theorem, partition regularity of matrices, multidimensional Ramsey theory, and many more.
Society and the Adolescent Self-Image
Author: Morris Rosenberg
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-12-08
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1400876133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 5,000 high-school students of different social, religious, and national backgrounds were studied to show the effects of family experience, neighborhoods, minority groups, etc. on their self-image and response to society. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Signal Processing and Data Analysis
Author: Tianshuang Qiu
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2018-07-09
Total Pages: 602
ISBN-13: 3110465086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents digital signal processing theories and methods and their applications in data analysis, error analysis and statistical signal processing. Algorithms and Matlab programming are included to guide readers step by step in dealing with practical difficulties. Designed in a self-contained way, the book is suitable for graduate students in electrical engineering, information science and engineering in general.
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics
Author: Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009-09-04
Total Pages: 541
ISBN-13: 3110220962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, which can be seen as both a research monograph and a text book, challenges the approaches to human interaction based on supposedly universal "maxims of conversation" and "principles of politeness", which fly in the face of reality as experienced by millions of people - refugees, immigrants, crosscultural families, and so on. By contrast to such approaches, which can be of no use in crosscultural communication and education, this book is both theoretical and practical: it shows that in different societies, norms of human interaction are different and reflect different cultural attitudes and values; and it offers a framework within which different cultural norms and different ways of speaking can be effectively explored, explained, and taught. The book discusses data from a wide range of languages, including English, Italian, Russian, Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Walmatjari (an Australian Aboriginal language), and it shows that the meanings expressed in human interaction and the different "cultural scripts" prevailing in different speech communities can be described and compared in a way that is clear, simple, rigorous, and free of ethnocentric bias by using a "natural semantic metalanguage", based on empirically established universal human concepts. As the book shows, this metalanguage can be used as a basis for teaching successful cross-cultural communication and education, including the teaching of languages in a cultural context.
Bernstein Functions
Author: René L. Schilling
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 3110269333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBernstein functions appear in various fields of mathematics, e.g. probability theory, potential theory, operator theory, functional analysis and complex analysis – often with different definitions and under different names. Among the synonyms are `Laplace exponent' instead of Bernstein function, and complete Bernstein functions are sometimes called `Pick functions', `Nevanlinna functions' or `operator monotone functions'. This monograph – now in its second revised and extended edition – offers a self-contained and unified approach to Bernstein functions and closely related function classes, bringing together old and establishing new connections. For the second edition the authors added a substantial amount of new material. As in the first edition Chapters 1 to 11 contain general material which should be accessible to non-specialists, while the later Chapters 12 to 15 are devoted to more specialized topics. An extensive list of complete Bernstein functions with their representations is provided.
Doing Applied Linguistics
Author: Daniel Perrin
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-06-12
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 3110496607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow can students be empowered to communicate professionally – as translators, journalists and CCOs? How can professionals engaged in crucial language interactions do the same – pilots, nurses, lawyers and many others? This volume gives answers to these questions, providing insights into critical situations and good practices from many years of research and teaching in a practice-oriented, research driven School of Applied Linguistics.
