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The book provides a unique collection of in-depth mathematical, statistical, and modeling methods and techniques for life sciences, as well as their applications in a number of areas within life sciences. The book provides also with a range of new ideas that represent emerging frontiers in life sciences where the application of such quantitative methods and techniques is becoming increasingly important. Many areas within life sciences are becoming increasingly quantitative and the progress in those areas will be more and more dependent on the successful development of advanced mathematical, statistical and modelling methodologies and techniques. The state-of-the-art developments in such methodologies and techniques are scattered throughout research journals and hardly accessible to the practitioners in those areas. This book identifies a number of frontier areas where such methodologies and techniques have recently been developed and are to be published here for the first time, bringing substantial potential benefit to a range of applications in life sciences. In addition, the book contains several state-of-the-art surveys at the interface of mathematics and life sciences that would benefit a larger interdisciplinary community. It is aimed at researchers in academia, practitioners and graduate students who want to foster interdisciplinary collaborations required to meet the challenges at the interface of modern life sciences and mathematics.

der Parzival Wolframs von Eschenbach, der etwa um 1210 entstanden ist, gehört nicht nur zu den am häufigsten rezipierten Texten der mittelhochdeutschen Literatur, sondern auch zu den komplexesten. Die Erzählung Wolframs konstituiert sich aus der Vorgeschichte um Parzivals Vater Gahmuret, der Gralssuche des Protagonisten Parzival, auf die er auszieht, nachdem er es auf der Gralsburg Munsalvæsche versäumt hat, dem von Gott verfluchten König Anfortas die erlösende Mitleidsfrage zu stellen, wie auch der Queste des Artusritters Gawan, dessen letztendliche Aufgabe in der Erlösung des verzauberten Schlosses Schastel Marveile besteht. Im Mittelpunkt der Dichtung steht der Gral, jenes ¿Wunderding¿ also, dessen literarische Genese bis heute rätselhaft ist, und das als textuelle Chiffre für Überfluss auf verschiedenen Bedeutungsebenen die Wolframsche Erzählung determiniert. Sie zeichnet sich dementsprechend in struktureller Hinsicht durch eine Häufung von Verflechtungen, Vernetzungen und sogar Spiegelungen ganzer Textpassagen aus, die sich netzartig über den gesamten Text legen. Diese Spiegelstrukturen stellen nicht nur Homogenität im Heterogenen her und lassen das vergleichbar werden, was sich auf den ersten Blick nicht unbedingt als vergleichbar präsentiert: Darüber hinaus resultieren sie in einer Überkomplexisierung des Sinnpotentials, welches der Text dem Rezipienten bereitstellt. Wolframs Erzählung bietet also eine Vielzahl von möglichen Bedeutungszusammenhängen, die durch die variierenden Wiederholungen in der Textstruktur einerseits erst ermöglicht, andererseits aber auch permanent wieder unterlaufen werden. Mit dem Ansatz zu einem ¿Erzählen im Paradigmä können eben jene Prozesse semantischer Überproduktion und gleichzeitiger Rücknahme von Bedeutungsstrukturen durch sich über Äquivalentsetzungen etablierende Wiederholungsmuster methodisch präzise gefasst werden. Entsprechend möchte die vorliegende Arbeit paradigmatische Strukturen in Wolframs Roman beschreiben und ihre destabilisierende Funktion im Hinblick auf kulturelle Bedeutungsmuster im Roman aufzeigen, um dann in einem zweiten Schritt einen Blick auf die strukturelle Konzeption des gesamten Romans wie auch seiner spezifischen Poetik werfen zu können.

Das A uvre Jans' von Wien, die Weltchronik (um 1280) und das Furstenbuch (nach 1280), wurde lange Zeit sowohl von der Geschichts- als auch von der Literaturwissenschaft kaum fokussiert. Die Studie widmet sich vor allem der Weltchronik, die als ein Gewebe von Andeutungen und Vagheiten Welt- und Erfahrungswissen an der Grenze von Geschichtsschreibung und Literatur vermittelt. Der Text wird als ein Sinnganzes interpretiert und die inharenten Diskurse offengelegt. Im Vergleich mit der Kaiserchronik (um 1150), die als eine Quelle der Weltchronik gilt, werden die Variationen von Erzahlmustern, die Umdeutung von Erzahlmotiven, ihre Neukonfiguration und Funktionalisierung innerhalb der narratologischen Geschichtsschreibung transparent. Das Zusammenspiel von fabula und historia als Ausagieren der Gattungsgrenzen, die Analyse von Ordnungsmustern und die Variation von Erzahlmotiven stehen im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung. Das Paradigma der Riskanten Ordnung' bietet eine Moglichkeit, den in Teilen disparaten Stoff unter einem Gesamtkonzept zu betrachten.

This is the first volume to focus on the role of media in processes of linguistic change, one of the most contested issues in contemporary sociolinguistics. Its 17 chapters and five section commentaries present cutting-edge research from variationist and interactional sociolinguistics, media linguistics, language ideology research, and minority language studies. The volume advances our understanding of linguistic change in a mediatized world in three ways. First, it introduces the notions of sociolinguistic change and mediatization to create a broader theoretical framing than the one offered by 'the media' and 'language change'. Second, it takes the discussion beyond the notions of 'influence' and 'effect' and the binary distinction of 'media' vs. 'community language'. Third, it examines the relation of sociolinguistic change and mediatization and from five complementary viewpoints: media influence on linguistic structure; media engagement in interaction; change in mass and new media language; language-ideological change; and the role of media for minority languages. Bringing these strands of sociolinguistic scholarship together, this volume examines their shared references and common lines of thinking.

The basis for this additional volume are the three volumes of the handbooks Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography (HSK 5.1¿5.3), published between 1989 and 1991. An updating has been perceived as an important desideratum for a considerable time. In the present Supplementary Volume the premises and subjects of HSK 5.1¿5.3 are complemented by new articles that take account of the practice-internal and theoretical developments of the last 15 years. Special attention has been given to the following topics: the status and function of lexicographic reference works, the history of lexicography, the theory of lexicography, lexicographic processes, lexicographic training and lexicographic institutions, new metalexicographic methods, electronic and, especially, computer-assisted lexicography.

Die zweibandige Edition macht kenntlich, was im 16. Jahrhundert im deutschsprachigen Europa uber Bilder- vor allem uber kultisch genutzte Bilder- gedacht wurde. Die Zusammenstellung der 60 Texte von 47 Autoren dient der Rekonstruktion der ersten Mediendebatte, die fast ausschlielich in deutscher Sprache gefuhrt wurde. Viele der Texte werden hier nach mehr als 400 Jahren erstmals wieder publiziert, wobei das Ziel war, moglichst viele konfessionell und politisch verschiedenartige Autoren zu Wort kommen zu lassen, z.B. Johannes Butzbach, Geiler von Kaysersberg, Hieronymus Emser, Ludwig Hatzer, Martin Bucer, Hugo von Hohenlandenberg, Paracelsus, Sebastian Franck, Martin Chemnitz, Johann Arndt, Hippolyt Guarinonius u. a. m. Die Texte werden durch Anmerkungen und ein umfangliches Nachwort kommentiert. Ausfuhrliche Begriffsregister bieten Moglichkeiten gezielten Zugriffs auf die deutsche Fachterminologie zu fachhandwerklichen, kunsthistorischen, wahrnehmungspsychologischen, frommigkeitsgeschichtlichen, asthetischen und bildtheologischen Themen. Der Herausgeber J. J. Berns ist bekannt durch Forschungen zur Geschichte des Verhaltnisses von Asthetik und Technologie, zur Mnemonik und zur Geschichte der hofischen Kultur in der Fruhen Neuzeit.

This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.For "classic" linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints, while in the more recent branches of communication science the handbooks will give researchers both an overview and orientation.To attain these objectives, the series aims for a standard comparable to that of the leading handbooks in other disciplines, and to this end strives for comprehensiveness, theoretical explicitness, reliable documentation of data and findings, and up-to-date methodology.The editors, both of the series and of the individual volumes, and the individual contributors, are committed to this aim. The language of publication is English.The main aim of the series is to provide an appropriate account of the state of the art in the various areas of linguistics and communication science covered by each of the various handbooks; however no inflexible pre-set limits will is imposed on the scope of each volume. The series is open-ended, and can thus take account of further developments in the field. This conception, coupled with the necessity of allowing adequate time for each volume to be prepared with the necessary care, means that there is no set time-table for the publication of the whole series. Each volume is a self-contained work, complete in itself.The order in which the handbooks are published does not imply any rank ordering, but is determined by the way in which the series is organized; the editors of the whole series enlist a competent editor for each individual volume. Once the principal editor for a volume has been found, he or she then has a completely free hand in the choice of co-editors and contributors. The editors plan each volume independently of the others, being governed only by general formal principles. The series editors only intervene where questions of delineation between individual volumes are concerned. It is felt that this (modus operandi) is best suited to achieving the objectives of the series, namely to give a competent account of the present state of knowledge and of the perception of the problems in the area covered by each volume.To discuss your handbook idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.For "classic" linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints, while in the more recent branches of communication science the handbooks will give researchers both an overview and orientation.To attain these objectives, the series aims for a standard comparable to that of the leading handbooks in other disciplines, and to this end strives for comprehensiveness, theoretical explicitness, reliable documentation of data and findings, and up-to-date methodology.The editors, both of the series and of the individual volumes, and the individual contributors, are committed to this aim. The language of publication is English.The main aim of the series is to provide an appropriate account of the state of the art in the various areas of linguistics and communication science covered by each of the various handbooks; however no inflexible pre-set limits will is imposed on the scope of each volume. The series is open-ended, and can thus take account of further developments in the field. This conception, coupled with the necessity of allowing adequate time for each volume to be prepared with the necessary care, means that there is no set time-table for the publication of the whole series. Each volume is a self-contained work, complete in itself.The order in which the handbooks are published does not imply any rank ordering, but is determined by the way in which the series is organized; the editors of the whole series enlist a competent editor for each individual volume. Once the principal editor for a volume has been found, he or she then has a completely free hand in the choice of co-editors and contributors. The editors plan each volume independently of the others, being governed only by general formal principles. The series editors only intervene where questions of delineation between individual volumes are concerned. It is felt that this (modus operandi) is best suited to achieving the objectives of the series, namely to give a competent account of the present state of knowledge and of the perception of the problems in the area covered by each volume.To discuss your handbook idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.For "classic" linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints, while in the more recent branches of communication science the handbooks will give researchers both an overview and orientation.To attain these objectives, the series aims for a standard comparable to that of the leading handbooks in other disciplines, and to this end strives for comprehensiveness, theoretical explicitness, reliable documentation of data and findings, and up-to-date methodology.The editors, both of the series and of the individual volumes, and the individual contributors, are committed to this aim. The language of publication is English.The main aim of the series is to provide an appropriate account of the state of the art in the various areas of linguistics and communication science covered by each of the various handbooks; however no inflexible pre-set limits will is imposed on the scope of each volume. The series is open-ended, and can thus take account of further developments in the field. This conception, coupled with the necessity of allowing adequate time for each volume to be prepared with the necessary care, means that there is no set time-table for the publication of the whole series. Each volume is a self-contained work, complete in itself.The order in which the handbooks are published does not imply any rank ordering, but is determined by the way in which the series is organized; the editors of the whole series enlist a competent editor for each individual volume. Once the principal editor for a volume has been found, he or she then has a completely free hand in the choice of co-editors and contributors. The editors plan each volume independently of the others, being governed only by general formal principles. The series editors only intervene where questions of delineation between individual volumes are concerned. It is felt that this (modus operandi) is best suited to achieving the objectives of the series, namely to give a competent account of the present state of knowledge and of the perception of the problems in the area covered by each volume.To discuss your handbook idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Die ablehnende Haltung der Kirche dem Lachen gegenüber wirkt sich auch auf die Poetik und Rhetorik um 1200 aus: Es fehlen Überlegungen zur Wirkmacht des Lachens, die als Leitfaden für die Betrachtung mittelhochdeutscher Epik dienen könnten. Gemeinhin behilft sich die Komikforschung angesichts dieses Mangels, indem sie auf moderne Paradigmen der Komikerfassung und -erklärung zurückgreift. Die vorliegende Studie geht einen anderen Weg und fragt nach der Poetik des Lachens, die den Epen selbst eingeschrieben ist ¿ anthropologische, semantische und rhetorische Vorüberlegungen ersetzen den Rekurs auf die Theorien Freuds, Plessners, Jean Pauls und anderer moderner Komik- und Lachtheoretiker. Einzeltextuntersuchungen zum Lanzelet Ulrichs von Zatzikhoven sowie dem Parzival Wolframs von Eschenbach zeigen, dass das Lachen poetologisch hoch brisant und von großer rezeptionslenkender Bedeutung ist. Die poetica in actu erweist sich als semantisch und anthropologisch fundiertes Phänomen, das nur im Rahmen einer rhetorischen Anthropologie des Lachens adäquat erfasst werden kann. Die Poetik des Lachens um 1200 wird so als eigenes, nicht an modernen Komik-Maßstäben zu messendes Faszinosum erkennbar.

While most of the more recent influential work on swearing has concentrated on English and other languages from the Global North, looking at forms and functions of swear words, this contribution redirects the necessary focus onto a sociolinguistics of swearing that puts transgressive practices in non-Western languages into the focus. The transdisciplinary volume contains innovative case studies that address swearing and cursing in parts of the world characterized by consequences of colonialism and increasingly debated inequalities. Turning away from more conventional and established methodologies and theoretical approaches, the book envisages to address transgressive linguistic practices, performances and contexts in Africa, Asia, America and Europe -including individuals' creativity, subversive power and agency. Due to its interdisciplinary and non-mainstream focus, this volume is an essential addition to the field of studies.

Generative phonology aims to formalise two distinct aspects of phonological processes: the functional and the representational. Since functions operate on representations, it is clear that the functional aspect is influenced by the form of representations, i.e. different types of representation require different types of rules, principles or constraints. This volume examines the representational issue in phonology and considers what kind of representation is most appropriate for recent models of generative phonology. In particular, it provides the first platform for debate on the place of morpheme-internal structure and on the formal status of phonology in the language faculty, and attempts to identify phonological recursive structure as a means of capturing frequently observed processes.

This book examines emblems (or emblematic gestures) from a pragmatic view, that is to say, as autonomous gestures that fulfill communicative functions, embody illocutionary values, and act as signals of cognitive relevance. Emblems are conceived as multimodal tools on the frontier between verbal and nonverbal modes, and are part of the communicative repertoire of individuals and sociocultural groups. Emblems constitute clear cases of embodiment and are susceptible to many processes of metaphorization (contrasting or not with verbal metaphors), metonymy, and interference between modalities. The applications of emblematic analysis are numerous, from lexicography to second language learning, or to natural language processing.

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.