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International language tests increasingly use group oral formats in both high- and low-stakes contexts. But how do test-takers with different characteristics interact in such formats? This book explores how test-takers with different extraversion and proficiency levels...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-17
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A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive collection of essays contributed by Classical Studies scholars that explore questions relating to ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean world. Covers topics of ethnicity in civilizations...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-06-13
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Die Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit ist mehr als ‘Vanitas’ und ‘Carpe diem’, ‘Pest’ oder ‘Krieg’ – sie ist weitaus vielgestaltiger, als diese Schlagworte suggerieren, die frühneuzeitliche Texte nicht selten eher zum Schweigen als zum Sprechen bringen. Unsere Ringvorlesung...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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This work analyses the Spanish Civil War in Spanish and European Children’s Literature from 1975, when Spain passed from a dictatorship to a parliamentary monarchy, to the present. The contributors focus on collecting narrative works that deal with the Civil War to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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Der Wandel der Gender-Vorstellungen, der durch den politischen Feminismus der 1970er-Jahre angestoßen wurde, ist in der Literatur wie in den Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften ein Thema von zunehmender Wichtigkeit. Dies gilt nicht nur für Europa, sondern auch für...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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Wer erzählt die Metamorphosen? Gibt es nur einen Erzähler? Muss man überhaupt zwischen Autor und Erzähler trennen? Und ist die Haltung des Erzählers nun distanziert-ironisch oder fromm-naiv? Die vorliegende Arbeit liefert mittels aktueller narratologischer und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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Deconstructive rewritings are re-visions. This monograph engages Robinson Crusoe in tandem with two of its re-visions, Michel Tournier’s Friday and J. M. Coetzee’s Foe, from the perspective of the Enlightenment ideology. Basing the argument upon the assumption that...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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The eruption of rural distress in Ireland and the foundation of the Land League in 1879 sparked a number of novels, stories and plays forming an immediate response to what became known as the Irish Land war. These works form a literary genre of their own and illuminate...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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This book evaluates Noam Chomsky’s contributions to linguistics and focuses on the historical justification for Cartesian Linguistics, the evolution of Chomsky’s theorizing, empirical language acquisition work, and computational modeling of language learning. Chomsky...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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Comment les mots permettent-ils d’appréhender ces objets obscurs que sont nos emotions ? Diverses langues européennes offrent-elles les mêmes perspectives sur cette réalité mouvante, explorée aussi par plusieurs disciplines appliquées (didactique, lexicographie,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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The application of postcolonial theories to Irish literature remains a contentious issue. Unlike other colonised nations, Ireland shared a long history of political, economic and artistic ties with its empire-building neighbour, Britain. Yet the Irish response to the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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This volume, entitled Of what is past, or passing, or to come: Travelling in Time and Space in Literature in English was inspired by the work of the writer, culture historian and mythographer Marina Warner and the professor of comparative literature Cathy Caruth. The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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The book proposes a multi-perspective analytical model for the understanding of corporate identity meanings embedded in historical discourse for the web.The suggested theoretical framework conflates methodological perspectives derived from Discourse Analysis,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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Seit vielen Jahrhunderten inspirieren die biblischen Simson-Erzählungen die Menschen. Aufgrund ihrer Entstehungsgeschichte und ihrer erst späteren Einarbeitung in das Buch der Richter lassen sich in ihnen sehr unterschiedliche Elemente finden. Diese scheinen sich zum...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-05
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Although published in 1986, Demand the Impossible was written from inside the oppositional political culture of the 1970s. Reading works by Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Samuel R. Delany as indicative texts in the intertext of utopian science...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-05
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Although Louis de Bernières is a famous and important contemporary novelist, and his work Captain Corelli’s Mandolin has been translated and sold all over the world as a best-seller, there are few academic studies that focus methodologically and theoretically on it. The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-05
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This entertaining collection gathers together William Shakespeare's wisest and wittiest quotations. Quotable Shakespeare proves that brevity is the soul of wit and is sure to delight all lovers of the Bard's uniquely perceptive and influential works.
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2014-06-02
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Used by Classical and Medieval Western schools to teach rhetoric, a chreia is a brief moral story attributed to a famous historical figure. In Late Ming China, the Italian Jesuit Alfonso Vagnone, also named Gao Yizhi, and the Chinese scholar-official Han Yun...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-30
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This book is the result of a shared conviction of the necessity to advance the international discourse on criticism. What originated in ancient curiosity and developing self-reflexion became the critical thought of the modern era and then developed into a program of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-30
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This book explores and analyzes the problems and challenges that have resulted from the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, and segregation in North America. These painful chapters in American history have continued along racial and regional lines and are of particular...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-30
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