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This book aims to assess the issue of cultural heritage and illicit trafficking within the frame of a destabilized region and provide a historical and geopolitical understanding of what the Middle East is currently experiencing

The book analyses Iraqi Army's reconstruction in the post-Saddam era. Despite an apparent plan and a coalition in charge, the research identified multiple consideration, planning and synchronisation issues. The roles of actors like the United Nations or national governments are isolated and discussed through a unique method.

The publication is addressed to future translators and interpreters and to those who work or research in this field. From a theoretical-practical perspective, it presents original and innovative research on the complexity of the texts and their reformulation. It also includes works focused on interpretation as a process, product and profession.

Suivant les methodes de la lexicologie sociohistorique et les dernieres avancees en matiere d'exploitation de corpus textuel, ce volume etudie les origines et l'histoire du vocabulaire des arts de la table, a travers la constitution d'un corpus representatif qui s'etend du XVIe au XVIIIe siecle.

L'etude propose une reflexion sur les mecanismes ayant conduit au baby-boom en Suisse. Dans une perspective de parcours de vie et en recourant a des methodes mixtes, l'interrelation des trajectoires familiales et professionnelles des cohortes feminines est examinee au regard du systeme de valeurs promulgue dans la societe suisse de l'epoque.

This book adopts a multidisciplinary and novel approach to the historical evolution of identities in Europe - identities connected with regions as a multi-layered and processual key concept in dialogue and/or conflict with the emerging nation-state.

This critical edition offers a fully annotated modernized text of the Restoration comedy "Mr. Turbulent" . The introduction adresses topics such as the political dimension of the green spaces of Restoration London represented onstage; and the rethorical use of madness associated with the Bedlam hospital for the insane.

Two complementary case studies are presented. First, a cross-varietal study indicates that high-contact varieties of English exhibit a higher attestation rate of pronoun omission than low-contact varieties. Second, a corpus-based study demonstrates that pronouns are commonly omitted in contexts in which their antecedents can be easily identified.

The advent of digital media has changed political communication. Populist movements are adept at using the affordances of new media.Digital media also make it easier than ever for the public to respond to politicians, or to launch their own initiatives.These changes are analysed across countries as diverse as Venezuela, USA, Pakistan and Romania.

This volume explores knowledge dissemination practices according to two main orientations; first, with respect to the target audience, especially scholars vs. novices. Second in relation to the channels, especially multimodal and web-based platforms, and changing strategies such as popularization resources.

The present book is a complex approach to the elements that built the history of Catalonia. This collective book analyze differents aspects, such as: cultural history, the History of Law, the Political history or the History of the State, from the Midlle Ages to the Modern and Contemporary history.

The book showcases grammatical, pragmatic, and stylistic functions of punctuation, and shows how punctuation can encode emotion, metalinguistic marking, foregrounding and paralinguistic indications. It also highlights the sensibility of punctuation to genre and the speech-writing continuum, and shows how punctuation conventions change in time.

This book sheds new light on various interconnected aspects of the Gothic through the lens of converging critical and methodological approaches. With its interdisciplinary perspective, the authors explore the domains of literary, pictorial, filmic, televisual and popular cultural texts in English from the eighteenth century to the present day.

The book investigates conflict discourse in an interdisciplinary way, bringing together linguistics and periodical studies and highlighting the connection between language and ideology. It focuses on lexical choices and rhetorical devices used to tackle controversial issues.

This book discusses an important theme in art history - artistic emulation that emphasizes the exchange between Flemish and Dutch art in the seventeenth century.