Books published by Peter Lang AG

The book is an interdisciplinary conversation on utopia clustered around cultural and communication practises that are presented as political and ethical projects for today. It raises questions for intellectual work and invites a revision of the forms of knowledge production for the development of critical thinking.

The present volume is divided into two parts. The first part includes thirteen chapters and is devoted to the analysis of the interaction between cognition, emotion and language. The second part, comprising eight chapters, presents analyses of emotion, cognition and media discourse.

This collective monograph represents a selection of the contributions presented at the "1st International Symposium on Italian-Ukrainian Contrastive Studies". The thematic range of the articles includes linguistic topics (e.g. contrastive grammar, sociolinguistics, semantics and lexicology), followed by literary/cultural and translation studies.

The book is the first study in the world to deal with the subject of the rebellion of the Chernobyl liquidators, as well as a broad attempt to present this issue from the point of view of the liquidators themselves within the framework of oral history.

This book presents the value of literature in the development of intercultural competence and in teacher education. Through different approaches and diverse textual typologies, the authors demonstrate how foreign language classrooms can become a space for readers of all ages to generate critical thinking, empathy, and intercultural learning.

Um panorama da dinamica do polissistema portugues desde as ultimas decadas do seculo xx ao inicio do seculo xxi, em particular a sua relacao com os paises da America Hispanica.

Die Geschaftsfuhrungsbefugnis der Liquidatoren ist nach 149 S. 1 HGB beschrankt; die Vertretungsmacht vergleichbar 126 HGB unbeschrankt. 179a AktG findet keine analoge Anwendung. Die Liquidatoren durfen das Unternehmen dennoch nicht verkaufen. Intern mussen die Gesellschafter einen Beschluss mit einfacher Mehrheit fassen.

The book deals with the history of the planned use of Polish railway infrastructure during the Cold War as part of the strategic plans of the Warsaw Pact. The author analyses both technical and operational issues related to railway military transportation in a historical perspective.

This book provides the study of language policy interventions in higher education from several countries and regions. It explores the impact of internationalisation and anglification on language use in universities. It focuses on language strategies implemented to maintain the national or local language or to foster multilingualism.

This book is an attempt at a new interpretation of Stravinsky's thoughts about music and art, an interpretation made in dialogue with the philosophy of new music and 19th-century artistic ideas.

Cyberbullying as a risk. The risk represented by artificial intelligence. Risk communication. The perception of risk in big cities. The concept of risk in the social system.

Die Publikation beleuchtet Fusionen von Handwerkskammern in Deutschland. Seit 1953 entstanden neue Selbstverwaltungskorperschaften des Handwerks in den Bundeslandern Bayern, Baden-Wurttemberg, Hessen, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.