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Four Times Peter allows an intriguing portrait of this apostle to emerge. Readers discover a portrait of Peter that would have been familiar to the earliest Christian communities.

Jesus Ben Sira combines secular wisdom from Near Eastern wisdom sources and divine revelations from the Hebrew Bible to create the Book of Sirach. By applying from criticism to Ben Sira's book, the author provides students with historical information of the psychological and sociological context underlying Ben Sira's teachings.

Questioning how readers construct meaning, this work focuses on the character Jonah and explores the variety of ways in which the prophet and the book have been represented and understood by various interpreters.

The Story and Soul of the Gerasene Demoniac

Portraits of a Roman Governor

The book presents the issue of impoliteness in media discourse found in television debates, films and computer-mediated communication. The research perspectives adopted in the book include prosody studies, corpus linguistics, neo-Gricean pragmatics, media studies and audiovisual translation.

The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of diverse aspects of non-professional interpreting and translation in the media. It consists of a collection of essays by eminent international scholars and researchers from the field of Translation and Interpreting Studies, and focuses on television and film, radio, the Internet, and fansubbing.

The monograph argues for a return to a more fine-grained repertoire of tropes than the limiting analyses focused on metaphor or on the metaphor-metonymy duet. A list of ten master tropes is proposed, not only as candidates for tropological universals but also important text-forming strategies and a reflection of artistic imagination.

This book attempts to define the concept of the metrical foot in acoustic terms. It explores the possiblity that the foot can be described as a complex network of inter- and intravocalic relations between duration, pitch and intensity. The author also points out ways in which these empirical results may be incorporated into phonological theory.

The book contains a philosophical justification of the solutions proposed in the field of contemporary linguistics. The author is based on the philosophical works of Karl Popper, Edmund Husserl and Izydora Dambska, and linguistic works of Noam Chomsky and Andrzej Boguslawski.