This volume presents articles that focus on the application of formal models in the study of language in a variety of innovative ways, and is dedicated to Jacques Moeschler, professor at University of Geneva, to mark the occasion of his 60th birthday. The contributions, by seasoned and budding linguists of all different linguistic backgrounds, reflect Jacques Moeschler’s diverse and visionary research over the years.
Explore With Jacques Cartier (Travel With the Great Explorers)
French navigator Jacques Cartier was born on December 31, 1491, in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France, and was sent by King Francis I to the New World in search of riches and a new route to Asia in 1534. His exploration of the St. Lawrence River allowed France to lay claim to lands that would become Canada. He died in Saint-Malo in 1557.
Spotlight Audio - Grammar Made Simple - Issue 04/2015
Verben mit Präpositionen (auf Englisch “Phrasal Verbs”) machen das Englischlernen nicht gerade einfach. Meistern Sie diesen Aspekt der englischen Grammatik in der Ausgabe April 2015 von Spotlight Audio. Außerdem in diesem Monat: Besuchen Sie Neuseelands Nordküste. Für den Tauchpionier und Abenteurer Jacques Cousteau gehörten die Poor Knights Islands dort zu den Top Ten der Tauchziele der Welt. Und unter den Rubrik “English at Work”: Wie begrüßt man Besucher einer Firma am besten?
Covering over a century's worth of debate, thinking and writing about literature, this is a unique guide to the lives and works of fifty theorists who have left an indelible mark on literary studies. Featuring theorists such as Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud and Edward Said.
The Death Penalty, Volume I (The Seminars of Jacques Derrida)
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In this newest installment in Chicago’s series of Jacques Derrida’s seminars, the renowned philosopher attempts one of his most ambitious goals: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. While much has been written against the death penalty, Derrida contends that Western philosophy is massively, if not always overtly, complicit with a logic in which a sovereign state has the right to take a life.
