Peter Lang Ag Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften imprint: 959 books
Preschool and Im/migrants in Five Countries
England, France, Germany, Italy and United States of America
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
A significant and growing percentage of the children enrolled in early childhood education and care (ECEC) programs in Europe and the United States are children of recent im/migrants. For most young (3–5 years old) children of parents who have come from other countries, ECEC settings are the first...
Old Jewish Commentaries on «The Song of Songs» II
The Two Commentaries of Tanchum Yerushalmi- Text and translation
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
This book contains two commentaries on The Song of Songs by Tanchum Yerushalmi (c. 1220-1291), one of the best representatives of rational exegesis in the Middle Eastern rabbinical school of thought. His in depth knowledge of the Bible as well as his acquaintance with Greek philosophy, added to familiarity...
The Reception of Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Europe
UK, Spain, Italy, Poland, Denmark, France and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This is the first volume to deal specifically with the quality of subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH) in Europe, with contributions from the UK, Spain, Italy, Poland, Denmark, France and Germany. Drawing on the results of the EU-funded project DTV4ALL, the book looks at the issue of quality...
United in Diversity?
On Cultural Diversity, Democracy and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
We live in increasingly diverse societies. Human relations are increasingly maintained by widely-used virtual means, with the result that it is becoming more common to find people with various identities and feelings of belonging living in the same political space.
Identity, linguistic, religious...
The London Lock Hospital in the Nineteenth Century
Gender, Sexuality and Social Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Based on archival research, this volume is concerned with the treatment of «fallen women» and prostitutes at the London Lock Hospital and Asylum throughout the nineteenth century. As venereally-diseased women, they were treated in the hospital for their physical ailments; those considered ripe for...
A Civil War of Words
The Cultural Impact of the Great War in Catalonia, Spain, Europe and a Glance at Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
The Great War did not only mark the history of the twentieth century: to a large extent, the conflict also affected culture and literature in Europe and the rest of the world. This collection of essays aims to provide the reader with a broad and transdisciplinary perspective on the cultural and political...
United through Diversity
An Insight into Federalism and Ecumenism within Italian Protestantism
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
The book analyses the Europeanist and federalist effort of Italian Protestants in the struggle for European unification. This investigation revolves around two distinct guiding arguments: a political one, focused on the analysis of political thought; and a historical one reconstructing the most recent...
Languaging in and across Communities: New Voices, New Identities
Studies in Honour of Giuseppina Cortese
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The title of this volume intentionally echoes that of a landmark issue of Textus on «Languaging» in and across Human Groups, edited by Giuseppina Cortese and Dell Hymes in 2001, since the notion of ‘languaging’ seems to capture most effectively the essence and the continuity in the life and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The literature on translation and technology has generally taken two forms: general overviews, in which the tools are described, and functional descriptions of how such tools and technologies are implemented in specific projects, often with a view to improving the quality of translator training. There...
Corpus Analysis for Descriptive and Pedagogical Purposes
ESP Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
There is hardly any aspect of verbal communication that has not been investigated using the analytical tools developed by corpus linguists. This is especially true in the case of English, which commands a vast international research community, and corpora are becoming increasingly specialised, as...
Evolution in Genre
Emergence, Variation, Multimodality
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
The notion of ‘genre’ has established itself as a key concept in many disciplines and fields as a means of describing social action and/or recurring patterns of form. Recent social and technological changes are driving the emergence of new genres, the evolution of traditional ones as well as variation...
Christian Faith in English Church Schools
Research Conversations with Classroom Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Church schools are booming, becoming increasingly popular with parents across the world. However, research shows that teachers face considerable challenges as they try to offer a distinctively Christian education within a church school context. This book is the account of a qualitative research project...
Beyond Self
Ethical and Spiritual Dimensions of Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This book addresses ethical and spiritual issues in economics. The central idea advanced in the book is that the extreme focus on the self by economic actors leads to the destruction of both material and non-material values.
The assumptions of self-interest in behavior represent the core of mainstream...
In the Place of Utopia
Affect and Transformative Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Considerable socio-political change has re-configured the discursive space once occupied by ‘utopia’. Within the cultures of late capitalism and the organisational matrices of bio-political administration, that space is no longer animated by images of idealised states that are yet to come, or...