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Book review: Behr, Martina and Sabine Seubert (eds.) (2017) Education is a Whole-Person Process. Von ganzheitlicher Lehre, Dolmetscherforschung und anderen Dingen. Reihe: Transkulturalität – Translation – Transfer. ...

The use of values in the coaching process by Czech basketball coaches is examined in light of the development of intrinsic, added and instrumental values in sport through history. Hard work and respect were seen to be do...

This article contains the theme of catholic theological perspectives on Islam and Christian-Muslim relations since Vatican II until today. The article presents some negative opinions on Islam and some positive appreciati...

This paper deals with exchanges and misunderstandings between the German school of social history (most prominently represented by scholars from the University of Bielefeld (such as Hans-Ulrich Wehler) and Anglo-American...

Book review: Svoboda, Tomáš and Łucja Biel and Krzysztof Łoboda (eds.) (2017) Quality Aspects in Institutional Translation. Berlin: Language Science Press

The French Revolution was central to the emergence of modern society, and by extension, modern social science. However, not only French scientists contributed to the invention of sociology, nor for that matter did scienc...

This article explores the issue of contextualization in translating early Chinese texts. It takes the example of Chapter 1 of the Lǎozǐ, which is analysed sentence by sentence with the focus on possible contexts in whi...

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A primary aim of many expeditions is to facilitate personal development of young people and while there is much anecdotal evidence to support this aim, there is limited empirical work of varied quality that explores the ...

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Recent historical works dealing with the changing role of emotions in social and private life over centuries present a challenge to any philosophical or scientific theory aiming to grasp the essence of emotions. The pape...

This article argues that attempts by philosophy to think emotions as embodied is caught between the necessity of thinking them as a subjective first person dimension of experience on the one hand and as an objective biol...

The study deals with pilgrimages to Esquipulas, Guatemala, and patterns of miracle in terms of their perception by the pilgrims reaching this prominent religious hub of Central America. Two key pilgrimage discourses are ...

The cross-cultural application of happiness studies has led to many interesting results over the last few decades. The merits of this field of research are widely recognized, resulting for instance in government strategi...

The aim of the article is to investigate the theory of conceptual metaphor with regard to its possible use in fundamental theology. Instead of focusing on the analysis of concrete metaphors, the article argues that it is...

In the Sub-Saharan francophone literature, promotion of the African traditional cultures is followed by its tragical disappearance which represents the main dynamic of the narrative. This fact is stressed by total absenc...

This paper deals with “May”, an 1836 poetic masterpiece by the Czech Romantic poet, Karel Hynek Macha (1810–1836). First, it briefly recounts the findings of Jiři Levy (1950) and Stanislav Rubaš (2012) concerned ...

By means of historiographical and critical analysis, the present article aims to map out “the traces” of sociological concepts in the works of Jiři Levy in comparison to the works of A. Popovič and F. Miko. The aim...

The reference to Descartes in modern scientific literature on emotions is either missing or negative. And yet, one can show that the theories of emotions laid out by William James in the 1890 ’ or by Antonio Damasio on...

Regionally aimed research into musical-and-aesthetical thinking accounts for only a small part of explored scientific issues that require broader philosophical, art-theoretical as well as linguistic erudition. Summarizin...

The contribution deals with the use of electronic tools for investigating the transfer of authorial style in literary translation. It first introduces a method of sentence length analysis of source texts and target texts...

Recidivism is one of the measures that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of sanctions imposed by the criminal justice system. The article summarizes findings from the most extensive research of this type in the C...

Networks have recently become ubiquitous in many scientific fields. In criminology, social network analysis (SNA) provides a potent tool for analysis of organized crime. This paper introduces basic network terms and meas...

The article aims to present the contemporary reception of the ideas of the Czech translation scholar Jiři Levy in Spain and Latin America. His ideas, formulated in the 1950s, remain perfectly valid till the present day;...