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Les différentes variétés de français observables dans l¿espace francophone, dites « français régionaux », dans la terminologie sociolinguistique, sont étudiées dans ce volume par certains des meilleur-e-s spécialistes du sujet, dans une perspective synchronique et à travers un spectre large qui embrasse aussi bien la variation diatopique que la variation sociale. Les chercheur-e-s interrogent le statut linguistique de ces formes endogènes de français et la place qüelles seraient susceptibles d¿occuper dans les politiques linguistiques-éducatives de régions ou d¿États traversés par des tensions sociales et ethniques. Ces variétés s¿inscrivent dans le paysage plurilingue et pluriculturel de la francophonie du XXIe siècle où la question des langues et des identités en contact est centrale.

Das Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch wendet sich an diejenigen, die an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen studieren oder wissenschaftlich arbeiten wollen und deren Muttersprache nicht Deutsch ist. Voraussetzung für die Arbeit mit diesem Buch ist ein fortgeschrittenes Sprachniveau (C1). Angestrebt wird eine souveräne Beherrschung der Wissenschaftssprache Deutsch und damit eine wissenschaftskommunikative Kompetenz auf hohem Niveau (C2). Das Buch ist geeignet für studienbegleitende oder -vorbereitende Kurse an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen sowie für den weltweiten Einsatz an Universitäten, deutschen Auslandsschulen oder Sprachinstituten. Es bietet aufgrund seiner Reichhaltigkeit und durch den Lösungsschlüssel im Internet motivierten Lernern auch die Möglichkeit zum Selbststudium.

The Russian Orthodox Church in her post-Soviet canon law suggests a comprehensive cultural program of modernity that combines transcendence and immanence, theological and social reasoning, an afterlife strategy and cooperation with secular actors, whereby eschatology and the human rights discourse become two sides of the same coin.

Deeming various linguistic, cognitive and theological aspects of the theory of knowledge, Origen and the Cappadocian fathers took advantage of the grammatical, logical and cognitive theories of the Hellenic scholars. The book surveys the milestones of the patristic epistemological discourse in the exegetical, theological and philosophical contexts.

Kwame Bediako (1945-2008) from Ghana claims a space for Africa in academic theology. He analyses issues of Christology and identity, of mission, culture and language, of a . He sees Africa as a for World Christianity. The book analyses Bediako's work from a postcolonial and intercontextual perspective.

The book is a collection of memoirs related to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The accounts of 27 people who met Ataturk in person during the founding period of the Turkish Republic provide a wealth of information enabling historians to reconstruct how the perception of Ataturk was transformed during a time of profound political change.

This work provides a comprehensive review of major legal problems affecting the processes of takeover of publicly listed companies with particular emphasis on EU, Polish and German law. Acquisitions are seen through the lens of two relevant EU Treaty freedoms: free movement of capital and freedom of establishment and the 13th Directive.

The book is the first part of a comprehensive study of Wittgenstein's conception of language description. Its central claim is that much if not everything goes awry in our exegetical efforts if his philosophy is not seen in the light of his interest to see the end of the day with descriptions, and these things only.

This book deals with correspondence truth. It critically analyses selected known correspondence truth theories and proposes - as an alternative - the "symbolic" truth conception in which correspondence is a symbolisation and not copying.

This book explores the effects of globalisation and digitalisation to labour law. The authors discuss how a changed political setting influences the foundations of contemporary labour law, and the challenges that new business models and forms of labour mobility put to regulating working life.

The book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the cognitive-semiotic interface between language, literature and the arts, with a special focus on creativity and imagination. It brings together international scholars, suggesting a wide range of innovative perspectives on the correlation between verbal discourse and creative artefacts.

The book explains when and how Poland implemented public diplomacy. The author explains it as a form of external political communication of governments conducted in cooperation with non-state actors to position the country internationally. The Polish case shows how a country in Europe attempts to impact the public opinion formation abroad.