Books in the Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Europeennes series

Do loanword adaptations apply on a phonological or a phonetic level? This study addresses this issue by investigating the adaptation of German and French loanwords and proper names with front rounded vowels into Japanese.

By examining Ockham's original writings and major contemporary scholarship, the author knits together the seemingly isolated topics to present a unified picture of a medieval mind which had made enormous contribution to the history of human ideas and religious habits.

Educational Inequalities in Europe

Questioning the binary interpretation of incarceration and flight, this study focuses on how, through a transgression of narrated, textual, and metaphorical spaces, the Brontes' feminine protagonists show the ideological divide between male and female spaces to be permeable than acknowledged.

The thesis addresses the question of human consciousness in its oscillation between conditioning and transcendence: the impact of cultural worldviews on the individual's lifeworld and their gradual transcendence as a form of spiritual practice. It discusses the embodiment of belief systems and the individual's power to transcend cultural precepts.

Lands of Desire and Loss develops an interdisciplinary approach connecting the literary and geographical imagination which shape British perception and representation of colonial and postcolonial spaces. Through her readings of literary works belonging to the dawn of colonial enterprises (Walter Raleigh's The Discoverie of Guiana and Shakespeare's The Tempest), the heyday of the British Empire (H. Rider Haggard's She and W.H. Hudson's Green Mansions) and the postcolonial consciousness refashioning old myths and cultural tropes (V.S. Naipaul's A Way in the World), the author highlights the crucial role of ideology in narrative plots and literary metaphors concerning space. The imaginative focus of the book is El Dorado, a geographical and literary construction created and recreated at different times, shaped and reshaped in British colonial and postcolonial writing.

Represents a contribution to endonormative stabilisation of Nigerian English, among the canons of national varieties of English recognised worldwide. This book is suitable for students, researchers, language experts and educators, who are interested in sociolinguistics, phonology, contact linguistics, language corpus planning and standardization.

Private equity investors offer one solution to medium-sized German family businesses facing succession by actively investing in these businesses through the managed process of a buyout or buyin. This study investigates the individual contributions of a range of factors impacting on the realization of a private equity backed succession buyout.

Drawing on a corpus of spoken data, this study focuses on the investigation of the stability of the selected features and hence aims to ascertain which of these are characteristic of Black South African English as a whole.

Offers a case study in foreign policy change. This book examines why the Bush administration suddenly redirected its nuclear nonproliferation policy toward North Korea in the aftermath of North Korea's first nuclear test in October 2006, abandoning its former confrontational approach in favor of a more accommodating line.

As sectarian and political tensions rose after March of 2005, scholars and journalists began to speculate that Lebanon was heading back into civil war. This book offers an answer to the question of why no renewed civil war occurred in Lebanon as well as to the larger question of why civil wars do - or do not - break out.

Analyses women's transnational encounters in the Northern Ireland case. This book connects both the different national contexts of women's movements and different strands of feminism against the setting of a raging local conflict and international frameworks.

Shows the regulation probably yields unintended distributional effects and imposes additional risk on the regulated companies. This study assesses the usefulness of various accounting alternatives and provides evidence that cost and fair value approaches dominate the widely used mixed models.

Brian Moore's Black Robe

Clusters, Networks, and Innovation in Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs)

Focuses on post-merger intercultural integration, effective communication between the relevant cultures and the different politeness strategies adopted by them. In this book, it is argued that cultural differences are a key issue in misunderstandings and miscommunication, which can affect a smooth post-merger integration.

A story is initially memorised by the author in a mental structure which is transferred to the page via the author's choice of location, organisation and imagery. It describes and uncovers memory systems (including the memory palace and the memory journey) in medieval texts.

Offers a discussion of business English vocabulary, a psycholinguistic discussion of what aspects of linguistic knowledge and (meta)cognitive processing mechanisms are involved in completing the task, a psychometric-methodological discussion of how these aspects are measured and scored, and an applied discussion of the usefulness of the test.

By focusing on migration as a journey, the research considers all stages of migration (remigration in particular) and complements the approach to the phenomenon with a life-long perspective. This book discloses motive as a complex phenomenon, which may also change over time.

An attempt to determine why and how tests rose to prominence in an educational system that used to rely on qualitative tests and teacher evaluations. It addresses the important issues of how testing interacts with and influences an educational system, and which common factors are involved in order to implement testing in an educational system.

Through the usage of identification approaches, combined with an extensive presentation of the specific features of Norwegian nation-building, this book offers a lucid account of how Norway's history and culture shape the prism through which many Norwegians view the merits of their country's relations with the emerging European Union.

In pursuit of selfhood, the non-conformist hero of the Post-World War II American South sets out on an uncertain path leading to confrontation and finally transformation. This study examines William Styron's "Sophie's Choice", Flannery O'Connor's "The Violent Bear It Away" and Bobbie Ann Mason's "In Country".

The African Union (AU) aims at creating an African Economic Community (AEC) by 2034. This book shows that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is currently the most advanced and promising REC but still behind schedule in reaching its own integration objectives.