Books published by Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

This book constitutes the first Biography of Wickham Steed (1871-1956). Hailed as "the greatest journalist of his time" and the world's greatest authority on Central Europe, he was considered the "spiritual godfather" of the post-Habsburg new states.

This study observes the composition and distribution of books in the diversity of its aesthetic possibilities: the several materials and formats are considered, together with all the different participants to the publishing process (writers, artists, bookbinders, publishers).

In February 1943 intermarried Germans gathered in the now famous Rosenstrasse to protest the feared deportation of their Jewish spouses. This book examines the competing representations of the Rosenstrasse protest in contemporary Germany, demonstrating how cultural memories of this event are intertwined with each other and concepts of identity.

The book examines the linguistic varieties in the MS 133 Digby Mary Magdalene. It shows that most unusual forms are diatopic and diastratic alternatives used in specific religious contexts to realize well-defined sociolinguistic purposes.

The volume is the first modern edition of the 1373 Middle English herbal by John Lelamour, as contained in London, British Library, MS Sloane 5, ff. 13r-57r. The edition is critical and is accompanied by an introduction on the authorship, sources, language and history of the text, a number of explanatory notes, a glossary and several appendixes.

This is a collection of research papers on competition in English affixation. The book presents diachronic and synchronic research both onomasiological and semasiological. The first three chapters review the literature and provide the theoretical framework for the experimental description of the remaining chapters.

The focus of this book is to investigate interprofessional telephone interaction, a routine yet disruptive activity at the hospital, and to expose how nurses and physicians coordinate in view of delivering efficient patient care. The analysis of recorded calls at a Swiss hospital displays the variable formats through which nurses produce requests.

This book examines the unstable boundary between theology and secularity. Rather than locating these in a constant state of opposition, it charts a path toward their reconciliation. It moves from a hermeneutical reading of Meister Eckhart's defining statement that 'Being is God' to a mystically informed understanding of God's presence in the world.

This book explores the various options and techniques available to and used by translators when translating from English to Japanese. The work is rich in both the theory and practice of translation and contains numerous examples from popular texts, ranging from classics to detective novels to science fiction.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, Gunter Demnig has been installing his Stolpersteine (Stumbling Stones) all over Europe to commemorate the victims of National Socialism. Today, the Stolpersteine constitute the world's second largest Holocaust monument. In this book the author addresses some of the most crucial issues raised by these memorial stones.

The book explores how recent forms of resistance to European integration have affected the way in which the EU discursively represents itself to the public as a legitimate political entity. It detects the longitudinal evolution of the discursive strategies enacted by the EU in the field of communication policy to encourage popular endorsement.

This volume comprises a selection of papers delivered at the Fourth ELC International Postgraduate Conference on Language and Cognition (ELC4). The eleven papers collected here pertain to different areas of linguistics as varied as diachronic linguistics, syntax, pragmatics or psycholinguistics.

The way the body is considered and explored in the performing arts has assumed a growing importance. In the context of live performance in Portugal, this book brings together different approaches addressing current theoretical debates on the body, relating to issues such as the theory of affects, ethics, gender, age, discourse and representation.

Contemporary artists have embraced gravity as an immaterial readymade. Focusing on material practices - sculpture, installation, performance, and film - this book takes account of how and why artists have used gravity, exploring examples by Rodney Graham, Stan Douglas, Trisha Brown, Bruce Nauman, Catherine Yass, and more.

This book examines media representation of migrant workers in China. Drawing on discourse analysis and sociolinguistic theories, it investigates how identities of and stances towards migrant workers were constructed and mediated in media with a view to exploring the interrelationship between media representation and social change in China.

This volume explores contemporary French women's writing through the prism of one of the defining moments of modern feminism: the writings of the 1970s that came to be known as "French feminism".

This book compares vocational training in Australia, Ireland and the UK and analyses why social partner cooperation in training differs between cases. In-depth case studies show that this divergence is due to different coalitions between political parties, unions and employers in training reform politics.

The volume deals with different aspects of the crisis governance during the floods in 2014 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. It highlights the specific crisis responses in each country, influenced by the existing institutions, crisis leadership, social and economic capital, media and the role of international financial aid.

This study has been carried out in institutional and non-institutional settings implementing online tandems and student recordings to analyze discourse patterns. The original studies on corpus data of the L3Task project reflect findings, research paradigms and instruments that consolidate teaching and methodology on online tandem practice.

Through a selection of empirical studies anchored in analyses of authentic and contextualized language data, Taboo in Discourse explores the complex interplay between taboo and language in a range of social contexts, cultural settings and real-world discourse types from a broad and multidisciplinary perspective.

This book discusses values and the exercise of practical rationality. The main feature of the research is the multiplicity of approaches of the exercise of practical rationality and the consideration of different spheres of values, that is the ethical, political and aesthetic ones.

Basque self-determination was long curtailed by political violence. In 2011, ETA announced a permanent cessation of operations. This book describes the contemporary re-imagining of Basque nationhood in both Spain and France. It explores the new debates that emerged since the demise of non-state militancy and analyses local transformations.

This study addresses the concept and forms of dissemination in political communication and news media. It investigates the new age of dissemination of global communication manifested in a new relationship between political communication and media systems.

History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. Volume 1 covers Anglo-Saxon literature, including Gower, Langland and Chaucer, and ends with Elizabethan theatre and literature, excluding Shakespeare.

This is the first book to explore the importance of agriculture in relation to the restoration of the Jerusalem temple in the Book of Haggai during the Achaemenid period. Scholars discussing the rebuilding of the temple have mainly focused on the political and social context. Additionally, the missions of Ezra and Nehemiah have been used as a basis for analysing the economy of postexilic Judah. This has, however, understated the wider socio-economic significance of the temple by disregarding the agricultural capacity of Judah. The Book of Haggai is primarily concerned with agriculture and the temple. This analysis of Haggai includes an examination of the temple's reconstruction from a historical and economic point of view, with agriculture playing a central role. Archaeological records are examined and show that prized commodities such as olives and grapes were produced in and around Jerusalem in large quantities and exported all over the ancient Near East. This book is intended to shed new light on the value of agriculture for the people of Judah and the whole imperial economy. It also presents a new interpretation of the Book of Haggai and a new perspective on the temple economy in Jerusalem.