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MANAGEMENT
Management Organizational Structures
Program and Project Management
Cost Estimation Methods, and Work and Cost Breakdown
Structures
Human and Cognitive Factors in Management
Management, and Knowledge Management and Complex Adaptive
Systems
EDUCATION
FOR SUSTAINABILITY
The Ecological Imperative
Education and Sustainability: Problems and Obstacles
Education for Sustainability: the Evolution of a Concept
Growing Momentum for Educational and Cultural Change
The Content and Structure of this Theme
THE AIMS
OF EDUCATION IN AN AGE OF STASIS AND CHANGE
The role of theory in the aims of education
The liberal tradition
Competing analysis of educational aims
EDUCATION,
SUSTAINABILITY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
Utilitarian and Duty-Oriented Approaches to Environmental
Issues
Cost Externalization
The Ecological Problem
Laws of Thermodynamics and the Ecological Problem
Economic Growth and the Ecological Problem
The Limits of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a Measure of
Well-Being
Sustainable Economies
Steady-State Economics: What is it?
Moving to a Steady-State Economy
Depletion Allowances
Pollution Allowances
Limiting Population Growth
Protecting Natural Habitat
THE POLITICS
OF LEARNING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The Technocratic Perspective
The Paradigm Shift Perspective
Task-based Perspectives: Social, Environmental and Educative
The social change focus
The environmental change focus
The educative focus
The Globalisation Perspective
The Segments Perspective
The Metaphorical Perspective
The Pragmatic Perspective
Some Commonalities
Multiple rationalities
Taxonomy of Perspectives
SOCIAL
AND CULTURAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION
Education as the Transmission of Culture
Human Ecology and the Organization of Culture
Stratification and Cultural Hierarchies
Social Change, Local Cultures, and the Maintenance of Culture
Culture, Communication, and Symbolic Meaning
Formal Education: The School
School Expansion
Schooling, Mass Society, and Social Mobility
Schooling and Public versus Private Interests
Literacy and the Nation-State
Literacy as a Quality of Life Indicator
Literacy and the Global Economy
Potential of Education Systems and the Future
Technology as A Product of Education Systems
Strength of Weak Ties and the Human Condition
Education and the Natural Environment
Multicultural Education
POLICY,
PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT IN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS: ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS IN THE
ACHIEVEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Policy
Planning
Management
KNOWLEDGE
OF THE FUTURE AND THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN CREATING ECOLOGICAL
SUSTAINABILITY.
Global Protests
Individualism and Ethnocentrism
Rights of Future Generations
Energy Sustainability
Paying for Externalities
Shifting to a New Mode of Agriculture
Implications for Schools
Students as Citizen Planners
Designing a World Future
EDUCATION,
TRADITION, HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE AND SUSTAINABILITY
What is the role of tradition in the creation of a
sustainable culture?
What is the role of historical knowledge?
What is the relationship between tradition and history?
What should be the role and function of history and tradition
in the educational system?
CULTURAL
KNOWLEDGE FOR THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE
Cultural knowledge
Educating for dominant cultural knowledge
Community
Ecological solution finding
ESSENTIAL
EARTH LEARNING CONCEPTS FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
Essential
Concepts
There
Is No Environment
Earth
Is Alive
Evolution
Is Not A Theory
Earth Is Learning and Teaching
Earth
Is Slow, Culture Is Fast
Earth Is Primary, Humans Are Derivative
Sustainability Requires Living In Place
Earth Is A Recycling Planet
There
Are No Second Chances
Humanity
Must Be the Change
Early Education: Critical Literacy, Professional Development and
Resources for a Sustainable Future
From Nurturing Parents to Education
for All
Early
Education for Sustainability: A North American Overview of Literacy
Education
Subject
Matter for Individual and Collective Responsibility: The Development
of the Whole Person and Critical Literacy
What Should
be Taught?
What Teaching Methods Can Contribute
to Sustainability?
Change Takes Time--Persistence for
Study, Analyses of Problems, Application of Best Practices, Plus Financial
Support
EARTH ETHICS,
EARTH LITERACY, AND THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
The Community College Context
The Obligations
The Case of Miami
Dade College
Earth Literacy
Earth Ethics
Earth Ethics Institute
Curriculum
Factors
Implementation
Issues
The Next Steps
SUSTAINABILITY
AND UNIVERSITIES
Introduction/The
Relationship of Universities and Sustainability
Promotion
of Sustainability in Universities
Progress
in Campus Operations
Characteristics
of a Green University
Motivation
and Support for University Greening
Staff
Dedicated to Greening
Committees
Environment
policies
Funding
Allocation
Involvement
of Students
Use
of Management Systems
Progress
in Curriculum
Dimensions
of education for sustainable development
Pedagogy
for Education for Sustainable Development
Staff
training and development
Engagement
with Local Community
Research
in the Field
The Red Queen Effect: Roles for Adult
Education in Social Sustainability
The Learning Connection
Existing Demands for Learning
Decentralization, democratization and citizen participation
Human resource development and continuing training
Organizational learning and the learning organization
Multiculturalism and multilingual competence
Conflict resolution and peace studies
Human growth potential
Information mastery
Learning for Sustainability
Differential Demand and Differential Sustainability
Provision of Learning Opportunities
More joy in heaven.
Developing the learning environment
Education by All
Harnessing the Red Queen
EDUCATION,
LIFELONG LEARNING AND LEISURE
Aims of Education
Ancient Origins of Education and Leisure
Modern Conceptions of Education and Leisure
Education for Leisure
Cultural Continuity
Illustrative Propositions
Physical Education and Sport
School Health Education.
The Challenge Ahead
HOLISTIC
EDUCATION: LEARNING FOR AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD
Historical Roots of Holistic Education
Holistic Learning
Linear Thinking and Intuition
Relationship between Mind and Body
Movement Education
Drama
Subject Connections
Curriculum Integration
Community Connections
Earth Connections
Self Connections
Examples of Holistic Education
Waldorf Education
Eurythmy
Main Lesson
Montessori Education
Krishnamurti
The Rajghat Besant School
Brockwood Park
School
Other Examples
THE ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS OF THE HOLISTIC
CURRICULUM
The
nature of curriculum
Paradigm
tensions
Curriculum
Tensions
The
ecological dimension
Curriculum
schemes
Curriculum
as part of the whole
Reorienting
curriculum
A connective
pattern - curriculum, learning and sustainability
EDUCATIONAL POLICY AND PRACTICE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
From
Environmental Education to Education for Sustainability: A Troubled History
Education
for Sustainability: A Troubled Present
Worrying
Evidence
Levels
of student interest in the environment
Knowledge
and understanding of sustainability concepts
The
willingness and ability of students to practice civic responsibility to
care for Earth
Reorienting
Schools for Sustainability
Renewing
the Vision of Education
Generating
New Educational Practices
The
knowledge base of sustainability
Education
and sustainability
Key
Concepts in a Curriculum for Sustainability
Teaching
and Learning Approaches
Reforming
the structures of schooling
DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION AND GRASSROOTS MOVEMENTS FOR
SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
The
Genocidal Nature of Development
The
Rise of the Alien National Pattern (and Genocide) in Europe
The
State and the Market Function of Compulsory Schooling
Compulsory
Schooling as Cultural Genocide
EDUCATION
POLICY AND GENDER ISSUES: A SUSTAINABILITY PERSPECTIVE
Exclusion from Education
Gender and exclusion from education
Policy
History of International Conferences and Conventions Related
to Education
Education and Development
Gender and Education
Education and population
Education and maternal, infant, and child mortality
Educational attainment of children
Education and gender equity
Equity and Equality
The Link between Education and Sustainability
Thresholds of Education and Sustainability
What is Education for Sustainability
Basic education
Reorienting education
Public awareness
Training
Societal Barriers to Schooling
Women and Adult Literacy Programs
Relevance of Literacy Programs
Barriers to participation in literacy programs
Lessons learned in literacy programs
Recent Progress and Lessons Learned
A Comparative Study of Cultural Conservation
among Minority Groups: The Basques and Sustainable Ethnicity in an
Age of Globalization
The Fluid Nature of Nationalism and the Creation of the Rural
The Case of the Basque: Globalization and the Struggle
for Rural Identity
Resisting Static Understandings of "Rural" and the
Shaping of Identity
Economic Backwardness-The Basque Example
Uneven Development
Modernization : the Basque Response
Other Conceptions of Nationalism and Identity: Arana's Legacy
The Rise of Radicalism
Schooling and Politics-Preserving the Basque Language
The Challenge of Rescuing the Basque Language - Regional
Politics
Lessons for and perhaps from Present Basque Nationalism
INDIGENOUS
AND NEOTRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS AND THEIR ROLE IN CREATING AND
MAINTAINING ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY
Indigenous
and Neotraditional Knowledge
The
Development of Alternative Knowledge Systems
Ways
and Results of Knowing
Knowledge
Transmission among Indigenous Groups
Sustainable
Development
Resilience
and Scale in Development
Traditional
Ecological Knowledge
Effects
of Globalization on Alternative Knowledge Systems
Differing
Definitions of the Commons and Bio-Cultural Diversity
Bio-Imperialism
The
Green Revolution
Intellectual
Property Rights
Cultural
Disintegration
Valuing
and Protecting Alternative Knowledge Systems
The
Role of the UN
The
Role of Academia
Indigenous
Activism
The
Role of NGOs and Governments
The
Role of IKS in Development and Education
EDUCATION,
THE INDIVIDUAL, AND CONSUMERISM
Technology in Education Reinforces Consumerism
Computer Mediated Learning
Consumerism Targets Students
Globalization of Consumerism
The Undermining of Community and the Reinforcement of
Consumerism
Individualism Leads to Consumerism
Undermining Traditions
Nature of Traditions
Analysis of Traditions
SYNTAX
Basic
syntactic concepts
Organizational
principles of grammatical structure
Constituency
Dependency
Embedding
and recursiveness
Subordination
and coordination
Word
order
Syntactic
units
Phrases
Types
of phrases
Structure
of phrases
Clauses and sentences
Valency
Grammatical
relations
Types
of clauses and sentences
SEMANTICS
Introduction
Semantics
and Related Disciplines
The
Linguistic Sign
Semantic
Principles
Lexical
Semantics
Semantic
Relations and Semantic Fields
Componential
Analysis
Sentence
Semantics
Semantic
Roles
Generative
/vs./ Interpretive Semantics
The
Standard Theory
Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon
Formal
Semantics
Statement
Logic (SL)
First
Order Predicate Logic (FOPL)
Events
Semantics
Second
Order Logic
Lambda
Calculus
Generalized
Quantifier Theory
Intensional semantics
Dynamic
Semantics (DS)
Further
Semantics
SOCIOLINGUISTIC
VARIATION AND CHANGE
Sociolinguistics
and the Study of Variation and Change
Is
Variation "Free" or Structured?
The
Role of Constraints on Variation
Methods
for Studying Variation and Change
Linguistic
Constraints on Variation
Progress
of Change
Apparent
Time
Social
Dimensions of Variation
Style
Effects
Stylistic
Stratification of Variables
Stereotypes,
Markers, Indicators and the Speech Community
Social
Class or Social Network Effects
Gender
Effects
Directions
in the Sociolinguistic Study of Variation and Change
LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY
Identity in General
Family
Sociology
Psychology
History/politics
Nationalism
Language and Identity I: the
Individual
Case Studies: the Individual
An unexpected episode
Language and Identity II:
the Community
Sociological aspects
Europe
Majority and Minority Languages.
Case Studies
France and French
Brittany and Breton
Catalan
Alsatian, Alsacien,
Elsässisch
Spain and
Spanish
Scandinavia
Finland
Sweden
Germany
Former Yugoslavia
Former USSR
The Finno-Ugric Peoples
Estonia
Karelian
Ukraine and Belarus
Ukrainian
Belarusian
Rusyn
SIGN
LANGUAGES
The
visual-gestural nature of sign languages
Sign
language articulators
The
signing space
The
grammar of sign languages
Form-meaning
relationships in sign languages
Sign
language phonology
Sign
language morphology
Compounding
Derivation
Inflection
Sign
language syntax
The
sociolinguistics of sign languages
Historical
documentation of sign languages
Social
and educational changes in the 19th century
Deaf
communities as linguistic minorities
The
acquisition of sign languages
The
acquisition of sign language as a mother tongue
The
acquisition of sign language as a second language
Sign
bilingual acquisition
Sign
bilingual education
The
bilingual acquisition of a signed and a written language
Sign
bilingualism
Types
of bilingualism
Sign
language contact
PIDGINS
AND CREOLES
Some
general properties of pidgins and creoles
Pidgins:
Incipient communication
Chinese
Pidgin English
Russenorsk.
Hawaiian
Pidgin English
Creoles:
Expansion, stabilization and variability
Basilect
Acrolect
Mesolect
Theoretical
models and current trends in PC studies
Early
models
Substratist position
Universalist position
Developments
of the substratist position
Monogenesis
Relexification
Substrates
and adstrates
Superstrates
Developments
of the universalist position: The bioprogram
The
(post)creole continuum and decreolization
New
trends
Sociohistorical evidence
Demographic
explanations
Acquisition
CODE-SWITCHING
Definitions
and terminology
Code-switching
vs. borrowing
Code-switching
vs. code-mixing
Various
approaches to studying code-switching
Sociolinguistic
approach
Structural
approach
Structural
constraints on code-switching
Attitudes
toward code-switching
COMPUTATIONAL
LINGUISTICS
What
is Computational Linguistics?
A
few sketches in the history of Computational Linguistics
Automatic
text processing
Parsing
Computational
lexicons and ontologies
Acquisition
methodologies
Applications
Infrastructural
Language Resources
European
projects
NLP
in the global information and knowledge society
NLP
in Europe
Production
and "intelligent" use of the digital content (also multimedia)
Future
perspectives
The
promotion of national languages in the global society and the new Internet
generation
FORENSIC
LINGUISTICS
Forensic
Linguistic
What
is forensic linguistics?
Legal
Cases and Proceedings
The
investigative stage
The
trial stage
The
appeal stage
Private
disputes
History
and Development of Forensic Linguistics to the Present
Forensic
Phonetics
Summary
of the Development of Forensic Linguistics
Forensic
Linguistic in the Justice System
MASS
MEDIA AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION
Communication and Development
Modernization
Challenges to Modernization
International News and Entertainment Programming
The Cultural Environment Perspective
Telecommunication for Development
Knowledge Societies
Electronic Media and Open and Distance Education
Challenges for Media Use in Open and Distance Learning
COMPARATIVE
LITERATURE AND THE PLURAL VISION OF DISCOURSE
Aesthetic Historicism, French Influence Study, and American
Parallelism
The Discourse of Triumph and of Crisis
A Global Perspective and Plural Vision
THE
NOTION OF COMPARING AND THE MEETING OF FRAGMENTS
The One and the Many
The Ages of the Verbal Arts
The
Three Ages
Classics
and Classicizing
Unity and Fragmentation
Toward a Semiotics of Number
One,
Two, Three
Questions
to Ponder
HISTORICAL
AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES OF LITERATURE
The concept of literature
Oral literature
Literature in ancient civilizations with writing
Literature in classical literary cultures I: China
Literature in classical literary cultures II: India, Europe,
Arabic culture
Changes in European societies and literatures around 1800
Modern literary culture: from around 1800 to the present
Literature: its mode of operation and its value
The study of literature
HERMENEUTICS
NEED AND THE INEVITIABILITY OF COMPARING
Understanding and Comparing as Basic to the Human Condition
Hermeneutics,
a Definition
Brief History of Interpretation
Reconstruction
of Meaning: How do we Read?
Construction
of Meaning: How do we Communicate?
Deconstruction
of Encrusted Meaning: How do we shape understanding?
The
Hermeneutical Circle
Brief History of Comparative Literature
Recognizing
Otherness (the Stranger)
World
Literature and the Trade in Cultural Goods
Reading the World – Connecting Cultures
Fore-understanding
and pre-judgment
Horizons
of Understanding
Globalism: From Disjuncture to Conjuncture
THE TRADITION OF
COMPARISON OF ARTS
The
humanistic doctrine of ut pictura
poesis and the issue of the competition
between the arts
Leonardo
da Vinci’s Paragone
The
French classicism: transforming painting into scripture
The
sensualistic rhetoric, the crisis of the universal logos and of the
tradition of ut pictura
poesis tradition
The
birth of the Aesthetic theory
The
Laocoon or the critic of metaphor "literalization"
PLASTIC ARTS AND
LITERATURE
The Iconic Origins of Writing
From the Ideogram to the Alphabet
Figures of the Alphabet
From the Art of Memory to Ekphrasis
From the Era of the
Manuscript to that of the Printed Book
The Return to Ideograms
Literature and Painting in China and Japan
RELATIONS BETWEEN
LITERATURE AND MUSIC IN THE CONTEXT OF A GENERAL TYPOLOGY OF INTERMEDIALITY
Extra- vs. Intracompositional Intermediality and Scher's
Typology of Musico-Literary Relations
Variants of Extracompositional Intermediality and their Relevance to Word and Music
Studies
Variants of Intracompositional Intermediality and their Relevance to Word and Music
Studies
A General Typology of Intermediality
Illustrated with Musico-Literary Examples
Beyond Typology:
Perspectives of Musico-Literary
Research
LITERATURE AND FILM: MODERNITY /
MEDIUM / ADAPTATION
Introduction
Toward a
Critical Convergence of Modern Literature and Film
Adaptation
in Theory and Practice
From Text to Film
Conclusion: No End in Sight
LITERATURE AND THE OTHER ARTS: THE
POINT OF VIEW OF SEMIOTICS
Introduction: The Semiotic
Framework
The Semiotic Framework of Verbal and the Other
Arts
Three Semiotic Matrices of Literature and the
Arts
Literature as a Secondary Sign System par
excellence
Poetry, Language, and Music
Orality of
Speaking and Singing
The Musical Substratum of Speech and Poetry
Rhythm, Language, and Literature
Poetry, Music, and their Sister Arts
Aesthetics of Writing,
Visual Form, and Literature
The Poetics of Writing, East and West
Visual Poetry between Literature and the Graphic
Arts
Ideographic Writing: Diagrams of Thought
Literature and the Visual Arts
Differences between Literature and the Visual
Arts
Common Ground Between the Verbal and the Visual
Arts
Intermedial and Transmedial Relationships
NARRATIVE IN
HISTORY / HISTORY IN NARRATIVE
The
alliance breaks up
“Postmodern”
– and its critics
ANTHROPOLOGY,
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, ETHNIC LITERATURE, AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Anthropology
as the Study of Man
Myth
and Folklore–The Writing of Culture and Cultural Writing
Culture
and Counter-Culture
Comparative
Literature, Ethnic Literature, and the Canon
The
Death of the Author and the Life of Culture
Text
as Native Informant and Anthropologist
EPISTEMOLOGICAL
FRONTIER CRISS-CROSSINGS
The
rise of disciplinary knowledge: setting epistemological frontiers
The
emergence of Literary Studies: redrawing of frontiers
First
challenge: the idea of Comparative Literature
Second
challenge: the project of Cultural Studies
The
frontier as a shared/sharing condition of identity formation
LITERATURE
AND MASS-MEDIA-THE SPECTACLE OF WRITING
At First Sight
The Ubiquity of Literature, or Writing, Lies and Videotapes
On Photography —Off Photography
From Opera to Soap Opera
A Museum
of Mimesis: The
Popular Archive
A New (Visual) Literacy
THE
IMPACT OF MEDIA ON LITERATURE
Current Media Theory and Media Studies
Origins
of Discipline
New
Media Theory
Historical Examples
Oral
Transmission
Pictography
The
Andean Khipu
Manuscript
Print
Theater
Photography
Moving
Image
Radio
and Television
The
Digital
Criticism and Media
Media,
Modernism and the Social Conditions of Art: A Diagnosis by Meyer Schapiro
Towards
Literary Formalism: Partisan Review
Mass
Culture and its Discontents: Clement Greenberg
Critical
Theory and Culture Industry
Theories
of Pure Art in a Mass Society
The
Autonomy of Art
Organicism in Literary Criticism
The
Institution of Literary Criticism: F. R. Leavis
The
Fetishism of Text: the New Criticism
Functionalism
and the fallacy of Gesellschaft
The
‘Other’ American Sociology: The Loss of Individual Autonomy
The
Decay of the Aura and Reproduction Technologies: Walter Benjamin
Avant-Garde as an Alternative to Modernism
The
Celebration of Mass Culture: Marshall McLuhan
The
Decline of Modernism
The
"New Sensibility" and the Children of Marx and Coca-Cola
Postmodernism
as the Cultural Logic of Advanced Capitalism
The
Imperial Pretensions of Culturalism and the
Devaluation of Nature
CRITICISM
AND EDUCATION
Two Meanings of "Global Communication"
Global
Semiotics and Education
Education
of the Semiotic Animal to Responsibility
Global Semiotics and Criticism
Criticism, Responsibility and Dialogue from a Semioethic Perspective
Modeling, Communication and Dialogue
Otherness, Listening and Hospitality
Verbal and Non-Verbal Signs in the Educational Process
The
Field of Global Semiotics
The Typology of Human Modeling is Pivotal in Education Theory
and Practice
The Evolution of Cognitive Processes and Language
Education to Organic Conceptual Competence
The Bond among Sign, Body, Mind, and Culture
The Natural Learning Flow Principle
Literary Writing
Education to Inventing
Language,
Speech and the Play of Musement
Criticism and Education from a Global Perspective
Writing and Literature
Education and the Critique of Dialogic Reason
Literary Communication in the Era of Global Communication
from the Perspective of Comparative Literature
ALTERNATIVE
FORMS IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF LITERATURE
Ends and Means: Under the Empire of the Book
Past and Future Alternatives: The Forms of Sensoriality from Oral to Hypertext
The Persistence of Oral Traditions
Alternative and sub-literary: the uses of illiteracy.
‘Special interest’ Literature
‘Alternative’ as Marginal: From Counterculture to
Counter-Canon
When the Books are Banned: Samizdats
and other Desperate Alternatives
Blogs and the Forthcoming End of the Book
Era
IMPACTS OF
CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS ON GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
The Search for Interdisciplinarity
The
Scientific and Technological Process
The
Resistance of the Literary Field
An
Intermediate Proposal: Interdisciplinarity
The Impact of Technology and Literature’s Interdisciplinarity
Technology
at the Service of Literature
Digital
Literature
Literary
Theory about Literature in Hypertext
Collectivity:
The Collaborative Writing
The
Death of the Author
The
Rupture of Linearity
The
Demystification of the Canon
The
Democratization of Art
A
New Paradigm for a New Humanism?
Conclusions and Challenges
TECHNOLOGIES
AND LITERATURES
Which Technologies for a Globalized
World
What's Really New
Substituting
or Overlapping Supporting Materials
Accessing
to Literatures
The
Anxiety of Reading
and Writing
Which Literatures and Which Technologies for a Sustainable
Development
Technological
Migrations
A
Risk or an Issue for Canonical or Marginalized Literatures
Which Technologies for a Globalized
World
Cognitive
Challenges
Identities
Challenges
THE
RELEVANCE OF DISTINCTIVE KINDS OF SUPPORTING MATERIALS
Socio-Cultural Dimension: Knowledge Preservation and
Different types of Supporting Materials.
The Economic Dimension of Text Supporting Materials
The Institutional Dimension: Textual Mass Production and
Control
Textual and Global Issues: the Local within the Global
The Environmental Dimension: Preservation of our Natural
Capital
INTERACTIVITY
AND OPEN-ENDING (LITERARY WORKS)
Definitions
Interactivity and Reading
Narrativity and Open-Ending
VIRTUAL
TRIPS
The Epistemology of the Journey: Narrating our Life Stories
Journeys, Representations and Technology
Embodied and Disembodied Communication, Identity and
Intercultural Awareness
The Educational Dimension of Virtual Trips and Other Forms of
Net Technologies
TRANSLATIO
STUDII AND CROSS-CULTURAL WELTVERKEHR
Terminology
and Basic Conception
The
Traditional Concept of Translatio Studii
Translatio as a Cultural Figure
Political,
Cultural and Religious Translatio
The
Threefold Concept of Translatio Studii
Translatio Studii as
Cultural Tradition (1)
Translatio Studii as
Cultural Transfer and Colonialism (2)
Translatio Studii as a Shift of Hegemonic Culture (3)
Symbolic
Configurations of Translatio
Linguistic
Translatio
The
Redefinition of Translatio Studii in the Context of Cross-Cultural Weltverkehr
Principles
of Post/Modern and Postcolonial Translatio
The
Figure of the Reverse World and its Prefigurations
Intercontinental
Shifts and Fractalization
The
Figure of the Internet
The
Network of Cross-Cultural Institutions
Methods
and Media of Cross-Cultural Learning
Literary
Multilingualism as a Paradigm of Cross-Cultural Translatio
Restrictions
of Cross-Cultural Translatio
Cultures
as Mutual Translations and Metaphors
THE WELTVERKEHR
OF BOOKS: MODERN ANTHOLOGIES OF WORLD POETRY
"Weltliteratur" ("World literature").
Goethe and a programmatic concept of literature
"Stimmen der Völker in Liedern".
Herders collection of poetry and folk songs
Constructing
‘world poetry’ in the 20th century I - Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s "Museum" (1960, 1979/80)
Constructing
‘world poetry’ in the 20th century II - Harald
Hartung’s "Luftfracht"
(1991)
Inventing
‘world poetry’ in the 20th century III: Joachim Sartorius’ "Atlas" (1996)
Constructing
‘world poetry’ in the 20th century IV: Raoul
Schrott’s "Erfindung
der Poesie" (1997)
Contemporary Weltverkehr of
Comparatist Scholars. World Congresses of the International Comparative Literature
Association (ICLA)
The Notion of Cross-Cultural Weltverkehr
and its Meaning for Comparative Literature
Basic Principles of the ICLA / AILC Activities
Medial Aspects of Translatio
Studii and the Weltverkehr
of Books and Scholars:The ICLA/AILC Congress
Proceedings
Geographical Aspects of Translatio
Studii and the Weltverkehr
of Scholars: the ICLA / AILC Congress Venues
Linguistic Aspects of Translatio
Studii and the Weltverkehr
of Scholars: The ICLA / AILC Congress Languages
Personal Aspects of Translatio
Studii and the Weltverkehr
of Scholars: The Multinational and Transnational Character of the ICLA
/ AILC Members
Theoretical and Thematic Translatio
Studii through the ICLA / AILC Congresses
Pedagogical Aspects of Translatio
Studii and Cross-Cultural Weltverkehr
LITERARY
MULTILINGUALISM I: GENERAL OUTLINES AND WESTERN WORLD
Traditional
Mono- and Multilingualism
Purism
and Barbarism
Babylonian
Confusion
Medieval
and Humanistic Diglossia
Intertextual Multilingualism
Intratextual Colingualism
Macaronic Mixtilingualism
Occidental
and Oriental Multilingualism
Courtly
Multilingualism
Pentecostal
Multilingualism
Modern
Diglossia
National
and International Multilingualism
Post/Modern
Multilingualism
Simultaneism and Globoglossia
Primitivist and Futurist Multlilingualism
Panlingualism
Onomatopoetics
Futurist
Multilingualism and Fascist Monolingualism
Postwar
Internationalism
Poetic
Holography and Zerography
Fictional
Holography and Zerography
Conflictive
Multilingualism
Mass-Medial
Multilingualism
Literary multilingualism
II: Multilingualism in India
Indian Multilingualism
Indian Bilingualism
Bilingual Texts in India
PHONETICS
Articulatory phonetics
The organs and physiology of speech
Consonants
Vowels
IPA notation
Acoustic phonetics
Auditory phonetics
Instrumental measurements and
experiments
Suprasegmentals
Practical applications of phonetics
Clinical phonetics
Forensic phonetics
Other areas of application
PHONOLOGY
The basic notions of phonology
Segments of sound
Distinctive features
The nature of distinctive features
The classification of distinctive
features
Major class features
Laryngeal features
Manner features
Place features
Suprasegmentals
Prosodic features, domains and rules
Prosodic typology
Rhythmic typology
Tonal typology
Phonological theories and models
Structuralist phonology
Generative
phonology
Derivational
phonology
Linear
(SPE) phonology
Post-SPE
phonology
Non-derivational
phonology: optimality theory
LANGUAGE
TEACHING METHODOLOGY AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Language
Teaching Methodology
Historical
overview of foreign language teaching (FLT) methods
The
present
Communicative
language teaching (CLT)
Task-based
language learning
Computer-assisted
language learning (CALL)
Content
of language teaching
Pronunciation
Grammar
Vocabulary
Literature
Intercultural
communication
Language
for specific purposes (LSP)
Teaching
language skills
Syllabus
design
Materials
development
Language
assessment
The
language classroom
Classroom
interaction
Classroom
management
The
language learner
Learner
age
Learner
attitudes and motivation
Learner
strategies
Other
learner characteristics
Language
teacher competences
Second
Language Acquisition (SLA)
SLA: definition and goals
Historical
overview of SLA research
Contrastive
analysis
Error
analysis
Interlanguage studies
SLA in 1980's and 1990's
Current
research issues
SLA and learning
SLA and age effects
Crosslinguistic interaction
Variation
and fossilization
Input
and interaction in SLA
The
current state of SLA theories and research
methods
ECOLINGUISTICS
Theoretical
basis of ecolinguistics
Ecology
as Metaphor – the Haugenian paradigm
Societal
language contacts
Linguistic
and biological diversity
Endangered
Languages
Individual
language ecology
Language,
Nature and environment – the Hallidayan paradigm
Ecological
critique of the language system
Eco-critical
discourse analysis
The
discourse of advertising
Euphemizing
discourse
Critique
of eco-criticism
Applications
and future trends
Applications
in Haugenian ecolinguistics
Applications
in Hallidayan ecolinguistics
THE ART
OF LEXICOGRAPHY
Definition
The History of Lexicography
Lexicography and Allied Fields
Lexicology
and Lexicography
Linguistics
and Lexicography
Grammar
and Lexicography
Encyclopedia
and lexicography
Typological Classification of Dictionary
General
Dictionary
Normative
Dictionary
Referential
or Descriptive Dictionary
Historical
Dictionary
Etymological
Dictionary
Dictionary
of Loanwords
Encyclopedic
Dictionary
Learner's
Dictionary
Monolingual
Dictionary
Special
Dictionaries
Electronic Dictionary
Groundwork for Dictionary Making
Panning
Data
Collection
Extraction
of lexical items
Selection
of Lexical Items
Mode
of Lexical Selection
Dictionary Making: General Dictionary
Headwords
Spelling
Pronunciation
Etymology
Morphology
and Grammar
Meaning
Illustrative
Examples and Citations
CORPUS
LINGUISTICS: AN INTRODUCTION
What
is a Corpus?
Salient
Features of Corpus
Quantity
Quality
Representation
Simplicity
Equality
Retrievability
Verifiability
Augmentation
Documentation
Types
of Corpus
Genre
Nature
of Data
Type
of Text
Purpose
of Design
Nature
of Application
Issues
Related to Written Corpus Generation
Why
Corpora are Needed?
Factors
Related to Written Corpus Generation
Size
of Corpus
Representation
of Text Types
Determination
of Time Span
Selection
of Text Documents
Selection
of Writers
Determination
of Target Users
Process
Of Written Corpus Generation
Method
of Text Selection
Methods
of data entry
Texts
from electronic resources
Text
from Internet
Data
collection by OCR system
Manual
word entry
Method
of Corpus Sanitation
Omission
of Character
Addition
of Character
Selection
of Wrong Character
Repetition
of Character
Transposition
of Character
Method
of Corpus Management
Functional
Relevance of Corpus
Historical Evolution of the world's Languages
Models
of language spread
Wave
of advance
Elite
dominance
Language
families in the Old World
Language
families in the New World
Recent
history
Religion, Values and Sustainable Development
Introduction
Values
and social action
Values
as cognitive dimension
Values, interests, habits
Human values
Universal
values
Values
and social change
Moral Values
Moral
values and scientific approach
Moral
values and ideologies
Religious values
Beyond
religious values
Secular Values
Global
and local values
Values and sustainable development
RISK
SOCIETY, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND RELIGION
Risk Society Thesis
Reflexive Modernity and Ontological Security
Risk Society and Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development and Religion
Risk Society and Religion
Environment
and Religion in a Developing Country: The Role of Sacrifice in the XangO of
Recife (Brazil)
Previous Literature
The Xango and the City
Rituals and Victuals
The Inputs of Reciprocity
Final Remarks
WORLD
SYSTEM HISTORY
What
is World System History?
A set of questions
Context,
origins, and methods
Fundamental
Processes
The
Promise,and the Prospect
BIG HISTORY
Definitions
Antecedents
Big History
Today
Common Themes and Questions
Problems and Difficulties
WORLD-SYSTEMS
ANALYSIS
Historical origins of world-systems analysis
Basic concepts of world-systems analysis
The Space of Social Reality:
The Time of Social Reality
Epistemological consequences
Critiques of world-systems analysis
STATES
SYSTEMS AND UNIVERSAL EMPIRES
Civilizations
and World Systems
The
Character of States Systems.
Conditions
favorable to states systems
Geographic
dissection and openness; demographic sparsity and
mobility.
Restricted
technology of movement.
Ethnocultural heterogeneity.
Cheap,
easy and defensive military technology.
Conditions
favored by states systems
Ethnocultural heterogeneity.
Political
freedom and cultural creativity.
Perpetual
war.
The
Character of Universal Empires.
The
Pathology and Survival of States Systems
The
Pathology and Survival of Universal Empires.
Why
is there no Universal Empire Today?
THE SILK ROAD:
AFRO-EURASIAN CONNECTIVITY ACROSS THE AGES
An Introduction to the Silk Road
Caravan
Routes
The
Term "The Silk Road"
Silk and Other Merchandise along the Silk
Road
An Historical Overview
The First Golden Age: The Era of Four Empires (100 BCE–200
CE)
Han
China
Parthia
Art
along the Silk Road
Rome and India
The
Collapse of the Roman and Chinese Empires
Continued Interchange
The Second Golden Age: The Sogdian
Era (200-600)
Faxian
The
Sogdians after 600
The Third Golden Age: The Era of China’s Second
Empire (600–750)
Xuanzang
Chinese
Exports
Religions
along the Silk Road
The Fourth Golden Age: Dar al-Islam (750–1000)
Dar
al-Islam and the Transmission of Ideas
A
Shift Away from the Land Routes
The Song Interlude: Song China Takes to the Ocean
(1127–1279)
The Fifth Golden Age: The Era of the Pax
Mongolica (ca. 1260–ca. 1350)
The Great Eurasian Pandemic
The Timurids and the Indian Summer
of the Silk Road (1400–1500)
A New World
The
European Impact on the Global Economy
Qing China
and the Revival of Central Asian Commerce
The
Indian Diaspora
Russian Expansion into Central Asia’s
Trade Routes: From Silk Road to Cotton
Road
Cotton
Monoculture
The Silk Road Today
DARK
AGES IN WORLD SYSTEM HISTORY
Nature of Dark Ages
Duration
of Dark Ages
Culture/Nature Relations and Ecological Crisis over World
System History: A Brief Overview (2200 B.C. – A.D. 900)
Deforestation
Climate
Changes
Socioeconomic
and Political Changes: Deurbanization,
Population, Regime Change and Innovations
Systems Transformation
THE
KONDRATIEFF WAVE AS GLOBAL SOCIAL PROCESS
Long Waves of Economic Growth and Their Correlates
The
Price (+) Route
The
Schumpeterian Path
The
Very Long Path
Other Lines of Inquiry
Globalization in Historical Perspective
What
is Globalization?
When
did Globalization Begin?
The
Industrial Revolution
The
rise of the West
The
Riches of the East
Tipping
Points
The
Great Divergence of East and West
The
Rise of the East
The Long Age of Divergence
The Great Convergence
EMERGENCE OF A GLOBAL
POLITY
The
World in 1000 and 2000
Global Political Institutions
The World System
Toward
an Explanation
Globalization
An Evolutionary Learning Process
What about "Group Selection"?
Society of States, or Global Polity?
A
Mechanism: The Long Cycle
Necessary Conditions
Four Phases of the Learning Cycle
Evolution
of a Global Polity
Periods of Global Political Evolution
The Role of Nation-States
Beyond
2000
EPISTEMOLOGY
OF WORLD SYSTEM HISTORY: LONG-TERM PROCESSES AND CYCLES
Shortcomings of Traditional Social Science
Disciplinarity and State Centrism
Narrow Temporal and Geographic Scope
Fundamental Methodological Components of World System History
Systemic Level Analysis
Transdisciplinarity
An Emphasis on the Long-Term
Globo-Centrism
Methodological Challenges to World System History
Determinism
Recognition
Reflectivity
Demobilization
Indeterminacy
The Status of these Challenges in World System History
Determinism in world system history
Conclusions on Determinism
Indeterminacy in world system history
Approaches to Indeterminacy
Hypothesis testing vs. a criteria of completeness
The agent-structure problem
Indeterminacy under control?
A Predictable World System Future?
One
World System or Many: The Continuity Thesis in World System History
Continuity in World History
Historical Materialism
Economic
Cycles
Core-Periphery Hierarchies
Hegemony and Super-Hegemony
Continuity Thesis and
Historical Dialectics
Capital versus Oikos
Unfree labor versus free commodified
labor
Organization
versus entropy
Humanocentrism
WORLD POPULATION HISTORY
A
Harsh Beginning
The Mortality Revolution Begins
Fertility
Regulation and Its Politics
Fertility Regulation
Influential Figures
Postwar Population Conferences
Sources
of Demographic Knowledge
Early Censuses
Early Demographic Analysis
Modern-era Censuses
Demographic Surveys
The
Demographic Transition
The Early Transition
The Post-1945 Transition
The
Postwar Explosion
Addressing
the Explosion
Factors Affecting Fertility Levels
The
Contemporary Situation
Recent Birth Rate Trends - The Developed
Countries
Recent
Birth Rate Trends - The Developing Countries
HIV/AIDS
WORLD
URBANIZATION: THE ROLE OF SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS IN HUMAN SOCIAL EVOLUTION
Human Settlement Systems in World System History
The Evolution of Early Settlement Systems
The
First Villagers
The
Hilly Flanks
To
the Flood Plain
Sedentary/Nomadic
Coevolution
Processes
and Evolution of Urban Development
Settlement
Size: Hierarchy and Power
Cities
and Social Evolution
Emerging
Patterns of Urbanization in the World System
The
Volcano Model
Low-density
Cities
The
Contemporary World City
Network
City
Regions
The
Global City System
Cities
and the Future
DEMOCRATIZATION:
THE WORLD-WIDE SPREAD OF DEMOCRACY IN THE MODERN AGE
Early
European Republicanism, to 1517
Early
Modern Democracy, 1517-1814
The Dutch, the English, and Liberal Advantage,
1562-1609
English Events, 1642-1689: Civil War and
Glorious Revolution
The Enlightenment, 1715-1776
The Age of Revolution, 1776-1814
Liberalism
in Europe, 1814-1848
The Revolutions of 1830
The Revolutions of 1848
Britain as Liberal
Power?
Scientific Racism and the Standard of
Civilization: Europe and the World,
1856-1914
Democracy
Unbound: Three Liberal Moments, 1919, 1945, 1989
WWI and Its Moment
WWII and Its Moment
The Post-Cold War Moment, 1989-2001?
Today’s Democratic Challenges
THE
RISE OF GLOBAL PUBLIC OPINION
Popular movements and global
institution-building
Responses to Globalization
Organizing
Global Public Opinion.
The World
Social Forum Process.
EAST ASIA IN THE WORLD SYSTEM
East Asia before the Capitalist World-Economy
The formation of the East Asia Region
Economic development of East Asia before 1800
The Fall of East Asia
Why East Asia
dynamics stopped before 1800?
Why East Asia
couldn’t resist incorporation into the capitalist world-Economy?
The decline of Chinese empire in the
19th century
The great escape of Japan
Attempt towards regionalization in
the first half of the 20th century
Sino-Japanese Wars and the Communist
Revolution in China
The Resurgence of East Asia
in the World System
US-centered capitalist world economy
The socialist and capitalist
semi-peripheral paths in East Asia
East Asia in the 21st century
Toward East Asian dominance in the
world system?
INCORPORATING
NORTH AMERICA INTO THE EURASIAN
WORLD-SYSTEM
Excursus on Terminology
The "War in the Tribal Zone" Effect
Ecology of the Encounter
European Arrivals
The Fur Trade
Gender Roles
Incorporation as a Social Process
CIVILIZATIONAL
ANALYSIS: A PARADIGM IN THE MAKING
Classical Sources
Eisenstadt and the Axial Age
Axial transformations
A new vision of modernity
Civilization and Civilizations
Norbert Elias and state formation
Early civilizations
Domains of Civilizational Analysis
Cultural
problematics
Political
traditions and transformations
The
economic sphere
Themes
for Further Research
Towards Modernity
Objections and Qualifications
Civilizations, societies and religions
Boundaries,
encounters and entanglements
Historical
and geographical settings
MESOAMERICAN
CIVILIZATION: PATTERN AND PROCESS
Culture Area, Symbiotic Region, and World System
Culture Historical Overview
History of Mesoamerican Archaeology
Environment and Early Occupation
Archaic Foraging and the Origins of Agriculture
The Early Mesoamerican
Village
Regional Comparisons
Case Study: Tayata
The Mesoamerican Urban Tradition
Regional Comparisons
Case Study: Huamelulpan
Classic Period Collapses
Islamic Civilizations
Origins and Sources
Islam and Social Integration
Islam as Basis of a Universal Community
The Evolution of Shari’a
The Problem of Rule and Succession
The Islamic Middle Age: Syncretism, Diversity, Cataclysm,
Expansion
Islamic Modernity
Questions of Social Integration and Political Participation
in Modernity
SOCIOLOGY
Birth and Development of Sociology
Pre-Sociology
Classical Sociology
Modern Sociology
Structural Functionalism
Neo-Evolutionism
Materialism (Marxism)
Theories of Social Conflict
Behaviorism
Phenomenological Sociology
Methods of Sociological Research
Types of Sociological Research
Pilot Research
Descriptive Investigation
Analytical Research
Programs of Sociological Research
Collection of Sociological Information
Emergence of Global Society and New Sociology
Globalization: Social Problems
Sustainable Development and Noosphere
as a Subject of Sociological Analysis
WESTRERN
PHILOSOPHY AND THE LIFE-GROUND
The Life-Ground in Western Philosophy Via Negativa
Rarefying the Life-Ground: the Ideal Turn of Ancient
Philosophy
The Ionians and Empedocles
Pythagoras
Heraclitus
The Eleatics
The Sophists
The Skeptics
The Otherworldly Horizon: the Long-Lasting Legacy of Socrates
and Plato
Socrates
Plato
Heathen Neo-Platonism
Early Christian Neo-Platonism
Tertullian and His Heirs
The Otherworldly Horizon as the Medieval Mindset
The Modern Separation from the Life-Ground: Kant’s Copernican
Revolution
Modern Science
Rationalism and Empiricism
Kant
Idealism
Schelling
Schopenhauer
Rarefying Western Philosophy: the Linguistic Turn of the
Twentieth Century
The Life-ground in Western Philosophy Via Positiva
Western Philosophy as the Mother of All Sciences
Aristotle
Ancient Atomism
Aristotelian Platonism and Mechanism
The Medieval Life-Ground of God
The Birth of Modern Science
Descartes and Modern Mechanism
Western Philosophy Reclaiming the Life-Ground in Human
Conduct
Ancient Agrarianism
The Kennel, the Garden and the Porch
Humanism and Renaissance
The Iron Century
The Enlightenment
Marxism and Liberalism
Western Philosophy and the Life-Revealing Given of Existence
Academic Skepticism and Its Legacy
Existentialism
Nietzsche
Wittgenstein
Ecological Platonism
Green Thought
LIFE
RESPONSIBILITY VERSUS MECHANICAL REDUCTIONISM: WESTERN WORLD-VIEWS OF
NATURE FROM PANTHEISM TO POSITIVISM
The modern Western idea of ‘the natural world’
Other cosmological patterns
The Biblical view of the world
Ancient Greek science and philosophy
Organism
and ‘mechanism’
Beings
and Being
Cyclical
cosmology
Attitudes
towards the universe
The mediaeval world-view
The impact of the 'mechanistic' universe of Newtonian science
Reductionism
Direct
implications of reductionism.
The
missing third realm
Quantification
Teleology
and functions
Indirect
implications
Reactions
against the new view of nature and its alleged implications
Positivism
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