At Cross Purposes

Author : Angeliki Tzanne
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027299062

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Talking at Cross-Purposes by Angeliki Tzanne Pdf

Misunderstandings have been examined extensively in studies on cross-cultural (mis)communication which associate them with participants’ differing cultural backgrounds and/or linguistic knowledge. Drawing on a large corpus of misunderstandings from cross- and intra-cultural encounters, this book argues that miscommunication does not relate exclusively to participants’ background differences or similarities, but that its creation and development are tightly interwoven with the dynamic manner in which social encounters unfold. Against a backdrop of Pragmatics, Conversation Analysis and Goffman’s theory of frames and roles, the volume discusses a large number of misunderstandings and shows that they are associated with the constant identity and activity shifts as well as with the turn-by-turn construction of interpretative context in interaction. Besides students and researchers of pragmatics, conversation analysis and sociolinguistics, this book will also appeal to all those interested in the process of making, misinterpreting and clarifying meaning in social interaction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Legends
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Crosses in art
ISBN : 1614284490

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Cross Purpose by Anonim Pdf

"This volume displays de Haume's body of work through four compelling themes: Politics and Play, comprising pieces with titles such as Gorbachev Cross and Superhero Cross; Fashion and Fancy, including tributes to the great fashion houses such as Chanel, Hermès, and Louis Vuitton; Poets and Painters, honoring Donne, Hemingway, Schnabel, Warhol, and many more; and Saints and Saintly, venerating not only saints such as St. Dominic and St. Catherine of Alexandria but also saint-like individuals including humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg--"Publisher's description.

Author : Richard C. Bush
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317476290

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At Cross Purposes by Richard C. Bush Pdf

Written by the former chairman and managing director of the American Institute in Taiwan, this book sheds new light on key topics in the history of U.S.-Taiwan relations. It fills an important gap in our understanding of how the U.S. government addressed Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait issue from the early 1940s to the present. One theme that runs through these essays is the series of obstacles erected that denied the people of Taiwan a say in shaping their own destiny: Franklin Roosevelt chose to return Taiwan to mainland China for geopolitical reasons; there was little pressure on the Kuomintang to reform its authoritarian rule until Congress got involved in the early 1980s; Chiang Kai-shek spurned American efforts in the 1960s to keep Taiwan in international organizations; and behind the ROC's back, the Nixon, Carter, and Reagan administrations negotiated agreements with the PRC that undermined Taiwan's position. In addition to discussing how the United States reacted to key human rights cases from the 1940s to the 1980s, the author also discusses the Bush and Clinton administrations' efforts to preserve U.S. interests while accommodating new forces in the region. All these episodes have an enduring relevance for the people of Taiwan, and in his conclusion the author discusses where the relationship stands today. The book includes related documents that helped shape the U.S.-Taiwan relationship.

Author : Bob Welch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0977230643

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Cross Purposes by Bob Welch Pdf

IN 2016, BOB WELCH--that rare combination of newspaper columnist and Christian--prayed a prayer that he believes changed his life. Over the next five years, he discovered he'd been quietly complicit in allowing the rage of far-right politics to distort the faith of evangelicals, including his own. During a 2020 sailboat trip to spread his mother's ashes, Welch commits to writing a book that he knows may rankle his fellow believers, but he can't stay silent. Amid hot-button issues such as Trump, COVID, and race, he dares to ply the shores of uncertainty in an attempt to answer a question theologian Henri Nouwen so eloquently asked: "To whom do I belong? To God or to the world?"

Author : Dana A. Heller
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253210844

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Cross-Purposes by Dana A. Heller Pdf

"... innovative and important thinking about the various relations between feminist theory, queer theory, and lesbian theory, as well as the possibility that liberation can be mutual rather than mutually exclusive." --Lambda Book Report "Challenging and interesting." --Just Out A collection of fifteen interdisciplinary essays examining the history, current condition, and evolving shape of lesbian alliances with U.S. feminists. Contributors explore the social and aesthetic significance of the terms "lesbian" and "feminist" with the interest of reforming and strengthening them.

Author : Angeliki Tzanne
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027250766

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Talking at Cross-purposes by Angeliki Tzanne Pdf

Misunderstandings have been examined extensively in studies on cross-cultural (mis)communication which associate them with participants' differing cultural backgrounds and/or linguistic knowledge. Drawing on a large corpus of misunderstandings from cross- and intra-cultural encounters, this book argues that miscommunication does not relate exclusively to participants' background differences or similarities, but that its creation and development are tightly interwoven with the dynamic manner in which social encounters unfold. Against a backdrop of Pragmatics, Conversation Analysis and Goffman's theory of frames and roles, the volume discusses a large number of misunderstandings and shows that they are associated with the constant identity and activity shifts as well as with the turn-by-turn construction of interpretative context in interaction. Besides students and researchers of pragmatics, conversation analysis and sociolinguistics, this book will also appeal to all those interested in the process of making, misinterpreting and clarifying meaning in social interaction.

Author : Anthony Bartlett
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1563383365

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Cross Purposes by Anthony Bartlett Pdf

Offers a rich historical and theological overview of the evolution of various atonement theories, examining the components of violence and sacrifice as a means of salvation, and using literature, art, and philosophy to provide a creative and provocative reading of Christian atonement. Original.

Author : Mike Marks,Tim Horan,Mike Emerson
Publisher : Natl Assn Wholesale-Distr
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0971475288

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Working at Cross-purposes by Mike Marks,Tim Horan,Mike Emerson Pdf

Author : Richard C. Bush
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Taiwan
ISBN : 0765632969

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At Cross Purposes by Richard C. Bush Pdf

Author : Jerome McGann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226818467

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Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes by Jerome McGann Pdf

Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period. Classic American literature, Jerome McGann argues, is haunted by the betrayal of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Indian treaties—“a stunned memory preserved in the negative spaces of the treaty records.” A noted scholar of the “textual conditions” of literature, McGann investigates canonical works from the colonial period, including the Arbella sermon and key writings of William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather’s Magnalia, Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated treaty folios and Autobiography, and Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. These are highly practical, purpose-driven works—the record of Enlightenment dreams put to the severe test of dangerous conditions. McGann suggests that the treaty-makers never doubted the unsettled character of what they were prosecuting, and a similar conflicted ethos pervades these works. Like the treaty records, they deliberately test themselves against stringent measures of truth and accomplishment and show a distinctive consciousness of their limits and failures. McGann’s book is ultimately a reminder of the public importance of truth and memory—the vocational commitments of humanist scholars and educators.

Author : Anne Kruger
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 081570738X

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Economic Policies at Cross Purposes by Anne Kruger Pdf

As developing countries become increasingly important in the international economy, there is an urgent need to reassess U.S. policies. This book examines the various U.S. international economic policies that affect developing countries and shows that American policies regarding trade, aid, debt, and the multilateral institutions are undertaken largely without coordination and often conflict with each other. Tracing the evolution of foreign aid, Anna Krueger explains that just after World War II American economic policies toward developing countries consisted almost entirely of foreign aid. This approach was highly successful at first, but then the ability of USAID officials to carry out their mandate eroded over time because of political constraints and conflicting objectives of the aid program. She assesses the U.S. role toward the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and argues that the United States could have been far more effective in these institutions. Krueger then addresses trade policy. Although U.S. leadership to obtain an open multilateral trading system was regarded as a policy oriented toward developed countries, the resulting growth of the world trading system permitted rapid growth of developing countries. As developing countries have adopted realistic economic policies that are conducive to economic efficiency and growth, they have become more important trading partners for the United States and other developed countries. Looking at the evolution of U.S. policy toward the heavy debt burdens of developing countries, Krueger explains that U.S. policy has generally been one step behind the realities of the era. Illustrating how trade, aid, and debt policies interact, Krueger examines two cases: The Caribbean Basin Initiative and Korea. She shows that in Korea, for example, highly successful aid policies of the 1950s helped lay the foundations for rapid economic growth, while the success of Korea's exports then led to acrimonious relations over its trade and exchange rate policies. Krueger concludes by calling for a firmer U.S. commitment to an open multilateral trading system, and points to the interdependence between foreign and trade policies.

Author : Stephen D. Senturia
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781525536502

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Cross Purposes by Stephen D. Senturia Pdf

A Marriage at Cross Purposes Professor Martin Quint has moved from a major university to a small college. He has an important book to write. But he is pressured by the college to help develop a new school of engineering and entrepreneurship and pushed by a visiting professor from Oxford University to completely redesign his teaching mode. Meanwhile, his wife’s new business draws her away from child care. Conflicts over time and money erupt just when a shocking revelation from Martin’s past threatens to careen everything out of control. Cross Purposes provides an eye-opening look at the realities of academic life, but at its heart, it’s about a marriage at cross purposes, about trust and betrayal, anger and forgiveness.

Author : Kathryn Tanner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521513241

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Christ the Key by Kathryn Tanner Pdf

An innovative Christ-centered theology exploring the centrality of Christ for Christian thought and shedding fresh light on major theological issues.

Author : Michael Smith
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 150273527X

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At Cross Purposes by Michael Smith Pdf

'It was during a Monday evensong that the assistant verger murdered his wife.' 'It was not so much that the cathedral was badly run, as that it was not really run at all.' When Michael Smith was 36, his life seemed well-nigh perfect. With a lovely wife and a young daughter he was living in the shadow of Salisbury Cathedral, where he was the highly-qualified and well-respected assistant organist. He looked forward to new challenges at a cathedral in south Wales, but was unprepared for the attitude of the authorities which would continually test his resolve. With the passage of years he was also dismayed at the conduct and inefficiency of some of his colleagues, which extended to inefficiency, deviousness, dishonesty and even murder. At Cross Purposes is a detailed chronicle of his public success in maintaining the daily round of cathedral music, persevering towards his goals despite the obstacles and indifference, latterly amounting to relentless opposition, that he faced along the way. The book gives a fascinating insight into the life of Michael Smith, extending beyond his work as a choral director, music examiner and teacher to brief accounts of his later ventures into door-to-door sales networking and market research interviewing, alongside his significant role as a family man. 'I feel the hand of Anthony Trollope on his shoulder, ' writes Canon Jeremy Davies in his Foreword, recalling the Barchester chronicles. In At Cross Purposes we have a real-life story at first hand.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1769
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022508451

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Love at Cross Purposes by Anonim Pdf