Cultures, Ideologies, and the Dictionary


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A pioneering volume addressing issues related to cultures, ideologies, and the dictionary. A cross-cultural and cross-linguistic study with focus on selected Western and non-Western languages. A number of in-depth case studies illustrates the dominant role ideology and other types of bias play in the making of a dictionary. The volume includes invited papers of 40 internationally recognized scholars.

























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Change Your Future, Now!


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What should you be in the future? Today, we are confronted with more choices about how to live our lives and develop careers than ever before. Repeatedly, we are thrown into situations where we have to reinvent our professional, personnel, and relationship lines, redefining who we are and where we want to go. Change is an inevitable part of life. Everyone needs to question himself, or herself, on life's journey, opening the mind to new challenges regarding how to be great, how to communicate and network. Change is all about acquiring knowledge and wisdom, planning head, being able to influence, inspire, deal with change, negotiate, disagree, be a good citizen and have some common sense, reduce stress, use humor and have the intuition to facilitate success for a better future. I encourage you to be completely open and transparent as you look inside yourself and answer the very challenging and difficult questions posed as you reflect on what you should be in the future.