Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
This book dissiminates a selected collection of research texts from the Congress Hybrid Identities, held in 2011 in the Institute for Research into Identities and Society (University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain). Outstanding researchers from Social and Humanities fields adapted the hybridization of...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The present book intends to critically examine the paths taken by the EU for cultural questions and how it integrates it into the whole of its parts. This means describing, explaining and evaluating the objectives, the nature, the extent and the impact of European interventions in cultural matters...
Converging Pathways- Itinerarios Cruzados
Spain and the European Integration Process- España y el proceso de construcción europea
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Europe: the fruit of a willing construction that superseded much of its past darkness by gradually transforming numerous walls, prejudices and conflicts into bridges of cooperation and mutually enriching developments. Spain: An amalgam of creative tensions, of groundbreaking realisations, of successively...
Social capital, migration, ethnic diversity and economic performance
Multidisciplinary evidence from South-East Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This interdisciplinary book brings an empirical evidence that social capital is an important building block in the reintegration processes, migration challenges and economic dynamism of the SEE communities. Such a conclusion opposes the common belief that (re)establishing social relations in a post-ethnic...
Assessing Urban Governance
The Case of Water Service Co-production in Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
When examining the relationship between urban governance and improved service provision in the Global South, there is frequently a gap between the rhetoric and the reality. Informal, practice-based local governance processes that aim to produce better urban services often diverge from official governance...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
This book discusses the emergence of a multi-polar currency system. With the US Dollar’s hegemony as global reserve currency in question, it examines the role of the Federal Reserve in its decline, the emergence of the Euro in a multi-polar currency system and the Chinese influence in this most...
Performativity in the Gallery
Staging Interactive Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This book coincides with an increase in the programming of live art elements in many galleries and museums. Traditional art history has, however, been wary of live art’s interdisciplinarity and its tendency to encourage increased formal and conceptual risk taking. Time-based performances have challenged...
The Europeanization of Industrial Relations in the Service Sector
Problems and Perspectives in a Heterogeneous Field
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The service sector has not always received the attention it merits in industrial relations research when set against its enormous economic significance. One factor in this is certainly the highly diverse nature of services. Research attention has also lagged behind long-standing processes of transnationalization...
Le marché du travail
Lesprit libéral et la revanche du politique
Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Voici plus de 40 ans qu’économistes et politiques s’échinent à faire reculer le chômage de masse, la précarité et les inégalités sociales. En vain. Dans tous les pays développés, la situation, examinée sous l’angle du chômage ou des inégalités, s’est dégradée par rapport à...
Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism
Japanese and Western Literature, Art and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism starts from the premise that the literary-cultural milieu we live in is characteristically hybrid. To develop that premise, the present volume focuses on explaining the strong impact that Japanese culture, especially Japanese aesthetics, bore on Western intellectuals,...
The Rise of Bardolatry in the Restoration
Paratexts of Shakespearean Adaptations and other Texts 16601737
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This book explores from a new perspective the adaptations of Shakespeare in the Restoration, and how they contributed to the rise of the cult of the National Poet in an age where his reputation was not yet consolidated. Adaptations are fully independent cultural items, whose paratexts play a crucial...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Few concepts in Discourse Studies are so versatile and intricate and have been so frequently contested as interpersonality. This construct offers ample terrain for new research, since it can be viewed using a range of diverse theoretical frameworks, employing a variety of analytical tools and social...
A Multi-dimensional Approach to Discourse Coherence
From Standardness to Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
This book presents a comprehensive study of the subject of text and discourse coherence, integrating some of the traditional trends of discourse analysis and creating new channels of research which help to understand the notion further. Based on the work of leading theoreticians and on the actual...
A Corpus-Based Study of Nominalization in Translations of Chinese Literary Prose
Three Versions of "Dream of the Red Chamber"
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
This corpus-based study investigates the use of nominalization in English translations of Chinese literary prose through the analysis of three English versions of the Chinese novel Hong Lou Meng (Dream of the Red Chamber).
Previous studies have explored the relevance of the cultural and linguistic...