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Das Thema des Sammelbandes ist die Fremdsprachenpragmatik, d.h., pragmatische Kompetenz und ihre Vermittlung im schulischen Fremdsprachenunterricht. In zehn Beitragen wird die Bedeutung pragmatischer Fertigkeiten fur die kommunikative Kompetenz theoretisch und forschungsbasiert diskutiert und es werden unterrichtspraktische Vorschlage abgeleitet.

The contributions discuss new approaches from the broad field of digital humanities. Special attention is given to linguistic and pragmatic/discourse analyses of statistically significant multi-word expressions in literary texts, ways of identifying literary genres with the aid of statistical methods and corpus stylistics.

This monograph demonstrates that the book of Genesis is a result of highly creative, hypertextual reworking of Deuteronomy. This detailed reworking consists of around 1,000 strictly sequentially organized thematic, and at times also linguistic correspondences between Genesis and Deuteronomy. They explain numerous surprising features of Genesis.

This monograph demonstrates that the books of Exodus-Numbers are a result of highly creative reworking of Deuteronomy. This reworking consists of around 1,200 strictly sequentially organized matter, and at times also linguistic correspondences between Exodus-Numbers and Deuteronomy. They explain numerous surprising features of Exodus-Numbers.

This monograph demonstrates that the book of Deuteronomy is a result of highly creative reworking of the book of Ezekiel, and the books of Joshua-Judges are a result of highly creative reworking of Deuteronomy. In both cases, the reworking consists of almost 700 strictly sequentially organized thematic, and at times also linguistic correspondences.

The book deals with manifestations and relics of magical thinking in narrative folklore of Cieszyn Silesia (Teschen Silesia, Tisinske Slezsko). The author focuses on the cognitive dimension of socially shared narratives and demonstrates how they re-produce the magical picture of the world. He redefines the cognitivist concept of categorization.

In this first comprehensive study of Plato's conception of justice, the recognition of human dignity plays a crucial role for understanding the individual in relation to the law and state. Plato's philosophy turns out to provide foundations for modern-day human rights protection rather than for totalitarian approaches.

The volume provides an up-to-date view of Central and Eastern Europe and problems shared by the CEE countries 30 years after the 1989 changes. The perspectives thereby include both those of insiders as well as those from outside the CEE region - whereby even those from the outside clearly have an important message to convey for the region.

This is an extensive and thorough survey of the Venetian instrumental concerto of the Baroque era. It provides sufficient details to identify composers of lesser and greater stature, but also to pinpoint relationships, similarities and stylistic differences between various authors and localities.

The book focuses on the cities and urban policy systems analysed in the strategic (long-term) perspective. Due to this unique perspective, it enables the multifactorial analysis of the conditions and mechanisms of creating the urban policy system in the Visegrad Group states and Ukraine.

This publication deals with the economic relations of Poland and other Central and Eastern European countries. The authors present a methodological outline, an analysis of economic history and trade relations in the region including geo-economic aspects. Moreover, the book includes an analysis of the most important Polish figures of economic life.

This book begins a series of publications devoted to political reflection on the integration of Central and Eastern Europe with the participation, or even under the aegis, of Poland. The attempts to make it happen have lasted from the late nineteenth to the outset of the twenty-first century.

The book is an attempt to deliver a comprehensive analysis of the idea of the state in Robert von Mohl's thought. The author discusses both the historical and the contemporary dimensions of his ideas.