Will der Protestantismus in einer zunehmend säkularen Gesellschaft anschlussfähig bleiben, so tut er gut daran, sich auf seine liberalen Traditionen zu besinnen und die darin enthaltenen theologischen Einsichten, wissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen und methodischen Ansätze für unsere Zeit fruchtbar zu machen.
A partir dels estudis consolidats i, sobretot, d'un meritori treball de camp amb enquestes dialectològiques a informants de més de 250 localitats de la geografia valenciana, "Els parlars valencians" descriu, amb rigor i profusió, la riquesa lingüística que presenta el català al País Valencià.
This accessible textbook offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the Spanish language and its role in societies around the world.
Shortlisted for the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and LinguisticsOrality in Written Texts provides a methodologically and theoretically innovative study of change in Irish English in the period 1700-1900.
This book examines the primary biblical themes in the lyrical theology of Charles Wesley, the master hymn writer and cofounder of the Methodist movement.
In this immersive ethnography, Tony Tian-Ren Lin explores the reasons that Latin American immigrants across the United States are increasingly drawn to Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism, a strand of Protestantism gaining popularity around the world.
Las variedades del mundo hispano tiene un acercamiento nuevo a la dialectología española, ya que guía a los estudiantes por las macrovariedades fascinantes y diversas del mundo hispano.
From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the "e;Mormon question"e; debated central questions of constitutional law.
This volume collects ten studies that propose modern methodologies of analyzing and explaining language change in the case of various morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic characteristics.
Am Beispiel dreier deutscher Nominalisierungsmuster - der ung-Nominalisierung, der Infinitivkonversion und der impliziten Derivation - entwirft diese Monographie eine kognitiv-linguistisch und konstruktionsgrammatisch orientierte Theorie des Wortbildungswandels.
This book offers a new perspective on the role played by colonial descriptions and translation of Caribbean plants in representations of Caribbean culture.
Partiendo del análisis de un rango de fenómenos morfofonológicos de la gramática del español que comprenden los pronombres personales, las formas verbales y aspectos del llamado neutro, el volumen aborda el problema de la aclaración satisfactoria del concepto de sincretismo bajo el punto de vista teórico y empírico.
Faces of English explores the phenomenon of increasing dialects, varieties, and creoles, even as the spread of globalization supports an apparently growing uniformity among nations.
A first in multimodal/multisemiotic discourse studies this collection of original articles by international scholars focuses primarily on texts from non-English speaking contexts.
This Handbook captures the essentials of English historical linguistics: theories, methodologies, materials, processes of language change, and the research process.
