The materiality of language [[electronic resource] ] : gender, politics, and the university / / David Bleich

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792013603321
• Autore: Bleich David
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-253-00773-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (575 p.)
• Disciplina: 401
• Soggetti: Language and languages - Philosophy; Rhetoric; Academic language; Colloquial language; Language and languages - Political aspects; Language and languages - Sex differences
• 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: The contested subject -- The materiality of language -- Premises and backgrounds -- Received standards in the study of language -- Materiality and genre -- The unity of language and thought -- Materiality and the contemporary study of language -- Recognizing politics in the study of language -- Language in the university -- Frustrations of academic language -- The protected institution -- The sacred language -- Language uses in science, the heir of Latin -- Language and human survival -- The materiality of literature and the contested subject.
• Sommario/riassunto: David Bleich sees the human body, its affective life, social life, and political functions as belonging to the study of language. In The Materiality of Language, Bleich addresses the need to end centuries of limiting access to language and its many contexts of use. To recognize language as material and treat it as such, argues Bleich, is to remove restrictions to language access due to historic patterns of academic censorship and unfair gender practices. Language is understood as a key path in the formation of all social and political relations, and becomes available for study by all speake

Information origins of the chemical bond [[electronic resource] /] / Roman F. Nalewajski

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779635703321
• Autore: Nalewajski R. F (Roman F.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2010
• ISBN: 1-61122-929-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (198 p.)
• Collana: Chemistry research and applications series
• Disciplina: 541/.224
• Soggetti: Chemical bonds; Chemistry
• 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.

Traditions of controversy / / edited by Marcelo Dascal, Han-liang Chang

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910968047603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2007
• ISBN: 9786612152474; 9781282152472; 1282152475; 9789027291813; 9027291810
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xvi, 309 p
• Collana: Controversies
• Altri autori (Persone): DascalMarcelo; ZhangHanliang
• Disciplina: 808.53; 808.5/3
• Soggetti: Polemics; Debates and debating
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Traditions of Controversy -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Crossing borderlines -- I. Ancient traditions -- 1. Towards a taxonomy of controversiesand controversiality -- 2. Controversy in Jewish law -- 3. Debates and rhetoric in Sumer -- 4. Persuasion in the Pre-Qin China -- 5. 'In proper form' -- 6. The right, duty and pleasureof debating in Western culture -- II. Medieval and Early Modern traditions -- 7. The medieval disputatio -- 8. Disputing about disputing -- 9. Antibarbarous contra pseudophilosophers -- 10. Dialectics, topology and practicalphilosophy in early modern times -- III. Modern traditions -- 11. Legal controversy vs. scientific and philosophical controversies* -- 12. The controversy over the foundationof sociology and its object -- 13. Controversies about politeness -- 14. Controversies over controversies -- 15. Traditions of controversyand conflict resolution -- About the contributors -- Index -- The series Controversies.
• Sommario/riassunto: Controversies may be particularly prominent in one or another culture. ; Yet, there is hardly any culture where they do not exist. This book assumes that the practice of controversy, along with its theorization, constitutes - in each of the cultures and disciplines where it develops - a tradition. Whether there are enough shared elements in these traditions to consider them as, fundamentally, universal or not is something that can only be determined on the basis of a rich sample of controversies and theorizations thereof belonging to different traditions. This is what this volume provides to the reader. By presenting side by side controversies from the East and from the West, from the ancient past up to the present, from different domains of scholarship and action, the reader is in a position not only to admire the widespread nature, role, and richness of the phenomenon, but also to begin to evaluate its variety as well as universality. While the editors have purposefully avoided comparative studies of traditions of controversy, in order to focus on each tradition so to speak from its practitioners' point of view, some of the chapters take a bird's eye view and exemplify how such studies can be systematically conducted. In a world that is globalizing itself at a fast pace, the awareness of the multiplicity of traditions of controversy is fundamental for ensuring both that the integration of the various perspectives is harmonious and that each one of them is granted its place in a plural universe.