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This volume delves into the study of the American West from a Spanish perspective. Starting from the premise that the West as a geographical space and as a concept is undergoing a profound revision...

This volume intends to give evidence of the extraordinary expansion corpus linguistics and language corpora have experienced over the past years. It focuses on emerging types of corpora and corpus...

Speech Acts and Politeness are among the main areas of interest in pragmatics. These communicative phenomena can be considered universal and at the same time language and culture-specific. It is this...

In diesem Band sind haupts?chlich Vortragstexte gesammelt, die in den letzten f?nfzehn Jahren in China, Korea und Japan gehalten wurden. Ihr Anliegen besteht darin, auf die v?lkerverbindende...

This book focuses on inclusion and exclusion in sporting activities among young people of varying cultural identities in a multicultural society. Itis important for all those in culturally diverse...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit zeigt sich die entscheidende Epoche des Alten B?ndens um die Wende vom 15. zum 16. Jahrhundert in Umrissen und Tiefen, die sich scharf von der herrschenden Darstellung...

Il libro contiene saggi sui diversi temi trattati dalla rivista Legioni e Falangi: dalla grafica delle riviste dell'ultimo fascismo all'analisi del dicorso, storica, politica e sociologica, a saggi...

The characterization of the article reveals six functional stages.Perspectivization devices in English-language academic articles in tourism help to elaborate and organize information...

Il volume esamina la ricezione dei compositori napoletani a Dresda, in Boemia e in Slesia. Le fonti discusse comprendono manoscritti musicali e materiali d'archivio che presentano nuovi dati...

In diesem zweiten Teil des Projekts zu Dependenz, Valenz und Satzmodell wird eine praktische Textanalyse geleistet, wobei als theoretische Grundlagen Erkenntnisse des ersten Teils verwendet werden...

Dieser Band f?hrt Arbeiten zusammen, die neben der Konzentration auf juristisch-terminologische Fragen das Recht als einen kommunikativen Bereich mit ihm eigenen Einbindungen in unterschiedliche...

This book contains eight studies on Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), with work by FDG's foremost proponents, who provide both an introduction to the theory and a glimpse of current research...

The studies presented in this volume concentrate on aspects of Late Modern English correspondence in the usage of individuals belonging to different social classes, writing for different purposes,...

The 18 chapters of the volume explore the potential of using both cross-sectional and longitudinal learner corpora to investigate the interlanguage of learners of English, Italian and Spanish from...

Inspired by Frank Palmer's work, this book addresses a set of specific topics pertaining to the description of modality in English and places them in a broader context. A number of more general...

In African terms the possession of a single nationality was the unique resource on which the Swazi monarchy could build in order to have constituted a royally dominated nationalism at independence...

While other states imposed economic sanctions on the apartheid regime of South Africa, Swiss authorities long adhered to the position that South Africa is a state like any other. Swiss big business...

This study examines four long-lasting cultural constructions of childbirth: 1) The supremacy of the male 2) Theoretical, spiritual and political natality versus childbirth 3) The supremacy of the...

The volume features a selection of new work presented at the 2004 meeting of the International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL). Main conference themes reflected in this volume...

Through a selection of empirical studies anchored in analyses of authentic and contextualized language data, Taboo in Discourse explores the complex interplay between taboo and language in a range of...

Dieser Band dokumentiert die Beitr?ge der Asiatischen Germanistentagung in Seoul (2016). Sie behandeln aus germanistischer Perspektive grundlegendste und dr?ngendste Fragen der Kultur- und...

Dieser Band dokumentiert die Beitr?ge der Asiatischen Germanistentagung in Seoul (2016). Sie behandeln aus germanistischer Perspektive grundlegendste und dr?ngendste Fragen der Kultur- und...

Dieser Band dokumentiert die Beitr?ge der Asiatischen Germanistentagung in Seoul (2016). Sie behandeln aus germanistischer Perspektive grundlegendste und dr?ngendste Fragen der Kultur- und...

By illustrating how small differences in the pictures could lead to unfair and misleading decision-making in task-based teaching and assessment, this book emphasizes the importance of demonstrating...

Many recently democratized countries in Central and Eastern Europe, having escaped from communist rule and planned economies, face pressing problems related to the notions of tax evasion, trust and...

Aufgrund zunehmender globaler Umweltprobleme und dem legitimen Bem?hen zahlreicher Staaten um eine aufholende Entwicklung ist die Weitergabe umweltvertr?glicher Technologien an Entwicklungsl?nder zu...

The book is devoted to the study of the sign-object relation in the semiotics of Charles Peirce. It puts this issue in the context of Peirce's philosophy of knowledge and of reality and individuates...

Oggetto di analisi, in chiave interlinguistica e acquisizionale, ? il rapporto tra l'italiano e lo spagnolo, lingue molto vicine, eppure leggermente diverse quando si tratta di esprimerere relazioni...

12 articles de linguistes, historiens ou ethnologues sp?cialistes du Cambodge ou d'autres soci?t?s asiatiques (japonaise, papoue, insulindiennes, indienne, malgache) revisitent la notion de...

Cet ouvrage collectif international met en relation le temps et l'intervention en EPS et en sport selon trois axes th?matiques　 (1) l'?volution des pratiques et des demandes sociales　;...