Varieties of English in Writing: The Written Word as Linguistic Evidence

This volume is concerned with assessing fictional and non-fictional written texts as linguistic evidence for earlier forms of varieties of English. These range from Scotland to New Zealand, from Canada to South Africa, covering all the major forms of the English language around the world. Central to the volume is the question of how genuine written representations are. Here the emphasis is on the techniques and methodology which can be employed when analysing documents.

The Face of Queenship: Early Modern Representations of Elizabeth I

The Face of Queenship investigates the aesthetic, political, and gender-related meanings in representations of Elizabeth I by her contemporaries. By attending to eyewitness reports, poetry, portraiture, and discourses on beauty and cosmetics, this book shows how the portrayals of the queen’s face register her contemporaries’ hopes, fears, hatreds, mockeries, rivalries, and awe. In its application of theories of the meaning of the face and its exploration of the early modern representation and interpretation of faces, this study argues that the face was seen as a rhetorical tool and that Elizabeth was a master of using her face to persuade, threaten, or comfort her subjects.

Contents: Revision of Phonetics; The Phonemic Prionciple; Alternations; Features, Classes & Systems; Problems with the Phonemic Principle; The Organisation of the Grammar; Abstractness & Ordering; Interlude: Post-SPE Phonology: Some Questions About the Standard Model; Naturalness in Generative Phonology; The Role of the Lexicon; Representations Reconsidered: Phonological Structure Above the Level of the Segment; Autosegmental Phonology; Representations & the Role of Rules.

Extreme Risk Management: Revolutionary Approaches to Evaluating and Measuring Risk

A revolutionary new approach for detecting and managing inherent risk
The unprecedented turmoil in the financial markets turned the field of quantitative finance on its head and generated severe criticism of the statistical models used to manage risk and predict “black swan” events. Something very important had been lost when statistical representations replaced expert knowledge and statistics substituted for causation.

Unconscious Memory Representations in Perception: Processes and mechanisms in the brain

Perceptual experience emerges from neural computations. Unconscious Memory Representations in Perception focuses on the role of implicit (non-conscious) memories in processing sensory information. Making sense of the wealth of information arriving at our senses requires implicit memories, which represent environmental regularities, contingencies of the sensory input, as well as general contextual knowledge.