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Die Beitrage untersuchen sprachliche AEusserungen in ihrem kommunikativen, funktionalen, medialen und kulturellen Kontext angesichts der wachsenden Prasenz der Medien in allen Lebensbereichen. The contributions discuss linguistic utterances in their communicative, functional, medial and cultural context as media are ever present in all areas of life.

This book reveals the silent replications of the myths inherent in cross cultural film narratives. Locating Germany as the metropolitan centre and Africa as the alternative space, the book raises questions on the best practice of telling the story of the other. It thus examines bodies and spaces and how they have been assigned or denied agency.

Performance is a forum for social action, embodied interaction and shared authority. The Embodiment of Authority discusses the relationship between authorial questions and performances via the following topics: shared authorities, ontologies of art work, diverse roles of rehearsals in the performance process, and embodied knowledge.

The book defines and describes the relationships between Chopin's music and one of the oldest but still used monastic rules, the Rule of Saint Benedict. It is situated at the boundary of musicology and theology. The chapters deal with current and existential issues such as beginnings, authority, weakness, interactions and emotions and are illustrated by musical examples.

Writing from the Margins of Europe assesses the potential for postcolonial analysis of works by W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge and James Joyce. In this exploration of postcolonial parallels between these writers, the author focuses on four core issues: Historiography, Nationalism, Language and Displacement.

In art and literature, animals appear not only as an allegoric representation but as a reference which troubles the border between humanity and animality. The aim of the book is to challenge traditional ways of confronting animality with humanity and to consider how the Darwinian turn has modified this relationship in postmodern narratives.

Task of cultural policy is to create and support structures that promote mobilization of creativity of the people to ensure welfare, innovation and pluralism. There is a need to provide a forum for the exchange of concepts of good governance and cultural policy. The role of the arts and of individual artists in the development of society is essential.

This book provides the first ever broad-based account of the changing and multifaceted role of translated children's books in New Zealand, in the process bringing specific characteristics of the local children's book market into sharp relief.

Closely examining ancient and medieval narratives and the codifications of laws, this study sheds light on the illiterate societies of the early Germanic and Slavic peoples.

Aims to aid English teachers at the junior and senior secondary school levels in teaching pronunciation within a regular EFL syllabus. This book highlights key areas of the English phonetic system and provides examples of strategies how to use a course-book for the sake of teaching pronunciation.

A proposal for a language teaching school of thought that treats the first and second language on an equal footing as agents of thinking skills. The main premise of the Gdansk School of ELT is the need for language education in the form of either an independent subject or as part of the first and second language teaching.

This book analyzes policy translation and its ends, how the concept of translation explains the emergence and (ex-)changes of policy ideas in different places and/or across borders in general, as well as the effectiveness of this concept in analyzing cases of actual policy dissemination. The countries to be discussed are South Korea and Germany.

This book represents the proceedings of the International Musicological Conference Musical Romania and Neighbouring Cultures. Traditions, Influences, Identities. The diverse topics include ancient Romanian, Balkan or East-European music, music iconography, Byzantine and folkloristic traditions as well as modern and contemporary music.

The volume offers a fresh perspective on 21st century language instruction. It discusses approaches to teaching, contexts of instruction, testing and assessment, curriculum development and using technology in the classroom, and focuses on developing speaking and writing skills, intercultural communicative competence, and cultural knowledge.

The Polish movement of Solidarity contributed to the collapse of communism in 1989. What is left of Solidarity? How did it evolve, and contribute to the collapse of the old system and to the building of the new? These are the question the authors, leading specialist on the problems of social movements and social change address in this book.

Motivated by such events as the election of the first African American president of the United States of America, the author focuses on slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the resulting segregation of the races. The postscriptum gives a brief picture of several American writers and their fiction during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

This book is a response to changes in modern reality and philosophy of language teaching, offering effective solutions to situations outside of norms and routines. It familiarises readers with contemporary theoretical debate and new research and demonstrates how to easily translate these into practical everyday classroom applications.

In a pastoral theological approach, the book gives insights into Igbo Christian reconciliation rites and their para-liturgical application. Reconciliation is the spiritual cord that ties people to themselves and to God. It strengthens the social, cultural, political and religious lives of the people in a communal and Christian environment.

This book presents an analysis of structural and semantic peculiarities of kinship terms in forty languages belonging to ten families. It suggests typological classification of kinship terms. A number of typological generalizations - universals - are formulated regarding the structure and semantics of kinship terms.

Material Moments in Book Cultures presents essays on topics from the Middle Ages to the present. Thematically, the contributions cover manuscript and print culture, the history of reading and the transmission of texts, the uses of books in magic and comedy, book-trade relations across national and ideological boundaries as well as literary studies.

The nine essays of this volume, devoted to the broadly understood problem of the definition and usage of Hindi, tackle the issue of what "Hindi" is, and analyse its various aspects as official language, link language, language of diasporas, language of cultural and religious tradition, language used in economy and business, etc.

The book includes theoretical and empirical works on economic, environmental and social challenges for food and agricultural sectors. Topics covered are moral, markets and policies, animal welfare, fat taxes, agricultural derivatives markets, food value chains, free trade agreements, food security, food waste and climate change.

This volume presents cognitive-linguistic studies on metaphor and metonymy. It includes papers with a theoretical scope and case studies. The topics range from emotion terms, political and scientific discourse, morphology, cross-cultural variation to internet communication. The authors use corpus-based, qualitative and discourse-analytic methods.

This book analyses the poetry of Ciaran Carson, a Northern-Irish writer. In particular, it discusses the tension between orality and textuality. The author shows how it operates in Carson's major subjects: memory, city and history. Finally, the limits of this dialectic are sketched from an epistemological and metaphysical perspective.

In the first part of the book Ewa Binczyk discusses postulates that have been formulated in response to the problem of the unwanted consequences of the practical success of technoscience (deriving mainly from science and technology studies). In the second part Tomasz Stepien analyses nanotechnology as example of technoscience development and presents the nano-assessment framework.

This volume deals with different aspects of Slavic linguistics. The majority of the papers focus on the morphosyntax of several Slavonic languages. Other areas discussed in the contributions include pragmatics, semantics, and phonetics.

The book argues that in contract societies prestige is no longer an important dimension of social stratification. Empirical research shows a disruption of occupational prestige distribution patterns and low consensus in prestige ratings in Poland. Yet, all social classes still recognise prestige as a valid framework of reference.

The book surveys changes in the occupational structure, income distribution, value systems, lifestyles and attitudes which have spurred the rise of the middle class in Poland after the political turn of 1989. The emergent middle class based on the intelligentsia, executives and owners is examined for locally distinct features and future prospects.

The study compares the traditional Tajik social institution of mahalla - neighborhood - with the concept of civil society generated in Western culture. While mahalla is a typical Eastern concept, embracing the spirit of collectivism, in Western societies, individualism is highly valued. But there are also points that both societies have in common.

Educational practice and theory in the 21st century are struggling with the abundance of digital images. In a culture that was for centuries predominantly verbal, images present a difficulty, but they must be recognized as a blessing rather than as a curse. Not only emotions but also abstract thought inevitably involve images, mental and physical.