Tag: Meaning

Free Download Stefano Gualeni, Daniel Vella, "Virtual Existentialism: Meaning and Subjectivity in Virtual Worlds"
English | 2020 | pages: 149 | ISBN: 3030384802, 3030384772 | PDF | 2,1 mb
This book explores what it means to exist in virtual worlds. Chiefly drawing on the philosophical traditions of existentialism, it articulates the idea that – by means of our technical equipment and coordinated practices – human beings disclose contexts or worlds in which they can perceive, feel, act, and think. More specifically, this book discusses how virtual worlds allow human beings to take new perspectives on their values and beliefs, and explore previously unexperienced ways of being. Virtual Existentialism will be useful for scholars working in the fields of philosophy, anthropology, media studies, and digital game studies.

Free Download David Mills, "To Chester and Beyond: Meaning, Text and Context in Early English Drama: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studi"
English | ISBN: 0367879387 | 2019 | 370 pages | EPUB | 1041 KB
This volume brings together a selection of the major articles of David Mills (1938-2013), which along with similar volumes by Alexandra F. Johnston, Peter Meredith and Meg Twycross makes up a set of "Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies". Mills was one of these four key scholars whose work has changed what is known about English medieval drama and theatre. He made major contributions to understanding English medieval theatre in the widest sense but more specifically to the nature and development of medieval plays and their performance at Chester. The scope of his work from manuscript to performance has created new knowledge and insights brought about by his remarkable technical skill as an editor and researcher. His texts of the Chester Cycle of Mystery Plays have become the standard works. In the light of this outstanding research the volume is comprised of four sections: 1. Editors and Editing; 2. Cultural Contexts; 3. Staging and Performance; 4. Criticism and Evaluation. An editorial introduction opens the work.

Free Download Bruno Bettelheim, "The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0307739635 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 2.1 mb
Winner of the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award

Free Download Gavin Flood, "The Importance of Religion: Meaning and Action in our Strange World"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1405189711, 140518972X | EPUB | pages: 272 | 0.6 mb
The Importance of Religion reveals the significance of religion in modern times, showing how it provides people with meaning to their lives and helps guide them in their everyday moral choices

Free Download Sol: Image and Meaning of the Sun in Roman Art and Religion, Volume II (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) by Steven E. Hijmans
English | April 3, 2024 | ISBN: 9004514724 | True PDF | 636 pages | 73.4 MB
With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and he opens this study with a thorough discussion of the theoretical and methodological issues involved.

Free Download Sol: Image and Meaning of the Sun in Roman Art and Religion, Volume I (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) by Steven E. Hijmans
English | March 29, 2024 | ISBN: 9004406697 | True PDF | 840 pages | 8.5 MB
With this analysis of Sol images, Steven E. Hijmans paints a new picture of the solar cult in ancient Rome. The paucity of literary evidence led Hijmans to prioritize visual sources, and he opens this study with a thorough discussion of the theoretical and methodological issues involved.

Free Download Pragmatics, Grammar and Meaning in SLA
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009507346 | 86 Pages | PDF (True) | 2.3 MB
This Element explores the role of pragmatics, and its relationship with meaning and grammar, in second language acquisition. Specifically, this Element examines the generative paradigm, with its focus on purely linguistic aspects, in contrast with, and complemented by, the view of language adopted in the wider perspective on communication that Relevance Theory offers. It reviews several theoretical standpoints on how linguistic phenomena that require combining semantic, pragmatic and syntactic information are acquired and developed in second languages, illustrating how these perspectives are brought together in analysing data in different linguistic scenarios. It shows that the notion of procedural meaning casts light on the range of interpretative effects of grammatical features and how they vary across languages, suggesting ways to complete the picture of the interface factors that affect second language development.

Free Download Bryna Siegel Finer, "Patients Making Meaning "
English | ISBN: 1032503947 | 2023 | 122 pages | EPUB, PDF | 999 KB + 1486 KB
This book explores how women make meaning at various health flashpoints in their lives, overcoming fear, anxiety, and anger to draw upon self-advocacy, research, and crucial decision-making.

Free Download T. M. Scanlon, "Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame"
English | 2010 | pages: 262 | ISBN: 0674057457, 0674031784 | PDF | 0,8 mb
In a clear and elegant style, T. M. Scanlon reframes current philosophical debates as he explores the moral permissibility of an action. Permissibility may seem to depend on the agent’s reasons for performing an action. For example, there seems to be an important moral difference between tactical bombing and a campaign by terrorists―even if the same number of non-combatants are killed―and this difference may seem to lie in the agents’ respective aims. However, Scanlon argues that the apparent dependence of permissibility on the agent’s reasons in such cases is merely a failure to distinguish between two kinds of moral assessment: assessment of the permissibility of an action and assessment of the way an agent decided what to do.

Free Download Rabbi Steven Bob, "Jonah and the Meaning of Our Lives: A Verse-by-Verse Contemporary Commentary"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0827612206 | PDF | pages: 251 | 3.5 mb
The Book of Jonah stands unique among the biblical books of the prophets because it is almost entirely narrative. And, in contrast to all the other prophetsportrayed as admirable individuals who bravely speak God’s word, Jonah stands out as flawed andfleeing from God. We are drawn to Jonah because God gives him an opportunity to redeem himself. His experience inspires us to find our own second chances-and our own paths to meaningful growth.