Meaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics is a comprehensive introductory text which discusses the development of pragmatics - its aims and methodology - and also introduces themes that are not generally covered in other texts. Jenny Thomas focuses on the dynamic nature of speaker meaning, considering the central roles of both speaker and hearer, and takes into account the social and psychological factors involved in the generation and interpretation of utterances. The book includ...

Jean Dulieu kwam als jong schrijver onverwacht op het spoor van Franciscus. Hij reisde naar alle plaatsen in Italië waar Franciscus was geweest. Vier jaar lang verdiepte hij zich in literatuur over hem, maakte aantekeningen en voorstudies. Met groot begrip en inlevingsvermogen schetst Jean Dulieu het leven van de rijke koopmanszoon uit Assisi die in de door de kerk gedomineerde Middeleeuwen een hele nieuwe beweging tot leven wekte. Dit boek wordt door kenners en leken beoordeeld als een van ...

Verzameld werk 1. Psychologie en praktijkCarl Gustav Jung is een van de pioniers op het gebied van de psychotherapie. Begrippen als collectief onbewuste, archetypen, introvert en extravert, die inmiddels gemeengoed zijn geworden, zijn door hem ge

Presenting the 20th anniversary and first revised edition of a collection of essays on the management of computer programming projects, this work is an updated and enhanced re-release of the "Brooks classic". With the addition of 3 essays assessing the status of software project management, the authors "No Silver Bullet", is also included.

Between the fifteenth and the mid-seventeenth centuries, when the Renaissance and early capitalism were transforming Europe, changes no less dramatic were occurring in Southeast Asia. This diverse tropical region was integrated into a global trade system, while trade-based cities came to dominate its affairs. Its states became more centralized and absolutist, and its people adopted scriptural faiths of personal morality.

The pace of these changes finds parallels only in our own era. Anthony R...

Mary Wollstonecraft, often described as the first major feminist, is remembered principally as the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and there has been a tendency to view her most famous work in isolation. Yet Wollstonecraft's pronouncements about women grew out of her reflections about men, and her views on the female sex constituted an integral part of a wider moral and political critique of her times which she first fully formulated in A Vindication of the Rights of Me...