Convergence Or Divergence

Author : Kurt Braunmüller,Juliane House
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027219282

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Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations by Kurt Braunmüller,Juliane House Pdf

This book deals with the consequences of converging and diverging processes and their development in language contact situations. It provides insights into the various forms of language contact and the conditions under which bilingual speakers master their every-day life in bilingual communities. Its nine contributions cover both theoretical and typological aspects, such as the classification of languages, the role of language contact, linguistic complexity and spontaneous speech innovations, and convergence and divergence processes in translation, (morpho)syntax and phonology/phonetics. Taken together, these studies provide challenges for linguistic theories that generalize from situations of monolingualism suggesting instead that a sound linguistic theory cannot be a theory for just one single, isolated language but must be a theory for at least two languages. It must also account for the fact that some structures involved in contact situations are not kept apart but develop in such a way that the distance decreases between the languages involved.

Author : Josh Kaufman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101446089

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The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman Pdf

Master the fundamentals, hone your business instincts, and save a fortune in tuition. The consensus is clear: MBA programs are a waste of time and money. Even the elite schools offer outdated assembly-line educations about profit-and-loss statements and PowerPoint presentations. After two years poring over sanitized case studies, students are shuffled off into middle management to find out how business really works. Josh Kaufman has made a business out of distilling the core principles of business and delivering them quickly and concisely to people at all stages of their careers. His blog has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the best business books and most powerful business concepts of all time. In The Personal MBA, he shares the essentials of sales, marketing, negotiation, strategy, and much more. True leaders aren't made by business schools-they make themselves, seeking out the knowledge, skills, and experiences they need to succeed. Read this book and in one week you will learn the principles it takes most people a lifetime to master.

Author : Miriam Bouzouita,Renata Enghels,Clara Vanderschueren
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110736311

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Convergence and divergence in Ibero-Romance across contact situations and beyond by Miriam Bouzouita,Renata Enghels,Clara Vanderschueren Pdf

This book aims to provide a better understanding of convergence and non-convergence phenomena, such as divergence, from different theoretical perspectives. It brings together nine case studies that deal with contact between languages found in the Iberian Peninsula (Castilian, Catalan, Portuguese and Basque), between Spanish or Portuguese and another language (such as English), and between different varieties from Europe and other continents. The volume thus unites views from two fields that rarely interact: contact linguistics and dialectology. It discusses the mechanisms and consequences of language contact within the Ibero-Romance world, a geographical space characterised by a high rate of multilingual speakers and settings. The contributions deal with various combinations of convergence and divergence, for example between different varieties of the same language, language stability despite contact, as well as less studied aspects, such as the relation between language contact and second language acquisition, the linguistic landscape perspective of language contact, and divergence in linguistic identity construction.

Author : Miriam Bouzouita,Renata Enghels,Clara Vanderschueren
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110736250

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Convergence and divergence in Ibero-Romance across contact situations and beyond by Miriam Bouzouita,Renata Enghels,Clara Vanderschueren Pdf

Die im Jahre 1905 von Gustav Gröber ins Leben gerufene Reihe der Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie zählt zu den renommiertesten Fachpublikationen der Romanistik. Die Beihefte pflegen ein gesamtromanisches Profil, das neben den Nationalsprachen auch die weniger im Fokus stehenden romanischen Sprachen mit einschließt. Zur Begutachtung können eingereicht werden: Monographien und Sammelbände zur Sprachwissenschaft in ihrer ganzen Breite, zur mediävistischen Literaturwissenschaft und zur Editionsphilologie. Mögliche Publikationssprachen sind Französisch, Spanisch, Portugiesisch, Italienisch und Rumänisch sowie Deutsch und Englisch. Sammelbände sollten thematisch und sprachlich in sich möglichst einheitlich gehalten sein.

Author : Peter Auer,Frans Hinskens,Paul Kerswill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521806879

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Dialect Change by Peter Auer,Frans Hinskens,Paul Kerswill Pdf

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Author : Saminathan Ponnusamy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780817682910

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Foundations of Mathematical Analysis by Saminathan Ponnusamy Pdf

Mathematical analysis is fundamental to the undergraduate curriculum not only because it is the stepping stone for the study of advanced analysis, but also because of its applications to other branches of mathematics, physics, and engineering at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. This self-contained textbook consists of eleven chapters, which are further divided into sections and subsections. Each section includes a careful selection of special topics covered that will serve to illustrate the scope and power of various methods in real analysis. The exposition is developed with thorough explanations, motivating examples, exercises, and illustrations conveying geometric intuition in a pleasant and informal style to help readers grasp difficult concepts. Foundations of Mathematical Analysis is intended for undergraduate students and beginning graduate students interested in a fundamental introduction to the subject. It may be used in the classroom or as a self-study guide without any required prerequisites.

Author : Nina Ratavaara
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783656012368

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Convergence And/or Divergence by Nina Ratavaara Pdf

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Communications - Multimedia, Internet, New Technologies, grade: 3 (vgl. Anm.), University of Helsinki (Communications), course: Media Convergence, language: English, abstract: It is not possible to avoid the two words convergence divergence in literature, discussions and theories about new media, new services, what the audience wants and the future of media nowadays as "convergence rapidly became one of the key concepts in new media discourse."(Storsul/Stuedahl:2007:9) So it was mentioned in articles, academic texts, policy documents and industrial papers and was introduced as the new order. (Fagerjord/Storsul:2007:19) And in becoming a key concept convergence also became an important rhetorical tool that encouraged change in several fields e.g. grassroot journalism sites or media companies presenting new (future) plans for online platforms and mobile services. (Storsul/Stuedahl:2007:9) But even if the two words are omnipresent it seems as if not everybody is writing, meaning and talking about the same. Actually sometime when reading different articles and books it seems as the authors were writing and discussing totally different topics. Like Storsul and Stuedal describe it, convergence really is a buzzword.(Storsul/Stuedahl:2007:9) And it is not only a buzzword, but it bears the old human (science-fiction) visions and hopes of media enabling things being managed by one central system and/or device that organizes our whole life and we now can't even think of. (Storsul/Stuedahl:2007:10)One very common though simple example of such futuristic thinking and visions might be the refrigerator that automatically and independently orders the needed food and drinks from the shop and they are also delivered automatically, maybe even beamed into the refrigerator.

Author : Marko Novakovic
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781622738076

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Common Law and Civil Law Today - Convergence and Divergence by Marko Novakovic Pdf

Authors from 13 countries come together in this edited volume, Common Law and Civil Law Today: Convergence and Divergence, to present different aspects of the relationship and intersections between common and civil law. Approaching the relationship between common and civil law from different perspectives and from different fields of law, this book offers an intriguing insight into the similarities, differences and connections between these two major legal traditions. This volume is divided into 3 parts and consists of 22 articles. The first part discusses the common law/civil law dichotomy in the international legal systems and theory. The second focuses on case-law and arbitration, while the third part analyses elements of common and civil law in various legal systems. By offering such a variety of approaches and voices, this book allows the reader to gain an invaluable insight into the historical, comparative and theoretical contexts of this legal dichotomy. From its carefully selected authors to its comprehensive collection of articles, this edited volume is an essential resource for students, researchers and practitioners working or studying within both legal systems.

Author : Leonid Grinin,Andrey Korotayev
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319177809

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Great Divergence and Great Convergence by Leonid Grinin,Andrey Korotayev Pdf

This new monograph provides a stimulating new take on hotly contested topics in world modernization and the globalizing economy. It begins by situating what is called the Great Divergence--the social/technological revolution that led European nations to outpace the early dominance of Asia--in historical context over centuries. This is contrasted with an equally powerful Great Convergence, the recent economic and technological expansion taking place in Third World nations and characterized by narrowing inequity among nations. They are seen here as two phases of an inevitable global process, centuries in the making, with the potential for both positive and negative results. This sophisticated presentation examines: Why the developing world is growing more rapidly than the developed world. How this development began occurring under the Western world's radar. How former colonies of major powers grew to drive the world's economy. Why so many Western economists have been slow to recognize the Great Convergence. The increasing risk of geopolitical instability. Why the world is likely to find itself without an absolute leader after the end of the American hegemony A work of rare scope, Great Divergence and Great Convergence gives sociologists, global economists, demographers, and global historians a deeper understanding of the broader movement of social and economic history, combined with a long view of history as it is currently being made; it also offers some thrilling forecasts for global development in the forthcoming decades.

Author : CK-12 Foundation
Publisher : CK-12 Foundation
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781935983019

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CK-12 Calculus by CK-12 Foundation Pdf

CK-12 Foundation's Single Variable Calculus FlexBook introduces high school students to the topics covered in the Calculus AB course. Topics include: Limits, Derivatives, and Integration.

Author : Daniel D. Bonar,Michael J. Khoury Jr.
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781470447823

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Real Infinite Series by Daniel D. Bonar,Michael J. Khoury Jr. Pdf

This is a widely accessible introductory treatment of infinite series of real numbers, bringing the reader from basic definitions and tests to advanced results. An up-to-date presentation is given, making infinite series accessible, interesting, and useful to a wide audience, including students, teachers, and researchers. Included are elementary and advanced tests for convergence or divergence, the harmonic series, the alternating harmonic series, and closely related results. One chapter offers 107 concise, crisp, surprising results about infinite series. Another gives problems on infinite series, and solutions, which have appeared on the annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. The lighter side of infinite series is treated in the concluding chapter where three puzzles, eighteen visuals, and several fallacious proofs are made available. Three appendices provide a listing of true or false statements, answers to why the harmonic series is so named, and an extensive list of published works on infinite series.

Author : Gilbert Strang
Publisher : Wellesley-Cambridge Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0980232759

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Calculus by Gilbert Strang Pdf

Gilbert Strang's clear, direct style and detailed, intensive explanations make this textbook ideal as both a course companion and for self-study. Single variable and multivariable calculus are covered in depth. Key examples of the application of calculus to areas such as physics, engineering and economics are included in order to enhance students' understanding. New to the third edition is a chapter on the 'Highlights of calculus', which accompanies the popular video lectures by the author on MIT's OpenCourseWare. These can be accessed from math.mit.edu/~gs.

Author : Ithiel de Sola Pool
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674042216

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Technologies of Freedom by Ithiel de Sola Pool Pdf

How can we preserve free speech in an electronic age? In a masterly synthesis of history, law, and technology, Ithiel de Sola Pool analyzes the confrontation between the regulators of the new communications technology and the First Amendment.

Author : Josh DeWind,Renata Segura
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781479818761

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Diaspora Lobbies and the US Government by Josh DeWind,Renata Segura Pdf

"A joint publication of the Social Science Research Council and New York University Press."

Author : Harmony Udo Utchay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Economic and social development
ISBN : UOM:39015063154341

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Convergence and Divergence in Global Economy and Social Development by Harmony Udo Utchay Pdf