Suchergebnisse

"Table of contents" -- "A foreword on humorous discourse" -- "I Approaches at the essence of humorous discourse" -- "Humor theory: What is and what is not" -- "Metonymy in humour" -- "Conceptual integration and humor" -- "The dynamics of humour" -- "II Humor as a function of discourse" -- "The GTVH and humorous discourse" -- "Metapragmatic markers of the bona fide and non-bona fide modes of communication" -- "Wordplay and football: Humour in the discourse of written sports reporting" -- "Audience affiliation, membership categories, and the construction of humor in stand-up comedy" -- "Humor research and humor reception: Far away, so close" -- "III Computer modeling of humorous discourse" -- "Ontological Semantic Theory of Humor in a context of humorous discourse" -- "Notes on the contributors

When Geert Hofstede famously defined culture as collective programming of the mind, the definition broadly referred to culture as such, including all the layers in his "onion" model. The title of this volume, Culture's Software, represents a development of this original idea and was inspired by none other than Professor Hofstede himself. He used this phrase over thirty years later when lecturing to an international group of scholars gathered in Poland to debate the idea of cultural communication styles, which has, in recent years, been fruitfully discussed from a fresh perspective by scholars working within cognitive and cultural linguistics. The debate has given rise to this book, which will inspire further research into this fascinating subject

"The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 examines a turning point in East European history: the summer of 1920, when Lenin's Soviet Russia decided to challenge the Versailles system and launch a military attack on the continent. The outcome of this attack might have been the occupation of all of Poland and East Central Europe, and a Red Army sweep further west. This book probes the British-Soviet negotiations and diplomatic operations behind the scenes. Professor Nowak uses hitherto unexamined documents from Russian and British archives to show how (and why) top British politicians were ready to accept a new Russian imperial control over the whole of Eastern Europe. Nowak unravels this previously untold story of that first and forgotten appeasement, stopped only by the Polish military victory over the Red Army. His excellent historical craftsmanship and new sources contribute to the book's quality, filling up a lacuna in contemporary historiography. This book will appeal to researchers of geopolitical affairs and the Great Powers, the history of Poland, and the political mentality of Western elites. It will also be of interest to university students and tutors, scholars of history and international relations and - thanks to the book's brisk and fascinating narrative - amateur historians and history aficionados"--