Peter Lang: 4879 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Thematically organized around three of the most pressing ethical issues of the digital age (shifting of professional norms, moderating offensive content, and privacy), this volume offers a window into some of the hot-button ethical issues facing a society where digital has become the new normal. Straddling...
The Intersectional Internet
Race, Sex, Class, and Culture Online
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
From race, sex, class, and culture, the multidisciplinary field of Internet studies needs theoretical and methodological approaches that allow us to question the organization of social relations that are embedded in digital technologies, and that foster a clearer understanding of how power relations...
The Happiness in Child-Raising
A Japanese-Austrian Project and Family Culture in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The book shows the importance for parents to encourage a child’s imagination. Imagination has a strong connection to language and logical thinking for a child in learning and it promotes their sociability where children are led to success. Presenting a Japanese-Austrian music-project that took place...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
At first glance, no two experiences could be further apart than genocide and music. Yet real, live culture usually goes beyond rational divisions. It is now fairly commonly known that art is not absent from the sites of mass killings. Both victims and prosecutors engage in artistic activities in prisons...
Becoming Activist
Critical Literacy and Youth Organizing
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Becoming Activist is a revolutionary study of youth human rights activism and literacy learning. The book follows five urban youth organizers from the Drop Knowledge Project in New York City. Intentionally polyvocal, the voices of the five youth are featured prominently to highlight the shifting articulation...
by Larysa Nikolayeva
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
A kinship term is defined as a lexical item which is used to name a person who is connected by certain blood relations with other persons or a group of persons. Kinship term systems were first studied scientifically in the latter half of the 19th century by the American anthropological school, whose...
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...
by Agnieszka Grzasko
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
The author researches selected synonyms of ‘skinny’ and ‘fatty’in the history of the English language from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. The method employed in grouping the analytical material has been dictated by the nature of the processes of semantic change. The author subdivided...
by Marcin Kudla
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The author studies ethnic stereotypes in the history of English from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics. He views an ethnic stereotype as an idealised cognitive model (ICM) which consists of a cluster of metonymic submodels (such as BODY, CUISINE, NAME, etc.). Each submodel may trigger the formation...
Slavic Languages in the Perspective of Formal Grammar
Proceedings of FDSL 10.5, Brno 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
The volume comprises papers that were presented at the 14th European conference on «Formal Description of Slavic Languages 10.5» at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. The conference focuses on formal approaches to Slavic phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. The present contributions...
.edu
Technology and Learning Environments in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
The Internet has transformed higher education by changing the way universities and colleges teach students. As a result, many institutions are struggling to understand how the next generation of Internet technologies, including Web 2.0, multimedia, virtual presence, gaming, and the proliferation of...
Translation and Meaning
New Series, Vol. 1
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This book contains a selection of articles on new developments in translation and interpreting studies. It offers a wealth of new and innovative approaches to the didactics of translation and interpreting that may well change the way in which translators and interpreters are trained. They include...
A Web of New Words
A Corpus-Based Study of the Conventionalization Process of English Neologisms
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
This book presents the first large-scale usage-based investigation of the conventionalization process of English neologisms in the online speech community. The study answers the longstanding question of how and why some neologisms become part of the English lexicon and others do not. It strings together...
by Sára Gabriella Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book examines how cloud-based services challenge the current application of antitrust and privacy laws in the EU and the US. The author looks at the elements of data centers, the way information is organized, and how antitrust, competition and privacy laws in the US and the EU regulate cloud-based...