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Max Webers Rechtssoziologie und die juristische Methodenlehre
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 91.00Während über Max Webers Religionssoziologie ganze Bibliotheken geschrieben worden sind, gibt es zu seiner Rechtssoziologie - ungeachtet ihrer von Talcott Parsons herausgestellten Zentralität in Webers Werk - vergleichsweise wenige Bände. Insbesondere ist sein Verhältnis zur juristischen Methodenlehre nahezu unberücksichtigt geblieben, obwohl er als... more...
Interpersonal Pragmatics
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 307.00This handbook focuses on the interpersonal aspects of language in use, exploring key concepts such as face, im/politeness, identity, or gender, as well as mitigation, respect/deference, and humour in a variety of settings. The volume includes theoretical overviews as well as empirical studies from experts in a range of disciplines within linguistics... more...
Gut des Menschen
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 137.00This study analyses the theoretical connections between the conception of happiness, the theory of the good, and an ethical-practical conception of human nature in Aristotle?s Ethics and his late-Hellenistic followers. The further development of Aristotelian views in the late Hellenistic context is a long-neglected field of research. more...
Approximations and Endomorphism Algebras of Modules
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 224.00This monograph provides a thorough treatment of module theory, a subfield of algebra. The authors develop an approximation theory as well as realization theorems and present some of its recent applications, notably to infinite-dimensional combinatorics and model theory. The book is devoted to graduate students interested in algebra as well as to experts... more...
Methods of Approximation Theory
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 489.00The key point of the monograph is the classification of periodic functions introduced by the author and developed methods that enable one to solve, within the framework of a common approach, traditional problems of approximation theory for large collections of periodic functions. The main results are fairly complete and are presented in the form of... more...
Probabilistic Applications of Tauberian Theorems
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 280.00The Tauberian theory has found a widespread application in probability theory. Despite the strong interest of probabilists in Tauberian theorems, no book specially devoted to this topic has been published yet. This monograph is intended to fill this gap. more...
Well-posed, Ill-posed, and Intermediate Problems with Applications
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 210.00This book deals with one of the key problems in applied mathematics, namely the investigation into and providing for solution stability in solving equations with due allowance for inaccuracies in set initial data, parameters and coefficients of a mathematical model for an object under study, instrumental function, initial conditions, etc., and also... more...
Auroux, Sylvain; Koerner, E.F.K.; Niederehe, Hans-Josef; Versteegh, Kees: History of the Language Sciences / Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaften / Histoire des sciences du langage. 3. Teilband
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 671.00Writing in English, German, or French, more than 300 authors provide a historical description of the beginnings and of the early and subsequent development of thinking about language and languages within the relevant historical context. The gradually emerging institutions concerned with the study, organisation, documentation, and distribution are considered... more...
Ernst, Gerhard; Gleßgen, Martin-Dietrich; Schmitt, Christian; Schweickard, Wolfgang: Romanische Sprachgeschichte / Histoire linguistique de la Romania. 2. Teilband
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 783.00Drawing upon the long documentation history, this book describes the systematic nature of spoken and written language in the Romance language area, and determines the conditionality of such human behavior due to regional, social and situational conformities. It is published in German and French. more...
Ágel, Vilmos; Eichinger, Ludwig M.; Eroms, Hans Werner; Hellwig, Peter; Heringer, Hans Jürgen; Lobin, Henning: Dependenz und Valenz / Dependency and Valency. 2. Halbband
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 671.00The handbook provides an overview of the current status of research in this field. The second volume begins with a comprehensive description of grammatical phenomena as seen from dependency and valency viewpoints. This is followed by chapters on the application of dependency and valency concepts in computer-based language processing. The remaining... more...









