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Languages of Science between Western and Eastern Civilizations
(2024)
In this volume, specialists in various fields of cultural studies investigate the ways in which scientific knowledge was transferred and disseminated throughout Eurasia between the 17th and 19th centuries. The papers ...
›Humanitas‹ in the Imperial Age
(2024)
One of the most polysemic Latin words, humanitas was a core concept in Roman society and has become very influential in Western culture. Notwithstanding, some periods in the long history of humanitas have been little ...
Die Briefe Christiana von Goethes
(2024)
As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s life partner, Christiana von Goethe (née Vulpius) corresponded extensively, providing remarkable insights into her language and writing practice. This volume examines her letters linguistically ...
»Es gibt noch Arbeiter in Deutschland«
(2024)
Laborers have long since disappeared from the political stage – seemingly inevitably as a result of structural change. However, if one understands ‘laborers’ as a resource of social knowledge, actors such as trade unionists, ...
Virtuelle Museen – Ein Plädoyer
(2024)
Digital technologies have opened up new possibilities for the cultural sector. Many museums are represented on the internet with various materials. Augmented reality and virtual reality offer immersion experiences even for ...
Remote Places, Public Spaces
(2024)
The SMOTIES network is a partnership of ten design universities, research centres, creative agencies, and national associations. Each partner selected a small and remote place in their country to benefit from the design ...
Die Wiederkehr der Rache
(2024)
Revenge and retribution are making a comeback: aggressive emotions are being assessed more positively, the retribution theory of punishment is back in vogue, and retaliatory practices seem to serve a crucial role from both ...
Models, Measurement, and Metrology Extending the SI
(2024)
The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy, history, theory, and practice of measurement across the sciences, emphasizing often overlooked or undervalued resources providing much-needed correctives ...
Audiovisuelle Rhetorik als politische Intervention
(2024)
How do films and videos position themselves in the age of the "Alt-Right," #BlackLivesMatter, and financial and climate crises? In their interventions, they shape the perception of contemporary political crises. They raise ...
Dimensionen literarischer Mobilität
(2024)
In this volume, renowned authors illustrate four dimensions of literary mobility: literary theory, the literary market, mobility as a motif, and relevant genres (like travel literature).
Migration, Post-Socialism, and Diasporic Experiences. Fragmented Lives, Entangled Worlds / Migration, Postsozialismus und Diaspora-Erfahrungen. Fragmentierte Leben, verflochtene Welten
(2024)
This issue aims to deepen our understanding of the mobility and complex diasporic experiences of individuals from the former Soviet Union, exploring their intricate histories, current circumstances, and future aspirations. ...
Charis oder Riskante Reziprozität
(2024)
What brings and keeps people together? In Marcel Mauss’s theory of the gift, art is attributed a crucial social function. Starting with the issue of the sociopolitical relevance of aesthetics, this volume compares central ...
Mittelalterliche Lyrik im Kontext
(2024)
The anthology, which is the result of an interdisciplinary conference in Munich, looks at medieval lyric poetry from a European perspective. It examines the points of contact, as well as differences, between the poetry of ...
The Concept of Constitution in the History of Political Thought
(2017)
The aim of the present volume is to discuss the notion of constitution from the perspectives of history of political thought. Its scholarly intention is to go beyond the approach concentrating on the formal understanding ...
La connaissance du Saint-Empire en France du baroque aux Lumières 1643-1756
(2010)
Das föderale Alte Reich gilt heute wie auch im zeitgenössischen Frankreich in Vielem als vorbildlich. Guido Braun befasst sich mit seinem Bild bei den französischen Staatsmännern, Diplomaten, Juristen, Historikern und ...
Aspectuality. An Onomasiological Model Applied to the Romance Languages
(2020)
This synchronic study presents a new onomasiological, frame-theoretical model for the description, classification and theoretical analysis of the cross-linguistic content category aspectuality. It deals specifically with ...
Demokratie, Recht und soziale Kontrolle im klassischen Athen
(2002)
Die im vorliegenden Band dokumentierte Tagung hatte es sich zum Zielgesetzt, eine genauso internationale wie interdisziplinäreForschergruppe zum Thema Soziale Kontrolle zu befragen.Wenngleich mit Athen und Rom die antike ...
Dialektik und Rhetorik im frühen und hohen Mittelalter. Rezeption, Überlieferung und gesellschaftliche Wirkung antiker Gelehrsamkeit vornehmlich im 9. und 12. Jahrhundert
(1997)
Dialektik und Rhetorik waren im mittelalterlichen Alltagallgegenwärtig. Die klassischen Schuldisziplinen, Grundlagescholastischer Wissenschaft, stehen im Zentrum dieses Sammelbandes. DieAutoren beschäftigen sich jeweils ...
Dividing Texts. Conventions of Visual Text-Organisation in Nepalese and North Indian Manuscripts
(2020)
The number of manuscripts produced in the Indian sub-continent is astounding and is the result of a massive enterprise. The visual organization of texts in North Indian and Nepalese manuscripts from 800 to 1300 CE is at ...
Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture
(2010)
The volume assesses performative structures within a variety of medieval forms of textuality, from vernacular literature to records of parliamentary proceedings, from prayer books to musical composition. Three issues are ...
Aspects of Linguistic Variation
(2019)
This volume brings together papers on linguistic variation. It takes a broad perspective, covering not only crosslinguistic and diachronic but also intralinguistic and interspeaker variation, and examines phenomena ranging ...
The Construct of Identity in Hellenistic Judaism. Essays on Early Jewish Literature and History
(2016)
This volume assembles twenty-three essays by Erich S. Gruen, who has written extensively on the literature and history of early Judaism and the experience of the Jews in the Greco-Roman world. Twenty-two of the articles ...
The Densification Process of Wood Waste
(2015)
This book examines the very current issue of wood waste treatment to a solid biofuel for energy recovery. The book is dedicated to research in the densification processes of wood waste and its mathematical description for ...
Diversification of Mexican Spanish. A Tridimensional Study in New World Sociolinguistics
(2016)
This book covers the analysis of Spanish written from the early 16th to the early 19th century, immediately before the Independent period in most Spanish-speaking colonies. It is based on manuscripts such as the Segunda ...
The Contents of Perceptual Experience. A Kantian Perspective
(2014)
The book addresses the debate on whether the representational content of perceptual experience is conceptual or non-conceptual, by bringing out the points of comparison between Kant’s conception of intuition and the ...
Cosmopolitan Responsibility. Global Injustice, Relational Equality, and Individual Agency
(2020)
The world we live in is unjust. Preventable deprivation and suffering shape the lives of many people, while others enjoy advantages and privileges aplenty. Cosmopolitan responsibility addresses the moral responsibilities ...
Diaspora, Law and Literature
(2017)
The well-known challenges of international migration have triggered new departures in academic approaches, with 'diaspora studies' evolving as an interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary field of study. Its emerging ...
Digital Papyrology I. Methods, Tools and Trends
(2017)
Since the very beginnings of the digital humanities, Papyrology has been in the vanguard of the application of information technologies to its own scientific purposes, for both theoretical and practical reasons (the strong ...
Consciousness and Subjectivity
(2013)
Issues of subjectivity and consciousness are dealt with in very different ways in the analytic tradition and in the idealistic–phenomenological tradition central to continental philosophy. This book brings together ...
Data Loam. Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft. The Future of Knowledge Systems
(2021)
As an urgent response to the continually growing flood of information to which libraries, search engines, and cultural institutions are exposed, Data Loam combines radical approaches and strategies from the international ...
Contemporary Debates in Bioethics: European Perspectives
(2019)
The volume aims to capture a European gist of theoretical sensibilities, conceptual resources, and research interests, but not in an adversarial way, as opposed to American bioethics. The volume gathers contributions from ...
Coordination Abilities in Volleyball
(2014)
The author presents a general view on sports training, its eriodization and the role of coordination in the initial stages of preparation in volleyball. He also deals with inter-gender differences in levels of such abilities, ...
Derrida on Being as Presence. Questions and Quests
(2017)
acques Derrida’s extensive early writings devoted considerable attention to “being as presence,” the reality underlying the history of metaphysics. In Derrida on Being as Presence: Questions and Quests, David A. White ...
Cultures. Conflict - Analysis - Dialogue. Proceedings of the 29th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, Austria
(2013)
What can systematic philosophy contribute to come from conflict between cultures to a substantial dialogue? - This question was the general theme of the 29th international symposium of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein ...
Deutsch im Sprachvergleich. Grammatische Kontraste und Konvergenzen
(2012)
Cross-language comparison can show where German structures diverge from and converge with those of other languages. The essays in the 2011 Yearbook of the Institute for German Language compare German with other languages ...
Das Deutsch der Migranten
(2013)
The subject of this annual volume for 2012 is the usage and forms of German as spoken by immigrants. The work addresses the acquisition of German as a second language, particularities in the German spoken by individuals ...
Deutsch von außen
(2019)
What is the status and image of German in comparison to otherlanguages? What role does German play as an academic teaching andresearch subject in non-German-speaking countries? The papers inthis volume examine contemporary ...
Deutsch - Typologisch
(1996)
Ästhetik des Gemachten. Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Animations- und Comicforschung
(2018)
Animation und Comic weisen in ihren Ästhetiken offenkundige Parallelen auf, denen jedoch bislang in der jeweils einschlägigen Forschung kaum angemessene Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet wurde. Die im vorliegenden Band versammelten ...
Cooperation and Conflict the Nordic Way. Work, Welfare, and Institutional Change in Scandinavia
(2015)
The Nordic model attracts attention in a mixture of applause and disbelief. Among its merits, but also a precondition to its future survival, is its capacity to modify and adapt to changing circumstances. This book scrutinizes ...
Coolies of Capitalism. Assam Tea and the Making of Coolie Labour
(2016)
Coolie labour was often proclaimed as a deliberate compromise straddling the regimes of the past (slave labour) and the future (free labour). In the late 1850s, the locals were replaced by labourers imported from outside ...
Democratic State and Democratic Society. Institutional Change in the Nordic Model
(2019)
This book focuses on institutional change in Nordic societies. Among the Nordics, the main emphasis is on Norway, in many ways the best example of neo-corporatism. The main emphasise is put on the interplay of democracy ...
Diplomatie mit Gefühl. Vertrauen, Misstrauen und die Außenpolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
(2015)
Following the Second World War, Germany no longer enjoyed the trust of other nations. What did West Germany do to rebuild confidence? What was the role of trust, mistrust, and supervision during the East-West conflict as ...
Deutschland, Russland, Komintern. II. Dokumente (1918–1943). Nach der Archivrevolution: Neuerschlossene Quellen zu der Geschichte der KPD und den deutsch-russischen Beziehungen
(2014)
Since its creation in 1998, the “German-Russian Historical Commission” has conducted research on the Communist International. Thanks to the archival revolution, the Commission has succeeded in closing important gaps in ...
Das deutschsprachige Prosagedicht. Theorie und Geschichte einer literarischen Gattung der Moderne
(2005)
The study examines the entire spectrum of forms taken by the prose poem in Germany between 1880 and 1920, presenting the first comprehensive history of this genre in the European literary context from a perspective angled ...
Deutschlandpolitik 1949-1972
(1984)
Diskursive Verfestigungen. Schnittstellen zwischen Morphosyntax, Phraseologie und Pragmatik im Deutschen und im Sprachvergleich
(2018)
Zentrales Thema des Sammelbandes ist der Begriff der Verfestigung bzw. der formalen Stabilität im Deutschen und im Sprachvergleich, der die Aktualität der neueren lexikographischen und phraseologischen Forschung besonders ...
Diskurserwerb in Familie, Peergroup und Unterricht. Passungen und Teilhabechancen
(2021)
Wie kommt es, dass Sprachkompetenz und Bildungserfolg so eng mit dem Elternhaus zusammenhängen? Welche Rolle spielen Argumentieren und Erklären in Unterricht, Familie und Peergroup für die Entstehung unterschiedlicher ...
Disruption in the Arts. Textual, Visual, and Performative Strategies for Analyzing Societal Self-Descriptions
(2018)
The volume examines aesthetic disruptions within the various arts in contemporary culture. It assumes that the political potential of art is not solely derived from presenting its audiences with openly political content. ...
Disseminating Jewish Literatures. Knowledge, Research, Curricula
(2020)
The multilingualism and polyphony of Jewish literary writing across the globe demands a collaborative, comparative, and interdisciplinary investigation into questions regarding methods of researching and teaching literatures. ...
Constituent, Confederate, and Conquered Space. The Emergence of the Mittani State
(2014)
The Mittani empire is one of the most enigmatic political structures in Mesopotamian history. Reconstructing the emergence and the organisation of this state, whose territory encompassed Upper Mesopotamia touching the ...
Constructivist Blended Learning Approach to Teaching English for Specific Purposes
(2012)
This monograph analyzes an innovative approach to teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in tertiary education. This "constructivist blended learning approach" is based on students "constructing" for themselves their ...
Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy. From Practice to Discipline
(2018)
This miscellaneous volume collects contributions on nineteen projects dealing with Digital Epigraphy – they are diversified in geographic and chronological context, for script and language, and for typology of digital ...
Crossing Languages to Play with Words. Multidisciplinary Perspectives
(2016)
Wordplay involving several linguistic codes is an important modality of ludic language. This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the topic, discussing examples from different epochs, genres, and communicative ...
Current Trends in Historical Sociolinguistics
(2016)
The volume collects original studies highlighting contemporary trends in historical sociolinguistics, as well as current research on the relationship between sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, social motivations ...