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Form and Meaning: Studies of Grammatical Variation and Communicative Choice in Spanish - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This book presents a state-of-the-art study of variation that considers meaning—in all its possible facets—as the key to scientific explanation. It brings together a group of international scholars whose work pursues the systematic integration of meaning and function in models of grammatical usage. After a foreword by the world-leading specialist Nikolas Coupland and a theoretical introduction by editors Miguel A. Aijón Oliva and María José Serrano, the seven empirical chapters focus on morphosyntactic phenomena in different varieties of Spanish, analyzing a wide range of discourse types and communicative domains, from sociolinguistic interviews to mass media and social network interactions. These studies offer a basis for the study of variation from similar viewpoints in other languages.

DKK 371.00

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The Ordinary and the Short Story - Miå‚osz Wojtyna - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This formalist-narratological study of T.F. Powys’ and V.S. Pritchett’s short fiction reestablishes both authors as important contributors to the history of the short story form. It also discusses how writers, who did not belong to the modernist avant-garde innovation, address the problems of the short story form in the twentieth century. The study takes a close look at the uses of the ordinary and analyses character, setting, and event presentation, narrators, audiences, narrativity, eventfulness, causality, and narrative rhetoric. It presents two kinds of short fiction and two kinds of the ordinary: the ecstatic one, focused on violations of norm, and the static kind that reassures its patterns.

DKK 466.00

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Conversational Writing - Ewa Jonsson - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The author analyses computer chat as a form of communication. While some forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC) deviate only marginally from traditional writing, computer chat is popularly considered to be written conversation and the most «oral» form of written CMC. This book systematically explores the varying degrees of conversationality («orality») in CMC, focusing in particular on a corpus of computer chat (synchronous and supersynchronous CMC) compiled by the author. The author employs Douglas Biber’s multidimensional methodology and situates the chats relative to a range of spoken and written genres on his dimensions of linguistic variation. The study fills a gap both in CMC linguistics as regards a systematic variationist approach to computer chat genres and in variationist linguistics as regards a description of conversational writing.

DKK 657.00

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Knowledge, Being and the Human - Jan Hartman - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This book, in the form of a classical philosophical treatise, presents a large-scale theoretical project: It uses a metaphilosophical perspective to present the framework for postmetaphysical thinking, situating it in the domain of the metaphysics of morality. It offers an innovative defence of scepticism based on a critical and radical analysis of the concepts of knowledge and truth. Metaphysical and transcendental traditions are deconstructed, mainly in relation to the paradoxes of so-called realism and idealism, which are the consequence of dependence on an archaic substance theory. Moreover, the book proposes a certain form of philosophising in spite of everything, i.e. within a sceptical approach. The critique of ethics leads to an a-ethical concept of the will and the values of life.

DKK 462.00

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The Prose Poem As a (Non)Genre - Agnieszka Kluba - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Is the prose poem revolutionary and subversive, or marginal and lyrical? What makes a piece of prose a prose poem? Is its identity vague or precisely defined? Can every poem written in prose be considered a prose poem, a form influenced by the brilliant invention of French literature and by authors such as Baudelaire or Rimbaud? Agnieszka Kluba discusses the prose poem by providing a comprehensive summary of the existing approaches to it, but also by proposing an original conception of this form of writing. Kluba does not limit herself to considerations within literary genre theory and remains close to the poetic texts she considers. Following the intricate line of the prose poem, in Polish and European literature, she carefully assigns to prose poetry a place in Modern literary history.

DKK 472.00

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Dimensions of the Logical - Friedrich Hogemann - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Drawing on the work of Georg Misch, this work seeks to give back to the Word its original fullness of meaning. Misch’s notion of a logic of life considers the Word in the plenitude of its great powers. The question of life leads the inquiries undertaken in this study via Misch’s anthropological conception on to the phenomenological ontology of Martin Heidegger and Josef Koenig’s investigation of ‘Being and Thought’. Heidegger’s quest for the meaning of Being calls for a close inspection of its linguistic foundation. ‘Being’ reveals itself as the original truth. It is the verbum demonstrativum in its verbal form. Solely to Indo-European languages is this form immanent. Thus, the established basis may be the starting point from which to reconsider the question of tradition as well as constructs of higher levels.

DKK 625.00

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Betwixt "engelaunde" and "englene londe" - Barbara Kowalik - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This study explores the somewhat neglected area of dramatic genres of early English religious lyric and illuminates the functions of dialogue as an instrument of devotion and cognition in the context of medieval culture. The book focuses on short poems in dialogue form, semi-dialogic prayers and dramatic monologues, and alleged dialogic configurations of the lyrics, stressing their potential for performance. Devotional dialogues, as between Jesus and Mary, are shown to have the form of mutual begging, in accordance with the central medieval ritual of supplication. Dialogue as heteroglossia provides the basis for readings of selected prayers from Cædmon to Lydgate, highlighting a variety of cultural transactions involved in addressing heaven. Tracing the ways the poems overcome the limits of language in search of transcendent communication leads to insights into vernacular poetics and theology inherent in early English religious verse.

DKK 495.00

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The Unspeakable: Narratives of Trauma - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

How does a trauma survivor communicate «what can’t be said out loud» to others? In what form? How can we – readers, listeners, viewers – recognize the pain and suffering hidden behind words, pictures, or other artifacts produced by trauma survivors? This volume presents a possible response by bringing together the «expressions of the unspeakable» by trauma survivors and the interpretation of researchers in various fields, i.e. clinical psychologists, linguists, anthropologists, literary and film scholars, historians, and visual artists, some of whom are survivors of trauma. By describing or analyzing different strategies for finding a narrative form for expressing the survivor’s trauma, the contributors offer not only insights into how the survivors dealt with the pain of traumatic memories but also how they were able to find hope for healing by telling their stories, in literature, graphic novels, visual art or simply by creating a personal narrative in their own voice.

DKK 550.00

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Lingua Franca Communication - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Lingua francas are languages used for communication between individuals for whom they are not the first language. Based on empirical work throughout, the individual contributions to this volume address lingua franca communication from sociolinguistic as well as from conversation analytic perspectives, or place this form of communication within the wider context of foreign language teaching. The volume as a whole attempts to broaden the traditional view of lingua francas as languages employed by non-native speakers to serve specific, restricted communicative purposes only. Instead, it is demonstrated that lingua francas have gained a number of varied functions, and that they are employed by a heterogeneous group of speakers for whom they do not always have the same status of a second or foreign language. The papers reveal intriguing similarities in form across different lingua francas, but also point at significant differences. As a result, it is proposed that approaches to teach lingua francas as such need to be developed on the basis of empirical evidence.

DKK 635.00

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Imagination, Metaphor and Mythopeiea in Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats - Firat Karadas - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The book studies metaphor, myth and their imaginative aspects in the poetry of William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. Relying on Kantian, Romantic, Neo-Kantian and modern ideas of imagination, metaphor and myth, the book proposes that imagination is an inherently metaphorizing and mythologizing faculty because the act of perception is an act of giving form to natural phenomena and seeing similitude in dissimilitude, which are basically metaphorical and mythological acts. Studying selected poems, the author explores how in its form-giving activity the imagination of the speaking subject ‘mythologizes’ and ‘metaphorizes’ by seeing objects of nature as spiritual, animate or divine beings and thus transforming them into the alien territory of myth. Myth and metaphor are analyzed in these poems mainly in two regards: first, myth and metaphor are handled as inborn aspects of imagination and perception, and the interaction between nature and imagination is presented as the origin of all mythology; second, to show how myth is re-created time and again by poetic imagination, Romantic mythography and re-creation of precursor mythologies are analyzed.

DKK 473.00

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Philosophical Heuristics - Jan Hartman - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

«Philosophical Heuristics» aims to translate philosophical issues into meta-philosophical issues examined from a unique perspective. The analytical and interpretive practice of heuristics seeks to grasp synchronously all the processes leading to the formation of philosophical discourse, its language, form and content. The book takes hermeneutics and pragmatism as a starting point for a multifaceted and systematic examination of philosophical heuresis and promotes a style of philosophising «in the suspense of heuristic reflection», something more than ordinary theoretical self-awareness.

DKK 497.00

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Translation and the Accommodation of Diversity - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Translation is rooted in diversity and its nature necessarily resides in accommodating differences of all sorts: lexical, textual, macrotextual, intertextual, individual, social, cultural, political, et cetera. This collection of papers, which deals with literature, poetry, hospital situations, minority languages, proverbs and so on, gives a good picture of how differences are accommodated in translation across languages but also across cultures. They form a good starting point for comparison between translation practices and translation approaches. They reveal how Indian and Western scholars perceive translation.

DKK 300.00

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New Trends in Banking and Finance - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Finance is the root of the economic systems. Positive or negative developments in the financial sector directly affect the economy of the countries. One of the fundamental components of the financial sector is the banking sector. Financial markets, which are one of the basic elements of national economies and the banking sector, form the basis of all world economies directly or indirectly. For this purpose, current affairs in both financial markets and banking sector are analysed by academicians and practitioners in different point of views.

DKK 469.00

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Genre Emergence - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This volume presents a range of academic approaches to genre emergence which is representative of the currently ongoing research, while retaining a common methodological core. The articles presented here use methods from text linguistics, conversation analysis, literary studies and media linguistics. Different driving forces of genre emergence are identified, e.g. function, communication form and culture. This book also aims to cover the emergence of many different genres: It includes chapters on newspaper and magazine genres, readers’ comments, print advertisements, TV news shows and sitcom series, Wutreden , shitstorms, weblogs and erotic romance novels.

DKK 508.00

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“The Same, but Different”. A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Variantivity - Aleksandra Majdzinska - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This study focuses on the concepts of similarities and differences considered within the framework of cognitive linguistics and its understanding of mental construal as our ability to form alternate conceptualisations. The author employs selected cognitive models in the analysis of a variety of verbal, visual, and verbo-visual texts from the domains of literature, art, the press, as well as internet communication. With a focus on the practical dimension, the author suggests that comparing theme-related texts, alternative conceptualisations, and variations might be used as a strategy in teaching cognitive linguistics.

DKK 458.00

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The Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology 2017 - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

All the different approaches to the issue of the university and education presented in the Yearbook form the free-standing phenomenological openings, drawing from classical phenomenological sources, relying upon traditional wisdom and implementing new, even experimental approaches and interconnections. However, they all converge on related and timeless intellectual conclusions, ever anew resurrecting the idea of humanistic culture: there is no real education without the cultivation of the essential humanity in man as its central point, without a devoted commitment to shape integrated, self-aware, independent and critical thinking, morally mature, responsible and compassionate human individuals.

DKK 387.00

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French Ecocriticism - Stephanie Posthumus - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human world in a broad spectrum of material in French. Scholars from Canada, France, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States examine the work of writers and thinkers including Michel de Montaigne, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Arthur Rimbaud, Marguerite Yourcenar, Gilbert Simondon, Michel Serres, Michel Houellebecq, and Éric Chevillard. The diverse approaches in the volume signal a common desire to bring together form and content, politics and aesthetics, theory and practice, under the aegis of the environmental humanities.

DKK 589.00

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Textbook: Research and Writing - Jaan Mikk - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The book has a twofold goal: to give an overview of the research in the area of textbook and to supply textbook authors and editors with the concrete suggestions for composing an effective textbook. The conclusions and suggestions are based on an overview of more than 500 sources of literature and many experimental studies of the author. The first part of the book investigates the methods for textbook evaluation: experiments, expert opinions, and textbook analysis. Special attention is given to the analysis of textbook feasibility before printing and to the exact criteria of appropriateness of textbooks for students of different grades and ability levels. Readability formulae and their use via computer are thoroughly discussed. The second part of the book begins with the rules of clear writing: their basis, the examples of application and efficiency. Beside that, some other important topics are examined: the possibilities of motivating students and arousing their interest in textbooks; the characteristics of influential illustrations and their relations to the text; the value forming aspects of textbooks. Textbooks form students’ attitudes to other people, form their goals and self-esteem. This way the textbooks influence the fate of our youth. Textbooks deserve keen attention of society.

DKK 736.00

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«Sawles Warde» and the Wooing Group - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This volume completes the first uniform edition of the Early Middle English Ancrene Wisse Group. It contains Sawles Warde from the Katherine Group, and the Wooing Group of lyrical meditations. These works, originally written for devout women, are of unusual literary and linguistic interest. The readings of all the manuscripts are printed in parallel for easy comparison, presenting the various versions of the Wooing Group in a more cohesive form than in existing editions. Paleographical and textual notes are provided, along with frequency wordlists and a selection of notes from an unpublished edition by E. J. Dobson.

DKK 402.00

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Communication Forms and Communicative Practices - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This volume reflects the discussion that emerged around the controversial concepts «communication form», «communicative practice», «medium» and «genre». It provides a comprehensive overview of the history and current state-of-affairs of these concepts, and combines theoretical contributions from various perspectives with thorough empirical studies of current communication forms, media, and practices. The contributions deal with fields ranging from public signage in cities, video games and self-tracking to historical accounts of changing communicative potentials and practices concerning the «National Geographic Magazine» and the personal blog. Due to its interdisciplinary character, the volume points out various new directions for future research.

DKK 519.00

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Deferring the Self - Szymon Wrobel - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This book is a result of studies on psychoanalysis, politics, and art. The topics in this book range from populism, the limits of the political, identity, melancholy, the peculiarity of psychoanalytical interpretation to the connection of theatre and politics. Psychoanalysis is a form of practicing personal truth, which needs to be one’s own and which is not a result of anonymous discourse. Politics is the practice of being with others; it is the cultivation of antagonistic relations with others. Art is the practice aiming at giving one’s life the mark of something unique, it is the very practice of life.

DKK 646.00

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Communication Audit in Globally Integrated R«U38»D Project Teams - Justyna Alnajjar - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Communication audit is a relatively new field of research, which has so far been investigated from a managerial point of view. Linguists have not yet researched it. This book summarises existing, mainly managerial, approaches to communication audits and brings to the forefront a linguistic perspective on them. It showcases that their essence is to capture and assess the actual communication behaviour of auditees. The proposed communication audit model, communication audit procedures, and linguistic form sheet can be applied and further developed by scientists interested in taking on research into communication and by practitioners who wish to conduct communication audits in practice.

DKK 625.00

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Gene Doping – The Future of Doping? - Stefanie Schardien - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Gene doping is regarded as the form of performance enhancement in elite sports with the greatest potential which also raises issues for all of society that transcend competitive sport. This book brings together detailed concepts for lessons dealing with the scientific, legal, ethical, and social aspects of gene doping. The lessons have been applied in class and extensively annotated for classroom use. Upper secondary level students may choose out of various options which will refine and expand their subject expertise as well as their methodology, decision-making and responsibility in accordance with their subject focus, interdisciplinary approach, and curricular objectives.

DKK 263.00

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Improving Traceability in Distributed Collaborative Software Development - Tobias Hildenbrand - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Due to increasing global demand for software applications, the fundamental question of how to develop software collaboratively and most efficiently on a global scale is raised. Today, especially managing requirements traceability from elicitation to implementation constitutes a major issue. Therefore, this work aims at managing traces between different kinds of artifacts and stakeholders more effectively and efficiently in distributed collaborative software development environments. The overall contribution involves designing a novel solution approach, including conceptual, methodological, and tool-based components. Its applicability and utility are evaluated both analytically and empirically, eventually in the form of an experimental setting with 17 replicated development teams.

DKK 646.00

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Trauma Studies and Literature - Valentina Adami - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Starting from an interdisciplinary theoretical investigation of trauma, the book analyzes the relationship between Trauma Studies and literature. In particular, it focuses on Martin Amis’s novel Time’s Arrow , where the breakdown of chronology, coherence and predictability mimics the collapse of temporality and the crisis of truth caused by trauma in the individual’s mind. Amis’s novel reproduces the shocking force of trauma through a shocking narrative form in order to avoid indifference and favour an empathetic and ethically committed reaction on the part of readers. For these reasons, Time’s Arrow represents a significant example of trauma fiction.

DKK 290.00

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Form and Meaning: Studies of Grammatical Variation and Communicative Choice in Spanish - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The Ordinary and the Short Story - Miå‚osz Wojtyna - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Conversational Writing - Ewa Jonsson - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Knowledge, Being and the Human - Jan Hartman - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The Prose Poem As a (Non)Genre - Agnieszka Kluba - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Dimensions of the Logical - Friedrich Hogemann - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Betwixt "engelaunde" and "englene londe" - Barbara Kowalik - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The Unspeakable: Narratives of Trauma - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Lingua Franca Communication - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Imagination, Metaphor and Mythopeiea in Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats - Firat Karadas - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Philosophical Heuristics - Jan Hartman - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Translation and the Accommodation of Diversity - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

New Trends in Banking and Finance - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Genre Emergence - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

“The Same, but Different”. A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Variantivity - Aleksandra Majdzinska - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology 2017 - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

French Ecocriticism - Stephanie Posthumus - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Textbook: Research and Writing - Jaan Mikk - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

«Sawles Warde» and the Wooing Group - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Communication Forms and Communicative Practices - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Deferring the Self - Szymon Wrobel - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Communication Audit in Globally Integrated R«U38»D Project Teams - Justyna Alnajjar - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Gene Doping – The Future of Doping? - Stefanie Schardien - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Improving Traceability in Distributed Collaborative Software Development - Tobias Hildenbrand - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Trauma Studies and Literature - Valentina Adami - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

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