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The essay explores an oblique perspective on language via the field of comparative political theory* (*hereafter CPT). The essay sketches briefly some of the conceptual architecture and genealogy of the comparative political theory enterprise and investigates more specifically the uses of the concepts of culture and language within the core arguments. The discussion distinguishes three rough categories of CPT and correlates these with understandings of language. The discussion then turns to certain problematic aspects of CPT concerned with the concepts of political theory, comparison within political studies and the concept of culture itself. The essay concludes on a critical and circumspect note on the status of CPT within contemporary understandings of political theory.

This essay will link African women?s writing to culture, including literary culture and the politics of literature. It describes how African women?s literature can act as a mirror, reflecting African cultures to Africans, and how it can serve as a window and a door, revealing African cultures to those outside of them in whole or in part. It ends with a description of ?communal agency,? an example of how scholarly writing can act as a door for both those who are and are not a part of a literature?s culture.

The book presents a new theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. The view is that languages spread across cultures, and cultures spread across languages, or in other words, that linguistic and cultural practices flow through social networks in the world along partially different paths.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1: The Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 -- 2: Globalization and Culture: Two Views -- 3: Culture and Ideology -- 4: The Pre-History of Globalization -- 5: Maps and Language -- 6: Language, Culture, and Politics -- 7: The Transmission of the Modernist Dream: Ideological and Cultural Transfers -- 8: The Movement of Goods and People -- 9: Conclusions -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Index -- Picture Credits -- About the Contributors.

The aim of this paper is to analyse the usage of address forms in written professional communication in Brazilian Portuguese and Romanian. The corpus consists of two types of data, authentic workplace documents (especially from private companies) and templates from two recently published business correspondence textbooks in Romanian and Brazilian Portuguese. After comparing the textbook language against data from contemporary authentic letters or e-mails, I observed that on daily basis speakers tend to be less formal and prefer the T pronouns or the first name address in their interactions wit

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