Culture And Language At Crossed Purposes

Author : Jerome McGann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226818462
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes written by Jerome McGann and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period. Classic American literature, Jerome McGann argues, is haunted by the betrayal of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Indian treaties—“a stunned memory preserved in the negative spaces of the treaty records.” A noted scholar of the “textual conditions” of literature, McGann investigates canonical works from the colonial period, including the Arbella sermon and key writings of William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather’s Magnalia, Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated treaty folios and Autobiography, and Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. These are highly practical, purpose-driven works—the record of Enlightenment dreams put to the severe test of dangerous conditions. McGann suggests that the treaty-makers never doubted the unsettled character of what they were prosecuting, and a similar conflicted ethos pervades these works. Like the treaty records, they deliberately test themselves against stringent measures of truth and accomplishment and show a distinctive consciousness of their limits and failures. McGann’s book is ultimately a reminder of the public importance of truth and memory—the vocational commitments of humanist scholars and educators.

Author : Stephen Bochner
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483138348
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Cultures in Contact written by Stephen Bochner and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Series in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume I: Culture in Contact: Studies in Cross-Cultural Interaction is part of a series of books that presents development in the field of social psychology; each volume contains materials such as empirical research, research procedures, theoretical formulations, and critical reviews of the relevant literature. This particular volume covers the processes and outcomes of cross cultural encounters. The book consists of eight chapters, which are organized into three parts. Part I discusses various types and purposes of cross-cultural contact and reviews the major empirical findings relating to the field. Part II deals with the processes underlying effective communication between culturally diverse persons. Part III concerns itself with practical outcomes of culture contact, such as the reactions of the persons engaged in the meeting. The text will be of great interest to researchers and professionals concerned with the nature of cross-cultural interactions, such as sociologists and social psychologists.

Author : Martina Fuchs
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317399463
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Managing Culture and Interspace in Cross-border Investments written by Martina Fuchs and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the dialectics between spatio-organisational gaps and local contexts that characterise cross-border investments. "Interspatial" investments – be it mergers & acquisitions (M&A) or greenfield investments – are usually characterised by what is referred to as "otherness", i.e. organisational and cultural distances of the firms involved in relation to their regional contexts. At the same time, economic, political and socio-cultural linkages are decisive for attracting cross-border investments to regions and for providing firms with conditions supportive of their market success. As a consequence of being locked into complex structures of proximities, cross-border investments are situated in contested terrain. This terrain triggers learning processes in both regional actors and investors, which can result in the convergence of mindsets and organisational issues. This book is unique in that it combines interspace (defined as the distance between the new owner and the cross-border venture), place (the target region), interpretation (perception and understanding of the investment by the actors involved) and context (institutions, actor networks and interaction), thus offering better understanding of recent processes of globalisation. Crossing disciplinary boundaries by integrating economic geography and management studies, the volume adopts an innovative and spatially informed perspective on foreign direct investments (FDI). This perspective will be of great value to scholars, students and practitioners. The volume is inventive in its approach in that it offers fresh readings from interdisciplinary theoretical approaches and combines these with valuable empirical insights from developed as well as Emerging Economies.

Author : Peter Funke
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783878083368
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Understanding the USA written by Peter Funke and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1989 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Henno
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 160750992X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XXIII written by J. Henno and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information modelling and knowledge bases have become hot topics, not only in academic communities concerned with information systems and computer science, but also wherever information technology is applied in the world of business. This book presents the proceedings of the 21st European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases (EJC 2011), held in Tallinn, Estonia, in June 2011. The EJC conferences provide a worldwide forum for researchers and practitioners in the field to exchange results and experiences achieved in computer science and related disciplines such as conceptual analysis, design and specification of information systems, multimedia information modelling, multimedia systems, software engineering, knowledge and process management, cross cultural communication and context modelling. Attention is also paid to theoretical disciplines including cognitive science, artificial intelligence, logic, linguistics and analytical philosophy. The selected papers (16 full papers, 9 short papers, 2 papers based on panel sessions and 2 on invited presentations), cover a wide range of topics, including database semantics, knowledge representation, software engineering, www information management, context-based information retrieval, ontology, image databases, temporal and spatial databases, document data management, process management, cultural modelling and many others. Covering many aspects of system modelling and optimization, this book will be of interest to all those working in the field of information modelling and knowledge bases.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chandan Maheshkar
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648896863
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Cross-culture Business and Management written by Chandan Maheshkar and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As organizations and businesses continue to expand in the cross-border and multicultural markets, culture needs to be taken into consideration. At present, culture introduces significant changes in the core assumptions of business practices and skill expectations. Gaining cross-cultural compatibility is now a serious concern for businesses and organizations. Appreciating the overall view of cross-cultural business environment, 'Handbook of Research on Cross-culture Business and Management' is a significant attempt to contribute a piece of knowledge on different aspects of cross-cultural business and management, facilitating practitioners and academicians to explore different cross-cultural business practices and develop competencies. This book will be a unique source for cross-cultural business and management practices, helping people of both industry and academia to understand the cross-cultural business environment and improve management practices.

Author : Anuradha Dingwaney
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822974681
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Between Languages and Cultures written by Anuradha Dingwaney and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated texts are often either uncritically consumed by readers, teacher, and scholars or seen to represent an ineluctable loss, a diminishing of original texts. Translation, however, is a cultural practice, influenced also by social and political imperatives, which can open more doors than it closes. The essays in this book show how the act of translation, when vigilantly and critically attended to, becomes a means for active interrogation.

Author : Andrea DeCapua
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Crossing Cultures in the Language Classroom written by Andrea DeCapua and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing Cultures in the Language Classroom links theory with experiential activities that will be helpful for use in teacher training or certificate programs. The goals of this book for the teacher educator are to expand cultural awareness, to acquire an in-depth understanding of what culture is and its relationship to language, and to comprehend and implement observations of cultural similarities and differences. Topics discussed in the book include: culture shock nonverbal communication societal roles pragmatics. A great in-service workshop text or teacher training programs.

Author : Mary K. Long
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626164193
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Language for Specific Purposes written by Mary K. Long and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The project emerged from the Second International Symposium on Languages for Specific Purposes which was held at the University of Colorado, Boulder in spring 2014.