Nation Against State: A New Approach to Ethnic Conflicts and by Gidon Gottlieb

By Gidon Gottlieb

A piece entitled state opposed to country will be anticipated to deal with faith, tradition, language, and the roots of nationalism. I desire to suggest the reader that this ebook turns in a unique course; it develops in its place leading edge methods for contending with brutal conflicts waged within the identify of nationhood. the present doctrines of statecraft at present invoked in efforts to ascertain those conflicts advanced in an age while the scourge of conflict arose among states instead of inside of them. the elemental conflicts that now threaten overseas peace have little in universal with those who arose in the course of the heyday of fascism and communism, whilst the geographical region reigned very best. The dominant norms of overseas legislations and international relations are unwell tailored to dealing with the type of strife that has erupted in Yugoslavia and within the Caucasus and that can turn into universal somewhere else in Eurasia.

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It is surprising that other learner’s dictionaries have so far neglected this simple and useful device. The fact that it would imply writing a different dictionary for every single language is probably the reason why this has not been done yet. Despite all the praise they deserve, bilingualised dictionaries also suffer the restrictions I articulated for bilingual and learner’s dictionaries. For the purposes of decoding, these dictionaries do not have enough entries and are only helpful in the case of relatively easy texts.

It is essential to have a theoretical understanding of the area one is dealing with. However, to let this theory be the guiding principle for compiling a dictionary is a different thing. This is my conclusion after looking at the model entry crawl on the dictionary’s homepage. It is of great linguistic interest and shows clearly how the word relates to others. However, does the mind of the intended user operate this way? ) when computers are involved. Should the integration of various lexicographic genres into one not be one of the starting points of a new electronic dictionary?

Monolingual dictionaries are primarily symbols, secondarily and at best serving an intralingual translation purpose. This is certainly not the case of bilingual dictionaries, which involve little symbolism and have a clear objective. The line between these two kinds of dictionaries became blurred, however, from the moment people like Hornby started using monolingual dictionaries in foreign language teaching, with a new kind of dictionary as a result. Indeed, in 1947 Hornby published The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English.

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