Peter Lang: 4879 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This interdisciplinary collection of articles, written by scholars involved in translating the Bible into various languages around the world, demonstrates that such translation projects are promoting the vitality of local languages, both those that are endangered and those that are still fairly healthy...
Multiliteracies, Discourses and Identities
The Multiliteracy Practices of Chinese Children in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book explores the everyday reading and writing experiences of children from Chinese families living in Britain. Using an ethnographic approach, the author presents in-depth case studies of three migrant children, all of whom received some education in mainland China before moving to Britain....
Culture and Technology
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
From mobile phones to surveillance cameras, from fracking to genetically modified food, we live in an age of intense debate about technology’s place in our culture. Culture and Technology is an essential guide to that debate and its fascinating history. It is a primer for beginners and an invaluable...
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...
Virtual Communication
The Impact of the New Informational and Communicational Technologies in Contemporary Educational Space
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
This book presents an empirical approach to virtual communication. Based on the socio-cultural arguments of the postmodern paradigm, it demonstrates the necessity of analyzing the media pedagogy concept, both epistemologically and praxiologically. The concept of media competency is made operational...
Public Policy Argumentation and Debate
A Practical Guide for Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Through an exclusive focus on public policy advocacy as a practical endeavor, Philip Dalton and John R. Butler depart from approaches to debate education that focus on the rules of simulated, academic debate formats. Beginning with the assumption that readers have already developed a basic capacity...
Native America
Indigenous Self-Representation in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
This book focuses on self-representations of several indigenous communities in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. It offers a multifaceted understanding of North American indigenous history, identity, community and forms of culture. Intersecting themes shape the structure of this volume: the first part...
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...
by Alan Reed Libert
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The classification of words in terms of parts of speech is frequently problematic. This book examines the classification of conjunctions and similar words of other classes. It reviews work done from the 19th century to the present on a wide range of languages, including English, German, French, Latin,...
From Sound to Meaning in Context
Studies in Honour of Piotr Ruszkiewicz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This volume is a collection of papers approaching the phenomenon of language from a variety of perspectives. Scholars in phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicology, historical linguistics and translation studies share the results of their research. They invite the reader on a journey into the multifaceted...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
TRANSLATA II was the second in a series of triennial conferences on Translation and Interpreting Studies, held at the University of Innsbruck. The series is conceptualized as a forum for Translation Studies research. The contributions to this volume focus on humo(u)r translation, legal translation,...
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...
by Molly Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
What makes for peace as lived? What images of peace issue from examination of daily experience? What can be gleaned from reflection upon the topic for the meanings and makings of peace in our world? Considering that to work for peace, we must begin with ourselves and with our children, Molly Quinn...
Counterstorytelling Narratives of Latino Teenage Boys
From «Vergueenza» to «Échale Ganas»
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Counterstorytelling Narratives of Latino Teenage Boys presents an ethnographic portrait of the experiences and counterstories of nine Latino teenage boys representing different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds attending a high school in North Carolina. Using critical race theory (CRT), Latino...