Peter Lang: 4879 books
Reconsidering Early Bilingualism
A Corpus-Based Study of Polish Migrant Children in the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book investigates the language of Polish-English bilingual children raised in the United Kingdom and their Polish monolingual counterparts. It exemplifies the lexico-grammatical knowledge of both groups and uses corpus-based grammatical inference in order to establish the source of the impediment...
A Corpus-Based Study of Nominalization in Translations of Chinese Literary Prose
Three Versions of "Dream of the Red Chamber"
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
This corpus-based study investigates the use of nominalization in English translations of Chinese literary prose through the analysis of three English versions of the Chinese novel Hong Lou Meng (Dream of the Red Chamber).
Previous studies have explored the relevance of the cultural and linguistic...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Kriminalliteratur bietet seit längerem ein Forum für die Behandlung schon ‚klassischer‘ postkolonialer Themen. So lassen sich die ProtagonistInnen vielfach als hybride Subjekte beschreiben, und die Suche nach ‚historischer Wahrheit‘ bedarf einer anderen Substruktion als der einfachen Antithetik...
Rethinking Identities
Cultural Articulations of Alterity and Resistance in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
This volume sets out to re-imagine the theoretical and epistemological presuppositions of existing scholarship on identities. Despite a well-established body of scholarly texts that examine the concept from a wide range of perspectives, there is a surprising dearth of work on multiple, heterogeneous...
Ensayo sobre el lenguaje ritual
La adivinación en quechua y en aimara
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 31, 2015
La finalidad principal de este trabajo consiste en la descripción del lenguaje empleado en los ritos adivinatorios difundidos en las zonas de habla quechua y aimara de la cordillera centro-andina. En particular, se analiza el lenguaje utilizado durante los ritos oraculares de interpretación de hojas...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Since its inception, action research has been the subject of confusion and controversy. Can something be research if it doesn’t «prove» anything? Can something be action research if it’s a project run by an expert who does not consider participants co-researchers? Questions multiply when the...
The Narcissus Theme from «Fin de Siècle» to Psychoanalysis
Crisis of the Modern Self
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
The story of Narcissus, who falls in love with his own image in a spring, has fascinated writers and thinkers ever since Ovid first gave poetical form to the myth in his Metamorphoses. This study systematically investigates the elaborations of the theme at the turn of the century around 1900. It argues...
by John Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
«Ut pictura poesis», Horace said, but through the two millennia in which «the sister arts» have been compared, little has been said about the nature of sight itself. What we see in «our mind’s eye» as we read has not been explored, though by following the visual prompts in texts, one can anatomize...
The Vicious Circle 18321864
A History of the Polish Intelligentsia Part 2
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. Part two (1832-1864) analyses the growing importance of the intelligentsia in the epoch marked by the triumph of the Polish romanticism. The stress is put...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
This book discusses different aspects of the cinematic and literary representation of war. The papers in this volume consider the roles of war films and war novels in remaking historical memories, the influence of films and novels as social media and debate their roles as instruments of propaganda...
Boko Haram au Cameroun
Dynamiques plurielles
Language: French
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Si le déclenchement du phénomène Boko Haram et ses attaques spectaculaires ont sérieusement perturbé le cours de l’histoire des pays comme le Nigeria, le Cameroun, le Tchad et le Niger, ils ont également suscité chez les chercheurs des interrogations pour comprendre les changements et les...
Beitraege zu einer Geschichte der Translation
Vom Wirken bedeutender Dolmetscher und Uebersetzer
Language: German
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Das Buch befasst sich mit bedeutenden Dolmetschern und Übersetzern aus 5000 Jahren auf der Basis umfangreicher Recherchen in Archiven und Bibliotheken. Aus der Geschichte der Translation sind erstmals aufgearbeitet: die Dolmetscher im Alten Testament, die Rolle der Pfortendolmetscher im Osmanischen...
Frank Confessions
Performance in the Life-Writings of Frank McCourt
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
This book aims to redress the critical neglect of Frank McCourt’s life-writing, which has been dismissed all too frequently as «misery memoir» and deemed commercially driven or aesthetically and politically naïve. It reassesses the life cycle of McCourt’s work, investigating the experiences...
Litanic Verse II
Britannia, Germania et Scandinavia
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The book contains comparative analyses of the development of litanic verse in European poetry, from medieval to modern times. Litanic verse is based on different syntactic devices, such as enumeration, parallelism, anaphora and epiphora. However, it is not to be seen merely as a convention of versification...