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Reflecting current understanding of vocabulary as a multifaceted construct, this edited volume presents a collection of qualitative and quantitative studies which shed light on key theoretical...

Genre analysis has become firmly established as one of the most popular frameworks for the study of specialized genres in academic, professional and institutional as well as other workplace contexts...

This volume explores discourse mainly through corpus linguistics methods. Indeed, Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies has become a widely used methodology for the critical (or non-critical) analysis of...

In this monograph, two empirical studies are presented, whose aim is to explore the linguistic cues to deception in written English and Spanish using computational tools like ALIAS WISER. After the...

El presente volumen explora, por medio de una perspectiva comparatista y multidisciplinar, las manifestaciones de lo extremo en las culturas espa?ola y austriaca en los campos de la literatura, el...

Die Beitr?ge dieses Bandes gehen aus der im Dezember 2011 vom Max-Herrmann-Nei e-Institut veranstalteten internationalen Tagung hervor. Sie verorten das vielseitige Werk Max Herrmann-Nei es im...

Mehrsprachigkeit und Interkulturalit?t bilden eine wesentliche Referenz der Erziehungslandschaft in Luxemburg. Der Band stellt grundlegende Aspekte dieser Entwicklung vor. - Le plurilinguisme et...

Walt Disney Studio's animated Beauty and the Beast (1991), and its live-action remake (2017) are considered with respect to post-feminism, the mythopoetic men's movement, the crisis of masculinity,...

This volume provides a practical introduction and a functional analysis of English false friends. It presents an innovative perspective on the subject and offers new insights into the intricacies of...

This volume discusses family and migration in the Middle East, West Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America, and in the context of the 2015 global refugee crisis. Topics include: protections...

Today, we are witnessing a turn in the fashion imaginary as issues related to social, environmental and cultural sustainability come to predominate in many areas of human activity. The book explores...

Dieser Band enth?lt siebzehn Aufs?tze, die neue Ansatzpunkte der kulturellen Interaktion und neues Material vorstellen. Die Aufs?tze befassen sich unter anderem mit europ?ischen Vorurteilen gegen?ber...

This book is one of the comprehensive studies about the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, where all the Chief Ministers since 1967 have been former actors. By problematising the popular misconception...

The central focus of this book is the translation of filmic products into European and Oriental languages, gathering together reflections on English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Russian,...

What comes to people's minds when they think of security? Is there a relationship between global security threats and local, everyday events that influence our feeling of security? Drawing from...

In the context of current debates on European culture and identity, the book focuses on the linguistic representation of migration and the semantics of 'foreigner', 'Ausl?nder', 'extranjero' and...

This book explores the gap that has developed between two sides in linguistics: the formal tradition and the functional tradition. It discusses fundamental issues such as tense, aspect and action by...

In diesem Band des Forums f?r Humanwissenschaften wird die Bedeutung und Perspektive von Humanwissenschaften angesichts der aktuellen Fragen nach Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit er?rtert./This volume of...

Der vorliegende Band stellt Schr?der nicht nur als Hamburger Theaterleiter und Shakespeare-Regisseur vor, sondern auch als Schauspieler, produktiven Dramatiker und ?bersetzer. Author: Brigitte...

This volume contains the refined proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG), which took place at Ryerson University, Toronto, as part of...

This book uses the narrative modes representing thought employed in Virginia Woolf's works, from The Voyage Out to Between the Acts, to demonstrate that Woolf's creative works can be divided into two...

This book explores if/si-constructions in spoken English, French and Spanish, from a functional-pragmatic and corpus-based perspective. The data are retrieved from parliamentary discourse and...

Im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch sind Stereotype vereinfachte, schablonenhafte Vorstellungen von Menschen, die weniger auf der eigenen Erfahrung gr?nden. Sie transportieren eher ein mit Wertungen...

This book is the first collection of essays dealing with game localization and accessibility from a multidisciplinary perspective, including game design, media accessibility, translation studies,...

Die Bew?ltigung einer durch massive Verbrechen gepr?gten Vergangenheit als Gegenstand des interdisziplin?ren Konzepts der transitionalen Justiz stellt betroffene Gesellschaften vor gr?sste...

In Anbetracht der gestiegenen Bedeutung der externen Wissenschaftskommunikation untersuchen die neun Beitr?ge des Bandes das kommunikative Verh?ltnis zwischen Geisteswissenschaften und...

Der Band widmet sich den Kontroversen zur Gelegenheitslyrik in der Moderne. Die Beitr?ge sind auf vier Ebenen angesiedelt. Behandelt werden systematische und gattungstheoretische Zug?nge,...

Tricksters rove and ramble in the pages of literature. But what if the trickster is an African American female? This book examines this figure as delineated in the writings of: Zora Neale Hurston,...

The first demographic transition changed the face of the western world as thoroughly as did the Industrial Revolution. As couples began to have fewer children, women were released from the heavy...

Das Thema des Einzeltons in seiner Klanglichkeit wird hier unter Einbezug von Theoretikern aus vier Jahrhunderten erstmals umfassend und in systematischer Weise dargestellt. Die Quellenanalyse wirft...