Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
Pets and their Couples
Chardin, Charrière, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and Marivaux
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Baroque novels focus on the psychology of love, while love in the context of nature is the subject of the pastoral genre. Introducing animals to such texts proves unexpectedly challenging. The inclusion of pets in the artistic representation involves a reversal of scale and various modes of comedy,...
by Weimin Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book examines how media can be used in facilitating crisis control following natural disasters. Set in the context of the contemporary Chinese nationalistic culture this book dissects how Chinese media enhances disaster relief by constructing the meaning of it. It takes a historical overview...
Rules and Exceptions
Using Exceptions for Empirical Research in Theoretical Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This book assembles a collection of papers first presented at the Summer School and Conference on the Method of Lexical Exceptions held at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, 2-8 September 2007, which explored an area of linguistics now referred to as ‘the method of exceptions and their correlations’.
Recognition...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Institutionalized through religious, moral and political discourses, the family has become an icon of Irish culture. Historically, the influence of the Church and the State fostered the ideal of a nuclear family based on principles of Catholic morality, patriarchal authority, heterosexuality and hierarchy,...
Polish Patriotism after 1989
Concepts, Debates, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
This book analyses the concept of patriotism and the contestation over its meaning in key public debates in Poland over the last twenty-five years. It focuses on the strategies used to define, re-shape and «bend» the notion of patriotism, which during this period has become a central issue in Polish...
Critique of Cosmopolitan Reason
Timing and Spacing the Concept of World Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Since the Enlightenment, the definition of terms such as humanity, citizenship and rights has fluctuated and these ideas continue to have relevance for contemporary discussions of globalization from a «cosmopolitan» perspective. This volume goes back to the conception of cosmopolitanism in Greek...
Chateaubriand
The Paradox of Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
This reassessment of Chateaubriand’s literary and political achievements, offered as an intellectual biography of the writer, is centred on the concept of change and Chateaubriand’s emotional suspicion of change, arising both from mistrust of his own inconstancy and from the personal and collective...
«New Portuguese Letters» to the World
International Reception
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Published in 1972, New Portuguese Letters addressed censored issues – such as the colonial war, immigration, the Catholic Church, violence, and the legal and social status of women – becoming a symbol of resistance against the Fascist Portuguese regime. Privileging feminist approaches, this volume...
Estudios sobre el léxico
Puntos y contrapuntos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Catorce investigadores de diferentes países y nacionalidades, especialistas en diferentes campos de estudio sobre la lengua española – Didáctica del ELE y del EFE, lengua de especialidad, lexicología, lingüística aplicada, terminología, traducción –, resaltan, al enfocar el léxico dentro...
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Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Se trata de un libro para y sobre el profesor de español. Por un lado, reflexiona sobre la labor del profesor desde una perspectiva plenamente actual. Se revisa cuáles han de ser sus competencias y actitudes a través de estudios que abordan aspectos recientes y novedosos sobre la labor didáctica...
by Hashim H. Noor, Nassir S. Al-Qadi
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
A Course in Applied Linguistics for Arab EFL/ESL Students has been developed keeping in view the academic needs of native-Arabic speakers learning English as a second/foreign language. The book in the process of understanding how students acquire second language, sheds some light on how children acquire...
Assembling Japan
Modernity, Technology and Global Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Assembling Japan focuses on Japan’s modernization as a long-term process that is reliant on changing technology and that has led to the nation’s full engagement with the global system. This process forms a complex field of tensions, full of interesting dynamisms and synergies that can be best...
Globalization, Violence and Security
Local Impacts of Regional Integration
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
This collection is a great contribution to the field of violence and security studies. It presents six comparative, cross-regional analyses of violence and security, with both theoretical contributions and empirical researches conducted in Mexico, Morocco, Colombia, South Africa and Brazil. The book...
Grammar at School
Research on Metalinguistic Activity in Language Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
The studies presented in this book argue that exploring the grammatical system outside the communicative flow enables students to develop clearer knowledge of this system and to become more effective in their language use.
This approach is the outcome of research revolving around the role of metalinguistic...