de gruyter dez 2022 (308 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Der Band thematisiert erstmals die Gattungsinterferenz zwischen Purimspielen und Fastnachtspielen. Der ungefähre zeitliche Zusammenfall des jüdischen Purim-Festes und der christlichen Fastnacht im liturgischen Jahreskreis sowie die jeweilige Performanz einer verkehrten Welt lassen nach wechselseitigen Beeinflussungen fragen. Im Einzelnen wurden jüdisch-christliche Berührungen in Brauchtum und Spiel für wichtige Spiellandschaften wie das Rheinland, die Schweiz, Schwaben oder Tirol in den Blick genommen. Dabei kristallisieren sich von Ort zu Ort trotz gemeinsamer Sujets unterschiedliche Formen des Ausagierens von interreligiösen Dialogen ab. Dennoch sind die performativen Parallelen, die hier erstmals dokumentiert werden, frappierend. Die interdisziplinären Beiträge des Sammelbandes verstehen sich nicht zuletzt als Anstoß für weitergehende Forschungen. In der Summe ergibt sich, dass Purim und Fastnacht von ihrem performativen Potenzial her im Alten Reich künftig nicht mehr unabhängig voneinander betrachtet werden dürfen. Der Sammelband wendet sich an Judaist/-innen, Theolog/-innen, Germanist/-innen, Ethnolog/-innen und Historiker/-innen mit der Ausrichtung auf Spätmittelalter und der Frühen Neuzeit.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Die deutsche Sprache hat sich innerhalb Europas als Teil einer europäischen Sprachengemeinschaft entwickelt. Von besonderem wissenschaftlichen Interesse ist die Frage, wie sich Sprachen untereinander beeinflussen, verändern und mit welchen methodischen Zugängen und Sprachressourcen das zu untersuchen ist. Der ständige Austausch zwischen diesen Sprachen und die politischen Rahmenbedingungen in der Europäischen Union werfen darüber hinaus konkrete sprach- und bildungspolitische Fragen auf.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Beschreiben als elementare Äußerungsform ist im alltäglichen Sprachhandeln und in bildungssprachlichen Kontexten essenziell. Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Erhebung deskriptiver Grundkompetenzen im Bereich der Schriftlichkeit von Kindern in sprachlich heterogenen Primarstufenklassen und ihrer wahrnehmungstheoretisch und sprachdidaktisch fundierten Förderung mittels performativer Verfahren.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Der Band deckt literarische Thematisierungsweisen des Wetters auf. Diese erfüllen eine Vielzahl von Funktionen, die über reine Staffage und Effekt hinausführen. Der komparatistische Zugang entwickelt möglichst verallgemeinerbare Kategorien zu ästhetischer Praxis sowie poetologischer Reflexion und trägt den Entwicklungen in unterschiedlichen Literaturen Rechnung.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The simple fabric face mask is a key agent in the fight against the global spread of COVID-19. However, beyond its role as a protective covering against coronavirus infection, the face mask is the bearer of powerful symbolic and political power and arouses intense emotions. Adopting an international perspective informed by social theory, The Face Mask in COVID Times: A Sociomaterial Analysis offers an intriguing and original investigation of the social, cultural and historical dimensions of face-masking as a practice in the age of COVID. Rather than Beck's 'risk society', we are now living in a 'COVID society', the long-term effects of which have yet to be experienced or imagined. Everything has changed. The COVID crisis has generated novel forms of sociality and new ways of living and moving through space and time. In this new world, the face mask has become a significant object, positioned as one of the key ways people can protect themselves and others from infection with the coronavirus. The face mask is rich with symbolic meaning as well as practical value. In the words of theorist Jane Bennett, the face mask has acquired a new 'thing-power' as it is coming together with human bodies in these times of uncertainty, illness and death. The role of the face mask in COVID times has been the subject of debate and dissension, arousing strong feelings. The historical and cultural contexts in which face masks against COVID contagion are worn (or not worn) are important to consider. In some countries, such as Japan and other East Asian nations, face mask wearing has a long tradition. Full or partial facial coverings, such as veiling, is common practice in regions such as the Middle East. In many other countries, including most countries in the Global North, most people, beyond health care workers, have little or no experience of face masks. They have had to learn how to make sense of face masking as a protective practice and how to incorporate face masks into their everyday practices and routines. Face masking practices have become highly political. The USA has witnessed protests against face mask wearing that rest on 'sovereign individualism', a notion which is highly specific to the contemporary political climate in that country. Face masks have also been worn to make political statements: bearing anti-racist statements, for example, but also Trump campaign support. Meanwhile, celebrities and influencers have sought to advocate for face mask wearing as part of their branding, while art makers, museums, designers and novelty fashion manufacturers have identified the opportunity to profit from this sudden new market. Face masks have become a fashion item as well as a medical device: both a way of signifying the wearer's individuality and beliefs and their ethical stance in relation to the need to protect their own and others' health. The Face Mask in COVID Times: A Sociomaterial Analysis provides a short and accessible analysis of the sociomaterial dimensions of the face mask in the age of COVID-19. The book presents seven short chapters and an epilogue. We bring together sociomaterial theoretical perspectives with compelling examples from public health advice and campaigns, anti-mask activism as well as popular culture (news reports, blog posts, videos, online shopping sites, art works) to illustrate our theoretical points, and use Images to support our analysis. 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The dawn of the modern age posed challenges to all of the world's religions - and since then, religions have countered with challenges to modernity. In Religious Responses to Modernity, seven leading scholars from Germany and Israel explore specific instances of the face-off between religious thought and modernity, in Christianity, Judaism and Islam.As co-editor Christoph Markschies remarks in his Foreword, it may seem almost trivial to say that different religions, and the various currents within them, have reacted in very different ways to the 'multiple modernities' described by S.N. Eisenstadt. However, things become more interesting when the comparative perspective leads us to discover surprising similarities. Disparate encounters are connected by their transnational or national perspectives, with the one side criticizing in the interest of rationality as a model of authorization, and the other presenting revelation as a critique of a depraved form of rationality. The thoughtful essays presented herein, by Simon Gerber, Johannes Zachhuber, Jonathan Garb, Rivka Feldhay, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Israel Gershoni and Christoph Schmidt, provide a counterweight to the popularity of some all-too-simplified models of modernization. 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Why do Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) emerge rapidly as an instrument of start-up promotion in emerging economies like India In what forms What role do they play in start-up promotion What are their major achievements These questions have been answered empirically in this book. Accordingly, this book explores the nature, structure and process of incubation resulting in start-up generation and in the process, R&D contribution emerging from TBIs comprising accelerators, incubators and co-working spaces in three of the leading start-up hubs, namely, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad, in India. It describes typology, objectives, sponsors, and facilities provided by these TBIs. It further explores the process of selection, incubation and graduation of start-ups as it exists in these TBIs. Thereafter, it makes an assessment of R&D contributions that have emerged from the TBIs in the form of R&D inputs comprising personnel and capital expenditure, and R&D output in the form of new products/services developed, patent applications filed and revenue generated. Policy makers, researchers, engineering and management students, technology and business mentors, angels, venture capitalists, and MNC executives will find this book informative, revealing and a source of valuable insights on the new, emerging India. 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Während für koloniale Straßennamen im heutigen deutschsprachigen Raum ein reges Interesse zu verzeichnen ist, das vorrangig an Diskussionen einer etwaigen Notwendigkeit ihrer Umbenennung in einzelnen Städten anknüpft, sind die sprachhistorischen Benennungen in ortsübergreifender Perspektive in Bezug auf Kolonialismus und koloniale Themen unerforscht.Die Arbeit geht den linguistischen Praktiken solcher toponymischer Namenvergabeprozesse vom Beginn der faktischen Kolonialzeit bis zur Endphase der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft nach. Sie erhebt und analysiert strukturbezogen-funktionale Muster sowie diskursive Argumentationszusammenhänge hinsichtlich der damit versprachlichten kolonisatorischen Gewissheiten.Der umfangreiche Datenbestand (über 500 Straßennamen), deren koloniale Benennungsmotivik anhand zahlreicher Quellen und Quellengattungen bis 1945 nachgewiesen werden kann, zeigt, dass die Bedeutung kolonialtoponomastischer Raumaneignung bzw. -besetzung in erheblichem Ausmaß auch auf das Deutsche Reich zurückwirkte. In der Verbindung innovativer Onomastik und Diskurslinguistik werden die globalen Verflechtungsgeschichten erstmalig anhand der Benennung des öffentlichen Raumes in der deutschen Metropole umfassend erfasst und erläutert. 324 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Geschichtstheater, Dokumentartheater, Zeitzeugnistheater - seit rund 100 Jahren ist die Verhandlung von Geschichte auf der Theaterbühne ein beliebtes und verbreitetes erinnerungskulturelles Format, das sich stetig weiterentwickelt. Zeitzeugnisse werden auf der Grundlage politischer Überzeugungen und/oder im Rahmen historischer Bildungsarbeit mit künstlerisch-ästhetischen Mitteln in Szene gesetzt. Trotz seiner expliziten Arbeit mit historischen Quellen ist das dokumentarische Theater bislang kein Gegenstand geschichtswissenschaftlicher Forschung geworden. Anlässlich des zehnjährigen Bestehens des Bremer Projekts Aus den Akten auf die Bühne setzte sich 2017 eine Tagung erstmals geschichtswissenschaftlich und interdisziplinär mit der Inszenierung historischer Quellen im Theater auseinander. Die Beiträge des Bandes sind Ergebnis dieser Tagung. In ihnen werden zum einen gegenwärtige Formen des dokumentarischen Theaters aus geschichts- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven untersucht. Zum anderen bringen sie Wissenschaftler\*innen und Theaterschaffende zusammen, die ihre Fragestellungen, Positionen und Arbeitsweisen kennenlernen und diskutieren. Auf diese Weise erschließen die Autor\*innen unterschiedliche Zugänge zu den Praktiken des 'Geschichtemachens' im Theater, die als performative Historiographien erkennbar werden. Der Band versteht sich somit auch als Beitrag zur Methoden- und Theorien-Diskussion in der forschungsorientierten Public History. 252 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The volume In Need of a Master: Politics, Theology, and Radical Democracy discusses how our so-called 'postmodern age' of widespread ideological critique paves the way for reactionary and conservative political movements. At center stage is the question of whether these movements can and must be - contrary to widespread beliefs among liberal elites - interpreted both as a symptom of a political awakening in the horizon of political theology in our era of immanence, as well as perhaps the perilous end of democracy as we know it. The book brings to the fore political theology as the hidden agenda of politics and presents at the same time Christian and Jewish theological traditions as an antidote to a global empire with its often unacknowledged rule of immanence. 324 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The standard view in scholarship is that disease in Lucretius' De rerum natura is mainly a problem to be solved and then dispensed with.However, a closer reading suggests that things are more layered and complex than they appear at first sight: just as morbus causes a radical rearrangement of atoms in the body and makes the patient engage with alternative and up to that point unknown dimensions of the sensible world, so does disease as a theme generate a multiplicity of meanings in the text. The present book argues for a reconsideration of morbus in De rerum natura along those lines: it invites the reader to revisit the topic of disease and reflect on the various, and often contrasting, discourses that unfold around it. More specifically, it illustrates how, apart from calling for therapy, disease, due to its dominant presence in the narrative, transforms at the same time into a concept that is integral both to the poem's philosophical agenda but also to its wider aesthetic concerns as a literary product.The book thus sheds new light on De rerum natura's intense preoccupation with morbus by showing how disease is not exclusively conceived by Lucretius as a blind, obliterating force but is crucially linked to life and meaning-both inside and outside the text. 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In three comprehensive volumes, Logic of the Future presents a fullpanorama of Charles S. Peirce's important late writings. Among themost influential American thinkers, Peirce took his existential graphs tobe his greatest contribution to human thought. The manuscriptsfrom 1895-1913, most of which are published here for the first time, testify therichness and open-endedness of his theory of logic and its applications.They also invite us to reconsider our ordinary conceptions of reasoning aswell as the conventional stories told about the evolution of modern logic. This second volume collects Peirce's writings on existential graphs related to his Lowell Lectures of 1903, the annus mirabilis of his that became decisive in the development of the mature theory of the graphical method of logic. 280 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book discusses a formerly unknown and invisible massacre in Budapest in 1944, committed by a paramilitary group lead by a women. Andrea Petö uncovers the gripping history of the fi rst private Holocaust memorial erected in Budapest in 1945. Based on court trials, interviews with survivors, perpetrators, and investigators, the book illustrates the complexities of gendered memory of violence. It examines the dramatic events: massacre, deportation, robbery, homecoming, and fi ght for memorialization from the point of view of the perpetrators and the survivors. The book will change the ways we look at intimate killings during the Second World-War. 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware - The volume examines the lives and achievements of women who played determining roles in the history of European academies and in the development of modern science in Europe. These persevering personalities either had a key influence in the establishment of academies ('Patronae Scientiarum') or were pioneering scientists who made major contributions to the progress of science ('path-breakers'). In both cases, their stories provide unique testimonies on the scientific institutions of their time and the systemic barriers female scientists were facing. Conceptualized as a transversal series of biographical portraits, the contributions focus particularly on each personalities' role in (or relation to) European academies, ensuring both a geographical and disciplinary balance. The co-editors of the volume are Professor Ute Frevert (Co-Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development), Professor Ernst Osterkamp (President of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung) and Professor Günter Stock (former ALLEA President). 340 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -New Directions in Second Language Pragmatics brings together varying perspectives in second language (L2) pragmatics to show both historical developments in the field, while also looking towards the future, including theoretical, empirical, and implementation perspectives. This volume is divided in four sections: teaching and learning speech acts, assessing pragmatic competence, analyzing discourses in digital contexts, and current issues in L2 pragmatics. The chapters focus on various aspects related to the learning, teaching, and assessing of L2 pragmatics and cover a range of learning environments. The authors address current topics in L2 pragmatics such as: speech acts from a discursive perspective; pragmatics instruction in the foreign language classroom and during study abroad; assessment of pragmatic competence; research methods used to collect pragmatics data; pragmatics in computer-mediated contexts; the role of implicit and explicit knowledge; discourse markers as a resource for interaction; and the framework of translingual practice. Taken together, the chapters in this volume foreground innovations and new directions in the field of L2 pragmatics while, at the same time, ground their work in the existing literature. Consequently, this volume both highlights where the field of L2 pragmatics has been and offers cutting-edge insights into where it is going in the future. 360 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the Americas, both indigenous and postcolonial languages today bear witness of massive changes that have taken place since the colonial era. However, a unified approach to languages from different colonial areas is still missing.The present volume studies postcolonial varieties that emerged due to changing linguistic and sociolinguistic conditions in different settings across the Americas. The studies cover indigenous languages that are undergoing lexical and grammatical change due to the presence of colonial languages and the emergence of new dialects and creoles due to contact. The contributions showcase the diversity of approaches to tackle fundamental questions regarding the processes triggered by language contact as well as the wide range of outcomes contact has had in postcolonial settings.The volume adds to the documentation of the linguistic properties of postcolonial language varieties in a socio-historically informed framework. It explores the complex dynamics of extra-linguistic factors that brought about the processes of language change in them and contributes to a better understanding of the determinant factors that lead to the emergence and evolution of such codes. 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Was kennzeichnet eine gelingende Geburt und welche Zugänge sind geeignet, um diese Frage zu beantworten Schien es in der klassischen Moderne lange Zeit so, als könne die medizinische Geburtshilfe hier als Leitdisziplin fungieren, so sind in der reflexiv gewordenen Moderne von verschiedenen Fachrichtungen Zweifel an einem solchen Selbstverständnis angemeldet worden. Kritisiert wird dabei etwa die Ausblendung des spezifischen, uneinholbar subjektiven Erlebenskontextes der Schwangeren, problematisiert wird ein Zugriff, der über präskriptiv-normative Zugangsweisen Kriterien für eine gelingende Geburt vorgeben möchte. Kontroversen ergeben sich zudem aus der Professionenkonkurrenz zwischen Hebammen, Ärztinnen und Ärzten. Umstritten ist weiterhin die Bedeutung der Geburt als Statusübergang, eine Frage, die durch die erweiterten Möglichkeiten pränataler Diagnostik ihre Dringlichkeit gewinnt: Begründet erst die Geburt ein eigenständiges Lebensrecht Schließlich steht zur Debatte, welche Anhaltspunkte sich für eine Ethik der Elternschaft aus dem spezifischen Geschehen von Schwangerschaft und Geburt ableiten lassen. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes loten in interdisziplinärer Perspektive verschiedene Zugänge zu diesen Grundfragen des Menschseins aus. 364 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Diese kulturwissenschaftliche Untersuchung befasst sich mit den sozialen und politischen Dimensionen des alltäglichen Abfalls. Im Fokus steht die Frage, wie das Müllentsorgen - vom Beginn der systematischen Abfallwirtschaft im 20. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart - gesellschaftlich bewertet wird: als soziale Praxis der einen, als bloße Lebenserhaltung der anderen. Wie wird anhand von Bildern und Narrativen des Mülls ausgehandelt, wer Anteil hat am Gemeinsamen hat und wer davon ausgeschlossen bleibt, und wie werden diese Auf- und Zuteilungen legitimiert oder angefochten Es geht um die Erkundung von Apologien der Ungleichheit und von widerständigen Momenten, die anhand von Figuren und Praktiken des Mülls entstehen. Als Beitrag zu den Discard Studies verdeutlicht die Studie insbesondere die politischen Dimensionen des Mülls und schafft darüber Anschlüsse an Diskussionen im Bereich Postcolonial Studies, Rassismusforschung und Geschlechterstudien. 268 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Despite the recent turn to affects and emotions in the humanities and despite the unceasing popularity of romantic and erotic love as a motif in fictional works of all genres, the subject has received surprisingly little attention in academic studies of contemporary drama. Love in Contemporary British Drama reflects the appeal of love as a topic and driving force in dramatic works with in-depth analyses of eight pivotal plays from the past three decades.Following an interdisciplinary and historical approach, the study collects and condenses theories of love from philosophy and sociology to derive persisting discourses and to examine their reoccurrence and transformation in contemporary plays. Special emphasis is put on narratives of love's compensatory function and precariousness and on how modifications of these narratives epitomise the peculiarities of emotional life in the social and cultural context of the present.Based on the assumption that drama is especially inclined to draw on shared narratives for representations of love, the book demonstrates that love is both a window to remnants of the past in the present and a proper subject matter for drama in times in which the suitability of the dramatic form has been questioned. 304 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Domestic Disputes is the first monograph in German studies to offer a critical examination of the home ownership crisis in the former East Germany that resulted from unification policy, taking as its focus news media, made-for-television movies, cinematic releases, and prose fiction that depict property disputes between former East and West Germans. In the cultural productions discussed in this book, anxieties about social disenfranchisement through unification policy are dramatized in narratives in which Westerners acquire, or attempt to acquire, property in the former East Germany. Each chapter addresses a different type of narrative that has emerged to frame those anxieties, including those of neocolonial Western takeover, the engagement with difficult family histories, masculinity crises in the West, and the corporatization of home. Domestic Disputes is the first book-length study to outline the way in which homes were awarded to individuals and families as the former East Germany privatized and to offer in-depth examinations of the narratives that emerged from that social phenomenon. 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Physicalism is a metaphysical thesis easily presented in slogan form - there is nothing over and above the physical - but notoriously difficult to formulate precisely. Understanding physicalism combines insights from contemporary philosophy of mind and metaphysics to present a new account of physical properties and metaphysical dependence and, on this foundation, develop a more rigorous and illuminating formulation of the thesis of physicalism 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Since the introduction of communicative language teaching, collaborative learning has played an important role in the second language (L2) classroom. Drawing from sociocultural theory, which states that human cognitive development is a socially situated activity mediated by language, studies in L2 pedagogy advocate the use of tasks that require learners to work together. Collaborative dialogue encourages language learning, and research shows that the solutions reached by students in this process are more often correct with a lasting influence on their language comprehension. This volume includes ten chapters that illustrate the benefits of collaborative dialogue in second foreign language classrooms. The volume considers key issues dealing with collaborative tasks and implications for language teaching. 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The question of 'identity' arises for any individual or ethnic group when they come into contact with a stranger or another people. Such contact results in the self-conscious identification of ways of life, customs, traditions, and other forms of society as one's own specific cultural features and the construction of others as characteristic of peoples from more or less distant lands, described as very 'different'. Since all societies are structured by the division between the sexes in every field of public and private activity, the modern concept of 'gender' is a key comparator to be considered when investigating how the concepts of identity and ethnicity are articulated in the evaluation of the norms and values of other cultures. The object of this book is to analyze, at the beginning Western culture, various examples of the ways the Greeks and Romans deployed these three parameters in the definition of their identity, both cultural and gendered, by reference to their neighbours and foreign nations at different times in their history. This study also aims to enrich contemporary debates by showing that we have yet to learn from the ancients' discussions of social and cultural issues that are still relevant today. 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware - Der kanonische Status Fontanes gründet sich auf einen eigentümlichen Erzählstil, der schon den Zeitgenossen als Markenzeichen seines Werkes galt. Dazu gehörte Fontanes Vorliebe für den humorvoll zugespitzten Satz, seine Lust am Umgangssprachlichen, seine Abneigung gegenüber dem Pathetischen und überspitzt Dramatischen und sein Hang zu einer ironisch-distanzierten Erzählhaltung. Der 'Fontane-Ton' hat sich früh als alles umschließende Beschreibung dessen, was der Leser als die Eigenart Fontanes erlebt, durchsetzen können und hat so eine differenzierte Sicht auf Fontanes Stil verhindert. Mit diesem Band eröffnen Herausgeber und Beiträger neue Perspektiven auf Fontanes Stil, die der Einheit dieses Stils und dessen spezifischen Ausprägungen in verschiedenen Gattungen Rechnung tragen. In zwölf Aufsätzen schlagen die Verfasser sprachwissenschaftliche, textgenetische und komparatistische Wege zu Fontanes Werk ein, beleuchten die Schlüsselbegriffe 'Fontane-Ton' und 'Stil' kritisch, bieten Einblicke in die Werkstatt des Fontane-Stils und ergründen sowohl materielle Stilfaktoren wie Satz und Layout als auch immaterielle Faktoren wie die Erzeugung eines bestimmten Tons durch den Anekdotengebrauch oder in der Erzählhaltung. 304 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is the first longitudinal study that addresses language policy and planning in the context of a major international sporting event and examines the ideological, political, social, cultural, and economic effects of such context-specific policy initiatives on contemporary China. The book has important reference value for future research on language management at the supernational level and language services for linguistically complex events. At the same time, it presents some broader implications for current and future language policy makers, language educators and learners, particularly from non-English speaking backgrounds. Foreword by Ingrid Piller 284 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Yiddish Theater Stage as a Temporary Home takes us through the fascinating life and career of the most important comic duo in Yiddish Theater, Shimen Dzigan and Isroel Shumacher. Spanning over the course of half a century - from the beginning of their work at the Ararat avant-garde Yiddish theater in Lodz, Poland to their Warsaw theatre - they produced bold, groundbreaking political satire. The book further discusses their wanderings through the Soviet Union during the Second World War and their attempt to revive Jewish culture in Poland after the Holocaust. It finally describes their time in Israel, first as guest performers and later as permanent residents. Despite the restrictions on Yiddish actors in Israel, the duo insisted on performing in their language and succeeded in translating the new Israeli reality into unique and timely satire. In the 1950s, they voiced a unique - among the Hebrew stages - political and cultural critique. Dzigan continued to perform on his own and with other Israeli artists until his death in 1980. 344 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware - We live in an age that is witnessing a growing interest in narrative studies, cognitive neuroscientific tools, mind studies and artificial intelligence hypotheses. This book therefore aims to expand the exegesis of Carroll's 'Alice' books, aligning them with the current intellectual environment. The theoretical force of this volume lies in the successful encounter between a great book (and all its polysemous ramifications) and a new interpretative point of view, powerful enough to provide a new original contribution, but well grounded enough not to distort the text itself. Moreover, this book is one of the first to offer a complete, thorough analysis of one single text through the theoretical lens of cognitive narratology, and not just as a series of brief examples embedded within a more general discussion. It emphasises in a more direct, effective way the actual novelty and usefulness of the dialogue established between narrative theory and the cognitive sciences. It links specific concepts elaborated in the theory of cognitive narratology with the analysis of the 'Alice' books, helping in this way to discuss, question and extend the concepts themselves, opening up new interpretations and practical methods. 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This edited volume explores the scope of interdisciplinary linguistics and includes voices from scholars in different disciplines within the social sciences and humanities, as well as different sub-disciplines within linguistics. Chapters within this volume offer a range of perspectives on interdisciplinary studies, represent a connection between different disciplines, or demonstrate an application of interdisciplinarity within linguistics. The volume is divided into three sections: perspectives, connections, and applications. Perspectives The goal of this section is to address more generally the definition(s) of and value of multi-, trans-, and inter-disciplinary work. In what areas and for what purposes is there a need for work that crosses discipline boundaries What are the challenges of undertaking such work What opportunities are available Connections This section features paired chapters written by scholars in different disciplines that discuss the same concept/idea/issue. For example, a discussion of how 'assemblage' works in archaeology is paired with a discussion of how 'assemblage' can be used to talk about 'style' in linguistics. Applications This section can be framed as sample answers to the question: What does interdisciplinarity look like 312 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -China has had constitutional minority language rights for decades, but what do they mean today Answering with nuance and empirical detail, this book examines the rights through a sociolinguistic study of Zhuang, the language of China's largest minority group. The analysis traces language policy from the Constitution to local government practices, investigating how Zhuang language rights are experienced as opening or restricting socioeconomic opportunity. The study finds that language rights do not challenge ascendant marketised and mobility-focused language ideologies which ascribe low value to Zhuang. However, people still value a Zhuang identity validated by government policy and practice. Rooted in a Bourdieusian approach to language, power and legal discourse, this is the first major publication to integrate contemporary debates in linguistics about mobility, capitalism and globalization into a study of China's language policy. The book refines Grey's award-winning doctoral dissertation, which received the Joshua A. Fishman Award in 2018. The judges said the study 'decenter[s] all types of sociolinguistic assumptions.' It is a thought-provoking work on minority rights and language politics, relevant beyond China. 360 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book retells the history of Israeli film in the 1960s and 1970s in sex scenes. Through close readings of the first sex scenes in mainstream Israeli movies from this period, it explores the cultural and social contexts in which these movies were made. More specifically, it discusses how notions of collective identity, individual agency, and the public and private spheres are inscribed into and negotiated in sex scenes, especially in light of the historical events that marked these decades. This study thus pushes away from the traditional academic perception of Israeli film and opens up new ways of understanding how it has developed in recent decades. It draws on a growing international body of academic literature on the cinematic representation of sex in order to illuminate the particularities of the Israeli context in the 1960s and 1970s. Apart from film scholars and scholars of Israeli film, this study also addresses readers interested in Israeli cultural history more broadly. 300 pp. Englisch.