In this project, we have studied Chinese noun-noun compounds (NNCs) and have found that N1 and N2 are linked either by semantic roles assigned by events (complex relations) or by static relations (simple relations), including meronymy, conjunction, and the host-attribute-value relation. Using data from the FrameNet and E-HowNet, we have found that, for NNCs of either type, the major semantic re...

The paper diachronically examines the white hanbok as material and symbolic site of interaction between hegemonising hegemonised in Korea. It traces changing status from end 19th century to present—from being part unconscious culture, synecdoche colonised nation, symbol resistance, membrane a ‘homogeneous nation’, democracy. analyses paradoxical skin—at once inclusive exclusive—of Korean ethnon...

European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD United Kingdom Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor NY 11724 USA NYU School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York NY 10016 USA College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, St. John’s University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Queens NY 11439 USA Lawrence Berkeley National Lab...

a remarkable part of foreign cultural products is the audiomedial texts like feature films and tv series. they have a more extensive addressee circle on the basis of the medium, through which they are transferred. these products fascinate many people and therefore play a very vital role within intercultural relations. there are many people who are not able to speak other languages except their ...

from the political sociology point of view, emerging and continuity of modern societies have been a combined with some kind of totalitarianism in west (as the first step of development), modern nation-states, modern revolutions, modern wars, formation of totalitarian communism-fashism, democratic systems, and at least globalization, terrorism, …. terrorism phenomena has been deep in glomming be...

It is argued theoretically and demonstrated empirically that mega-sporting events (MSEs) play a paramount role in promoting nation-building the host countries. This study navigates case of 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics held February South Korea examines impact this sporting event on nation-building. To end, article employed an online survey was conducted three times at stated intervals major...

Author Contact: Glen Roberts c/o David E. Giles, Dept. of Economics, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, STN CSC, Victoria, B.C., V8W 2Y2, Canada; email: [email protected] (cc: [email protected]); FAX: (250) 721-6214 Abstract We model summer Olympic medal counts using count data analysis. The advantage of this methodology is its explicit recognition of the discrete non-negative form of the dependent...

The concept of alliance or preferably ‘alignment’, as I shall explain below – is central to the conduct of international politics, and thus the discipline of International Relations (IR). Duffield et al. (2008: 291) identify that ‘Alliances are one of the most significant phenomena in security studies and world politics more generally’, while Modelski (1963: 773) considers them ‘one of a dozen ...

In this article I locate some of the fundamental problems of self-determination within the context of an evolving international society. First, I argue that one particular manifestation of self-determination, that of national self-determination, is both a solution to the enduring problem of territorial legitimation in international relations as well as the source of subsequent challenges to ter...