1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458850303321

Titolo

Police without borders : the fading distinction between local and global / / [edited by] Cliff Roberson, Dilip K. Das, Jennie K. Singer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-429-25081-9

1-4398-0502-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RobersonCliff <1937->

DasDilip K. <1941->

SingerJennie K

Disciplina

363.2/3

Soggetti

Police - International cooperation

Law enforcement - International cooperation

Crime prevention - International cooperation

Police

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Fifteenth Annual International Police Executive Symposium held in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA in 2008."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Table of Contents; Preface; About the Editors; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1: Police Without Borders; Chapter 2: Policing Activity and Human Rights; Chapter 3: Keeping Order in aTime of Dynamic Change and Exchange; Chapter 4: Growth andDevelopment of Women Police in India; Chapter 5: On Police and Policing in Slovenia; Chapter 6: The Study of Policing in China; Chapter 7: Development ofGuidance Activitiesby Police forPrevention of Juvenile Delinquency in Japan; Chapter 8: An Innovative PoliceProject to TackleYouth Crime Problems in Hong Kong

Chapter 9: "Non-Returnable "Arrest WarrantsChapter 10: Spooking the Spooks; Chapter 11: The Challenge ofTransnational andOrganized Crime in the Nordic Countries; Chapter 12: The Public HousingSafety Initiative inthe Eastern District of New York; Appendix: Summary of Meeting Presentations; Index; IPES Board of Directors; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

Policing Without Borders: The Fading Distinction between Local and



Global emphasizes the rising need for a cohesive international policing community. As crimes become more transnational in scope, the need for systematic communication between national police agencies becomes increasingly apparent. Various methods of collaboration need to address ways to institute global police communication. The chapters of this book focus on the theme of how local and global police practitioners and researchers can better collaborate on the mission of viewing policing with a global focus--Provided by publisher.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454217303321

Autore

Ermida Isabel <1968->

Titolo

The language of comic narratives [[electronic resource] ] : humor construction in short stories / / by Isabel Ermida

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008

ISBN

1-281-99353-0

9786611993535

3-11-020833-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

Humor research, , 1861-4116 ; ; 9

Classificazione

EC 3930

Disciplina

808.3/1

Soggetti

Humor in literature

Short story - Authorship

Electronic books.

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 (p. [237]-256) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. The concept of humor: history, scope and issues -- Chapter 2. Linguistic resources of humor -- Chapter 3. Humor as a textual genre: from jokes to comic narratives -- Chapter 4. Structural principles of narrative humor -- Chapter 5. Pragmatics of the humorous narrative -- Chapter 6. A model of humorous narratives -- Chapter 7. Extending the analysis -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

The book offers a comprehensive account of how humor works in short stories, by presenting a model of narrative comedy that is pragmatically



as well as semantically, grammatically and stylistically informed. It is the first study to combine a sequential analysis of the comic short story with a hierarchical one, merging together horizontal and vertical narratological perspectives in a systematic way. The book covers the main areas of linguistic analysis and is deliberately interdisciplinary, using input from philosophy, sociology and psychology so as to touch upon the nature, motivations and functions of humor as a cognitive phenomenon in a social context. Crucially, The Language of Comic Narratives combines a scholarly approach with a careful explanation of key terms and concepts, making it accessible to researchers and students, as well as non-specialists. Moreover, it reviews a broad range of historical critical data by examining the source texts, and it provides many humorous examples, from jokes to extracts from comic narratives. Thus, it seeks to anchor theory in specific texts, and also to show that many linguistic mechanisms of humor are common to jokes and longer, literary comic narratives. The book tests the model of humorous narratives on a set of comic short stories by British and American writers, ranging from Evelyn Waugh and Dorothy Parker, through Graham Greene and Corey Ford, to David Lodge and Woody Allen. The validity of the model is confirmed through a subsequent discussion of apparent counter-examples.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784084703321

Autore

McGregor William

Titolo

The languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia [[electronic resource] /] / William B. McGregor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-39603-1

1-280-07879-0

0-203-43471-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Classificazione

18.95

Disciplina

427/.99414

Soggetti

Australian languages - Australia - Kimberley (W.A.) - Grammar

Nyulnyul language K13

Walmajarri language A66

Jaru language K12

Yawuru language K1

Warrwa language K10

Miriwoong / Miriuwung language K29

Bardi language K15

Bunuba language K5

Gooniyandi language K6

Ngarinyin language K18

Nyikina language K3

Worrorra language K17

Kimberley (W.A.) Languages Grammar

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 (p. 338-357) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and conventions; Introduction; Survey of Kimberley languages; Language in Kimberley Aboriginal societies; Phonetics and phonology; Fundamental concepts of grammar; Pronouns and determiners; Nominals and noun phrases; Verbs and verbal constructions; Vocabulary and meaning; Clauses and sentences;



Text and discourse; Grammar in language use; Conclusion; Notes; Languages and sources; Bibliography; Index of languages and language families; Index of names; Index of subjects;

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides an insightful and highly readable account both of the social setting in which the languages are spoken and of their main structural features.