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Del 345 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Grammaticalization Paths of English and High German Existential Constructions
A Corpus-based Study
AvSimone E. Pfenninger
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
1 176 kr
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Existential constructions are a fundamental feature of many Indo-European languages, and constructions with non-referential subjects have developed in all of the latter, albeit at different stages in their histories. High German does not feature a prototypical existential construction that is equivalent in syntactic and pragmatic function and semantic meaning to the English existential there-construction. How did a prototypical existential structure originate in English? Why is it that High German has never developed such a construction? Has it ever shown a tendency towards developing one? How did two closely related languages such as English and High German come to differ so much with respect to these constructions? By means of investigating a variety of historical and contemporary data this study shows that not only semantic, pragmatic and syntactic factors are involved, which decide the choice of a certain construction, but also very much the more general different linguistic development that the two languages underwent in the course of time.
Del 87 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Between History and Fiction
The Early Modern Spanish Siege Play
AvTracy Crowe Morey
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
841 kr
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This study explores a number of early modern comedias that deal with historical siege or military episodes in the history of the Iberian peoples. Cervantes’s La Numancia, Lope de Vega’s El asalto de Mastrique and his lesser known La nueva victoria de don Gonzalo de Córdoba, Calderón de la Barca’s El sitio de Bredá, and Vélez de Guevara’s El Hércules de Ocaña are key texts examined here. Taking the distinction between history and fiction in Neo-Aristotelian literary theory as a point of departure, this book considers the intellectual and historical conditions that affect the ways in which early modern dramatists interpret historical events according to their own literary and ideological purposes. The interplay of history and fiction demonstrates uses and discontents of legitimizing fiction in the early modern period. Parallel themes of epic and siege intermingled with romance and carnivalesque humour, provide alternative perspectives to early modern representations of empire and war on the Spanish stage.
Del 294 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Nerval. Recherche de l’autre et conquête de soi
Contribution au suivi d’une genèse du "Voyage en Orient"
AvAki Taguchi
Häftad, Franska, 2010
1 988 kr
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Le lecteur des huit cents pages du Voyage en Orient de Gérard de Nerval peut difficilement concevoir les étapes de la constitution de ce riche et long récit. Initialement publié dans divers périodiques entre 1840 et 1850, puis « reconstruit » en 1851, l’ouvrage comporte nombre de variantes. Dans les publications antérieures à 1850, Nerval n’a pas donné immédiatement à ses chroniques tout le sens de la version finale. La critique nervalienne a donc souvent pu souligner la nécessité d’une recherche approfondie sur ces variantes. Cette étude tente de combler cette lacune en proposant au lecteur de scruter pas à pas l’élaboration d’une des plus belles invitations au voyage qui soit. En mettant à jour les étapes de la transformation du Voyage en Orient de feuilletons en livre, des variantes des premiers jets aux recompositions ultérieures, l’auteur de cette étude décèle et déploie, sur les traces du voyageur, la naissance progressive de l’écrivain, tout en dégageant la logique interne qui a déterminé son texte définitif.
Del 366 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Discourses and Tales of Grant-Seeking Activity
Academic Writing and Professional Expertise
AvHaying Feng
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
1 761 kr
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Grant seeking – the first step in knowledge production – has been an indispensable part of academic life, yet a challenging task for neophyte as well as veteran scholars. We are always curious about how grant winners compose their abstracts, cite previous work, present their proposed study, and negotiate with gate-keepers behind the scene. Building upon ethnographic data and a large corpus of authentic research grant proposals and grant reviews, this book intends to demystify the grant seeking activity. It is an invaluable resource for grant agencies, grant reviewers and grant writers, particularly novice grant writers and/or non-native English writers.Discourses and Tales of Grant-Seeking Activity is however more than a resource book. It is one of the few studies that draw upon two genre theories, encompass both quantitative and qualitative research approaches, and unite an exploration of macro-level recurrences in discursive activity and micro-level examinations of individual writers’ agency, positioning, negotiation and identity construction. It enhances our understanding of the development of professional expertise in academia and thus will be of interest to researchers in the fields of academic writing, genre analysis and Language for Specific Purposes (LSP).
Del 910 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
«Fetha Nagast» and its Ecclesiology
Implications in Ethiopian Catholic Church today
AvAndre Negussie Domnic
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
1 098 kr
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In the field of comparative legal history, Ethiopia is still an unknown country. One of its treasures is the Fetha Nagast, a book of law which had a great influence in the history of Ethiopia and still has great consideration in the society, with its richness in Biblical and Christian principles.This book presents for the first time an ecclesiological and missiological reflection on the Fetha Nagast. The first part of the work is focused on the origin, structure and content of this book of law. In the second part, the author presents the ecclesiology of the Fetha Nagast and its implications and prospectives in Ethiopian Catholic Church. Other aspects studied are brotherhood ecclesiology, the role of the Holy Spirit in the past and present and the notion of Church in the Fetha Nagast, as well as the history of Christianity in Ethiopia.
Del 919 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Procede del Padre y del Hijo
Estudio de la "Clarificación Romana "de 1995 y de sus fuentes patrísticas
AvElena Alvarez
Häftad, Spanska, 2011
1 451 kr
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El Filioque es una de las cuestiones más largas y complejas de la historia del dogma cristiano. Se cuenta todavía entre las causas de la división entre católicos y ortodoxos. En 1995, a petición de Juan Pablo II, el Pontificio Consejo para la promoción de la Unidad de los Cristianos publicó un breve texto que expresa la comprensión católica del problema. Entre sus diversas implicaciones, el documento, conocido como Clarificación romana, se centra en los aspectos dogmáticos, que expone a partir de una amplia base de referencias patrísticas. El presente estudio analiza la Clarificación en dos partes. La primera presenta los precedentes históricos y magisteriales del texto, su génesis y sus fuentes, y ofrece una síntesis de las reacciones ecuménicas que siguieron a su publicación. Como vía para un entendimiento, la segunda parte del texto propone una consideración detenida de las fuentes patrísticas, orientales y occidentales. En ella se presentan los principales pasajes sobre el origen del Espíritu Santo y su relación con el Hijo, contextualizados en el pensamiento trinitario de cada Padre. En función de él se valora el uso que ha realizado la Clarificación de sus fuentes.
Del 926 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Calvin’s «Theodicy»and the Hiddenness of God
Calvin’s «Sermons on the Book of Job»
AvPaolo De Petris
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
1 503 kr
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Calvin’s Theodicy has been substantially ignored or simply negated until now on the assumption that the issues raised by the modern problem of evil and Calvin’s discussion of providence and evil would be different. The unspoken premise underlying this conviction is that theodicy is a modern problem, since earlier formulations in no way attempted to justify God’s actions.This book goes decisively in the opposite direction. It aims to understand the core of Calvin’s Theodicy and to demonstrate that one of the most important reasons that prompted Calvin to preach for almost 2 years 159 Sermons on the Book of Job was to «vindicate» God’s justice by demonstrating the meaningfulness of God’s activity in human life.After examining the status of the recent research on Calvin’s Theodicy, this work studies the steps that led the French reformer to his insights and the drafting of the Sermons. Further, it studies the juridical framework of Calvin’s defence of the justice of God. Finally, the author analyses the answers given by Calvin to the problem of human anguish: Why do innocent people suffer? In what way one can still believe in an Omnipotent God?
Del 497 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Illocutionary constructions in English: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization
A study of the syntactic realizations of the directive, commissive and expressive speech acts in English
AvNuria Del Campo Martínez
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
1 079 kr
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Grounded in the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM), a usage-based meaning construction model of language of recent design, this research argues that illocutionary meaning either results from filling in constructional variables such as X in the Can You XVP? construction or from affording access to abstract situational cognitive models through the metonymic activation of relevant elements of their structure. One such model is the Cost-Benefit Cognitive Model, which is incorporated into the description of pragmatic meaning and presented as lying at the core of the conventionalization process of illocutionary constructions. The inferential path based on the instantiation of the Cost-Benefit Cognitive Model determines the activation of speech act values that may become conventionalized within a linguistic community. The study determines the applicability of the analytical tools developed by the LCM for illocutionary description. The illocutionary acts selected are those proposed by the Cost-Benefit Cognitive Model as exploiting cultural principles of interaction.
Del 137 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Interrogating Gazes
Comparative Critical Views on the Representation of Foreignness and Otherness
AvMontserrat Cots,Pere Gifra-Adroherm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
1 315 kr
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This book focuses on the theme of foreignness and its representation in literature and cognate discourses. The volume brings together essays in English, Spanish and Catalan that consider from original and informed perspectives both the conceptualization of the foreign and foreignness in its human, geographical/spatial, historical and cultural guises, not only as contemplated but also as a lens in the act of contemplation. This multi- and inter-disciplinary collection of essays is the result of an inspired and timely collaboration between specialists in comparative literature from across the world. Dealing with fundamental questions relating to the trans- and intercultural, otherness, migration, cosmopolitanism and the global, it will be of interest to researchers and students in comparative literature, modern languages and area studies, travel writing, intercultural studies, sociolinguistics and social anthropology.
Del 81 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Minority Language Dubbing for Children
Screen Translation from German to Irish
AvEithne M.T. O'Connell
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
725 kr
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Many minority languages like Irish have tended to survive best in isolated areas while their use has been restricted primarily to domestic, educational and social domains. This has had a negative effect on the development of these languages, especially with regard to new terminology. However, the increasing availability of audiovisual material, dubbed into these languages, is now opening up exciting new ways of providing linguistic stimulation to scattered communities of minority language speakers. Since it is the younger generation that must carry a language into the future, this study investigates the dubbing into a minority language of television animation for children and examines the influence of various constraints on the screen translation process with regard to the major/minority language pair (German into Irish), the translation method (dubbing) and the target audience (children). Although the examples used are selected from a German series, Janoschs Traumstunde, and the corresponding Irish version, they are glossed in English so it is not necessary for the reader to know either German or Irish. It is hoped that this work will contribute to a better understanding of issues relating to dubbing and to changes in minority and major language screen translator training and practice.
Del 266 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Theme and Rheme
An Alternative Account
AvAlvin Leong Ping
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
1 385 kr
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This book argues for the inclusion of a cognitive psychological component in the analysis of theme and rheme, the basic building blocks of the message structure of language. The inference-boundary (IB) model is presented and justified as an explanatory model of the message structure of the clause and, above it, the text. It views theme as an element that is capable of generating a boundary of acceptability within which it is permissible for the rheme to occur. It explains why and how an initial element is considered to be thematic. The IB model also acknowledges the operation of a principle – the principle of acceptable message development – that underlies all that we say and write. This principle forms the basis of a simple test to identify and delimit the thematic portion.
Del 666 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Community and Democracy in South Africa: Liberal Versus Communitarian Perspectives
Liberal versus Communitarian Perspectives
AvYusef Waghid
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
959 kr
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The achievement of democratic forms of government ranging from liberal to communitarian strands has been a major priority for developing countries in their post-colonial histories. South Africa’s quest to establish a multi-party democratic system of government has been influenced by liberal and communitarian perspectives of democracy. Yet, the attainment of democracy in South Africa has not been without contradictions, particularly related to majority rule, equality of opportunity, and rights. This book reconstructs a conception of deliberative democracy which can create possibilities for a developing country to deal more adequately with majoritarianism, equalising opportunities, and rights. It makes an argument for a rational, reflexive discourse-oriented procedure of deliberative democracy which cultivates a form of citizenship that recognises the need for citizens to care, reason and engage justly in political conversation with others.
Del 270 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Formal and Functional Perspectives on Tense and Related Categories
AvChristian Heyde Petersen
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
1 131 kr
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This book explores the gap that has developed between two sides in linguistics: the formal tradition and the functional tradition. It discusses fundamental issues such as tense, aspect and action by examining and comparing insights from the two traditions with a view to determining whether there are any possibilities of future bridge-building between the two approaches.This study focuses on comparing the actual output of different linguistic approaches and examines their ‘usefulness’. A major aim is, therefore, to evaluate and identify the most useful approach.
Del 678 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Scope and Limits of Folk Psychology
A Socio-Linguistic Approach
AvDavid Ohreen
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
1 087 kr
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Explaining behaviour is ubiquitous in our society. We are constantly trying to figure out what other people are doing and will do. This study is a comprehensive investigation of the main philosophical and psychological problems regarding how and why humans explain behaviour. The author answers key questions about how folk psychology develops in children, its roots in evolution, its status within society, its relation to philosophy of mind, and what sorts of folk psychological explanations should be considered rational. This assessment focuses on such theoretical positions as anti-realism, eliminativism, theory-theory, simulation theory, and modular theory in relation to folk psychology. The author argues for a radical, albeit intuitive, alternative, that folk psychology should be seen as product of the culture in which one is raised.
Del 272 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Variation and Co-operative Communication Strategies in Air Traffic Control English
AvEveline Wyss - Bühlmann
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
1 055 kr
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The aim of this study is to establish the co-operative communication strategies that are used in air traffic control (ATC) conversations. The research deals with the question: what kind of co-operative communication strategies do pilots and controllers employ in a speech situation with a restricted use of vocabulary, which generally does not permit any deviations from standard phraseology? The strategies in ATC speech are then compared to those used by second language learners. Faerch and Kasper’s (1983) taxonomy of communication strategies will serve as a basis for this comparison. The author analyses authentic speech samples from various ATC workstations at Zurich Airport and evaluates various aspects of phraseology training of air traffic controllers.
Del 401 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Ethnicity, Children & Habitus
Ethnic Chinese School Children in Northern Ireland
AvFeng-Bing
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
1 032 kr
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This book is concerned with the ethnic experience of Chinese secondary school children living in Northern Ireland. The author analyses two sub-groups of Chinese children: those with parents coming from Hong Kong and those with parents coming from Mainland China. The purpose of this study is to investigate how these apparently ‘Chinese’ children feel about their ethnic identity. By drawing upon Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, and a cultural studies’ approach to ethnicity and identity in general, the author examines the characteristics of cultural specificity and heterogeneity.Methodologically, the author has chosen an ethnographic approach. Prominence is given to the definitions, perspectives and voices of the children themselves by conducting open-ended, indepth and informal interviews and by doing so on an extended basis. The whole process continued for two and half years. Close attention was paid to the children’s immediate circumstances, their parental occupations and their general social and cultural conditions.
Del 277 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Sex, Sailors and Colonies
Narratives of ambiguity in the works of Pierre Loti
AvHélène de Burgh
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
1 463 kr
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This book focuses on the œuvre of nineteenth-century author and naval captain Julien Viaud (1850-1923) who wrote under the pseudonym Pierre Loti. Considered a best-seller in his day and a distinguished naval figure, Loti’s contribution to French naval and literary history is significant. This work suggests a new reading of Loti’s literature that positions his texts within the critical theoretical paradigms of Postcolonialism and Queer Theory. This study examines both Loti’s fictional and non-fictional opus. It explores the dominant themes relayed throughout his œuvre including his portrayal of exotic sexuality as being underpinned by a desire to elude articulation, his uncertain approach to colonialism given the constant shift between his identity as a colonising sailor and sympathising exoticist and Loti’s own self-representation in both his fictional and non-fictional works. His constant re-invention of «Pierre Loti» as a persona in his writing creates a question about who Loti really is and how much of the man is represented in the so-called autobiographical text. These seemingly disparate themes of sexuality, colonialism and personal identity are all interrogated as posssible sites of ambiguity, thus revealing the general scope and complexity of Loti’s work.
Del 3137 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Internet Pricing
Economic Approaches to Transport Services and Infrastructure
AvAndrea Graber
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
1 355 kr
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With the development of the Internet from a research network to a commercial and integrated network which must satisfy heterogeneous user demand, prices for Internet usage play an important role. This study analyzes the pricing of Internet transport services and interconnection. It explains why appropriate pricing requires popular flat rates to be abandoned. They should be replaced by usage-based prices which are load-sensitive and take different service qualities into consideration. The aim of this work is to give an overview of Internet pricing proposals, to classify, investigate, and evaluate these pricing schemes as well as to elaborate on relations between them. Evaluations are based on normative criteria for Internet pricing from the point of view of social welfare and the perspectives of both Internet service providers and users. Moreover, this book shows what efficient settlement rules look like at the interconnection level. Since these interconnection pricing agreements are closely related to retail pricing models the compatibility between them is also analyzed.
Del 412 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Satiric Worlds of William Boyd
A Case Study
AvJuan Francisco Elices Agudo
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
1 262 kr
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This study explores five major narratives of Ghanian-born novelist William Boyd from a satiric point of view. Boyd’s novels and short stories take up some of the particular traits of satire, a genre which has gradually lost the impact it had in the eighteenth century. This book analyses the satiric spirit of four novels and one short story: A Good Man in Africa, An Ice-Cream War, Stars and Bars, Armadillo and «The Destiny of Nathalie ‘X’». It looks at the way Boyd approaches crucial events in twentieth-century history and how he unmasks the follies that underlay most of them. It also deals with issues such as the effects of British colonialism in Africa, the superficiality of Hollywood’s film industry and the shortcomings of modern urban civilisation. The theoretical framework of this study is based on the analysis of recent satire criticism.
Del 809 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
African Communitarian Ethic: The Basis for the Moral Conscience and Autonomy of the Individual
Igbo Culture as a Case Study
AvFerdinand Chukwuagozie Ezekwonna
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
1 123 kr
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One of the controversial issues in theology in the contemporary, modern world is the issue of moral autonomy. Who determines what is moral and ethical? What part do the individual and the community respectively play in this regard? In this book the author explores and analyses the position of the individual in an African community. This research aims to be a pointer to other ethical, political and social systems in the world to dialogue with African ethics. On the one hand, the author proposes to the Western world, which is becoming more and more individualistic and is trying to get rid of old traditional values, to review some of its present ethics and cultural values. On the other hand, he suggests to the African world to re-examine its present cultural practices, to reconsider and appreciate some good cultural values handed down to them by their ancestors and also to take cognisance of the emerging world ethical realities.
Del 932 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Disturbances and Dislocations
Understanding Teaching and Learning Experiences in Indigenous Australian Women’s Music and Dance
AvElizabeth Mackinlav
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 282 kr
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One of the biggest debates in Australian Indigenous education today revolves around the many contested and competing ways of knowledge about Indigenous cultures and the means by which Indigenous intellectual traditions and knowledges make the journey into mainstream educational settings. Grounded in Bakhtin’s theories of dialogue and voice, this book explores the polyphonic nature of power relations, performance roles and pedagogical texts in the context of teaching and learning Indigenous Australian women’s music and dance. In this discussion, the author focuses on her experiences as a lecturer in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland and her involvement in this educational setting with students and guest lecturers/performers. The performance classroom is examined as a potential site for disturbing and dislocating dominant modes of representation of Indigenous women’s performance through the construction, mediation and negotiation of Indigenous knowledge from and between both non-Indigenous and Indigenous voices. This book contains a CD with video clips illustrating the ways in which an embodied approach to teaching and learning happens in this classroom context.
Del 815 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Transcendence and Spatiality of the Triune Creator
AvChan Ho Park
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
1 152 kr
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Since Augustine many philosophers and theologians have discussed the relation of God to time, whereas the relation between God and space has been rarely discussed. This book deals with the relationship of God to space. Divine transcendence is one important aspect of the Christian God. However, God is also immanent in the world of space and time. The author investigates the concept of divine spatiality and presents case studies of three modern theologians: Torrance, Pannenberg and Moltmann. He also analyses divine spatiality by using Dyrness’s three categories: relationship, agency and embodiment.
Del 299 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Raising Children Bilingually through the ‘One Parent-One Language’ Approach
A Case Study of Japanese Mothers in the Australian Context
AvMasae Takeuchi
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
1 543 kr
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Parents who come from different language backgrounds often hope that their children will be able to speak the languages of both their parents. In families where this is the goal, the ‘one parent-one language’ approach (Ronjat, 1913) is widely used. The ‘one parent-one language’ approach is relatively effective in promoting active bilingualism among young children in a society where there is little support for the minority language. However, there is a general perception that maintenance of the minority language into middle childhood and beyond is difficult as during this period children’s contacts with the outside world expand and the input in the majority language increases.This book examines the sociolinguistic environment and the nature of parental input for children from Japanese-Australian families, who have been exposed to Japanese and English through the ‘one parent-one language’ approach in Australia. The research on which the book is based identifies factors which account for successful and unsuccessful cases of Japanese language maintenance of children from those families. The major part of this study involves discourse analysis of the conversations between four Japanese mothers and their primary school aged children based on audio-recordings over a period of 21 months. This qualitative approach is complemented by a quantitative study interviewing 25 Japanese mothers about their children’s language experience.
Del 934 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Identity, Diversity and Teaching for Social Justice
AvJuliet Christine Perumal
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 369 kr
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In recent times, educational reformers have proposed ways of using education to reduce inequality, overcome discriminatory values and attitudes, and alleviate social problems. An increasing number of language theorists and practitioners contends that in order to reduce inequality it is essential to address the personal, cultural, and political implications of language teaching. Awareness of these factors activate the need to gain deeper insight into the personal and professional nuances of teachers’ lives. The gap between sociolinguistic theory and educational practice points to the fact that linguists and educationists themselves carry the prejudices of particular social, ideological, cultural and geographical backgrounds. Who teaches what to whom, why and how affects curricular decisions which can thus become fraught with political allegiances; in this way the non-neutrality of language pedagogy is confirmed.Drawing from a suite of data sources the book explores the following questions: Do teachers’ autobiographical experiences shape their professional identities? Does subscription to counter-hegemonic ideologies impact teachers’ personal and professional positionality and authority? What contributions can feminist theorising make to language teaching in socially diverse classrooms? Through an exploration of these questions, the book gestures towards an imperative to re-think educative and pedagogic relationships and the politics of difference and dialogue in demographically diverse classrooms that subscribe to social redress agendas.
Del 1939 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
La lucha contra los extranjerismos en Alemania de 1871 a 1945
AvIrene Doval
Häftad, Spanska, 2006
2 567 kr
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Este trabajo es una investigación diacrónica sobre las actividades contra los extranjerismos (Sprachreinigung) llevadas a cabo en Alemania en el período que abarca desde la fundación del Segundo Imperio en 1871 hasta el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En primer plano está la asociación Allgemeiner Deutscher Sprachverein, catalizador del movimiento germanizador, de la que se presenta su organización, estructura interna, evolución y relaciones exteriores, particularmente con el régimen nacionalsocialista, cuya oposición a las actividades germanizadoras es revisada en detalle. Se analiza la fundamentación esgrimida en la lucha contra los extranjerismos, los criterios con los que el movimiento germanizador operaba, los procedimientos empleados para sustituir lo foráneo, así como su influencia real en la lengua alemana.
Del 825 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Toward a Fuller Human Identity
A Phenomenology of Family Life, Social Harmony, and the Recovery of the Black Self
AvPius Ojara, SJ
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
1 395 kr
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This book is based on the thought of Gabriel Marcel and offers an introduction to the central categories of Marcel’s thought, focusing on his idea of existential humanism. This study deals with the ambivalence of human existence and the concepts of being, ego and bodiliness. The author draws on examples from everyday life with a particular focus on African values and the recovery of the black self.
Del 693 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Reasoning Across Domains
An Essay in Evolutionary Psychology
AvHarry Witzthum
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
1 172 kr
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Evolutionary psychology’s ultimate goal is to understand the design of the human mind. It is a new approach in psychology, founded upon evolutionary theory and cognitive science. Evolutionary psychologists’ insistence on evolutionary theory has given rise to both controversy and transformations in theoretical models of human cognition. It is still a minority position in the field of psychology, but evolutionary psychology’s implications are far reaching. This book examines the arguments put forth by evolutionary psychologists and the objections levelled against them by their critics. Can evolutionary psychology offer a promising strategy in psychology that should be taken seriously and which can be defended against its critics? That is one question this book investigates. But the book also proposes a new approach to tackle the evolution of general-purpose cognitive mechanisms, which is the main matter of dispute between traditional and evolutionary psychology. Is a credible evolutionary account of the development of general-purpose cognitive mechanisms possible? Evolutionary psychologists have scarcely addressed this question in their current research, this book proposes a new way of thinking about the question.
Del 289 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Language Alternation Strategies in Multilingual Settings
A Case Study: Ghanaian Immigrants in Northern Italy
AvFederica Guerini
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
1 342 kr
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This book is one of the first systematic studies to describe the linguistic repertoire and the communicative strategies adopted by Ghanaian immigrants in Italy. The linguistic repertoire of the Ghanaian community in Bergamo (Northern Italy) is described with a special focus on the different codes composing it. The author analyzes the role that each code plays in expressing the community members’ ethnic and linguistic identity, and the speakers’ attitudes towards each code. She draws on the results of qualitative analysis – adopting both a macro-sociolinguistic and a micro-sociolinguistic perspective – of a database of face-to-face interactions and of formal interviews involving a selected group of Ghanaian immigrants.
Del 830 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Interpretation of the Hebrew Word םע (People) in Samuel-Kings
AvLuke E. Ijezie
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
1 378 kr
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This study of the word «people» in the biblical context touches one of the central issues of biblical literature. The author addresses the semantic and literary-critical problems involved in interpreting the Hebrew word םע within the complex texts of 1-2 Samuel and 1-2 Kings. While the word is often rendered by the English word «people» and its cognates in the modern languages, it is also shown that the idea of «people», together with its semantic range in the modern usage, is not identical to the ancient Hebrew. Concerted effort is thus made to identify the basic factors and patterns that explain its meaning in various Hebrew contexts. The study explains how םע expresses both Israel’s identity as a secular polity as well as its identity as a religious entity. The discussion is carried out in the light of a number of chosen texts, and these are analyzed both synchronically and diachronically.
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Managing Cultural Diversity
An Empirical Examination of Cultural Networks and Organizational Structures as Governance Mechanisms in Multinational Corporations
AvMartin Baumüller
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
1 723 kr
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The effects of globalization require that multinational corporations (MNCs) coordinate their differentiated but interdependent organizational parts and align them to a common purpose. This book examines the mechanisms that such organizations use to govern their global subsidiary networks. The book starts with a review of key concepts and theories of multinational organizations and explains the rationale for their existence. Based on this assessment and an empirical study of three globally operating entities, the author develops a framework for examining the cultural and structural governance mechanisms that multinational corporations may employ to coordinate their global operations. This framework identifies different configurations of cultural and structural governance mechanisms and explains what kind of configuration a multinational organization should employ to ensure efficient governance.

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Del 345 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Grammaticalization Paths of English and High German Existential Constructions
A Corpus-based Study
AvSimone E. Pfenninger
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
1 176 kr
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Existential constructions are a fundamental feature of many Indo-European languages, and constructions with non-referential subjects have developed in all of the latter, albeit at different stages in their histories. High German does not feature a prototypical existential construction that is equivalent in syntactic and pragmatic function and semantic meaning to the English existential there-construction. How did a prototypical existential structure originate in English? Why is it that High German has never developed such a construction? Has it ever shown a tendency towards developing one? How did two closely related languages such as English and High German come to differ so much with respect to these constructions? By means of investigating a variety of historical and contemporary data this study shows that not only semantic, pragmatic and syntactic factors are involved, which decide the choice of a certain construction, but also very much the more general different linguistic development that the two languages underwent in the course of time.
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Between History and Fiction
The Early Modern Spanish Siege Play
AvTracy Crowe Morey
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
841 kr
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This study explores a number of early modern comedias that deal with historical siege or military episodes in the history of the Iberian peoples. Cervantes’s La Numancia, Lope de Vega’s El asalto de Mastrique and his lesser known La nueva victoria de don Gonzalo de Córdoba, Calderón de la Barca’s El sitio de Bredá, and Vélez de Guevara’s El Hércules de Ocaña are key texts examined here. Taking the distinction between history and fiction in Neo-Aristotelian literary theory as a point of departure, this book considers the intellectual and historical conditions that affect the ways in which early modern dramatists interpret historical events according to their own literary and ideological purposes. The interplay of history and fiction demonstrates uses and discontents of legitimizing fiction in the early modern period. Parallel themes of epic and siege intermingled with romance and carnivalesque humour, provide alternative perspectives to early modern representations of empire and war on the Spanish stage.
Del 294 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Nerval. Recherche de l’autre et conquête de soi
Contribution au suivi d’une genèse du "Voyage en Orient"
AvAki Taguchi
Häftad, Franska, 2010
1 988 kr
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Le lecteur des huit cents pages du Voyage en Orient de Gérard de Nerval peut difficilement concevoir les étapes de la constitution de ce riche et long récit. Initialement publié dans divers périodiques entre 1840 et 1850, puis « reconstruit » en 1851, l’ouvrage comporte nombre de variantes. Dans les publications antérieures à 1850, Nerval n’a pas donné immédiatement à ses chroniques tout le sens de la version finale. La critique nervalienne a donc souvent pu souligner la nécessité d’une recherche approfondie sur ces variantes. Cette étude tente de combler cette lacune en proposant au lecteur de scruter pas à pas l’élaboration d’une des plus belles invitations au voyage qui soit. En mettant à jour les étapes de la transformation du Voyage en Orient de feuilletons en livre, des variantes des premiers jets aux recompositions ultérieures, l’auteur de cette étude décèle et déploie, sur les traces du voyageur, la naissance progressive de l’écrivain, tout en dégageant la logique interne qui a déterminé son texte définitif.
Del 366 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Discourses and Tales of Grant-Seeking Activity
Academic Writing and Professional Expertise
AvHaying Feng
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
1 761 kr
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Grant seeking – the first step in knowledge production – has been an indispensable part of academic life, yet a challenging task for neophyte as well as veteran scholars. We are always curious about how grant winners compose their abstracts, cite previous work, present their proposed study, and negotiate with gate-keepers behind the scene. Building upon ethnographic data and a large corpus of authentic research grant proposals and grant reviews, this book intends to demystify the grant seeking activity. It is an invaluable resource for grant agencies, grant reviewers and grant writers, particularly novice grant writers and/or non-native English writers.Discourses and Tales of Grant-Seeking Activity is however more than a resource book. It is one of the few studies that draw upon two genre theories, encompass both quantitative and qualitative research approaches, and unite an exploration of macro-level recurrences in discursive activity and micro-level examinations of individual writers’ agency, positioning, negotiation and identity construction. It enhances our understanding of the development of professional expertise in academia and thus will be of interest to researchers in the fields of academic writing, genre analysis and Language for Specific Purposes (LSP).
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«Fetha Nagast» and its Ecclesiology
Implications in Ethiopian Catholic Church today
AvAndre Negussie Domnic
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
1 098 kr
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In the field of comparative legal history, Ethiopia is still an unknown country. One of its treasures is the Fetha Nagast, a book of law which had a great influence in the history of Ethiopia and still has great consideration in the society, with its richness in Biblical and Christian principles.This book presents for the first time an ecclesiological and missiological reflection on the Fetha Nagast. The first part of the work is focused on the origin, structure and content of this book of law. In the second part, the author presents the ecclesiology of the Fetha Nagast and its implications and prospectives in Ethiopian Catholic Church. Other aspects studied are brotherhood ecclesiology, the role of the Holy Spirit in the past and present and the notion of Church in the Fetha Nagast, as well as the history of Christianity in Ethiopia.
Del 919 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Procede del Padre y del Hijo
Estudio de la "Clarificación Romana "de 1995 y de sus fuentes patrísticas
AvElena Alvarez
Häftad, Spanska, 2011
1 451 kr
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El Filioque es una de las cuestiones más largas y complejas de la historia del dogma cristiano. Se cuenta todavía entre las causas de la división entre católicos y ortodoxos. En 1995, a petición de Juan Pablo II, el Pontificio Consejo para la promoción de la Unidad de los Cristianos publicó un breve texto que expresa la comprensión católica del problema. Entre sus diversas implicaciones, el documento, conocido como Clarificación romana, se centra en los aspectos dogmáticos, que expone a partir de una amplia base de referencias patrísticas. El presente estudio analiza la Clarificación en dos partes. La primera presenta los precedentes históricos y magisteriales del texto, su génesis y sus fuentes, y ofrece una síntesis de las reacciones ecuménicas que siguieron a su publicación. Como vía para un entendimiento, la segunda parte del texto propone una consideración detenida de las fuentes patrísticas, orientales y occidentales. En ella se presentan los principales pasajes sobre el origen del Espíritu Santo y su relación con el Hijo, contextualizados en el pensamiento trinitario de cada Padre. En función de él se valora el uso que ha realizado la Clarificación de sus fuentes.
Del 926 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Calvin’s «Theodicy»and the Hiddenness of God
Calvin’s «Sermons on the Book of Job»
AvPaolo De Petris
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
1 503 kr
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Calvin’s Theodicy has been substantially ignored or simply negated until now on the assumption that the issues raised by the modern problem of evil and Calvin’s discussion of providence and evil would be different. The unspoken premise underlying this conviction is that theodicy is a modern problem, since earlier formulations in no way attempted to justify God’s actions.This book goes decisively in the opposite direction. It aims to understand the core of Calvin’s Theodicy and to demonstrate that one of the most important reasons that prompted Calvin to preach for almost 2 years 159 Sermons on the Book of Job was to «vindicate» God’s justice by demonstrating the meaningfulness of God’s activity in human life.After examining the status of the recent research on Calvin’s Theodicy, this work studies the steps that led the French reformer to his insights and the drafting of the Sermons. Further, it studies the juridical framework of Calvin’s defence of the justice of God. Finally, the author analyses the answers given by Calvin to the problem of human anguish: Why do innocent people suffer? In what way one can still believe in an Omnipotent God?
Del 497 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Illocutionary constructions in English: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization
A study of the syntactic realizations of the directive, commissive and expressive speech acts in English
AvNuria Del Campo Martínez
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
1 079 kr
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Grounded in the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM), a usage-based meaning construction model of language of recent design, this research argues that illocutionary meaning either results from filling in constructional variables such as X in the Can You XVP? construction or from affording access to abstract situational cognitive models through the metonymic activation of relevant elements of their structure. One such model is the Cost-Benefit Cognitive Model, which is incorporated into the description of pragmatic meaning and presented as lying at the core of the conventionalization process of illocutionary constructions. The inferential path based on the instantiation of the Cost-Benefit Cognitive Model determines the activation of speech act values that may become conventionalized within a linguistic community. The study determines the applicability of the analytical tools developed by the LCM for illocutionary description. The illocutionary acts selected are those proposed by the Cost-Benefit Cognitive Model as exploiting cultural principles of interaction.
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Interrogating Gazes
Comparative Critical Views on the Representation of Foreignness and Otherness
AvMontserrat Cots,Pere Gifra-Adroherm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
1 315 kr
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This book focuses on the theme of foreignness and its representation in literature and cognate discourses. The volume brings together essays in English, Spanish and Catalan that consider from original and informed perspectives both the conceptualization of the foreign and foreignness in its human, geographical/spatial, historical and cultural guises, not only as contemplated but also as a lens in the act of contemplation. This multi- and inter-disciplinary collection of essays is the result of an inspired and timely collaboration between specialists in comparative literature from across the world. Dealing with fundamental questions relating to the trans- and intercultural, otherness, migration, cosmopolitanism and the global, it will be of interest to researchers and students in comparative literature, modern languages and area studies, travel writing, intercultural studies, sociolinguistics and social anthropology.
Del 81 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Minority Language Dubbing for Children
Screen Translation from German to Irish
AvEithne M.T. O'Connell
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
725 kr
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Many minority languages like Irish have tended to survive best in isolated areas while their use has been restricted primarily to domestic, educational and social domains. This has had a negative effect on the development of these languages, especially with regard to new terminology. However, the increasing availability of audiovisual material, dubbed into these languages, is now opening up exciting new ways of providing linguistic stimulation to scattered communities of minority language speakers. Since it is the younger generation that must carry a language into the future, this study investigates the dubbing into a minority language of television animation for children and examines the influence of various constraints on the screen translation process with regard to the major/minority language pair (German into Irish), the translation method (dubbing) and the target audience (children). Although the examples used are selected from a German series, Janoschs Traumstunde, and the corresponding Irish version, they are glossed in English so it is not necessary for the reader to know either German or Irish. It is hoped that this work will contribute to a better understanding of issues relating to dubbing and to changes in minority and major language screen translator training and practice.
Del 266 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Theme and Rheme
An Alternative Account
AvAlvin Leong Ping
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
1 385 kr
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This book argues for the inclusion of a cognitive psychological component in the analysis of theme and rheme, the basic building blocks of the message structure of language. The inference-boundary (IB) model is presented and justified as an explanatory model of the message structure of the clause and, above it, the text. It views theme as an element that is capable of generating a boundary of acceptability within which it is permissible for the rheme to occur. It explains why and how an initial element is considered to be thematic. The IB model also acknowledges the operation of a principle – the principle of acceptable message development – that underlies all that we say and write. This principle forms the basis of a simple test to identify and delimit the thematic portion.
Del 666 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Community and Democracy in South Africa: Liberal Versus Communitarian Perspectives
Liberal versus Communitarian Perspectives
AvYusef Waghid
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
959 kr
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The achievement of democratic forms of government ranging from liberal to communitarian strands has been a major priority for developing countries in their post-colonial histories. South Africa’s quest to establish a multi-party democratic system of government has been influenced by liberal and communitarian perspectives of democracy. Yet, the attainment of democracy in South Africa has not been without contradictions, particularly related to majority rule, equality of opportunity, and rights. This book reconstructs a conception of deliberative democracy which can create possibilities for a developing country to deal more adequately with majoritarianism, equalising opportunities, and rights. It makes an argument for a rational, reflexive discourse-oriented procedure of deliberative democracy which cultivates a form of citizenship that recognises the need for citizens to care, reason and engage justly in political conversation with others.
Del 270 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Formal and Functional Perspectives on Tense and Related Categories
AvChristian Heyde Petersen
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
1 131 kr
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This book explores the gap that has developed between two sides in linguistics: the formal tradition and the functional tradition. It discusses fundamental issues such as tense, aspect and action by examining and comparing insights from the two traditions with a view to determining whether there are any possibilities of future bridge-building between the two approaches.This study focuses on comparing the actual output of different linguistic approaches and examines their ‘usefulness’. A major aim is, therefore, to evaluate and identify the most useful approach.
Del 678 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Scope and Limits of Folk Psychology
A Socio-Linguistic Approach
AvDavid Ohreen
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
1 087 kr
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Explaining behaviour is ubiquitous in our society. We are constantly trying to figure out what other people are doing and will do. This study is a comprehensive investigation of the main philosophical and psychological problems regarding how and why humans explain behaviour. The author answers key questions about how folk psychology develops in children, its roots in evolution, its status within society, its relation to philosophy of mind, and what sorts of folk psychological explanations should be considered rational. This assessment focuses on such theoretical positions as anti-realism, eliminativism, theory-theory, simulation theory, and modular theory in relation to folk psychology. The author argues for a radical, albeit intuitive, alternative, that folk psychology should be seen as product of the culture in which one is raised.
Del 272 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Variation and Co-operative Communication Strategies in Air Traffic Control English
AvEveline Wyss - Bühlmann
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
1 055 kr
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The aim of this study is to establish the co-operative communication strategies that are used in air traffic control (ATC) conversations. The research deals with the question: what kind of co-operative communication strategies do pilots and controllers employ in a speech situation with a restricted use of vocabulary, which generally does not permit any deviations from standard phraseology? The strategies in ATC speech are then compared to those used by second language learners. Faerch and Kasper’s (1983) taxonomy of communication strategies will serve as a basis for this comparison. The author analyses authentic speech samples from various ATC workstations at Zurich Airport and evaluates various aspects of phraseology training of air traffic controllers.
Del 401 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Ethnicity, Children & Habitus
Ethnic Chinese School Children in Northern Ireland
AvFeng-Bing
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
1 032 kr
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This book is concerned with the ethnic experience of Chinese secondary school children living in Northern Ireland. The author analyses two sub-groups of Chinese children: those with parents coming from Hong Kong and those with parents coming from Mainland China. The purpose of this study is to investigate how these apparently ‘Chinese’ children feel about their ethnic identity. By drawing upon Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, and a cultural studies’ approach to ethnicity and identity in general, the author examines the characteristics of cultural specificity and heterogeneity.Methodologically, the author has chosen an ethnographic approach. Prominence is given to the definitions, perspectives and voices of the children themselves by conducting open-ended, indepth and informal interviews and by doing so on an extended basis. The whole process continued for two and half years. Close attention was paid to the children’s immediate circumstances, their parental occupations and their general social and cultural conditions.
Del 277 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Sex, Sailors and Colonies
Narratives of ambiguity in the works of Pierre Loti
AvHélène de Burgh
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
1 463 kr
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This book focuses on the œuvre of nineteenth-century author and naval captain Julien Viaud (1850-1923) who wrote under the pseudonym Pierre Loti. Considered a best-seller in his day and a distinguished naval figure, Loti’s contribution to French naval and literary history is significant. This work suggests a new reading of Loti’s literature that positions his texts within the critical theoretical paradigms of Postcolonialism and Queer Theory. This study examines both Loti’s fictional and non-fictional opus. It explores the dominant themes relayed throughout his œuvre including his portrayal of exotic sexuality as being underpinned by a desire to elude articulation, his uncertain approach to colonialism given the constant shift between his identity as a colonising sailor and sympathising exoticist and Loti’s own self-representation in both his fictional and non-fictional works. His constant re-invention of «Pierre Loti» as a persona in his writing creates a question about who Loti really is and how much of the man is represented in the so-called autobiographical text. These seemingly disparate themes of sexuality, colonialism and personal identity are all interrogated as posssible sites of ambiguity, thus revealing the general scope and complexity of Loti’s work.
Del 3137 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Internet Pricing
Economic Approaches to Transport Services and Infrastructure
AvAndrea Graber
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
1 355 kr
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With the development of the Internet from a research network to a commercial and integrated network which must satisfy heterogeneous user demand, prices for Internet usage play an important role. This study analyzes the pricing of Internet transport services and interconnection. It explains why appropriate pricing requires popular flat rates to be abandoned. They should be replaced by usage-based prices which are load-sensitive and take different service qualities into consideration. The aim of this work is to give an overview of Internet pricing proposals, to classify, investigate, and evaluate these pricing schemes as well as to elaborate on relations between them. Evaluations are based on normative criteria for Internet pricing from the point of view of social welfare and the perspectives of both Internet service providers and users. Moreover, this book shows what efficient settlement rules look like at the interconnection level. Since these interconnection pricing agreements are closely related to retail pricing models the compatibility between them is also analyzed.
Del 412 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Satiric Worlds of William Boyd
A Case Study
AvJuan Francisco Elices Agudo
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
1 262 kr
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This study explores five major narratives of Ghanian-born novelist William Boyd from a satiric point of view. Boyd’s novels and short stories take up some of the particular traits of satire, a genre which has gradually lost the impact it had in the eighteenth century. This book analyses the satiric spirit of four novels and one short story: A Good Man in Africa, An Ice-Cream War, Stars and Bars, Armadillo and «The Destiny of Nathalie ‘X’». It looks at the way Boyd approaches crucial events in twentieth-century history and how he unmasks the follies that underlay most of them. It also deals with issues such as the effects of British colonialism in Africa, the superficiality of Hollywood’s film industry and the shortcomings of modern urban civilisation. The theoretical framework of this study is based on the analysis of recent satire criticism.
Del 809 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
African Communitarian Ethic: The Basis for the Moral Conscience and Autonomy of the Individual
Igbo Culture as a Case Study
AvFerdinand Chukwuagozie Ezekwonna
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
1 123 kr
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One of the controversial issues in theology in the contemporary, modern world is the issue of moral autonomy. Who determines what is moral and ethical? What part do the individual and the community respectively play in this regard? In this book the author explores and analyses the position of the individual in an African community. This research aims to be a pointer to other ethical, political and social systems in the world to dialogue with African ethics. On the one hand, the author proposes to the Western world, which is becoming more and more individualistic and is trying to get rid of old traditional values, to review some of its present ethics and cultural values. On the other hand, he suggests to the African world to re-examine its present cultural practices, to reconsider and appreciate some good cultural values handed down to them by their ancestors and also to take cognisance of the emerging world ethical realities.
Del 932 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Disturbances and Dislocations
Understanding Teaching and Learning Experiences in Indigenous Australian Women’s Music and Dance
AvElizabeth Mackinlav
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 282 kr
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One of the biggest debates in Australian Indigenous education today revolves around the many contested and competing ways of knowledge about Indigenous cultures and the means by which Indigenous intellectual traditions and knowledges make the journey into mainstream educational settings. Grounded in Bakhtin’s theories of dialogue and voice, this book explores the polyphonic nature of power relations, performance roles and pedagogical texts in the context of teaching and learning Indigenous Australian women’s music and dance. In this discussion, the author focuses on her experiences as a lecturer in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland and her involvement in this educational setting with students and guest lecturers/performers. The performance classroom is examined as a potential site for disturbing and dislocating dominant modes of representation of Indigenous women’s performance through the construction, mediation and negotiation of Indigenous knowledge from and between both non-Indigenous and Indigenous voices. This book contains a CD with video clips illustrating the ways in which an embodied approach to teaching and learning happens in this classroom context.
Del 815 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Transcendence and Spatiality of the Triune Creator
AvChan Ho Park
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
1 152 kr
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Since Augustine many philosophers and theologians have discussed the relation of God to time, whereas the relation between God and space has been rarely discussed. This book deals with the relationship of God to space. Divine transcendence is one important aspect of the Christian God. However, God is also immanent in the world of space and time. The author investigates the concept of divine spatiality and presents case studies of three modern theologians: Torrance, Pannenberg and Moltmann. He also analyses divine spatiality by using Dyrness’s three categories: relationship, agency and embodiment.
Del 299 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Raising Children Bilingually through the ‘One Parent-One Language’ Approach
A Case Study of Japanese Mothers in the Australian Context
AvMasae Takeuchi
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
1 543 kr
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Parents who come from different language backgrounds often hope that their children will be able to speak the languages of both their parents. In families where this is the goal, the ‘one parent-one language’ approach (Ronjat, 1913) is widely used. The ‘one parent-one language’ approach is relatively effective in promoting active bilingualism among young children in a society where there is little support for the minority language. However, there is a general perception that maintenance of the minority language into middle childhood and beyond is difficult as during this period children’s contacts with the outside world expand and the input in the majority language increases.This book examines the sociolinguistic environment and the nature of parental input for children from Japanese-Australian families, who have been exposed to Japanese and English through the ‘one parent-one language’ approach in Australia. The research on which the book is based identifies factors which account for successful and unsuccessful cases of Japanese language maintenance of children from those families. The major part of this study involves discourse analysis of the conversations between four Japanese mothers and their primary school aged children based on audio-recordings over a period of 21 months. This qualitative approach is complemented by a quantitative study interviewing 25 Japanese mothers about their children’s language experience.
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Identity, Diversity and Teaching for Social Justice
AvJuliet Christine Perumal
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 369 kr
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In recent times, educational reformers have proposed ways of using education to reduce inequality, overcome discriminatory values and attitudes, and alleviate social problems. An increasing number of language theorists and practitioners contends that in order to reduce inequality it is essential to address the personal, cultural, and political implications of language teaching. Awareness of these factors activate the need to gain deeper insight into the personal and professional nuances of teachers’ lives. The gap between sociolinguistic theory and educational practice points to the fact that linguists and educationists themselves carry the prejudices of particular social, ideological, cultural and geographical backgrounds. Who teaches what to whom, why and how affects curricular decisions which can thus become fraught with political allegiances; in this way the non-neutrality of language pedagogy is confirmed.Drawing from a suite of data sources the book explores the following questions: Do teachers’ autobiographical experiences shape their professional identities? Does subscription to counter-hegemonic ideologies impact teachers’ personal and professional positionality and authority? What contributions can feminist theorising make to language teaching in socially diverse classrooms? Through an exploration of these questions, the book gestures towards an imperative to re-think educative and pedagogic relationships and the politics of difference and dialogue in demographically diverse classrooms that subscribe to social redress agendas.
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La lucha contra los extranjerismos en Alemania de 1871 a 1945
AvIrene Doval
Häftad, Spanska, 2006
2 567 kr
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Este trabajo es una investigación diacrónica sobre las actividades contra los extranjerismos (Sprachreinigung) llevadas a cabo en Alemania en el período que abarca desde la fundación del Segundo Imperio en 1871 hasta el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En primer plano está la asociación Allgemeiner Deutscher Sprachverein, catalizador del movimiento germanizador, de la que se presenta su organización, estructura interna, evolución y relaciones exteriores, particularmente con el régimen nacionalsocialista, cuya oposición a las actividades germanizadoras es revisada en detalle. Se analiza la fundamentación esgrimida en la lucha contra los extranjerismos, los criterios con los que el movimiento germanizador operaba, los procedimientos empleados para sustituir lo foráneo, así como su influencia real en la lengua alemana.
Del 825 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Toward a Fuller Human Identity
A Phenomenology of Family Life, Social Harmony, and the Recovery of the Black Self
AvPius Ojara, SJ
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
1 395 kr
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This book is based on the thought of Gabriel Marcel and offers an introduction to the central categories of Marcel’s thought, focusing on his idea of existential humanism. This study deals with the ambivalence of human existence and the concepts of being, ego and bodiliness. The author draws on examples from everyday life with a particular focus on African values and the recovery of the black self.
Del 693 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Reasoning Across Domains
An Essay in Evolutionary Psychology
AvHarry Witzthum
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
1 172 kr
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Evolutionary psychology’s ultimate goal is to understand the design of the human mind. It is a new approach in psychology, founded upon evolutionary theory and cognitive science. Evolutionary psychologists’ insistence on evolutionary theory has given rise to both controversy and transformations in theoretical models of human cognition. It is still a minority position in the field of psychology, but evolutionary psychology’s implications are far reaching. This book examines the arguments put forth by evolutionary psychologists and the objections levelled against them by their critics. Can evolutionary psychology offer a promising strategy in psychology that should be taken seriously and which can be defended against its critics? That is one question this book investigates. But the book also proposes a new approach to tackle the evolution of general-purpose cognitive mechanisms, which is the main matter of dispute between traditional and evolutionary psychology. Is a credible evolutionary account of the development of general-purpose cognitive mechanisms possible? Evolutionary psychologists have scarcely addressed this question in their current research, this book proposes a new way of thinking about the question.
Del 289 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Language Alternation Strategies in Multilingual Settings
A Case Study: Ghanaian Immigrants in Northern Italy
AvFederica Guerini
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
1 342 kr
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This book is one of the first systematic studies to describe the linguistic repertoire and the communicative strategies adopted by Ghanaian immigrants in Italy. The linguistic repertoire of the Ghanaian community in Bergamo (Northern Italy) is described with a special focus on the different codes composing it. The author analyzes the role that each code plays in expressing the community members’ ethnic and linguistic identity, and the speakers’ attitudes towards each code. She draws on the results of qualitative analysis – adopting both a macro-sociolinguistic and a micro-sociolinguistic perspective – of a database of face-to-face interactions and of formal interviews involving a selected group of Ghanaian immigrants.
Del 830 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Interpretation of the Hebrew Word םע (People) in Samuel-Kings
AvLuke E. Ijezie
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
1 378 kr
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This study of the word «people» in the biblical context touches one of the central issues of biblical literature. The author addresses the semantic and literary-critical problems involved in interpreting the Hebrew word םע within the complex texts of 1-2 Samuel and 1-2 Kings. While the word is often rendered by the English word «people» and its cognates in the modern languages, it is also shown that the idea of «people», together with its semantic range in the modern usage, is not identical to the ancient Hebrew. Concerted effort is thus made to identify the basic factors and patterns that explain its meaning in various Hebrew contexts. The study explains how םע expresses both Israel’s identity as a secular polity as well as its identity as a religious entity. The discussion is carried out in the light of a number of chosen texts, and these are analyzed both synchronically and diachronically.
Del 3214 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Managing Cultural Diversity
An Empirical Examination of Cultural Networks and Organizational Structures as Governance Mechanisms in Multinational Corporations
AvMartin Baumüller
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
1 723 kr
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The effects of globalization require that multinational corporations (MNCs) coordinate their differentiated but interdependent organizational parts and align them to a common purpose. This book examines the mechanisms that such organizations use to govern their global subsidiary networks. The book starts with a review of key concepts and theories of multinational organizations and explains the rationale for their existence. Based on this assessment and an empirical study of three globally operating entities, the author develops a framework for examining the cultural and structural governance mechanisms that multinational corporations may employ to coordinate their global operations. This framework identifies different configurations of cultural and structural governance mechanisms and explains what kind of configuration a multinational organization should employ to ensure efficient governance.

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Grammaticalization Paths of English and High German Existential Constructions

Between History and Fiction

Nerval. Recherche de l’autre et conquête de soi

Discourses and Tales of Grant-Seeking Activity

«Fetha Nagast» and its Ecclesiology

Procede del Padre y del Hijo

Calvin’s «Theodicy»and the Hiddenness of God

Illocutionary constructions in English: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization

Interrogating Gazes

Minority Language Dubbing for Children

Theme and Rheme

Community and Democracy in South Africa: Liberal Versus Communitarian Perspectives

Formal and Functional Perspectives on Tense and Related Categories

Scope and Limits of Folk Psychology

Variation and Co-operative Communication Strategies in Air Traffic Control English

Ethnicity, Children & Habitus

Sex, Sailors and Colonies

Internet Pricing

Satiric Worlds of William Boyd

African Communitarian Ethic: The Basis for the Moral Conscience and Autonomy of the Individual

Disturbances and Dislocations

Transcendence and Spatiality of the Triune Creator

Raising Children Bilingually through the ‘One Parent-One Language’ Approach

Identity, Diversity and Teaching for Social Justice

La lucha contra los extranjerismos en Alemania de 1871 a 1945

Toward a Fuller Human Identity

Reasoning Across Domains

Language Alternation Strategies in Multilingual Settings

Interpretation of the Hebrew Word םע (People) in Samuel-Kings

Managing Cultural Diversity

Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes – serie

Grammaticalization Paths of English and High German Existential Constructions

Between History and Fiction

Nerval. Recherche de l’autre et conquête de soi

Discourses and Tales of Grant-Seeking Activity

«Fetha Nagast» and its Ecclesiology

Procede del Padre y del Hijo

Calvin’s «Theodicy»and the Hiddenness of God

Illocutionary constructions in English: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization

Interrogating Gazes

Minority Language Dubbing for Children

Theme and Rheme

Community and Democracy in South Africa: Liberal Versus Communitarian Perspectives

Formal and Functional Perspectives on Tense and Related Categories

Scope and Limits of Folk Psychology

Variation and Co-operative Communication Strategies in Air Traffic Control English

Ethnicity, Children & Habitus

Sex, Sailors and Colonies

Internet Pricing

Satiric Worlds of William Boyd

African Communitarian Ethic: The Basis for the Moral Conscience and Autonomy of the Individual

Disturbances and Dislocations

Transcendence and Spatiality of the Triune Creator

Raising Children Bilingually through the ‘One Parent-One Language’ Approach

Identity, Diversity and Teaching for Social Justice

La lucha contra los extranjerismos en Alemania de 1871 a 1945

Toward a Fuller Human Identity

Reasoning Across Domains

Language Alternation Strategies in Multilingual Settings

Interpretation of the Hebrew Word םע (People) in Samuel-Kings

Managing Cultural Diversity

Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes – serie

Grammaticalization Paths of English and High German Existential Constructions

Between History and Fiction

Nerval. Recherche de l’autre et conquête de soi

Discourses and Tales of Grant-Seeking Activity

«Fetha Nagast» and its Ecclesiology

Procede del Padre y del Hijo

Calvin’s «Theodicy»and the Hiddenness of God

Illocutionary constructions in English: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization

Interrogating Gazes

Minority Language Dubbing for Children

Theme and Rheme

Community and Democracy in South Africa: Liberal Versus Communitarian Perspectives

Formal and Functional Perspectives on Tense and Related Categories

Scope and Limits of Folk Psychology

Variation and Co-operative Communication Strategies in Air Traffic Control English

Ethnicity, Children & Habitus

Sex, Sailors and Colonies