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It seems as if the fundamentals of how we produce vowels and how they are acoustically represented have been clarified: we phonate and articulate. Using our vocal chords, we produce a vocal sound or...

Dans tout lien social, l'?change entre partenaires inscrit le discours dans une interaction organis?e, situ?e, orient?e, historiquement construite et r?gie par des normes: il vise ? modifier un r?el...

One of the controversial issues in theology in the contemporary, modern world is the issue of moral autonomy. Who determines what is moral and ethical? What part do the individual and the community...

China has lived with the Internet for nearly two decades. Will increased Internet use, with new possibilities to share information and discuss news and politics, lead to democracy, or will it to the...

After the Last Ship embodies the critical incident that illustrates the author's ownstory, as well as stories of other women who made the journey across the Kala Pani, the Indian Ocean, and lived as...

This volume deals with ageing and ageism mostly from an applied linguistic perspective, especially (critical) discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, translation studies and from the legal point of...

Den 3. Band der Akten des XI. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Paris 2005 bilden zwei Sektionen, die sich beide mit dem Verh?ltnis der deutschen Sprache zu anderen Sprachen auseinandersetzen. In...

Band 6 der Akten des XI. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Paris 2005 befasst sich mit Ph?nomenen europ?ischer Migrationskulturen und ihren Verflechtungen mit der Literatur. Die Sektion...

Der 8. Band der Akten des XI. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses Paris 2005 bewegt sich im Spannungsfeld zwischen National- und Globalkulturen und erkundet die daraus hervorgehenden Wege der...

This book provides a depth-psychological, analytic reading of all Albert Camus's imaginative literary works including his essays and reminiscences. The chronological procedure reveals an evolution of...

The Book All Our Brothers and Sisters: Jews Saving Jews During the Holocaust, composed of 18 chapters, focuses on the heroism of Jews throughout Europe who risked their lives to save their...

The diaries of Robert W. Heingartner, a US consular official posted to Frankfurt am Main, provide an account of the rise of Nazism in that city from 1928 to the end of 1937, when the regime appeared...

The book was awarded The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Book Prize in 2010. Art continues to bemuse and confuse many people today. Yet, its critical analyses are saturated with daunting...

This book analyses the particularities of Michel Houellebecq's poetics in the context of literary tradition, intertextual relations, psycho-cultural aspects and social semiotics, alongside contacts...

This book focuses on the English lingua-franca uses in video-game interactions. The typographic and linguistic deviations from the standard norms are investigated, along with the cooperation...

Les contributions r?unies dans ce volume et fond?es sur des mat?riaux d'archives in?dits mettent au jour la personnalit? exceptionnelle d'A. Corbeau (1898-1971), connu pour son r?le dans le domaine...

This book examines contemporary Anglophone Cameroon poetry and its engagement with the environment. It explores different aspects in the field of ecoculture, hinged on questions of environmental...

Christian Knorr von Rosenroth rekurriert im Apokalypse-Kommentar (1670) zur Deutung der johanneischen Visionen nicht nur auf die christliche Lehre, sondern auch auf die griechische und lateinische...

Applied Linguistics can contribute to the enhancement of economic growth and societal well-being by addressing today's social challenges and integrating employability, internationalization...

This book gives an overview of telephone interpretation, a modality of remote interpretation that is becoming more and more popular for its benefits. It focusses on many of the aspects that shape...

This book is a collection of papers using samples of real language data (corpora) to explore variation in the use of English. This collection celebrates the achievements of Toshio Saito, a pioneer in...

? une ?poque o? la mobilit? devient incontournable, le livre propose une r?flexion sur les sp?cificit?s, terminologiques et discursives du fran?ais techno-scientifique afin de contribuer ?...

Ce guide du chercheur propose d'adopter une approche ethnographique afin de d?crire les langues sp?cialis?es professionnelles dans leurs trois dimensions: langues, discours et cultures.Author:...

Este volumen recoge una selecci?n de las comunicaciones presentadas en el Congreso Internacional sobre Descortes?a y violencia verbal en espa?ol, organizado por el Grupo de investigaci?n...

Die Zeit um die Jahrtausendwende ist gepr?gt von der ?ffnung der Arbeitsm?rkte der europ?ischen Industriegesellschaften sowie von der gleichzeitigen Verlagerung industrieller Produktion in...

Das Thema Arbeitswelten wird anhand literarischer und kultureller Beitragsschwerpunkte beleuchtet: Der fr?he Kapitalismus, die NS-Zwangsarbeit sowie der Mythos der Arbeitsoptimierung. Aus der...

This volume investigates the discursive practices of arbitration proceedings in some important Asian countries. The texts taken into consideration include not only norms and awards, but also...

Verbs of Desire underwent important changes in the course of their histories. In earlier English they could be used impersonally in constructions lacking a nominative subject. When impersonal uses...

This book addresses the theme of what nature is and humans' obligations toward the natural world. It demonstrates that an approach based in metaphysics can help us to understand better what nature is...

This monograph is focused on Arnold Bennett's fiction whose literary role was very important in the history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century novel in light of the debate between...