Books published by Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

The aim of this book is to propose an original hypothesis to account for the difficulties associated with dyslexia, suggesting that this disorder is characterized by deficits affecting the subject's phonological and processing abilities. The results of four experimental protocols are discussed, providing further support for this hypothesis.

The volume deals with the development of the String Quartet in Spain from the eighteenth century up to the present. It includes 24 studies on composers and specific works from different perspectives, and provides information about the primary and secondary sources located to date.

This new study investigates how Spain was represented in Irish fiction, plays, poems and travelogues written in a period covering the first five decades of Irish independence as well as the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975).

This volume focuses on the study of linguistic manipulation, persuasion and power in the written texts of professional communication, bringing forth studies on the language of various specialised fields such as law and arbitration, engineering, economics, advertising, business, politics, medicine, social work, education and the media.

The aim of this volume is to give voice to the various perspectives in the investigation of tourism discourse in its written, spoken, and visual aspects. The chapters focus on the interaction between the participants involved in the tourism practices, that is the promoters of tourist destinations, tourists or prospective tourists.

The study presents the oldest detailed mortality tables worldwide, for the year 1635, including model life tables. Mortality tables are also provided for the times of plague epidemics, something never done before. Gaps are also filled with population structures and age pyramids, with premarital sex and with the importance of remarriages.

During the early half of the twentieth century, Chinese society was disillusioned by both internal dissension and external invasion, and the churches experienced many challenges. In response to the traumatic events of 1920-1949, the Chinese theologian Prof. T. C. Chao tried to construct a 'new religion' for China.

This book tells the story of mid-20th century Jewish America through the eyes of Bernice Cohen Schwartz, born in NYC in 1923, whose life reflects much of American Jewry's 20th century history: the Great Depression, WWII, Jewish educational and Institutions, the response to Israel, and the development of Jewish suburbia.

What should we do with places that were theatres of mass suffering and atrocity? Should we keep them as they were, to remind us of the past, or transform them? This volume addresses these questions by discussing selected key trauma sites, analysed with an innovative semiotic methodology that sheds new light on the notions of trauma and memory.

Throughout the modern era, the figure of the child has consistently reflected adult concerns about industrialisation, consumerism and technology. Drawing on case studies of Wallace and Gromit, Teletubbies, Horrible Histories and more, this book explores how media products for children navigate understandings of childhood and child audiences.

The book presents a highly original account of the wave of Russophilia that pervaded British literary culture in the early twentieth century. It explores the literary phenomenon through two theoretical models from the social sciences: Orientalism and Bourdieu's notion of "cultural capital".

This volume deals with collocations from a lexicographic perspective by addressing, in detail, the boundaries between collocations and other word combinations, the possibility of adapting the definition of collocation to the objectives of specific dictionaries, and approaches towards collocation extraction for lexicographic purposes.

At the XIst World Congress of Historical Sciences (CISH) in Stockholm 1960, an interdisciplinary International Commission for Historical Demography was created, where researchers in letters and science could meet, and develop a new field with global dimensions and ambitions.

The two volumes of Reviewing Dante's Theology bring together work by a range of internationally prominent Dante scholars to assess current research on Dante's theology and to suggest future directions for research. Volume 2 considers some of the broader social, cultural and intellectual contexts for Dante's theological engagement.

Networked Remembrance is the first book to explore questions of urban memory in the underground railways of the contemporary city. Using London's and Berlin's underground railways as comparative case studies, this book reveals how social memories are spatially produced within the everyday and concealed places in these networks.

These essays provide new perspectives on John Berryman's work by critics from Ireland, the UK, Canada and the USA. Encompassing a wide range of scholarly perspectives and introducing several emerging voices in the field of Berryman studies, the volume points to new directions for critical study and creative engagement with the poet's work.

Around the tenth century Jewish merchants from Central Asia arrived in Kaifeng. Welcomed by the Emperor, they integrated into China's economy, society and culture. They intermarried with their hosts, following patrilocal custom with Chinese wives adopting their husbands' Jewish traditions. In 1163 they built a synagogue, where the group, numbering 5,000 at its apex in the sixteenth century, continued to conduct Jewish rituals for seven centuries. Despite the loss of this building in 1849 by flooding, the families and clans of Jewish descent continued to recall their ancestral identity and preserved a few basic customs. In 1978 with the "e;opening-up"e; of China, foreign visitors to Kaifeng generated both a renewed interest in the group and a communal revival of its Jewish identification. This cultural revival has created both opportunities and risks, due largely to an ambivalent Chinese policy denying ethnic status to the Kaifeng Jews while allowing them limited cultural expression. This book explores how a small minority was able to transmit its blend of Sino-Judaic culture over the centuries and how their descendants are striving to revitalise that cultural heritage today.

The dignity of the person has always been a key theme of Pope John Paul II; perhaps less well known is his emphasis on self-mastery as intrinsic to such dignity. In this book, the author traces this daring portrait of human love back to the early writings of Karol Wojtyla.

Much has been written about the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, but one story remains untold: the story of the grassroots activism that maintained local communities in the face of violence. This book speaks through the voices of the activists themselves, drawn from both sides of a divided society.

The present study examines the interrelation between literary texts, their successive retranslations and the corresponding historical, social and cultural backgrounds that inform these versions. The book considers how translations of works may change over time and how this influences perceptions of the translated authors themselves.

Concepts of Nature - the first volume of the project Naturally Hypernatural - argues that contemporary art is predominantly concerned with concepts of nature regarding the depth of their implications in order to reveal and analyze their internal structure.

This volume examines the relationship between poetic language and place in the work of Paul Muldoon. Through a close reading of the formal aspects of his poems, it explores how poetry as an art form can be engaged to map the complex relationships between language and the material, phenomenal, personal and social aspects of our sense of place.

This book starts from the premise that human rights are grounded in the dignity and worth of the human person. Drawing on key philosophical and theological sources on dignity, it builds a vision of human rights and religious education that seeks to square the impossible circle of universal human rights education in a religiously diverse world.

Mario de Sa-Carneiro's legacy is a rich corpus of inventive, playful, even daring texts. This first English collection dedicated to his work brings together scholars from Portugal, Brazil, and the USA to delve into the complexities and paradoxes of his work, placing it in a wider literary and artistic context.

This volume reflects how the field of comparative literary scholarship and study is itself faced with the reality of transition: the included contributions, ranging from medieval literature to digital humanities, highlight the diversity of discourse involved, depicting comparative literature as both a transitive and transnational process.