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The book proposes a multi-perspective analytical model for the understanding of corporate identity meanings embedded in historical discourse for the web.The suggested theoretical framework conflates methodological perspectives derived from Discourse Analysis,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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Although published in 1986, Demand the Impossible was written from inside the oppositional political culture of the 1970s. Reading works by Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Samuel R. Delany as indicative texts in the intertext of utopian science...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-05
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Although Louis de Bernières is a famous and important contemporary novelist, and his work Captain Corelli’s Mandolin has been translated and sold all over the world as a best-seller, there are few academic studies that focus methodologically and theoretically on it. The...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-05
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This book is the result of a shared conviction of the necessity to advance the international discourse on criticism. What originated in ancient curiosity and developing self-reflexion became the critical thought of the modern era and then developed into a program of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-30
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This book explores and analyzes the problems and challenges that have resulted from the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, and segregation in North America. These painful chapters in American history have continued along racial and regional lines and are of particular...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-30
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This volume offers a survey of analyses of Gothic texts, including literary works, feature films, a TV serial, and video games, with a view to showing the evolution and expansion of the Gothic convention across the ages and the media. The temporal scope of the book is...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-13
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This study makes Romania’s largely unknown Joycean heritage visible to an international readership. Reviewing Joyce’s critical reception and translations, as well as the writer’s influence on Romanian prose, it brings Derrida’s notion of «hostipitality» to comparative...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-13
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The volume is a collection of essays representative of the wide focus of research encouraged and coordinated by the Polish Association for the Study of English (member of ESSE). Articles selected for the volume deal with works of poetry, drama and prose written in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-13
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This volume is a collaborative reassessment of the writing of John McGahern. The contributors provide provocative readings of his major works and also examine some of his lesser-known short stories, essays and unpublished archival materials which have not yet received...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-29
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This book closely examines the processes governing the construction of literary spaces in the selected works of J.M. Coetzee, focusing in particular on the writer’s subversive and destructive treatment of traditional modes of representation which participated in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-29
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The book addresses the role of the L1 (first language)-based concept categorization in L2 (second language) vocabulary learning from a cognitive linguistic perspective.The author hypothesizes that the patterns of one’s L1-based concept categorization will be present in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-29
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Du sollst nicht fluchen – ein alltäglicher, oft totgeschwiegener Bestandteil der Sprache ist ihr Tabuwortschatz. Anhand eines ausgewählten Bereichs von Stephen Kings Roman It und seinen Übersetzungen wird Einblick in die Gewohnheiten des Fluchens in sieben verschiedenen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-25
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Mehrsprachige Menschen verfügen über die Fähigkeit, mitten in einer Äußerung von einer Sprache in die andere zu wechseln. Dieses sogenannte Codeswitching wird von der Forschung inzwischen als systemhafte kommunikative Ressource anerkannt, deren Untersuchung interessante...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-25
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Die Arbeit stellt qualitative und quantitative diskursanalytische Untersuchungen von britischen und deutschen Wahlnachtreden von 1997 bzw. 1998 an und nimmt intra- und interkulturelle Vergleiche der diskursiven Strategien dieser Reden vor. Als Methode dient Teun van...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-23
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Literatures in English have emerged in several Asian communities and have enjoyed a growing readership. Creative writing programmes in Asia and other parts of the world have also attracted many new voices from Asia. However, little is known about how learners from...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-22
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Immigration and Contemporary British Theater: Finding a Home on the Stage analyzes how contemporary British theater has responded to post-war immigration to the United Kingdom through its depictions of home and domestic life. Bridging literary analysis, theater history,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-04-22
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Vor dem Hintergrund der bisher eher geringen Beachtung des Unterrichtsfachs Musik für ein integriertes Sachfach- und Fremdsprachenlernen (Content & Language Integrated Learning) untersucht diese Arbeit das besondere Potenzial von Musik als CLIL-Modulpartner. Gerade...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-22
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Interest in Shaftesbury is as lively and productive today as it ever was. Indeed, the past decade has seen a veritable international renaissance in studies of his work. The various theoretical approaches of which modern critics and scholars can avail themselves are...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-14
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This book analyses contemporary trends in radical unionism in Europe. It contains nine country case-studies that probe the limits and possibilities of trade union renewal with a focus on radical activity. The editors follow a broad definition of radical unionism,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-14
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This volume of essays, which originated in the inaugural Dublin Gastronomy Symposium held in the Dublin Institute of Technology in June 2012, offers fascinating insights into the significant role played by gastronomy in Irish literature and culture. The book opens with...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-14
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