Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
by Paola Evangelisti Allori
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
This volume is a collection of empirical studies investigating the ways and means through which culturally-shaped identities are manifested in and through discourse in documents and texts from multiple spheres of social action. It also looks at possible ways in which understanding and acceptance of...
Sintaxis y diccionarios
La complementacion en alemán y en español
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 13, 2017
El volumen ofrece nueve artículos en torno a la información sintáctica en diccionarios tanto monolingües como bilingües del alemán y del español. La complementación tanto del verbo como del nombre y del adjetivo, objetivo principal de ocho de los artículos, constituye un tema clave para la...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Recent years in Europe have been marked by efforts to introduce changes in labour law in order to boost employment, reduce labour costs and increase flexibility of national labour markets. The increased international competition has led to major labour law reforms in some European countries but the...
La Métaphore par-delà linfini
Les pou-VOIRS de la métaphore : des bénéfices et de lusage des figures analogiques dans la recherche et la vulgarisation scientifique
Language: French
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Avec une préface de Jean-Pierre Luminet
Comment penser un atome ?
Qu’est devenue la pomme de Newton ?
Sous quelles formes représenter l’Univers ?
Quelle imagerie est la préférée des scientifiques afin de décrire notre monde ?
Comment créer et utiliser les métaphores ?
Le changement...
Lœuvre de Vladimir Nabokov au regard de la culture et de lart allemands
Survivances de lexpressionnisme
Language: French
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Jusqu’à présent, les études nabokoviennes ont tendance à ignorer l’influence de la culture allemande sur l’œuvre de Vladimir Nabokov. Ce faisant, elles se conforment aux propos de l’écrivain qui a fréquemment déclaré que, malgré ses quinze années passées en Allemagne (1922–1937),...
Régimes démographiques et structures socio-économiques
Les communautés villageoises de la province de Namur durant la première moitié du 19e siècle
Language: French
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Un terroir et une population : entre les deux se sont tissés des liens qui forment plus qu’un espace, une structure de vie construite par la communauté villageoise. Le concept de régimes démographiques a tardé à s’imposer dans les analyses en démographie historique. Pourtant, cette approche...
Plurilingual Code-Switching between Standard and Local Varieties
A Socio-Psycholinguistic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
This book presents a comparative study on plurilingual code-switching (CS) in Italy, Croatia and Scotland-UK, based on Italian in contact with four standard varieties (Spanish, English, Philipino and Croatian) and five non-standard varieties (Arbereshe, Occitan, Calabrese, Istrovenetian and Chakavski).
It...
New trends and methodologies in applied English language research III
Synchronic and diachronic studies on discourse, lexis and grammar processing
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This volume includes eleven papers pertaining to different areas of linguistics and organised into three sections. Part I contains diachronic studies which cover data from Middle English to Present-Day English and which explore phenomena such as the status of extender tags, the distribution of free...
Ces Chrétiens qui ne croyaient pas en Jésus-Christ
Un Christianisme appelé « Géométrie » au Moyen Âge
Language: French
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Le christianisme celte, les origines de la franc-maçonnerie ou certains rites inexplicables chez les Templiers sont autant de questions restées sans réponse jusqu’ici, auxquelles se heurte notre compréhension du Moyen Âge.
Ce livre propose d’apporter des solutions à ces difficultés...
Le lobbying en France
Invention et normalisation dune pratique politique
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Cet ouvrage, résultat de quinze années d’enquêtes, aborde aussi bien la formation des lobbyistes que les scandales médiatisés. Il souhaite, en cinq temps, dépassionner le débat en apportant des réponses aux questions que se posent les journalistes, les hommes politiques ou les citoyens :...
Embodied Peacebuilding
Reconciliation as Practical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
In the areas of peacebuilding and conflict resolution, the word ‘reconciliation’ has often been branded a negative term because it implies a resolution agreed upon by all parties in a given society, which for many seems an unachievable ideal. This book looks at the concept of reconciliation from...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
For the last decade the topic of the Self has been under intense scrutiny from researchers of various areas spanning from philosophy, neurosciences, and psychology to anthropology and sociology. The present volume addresses the Self under different and influent philosophical perspectives: from phenomenology...
Returning the Gaze
The Manichean Drama of Postcolonial Exoticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
This book is proposed as a contribution to postcolonial critiques of the colonial and postcolonial exotic. It investigates the exotic as a representation of colonial cultural difference in colonial discourse, culture and history, and its oppositional rewritings in postcolonial thought and literature....
Tickling the Palate
Gastronomy in Irish Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
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 an exploration of food in literature,...