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The fifth volume in the series Language Competence and Language Awareness in Europe unites a collection of peer-reviewed papers delivered at the Third Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization (LCTG3) at the University of Greifswald in 2011.The papers are...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-07
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Skandale als aufsehenerregende Ärgernisse sind Einfallstore für die Beschäftigung mit Themen verschiedenster Art. Dieser Band versammelt in 16 von verschiedenen Autoren verfassten KapitelnSkandale aus dem Umfeld der Sprache. Affären zwischen Sprachakteuren führen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-24
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This book primarily examines verbal prefixes expressing aspectuality in the Old and Middle English periods, but it also takes a look at the post-verbal particles in the subsequent periods of English. Verbal prefixes are also known as preverbs such as ge- in the Old...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-24
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This collection of papers is published within a series of post-conference volumes to reflect the state-of-the-art in the field of linguistic and literary research into Middle English. The contributions embrace a variety of research topics and approaches, with a more...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-24
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This volume contains papers which reflect current discussions in the study of speech actions. The collection was inspired by the papers presented at Meaning, Context and Cognition, the first international conference integrating cognitive linguistics and pragmatics...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-17
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This investigation is a qualitative analysis of the etymological, the morphological and the semantic history of the Old English complex plant names as a lexical field, and an in-depth study of the plant names as individual entities. Their particular interest results...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-17
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International language tests increasingly use group oral formats in both high- and low-stakes contexts. But how do test-takers with different characteristics interact in such formats? This book explores how test-takers with different extraversion and proficiency levels...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-17
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Deconstructive rewritings are re-visions. This monograph engages Robinson Crusoe in tandem with two of its re-visions, Michel Tournier’s Friday and J. M. Coetzee’s Foe, from the perspective of the Enlightenment ideology. Basing the argument upon the assumption that...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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The eruption of rural distress in Ireland and the foundation of the Land League in 1879 sparked a number of novels, stories and plays forming an immediate response to what became known as the Irish Land war. These works form a literary genre of their own and illuminate...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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This book evaluates Noam Chomsky’s contributions to linguistics and focuses on the historical justification for Cartesian Linguistics, the evolution of Chomsky’s theorizing, empirical language acquisition work, and computational modeling of language learning. Chomsky...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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Comment les mots permettent-ils d’appréhender ces objets obscurs que sont nos emotions ? Diverses langues européennes offrent-elles les mêmes perspectives sur cette réalité mouvante, explorée aussi par plusieurs disciplines appliquées (didactique, lexicographie,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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The application of postcolonial theories to Irish literature remains a contentious issue. Unlike other colonised nations, Ireland shared a long history of political, economic and artistic ties with its empire-building neighbour, Britain. Yet the Irish response to the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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This volume, entitled Of what is past, or passing, or to come: Travelling in Time and Space in Literature in English was inspired by the work of the writer, culture historian and mythographer Marina Warner and the professor of comparative literature Cathy Caruth. The...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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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,...
Editeur :
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...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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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...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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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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