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Governance Revisited - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Governance Revisited - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Global trends, such as an ever-rising service economy, rapid technological change and digitalization, challenge skill formation systems. Focussing on European countries, this edited volume examines the variety of European VET governance and VET governance research. In particular, it provides insights into regional, local and decentralized governance at meso (e.g. professional associations) as well as micro level (e.g. learning arrangements). As such, the edited volume sheds light on the hitherto far less explored dimensions of VET governance and highlights challenges as well as opportunities in VET governance in the 21st century. "Der Band liefert insgesamt wichtige Erkenntnisse, die in vielfacher Hinsicht weiterführende Forschungsvorhaben anregen können. Er ist vor allem jenen Leser:innen sehr zu empfehlen, die an einer Vertiefung berufsbildungspolitischer Betrachtungen interessiert sind." (Philipp Assinger: Rezension von: Bürgi, Regula / Gonon, Philipp (Hg.): Governance Revisited, Challenges and Opportunities for Vocational Education and Training. Bern, Berlin u.a.: Peter Lang 2022. In: EWR 23 (2024), Nr. 1 (Veröffentlicht am 01.02.2024), URL: http://www.klinkhardt.de/ewr/978303434287.html )

DKK 566.00
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Networked Remembrance - Samuel Merrill - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Networked Remembrance - Samuel Merrill - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Networked Remembrance is the first book to explore questions of urban memory within what are some of the most commonly experienced subterranean margins of the contemporary city: underground railways. Using London’s and Berlin’s underground railways as comparative case studies, this book reveals how social memories are spatially produced – through practices of cartography and toponymy, memory work and memorialization, exploration and artistic appropriation – within the everyday and concealed places associated with these transport networks. Through numerous empirical excavations, this book highlights an array of different mnemonic actors, processes, structures and discourses that have determined the forms of «networked remembrance» associated with the subterranean stations and sections of the London Underground and Berlin U- and S-Bahn. In turn, it invites readers to descend into the «buried memories» that are often imperceptible to those travelling by rail beneath the British and German capitals and encourages them to ask what other memories might lie latent in the infrastructural landscapes beneath their feet. This book was the winner of the 2014 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Memory Studies.

DKK 562.00
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The Black Irish Onscreen - Zelie Asava - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

The Black Irish Onscreen - Zelie Asava - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

This book examines the position of black and mixed-race characters in Irish film culture. By exploring key film and television productions from the 1990s to the present day, the author uncovers and interrogates concepts of Irish identity, history and nation. In 2009, Ireland had the highest birth rate in Europe, with almost 24 per cent of births attributed to the ‘new Irish’. By 2013, 17 per cent of the nation was foreign-born. Ireland has always been a culturally diverse space and has produced a series of high-profile mixed-race stars, including Phil Lynott, Ruth Negga and Simon Zebo, among others. Through an analysis of screen visualizations of the black Irish, this study uncovers forgotten histories, challenges the perceived homogeneity of the nation, evaluates integration, and considers the future of the new Ireland. It makes a creative and significant theoretical contribution to scholarly work on the relationship between representation and identity in Irish cinema. This book was the winner of the 2011 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Irish Studies.

DKK 438.00
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Walking Through History - Katya Krylova - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Walking Through History - Katya Krylova - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

This book was the winner of the 2011 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in German Studies. The post-war landscape of Europe is unthinkable without the voices of the Austrian writers Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973) and Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989). Their work, coming after the devastation wrought by the Second World War and the Holocaust, is rooted in a specifically Austrian context of repression of this traumatic historical legacy. In post-war Austria, discourse on the recent past may have been dominated by silence, but the legacy of this past was all too apparent in the country’s ruined and speedily reconstructed cityscapes. This book investigates Bachmann’s and Bernhard’s treatment of two fundamental aspects of the Austrian historical legacy: the trauma of the war and the desire to return to an ideal homeland, known as ‘Haus Österreich’. Following a methodology based on Freud and Benjamin, this comparative study demonstrates that the confrontation with Austria’s troubled history occurs through the protagonists’ ambivalent encounter with the landscape or cityscape that they inhabit, travel or return to. The book demonstrates the centrality of topography on both thematic and structural levels in the authors’ prose works, as a mode of confronting the past and making sense of the present.

DKK 559.00
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A Legacy of Shame - Ruth Kitchen - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

A Legacy of Shame - Ruth Kitchen - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

A Legacy of Shame is the first in-depth study of shame in French narratives of the Second World War and the Nazi Occupation of France. Wartime shame continues to be a recurrent theme in literature and film and is an ongoing topic of cultural and political debate and yet the problem of shame has only been mentioned incidentally by cultural critics. In the concluding lines of Le Syndrome de Vichy , Henry Rousso locates the ‘syndrome’, the continual return of wartime memories in the present, in the postwar desire to restore national unity and identity. This book proposes that beneath Rousso’s syndrome lies a dis integrated sense of shame. Although this shame is painfully exposed in narratives, it remains unacknowledged as a collective, national memory and has consequently continued to trouble postwar constructions of national identity and history. By investigating narrative expressions of shame and theories of shame produced by the events of this historical moment, the book examines the issues that this legacy presents for cultural history, collective memory and, implicitly, for postwar national identity. This book is the winner of the Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in French Studies 2011.

DKK 614.00
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Old Borders, New Technologies - Paula Blair - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Old Borders, New Technologies - Paula Blair - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Northern Ireland is now generally regarded to be a post-conflict region since the official end to three decades of violence in 1998. However, given some of the stipulations of the Good Friday Belfast Agreement, including the early release of politically motivated prisoners from jail, society in Northern Ireland remains in a state of flux, uncertainty and disagreement. This book presents four thematic studies revolving around the issues of imprisonment, surveillance, traumatic recall and myth-making in Northern Ireland. These studies examine the different ways in which artists and filmmakers are experimenting with film aesthetics and new media technologies to represent, re-present and invite engagement with the underlying anxieties that continue to trouble post-Agreement society. In doing so, the author argues for a reassessment of the critical analysis of film’s convergence with other forms of visual art. Ultimately, the volume assesses the usefulness of such an approach in examining how artists and filmmakers experiment with diverse forms that open up space for discussion of the hidden and marginalized concerns in Northern Ireland’s new, ‘shared’ society. This book was the winner of the 2012 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Film Studies.

DKK 550.00
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Evaluation in media discourse - Peter Lang - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Evaluation in media discourse - Peter Lang - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Despite the apparent novelty and fluidity of the media today, there is strong evidence that patterns are emerging which both reflect and extend the evaluative paradigms previously observed in the print and broadcast media. In this complex scenario, discourse analysis offers a rich and varied methodology for understanding the different types of evaluation conveyed through media texts and the way these project, reflect and develop their relationships with their audience. The chapters in this volume draw on a variety of analytical tools, including appraisal analysis, argumentation theory, multimodal approaches and corpus linguistics, to address the issue of evaluation in media discourse. The theoretical underpinning for these chapters ranges from corpus-informed discourse studies, through critical discourse analysis and semio-communicative approaches, to Bakhtinian perspectives. Although the chapters are all in English, the scope of the volume is broadly European, covering aspects of the British, Spanish, Dutch and German media in their traditional and online manifestations, as well as contrastive studies.

DKK 649.00
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Von Eierschwammerlhoehen zur D. H. Lawrence-Ranch - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Von Eierschwammerlhoehen zur D. H. Lawrence-Ranch - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Kreative Literatur, UEbersetzungen ins Englische, Franzoesische und Spanische, kritische Beitrage, Kunstbeitrage ruckten ins Zentrum des kulturellen Geschehens wahrend eines Symposiums im Sommer 2007 in den Rocky Mountains, wo sich Mitglieder des OEsterreichischen PEN-Zentrums mit amerikanischen Literaten und Kulturexperten drei Wochen lang zum Gedankenaustausch trafen. Dabei sollte Literatur und Kunst entstehen, aber auch schon fertige, auf Amerika bezogene Texte und Inhalte diskutiert werden. Das Ereignis zeigt auf, wie nahe sich die Kontinente uber den Atlantik im Zeitalter moderner Kommunikations- und Verkehrstechnik wieder gekommen sind und wie wichtig die literarische Behandlung gemeinsamer humaner Kulturprobleme geworden ist. Das Gesamterlebnis des Symposiums wird in diesem Buch viel- und wechselseitig dargestellt. Creative literature, translations into English, French and Spanish, critical and artistic contributions were pinpointed intellectually during a cultural symposium in the Rockies in the summer of 2007. For three weeks, members of the Austrian PEN-Center met American literary and cultural experts for an exchange of thought. Literature and art were to be produced, yet other already existing texts and contents were to be discussed. The event shows how close the continents across the Atlantic have become again in an age of modern communication and transportation technology and, thus, how important the literary treatment of common human cultural problems has become. The experience of this symposium is introduced in this book in diverse and assorted ways.

DKK 721.00
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Energiediskurs - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Energiediskurs - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Der in der Schweiz und in Deutschland beschlossene Atomausstieg hat die Debatte um Energieversorgung und -verbrauch ins Zentrum der öffentlichen Aufmerksamkeit gerückt. Die Diskussion um die Energieproblematik tangiert Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft gleichermassen. Für die Umsetzung der Energiewende braucht es die Zusammenarbeit verschiedenster Akteure und deren Austausch über Energiethemen. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, wie Sprache in diesen Diskursen verwendet wird und welchen Einfluss Sprache und Kommunikation auf Meinungsbildung, Akzeptanz und Verhalten haben. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes beleuchten den Energiediskurs in der öffentlichen Kommunikation und gehen neben methodischen Fragestellungen konkreten Problemstellungen aus der Kommunikationspraxis nach: Wie können Energieunternehmen verständlich mit ihren Kundinnen und Kunden kommunizieren? Inwieweit kann die Öffentlichkeit in die Behördenkommunikation eingebunden werden? Wie beeinflussen Sprache und sprachliche Mittel die Energiedebatte? Welcher sprachlichen Einheiten bedient sich die Debatte? Allen Beiträgen gemeinsam ist der Fokus auf das Zusammenspiel von Sprache, Kommunikation und Interaktion sowie das Aufzeigen der Bedeutung angewandter Linguistik für gesellschaftliche Veränderungsprozesse.

DKK 607.00
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Spectacle - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Spectacle - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

How does the visual nature of spectacle inform the citizenry, destabilize the political, challenge aesthetic convention and celebrate cultural creativity? What are the limits – aesthetic, political, social, cultural, economic – of spectacle? How do we explain the inherently exclusionary, revolutionary, dehumanizing and utopian elements of spectacle? In this book, authors from the fields of cultural studies, cinema studies, history and art history examine the concept of spectacle in the German context across various media forms, historical periods and institutional divides. Drawing on theoretical models of spectacle by Guy Debord, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, Jonathan Crary and Michel Foucault, the contributors to this volume suggest that a decidedly German concept of spectacle can be gleaned from critical interventions into exhibitions, architectural milestones, audiovisual materials and cinematic and photographic images emerging out of German culture from the Baroque to the contemporary.

DKK 763.00
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Morphology - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Morphology - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has described Morphology as a science dedicated to the observation and description of everything «that is handled by chance and occasionally in other [sciences]». This meant that morphological research could be undertaken by any science or discipline as far as it considers form within its subject. This volume collects eighteen articles from scholars and contributors from philosophy, ranging from epistemology to aesthetics (with explorations into poetry, music, painting and photography), from philosophical anthropology to the philosophy of language, and from ontology to moral and political philosophy. Other contributions represent disciplines including art history, mathematics, cognitive science, linguistics, history, demography, computer science, and architecture. The wide range of areas puts to the test Goethe’s morphological thought, i.e. Goethe’s understanding of form as knowledge. Contributors: Ana Agud, Chiara Cappelletto, Dennis L. Sepper, Diana Soeiro, Diogo Seixas Lopes, Federico Vercellone, Hervé Le Bras, Javier Arnaldo, Jean Petitot, Joachim Schulte, João Constâncio, José Gil, Maria Filomena Molder, Maria João Mayer Branco, Maurizio Gribaudi, Nélio Conceição, Nuno Fonseca, Sílvio Varela Sousa.

DKK 754.00
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«Desaparicion» - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

«Desaparicion» - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

The current situation in Argentina is unprecedented. In compliance with prescribed timings and procedures, the crimes committed by the state in recent history are being prosecuted and penalized. This book traces the path of the trials for crimes against humanity in Argentina, from the Trial of the Juntas that began during the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín to current developments under Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, analysing the ideas of memory, truth and justice. In the volume, judges, lawyers, historians, journalists and witnesses from the era of terror give a lucid and critical reconstruction of the last thirty years. The contributors also point to other states where crimes against humanity are still being committed on a daily basis, despite being notionally proscribed. This book is translated from Spanish, originally appearing under the title Juicios por crímenes de lesa humanidad en Argentina (2011).

DKK 497.00
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On Spectatorship - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

On Spectatorship - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

This volume should be understood in the context of the "postdramatic" and "postspectacular" paradigms that have questioned traditional concepts regarding the representation and the role of the spectator in the creation of meaning and that have also emphasized the importance of performativity as a strategy enabling new scenic perspectives. It therefore dealswith a new "expansive" textuality that relates to the "social turn" in theatrical and artistic practices, embodied in the diffusion of interventionist, collaborative, dialogical or participative forms. These dissonant and anti-hegemonic forms can be located in the civic commitment that has characterized the Spanish stage in recent years. In this volume, the reader will find discussions of the most important figures of recent Spanish theatre, i.e. writers and companies whose work has contributed decisively to the reconfiguration of the role of the spectator, , including Los Torreznos, Angélica Liddell, Roger Bernat, La Ribot, Antonio Fernández Lera, Rodrigo García, El Canto de la Cabra, Laila Ripoll, Mariano Llorente, Andrés Lima, Pablo Remón, Álex Rigola, La Fura dels Baus, and A Panadaría.

DKK 388.00
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Translation Peripheries - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Translation Peripheries - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

This book investigates different elements which have direct implications for translations but are not the actual text. These features are usually presented in a particular format – written, oral, digital, audio-visual or musical. They are furnished with, for example, illustrations, prologues, introductions, indexes or appendices, or are accompanied by an ensemble of information outside the text such as an interview with the author, a general or specialist press review, an advertisement or a previous translation. However, the boundaries of paratextuality are not limited to the aforementioned examples, since paratextuality has a direct implication for areas as diverse as censorship, a contracting economy, decisions taken by the various actors in the political or cultural context in which the text occurs. Therefore it is obvious that most of the key concepts in Translation Studies cannot be fully understood without reference to the part played by paratextual elements, examined here taking into account different language pairs from Turkish to Catalan. The content presented in this book is gathered from a conference on Paratextual Elements in Translation , held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2010.

DKK 495.00
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European Francophonie - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

European Francophonie - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

This volume examines the use of French in European language communities outside France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The phenomenon of French language usage is explored in a wide variety of communities, namely Bohemian, Dutch, medieval English, German (Prussian), Italian, Piedmontese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. Each chapter offers unique insight into the existence of francophonie in a given language community by providing illustrations of language usage and detailed descriptions of various aspects of it. The volume as a whole explores such sociolinguistic matters as bilingualism and multilingualism, the use of French as a lingua franca and prestige language, language choice and code-switching, variations in language usage depending on class or gender, language attitudes and language education. The sociohistorical and sociocultural matters considered include the association of a variety of language with the court, nobility or some other social group; the function of French as a vehicle for the transmission of foreign cultures; and the role of language in the formation of identity of various kinds (national, social and personal).

DKK 725.00
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Hospital Life - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Hospital Life - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

This edited volume originates in the 2011 conference of the International Network for the History of Hospitals, held in Lisbon and Évora, Portugal. It focuses on how institutions for the care and cure of the sick have organised their activities at every level, from the delegation of medical treatments between groups of practitioners, to the provision of food and supplies and the impact of convalescence on lengths of hospital stays. It draws on new European and North American research which highlights an area of medical history that has not yet had adequate, sustained attention, discussing the tensions between theory and practice and between patients and practitioners. Through detailed case studies and comparative analyses it explores the changing and evolving understanding of the function of hospitals, and their wider relationships with their communities.

DKK 614.00
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Under Fire - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Under Fire - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

This study of a novel by William T. Vollmann offers a port of entry into his fiction. Like other titles from his planned «Seven Dreams» collection, The Rifles deconstructs the historical novel. Following in the steps of the nineteenth-century English explorer John Franklin, the contemporary American character Subzero risks his life in the Arctic, looking for a way to transcend the history of colonization and his personal limitations. He ventures out on the permafrost of his memory, both private and collective, haunted by history as he revisits the Gothic genre. Deploying the poetry of an anachronistic errand into the white wilderness of snow and ice, in the wake of Herman Melville’s Captain Ahab and Edgar Allan Poe’s Arthur Gordon Pym , the narrator plays with avatars of the author as an explorer, a historian, a cartographer and a sketch-artist to encounter otherness, whether Inuit women or men, or fellow travelers who exchange with the authorial figure in his search for meaning. This critical analysis uses close-reading, ecocriticism, cultural studies and comparative literature to examine an innovative novel of the post-postmodern canon, by one of the finest contemporary American authors.

DKK 497.00
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Spatial Perspectives - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Spatial Perspectives - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

This interdisciplinary collection explores the dynamic relationship between literature and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Contributions take the reader on a journey through unexplored byways, from Istanbul to New York to London, from event spaces to domestic interiors to the fictional buildings of the novel. Topics include the building of imaginary spaces, such as the architectural models of comic book worlds created by the cartoonist Seth and the Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, which is both novel and building. Real architectural spaces are recontextualized through literature: reading the work of Louis Kahn through his personal library and envisioning the writing haven of James Baldwin through his novels. Another approach links literary style with architectural form, as in the work of the New York School poets, who reformulate the built environment on the page. Architectural landmarks like Robert Stevenson’s Roundhouse (1847), Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition and the 2012 Olympic Park are reconsidered as counter-narratives of postcolonialism and empire, and the New York skyline is examined alongside literature and visual culture. This collection demonstrates the reciprocal exchange that exists between the disciplines of literature and architecture and promotes new ways of understanding these interactions.

DKK 550.00
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Ten Steps - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Ten Steps - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

This book is a ten-step journey around the thought and poetry of the most sensitive Italian visionary of modernity, Giacomo Leopardi, whose contribution to Western thought has been acclaimed by admirers from Schopenhauer to Nietzsche to Benjamin. A variety of readings, moving between different disciplines and approaches – including film studies, psychoanalysis, and queer theory – shed new light on Leopardi’s fascinating and at the same time epistemologically radical compound of poetic imagination and philosophical complexity. An advocate of an ultra-philosophy, which aims to negotiate the fracture opened in Western imagination by the irrecoverable loss of ancient «illusions», Leopardi’s thought seems more relevant than ever in the post-human era, offering an (un)timely meditation on desire, suffering, and imagination as the foundational features of humanity.

DKK 497.00
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Vox & Silentium - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Vox & Silentium - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Voix et silence se considèrent traditionnellement comme deux phénomènes opposés, s’excluant l’un l’autre. Les contributions contenues dans ce volume se proposent de dépasser une telle conception, en se centrant non seulement sur la valeur et les fonctions que les deux concepts peuvent recouvrir, mais aussi sur la relation complexe qui existe entre eux en linguistique et en littérature. Outre les deux pôles constitués par la voix et le silence, on peut repérer dans le domaine des langues romanes une grande variété de voix silencieuses ou de silences expressifs : la communication non verbale et son interaction avec le langage verbal, les différentes voix (plus ou moins silencieuses) donnant expression à ce qui ne peut pas être dit, ou bien la représentation graphique – et donc apparemment « muette » – d’un phénomène potentiellement acoustique. Le cri silencieux de Daphné, rendu visible dans la sculpture de Gian Lorenzo Bernini illustrant la couverture, est la manifestation figurative de cette rencontre oxymorique entre la voix et le silence.

DKK 611.00
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Gender issues - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Gender issues - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

The starting point of this publication is that in LSP domains many studies have been devoted to the languages of law, medicine, media, tourism, advertising, arts and business, but they have not fully exploited the gender perspective which can disclose new insights into the use of specialized lexicon, the role of translation, the influence of cultural aspects, and social habits and values in the transmission of equality or in-equality notions. This volume aims at bridging the gap existing between LSP translation and gender issues, offering a broad view of research on translation and gender/sexuality, LSP and the professional world. The purpose is to broaden the discussion on gender awareness in specialized language and translation, to pinpoint gender issues in audiovisual translation, to analyse gendered language in the media and advertising, and last but not least, to consider gender differences reiterated through language in specific domains.

DKK 650.00
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John Berryman - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

John Berryman - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Drawing on the proceedings of two conferences organized to celebrate the centenary of John Berryman’s birth in 2014, John Berryman: Centenary Essays provides new perspectives on a major US American poet’s work by critics from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. In addition to new readings of important aspects of Berryman’s development – including his creative and scholarly encounters with Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth and W. B. Yeats – the book gives fresh accounts of his engagements with contemporaries such as Delmore Schwartz and Randall Jarrell. It also includes essays that explore Berryman’s poetic responses to Mozart and his influence on the contemporary Irish poet Paul Muldoon. Making extensive use of unpublished archival sources, personal reflections by friends and former students of the poet are accompanied by meditations on Berryman’s importance for writers today by award-winning poets Paula Meehan and Henri Cole. Encompassing a wide range of scholarly perspectives and introducing several emerging voices in the field of Berryman studies, this volume affirms a major poet’s significance and points to new directions for critical study and creative engagement with his work.

DKK 657.00
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Empowering Africa - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Empowering Africa - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Access to electricity is a key factor for the future of the African continent. Energy poverty and lack of universal access to electricity services are, in fact, remarkably hurting human progress in Africa. Today, sub-Saharan Africa hosts 14 percent of the world’s population but 60 percent of the world’s people without access to electricity: of the more than 1 billion people globally who had no access to electricity, around 600 million lived in the region. In these conditions, many African countries are unable to develop a solid economy or provide basic health and education services to their citizens. Starting from the analysis of present and future economic, demographic, social and technological trends, Empowering Africa offers an in-depth assessment of the current status and of the future prospects of access to electricity in the African continent. The volume describes the main developments in the Africa’s electricity sector, addressing the issue both from a regional and a thematic point of view, and attempting to define the key trends of a sector that will necessarily contribute to shape the continent’s political, social and economic dynamics for the next decades.

DKK 504.00
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Language Revitalization - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

Language Revitalization - - Bog - Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - Plusbog.dk

This volume reports on programs to revitalize and maintain languages of Thailand, with a particular focus on small enclave languages and school-based revitalization programs. Issues of language status, cultural heritage and identity are explored. The approximately 70 languages of Thailand belong to five language families: Tai (24), Austroasiatic (23), Austronesian (3), Sino-Tibetan (18) and Hmong-Mien (2). Currently, fifteen of these languages are classified as seriously endangered. This volume discusses language revitalization efforts involving six Mon-Khmer groups (Maniq, Chong, Nyah Kur, So, Mlabri, Lavue); four Thai-related groups (Phetburi western central Thai, Phutai, Lao, Nyaw); two Austronesian groups (Moklen, Patani Malay); and one Tibeto-Burman group (Bisu). The book provides a framework and model for future developments in revitalizing Thailand’s indigenous languages.

DKK 698.00
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