Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
15 Août 2019
9783631712443
The book is a comparative case study of collective memory in two small communities situated on two Central-European borderlands. Despite different pre-war histories, Ukrainian Zhovkva (before 1939 Polish Zólkiew) and Polish Krzyz (before 1945 German Kreuz) were to share a common fate of many European localities, destroyed and rebuilt in a completely new shape. As a result of war, and post-war ethnic cleansing and displacement, they lost almost all of their pre-war inhabitants and were repopulated by new people. Based on more than 150 oral history interviews, the book describes the process of reconstruction of social microcosm, involving the reader in a journey through the lives of real people entangled in the dramatic historical events of the 20th century.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
12 Novembre 2019
9783631794685
The book sets itself the ambitious task of exploring the relationship between human culture and the phenomenon of mental illness, that which has embarrassed, fascinated, and challenged educated minds throughout the centuries. Various manifestations of this phenomenon are examined in specific cultural contexts, presented with notable competence, and illustrated with memorable descriptions of clinical cases. (...) The book and its author have many merits-the capacity to present a highly specialized subject in an intelligible, absorbing, and simultaneously profound manner; respectable erudition and academic self-discipline; and the notable skill of handling different domains of knowledge, among others. The most remarkable quality, however, is the author's concern both for the reader-who is carefully led into quite unknown and still frightening territory-as well as for his protagonists, the mentally ill. All told, I believe that this book will be of interest not just to students of psychiatry, psychology, and anthropology, but also to a broader circle of readers who are excited by the wretched and admirable destiny of being human.
Haralan Alexandrov
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
5 Juin 2020
9783631709849
Polish Literature and the Holocaust (1939-1968) scrutinizes literary and documentary testimonies produced during or after the extermination of Jews in the Second World War and rooted in that historical, political, and anthropological context. Whether someone wrote a text during or after the war influenced the nature of what was communicated. Hence, the authors divided this publication to separately cover two periods: 1939-1944/45 and 1945-1968. This publication overviews belles-lettres, personal document literature, and press publications. Almost all texts were written in the Polish language. The genre category constitutes the basic compositional criterion. The individual parts of our publication discuss poetry, narrative prose, personal document literature, and the press discourse.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
2 Mars 2020
9783631809716
Teacher education in higher education has been of great interest as a research area in recent years. The discussion focuses on topics such as tertiary pedagogies, professional development, instructional innovative practices as well as technology and instruction.
Following these topics, the contributors of this collected volume deal with English as a medium of instruction (EMI) and Content and Language Integrated Language (CLIL). They examine the professional development of lecturers and discuss further topics such as English for academic purposes (EAP), English for special purposes (ESP) and English for vocational purposes (EOP). Finally, they explore the use of technology as an instructional tool. This book is designed as a resource that enriches the knowledge of the teachers and aims to empower them to maintain, develop and increase students' critical thinking and problem-solving skills so that teachers can provide better classroom experiences for their students.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
7 Février 2020
9783631709740
The book offers a comprehensive overview of current research in Slavic linguistics from a theoretical and experimental perspective and from a variety of languages. The selected papers from the 11th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL 11) that took place at the University of Potsdam in 2015, illustrate the advancement of Slavic linguistic studies and their outreach for the development of general linguistics. The guest paper by Noam Chomsky at the beginning of the book sets a clear sign in this direction and may be taken as an acknowledgement of the field.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
22 Avril 2016
9783653958584
This coursebook addresses key presocratics from Heraclitus to the sophists, who stand at the origin of philosophy as cornerstone of European spirituality. Readers might find that already at this point we encounter timeless and actual questions concerning the human condition in the world, limits of our knowledge, or the problem of adequate articulation of reality. Later thinkers did not philosophised from scratch, but criticised or were inspired by their predecessors. The coursebook thus provides an introduction to presocratic thought as an important field of our spiritual history.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
15 Avril 2016
9783653960686
The text is structured in chronological and ideological order and presents nine basic types of the classical perception of the problem of knowledge through an analysis of the atomistic theory of perception, Platonism, Aristotle's doctrine, scepticism, rationalism, sensualism, Kant's theory, phenomenological-existential, pragmatic, and (post) analytical perceptions. The proposed work aspires to be an introduction (not a complete presentation, neither in the number of types, nor in a full interpretation) and a basis for the reader's interpretations which is reflected in the structure of the text.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
14 Juillet 2015
9783653995060
Dramaturgie hat eine lange Tradition, auch im Bereich von Film und Fernsehen. In diesem Buch wird ein Überblick über dramaturgische Grundlagen und die Besonderheiten der Filmdramaturgie gegeben. Darüber hinaus wird auf Aspekte der Gestaltung von Games verwiesen. Kenntnisse der Filmdramaturgie ermglichen es, einem Film, einer TV-Serie oder auch einem narrativen Game zu seiner bestmglichen Entfaltung zu verhelfen, ohne diesem standardisierte Grenzen einer Formatvorlage aufzuerlegen. Ebenso kann eine Kenntnis der Filmdramaturgie die Analyse von audio-visuellen Werken unterstützen, um die künstlerische Prozesse erkennen, verstehen und gestalten zu knnen, die dessen Erfolg beeinflussen. Es werden Traditionen und Modelle der Filmdramaturgie an bekannten Beispielen sowie aus der Praxiserfahrung heraus und für diese anwendbar diskutiert.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
30 Mars 2020
9783631816059
Today, we live in a post-truth era. Creating alternative realities, and making people believe fake realities become easier. Digital platforms tend to promote dramatic, sensational and emotional content that harms democracy. This book examines different aspects of the matter: rise of populist politics, impact of digital social platforms, engagement-oriented algorithms, spread of disinformation and counter-measures like fact-checking mechanism and developing digital media literacy skills.
"Journalists, academics and civil society groups are increasingly working together to help people confront the confusion caused by the post-truth realities of digital communications, which is no longer the stuff of propaganda from the state, but comes from all sides of the internet. In this information space every fact is challenged by an alternative fact, and all of these different versions of the truth look the same online."
- Aidan White
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
20 Juillet 2023
9783631904862
In this monograph, the author demonstrates that the Acts of the Apostles is a highly creative hypertextual reworking of the Letter to the Galatians, with over 500 strictly sequentially organized conceptual and linguistic correspondences between Acts and Galatians. This hypertextual dependence on Galatians explains numerous surprising features of Acts. Critical explanations of these features, which are offered in this monograph, ensure the reliability of the new solution to the problem of the relationship between Acts and the Pauline and post-Pauline letters.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
31 Juillet 2023
9783631898659
Esta valiosa obra es un recorrido por los diversos Sistemas de Comunicación Aumentativa y Alternativa en España de mano de los autores más detacados del panorama nacional a lo largo de los cuarenta años de historia. El volumen está conformado por las aportaciones de prestigiosos teóricos, en las que relatan el devenir del sistema que han puesto en marcha desde sus orígenes hasta la actualidad. Sistemas como el habla signada, la palabra complementada, los sistemas pictográficos, el sistema bimodal entre otros, son descritos por los referentes nacionales. Además, en el último capítulo se recogen las experiencias en el uso de los sistemas de CAA contadas por los interlocutores de personas con severas necesidades de comunicación.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
25 Juin 2024
9783631918463
The book proposes a new category - heterotopia of affect - which builds upon Michel Foucault's typology. The category refers to changes of the places that accumulate contents of ideological, historical, religious, and national character. The book tells the history of a very Polish edifice as well as its surrounding cultural milieu and the history-creating role of the scientific community. The author focuses on the Staszic Palace whose fate reveals how - at different times in history - it catalyzed activities in search of radical changes in the mental landscape of the Polish community.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
31 Août 2015
9783653956122
Die Bedeutung mentaler Faktoren im Sport gilt als unbestritten; das Schlagwort «Mentale Fitness» findet insbesondere im (Hoch-)Leistungs-, aber auch im Freizeitsport zunehmend Verwendung. Dieses Werk richtet sich an alle aktiven Tennisspielerinnen und Tennisspieler, die ihre mentale Fitness verbessern wollen - egal, auf welchem Leistungsniveau sie Tennis spielen. Die wesentlichen Aspekte werden anschaulich und praxisnah auf den Punkt gebracht. Diese Neuauflage enthält zudem viele praktische Übungen zur Steigerung der individuellen mentalen Fitness. Das Werk basiert auf den Ergebnissen wissenschaftlicher empirischer Forschung und langjähriger Erfahrungen des Autors in der sportpsychologischen Beratung von Tennisspielerinnen und Tennisspielern aus dem Nachwuchs- und professionellen Bereich.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
30 Mars 2020
9783631821459
The main aim of this book is to provide a critical and historical inquiry into Kant's schematism chapter contained in the Critique of Pure Reason. More specifically, the book argues that Kant's schematism chapter is a necessary step within the project of the Critique. It deals with a problem of its own, one which is not the object of the previous chapters: How can categories be applied to intuitions? The author shows that the term `schema' has an interesting and long tradition of different philosophical uses that finds in the works of Kant a point of no-return. In the philosophical works written before Kant, the notion of schema did not have a specific and distinctive meaning and function of its own but was rather used in different contexts (from rhetoric to logic to psychology). After Kant, all philosophers who speak of schemata refer in one way or another back to Kant's distinctive notion, which possesses a specific, epistemic meaning. Moreover, this book aims to provide a contribution to the understanding of the relation between philosophy and the sciences. It is by means of demonstrating the importance of the schematism chapter not only within the Critique but also from a broader perspective, deriving from the fact that Kant's doctrine of schemata had an impressive influence not only on philosophers but also on psychologists.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
6 Avril 2020
9783631823200
The papers collected in this volume present multiple views on the skills required of LSP teachers and their preparation for the profession. The authors, whose experience comes from diverse educational contexts, ponder on the nature of the necessary knowledge and know-how as well as on the methods used in the professional training of the LSP teachers. The authors have undertaken to formulate a proposal, based on both empirical data and personal experience of the teachers, which would provide us with operational and effective methodological solutions to be employed while teaching language for specific purposes.
Les textes réunis dans le présent volume exposent les idées relatives aux compétences des enseignants des langues de spécialité et aux parcours de leur préparation au métier. Issus de divers contextes éducatifs, les auteurs s'interrogent sur la nature des savoirs et savoir-faire ainsi qu'aux modalités de leur formation. Cette réflexion, qui prend appui sur les données empiriques ou les expériences personnelles, s'oriente vers la proposition des résolutions méthodologies opérationnelles au service de l'enseignement des langues sur objectifs spécifiques.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
13 Mars 2020
9783631809426
C. G. Jung's psychology was based on an authentic notion of soul, but this notion was only intuitive, implicit, not conceptually worked out. His followers forfeit his heritage, often turning psychology either into pop psychology or into a scientific, clinical enterprise. It is the merit of James Hillman's archetypal psychology to have brought back the question of soul to psychology. But as imaginal psychology it cannot truly overcome psychology's positivistic, personalistic bias that it set out to overcome. Its «Gods» can be shown to be virtual-reality type gods because it avoids the question of Truth. Through what logically is the movement of an «absolute-negative interiorization», alchemically a «fermenting corruption», and mythologically a Dionysian dismemberment, one has to go beyond the imaginal to a notion of soul as logical life, logical movement. Only then can psychology be freed from its positivism and cease being a subdivision of anthropology, and can the notion of soul be logically released from its attachment to the notion of the human being.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
30 Septembre 2016
9783631695302
Das Buch bietet einen konzentrierten Überblick über die Grundlagen, die Strukturen und die wichtigsten Bereiche der deutschen Rechtsordnung. Es behandelt die Grundzüge des Öffentlichen Rechts, des Zivilrechts, des Strafrechts, des Gerichtsverfahrensrechts sowie des Europarechts. Damit wendet sich das Buch insbesondere an internationale Studierende. Um ihnen das Verstehen zu erleichtern, ist es nicht nur in deutscher Sprache, sondern auch in mehreren Fremdsprachen verfügbar.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
7 Mars 2017
9783631703526
This book presents empirical research of grammatical collocations of the type: verb and the prepositions «of» and «to». It is based on comparisons of English and Czech sentences containing verbs and prepositions that are followed by the object. The author creates English-Czech verbal prepositional counterparts and groups on the grounds of the similar semantic, syntactic features. She identifies the features that are the same for each verb group and generalizes them. The book determines trends and tendencies for verbs when they collocate with a certain preposition.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
18 Avril 2017
9783631713242
This book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human world in a broad spectrum of material in French. Scholars from Canada, France, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States examine the work of writers and thinkers including Michel de Montaigne, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Arthur Rimbaud, Marguerite Yourcenar, Gilbert Simondon, Michel Serres, Michel Houellebecq, and Éric Chevillard. The diverse approaches in the volume signal a common desire to bring together form and content, politics and aesthetics, theory and practice, under the aegis of the environmental humanities.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
16 Mars 2017
9783631720318
Computerspiele wie «Dragon Age: Inquisition», «Guild Wars 2» oder «Star Wars: The Old Republic» versprechen ihrem Publikum großartige, nachgerade «epische» Inhalte. Dieses Buch zeigt, wie sie das erreichen und welche Rolle dabei der Rezeption deutschsprachiger Epik des Mittelalters zukommt. Zur Veranschaulichung der bislang großteils unentdeckten Parallelen bietet dieses Buch erstmals auf Basis theoretischer Überlegungen zur Narrativik von PC-Spielen einen Gesamtüberblick sowie exemplarische Einzelanalysen. Die Autorin erläutert in ihrer umfangreichen multimedialen Beweisführung häufig auftretende Verfahren und untersucht ihre Wirkung innerhalb der Spiele. Sie zeigt, dass sich nicht nur typische Stoff- und Motivtraditionen der mittelalterlichen Epik in der Erzählwelt moderner PC-Heldenepen widerspiegeln, sondern auch einzelne narrative Strategien - etwa in Form von Quests oder Handlungsvorausdeutungen.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
11 Septembre 2015
9783653996838
In the early months of the German occupation during WWII, many of Europe's major cities witnessed anti-Jewish riots, anti-Semitic incidents, and even pogroms carried out by the local population. Who took part in these excesses, and what was their attitude towards the Germans? Were they guided or spontaneous? What part did the Germans play in these events and how did they manipulate them for their own benefit? Delving into the source material for Warsaw, Paris, The Hague, Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Kaunas, this study is the first to take a comparative look at these questions. Looking closely at events many would like to forget, the volume describes various characters and their stories, revealing some striking similarities and telling differences, while raising tantalising questions.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
22 Avril 2016
9783653958669
Calling an epoch Middle Age already involves some sort of judgment. But Middle Ages represent a historic period, in which the identity was established, which was denied by the renaissance, modern world and which however is now being discovered again in its sense and beauty. It is a period in which a co-existence between faith and intellect, between ecclesiastical and profane culture was possible. It was a varied living space in which philosophy, mystique and practice could exist side by side. It is a world which is lost today and which we can get a hold of again only by intellectual appropriation.
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
16 Novembre 2016
9783631697894
With his extensive three-volume investigation, the author has newly drawn the image of Gustav Mahler for our time. Should Mahler's symphonies really be categorized as «absolute music»? - Little-known manuscript sources contain significant hints to the contrary: programmatic titles and catchwords or phrases, mottos, literary allusions, associations, sighs, exclamations. Mahler fully understood his symphonies as «erlebte Musik», music of experience, as autobiography in notes, and as expressions of his «weltanschauung». All the symphonies, including the purely instrumental ones, can be traced back to programs that Mahler originally made public, but suppressed later on. A knowledge of the programmatic ideas provides access to a hitherto barely sensed interior metaphysical world that is of crucial importance for an adequate interpretation of the works. This first volume uncovers the complexity of relations between Mahler's wide-ranging reading and education, his aesthetics and his symphonic creation.
About the German edition of this book:
«One of the most thoroughgoing and comprehensive investigations of Gustav Mahler's work and world to date.»
(Norddeutscher Rundfunk)
«The way in which Mahler's literary background, his education, and his aesthetic and philosophical maxims are presented here indeed opens up a new approach.»
(Die Musikforschung)
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
10 Septembre 2014
9783653979206
On the History of Rock Music follows the development of rock music from its origins up to the present time. It focuses on the relationship between the sound, improvisations and rhythms in particular styles, and gives specific attention to the development of rhythm. The beat-offbeat principle, polyrhythms and polymetrics are fundamental to rock rhythm patterns, which serve as archetypes for specific rhythms. An archetype is a prototype, a model, or an innate experience of a species. Using more than 250 score examples, the author identifies the characteristic rhythmic patterns in rock styles, ranging from rock and roll, hard rock and punk rock to alternative rock, indie rock and grind core.
