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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465866603321

Autore

Altstadt Audrey L. <1953->

Titolo

Frustrated democracy in post-Soviet Azerbaijan / / Audrey L. Altstadt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia ; ; New York : , : Woodrow Wilson Center Press : , : Columbia University Press, , 2017

©2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations, maps, tables

Disciplina

947.54086

Soggetti

Islam and politics - Azerbaijan - History

Geopolitics - Azerbaijan - History

Petroleum industry and trade - Political aspects - Azerbaijan - History

Post-communism - Azerbaijan - History

Democracy - Azerbaijan - History

Political corruption - Azerbaijan - History

Authoritarianism - Azerbaijan - History

Electronic books.

Azerbaijan Politics and government 1991-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Languages and Spelling -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. A Starting Point: History and Geopolitics and What They Tell Us -- 2. The Open Wound: Mountainous Karabagh and National Consciousness -- 3. Azerbaijan's Best and Brightest: The Rise, Decline, and Renewal of the Democratic Opposition -- 4. Oil Lifts All Boats? Social and Economic Repercussions and the Rise of Corruption -- 5. Jail for the "Donkey Bloggers": Crushing Youth Activism, Human Rights, and a Free Media -- 6. Allah-u Akbar: Islam in Azerbaijan- Piety, Politics, and the Future -- 7. What's Next? The Choices Ahead -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography of Major Sources -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Frustrated Democracy in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan follows a newly



independent oil-rich former Soviet republic as it adopts a Western model of democratic government and then turns toward corrupt authoritarianism. Audrey L. Altstadt begins with the Nagorno-Karabagh War (1988-1994) which triggered Azerbaijani nationalism and set the stage for the development of a democratic movement. Initially successful, this government soon succumbed to a coup. Western oil companies arrived and money flowed in-a quantity Altstadt calls "almost unimaginable"-causing the regime to resort to repression to maintain its power. Despite Azerbaijan's long tradition of secularism, political Islam emerged as an attractive alternative for those frustrated with the stifled democratic opposition and the lack of critique of the West's continued political interference. Altstadt's work draws on instances of censorship in the Azerbaijani press, research by embedded experts and nongovernmental and international organizations, and interviews with diplomats and businesspeople. The book is an essential companion to her earlier works, The Azerbaijani Turks: Power and Identity Under Russian Rule and The Politics of Culture in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1920-1940.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782513903321

Titolo

Cognitive linguistics [[electronic resource] ] : current applications and future perspectives / / edited by Gitte Kristiansen ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2006

ISBN

1-282-19412-7

9786612194122

3-11-019776-6

Edizione

[Reprint 2017]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (512 p.)

Collana

Applications of cognitive linguistics ; ; 1

Classificazione

ER 925

Altri autori (Persone)

KristiansenGitte <1966->

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Cognitive grammar

Cognitive grammar - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction Cognitive Linguistics: Current applications and future perspectives -- Part one: The cognitive base -- Methodology in Cognitive Linguistics -- Polysemy and the lexicon -- Cognitive approaches to grammar -- Part two: The conceptual leap -- Three dogmas of embodiment: Cognitive linguistics as a cognitive science -- Metonymy as a usage event -- Conceptual blending in thought, rhetoric, and ideology -- Part three: The psychological basis -- The contested impact of cognitive linguistic research on the psycholinguistics of metaphor understanding -- X IS LIKE Y: The emergence of similarity mappings in children s early speech and gesture -- Part four: Go, tell it on the mountain -- Energy through fusion at last: Synergies in cognitive anthropology and cognitive linguistics -- Cognitive linguistic applications in second or foreign language instruction: rationale, proposals, and evaluation -- Part five: Verbal and beyond: Vision and imagination -- Visual communication: Signed language and cognition -- Non-verbal and multimodal metaphor in a cognitivist framework: Agendas for research -- The fall of the wall between literary studies and linguistics: Cognitive poetics -- Part six: Virtual reality as a new experience -- Artificial intelligence, figurative language and cognitive linguistics -- Computability as a test on linguistics theories -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives is an up-to-date survey of recent research in Cognitive Linguistics and its applications by prominent researchers. The volume brings together generally accessible syntheses and special st