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This book is an attempt to provide a systematic interpretation of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutics in light of one of the most important, interesting and debated questions of the present age: the question concerning the role played by science and technology in shaping...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Liberal Spirit and Anti-Liberal Discourse of John Henry Newman
Not many cardinals get to be declared saints, and even rarer is one who is known for his controversial ideas and interpretation of doctrinal faith both within and outside the church. John Henry Newman (1801-1890), however, beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in September...

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Télécharger le livre :  Crossed Words: Criticism in Scholarly Writing
In order for science to advance, previous research findings must be reviewed and criticized. However, conveying criticism is particularly difficult for scientists who must, at the same time, try to maintain an impersonal stance. This co-edited collection of independent...

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Parution : 2011-10-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Text Complexity and Reading Comprehension Tests
Based on the analysis of a specially compiled corpus of internationally recognized English as a foreign language (EFL) reading tests at different levels of proficiency, this volume explores the relation between the complexity of written texts and the difficulty of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Non-State Actors in Asset Recovery
Non-state actors are of fundamental importance in the prevention and combating of corruption within asset recovery processes. Their roles and responsibilities were considered during an experts’ meeting hosted by the Basel Institute on Governance and the International...

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Télécharger le livre :  Translating Dialects and Languages of Minorities
This book offers a range of analyses of the multiplicity of opinions and ideologies attached to rendering, in familiar or unfamiliar voices, languages known as non-standard varieties. The contributions include theoretical reflections, case studies and comparative...

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Télécharger le livre :  Audiovisual Translation – Subtitles and Subtitling
An increasing number of contributions have appeared in recent years on the subject of Audiovisual Translation (AVT), particularly in relation to dubbing and subtitling. The broad scope of this branch of Translation Studies is challenging because it brings together...

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Télécharger le livre :  Poetic Becomings
What does contemporary French poetry do to the subject? This book examines the means and effects of the subject’s transmutation into various processes of (de-)subjectivation by looking at the works of four contemporary writers: Christian Prigent, Dominique Fourcade,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Developing Academic Literacy
Academic literacy has always been a key underlying theme in English for academic purposes and practitioners and researchers in the field have always had one eye on its development in students. In recent years it has moved into the foreground and become a central field...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Advanced Learner Variety
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...

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Télécharger le livre :  Imagining and Making the World
Although the association between architecture and utopia (the relationship between imagining a new world and exploring how its new conditions can best be organized) might appear obvious from within the domain of utopian studies, architects have long attempted to...

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Télécharger le livre :  Syntax, Style and Grammatical Norms
The volume features a selection of new work presented at the 2004 meeting of the International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL). Main conference themes reflected in this volume are: the maturation and broadening of historical corpus linguistics, a...

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Télécharger le livre :  20 Years after the Collapse of Communism
The volume is an attempt to assess the meanings of 1989, in particular the multiple transformation processes and their effects in Eastern Europe. Obviously, the realities of the post-communist transformations have not met the expectations. Were the expectations too...

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Télécharger le livre :  After the Internet, Before Democracy
China has lived with the Internet for nearly two decades. Will increased Internet use, with new possibilities to share information and discuss news and politics, lead to democracy, or will it to the contrary sustain a nationalist supported authoritarianism that may...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-09-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Lucan Journey
This work investigates the Lucan journey motif from a literary and theological perspective. It starts by examining the indications of movement in the narrative sequence of the Gospel. Using the historical-critical method, the author continues with a study of the...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-09-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Musical Semantics
Music offers a new insight into human cognition. The musical play with sounds in time, in which we share feelings, gestures and narratives, has fascinated people from all times and cultures. The author studies this semiotic behavior in the light of research from a...

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Télécharger le livre :  Explorations in Specialized Genres
Genre analysis has become firmly established as one of the most popular frameworks for the study of specialized genres in academic, professional and institutional as well as other workplace contexts. In recent years, genre theory has also developed in the direction of a...

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Télécharger le livre :  Corpus-based Studies of Diachronic English
Corpus-based studies of diachronic English have been thriving over the last three decades to such an extent that the validity of corpora in the enrichment of historical linguistic research is now undeniable. The present book is a collection of papers illustrating the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Systems for the Phonetic Transcription of English: Theory and Texts
This book covers in a systematic way the main systems of phonetic transcription currently used for English. Unlike other texts in the market, which focus on just one type of transcriptional model, the book provides theoretical information and full practice for all...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-08-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Becoming Multilingual
Research into the complex phenomenon of multilingualism is rapidly increasing. This book looks at multilingualism through its interfaces with language policies, language attitudes and issues of language awareness and identity. The aim is to examine the dynamic processes...

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