Bøker utgitt av Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

The portrayal of nature in works of fantasy is coloured by the corresponding context. This book shows how the natural world has been depicted within this genre, comparing the British tradition with Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea cycle. Because of her specific context, Le Guin's works deviate from the received tradition in significant ways.

The monograph focuses on the characterization and history of the English reaction object construction (ROC) from the perspective of Diachronic Construction Grammar.

In this book are presented and analysed local scholarly perspectives on contemporary political, legal and societal developments in Kosovo and how path-dependent historical legacies set in motion prior to and during the war for independence, coupled with dependence on and interdependence with external actors shaped society and institutions.

Spanning timeframes from 1967 to 2002, Frank Gillette's essays included in this volume are concerned with the re-enchantment of the natural order. Employing several literary styles, from spon-taneous improvisation to a version of Gregory Bateson's metalogue, Gillette's writings are ruminations on symbolic and metaphorical reasoning.

Le volume est consacre a la pragmatique des dedicaces cultuelles dans les langues d'attestation fragmentaire de l'ouest du bassin mediterraneen antique. Lesquelles de ces cultures ecrivaient de telles dedicaces, et avec quelle visee ? Quels contacts entre societes, quels developpements locaux se font jour ?

Jossi Wieler ist einer der pragendsten Schauspiel- und Opernregisseure im deutschsprachigen Raum. Kreation im Dialog und tiefgrundige Erkundungen eines Stoffs auf seine gesellschaftspolitische Relevanz fur die Gegenwart zeichnen sein Schaffen aus. Der Band gibt Einblick in seine Arbeitsweisen, die Inspiration und die Ethik seiner AEsthetik.

This volume contains the refined proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG), which took place at Ryerson University, Toronto, as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in May 2017.

Die gegenwartige Forschung zahlreicher Disziplinen wird in vielen ihrer Felder dominiert von Themen und Fragenstellungen, deren Grundlage als gekennzeichnet wird.

Cosubordination in Spanish. Nuclear cosubordination. Central cosubordination. Clausal cosubordination. Role and Reference Grammar. Phase verbs plus non-finite verbs. Direct perception verbs plus non-finite verbs. Depictive secondary predicates. Coordinate compounds. Coordinate clauses. Correlative clauses. Yuxtaposed clauses.

The Book All Our Brothers and Sisters: Jews Saving Jews During the Holocaust, composed of 18 chapters, focuses on the heroism of Jews throughout Europe who risked their lives to save their coreligionists under the Nazi rule.

In these moments of health crisis, happiness management and social marketing are not teaching that it is possible to build a more committed, innovative and productive society. To achieve this end, countries and organizations must undertake a wave of human resource policies and actions that stimulate individuals' happiness and creativity.

This annotated modern-spelling text seeks to make accessible an amusing Restoration comedy which has never been published in a critical edition. The introduction offers a thorough analysis of the way in which Greenwich Park articulates processes of evolution on several levels: literary models, moral values and geopolitical displacement.

This collection studies new developments in postmillennial popular romance fiction. The book discusses romance in different countries and explores how the genre has always been sensitive to customer demands and market trends. The chapters focus on how traditional formulae are being reshaped to meet the needs of contemporary transnational markets.

This book studies dramatic texts, dedications, autobiographies, adaptations and performative practices, to prove that the boundaries between on and off stage performances of gender are blurred. The limits that separate theatre and life are highly permeable and the relations between both are bidirectional: the performativity of gender and identity.

This volume explores discourse mainly through corpus linguistics methods. Indeed, Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies has become a widely used methodology for the critical (or non-critical) analysis of discourses in recent times.

El Diccionario historico fraseologico del espanol MUESTRA ARQUETIPICA ofrece un repertorio concentrado de unidades fraseologicas de caracter adverbial y prepositivo representativo de diferentes periodos historicos de la lengua espanola.

This book provides an overview of the approaches, features and implications of CBDCs. It briefly explores the current literature on CBDCs and provides concrete example of this innovation's stage of development

Verbs of Desire underwent important changes in the course of their histories. In earlier English they could be used impersonally in constructions lacking a nominative subject. When impersonal uses are lost, they are gradually replaced by personal patterns, in particular a pattern where the verb governs a prepositional complement.

Das 19. Jh. rezipierte die fruhneuzeitliche, kleinformatige Glasmalerei (Einzelscheibe) als schweizerische nationale Kunst. In Form von Standesscheibenzyklen diente sie in der Schweiz der Foerderung des nationalen Bewusstseins. Die Studie belegt diese Bedeutung anhand der Rezeption durch die Kunstgeschichtsforschung und der Entstehung neuer Zyklen.

This book highlights a variety of developments and analyses from countries like Australia, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, South Africa, India, Ukraine and the United States, but also from a more global perspective.