Humanities & Social Sciences

Language plays an essential role both in creating law and in governing its implementation. Providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this subject, Language and Law:describes the different registers and genres that make up spoken and written legal language and how they develop over time; analyses real-life examples drawn from court cases from different parts of the world, illustrating the varieties of English used in the courtroom by speakers occupying different roles; addresses the challenges presented to our notions of law and regulation by online communication; discusses the complex role of translation in bilingual and multilingual jurisdictions, including Hong Kong and Canada; and provides readings from key scholars in the discipline, including Lawrence Solan, Peter Goodrich, Marianne Constable, David Mellinkoff, and Chris Heffer. With a wide range of activities throughout, this accessible textbook is essential reading for anyone studying language and law or forensic linguistics.

Seit geraumer Zeit gewinnt die Frage nach einem zielgruppenspezifischen Marketing von Fremdenverkehrsregionen an Bedeutung. Die vorliegende Arbeit hat sich daher zum Ziel gesetzt, auf der Grundlage einer Stichprobe von 936 befragten Bundesbürgern zu untersuchen, unter Berücksichtigung welcher Markterfassungsansätze und Segmentierungskriterien eine sinnvolle Zielgruppenabgrenzung im Fremdenverkehr von Regionen vorgenommen werden kann. Hierzu wird der Einfluß sozio- und psychographischer Merkmale (Werte, Motive, Einstellungen) auf die Besuchsabsicht und -dauer analysiert. Die Ergebnisse bilden die Grundlage für eine psychographische Marktsegmentierung. Für die identifizierten Segmente werden aus Sicht einer regionalen Fremdenverkehrsorganisation theoriegeleitet Ansatzpunkte für eine zielgruppenspezifische Marktbearbeitung aufgezeigt.

The contribution investigates the role played by a particularly significant figure in the history of education in post-war Italy, namely Dina Bertoni Jovine. The aim of the work is not only to highlight the great contribution made by the scholar in the construction of the “open to all” school according to the constitutional mandate, but also to emphasize a sensitivity towards women's issues in the educational field. When feminism in Italy was still grappling with issues of gender citizenship between the 1950s and 1960s, and thus with themes related to the major issues of emancipatory feminism, Bertoni Jovine, in designing the important work The Encyclopedia of Women, in two volumes, already demonstrates a sensitivity to the themes of women’s sexuality and bodies that would only be brought to light by the feminism of the 1970s.

Europa wächst zusammen - so ein gängiger politischer Slogan. Diese Studie zeigt: In vielen Fällen sind es Organisationen, die in innereuropäischen Grenzregionen die konkrete internationale Zusammenarbeit vorantreiben. In diesem Buch untersucht ein Forschungsteam aus Linguisten, Pädagogen und Soziologen, auf welche Weise den Bildungs-, Kultur-, Sozial- und Verwaltungseinrichtungen im bayerisch-böhmischen Grenzraum die grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit gelingt. Die Forscher zeichnen nach, wie Organisationen geisteswissenschaftliche Expertise einsetzen, um zwischen den Kulturen, Sprachen und Rechtsräumen zu "übersetzen".

This monograph examines how Korean women and men came to engage with Catholic missions during Europe’s late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a profoundly volatile period in East Asian history during which political, cultural, and social disruption created opportunities for new interactions in the region. It analyzes the nature of that engagement, as women and men became both subjects for, and agents of, catechizing practices. As their evangelization, experience of faith, proselytizing, and suffering were recorded in mission archives, the monograph explores contact between Catholic Christianity and Korean women in particular. Broomhall demonstrates how gender ideologies shaped interactions between missionary men and Korean women, and how women’s experiences would come to be narrated, circulated, and memorialized.

This open access book provides a comprehensive view on data ecosystems and platform economics from methodical and technological foundations up to reports from practical implementations and applications in various industries. To this end, the book is structured in four parts: Part I “Foundations and Contexts” provides a general overview about building, running, and governing data spaces and an introduction to the IDS and GAIA-X projects. Part II “Data Space Technologies” subsequently details various implementation aspects of IDS and GAIA-X, including eg data usage control, the usage of blockchain technologies, or semantic data integration and interoperability. Next, Part III describes various “Use Cases and Data Ecosystems” from various application areas such as agriculture, healthcare, industry, energy, and mobility. Part IV eventually offers an overview of several “Solutions and Applications”, eg including products and experiences from companies like Google, SAP, Huawei, T-Systems, Innopay and many more. Overall, the book provides professionals in industry with an encompassing overview of the technological and economic aspects of data spaces, based on the International Data Spaces and Gaia-X initiatives. It presents implementations and business cases and gives an outlook to future developments. In doing so, it aims at proliferating the vision of a social data market economy based on data spaces which embrace trust and data sovereignty.

Wie beeinflussen technologische und kulturelle Entwicklungen im Zuge der fortschreitenden Digitalisierung die Musikvermittlung? Die Beiträger*innen stellen neben Forschungsergebnissen und einschlägigen Diskursen auch exemplarisch ausgewählte Beispiele digitaler und hybrider Vermittlungspraxis sowie digitalitätsbezogene hochschuldidaktische Konzeptionen vor. Durch die Bündelung dieser unterschiedlichen Perspektiven möchte der Band Impulse für eine praxisnahe und forschungsbasierte universitäre Ausbildung von Musikvermittler*innen im Zeitalter der Postdigitalität geben.

As explored in this open access book, higher education in STEM fields is influenced by many factors, including education research, government and school policies, financial considerations, technology limitations, and acceptance of innovations by faculty and students. In 2018, Drs. Ryoo and Winkelmann explored the opportunities, challenges, and future research initiatives of innovative learning environments (ILEs) in higher education STEM disciplines in their pioneering project: eXploring the Future of Innovative Learning Environments (X-FILEs). Workshop participants evaluated four main ILE categories: personalized and adaptive learning, multimodal learning formats, cross/extended reality (XR), and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). This open access book gathers the perspectives expressed during the X-FILEs workshop and its follow-up activities. It is designed to help inform education policy makers, researchers, developers, and practitioners about the adoption and implementation of ILEs in higher education.

This book intends to provide a continuous assessment of the crisis in governance in Africa. As it is, there are huge deficits in the capacity of African states to harness vast human and material resources to promote good governance. This manifests in pervasive corruption, collapsed service delivery, collapsed state-owned enterprises, eroded social trust, capital flight, escalating levels of poverty and wars, human insecurity, and stunted growth. The public sector is the pulse of service delivery because the entire governance system revolves around the sourcing of materials and services, mostly from the private sector, in order to achieve its public policy intents. The procurement process, therefore, ordinarily ought to yield positive economic outcomes and an efficiency-driven system in favour of the government itself and its service recipients. However, this more often than not is not the case. Despite its enormous wealth, the African continent is in an economic quagmire, a dilemma that requires multi-facet research activities. This is the motivation for this book.

Over the course of the Vinculum project, thousands of documents relating to the institution of entails and their administration have been consulted. Many of them are now included in the project’s database, which endeavours to virtually reconstruct the archives of these Ancien Régime institutions as far as possible. These sources have proved essential for a better understanding of entails; however, their usefulness goes far beyond this already vast subject. The aim of this anthology is to showcase these findings by collecting more than 700 excerpts from documents dating from the 14th to the 17th century and indexing them thematically, in order to make historians, students and the curious aware of the richness and potential of these sources for the study of various themes, demonstrating the importance of historical research and its analytical tools for understanding other times, territories and societies and putting these fragments of the past into dialogue with the present.

"Putting a Face on It analyses and discusses how subjectivity and exposure of individuals now affect most journalistic topics and genres: from politics to sports journalism, from science journalism to journalism about terrorism. Individual exposure and subjectivity affect news and features, photos and front pages, and are at the core of an increasing dialogue with digital media users. One aim of this book is therefore to present some of this variation. Another is to contribute to the discourse about the present state of journalism and where it is heading. Putting a Face on It will appeal to researchers, teachers, students, writers, journalists and other media-interested readers."

This book tells the stories of disabled people who have been influential in creating modern mass media. Through the voices of key disabled media makers and collaborators, the author highlights the ways in which their contributions are changing society’s understanding of disability and shaping mass media and culture. Spanning a range of media formats – television/streaming productions, performances, podcasts, TED Talks, films, reality TV, graphic novels, and social media channels – the book illustrates how disabled people are confronting the marginalization they have faced in mass media for decades. Modern disabled media creators are leveraging new media platforms to recognize the lived experiences of disability and their authentic place in media culture. This innovative and thought-provoking volume will be an important read for scholars, disability advocates, and students of Disability Studies, Mass Communication/Media Studies, as well as mass media production faculty, disabled people, and their allies The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Researchers engage in increasingly complex relationships with society and business in the process of conducting research. Can qualitative research produce high-quality results when there are close ties between the researchers and those being researched, or between research institutions, those who commission research, and user groups? This is a question that researchers should actively address, but which many are not always aware of. With examples from qualitative studies in healthcare, policing, bureaucracy and politics, the anthology’s contributors provide a comprehensive presentation of challenges researchers face when they are close to those they are researching, as well as tools that can be used to contend with certain challenges. Proximity to Professions, Work and Politics will be of particular interest to students and researchers working with studies of professional life, organisations, work and politics, either through commissioned research or other research projects.

While Building Information Modelling (BIM) can support the management and visualisation of construction projects, Augmented Reality (AR) holds great promise to enhance interaction with these complex models. The accurate positioning of BIM-AR models in construction sites is critical to ensure that the virtual and real-world environments are correctly aligned. Through a literature review, this paper presents a review of state-of-the-art positioning techniques. It explores the different techniques used to position BIM-AR models and understands the interconnections and differences between them, with an emphasis on their applicability to the construction industry. The review also explores the challenges and limitations of each technique, in terms of the trade-offs between accuracy, computational efficiency, and robustness in varying environments. By providing an overview of positioning techniques in BIM-AR, this paper aims to guide researchers and practitioners in assessing the suitability of these techniques in the context of construction sites. The insights gained from this review may inform the development of efficient BIM-AR platforms that are more aligned with the dynamic and complex nature of construction sites

Understandings of freedom are often discussed in moral, theological, legal and political terms, but they are not often set in a historical perspective, and they are even more rarely considered within their specific language context. From Homeric poems to contemporary works, the author traces the words that express the various notions of freedom in Classical Greek, Latin, and medieval and modern European idioms. Examining writers as varied as Plato, Aristotle, Luther, La Boétie, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Stirner, Nietzsche, and Foucault among others, this theoretical mapping shows old and new boundaries of the horizon of freedom. The book suggests the possibility of transcending these boundaries on the basis of a different theorization of human interactions, which constructs individual and collective subjects as processes rather than entities.