Books published by Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Today's working world has become excessively demanding due to the globalisation of businesses, increasing competition, accelerated technological progress, more sophisticated and informed customers as well as a continuous need to increase innovative abilities to remain competitive. Employees with their skills, knowledge and engagement form the competitive advantage and therefore significantly contribute to the overall organisational success. Therefore, a company's ability to efficiently attract the right Generation Y talents - a culturally diverse workforce born after 1980 - through efficient target group-oriented employer branding strategies is gaining in importance. This book examines the influence of the two main phenomena - cultural and generational - on shaping the employment expectations of 459 university graduates in Economics and Business Administration of two different nationalities. Using the methods of moderated multiple regressions and simple slopes analysis, the author develops an explicit conceptual framework for examining different influences that shape employment expectations of a diverse Gen Y workforce in an international context. These expectations should be viewed as a starting point for every employer branding campaign.

What is the relationship between discourse analysis and its more recent companion disciplines of sociology, political science and information and communication sciences? What is the place and role of discourse analysis in Europe? This book aims not to present another view of discourse analysis, but to encourage debate on interdisciplinary practices.

This book explores the techniques and discursive strategies that are typical of the communicative interactions between professionals and laymen in a jury trial. It also investigates the complex relationship that emerges between written and oral communication in different phases of the trial. The analysis takes into account the many nuances that define these dynamics and the various possibilities that the jurors have to intervene in the process, particularly in the light of recent procedural developments. Special attention is devoted to the observation of the specific strategies adopted to illustrate legal ideas and concepts to the jurors according to the speakers' various communicative purposes. By adopting a discourse analytical perspective which combines both qualitative and quantitative approaches, the book highlights the hybridity of the language used in court and the combination of different styles and registers.

Contains a selection of papers presented at an international meeting on the works of Kelemen Mikes which was held in Budapest in October 2011.

Illustrates the sources and the reception of the Neapolitans, and foremost of Pergolesi, in Dresden, in Bohemia and in Silesia. This title describes pergolesi sources to details of writing, with an eye both to the critical edition and to historically informed performing practice.

Presents the research of an international group of scholars, engaged in the analysis of academic discourse from a genre-oriented perspective. This title provides examples of the complexity and flexibility of genres, which have shown to be subject to a continuous tension between stability and change as well as between convention and innovation.

The book presents a doctoral research project on the pragmatic and semantic functions of the Chinese modal particle a ( ). The research is empirical with its conclusions drawn from the analysis of all the instances of the particle found in the first 20 episodes of the popular Chinese TV drama series Kewang 'Expectations'.

Satire, rather than utopian writing, dominated literature in 18th century England and memories of Cromwell led population to prefer stability to political experiments. This book provides an introduction to Ernst Bloch's concept of utopia and analyses utopian sources that draws an overview of protagonists of Revolution Debate and their works.

This study deals with the frequency and use of clausal complementation in the oral production of two different Spanish learner groups (i.e. Galician/Spanish learners and Spanish learners) as compared with a further learner group (i.e. German learners) and with native speakers (British students). By using corpus and learner linguistic approaches, this research aims to find out and explain the similarities and differences regarding the use of clausal complementation structures in the oral English of several groups of non-native and native speakers. In addition, this study also depicts the process of collection of the oral corpus VICOLSE, which contains transcripts of spoken English data produced by bilingual Galician/Spanish learners. The identification of variation in the use of clausal complementation across the data sheds light on the particular characteristics of spoken learner language syntax/structuring.

Collects the papers presented at the conference Roma 1735: Pergolesi e l'Olimpiade held at La Sapienza University of Rome on September 9th-10th, 2010.

Between 1870 and 2010 over half a million Slovaks migrated to the USA and Canada. As other ethnic groups from East Central Europe, they headed principally to the industrial triangle of the USA and to central Canada's cities in search of work. Finding themselves in strange surroundings, they quickly established institutions that helped them to survive in a capitalist economy and to also preserve their religion, language and culture. As for many other ethnic groups, the border between the USA and Canada was to them irrelevant. Slovaks crossed it according to economic need and stayed in touch with each other. Meanwhile, they also remained in touch with their families in Europe and helped their people to survive Magyarization in Austria-Hungary, to achieve self-determination in the new Republic of Czechoslovakia and, finally, independence. For the first time ever, the author has told the epic story of Slovak immigration to North America. Based upon forty years of archival and library research, supplemented by the life histories of over two dozen families scattered across the USA and Canada, and lavishly illustrated, this book will satisfy both academics and the general public who have long been waiting for a comprehensive history of this significant member of the family of Slavic nations.

At the 25th International Colloquium of the Corpus Vitrearum, which took place in one of the greatest of all museums, The Hermitage in St Petersburg, the researchers of many countries discussed stained glass collections. This title offers conference transactions that aims to reawaken interest in ancient stained glass from the eighteenth century.

Provides an accessible introduction to some of the methods and theoretical approaches for investigating foreign language interaction and exchange in online environments. This book presents an overview on issues in virtual, intercultural and multimodal research contexts. It includes overviews of varying approaches and extensive literature reviews.

What is the state of democracy in the region? Are the countries of the Western Balkans stuck somewhere between authoritarianism and genuine democracy? What are the remaining obstacles to state building? What effect has the crisis had on young people in the Western Balkans? This title deals with these questions.

Academic Identity Traits

Offers a comprehensive collection of essays in the interdisciplinary fields of linguistics and cognition. This book is suitable for linguists, pragmaticians, psychologists, philosophers and cognitive scientists as well as scholars in computational linguistics and natural language processing.

After the Last Ship illustrates the author's own history, as well as its connection to the history of other women and children who left India and made the journey across the Kala Pani, the Indian Ocean, and lived as migrants in other countries. In this book the author brings greater understanding of how subjectivities are shaped through embodied experiences of 'mixed race'. She bears witness to the oppressive policies of the fascist government in Portugal in the 1960's and 1970's and the effects of displacement and exile, by reconstructing her own passage from India to Mozambique and finally to Australia. Further, the author shows the devastation that labels such as 'half-caste', 'canecos' and 'monhe' can cause, when they eat at your flesh, your being, and your body. She sheds light on how identity and culture can serve as vehicles of empowerment, how experiences of belonging can germinate and take root post-diaspora.

The short story as an autonomous genre has called the attention of both writers and literary critics with theoretical concerns over the last two centuries. In this book, the essays deal with short stories belonging to various literatures in English (and not only), and focus on time, which is looked at from different angles.