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The study of the relationship between language and thought, and how this apparently differs between cultures and social groups, is a rapidly expanding area of enquiry. This book discusses the relationship between language and the mental organisation of knowledge, based on the results of a fieldwork project carried out in the Kingdom of Tonga in Polynesia. It challenges some existing assumptions in linguistics, cognitive anthropology and cognitive science and proposes a new foundational cultural model, 'radiality', to show how space, time and social relationships are expressed both linguistically and cognitively. A foundational cultural model is knowledge that is repeated in several domains and shared within a cultural homogeneous group. These knowledge structures are lenses through which we interpret the world and guide our behaviour. The book will be welcomed by researchers and students working within the fields of psycholinguistics, anthropological linguistics, cognitive anthropology, cognitive psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and cognitive science

Preface / Ruth Wodak -- Introduction: Migration and crisis identity / Andreas Musolff and Lorella Viola -- 1. A comparative analysis of the keyword multicultural(ism) in French, British, German and Italian migration discourse / Melani Schröter, Marie Veniard, Charlotte Taylor and Andreas Blätte -- 2. Polentone vs terrone: A discourse-historical analysis of media representation of Italian internal migration / Lorella Viola -- 3. Featuring immigrants and citizens: A comparison between Spanish and English primary legislation and administration information texts (2007-2011) / Purificación Sánchez, Pilar Aguado and Pascual Pérez-Paredes -- 4. A humanitarian disaster or invasion of Europe? 2015 migrant crisis in the British press / Zeynep Cihan Koca-Helvaci -- 5. Aspects of threat construction in the Polish anti-immigration discourse / Piotr Cap -- 6. Gender, metaphor and migration in media representations: Discursive manipulations of the Other / Liudmila Arcimaviciene -- 7. Practical reasoning and metaphor in TV discussions on immigration in Greece: Exchanges and changes / Eleni Butulussi -- 8. The Great Wall of Europe: Verbal and multimodal potrayals of Europe's migrant crisis in Serbian media discourse / Nadežda Silaški and Tatjana Đurović -- 9. Representations of the 2015/2016 'migrant crisis' on the online portals of Croatian and Serbian public broadcasters / Ljiljana Šarić and Tatjana R. Felberg -- 10. Representation of unaccompanied migrant children from Central America in the United States: Media vs. migrant perspectives / Theresa Catalano and Jessica Mitchell-McCollough -- 11. Displaced Ukrainians: Russo-Ukrainian discussions of victims from the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine / Ludmilla A'Beckett -- 12. Preaching from a distant pulpit: The European migrant crisis seen through a New York Times editorial and reader comments / Michael S. Boyd -- 13. Discourses of immigration and integration in German newspaper comments / Janet M. Fuller -- 14. 'They have lived in our street for six years now and still don't speak a work [!] of English': Scenarios of alleged linguistic underperformance as part of anti-immigrant discourses / Andreas Musolff -- Notes on contributors -- Indexk

"Many of the women whose names are known to history from Classical Athens were metics or immigrants, linked in the literature with assumptions of being 'sexually exploitable.' Despite recent scholarship on women in Athens beyond notions of the 'citizen wife' and the 'common prostitute,' the scholarship on women, both citizen and foreign, is focused almost exclusively on women in the reproductive and sexual economy of the city. This book examines the position of metic women in Classical Athens, to understand the social and economic role of metic women in the city, beyond the sexual labor market. This book contributes to two important aspects of the history of life in 5th century Athens: it explores our knowledge of metics, a little-researched group, and contributes to the study if women in antiquity, which has traditionally divided women socially between citizen-wives and everyone else. This tradition has wrongly situated metic women, because they could not legally be wives, as some variety of whores. Author Rebecca Kennedy critiques the traditional approach to the study of women through an examination of primary literature on non-citizen women in the Classical period. She then constructs new approaches to the study of metic women in Classical Athens that fit the evidence and open up further paths for exploration. This leading-edge volume advances the study of women beyond their sexual status and breaks down the ideological constraints that both Victorians and feminist scholars reacting to them have historically relied upon throughout the study of women in antiquity"--

This article surveys the ouevre of the Icelandic writer Jakobína Sigurðardóttir (1918-1994) on the occasion of her centenary. Various aspects of her novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs are examined, including the ways in which she presents time in her texts – time as it pertains to individual life spans and the interaction of different generations, as well as time in the life of a nation which could be said to have switched abodes in the course of the 20th Century, moving from rural to urban settings, and during this time the island nation attained sovereignty and independence. narrative is a key element in treating time and historical shifts, and attention is paid to the ways in which Sigurðardóttir both renews realist traditions and resorts to more radical narrative forms, pulling the reader into an active dialogue on gender and generational issues, on social justice and equality, as well on the routes and conditions which connect and mould places of dwelling – individual houses as well as the abode of the nation.

Alors que la lutte contre la pauvreté constitue une préoccupation renouvelée de nos sociétés contemporaines depuis le début du XXIe s., cet ouvrage collectif propose d'explorer différents visages de la pauvreté en Grèce ancienne. L'approche retenue ne privilégie pas, contrairement à ce qui a souvent été fait jusqu'ici, la réaction des cités et des citoyens devant la pauvreté et ne se concentre pas sur la question de l'assistanat ni de la charité mais interroge, sous l'impulsion des apports de la sociologie récente, l'existence de pratiques de pauvres, susceptibles de définir un groupe social. La question de la visibilité et des enjeux de la pauvreté est aussi au cœur de nombreuses contributions, avec tout particulièrement les représentations iconographiques de la pauvreté. Sans prétendre à l'exhaustivité, ce volume cherche à poser les premiers jalons d'une étude plus générale de la pauvreté dans l'Antiquité, qui ne réduise pas exclusivement le phénomène à une histoire des conflits sociaux, ni à une étude des disparités économiques, mais s'applique à revenir aux pauvres mêmes. = While the fight against poverty is a renewed concern in our contemporary society since the beginning of the XXIst century, this collective work aims to explore different aspects of poverty in Ancient Greece. The approach does not emphasize the response of cities and citizens to poverty and does not focus on the issue of the assistantship or charity unlike what has often been done so far. It rather questions thanks to the contributions of the recent sociology, the existence of poor pratice, likely to define a social group. The question of visibility and issues of poverty is at the heart of many papers, especially with the iconographic representations of poverty. Without claiming to be exhaustive, this volume aims to lay the groundwork for a more general study of poverty in Antiquity that will not only reduces the phenomenon to a history of social conflicts, or consideration of economic disparities but applies to focus on the poor themselves