Books in the ISSN series

Der Band Erfolgreich recherchieren ¿ Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Informationsressourcen zu allen Teilgebieten der Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften. Vorgestellt werden nicht nur die zentralen Rechercheinstrumente wie Bibliothekskataloge, Fachbibliographien, Internetsuchmaschinen, Aufsatzdatenbanken, Volltextangebote und statistische Datensammlungen, sondern auch Strategien für die erfolgreiche Literatur- und Informationsrecherche. Abgerundet wird der Band durch Hinweise zur Literaturbeschaffung und -verwaltung sowie zum richtigen Zitieren. Ob für das erste Referat oder die Abschlussarbeit - hier bekommen Sie einen kompetenten Leitfaden für die erfolgreiche politik- und sozialwissenschaftliche Recherche an die Hand.

Der Band Erfolgreich recherchieren ¿ Anglistik und Amerikanistik bieteteinen umfassenden Überblick über die Informationsressourcen zu allen Teilgebieten der Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Vorgestellt werden nicht nur die zentralen Rechercheinstrumente wie Internetsuchmaschinen, Bibliothekskataloge, Nachschlagewerke, Fachdatenbanken und Volltextsammlungen, sondern auch Strategien für die erfolgreiche Literatur- und Informationsrecherche. Abgerundet wird der Band durch Hinweise zur Literaturbeschaffung und zum richtigen Zitieren. Ob für das erste Referat oder die Abschlussarbeit - hier bekommen Sie einen kompetenten Leitfaden für die erfolgreiche anglistische und amerikanistische Recherche an die Hand.

On March 11, 2011 the North-East of Japan was hit by a massive magnitude 9 earthquake. The earthquake was followed by a tsunami that destroyed farmland, cities, factories and the infrastructure of the coastal regions and also caused the nuclear meltdowns in the Fukushima Daiichi Powerplant. In media as well as in research the disaster was perceived as a national catastrophe, overlooking itstransnational character. Japanese diasporic communities worldwide organized support and fundraising events to support the devastated regions and thus showed their solidarity with the homeland. In both transient and permanent Japanese communities being active often became a means to overcome the global, local and personal shockwave of the catastrophe and overcome feelings of insecurity. Yet, the broad variety of activities also furthered diasporic civil society and helped to integrate members of Japanese communities more into the surrounding society.By bringing together disaster studies and diaspora studies and analyzing the reactions of Japanese transient and permanent communities in Ghent, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Sao Paulo, Honolulu and London following the Triple Disaster, this volume will help to get a better understanding of how catastrophes effect diasporic communities.

New Directions in Second Language Pragmatics brings together varying perspectives in second language (L2) pragmatics to show both historical developments in the field, while also looking towards the future, including theoretical, empirical, and implementation perspectives. This volume is divided in four sections: teaching and learning speech acts, assessing pragmatic competence, analyzing discourses in digital contexts, and current issues in L2 pragmatics. The chapters focus on various aspects related to the learning, teaching, and assessing of L2 pragmatics and cover a range of learning environments. The authors address current topics in L2 pragmatics such as: speech acts from a discursive perspective; pragmatics instruction in the foreign language classroom and during study abroad; assessment of pragmatic competence; research methods used to collect pragmatics data; pragmatics in computer-mediated contexts; the role of implicit and explicit knowledge; discourse markers as a resource for interaction; and the framework of translingual practice. Taken together, the chapters in this volume foreground innovations and new directions in the field of L2 pragmatics while, at the same time, ground their work in the existing literature. Consequently, this volume both highlights where the field of L2 pragmatics has been and offers cutting-edge insights into where it is going in the future.

This book retells the history of Israeli film in the 1960s and 1970s in sex scenes. Through close readings of the first sex scenes in mainstream Israeli movies from this period, it explores the cultural and social contexts in which these movies were made. More specifically, it discusses how notions of collective identity, individual agency, and the public and private spheres are inscribed into and negotiated in sex scenes, especially in light of the historical events that marked these decades. This study thus pushes away from the traditional academic perception of Israeli film and opens up new ways of understanding how it has developed in recent decades. It draws on a growing international body of academic literature on the cinematic representation of sex in order to illuminate the particularities of the Israeli context in the 1960s and 1970s. Apart from film scholars and scholars of Israeli film, this study also addresses readers interested in Israeli cultural history more broadly.