Books published by Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Dieses Forschungsprojekt der Universitaten Bern und Cottbus prasentiert neue Ergebnisse zum Bauverlauf und zur Ausstattung der Kathedrale von Santiago de Compostela. Auf der Basis von Bauforschung, Baugeschichte und Quellenanalyse werden die Befunde mit aktuellen internationalen Forschungen im Themenbereich der Pilgerstrassenarchitektur und -skulptur konfrontiert.

Cet ouvrage analyse la question des personnes deplacees (DPs) en Allemagne occupee apres 1945 selon 3 perspectives : la politique des Etats et des administrations internationales a l'egard des DPs, entre rapatriement et emigration ; le quotidien de ces deracines a l'echelon local ; la constitution de leurs reseaux et modes de representation.

This book increases awareness about Paul's community formation preaching which has been widely ignored in the contemporary homiletical field where the New Homiletic has exerted a strong influence. This interdisciplinary study suggests that contemporary preachers should preach shared narratives and communal norms for the creation of boundaries.

Late nineteenth-century Ireland saw the emergence of a thriving advertising industry and the Irish child played a vital role in establishing this nascent consumer state. Analysing advertisements, historical materials and literature, this book links the child-centred consumer culture of Victorian Ireland with the setting up of the independent state.

Today, we are witnessing a turn in the fashion imaginary as issues related to social, environmental and cultural sustainability come to predominate in many areas of human activity. The book explores a multitude of fashion issues that feed the contemporary fashion imaginary.

This book weaves intensely personal and evocative stories into a layered autoethnographic text about the author's experience of childhood deafness, sign language and education. It is an important contribution to the study of deaf education, disability and deaf health and well-being.

Arguing that certain song types constitute forms of collective memory, this book explores Irish theatre from the 1950s and 1960s to show that songs provide valuable insights into changes in the popular consciousness. As well as illuminating the performances and reception of the plays, it also challenges orthodox narratives of de Valera's Ireland.

This book presents a comparative interdisciplinary socio-psycholinguistic study on plurilingual code-switching (CS) in Italy, Croatia and Scotland-UK, based on Italian in contact with four standard varieties (Spanish, English, Philipino and Croatian) and five non-standard varieties (Arbereshe, Occitan, Calabrese, Istrovenetian and Chakavski).

In the first years of the twentieth century, the tourist industry made the Mediterranean and the Balearic Islands accessible to visitors who capture them in image and word. This book examines how these images were created, developed and articulated to cronstruct a space consecrated to pleasure and leisure signified in today's Majorca and Ibiza.

The PEERS program proposes international exchanges adapted to the context of teacher training institutions wishing to take advantage of internationalization in order to link training, research, and practice. The aim of this collective book is to give an overview of the Issues, case studies and perspectives of the PEERS program.

As a corpus-based typological cognitive study of English binominal quantitative expressions based on English-Chinese comparison, the book discovers functional equivalents of Chinese numeral classifiers in English, i.e. `Quasi-Numeral Classifiers' (QNCs) and unveils the categorisation process reflected by five cases of Dimensionality-based QNCs.

The book investigates social capital in the periods of normality and crisis in SEE; it looks how different dimensions of social capital interact with migration experience and extends this focus to the role of ethnic diversity in affecting social capital. It ends by analysing how ethnic diversity affects the economic performance of individuals.

The volume focuses on discourse-pragmatic studies on evidentiality, epistemic modality, and on deontic modality. It presents studies on the functions and discourse-pragmatic variation of evidential and modal expressions, applying corpus-based methodologies and addressing cross-linguistic issues in several European languages.

This book argues that postnational and postsovereign multi-level governance regimes, including the EU, are mechanisms of global capitalism aimed at privatizing democracy. Through detailed analysis of the Basque case, it illustrates how democratization is closely linked to territory, collective empowerment and institutional political capacity.

In the wake of the Irish potato famine, E.K. Tenison and his wife, Lady Louisa, left their estate in Ireland to reside and travel in Andalusia and, later, in Castile. The adventure on which they embarked led to a husband-and-wife team of astonishing cultural production. This book documents their travels and presents their work to a new readership.