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This book offers new essays on the pastoral tradition. Both critical revision and consideration of pastoral's future, Poetics and Politics of Place in Pastoral: International Perspectives...

The book assesses the potential for a social democratic resurgence today by retrieving of the ideas of Swedish politician Ernst Wigforss, who challenged party ideologists' passivity and insisted on a...

The advent of digital media has changed political communication. Populist movements are adept at using the affordances of new media.Digital media also make it easier than ever for the public to...

Die sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Analyse der Erlebten Rede wird meist auf einer theoretischen Ebene durchgef?hrt, wobei ihr polyphoner Charakter oft au er Betracht bleibt. Diese spezifisch...

This edited collection of essays presents a wide-ranging examination of the nature of scenes and subcultures in contemporary Berlin. It touches upon a number of key debates about cultural life in the...

Only in France is demography essentially the population science: it is taught at school, newspapers feature the evolution of fertility rates in their headlines and the subject sparks ideological...

This is a 3 volume comprehensive morphophonological grammar of Portuguese. It rests on coherent theories of morphology and markedness and evaluates Portuguese segments and morphemes according to...

This is a 3-volume comprehensive morphophonological grammar of Portuguese. It rests on coherent theories of morphology and markedness and evaluates Portuguese segments and morphemes according to...

'Verbs' presents data concerning conjugation class, regularity, irregularity, frequency, and a person number hierarchy before examining regular verb inflection. Transparent past tense verbs provide...

Wie ver?ndert sich nach der Verleihung des Literaturnobelpreises an Elfriede Jelinek im Jahr 2004 der Blick auf ihr literarisches Werk? Wie wird nun die Jelinekrezeption im nichtdeutschsprachigen...

This book analyses the role of middle-class housing in the shaping of post-war European and American cities. Observing the processes of design, construction and transformation in 12 different...

Based on a dialogical premise, this book provides a comparative analysis of two interrelated literary fields: postcolonial and women's/feminist, viewed through the ideological and aesthetic prism of...

This volume focuses on the study of linguistic manipulation, persuasion and power in the written texts of professional communication, bringing forth studies on the language of various specialised...

This volume is a collection of eight articles on the general topic of translation. The common element running through them all is the analysis of samples of tourist literature and their translations,...

Le d?fi ?ducatif que posent les contextes scolaires bi-plurilingues est consid?rable. Cet ouvrage analyse comment l'?tude des pratiques et repr?sentations des langues des acteurs scolaires permet...

The book explores finite and nonfinite clausal verb complementation in World Englishes. It provides an assessment of the influence of language contact, simplicity and transparency, geographical...

Este libro ofrece un panorama de una selecci?n de los principales problemas de demarcaci?n que surgen en la gram?tica del espa?ol. Se estudian diferentes categor?as y construcciones, relacionadas...

El Filioque es una de las cuestiones m?s largas y complejas de la historia del dogma cristiano. Se cuenta todav?a entre las causas de la divisi?n entre cat?licos y ortodoxos. En 1995, a petici?n de...

Este libro profundiza en el estudio de la conexi?n discursiva en dos niveles: 1. se aportan claves conceptuales que arrojan luz a la cuesti?n desde perspectivas novedosas. 2. se desarrolla una...

More than ever, professional English is now cruising towards an enormous challenge in the European university context due to the extremely significant moment we are living in the European Higher...

Esta monograf?a presenta resultados del proyecto de investigaci?n CULTURFIL El objetivo principal es establecer un marco de referencia sobre la proyecci?n cultural, tomando como modelo las...

Interest in the history of ownership rights is growing and spreading to different disciplines. Historians are turning their attention mainly to the rise of private and individual ownership as it was...

Die vorliegende qualitative Studie untersucht die psychische Situation von Lebendorganspender/Innen und -Empf?ngerinnen vor einer Lebendnierentransplantation. Diese ist gekennzeichnet durch einen...

Die Anzahl der Museen in der Schweiz hat im Verlauf des letzten Jahrhunderts um das Achtfache zugenommen; zu Beginn des Jahres 2001 z?hlte man 863 Museen. Mit dem Ziel, dieses Ph?nomen zu verstehen,...

Dieses Werk enth?lt umfassende Werkanalysen die Kunst- und Lyrikproduktion des Neokonkretismus in den 1960er Jahren in Brasilien. Die Werke der Bewegung f?hrten zu einer Umwertung und Neuauslegung...

Untersucht werden die Quintilian-Anregungen und -Zitate - ihrerseits auf das sprachliche Vorbild Ciceros zur?ckgehend - im fr?hen Mittelalter und dem italienischen Trecento. Die Auseinandersetzung...

Parents who come from different language backgrounds often hope that their children will be able to speak the languages of both their parents. In families where this is the goal, the 'one parent-one...

Dieser Band beinhaltet eine Reihe von Beitr?gen aus verschiedenen geisteswissenschaftlichen Disziplinen und richtet einen umfassenden, interdisziplin?ren Blick auf das Thema des Rationalen und des...

Evolutionary psychology's ultimate goal is to understand the design of the human mind. It is a new approach in psychology, founded upon evolutionary theory and cognitive science. Evolutionary...

Die gewaltigen Fortschritte der Medizin werfen immer mehr die Frage auf, ob man alles, was man kann, auch tun darf oder soll. Ist es z.B. rechtlich zul?ssig und/oder moralisch vertretbar oder gar...