Peter Lang: 4879 books
Poisoned Cornucopia
Excess, Intemperance and Overabundance across Cultures and Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
This volume explores the notions of excess, intemperance and overabundance in cultures and literatures of both the English- and Chinese-speaking worlds. It concentrates on some aspects of literary and cultural meanings of excess(es) in various theories and practices of these antipodean territories...
Loneliness and Solitude in Education
How to Value Individuality and Create an Enstatic School
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Analysing loneliness and solitude in schools and exploring how to deal with them is a vital task. In recent research for the author’s Spirit of the School project, a number of pupils, teachers and headteachers described times when they felt lonely and times when they felt the need for healthy solitude....
Re-Place
Irish Theatre Environments
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
What role does nature play in the cultural world of the theatre? Is the auditorium not a natural environment, and how can theatre and nature aesthetics co-exist in the productive expression of performance? Re-Place: Irish Theatre Environments proposes a new way of thinking about Irish theatre: one...
Multilingualism and Mobility in Europe
Policies and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
How do individuals experience multilingualism and mobility in the context of Europeanization and globalisation? The contributors explore language-in-education policies and family language policies, as well as the complex interface between multilingualism and space. They provide fresh insights on key...
The Revelations of Asher
Toward Supreme Love in Self (This Is an Endarkened, Feminist, New Literacies Event)
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
The Revelations of Asher: Toward Supreme Love in Self is an endarkened, feminist, new literacies event. It critically and creatively explores Black women’s terror in love. With poetry, prose, and analytic memos, Jeanine Staples shows how a group of Black women’s talk and writings about relationships...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
This volume brings together a number of corpus-based studies dealing with language varieties. These contributions focus on contemporary lines of research interests, and include language teaching and learning, translation, domain-specific grammatical and textual phenomena, linguistic variation and...
Deviant Women
Cultural, Linguistic and Literary Approaches to Narratives of Femininity
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This multidisciplinary collection of articles illuminates the ways in which the concept of female deviance is represented, appropriated, re-inscribed and refigured in a wide range of texts across time, cultures and genres. Such a choice of variety shows that representations of deviance accommodate...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Este volumen recoge varios estudios que reflejan las últimas tendencias en la investigación lingüística teórica y aplicada desde diversas perspectivas enmarcadas en las distintas subdisciplinas lingüísticas, a saber: Análisis del discurso, Sintaxis, Semántica, Lingüística de corpus o Pragmática,...
Carrying a Torch
The Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in the British and Chinese Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The Olympic torch relay held before the 2008 Games was the moment when East met West on the media stage. This book analyses the torch relay and its representation, offering a discursive construction of Olympic ideology by and through the media in both East and West. The author argues that the discourse...
Les professionnels et leurs formations
Entre développement des sujets et projets des institutions
Language: French
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Le titre de ce livre traduit l’intention des auteurs d’étudier la professionnalisation du point de vue double du développement des personnes et de l’organisation sociale de leurs activités. Il s’agit donc de s’intéresser à la fois à la manière dont un individu singulier devient professionnel...
De la connaissance à la compétence
Évaluer le potentiel d'action par un QCM « Recherche fondamentale inédite »
Language: French
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Nous possédons des connaissances, nous obtenons des résultats scolaires, des diplômes … Mais cela nous permet-il pour autant d’agir dans les situations concrètes qui nous sont proposées dans toute leur diversité, du diagnostic médical à la dissertation, en passant par le problème mathématique...
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Language: French
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Suite au Précis du Plurilinguisme et du Pluriculturalisme (2008), et en continuité avec l'ouvrage Didactique plurilingue et pluriculturelle : l'acteur en contexte mondialisé (2012), le débat didactique se poursuit et continue de déconstruire et de revisiter les catégories habituelles de l'enseignement...
by Igor Hanzel
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
The book approaches the language experiments with great apes performed in the last 50 years from the point of view of logical semantics, speech act theory, and philosophy of the social sciences based on the linguistic turn in philosophy. The author reconstructs the experiments with the great apes...
The Art of Critical Pedagogy
Possibilities for Moving from Theory to Practice in Urban Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This book furthers the discussion concerning critical pedagogy and its practical applications for urban contexts. It addresses two looming, yet under-explored questions that have emerged with the ascendancy of critical pedagogy in the educational discourse: (1) What does critical pedagogy look like...