Main description: The book examines the relation between (inter- )subjectification and grammaticalization. As such, its aims are to clearly delineate the domain of (inter- )subjectivity - the encoding of speaker and hearer-orientation - in the language system, and to elaborate a…
When Hamlet complains that Guildenstern 'would pluck out the heart of [his] mystery, ' he imagines an encounter that recurs insistently in the discourses of early modern England. The struggle by one man to discover the secrets in another's heart is rehearsed not only in plays bu…
This volume sheds light on one of the most emblematic constructions in Ibero-Romance: adverbial infinitives with specified subjects, as in al entrar Juan (Sp), para eles verem o resultado (Ptg). From a cognitive-functional perspective and on the basis of elaborate empirical (cor…
"Technologies of the Self" is a record of the faculty seminar conducted by Michel Foucault in 1982 at the University of Vermont. The volume includes seminar presentations in the fields of history of religions, literature, and ideas.
"Technologies of the Self" is a record of the faculty seminar conducted by Michel Foucault in 1982 at the University of Vermont. The volume includes seminar presentations in the fields of history of religions, literature, and ideas.
"This book grapples with questions at the core of philosophy and social theory - who am I? Who are we? How are we to live? That is, questions of what humans are capable of, the 'nature' of our relationships to each other and to the world around us, and how we should live. They a…
"This book grapples with questions at the core of philosophy and social theory - who am I? Who are we? How are we to live? That is, questions of what humans are capable of, the 'nature' of our relationships to each other and to the world around us, and how we should live. They a…
