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English Core Linguistics - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

English Core Linguistics - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This volume unites nineteen papers on core topics in linguistics: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and phraseology of English, exploring both synchronic and diachronic aspects of the English language. The papers have been collected to honour D. J. Allerton, who has taken a keen interest in all of these fields throughout his professional life. He has just retired from his professorship at the university of Basel where he has been professor of English linguistics since 1980. The authors of the contributions are colleagues and former students, all of whom felt inspired by his way of doing linguistics. Topics covered range from the Great Vowel Shift to contemporary changes in World Englishes, and from theoretical questions on the sound system and word formation patterns of English to more applied topics in phraseology and the lexicon.

DKK 829.00
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Decoding Aristarchus - Alberto Gomez - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Decoding Aristarchus - Alberto Gomez - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Imagine someone today who comes up with a brand-new theory of the universe that shakes modern science to its very core, yet sounds so outlandish that very few people take it seriously for about twenty centuries from now, despite the fact that this theory allows even those rejecting it to greatly improve the current estimates of the sizes and distances in the universe. Imagine also that only after all those centuries are past will this theory be proved right, and its estimates, bettered. What would you think about this person? Have there been many such people in the past? The present book is about the only such person the author knows of. But make no mistake about it: this book is for mathematicians, even though historians and astronomers might find some of it interesting. If, despite this warning, you are still reading these words and wish for more, do brace yourself for a possibly dizzying, roller-coaster ride through history. It will take no less to tackle the mystery surrounding the birth of Heliocentrism.

DKK 413.00
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Science, Medicine and Culture - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Science, Medicine and Culture - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Constructive Realism, an increasingly discussed philosophy of science founded by the Viennese philosopher of science Fritz G. Wallner, is the core issue of the texts gathered in this volume. The authors either discuss the constructive-realistic view philosophically or present their research interpreted by the constructive-realistic doctrine. Constructive Realism inspires philosophy as well as natural science and humanities. This volume proves this inspiring feature of Constructive Realism. All texts are written by colleagues, friends and scholars of Fritz G. Wallner to honour his 60th birthday.

DKK 689.00
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Genre Emergence - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

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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Psychological Machinery - Petr Kveton - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Psychological Machinery - Petr Kveton - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The book covers the topic of experimental instrumentation at the turn of the 20th century. The authors introduce the role of instruments in the process of establishing psychology as a science. They concentrate on identifying historical devices and problems with rediscovering their functionality. The core of the book consists of a categorized list of instruments with a description of their purpose and mechanical design. The categorization covers recording and time measuring devices, instruments designated for the research of human senses, memory and learning, and devices for physiological measurement. The publication also includes a companion website with short videos demonstrating selected instruments in action.

DKK 296.00
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Writing from the Margins of Europe - Rachael Sumner - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Writing from the Margins of Europe - Rachael Sumner - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

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 project of British imperialism bears comparison with postcolonial models of the relationship between colonisers and the colonised. Writing from the Margins of Europe assesses the potential for postcolonial analysis of works by W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge and James Joyce. In this exploration of postcolonial parallels between these writers, the author focuses on four core issues: historiography, nationalism, language and displacement.

DKK 550.00
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Optimizing the Process of Teaching English for Medical Purposes with the Use of Mobile Applications - Maria Chojnacka - Bog - Peter Lang AG -

Optimizing the Process of Teaching English for Medical Purposes with the Use of Mobile Applications - Maria Chojnacka - Bog - Peter Lang AG -

The ubiquity of mobile devices has opened the way to extending learning environments far beyond the constraints of the traditional foreign language classroom. This book seeks to advance the knowledge about effective learning and teaching of English for Medical Purposes supported by mobile environments. The author investigates the effectiveness of the use of a mobile version of a flashcard spaced-repetition learning platform. In conclusion, she presents core principles of an educational solution that supports the ongoing and situated learning of English for Medical Purposes by designing a mobile spaced-repetition medical vocabulary tutor («Mobile Medical English Companion»).

DKK 519.00
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Humans and Automata - Riccardo Campa - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Humans and Automata - Riccardo Campa - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The book takes a close look at the social dimensions of robotics. It examines some of the projects on which robotic engineers are presently working, explores the dreams and hopes connected with these undertakings and determines if there is a relation between automation and unemployment within the socio-economic system. Furthermore, it explores the possible futures generated by the development of artificial intelligence and outlines the core ideas of roboethics. Last but not least, it examines the systems of military robots, with special emphasis on the ethical issues raised by the design, construction and utilization of these systems of weaponry.

DKK 402.00
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Attitudes to Standard British English and Standard Polish - Maciej Rataj - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Attitudes to Standard British English and Standard Polish - Maciej Rataj - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The book provides a new insight into English-Polish comparative sociolinguistics by comparing and contrasting the attitudes of young adult native speakers of British English and Polish towards the standard varieties of their mother tongues. The author reviews the Anglophone and Polish approaches to standard dialects and language standardization, integrating sociolinguistics, normative linguistics and prescriptivism. The core of the work presents and analyses the results of a questionnaire-based study of language attitudes conducted at several Polish and British universities. In conclusion, the author places the two groups of informants on a spectrum of language attitudes ranging from purism to tolerance of non-standard varieties.

DKK 550.00
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Polish consonant clusters in the British mouth - Marek Radomski - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Polish consonant clusters in the British mouth - Marek Radomski - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The book offers a significant theoretical and empirical contribution to the ongoing vigorous debate on loanword phonology, its major mechanisms and various interpretations. It provides an in-depth analysis of a rich body of novel experimental data on online adaptation of Polish consonant clusters, absent in English, by native speakers of British English. The analysis is couched within the framework of Optimality Theory. The author argues for the phonological approach to loanword adaptation as well as for the core-periphery structure of the English lexicon and shows that the proposed perspective allows for a deep insight into the nature of the collected language data.

DKK 429.00
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Stereotypes in Literatures and Cultures - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Stereotypes in Literatures and Cultures - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Imaginative representations of different cultures are one of the major stumbling blocks to understanding, deepening the gap between people as they are passed from one text to another, especially in periods of historical transition. These transfers are sometimes innocent, while at other times they serve political agendas. The sample of images and estimations of others becomes a priority and, frequently for this reason, stereotypical. This is the subject of investigation for the majority of the authors in this collection. This book with articles presented here is an attempt to understand the core of confirmed or standardized social norms. The book contains articles in English and in Russian language.

DKK 614.00
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The Kinetics of the Invisible - Matteo Bonfitto - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The Kinetics of the Invisible - Matteo Bonfitto - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

What’s the role played by the invisible in our lives? At what level can it be perceived when explored in theatre-making? Having as its focus the acting processes carried out by Peter Brook and his actors, this book examines many aspects of their practical work – from actor training seen as "poiesis" to the production of the "present moment" – and in doing so, it tries to recognize the nuances and subtle qualities generated by the invisible produced by them. However, the core of this investigation is that of trying to capture the invisible not as a vague sensation but in its dynamic and powerful manifestation.

DKK 561.00
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Beyond Diversity - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Beyond Diversity - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This book offers a collection of papers that, taken jointly, show the academic potential of English Studies – its most contemporary lines of investigation seen against the area’s traditional concerns. The chapters illustrate a cross section of research in English literature, linguistics, language teaching and translation studies – disciplines traditionally pursued at Departments of English. They also show an expansion of the core philological lines of research into other areas of knowledge, such as semiotics or comparative and cognitive studies. The book thus makes a strong case that the philological ethos, reflected in the Polish translation of «English Studies» as filologia angielska , still constitutes a valuable academic formula.

DKK 375.00
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Introduction to the History of English - Thomas Kohnen - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Introduction to the History of English - Thomas Kohnen - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This book is written for students of English who are interested in the history of the language and would like to read an accessible but also comprehensive and reasonably detailed introduction. Apart from basic information about language change and the Indo-European background of English, it gives an outline of the major periods of the language (Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and Late Modern English), with a brief examination of the perspectives of present-day English. Each period chapter provides information about the socio-historical background, the core areas of linguistic structure, discourse, speech acts and genres, and concludes with study questions and exercises.

DKK 257.00
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On the History of Rock Music - Yvetta Kajanova - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

On the History of Rock Music - Yvetta Kajanova - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

On the History of Rock Music follows the development of rock music from its origins up to the present time. It focuses on the relationship between the sound, improvisations and rhythms in particular styles, and gives specific attention to the development of rhythm. The beat-offbeat principle, polyrhythms and polymetrics are fundamental to rock rhythm patterns, which serve as archetypes for specific rhythms. An archetype is a prototype, a model, or an innate experience of a species. Using more than 250 score examples, the author identifies the characteristic rhythmic patterns in rock styles, ranging from rock and roll, hard rock and punk rock to alternative rock, indie rock and grind core.

DKK 399.00
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The Synonyms of «Fallen Woman» in the History of the English Language - Bozena Duda - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The Synonyms of «Fallen Woman» in the History of the English Language - Bozena Duda - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This data-oriented study aims at providing an onomasiological account of the historical synonyms of the term fallen woman from Old English up to Early Modern English. It focuses on linguistic mechanisms which are at work in the formation of euphemisms and dysphemisms semantically linked to the conceptual category Fallen Woman. Additionally, the book highlights the historical and cultural variations in the approach to sex relations in different parts of the world and in different epochs. The cognitive methodological apparatus is the core of the analytical part of the work. The results of the axiologically oriented analysis point to the prevailing tendency of female-specific lexical items to undergo the process of pejoration with the passage of time.

DKK 497.00
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Work-Process Based Development of Advanced Detailed Curricula - Georg Spoettl - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Work-Process Based Development of Advanced Detailed Curricula - Georg Spoettl - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

How can it be ensured that vocational education matches the requirements of the increasingly complex world of work? In search of a suitable approach, it has become evident that Competence-Based Training cannot provide this service since it focuses on static "work" instead of encompassing dynamic "work-processes." Consequently it is necessary to rely on the analysis of work-processes when designing a detailed curriculum for a digitalized environment and Industry 4.0. The results of the work-process analyses reflect the spectrum of requirements and are applied as the core elements for the shaping of detailed curricula. This ensures a state of the art of curricula and facilitates their swift development in matching changes in the world of work.

DKK 401.00
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American Patriotism and Corporate Identity in Automobile Advertising - Markus Weik - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

American Patriotism and Corporate Identity in Automobile Advertising - Markus Weik - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The triumphal march of the automobile and its connection with American culture have often been acknowledged in scholarship. By contrast, the culture-specific, value-oriented advertising strategies of the most important US carmaker General Motors (GM) in its home market have received less attention, especially in American Studies. This study focuses on the connection between GM products and America and the fundamental values represented by politics, business, and society. The author examines which textual and visual strategies GM uses in its image advertising to establish and maintain its patriotic American image. He argues that GM’s advertising campaigns follow a patriotic leitmotif and are consistently in line with American core values, often generating new patriotic ideas.

DKK 588.00
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The Lexical Domain of Beauty and its Metaphors in the Anglo-Saxon Formulaic Style - Francisco Javier Minaya Gomez - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The Lexical Domain of Beauty and its Metaphors in the Anglo-Saxon Formulaic Style - Francisco Javier Minaya Gomez - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This monograph offers an analysis of the lexical domain of beauty and other additional lexical domains that are figuratively used to refer to beauty, highlighting their central role in the Anglo-Saxon formulaic style. Using different methods from computational and cognitive linguistics, this study is aimed at determining the exact semantic value of these terms, detecting possible patterns of metaphorization and metonymization and identifying strategies behind their usage, ultimately determining how beauty was conceptualised and experienced in early Medieval England and in its literature. This research evidences the importance of this aesthetic idea in the Old English poetry and its aesthetic paradigm and revealing the core associations between beauty and other religious and social ideas.

DKK 529.00
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War Experience and Trauma in American Literature - Lena Simone Gunther - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

War Experience and Trauma in American Literature - Lena Simone Gunther - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Walt Whitman wrote: «The real war will never get into the books.» To this day, however, American soldier-authors write about their war and translate traumatic experiences into language accessible to the reader. Veterans of the recent Iraq war do not differ here. Joining the post-draft American military, the selected soldier-authors are thrust into a conflict which soon exceeded governmental, military and public expectations. Focusing on core elements which link the selected military memoirs of Nathaniel Fick, Colby Buzzell, Clint Van Winkle, John Crawford and Matt Gallagher together, this book follows the soldier-authors’ process of soldierization, their loss of innocence, moral responsibility and, finally, coping mechanisms for traumatic experiences sustained in combat.

DKK 572.00
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Kazakhstan’s Emerging Economy - Roman Vakulchuk - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Kazakhstan’s Emerging Economy - Roman Vakulchuk - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Kazakhstan has become a successful market reformer under the leadership of President Nursultan Nazarbayev. But what type of a market economy has emerged in the country since 1991? This book focuses on Kazakhstan’s transition path, examines the role of the state in steering economic processes, and analyses the state – business interaction. The Varieties of Capitalism approach and a core – periphery analytical framework are applied to classify the evolving model of capitalist economy in the country in detail. The research design is based on a qualitative cross-sectional interview study, where 159 semi-structured interviews were conducted. This study makes an innovative contribution to the scholarly literature on the economic and institutional transition of Kazakhstan.

DKK 593.00
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The Politicization of the European Union - Stefano Greco - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The Politicization of the European Union - Stefano Greco - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The Maastricht Treaty remains a crossroad in the history of European integration. Since its ratification, policy areas at the core of the national sovereignties have been included in the Brussels agenda, the power balance between the European institutions has started to mutate, and the European Union affairs have progressively become a controversial issue in the public debate. The goal of the book is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the politicization of European affairs. The final aim is to assess the institutional and socio-political impact of EU politicization, detecting how the European elites could exploit the saliency gained by European affairs to enhance the legitimacy and effectiveness of the European institutions.

DKK 430.00
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Cultures of Program Planning in Adult Education - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Cultures of Program Planning in Adult Education - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

This book is a unique approach in relating mutually international and comparative research from scholars on program planning for adults. Program planning is about needs, finding topics, making offers and bundling different contents. It makes organizations of adult education visible and contributes to their existence and is therefore a core activity of the professionals in adult education. The volume originates from an international conference hosted by Leibniz-University Hannover, which was organized by a plural expert group with key actors at Humboldt-University Berlin and the German Institute for Adult Education. The authors demonstrate the unique research method program analysis and present archives which offer an established infrastructure for heterogeneous research questions.

DKK 489.00
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China – The New Developmental State? - Nicola Meier - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

China – The New Developmental State? - Nicola Meier - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The central focus of this analysis is whether the economic growth of China can be attributed to an emulation of the development models of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Based on the developmental state theory, an East Asian developmental state model is set up as a benchmark. The thesis uses an empirical analysis of the auto industry to highlight the performance outcome of China’s development strategy. The author confirms that China has evolved into a developmental state similar in its core characteristics to the three leading East Asian states. The model of development in China, however, is an innovative combination of factors from the developmental states, the legacies of the past command economy as well as of the adopted market economy mechanism including international capital flows.

DKK 646.00
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Globalization, Institutions and Socio-Economic Performance - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

Globalization, Institutions and Socio-Economic Performance - - Bog - Peter Lang AG - Plusbog.dk

The volume offers a multidisciplinary approach focusing on the core concepts of globalization, institutions and socio-economic performance. It consists of two parts: (i) Globalization and its Effects, (ii) Institution and Socio-Economic Performance. Nine chapters in the first part concentrate on the definition of globalization, approaches to globalization, effects of globalization and various issues related to globalization such as global business ethics, carbon tax, public administration reforms, state spending, exports, tourism and foreign direct investment. The second part of the book deals with institutional economics, organizational culture and socialization, an organization of Akhism, institutional quality and foreign direct investment, economic freedom and innovation, the role of technoparks, the effects of Industry 4.0 and the relationship between sustainable development and health.

DKK 647.00
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