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Auf den Spuren der Indoeuropäer

Von den neolithischen Steppennomaden bis zu den frühen Hochkulturen

by Harald Haarmann
Language: German
Release Date: February 19, 2016

Seit mehr als 3000 Jahren werden von Indien über Persien bis nach Europa indoeuropäische Sprachen gesprochen. Wo liegen die Ursprünge dieser Sprachfamilie? Wie und wann sind die unterschiedlichen Sprachzweige entstanden? Der renommierte Indogermanist Harald Haarmann schildert anschaulich, was wir...
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Vulgata-Studies Vol. I

Beitraege zum I. Vulgata-Kongress des Vulgata Vereins Chur in Bukarest (2013)

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Language: German
Release Date: January 6, 2015

Der Vulgata Verein Chur, organisierte im November 2013 den ersten Vulgata-Kongress. Dabei wurden philologische Erkenntnisse aus der Übersetzung der Vulgata ins Deutsche und Rumänische zusammengetragen, theologische und andere Hintergründe um die Vulgata und Hieronymus vertieft. Der Austausch ermöglichte...
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Afrikanische Silbenspiele

Betrachtet im Kontext von Sondersprachen

by Patricia Friedrich
Language: German
Release Date: May 5, 2014

Silbenspiele sind ein weltweit verbreitetes Phänomen; auch in Afrika sind sie in vielen Sprachen bekannt und dokumentiert. Vor allem Kindern und Jugendlichen wird die belustigende Beschäftigung mit diesen «Geheimsprachen» zugeschrieben. Das Buch widmet sich ihnen in zweifacher Hinsicht: Zum einen...
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Fenster zur Welt

Interkultureller Film, marginalisierte Jugendliche und Performance-Autoethnographie

by Johann Wendel
Language: German
Release Date: January 19, 2015

Das Projekt Fenster zur Welt erforscht die kulturellen Praxen von marginalisierten Kindern und Jugendlichen in Brasilien, Deutschland und der Türkei, die ihre eigenen Kurzfilme erstellen und ihre Erfahrungen durch Webcam, YouTube und Blogs miteinander teilen. Die Studie stellt diese Prozesse als...
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Multi Kulti Deutsch

Wie Migration die deutsche Sprache verändert

by Uwe Hinrichs
Language: German
Release Date: August 23, 2013

Die deutsche Sprache ist im Wandel begriffen. Vor allem in der gesprochenen Sprache sind die Einflüsse von Migration und Globalisierung deutlich zu spüren. Nicht nur das inzwischen omnipräsente Englische, sondern auch die Sprachen der Zuwanderer, das Türkische, Polnische oder Russische, prägen...
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by Céline Préaux
Language: French
Release Date: March 3, 2015

Nombreux sont aujourd’hui les Belges qui s’interrogent sur le futur de leur paysAlors que la Belgique est traversée par la plus longue crise de son histoire, d’aucuns se demandent s’il existe une porte de sortie à ce qui semble être un nœud gordien. Dans ce cadre, les experts se relaient...
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Bad Boys

Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity

by Ann Arnett Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010

Statistics show that black males are disproportionately getting in trouble and being suspended from the nation's school systems. Based on three years of participant observation research at an elementary school, Bad Boys offers a richly textured account of daily interactions between teachers and students...
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The Power of Body Language

Create positive impressions and communicate persuasively

by 50MINUTES.COM
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017

Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about effective body language with this practical guide.In our interactions with colleagues and customers, our actions often speak louder than our words: regardless of what we are saying, our movements and gestures may...
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Language, Capitalism, Colonialism

Toward a Critical History

by Monica Heller, Bonnie McElhinny
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017

Heller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an original approach to the study of language that is situated in the political and economic contexts of colonialism and capitalism. In the process, they map out a critical history of how language serves, and has...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015

In this volume teacher educators explicitly and implicitly share their visions for the purposes, experiences, and commitments necessary for social studies teacher preparation in the twenty-first century. It is divided into six sections where authors reconsider: 1) purposes, 2) course curricula, 3)...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

While the concept of integration or an interdisciplinary curriculum has been around for decades, the purposeful practice of integration is a relatively new educational endeavor. Though classroom teachers often say they “integrate,” there generally seems to be a lack of understanding of what this...
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Linguistic Relativities

Language Diversity and Modern Thought

by John Leavitt
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010

There are more than six thousand human languages, each one unique. For the last five hundred years, people have argued about how important language differences are. This book traces that history and shows how language differences have generally been treated either as of no importance or as all-important,...
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by Penelope_Eckert, Sally_McConnell-Ginet
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013

Language and Gender is an introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two leading experts in the field. This new edition, thoroughly updated and restructured, brings out more strongly an emphasis on practice and change, while retaining the broad scope of its...
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Cultural Legal Studies

Law's Popular Cultures and the Metamorphosis of Law

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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015

What can law’s popular cultures do for law, as a constitutive and interrogative critical practice?  This collection explores such a question through the lens of the ‘cultural legal studies’ movement, which proffers a new encounter with the ‘cultural turn’ in law and legal theory.  Moving...
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