Shortlisted for the Anne Bloomfield Prize 2010
This book fills in the gaps in the research of nationality, regarding national education in its double meaning: compulsory national education for all and creating opportunities for fostering national consciousness. Studies in the field have merely emphasized the importance of a national language, compulsory education, curricula of the humanities, and symbols and memories. However, are educational devices less important than contents? Is National education carried out only via the curricula implemented, or also by the great variety of...

In their struggle for universal suffrage, the Chartists adapted language to further their cause. Adopting the prevailing keywords of the time and reformulating them within their own cultural environment, the Chartists defined and redefined their own political identity and interpreted the situation they lived in. This book is a case study of Chartism as an example of how radical political movements present themselves in language and how they appear in networks of meaning. Chartist vocabulary and keywords are studied in their historical context and decoded according to political, social and...

Ce volume presente les deliberations des Deuxiemes Rencontres Internationales harmoniques du printemps 2004. Les conferences ont ete donnees par des experts des instruments a claviers et des cuivres. L accent a ete mis sur une variete de traditions historiques de facture instrumentale et sur l histoire du renouveau de l utilisation d instruments anciens. Les contributions traitent non seulement des parametres des pratiques instrumentales, mais encore de l inspiration donnee dans ces domaines par quelques pionniers du renouveau de la musique ancienne. Dans bien des cas, les auteurs se...

This volume comprises contributions originally presented at the 15th European Symposium on Languages for Special Purposes held at the University of Bergamo on 29 August - 2 September 2005. The volume is divided into four parts: Approaches to Terminological Theories; Terms in Discourse; Knowledge Elicitation, Ordering and Management; Term extraction and terminographical work.
The research presented in the various contributions to this volume clearly indicates that terminology as an inter- and transdisciplinary field of knowledge is firmly developing its theoretical foundations and...

This book is about the tumultuous and even passionate relationship between New Education and Educational Sciences, which are regarded as an inseparable -couple-, intrinsically linked and surprisingly fruitful. Yet they remain irreconcilable and are mutually contradictory in a number of their elements and characteristics. Do Educational Sciences offer a scientific base or ideological support for New Education? Do the numerous new educational initiatives and reforms provide a -laboratory- for Educational Sciences or alternatives to the new scientific paradigms? Is this at the risk of their...

Taking their cue from the polymorphous relationship between word and image, the essays of this book explore how different media translate the world of phenomena into aesthetic, intellectual or sensual experience. They embrace the media of poetry, fiction, drama, engraving, painting, photography, film and advertising posters ranging from the early modern to the postmodern periods. At the heart of the volume lie essays on works that characteristically perform intriguing interactions between the verbal and visual modes. They discuss the manifold ways in which artists as different as William...

Die osterreichische Schriftstellerin Anna Gmeyner veroffentlichte 1941 unter dem Pseudonym Anna Reiner ihren zweiten Exilroman: Cafe du Dome. Er steht in der Tradition des Zeitromans der Weimarer Republik und schildert den Alltag der Exilanten im Paris Mitte der 1930er Jahre. Im und um das Cafe, dem zentralen Treffpunkt und Zufluchtsort, entfalten sich kaleidoskopisch ihre Geschichten.
Der Deutschlandroman Manja. Ein Roman um funf Kinder (1938), mit dem Gmeyner in den 1980er Jahren wiederentdeckt wurde, war 1938 im Amsterdamer Querido-Verlag erschienen. Auch Cafe du...

In the 1580s, almost a century after Christopher Columbus first set foot in the New World, England could not make any substantial claim to the rich territories there. Less than a century later, England had not only founded an overseas empire but had also managed to challenge her most powerful rivals in the international arena. But before any material success accompanied English New World enterprises, a major campaign of promotion was launched with the clear objective of persuading Englishmen that intervention in the Americas was not only desirable for the national economy but even paramount...

This volume originates from a workshop entitled Revisiting advanced varieties in L2 learning organized by the editors at Aston University (Birmingham, UK) in June 2006. It consists of a peer-reviewed selection of the best contributions.
Many different approaches have been used in the study of advanced learners and their characteristics. Specific areas of language have repeatedly been found to remain problematic even at advanced levels, and much empirical research has been carried out. In particular, areas of grammar such as the tense or agreement systems often pose difficulties, as well...

Dieser Band ist Alexander Stephan gewidmet und spiegelt dessen wissenschaftliche Interessengebiete und Leistungen wider. Das Buch enthalt Aufsatze von fuhrenden Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern zur Politik und Kultur deutsch-amerikanischer Beziehungen sowie zur Tradition der Kulturvermittlung. Die Themen reichen von der aktuellen Politik, Kulturdiplomatie und Amerikanisierung bis zur historischen Auseinandersetzung mit mitteleuropaischen Kunstlern und Schriftstellern, die als Intellektuelle einen wesentlichen Einfluss auf die Kulturpolitik der 20er Jahre und auf die Zeit nach dem...