Language as a Scientific Tool: Shaping Scientific Language Across Time and National Traditions, Miles MacLeod, Rocio G. Sumillera, Jan Surman, Ekaterina Smirnova
Описание: Details the science behind one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind: the transition from the ancient geocentric cosmos to a modern understanding of planetary orbits. Perfect for readers interested in astronomy, the history of science, and anyone who wants to better understand what science is and how it works.
Автор: Laumann, Dennis (the University Of Memphis) Название: Remembering the germans in ghana ISBN: 0820486213 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820486215 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 15878.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Memories of the German presence in the central Volta Region of Ghana are deep and vivid. This ethnically diverse area was part of the German Togoland colony from roughly 1884 to 1914 but German-speaking missionaries established stations earlier in the mid-nineteenth century. Ghanaian oral historians describe the violence, burdens, and inconveniences they associate with German rule, yet place greater emphasis on the introductions by German missionaries of Christianity and western education and the prevalence of what they say was the “honesty,” “order,” and “discipline” of the German colonial period. Remembering the Germans in Ghana examines this oral history, scrutinizes its sources and presentation, contextualizes it historically, and uses it to make larger arguments about memory and identity in Ghana. It also presents the case for more deliberate and extensive use of oral history in reconstructing the African colonial past and provides a methodology for its collection and analysis.
Описание: Language is the most essential medium of scientific activity. Many historians, sociologists and science studies scholars have investigated scientific language for this reason, but only few have examined those cases where language itself has become an object of scientific discussion. Over the centuries scientists have sought to control, refine and engineer language for various epistemological, communicative and nationalistic purposes. This book seeks to explore cases in the history of science in which questions or concerns with language have bubbled to the surface in scientific discourse. This opens a window into the particular ways in which scientists have conceived of and construed language as the central medium of their activity across different cultural contexts and places, and the clashes and tensions that have manifested their many attempts to engineer it to both preserve and enrich its function. The subject of language draws out many topics that have mostly been neglected in the history of science, such as the connection between the emergence of national languages and the development of science within national settings, and allows us to connect together historical episodes from many understudied cultural and linguistic venues such as Eastern European and medieval Hebrew science.
Автор: Christopher D. Hollings Название: Scientific Communication Across the Iron Curtain ISBN: 3319253441 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319253442 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This monograph provides a concise introduction to the tangled issues of communication between Russian and Western scientists during the Cold War. It then goes on to compare general language abilities on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain, with comments on efforts in the West to learn Russian and the systematic translation of Russian work.
Описание: The aim of this book is to explain in simple language what we know about time and about the history of time. It is shown that the briefest (as well as the lengthiest) history of time can be described in one or two pages.
Описание: The aim of this book is to explain in simple language what we know about time and about the history of time. It is shown that the briefest (as well as the lengthiest) history of time can be described in one or two pages.
Автор: Leow Название: Taming Babel ISBN: 1107148537 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107148536 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 16474.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Taming Babel examines the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse territories in the British Empire, it explores the profound anxieties generated by a century of struggles to govern the polyglot subjects of British Malaya and postcolonial Malaysia.
Автор: Woolfson Michael Mark Название: Time and Age: Time Machines, Relativity and Fossils ISBN: 1783265833 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783265831 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 9821.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Time and Age explores how time is defined by man. It follows the development of our means for measuring time from early methods using the flow of water or the steady burning of candles through to the atomic clock that records time with incredible precision.
Автор: Wickramasinghe Chandra, Hoyle Fred Sir Название: Vindication of Cosmic Biology: Tribute to Sir Fred Hoyle (19152001) ISBN: 9814675253 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789814675253 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 35640.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the year 2015, 100 years after Fred Hoyle was born, the ideas relating to the cosmic origins of life are slowly gaining credence in scientific circles. Once regarded as outrageous heresy, evidence from a variety of disciplines - astronomy, geology, biology - is converging to support these once heretical ideas.
Автор: Wickramasinghe Chandra Название: Where Did We Come From? ISBN: 9814641405 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789814641401 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Life Story Of This Book Spans Many Stages Of The Life And Scientific Career Of One Of The Foremost Astrophysicists/Astrobiologists Of Our Times. Starting From His Boyhood Days, The Book Describes The Author'S Scientific Work Over The Past 50 Years, The Ground-Breaking Discoveries He Had Made, The Controversies Generated In The Scientific Community, And The Gradual Acceptance Of His Discoveries. Written In Lucid Non-Technical Language It Captures The Essence Of The Author'S Research At Cambridge, His Lifelong Collaborations With The Legendary Astronomer Of The 20Th Century, Sir Fred Hoyle, The Birth Of The Subject Of Astrobiology Which They Arguably "Invented" In 1980, And His Continuing Ground-Breaking Research Carried Out While He Was A Professor At Cardiff And Later At Buckingham. The Book Traces The Various Influences That Guided The Author Through His Career, Including That Of His Father Who Was A Cambridge Wrangler, And The Profound Influence Of Buddhism In His Early Life.The Author Has Published Over 25 Books And Close To 300 Scientific Papers In Peer-Reviewed Journals, Over 60 Of Which Were In The Journal Nature.
Автор: Iveson, Mandie Название: Language attitudes, national identity and migration in catalonia ISBN: 1845199235 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845199234 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 20378.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines language, nation and identity from a gendered perspective and investigates to what extent women use Catalan in their everyday social practices to construct gendered and national identities. Drawing on a unique body of oral history interviews, the focus of the study is three female generations, covering 50 years of historical change from the 1960s to the present. What the Women Have to Say analyses the preservation of the Catalan language during Francos regime; how the emergence of a feminist movement and discourse, and changing patterns of migration, have transformed the relationship between gender and national identity in Catalonia; and the role that Catalan plays today in defining womens identities and as a nation-building tool. Additional analysis of a corpus of social media data explores the online Catalan discourses of nationalism and its gendered dimensions. A central interpretative tool is the concept of intersectionality, emphasising genders inter-connectedness with categories of class and ethnicity. An ntergenerational approach, and a focus on the local using a case study of a Catalan village outside the regions capital, opens new perspectives on the Catalan issue. By bringing together approaches from sociocultural linguistics and oral history, What the Women Have to Say provides important linkages between the economic, political and social circumstances pertaining today as they impact on the issue of nationalism in particular and in the wider discourses of nationalism, identity and migration in twenty-first century Europe.
Автор: Segawa Название: National Identity, Language and Education in Malaysia ISBN: 113839078X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138390782 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores the ways in which language and education policies have contributed to the development of national integration in Malaysia, by examining whether and how policies have succeeded in forming a middle ground.
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