Author: Manuel Delanda
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: social, complexity, theory, assemblage, philosophy, society, new
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 2006-11-14
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0826491693
ISBN-13: 9780826491695

Manuel DeLanda is a distinguished writer, artist and philosopher. In his new book, he offers a fascinating look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity. Since most social entitles, from small communities to large nation-states, would disappear altogether if human minds ceased to exist, Delanda proposes a novel approach to social ontology that asserts the autonomy of social entities from the conceptions we have of them. This highly original and important book takes the reader on a journey that starts with personal relations and climbs up one scale at

Authors:David Orton, Anthony Orton, L. J. Frobisher,
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: collection, continuum, mathematics, teaching, insights
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-12-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0826477488
ISBN-13: 9780826477484

Continuum has repackaged some of its key academic backlist titles to make them available at a more affordable price. These reissues will have new ISBNs, distinctive jackets and strong branding. They cover a range of subject areas that have a continuing student sale and make great supplementary reading more accessible. Provides essential guidance and background information for teaching mathematics.

Author: Leszek Berezowski
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: article, zero, myth
Number of Pages: 149
Published: 2009-08-09
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1441185135
ISBN-13: 9781441185136

Berezowski investigates the origin of the concept of the zero article and clearly demonstrates why it is problematic. The zero article is a staple element of any description of English article usage from advanced research publications down to student grammars, but there has been very little inquiry into its meaning and its other properties. There are copious amounts of publications dealing with the definite and indefinite articles but none about the zero article. Berezowski investigates the origin of the concept of the zero article and shows that it has roots both in structural linguistics of

Authors:Guus Extra, Massimiliano Spotti, Piet Van Avermae
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: integration, regimes, advances, sociolinguistics, perspectives, national, testing, migration, citizenship, cross, language
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2009-08-23
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 1847063454
ISBN-13: 9781847063458

This is an in depth analysis of the linguistic issues surrounding civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the world. What is required to achieve civic integration and citizenship in nation states across the world? Should language testing be a part of it? This book addresses the urgent need to develop a fuller conceptual and theoretical basis for language testing than is currently available, to enable widespread discussion of this theme and the concomitant linguistic and cultural requirements. The policy proposals for civic integration have so far been conducted almost entirel

Authors:M. A. K. Halliday, Jonathan J. Webster,
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: halliday, volume, works, collected, linguistics, language
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: $192.00
ISBN-10: 0826458696
ISBN-13: 9780826458698

A collection of 18 papers exploring different aspects of language from a systemic functional perspective. The papers are organized into three sections: the place of linguistics as a discipline; linguistics and language; and language as social semiotic.

Authors:S. H. Clark, Masashi Suzuki,
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: reception, studies, continuum, orient, blake
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2006-05-14
List price: $192.00
ISBN-10: 0826490077
ISBN-13: 9780826490070

This volume brings together research from international scholars focusing attention on the longevity and complexity of Blake`s reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. It is designed as not only a celebration of his art and poetry in new and unexpected contexts but also to contest the intensely nationalistic and parochial Englishness of his work, and in broader terms, the inevitable passivity with which Romanticism (and other Western intellectual movements) have been received in the Orient.

Author: Niall Lucy
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: technology, culture, text, semiotics
Number of Pages: 167
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0826449328
ISBN-13: 9780826449320

Where is semiotics now? As the promised science of the social life of signs in general, semiotics has not been good to its word. Although well-established institutionally today -- through specialist journals, research centres, international conferences, professional associations and the like -- semiotics now seems quaintly out of place in a world where text, culture and technology defy metadisciplinary, if not metaphysical, explanation. When the semiotician has finished explaining the music of Primal Scream, the textuality of an email message or the culture of the internet, most would believe