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The aim of this book is to study how politeness, and particularly face negotiation, is dealt with when subtitling between Chinese and English. Face negotiation refers to the process of managing relationships across different cultures through verbal and nonverbal...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-04-12
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The present volume is a contribution to the theory of narrative by scholars from various disciplines, mainly scholars from Comparative Literature but also contributors from Philosophy, Psychology and the languages.The essays focus on central terms and concepts in...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-04-05
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Dragons are a universal phenomenon and have fascinated humans since the dawn of time. Yet whereas we have numerous studies into the origins of these fantastic creatures, there have been very few attempts at discussing their appearance, function and development within...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-03-30
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An Fallstudien sprachlichen Transfers ins Finnische, Lettische, Litauische und Isländische werden Aspekte sprachlicher Normierungstätigkeiten aufgezeigt. Die aus einer soziolinguistischen Konferenz zu dem Thema ausgewählten Beiträge haben nicht die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-03-19
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This book investigates different elements which have direct implications for translations but are not the actual text. These features are usually presented in a particular format – written, oral, digital, audio-visual or musical. They are furnished with, for example,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-03-16
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Was bleibt mehr als zwanzig Jahre nach dem Fall der Mauer von der Kultur der DDR? Wie wird heute über sie geschrieben und gedacht? Die Beiträge betrachten die ästhetisch-künstlerische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Ende der DDR sowie das intellektuelle Nachleben. Es melden...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-03-07
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In 2004, Henry James featured as a character in no less than three novels - David Lodge's Author, Author was one of them. With insightful and amusing candour, here he traces the history of his book from conception to publication, pondering the mystery - and indeed the...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-02-29
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In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who have influenced his work, wonders about the motives of biographers, ponders the merits of creative writing courses, pulls the rug from under...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-02-29
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The secret history of novelists is often a history of exile and tourism - a history of language learning. Like the story of Gustave Flaubert and Juliet Herbert, it is a history of loss and mistakes. As Flaubert finished Madame Bovary, Miss Herbert, his niece's...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-02-29
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This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of colonial documents, from exhibition catalogues to memoirs and travelogues. It shows how these texts helped legitimize the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-02-28
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The Democratic Promise engages Slavoj Žižek’s psychoanalytic and cultural reading of politics and terror, Jacques Rancière’s concept of the partition of the sensible, Alain Badiou’s ethics and politics, and Jacques Derrida’s thoughts on philosophy in a time of terror in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-27
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The Marquis de Sade as a Key Figure of Enlightenment: How His Crystal Genius Still Speaks to Today’s World and Its Major Problems discusses how the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) stretched the dimensions of reputation and notoriety nearly obscuring his mastery in...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-27
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This interpretive dictionary introduces the critical and theoretical world of distinguished literary and cultural critic Edward W. Said through the crucial terms and concepts central to his work. Compares and contrasts Said's perspective with other key theorists, such...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-02-21
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This book is a collection of essays developed from the meetings of the ‘Poetics of Resistance’ network in Leeds (2008) and Santiago de Compostela (2009). The volume contains contributions from an international group of researchers and cultural producers, who are...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-02-20
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It is very common in Indo-European languages to derive new, compound verb forms from verb bases by adding prefixes to them. These prefixes, or preverbs, are originally derived from invariant forms and generally come from one of three categories: adverbs, adpositions...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-17
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What makes a world author? How did Homer become a «cosmopolitan» author? How does a Mayan creation narrative challenge our Western logocentric ideas of foundational texts?What might world literature look like to a fourth-century Roman reader? How do past and more recent...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-14
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I saggi contenuti nel volume individuano nettamente, nel panorama della letteratura comica novecentesca, una linea di geografia letteraria emiliano-romagnola o più genericamente padana. L’attenzione si focalizza in primo luogo sul gruppo di autori riunitisi negli anni...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-02
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The highpoint of German Expressionism in the second decade of the 20th century coincided with a rapid increase in the availability of cocaine as the drug was stockpiled for medical purposes by armies fighting the First World War. Snow from Broken Eyes investigates the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-12-09
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A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism that characterized theory through the 1960s and 70s, when it posed an unprecedented challenge to the literary establishment....
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-11-30
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An accessible and thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice, this book is an essential resource for beginning students of literary criticism. Covers traditional approaches such as formalism and structuralism, as well as more recent...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-11-28
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