This book offers a concise introduction to synchronic English linguistics. Following an introduction to language and linguistics as such, it provides detailed descriptions of the different language levels: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and meaning in language (comprising semantics and pragmatics). Furthermore, one chapter deals with constructional approaches to English grammar. The final chapter serves as an outlook on the application of linguistic theory in various domains of language use, including historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, language acquisition...
This book offers a concise introduction to synchronic English linguistics. Following an introduction to language and linguistics as such, it provides ...
This volume presents the proceedings of a Coimbra Group conference on networking across borders and frontiers in European culture and society that took place at the University of Graz in September 2007. Organised by the Task Force on Culture, Arts and Humanities it brought together researches from ten different European countries and an array of disciplines across the Humanities and Social Sciences spectrum, from Cultural Anthropology, European Ethnology, History, Literary Studies and Fine Arts to Peace Studies, Sociology and Political Sciences. It explores the capacity of the...
This volume presents the proceedings of a Coimbra Group conference on networking across borders and frontiers in European culture and society that too...
What services should a modern university language centre offer its clients: students, departments, and faculties? How can language centres find out more about the language needs of the different actors at University level? The book pursues a double purpose: first, it offers a coherent theoretical framework for conducting a multiperspective, mixed-mode foreign language needs analysis in a university context. Its second purpose is to show in very detailed analysis what the practical results and consequences of such an analysis can be. After a critical view of data collection methods in foreign...
What services should a modern university language centre offer its clients: students, departments, and faculties? How can language centres find out mo...
Information Comics can be found all over the world. They cover all kinds of topics, address all kinds of audience and reflect all kinds of text genres. This book offers an overview on standard structures, experimental designs and general trends. The comics are analysed according to their genre and narrative structure; the introductory chapters deal with picture design, verbal text in comics and word-picture relationships. The book also contains an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
Information Comics can be found all over the world. They cover all kinds of topics, address all kinds of audience and reflect all kinds of text genres...
Embodying Pragmatism is the first monograph in English devoted to Richard Shusterman, an internationally renowned philosopher and one of today s most innovative thinkers in pragmatism and aesthetics. The book presents a comprehensive account of Shusterman s principal philosophical ideas concerning pragmatism, aesthetics, and literary theory (including such themes as interpretation, aesthetic experience, popular art, and human embodiment culminating in his proposal of a new discipline called -somaesthetics-). As Shusterman s philosophical writings involve a dialogue with both analytic...
Embodying Pragmatism is the first monograph in English devoted to Richard Shusterman, an internationally renowned philosopher and one of today ...
Over the last decades and especially in the new millennium, global society is increasingly facing new risks and challenges on a global scale, demanding global solutions. With their articles on global risks, the authors have contributed to a topic that suffers from severe under-specification. Their contributions can be summoned up under three headings: Identification and Assessment, Normative Reflections and Alternative Modes of Governance. Each of the assembled articles shows, from very different academic perspectives, how international actors states as well as regional and international...
Over the last decades and especially in the new millennium, global society is increasingly facing new risks and challenges on a global scale, demandin...
This book looks at the discursive construction of European identities in a variety of institutional and non-institutional contexts and through a variety of social and political actors. Its multilevel and interdisciplinary approach rooted in the Discourse-Historical tradition of Critical Discourse Analysis allows for a comparison of identity constructions at different levels of Europe s social and political organisation and in different modes of communication. The book analyses discourses as diverse as those of the EU politicians, of Europe s national media as well as of migrants living in...
This book looks at the discursive construction of European identities in a variety of institutional and non-institutional contexts and through a varie...
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the scientific literature on children s film in Europe since the year 2000. An intensive research using online sources, library catalogues, websites complemented by expert interviews was conducted as basis for this literature review. The analysis covers 42 European countries investigating three dimensions: children s film funding, children s film production and distribution and children s film culture, and systematizes the sources on a European, transnational and national level. The distribution of available sources varies strongly depending on...
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the scientific literature on children s film in Europe since the year 2000. An intensive research using...
At the end of compulsory schooling, a quarter of European adolescents do not meet the minimal standards in reading literacy required for life-long learning and a satisfactory private and professional life (cf. the PISA-surveys). Funded by the European Commission (2006-2009), the ADORE Project -Teaching Struggling Adolescent Readers A Comparative Study of Good Practice in European Countries- involved researchers and practitioners from the following 11 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Switzerland. During a...
At the end of compulsory schooling, a quarter of European adolescents do not meet the minimal standards in reading literacy required for life-long lea...
We don t say what we mean. We don t mean what we say. No-one can tell the truth especially when we stick to the facts. Language isn t about words, or information, or things. It s always about us. As with music and painting, we use language to express what we are not able to say. And we can all do it. We all create our own poetry. It is not words that we understand, but the myriad meanings of silence that lie beyond them."
We don t say what we mean. We don t mean what we say. No-one can tell the truth especially when we stick to the facts. Language isn t about words,...