It has been argued by LaPolla (1993, 1995) and Van Valin and LaPolla (1997) -among others -that word order in Mandarin Chinese (henceforth MC) is (almost) exclusively determined by informational/communicative considerations. Though it cannot be denied that word order does encode informative/communicative considerations such as identifiability, foregrounding, and focalization, it is argued here ...

This paper argues that technologies perform in Janus faced ways; that is, in ways that are ironic, perverse and paradoxical, and it is argued that these qualities are important to apprehend if we are to more fully understand the role of technology in organizations and in our daily lives. The argument opens with an account of Janus as a metaphorical evocation of irony and paradox, and general ex...

t least thirty English translations of works by the German dramatist August von Kotzebue appeared in 1799 alone, and were consumed by an eager public.1 That was admittedly a bumper year, but throughout the 1790s and early 1800s copious novels, plays and ballads from Germany, France and even Scandinavia were translated and adapted by more or less successful British writers. The paradox was that ...

In this paper, we investigate the intersections of gender, health and human rights in sites of political exclusion. We apply the political theory of Giorgio Agamben on 'states of exception', seeking to better understand how the recent 'war on terror', that seemingly knows no limits of time or space, is driving health outcomes in refugee and Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps. Reproductive...

Abstract Against the backdrop of climate crisis and Anthropocene injustices, this conversation unfolds concept allochrony to examine modernity as a temporal regime that relied on attribution non-simultaneity populations western colonies under ethnographic gaze 19th early 20th centuries. Positioning racialized signifier “the primitive” key foil in understanding articulation modern subjectivity a...

This article offers an omissive critique of integral theory. To this objective, the draws upon dialectical logic to investigate affinities between theory and critical realism. Section 1 identifies new possibilities regarding role metatheory in practice by unpacking metatheoretical coordinates realism After providing a brief history origins theory, I review ontological, epistemological, methodol...

Abstract This article traces some of the North American theological influences on contemporary Christian nationalism in Zambia. Beginning with an overview key tenets Reconstruction and New Apostolic Reformation, I show how these movements have influenced writing players Zambia’s nationalist project. also demonstrate authors modified Western ideas that shaped their thought. analysis responds to ...

Attempts to alleviate land degradation and water scarcity in arid/semi-arid regions of India have historically been carried out within the ambit of government schemes implemented disparately by concerned departments. These sectoral methods are being increasingly replaced by a watershed-based approach in which local communities are encouraged to assume ownership of development programs, albeit w...

Since the onset of the 2008 economic crisis and the resurgence of various forms of transnational radical politics (the Arab Spring, Occupy etc), several left-wing thinkers have argued that the era of left melancholia is now over. This paper examines such claims, paying particular attention to the recent re-engagement with the idea of communism in contemporary critical theory. Foregrounding the ...

Previous research using virtual environments has revealed a location-updating effect in which there is a decline in memory when people move from one location to another. Here we assess whether this effect reflects the influence of the experienced context, in terms of the degree of immersion of a person in an environment, as suggested by some work in spatial cognition, or by a shift in context. ...