Search
Search Results
-
Folkloric perspectives of spiritual essence (k̄hwạỵ) in Northeastern Thailand
This study examines the belief in "k̄hwạỵ" (spirit essence) in Northeastern Thailand, analyzing its significance through folkloric perspectives. The...
-
Urbanity in Flux: The Evolving Essence of Chongqing
As I started my city walks through Chongqing’s streets, I couldn’t help but notice how the city’s character seemed reflected in the urban landscape....
-
The Landscape of Meaning and the Sketches Drawn by Language: A Reflection on Wittgenstein’s Philosophy
The paper is an attempt to understand Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later philosophy in the background of language taking place in ordinary or everyday...
-
Olfactory Language
This chapter deals with the realm of olfactory language. It examines olfactory terms, the etymology and historical context of olfactory expressions,...
-
The Essence of Outcome Evaluation
This chapter focuses on the nature of outcome evaluation, the processes inherent in it, the issues that arise from various steps in this process, and...
-
-
COVID 19 and Language Creativity
The world population has suffered greatly from the new coronavirus, but it could not stop the speakers from using language creatively that arises out...
-
Palestine’s Land Centrality and the Instrumentality of Historical Language
This chapter investigates the performative role of language in the total struggle to control the land of Palestine before and after the Nakba in...
-
Integrating Ubuntu Language in the Paris Agreement
Individualistic, anthropocentric, and capitalist thinking has arguably led to the human impacts causing climate change. Investigating alternative...
-
A Typology for Evaluating Language Maps
Language is a complex social phenomenon, and its spatial characteristics can be efficiently and powerfully represented through maps. Although...
-
Hearing Silence, Speaking Language: Irigaray with Heidegger
Through a close reading of Martin Heidegger’s essay “Language,” I show how for Heidegger, unlike for structuralist and post-structuralist thinkers...
-
Ecology, Structure and the Regalia: Framing the Evolving Language of Malay Architecture
Discourse on Malay Nusantara architectural language generally focuses on its evolving timber elements, construction and expressions. Its abstractions...
-
Defining the Blue Economy – in a language functional approach
While topics like pollution, climate change, sustainability, equality, human rights, and financial crises are widely discussed, the Blue Economy,...
-
Cultural Conceptualizations of the Six Traits of Sayyid—The Pre-Islamic Arabic Cultural Conceptualizations Encoded in Formulas of Language of Early Arabic Poetry
The figure of sayyid ‘[tribal] chief or lord’ was a role model of pre-Islamic Arabic society, whose ideal behavior was conceptualized as a set of...
-
Exploring Climate Change Through the Language of Art
In 2013 Prince Edward Island fabric artist Catherine Miller joined a panel of scientists and government officials to lend her voice to a discussion...
-
On the Nature of Human Sexual Difference: A Symposium
This work offers a “symposium” on the nature of human sexual difference drawing on Plato’s masterpiece: having explored the observed phenomena of...
-
The Essence of a Public Experience in New York City: The Situated Self in Public I
I introduce a new concept, called the situated self, that is, the whole entity of the temporal and subjective world that fully represents a...
-
A Typology for Evaluating Language Maps
Language is a complex social phenomenon, and its spatial characteristics can be efficiently and powerfully represented through maps. Although...
-
Ethics and Empirics: Essence of Ethics in Social Research
Over the last one and a half decades, some fundamental changes have occurred in social research, and the renewed emphasis on ensuring ethical...
-
A Biophilic Pattern Language for Cities
In the wake of a rapid urbanisation at a global scale, the question we need to ask ourselves is what we can do to deal with issues and problems...