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This volume is a corpus-based variationist sociolinguistic study of contemporary urban western Irish English. It demonstrates the diverse local patterns of variability and change in the phonetic realisation of the dental fricatives (th) and (dh) and establishes a considerable degree of divergence from traditional accounts on Irish English.

Der Sammelband versteht sich als Antwort auf die verbreitete Totalitarismustheorie. Er erhellt den tatsachlichen Charakter des deutsch-sowjetischen Nichtangriffsvertrags von 1939, die Motive der vertragschliessenden Parteien, das Scheitern moeglicher Alternativen und die Bedeutung des Vertrags fur die militarische Niederringung des Dritten Reiches.

The author provides a selection of short stories in Arabic Languages from the Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Emirates and Kuwait) as well as an outline of modern writing. The book visualizes a unique literary discourse of social, political and cultural changes.

This book addresses human rights, contemporary events and various historical scenes evocative of rights issues. Surveyed are problems such as human rights and the arts, terrorism, the Middle East conflict, the American presidential election and ideas of civilizational clash.

The book examines the impact of Europe-wide and global developments on national higher education systems along the issues of convergence and diversity, of equity and of the relationship of centres and peripheries in higher education. The book is an outcome of research collaboration between six institutes.

This book aspires to make an expedient contribution to the trust-based body of knowledge. It approaches trust from the standpoint of different sub-branches of communication discipline, including brand management, public relations research, comparative advertising, health communication, political communication and digital communication.

The present volume focuses on the postcoloniality of the Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, and Czech literatures from post-communist times and that of the translingual diaspora. The contributions deal with the exploration of literary representation and hence of postcolonial textuality - of poetics, textual structures, rhetoric, and tropes.

The analysis of 1,507 Facebook posts of German university students participating in the Erasmus exchange program explores how posters "reaccentuate" and "relocalize" mobile semiotic resources. In doing so, they create translocal frames of meaningfulness in concrete heteroglossic interactions among speakers with diverse language backgrounds.

Defining a strategy and following a development plan is decisive for establishing the Higher Education Institution of the Future. The governance has to employ entrepreneurial thinking and derive a strategy based on the analysis of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats and implementation of Academic Scorecard.

The education policies show parallels to the government policies in Turkey. The quality of the education depends on the vision of policy makers regarding training programs, use of technology, textbooks and teacher training. Decision makers should manage diversity in the education system in Turkey.

This book examines how cloud-based services challenge the current application of antitrust and privacy laws in the EU and the US. It discusses how platform interoperability can be a driver of incremental innovation and the consequences of not promoting radical innovation. It focusses on the impact of the EU General Data Protection Regulation.

This work analyzes the development of other-regarding preferences and its possible influencing factors during the sensitive period of childhood and adolescents. Survey results measuring altruistic and cooperation preferences show that institutional environment is the more important influence compared to individual characteristics.

This book discusses how judges qualify their activities as objective. The data for this project was retrieved from a large sample of cases using Langacker's methodology. The sample included over a thousand decisions from Brazil, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Romania and the UK.

This book is the second book-length publication of the programme Media and Education in the Digital Age-MEDA. The contributions discuss the risks of the digital turn in educational storytelling but also of the opportunities for critical engagements. They provide unique ideas, evidence and inspiration in support of critical education.

This book analyses the role of social networks in the process of migration. Based on stories of Polish Jews who migrated between Poland and Palestine in the 1920s, the author presents all stages of the journey and shows how networks of friends and families spread in different countries contributed to the migration experience.

Rooted in American Studies and the Medical Humanities, the study is situated at the interface of American medicine, literature, and visuality. As a literary history of yellow fever epidemics, it presents the ideological, socio-political, visual, and cultural processing of the disease from the late 18th until the end of the 19th century.

The articles in this volume present new and innovative ideas on theoretical issues in audiovisual translation, translator training and domain-specific issues. A companion volume in this series contains papers on Translation Studies and literary translation.

The book reconstructs the methods of theory construction employed in the grounded type of sociological theory, the nature of concepts, categories, and properties taking center stage in this type of theory. These methods are approached from the point of view of modern logical and methodological treatment of deduction, induction, and abduction.

Manuscript sources contain significant hints that Gustav Mahler's symphonies are not "absolute music" but "erlebte Musik" according to his programmatic ideas. A knowledge of the programmatic ideas therefore provides insights which are crucial for an adequate interpretation of his works.

This book presents a scientific investigation into the practical implementation of China's national Schistosomiasis control strategy at grass root level. It focuses on human resources for control efforts and on the performance of serological tests for case detection for effective Schistosomiasis japonica surveillance.