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The volume Discourse Markers in Romance Languages. Crosslinguistic Approaches in Romance and Beyond includes the outputs of the 7th edition of the prestigious international conference Discourse Markers in Romance Languages (DISROM). The contributions in the volume focus on topics such as reformulative discourse markers, syntactic and sociolinguistic approaches to discourse markers, discourse markers and discourse genres, corpus-based approaches to discourse markers, grammaticalization and variation of discourse markers across languages, discourse markers and their relation to other semantic and pragmatic categories.

In this book, Peirce's logical apparatus is used to explain some topics in biology where traditional scientific methods fail to establish the relation between the real and the virtual in the genetic script, the irreducibility of evolution to the genome, and the multidimensionality of the passage from genotype to phenotype. The interdisciplinary nature of this study consists in combining Peirce's triadic logic, linguistics and biology; the author, as a linguist, draws out similarities between sentence construction and protein folding. Three main branches from the biological sciences are focused on: evolution, epigenetics and protein folding. The volume applies Peirce's logical tools to demonstrate the universal validity of his scientific method in the current research.

In recent years, the application of artificial intelligence and big data analysis has become increasingly common, including in areas related to security and cybersecurity. The use of artificial intelligence and advanced big data analysis tools has enabled new critical perspectives on many different areas of the world around us. The purpose of this volume is to present the perspectives of researchers, experts and scientists, who are concerned with the problem of the distortion of reality by the authors of false narratives.The book focuses primarily on security matters, issues demanded by the international political and economic situation. Disinformation is a tool of hybrid war, shaping the social and economic environment long before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since February 2022, the issues of post-truth, fake news, and disinformation have taken on additional gravity.

Statistics reveal that approximately 85.4% of the world's population follows a religion. Since the 1990s, the study of religion has become increasingly integrated into the foreign policy and diplomatic training of various states. Recently, interreligious dialogue has emerged as a key tool for fostering respect among diverse religious and non-religious perspectives, aiming to mitigate the polarization often associated with societal attitudes toward religious diversity. This book explores interreligious dialogue as a means of contributing to peacebuilding. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing and protecting the core aspects of religious experience to establish a genuine culture of encounter. This publication is a collaborative effort between university scholars and international experts, developed within the research group'Interreligious Dialogue & Peacebuilding'led by the Institute of European Studies and Human Rights at the Pontifical University of Salamanca.

The aim of the book is to reevaluate inner dymamics of, and tensions between, individuals who are active in the political process as members of interest groups. To that end, the author creates a model for the individual reasoning, preferences, and motivations made manifest in their observable behavior. This is achieved by analyzing the conduct of individuals in society according to the increasing complexity of interaction in the public sphere. The analysis starts with the ethical concerns of individuals and moves towards their capacities as citizens, voters, and politicians. The author then addresses aspects of social contract theory, as well as the uncertainty that is an inherent part of socialcooperation. An interdisciplinary approach to public choice, as well as elements of constitutional economy, political philosophy, and ethics are brought together to question our understanding of the way individuals and interest groupsoperate in the political sphere due to serious inconsistencies of individual reasoning within the latter.