Book Review: \u3cem\u3eMeeting of Opposites? Hindus and Christians in the West\u3c/em\u3e

Book Review of Meeting of Opposites? Hindus and Christians in the West. Andrew Wingate. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2015, x + 216 pp

Corporate Governance Practices to Restore Trust, Focus on Long-Term Performance, and Rebuilding Leadership

Summary of the three CED corporate governance reports: Private Enterprise, Public Trust: The State of Corporate Governance After Sarbanes-Oxley (2006); Built to Last: Focusing Corporations on Long-Term Performance (2007); and Rebuilding Corporate Leadership: How Directors Can Link Long-Term Performance with Public Goals (2009)

On answering accusations in controversies

Accusations are a very frequent type of speech act both in everyday life and in formal controversies, and answering accusations is a sophisticated type of linguistic practice well worth analysing from a pragmatic point of view. In my paper I shall first describe some basic properties of accusations and characteristic types of reactions to accusations, i. e. denying the alleged fact, making excuses, and giving justifications. I then go on to describe some fundamental functions of accusations in controversies. Using the basic patterns of accusations and reactions to accusations as an object of comparison, I then analyse some relevant exchanges from historical controversies (l6th to 18th century), among them famous polemical interactions like the Hobbes-Bramhall controversy, but also less well-known debates from the fields of medicine and theology. The present paper is both a contribution to the theory of controversy and to the pragmatic history of controversies. Keywords: historical pragmatics, theory of controversy, ad hominem moves, dynamics of controvers