Structural linguistics was found wanting for another reason.It was only concerned with surface structure and important distinctions that deep-structure analysis revealed remained unrecognized.Consequently pattern practice in language teaching was often criticized for being misleading.Examples were cited which re...
Romanticism was in part a reaction against the Industrial Revolution. As urbanization and factory production swept across Europe in the 18th century, writers looked to nature as a way to reclaim a way of life that was being threatened. Similarly, increased economic inequality through the 19th centu...
Meletinskii (1976, 295–372) presented examples of the mythol-ogy in literature during the twentieth century not only in Russian texts but also in the prose of Joyce, Thomas Mann, Kafka, und Marquez (cf. Iudin 2018 on the integration of myth into literature in Toporov’s work).Meletin...
This chapter aims to show that the way we talk about the world, about ourselves and others matters. It employs a particular focus on issues and examples that relate to the military – a domain that for long has been dealt with from more traditional IR perspectives. It seeks to encourage to...
Some ‘real-life’ examples of scientific theories can actually be reconstructed as one theory-element. However, this is true only of the simplest kinds of theories we encounter in the scientific literature. Much more often, single theories in the intuitive sense have to be viewed as aggregates...