Peter Lang: 4879 books
Language Contact Around the Globe
Proceedings of the LCTG3 Conference
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
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 arranged in five thematic...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
This volume places the history of the Second World War and the Baltic states into a multidisciplinary and international perspective. It includes contributions from the fields of diplomacy, strategy, military operations, intelligence and propaganda. It presents not only a multi-layered interpretation...
Dominik Tatarka: the Slovak Don Quixote
(Freedom and Dreams)
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The book deals with the question of resistance to Soviet hegemony in Central Europe after 1968, when Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia. The political and cultural situation in the context of Central Europe is presented through the life and work of the Slovak dissident, the writer Dominik Tatarka,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This volume presents a number of contributions to the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society held in Szczecin, Poland, October 26–28. The largest number of articles address issues related to the (morpho)syntactic level of language structure, and several papers describe results of...
by George Rick Welch
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
This book paints a flowing picture of the relationship beween life and nature, through the evolution of a word – physiology. Today, it denotes a scientific discipline at the intersection of biology and medicine, signifying the «study of life». Yet, physiology manifests a split personality in the...
Destination Italy
Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Italy is one of the most recent immigratory destinations in Europe, having long been one of the continent’s most important sources of emigration. Due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean, the Italian peninsula is a crossroads of complex transnational movements and represents a unique and...
(Re)visiting Translation
Linguistic and Cultural Issues across Genres
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
This collection of essays addresses translation as an evolving thread that metaphorically represents the essence of contemporary society. As translation is the main tool for global information flow, the constant necessity of negotiating meanings evokes the complex issues of contact, interaction and...
Media and the Ukraine Crisis
Hybrid Media Practices and Narratives of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
How are media and communications transforming armed conflicts? How are conflicts made visible in the media in different national and transnational settings? How does the media serve as a means by which
various actors manage and communicate conflict?
These are some of the questions addressed...
The Pilgrimage and Conversion of Thomas Chalmers
Following His Journey from Anstruther to Glasgow
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This book follows the life and work of Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) from his childhood in Anstruther to the end of his ministerial career in Glasgow in 1823. He became a theologian, minister and Scottish reformer and is best remembered for his involvement in the Disruption of 1843. Following Chalmers’...
Designing Online Communities
How Designers, Developers, Community Managers, and Software Structure Discourse and Knowledge Production on the Web
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Discussion on the Web is mediated through layers of software and protocols. As scholars increasingly study communication and learning on the Internet, it is essential to consider how site administrators, programmers, and designers create interfaces and enable functionality. The managers, administrators,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Bringing together boxing writers from different cultural and disciplinary perspectives, this book offers a vital and original contribution to the understanding of this enduringly fascinating and controversial sport.
This collected volume investigates what is at stake in boxing in the modern world...
by Odette Jankowitsch-Prevor, Sylvain Paile, Quentin Michel
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The Chaudfontaine Group was established in 2010 as an annual two-day gathering of young Europeans with diverse academic backgrounds, including lawyers, economists and political scientists, from relevant national authorities, European institutions, scientific centres and industry. Its members are invited...
The European Democratic Deficit
The Response of the Parties in the 2014 Elections
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The «never-ending crisis» that started in 2008 and the technocratic and fiscal measures demanded by the «Troika» have aggravated the EU’s so-called «democratic deficit» more than ever before. In this essay the principal theoretical and practical dimensions of this phenomenon at the levels...
Diverse Narratives of Legal Objectivity
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
This volume presents a collection of essays on objectivity in legal discourse. Has law a distinctive type of objectivity? Is there one specific type of legal objectivity or many, depending on the observatory language utilized? Is objectivity fit for law? The analyses in the various contributions show...