peter lang peter lang apr 2013 (212 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Whitecentricism and English hegemony are two forms of oppression that have affected and limited the life chances of linguistically, racialized, and culturally diverse people, including students. In this book, the author draws on postcolonial and socio-cultural theories and resistant narratives to build a strong argument to counter such hegemony. He a rgues that whitecentricism and linguoracism are two dominant ideologies that structurally privilege Whites over non-Whites and monolinguals of English over bilingual and multilingual speakers. He also unveils the psychological and socio-economic effects of whitecentricism and linguoracism on historically and linguistically marginalized groups, including linguistically and culturally diverse students. Finally, the author proposes that whiteness be de-centered and the English-only movement be counteracted for the construction of a more racially and linguistically inclusive and equitable society.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 126 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book comprises three studies on minority shareholder monitoring in Germany. Mandatory disclosure requirements have increased transparency. An analysis of the information that is publicly available is presented, regardless of the size of the target corporation. The second essay in the form of an event study pays special attention to the German supervisory board and its appointment for a fixed term. Capital markets perceive an activist effort as being more credible under certain circumstances. The study as a whole is empirical evidence for increased minority shareholder activity in Germany. The evidence presented supports the strong shareholder rights perspective. It conflicts with the weak shareholder rights view brought forward in the international literature. 124 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Journalism is in crisis. The rise of the internet through social media and citizen journalism and the financial crisis of 2008 have taken their toll. Thousands of reporters and editors have been laid off; nightly news on the major networks is losing close to one million viewers a year; newspapers have seen declining ad revenues and circulation figures cut in half; and the old business model for newspapers based on advertising and subscriptions appears to be collapsing.Filling the void is commentary, punditry, and even bigotry. It may have an audience, but it¿s not journalism in the professional sense: a commitment to objectivity and a separation of news and opinion. At this important juncture in the evolution of journalism, Media Smackdown takes a close look at the history of the news media in America in order to address the historical, legal, economic, theoretical, and political issues that affect the practice as well as the changing face and future of journalism.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 238 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book illuminates the changing landscape and expediency of international education in global times. Within this larger picture, the book focuses on the educational effects of international encounters, experiences and lessons ¿ the complex processes of learning and subject formation in play during and after one's international/intercultural experience. These complex processes, hinged on past and present self-other relations, are illustrated by employing the parable of «The Elephant and the Blind Men.» In contrast to more narrow, developmentalist conceptions of intercultural learning, Paul Tarc attends to each of the linguistic, existential, structural, and psychical dimensions of difficulty constituting learning across difference. Becoming aware of, and reflexive to, these dimensions of difficulty and their implications for one¿s own learning and resistance to learning, represents the domain of cosmopolitan literacy. The key intervention of this book is to re-conceive pedagogical processes and aims of international education as fostering such cosmopolitan literacy. Graduate courses on international education, study abroad, global citizenship education, and preservice education courses focusing on international education and teaching internationally could be primary candidates for this text.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 158 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.Self-regulated learning (SRL) is defined as the strategic pursuit of academic goals that involves the control over thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. This notion is taken for granted as a form of empowerment and as a form of engagement that good teachers will foster. This book is about exploring different sides to this story. It first proposes a framework for critically examining dominant and taken-for-granted ideas in educational psychology, then applies that framework to the examination of SRL to show how it endorses middle-class conventions, aligns with neoliberal logic, and renders individuals subordinate to oppressive educational structures. The book is a critique that is not necessarily intended to lead to the rejection of SRL, but rather to invite teachers, researchers, and policymakers to reflect on the possible consequences and ethics of taking up the aim to institutionalize SRL.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 196 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The possibilities that online platforms and new media technologies provide, in terms of human connection and the dissemination of information, are seemingly endless. With Web 2.0 there is an exchange of messages, visions, facts, fictions, contemplations, and declarations buzzing around a network of computers that connects students to the world ¿ fast. Theoretically this digital connectivity, and the availability of information that it provides, is beneficial to curriculum development in higher education. Education is easily available, democratic, and immersive. But is it worthwhile Is the kind of education one can get from new media platforms and social media resources, with their click-on videos, rollover animations, and unfiltered content, of sufficient quality that educators should integrate these tools into teaching This book examines the use of new media in pedagogy, as it presents case studies of the integration of technology, tools, and devices in an undergraduate curriculum taught by the author, at an urban research university in the United States.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Lost in Media examines collectively the ethical issues that have arisen in media-driven everyday life and will that arise as paradigm shifts occur on a global scale. Films, television and the new media often serve the globalization aims of a capitalist society as they function to socially reproduce the hegemonic norms, values, and styles of the larger society. Chapters in the book use the tradition of critical theory to look at issues of free market fundamentalism, journalism¿s erosion of communication of truth, public relations ethics of perception management; yielding self-censorship in the media, entertainment media pedagogically cultivating consumerism and docility, music and morality, misrepresentation of resistance movements, ethics of spectatorship, and the transformation of everyday ethics.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -For the first time in educational publishing, Teaching Truly offers K¿16 teachers course-specific guidelines for indigenizing mainstream education. The goal is to facilitate greater educational integrity and relevance in the classroom now, without waiting for more «reforms» to policy, standards or curricula in general. Incorporating reality-based teaching common in traditional Indigenous learning cultures, each chapter first exposes educational hegemony, including that existing within the new «common core standards», and then offers alternative, time-tested perspectives and exercises to counter and/or counter-balance such hegemony. Addressing eight common subject areas, the material can be adapted for different grade levels and can be applied to other mainstream courses. 302 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The educational climate in the United States is ripe for dialogue and interrogation of notions of what should be taught in schools. The editors and contributors to this volume present descriptive, interpretive, ethnographic, autoethnographic, case study, essay, visual, and poetic work that focuses on the challenges to curriculum transformation, including the multifaceted ways that educators fight for a more socially, culturally, linguistically, and politically responsive curriculum. The contributors provide snapshots from homes, classrooms, and community spaces in an effort to illustrate how curricular approaches and implementation can offer counter-hegemonic agentry for emancipatory and democratic learning opportunities. 322 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Despite representing significant portions of the advertising, marketing, and public relations work force, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) community has largely been ignored by scholarly research in strategic communications. With the exception of case studies that document strategies that can be used to secure the LGBT consumer dollar, little has been done to understand the LGBT community¿s experiences with strategic communications efforts. This edited volume fills this gap by sharing research on the impact and interaction of campaigns and programming from advertising, marketing, and public relations on internal (e.g., practitioners and employees) and external (e.g., consumers, activists) stakeholders from the LGBT community. Several chapters in this volume highlight a significant change in the focus of strategic communications that recognizes the long-term benefits of having legitimate partnerships; others, however, counter this optimistic trend by discussing the continued struggles of practitioners working in strategic communication and the LGBT community at large. 290 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This is the first book-length study of the groundbreaking work of Rey Chow, whose work has transformed the fields of postcolonialism, cultural studies, film, ethnicity and gender. It describes and explains the features and the breadth of Chow's interventions and illustrates Chow¿s arguments by way of the analysis of a range of engaging examples drawn from the fields of film, popular music, identity and popular culture. Chow¿s work is of interest and importance to anyone working on questions of international and transnational film; popular culture; postcolonialism; poststructuralism; and Chinese, Hong Kong and Asian identity in different national contexts; as well as sex, gender and ethnic politics in general. This book elaborates on and illustrates Chow¿s fascinating contributions to scholarship and knowledge across many different fields by arguing that her work can best be understood in relation to the «projects» of cultural studies and postcolonial studies. In this way, the work sets out both the enduring importance of these wider projects and the importance of Rey Chow¿s contributions to them. 188 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Dwight Macdonald was the most prominent excoriator of mass culture in the 1950s and ¿60s. Since that time his reputation has not fared well. Derided as elitist and passé, his tracts now represent everything wrong-headed about mid-century cultural criticism. Nonetheless, Macdonald remains relevant and deserves reconsideration. His detractors, though uncovering many of Macdonald¿s failings, have in part misunderstood him, while the field of cultural studies has misclassified his essays in the radical rather than conservative tradition of criticism. Dwight Macdonald on Culture seeks to amend previous misconceptions, offering new perspectives on a figure who grappled with issues of culture that remain ever-pertinent. 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -School Sucks! is designed to complement the dominant discourse of school reform by presenting a compendium of critical pedagogical writings that analyze the current issues in urban education and demonstrate alternative praxis for failing schools. The two editors of this volume also serve as the series editors for Peter Lang Publishing¿s Educational Psychology and Black Studies and Critical Thinking series, giving them remarkable resources from which to draw this selection of writings that represent the very best concepts of pedagogy and praxis. School Sucks! furthers the reader's knowledge of the pretext of urban educational problems and promotes a positive praxis of urban educational reform.Inspired by mentors Mary McLeod Bethune and Paulo Freire, School Sucks! employs a critical pedagogy and praxis in calling for wholesale changes within our urban schools.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 440 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -What role should the United Nations play in a globalising world How can it support and embody international democracy The decline of state sovereignty, an effect of globalisation, is bringing about a crisis both in politics, as a tool to pursue the common good, and in democracy, as the key instrument by which we can control our destinies. The UN, the only organisation with broad political goals and worldwide jurisdiction, has the potential to manage globalisation democratically and promote the common good of humanity. However, it is still controlled by nation states and operates according to power relations typical of the pre-globalisation era. UN reform is therefore crucial, today more than ever.This book examines two areas of reform: first, the creation of a democratic assembly in which world citizens are represented, in order to adapt democracy to meet the challenges of globalisation; and second, the strengthening of the Security Council through democratisation and regionalisation, in order to ensure world security, whose characteristics have evolved significantly in the global age. The contributors come from a wide variety of different backgrounds, including political science, sociology, economics, law, philosophy and history, providing a multifaceted and multidisciplinary debate on this important topic. 364 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Miss GULAG (2006) von Maria Yatskova treibt auf die Spitze, was Anton ¿echov bereits 1880 auf seiner Reise durch die Sträflingskolonien beobachtet hatte: Nach einer Misswahl in einem Straflager wird die Gewinnerin entlassen. Diese Arbeit untersucht semantisch und kunsthistorisch den Zusammenhang von körperlicher Schönheit und Freiheit in Miss GULAG. Vor einem rechtswissenschaftlichen Hintergrund gibt sie zudem Einblick in die Rolle des weiblichen Körpers in der russischen Lagerliteratur: resozialisierend bei Fedor Dostoevskij, transzendent in der stalinistischen Propaganda des Autorenkollektivs um Maksim Gorkij, wiederbelebend in der Dissidentenliteratur Varlam ¿alamovs und Evgenija Ginzburgs. Im Nachwort wird die postsowjetische Identitätsfindung mit den Pussy Riots abgerundet. 102 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Dieser Band geht auf die Konferenz «Interkulturalität und Kognition» zurück, die im Rahmen der Tagung der Gesellschaft ungarischer Germanistinnen und Germanisten (GUG) vom Institut für Germanistik der Universität Debrecen zwischen dem 29. und 30. Mai 2009 veranstaltet wurde. Die Beiträge erkunden Schnittstellen des Spannungsfeldes von Interkulturalität und Kognition, wie sie die kognitive Anthropologie, die kognitive Hermeneutik und die Narratologie darstellen, an Beispielen aus der österreichischen, deutschen, schweizerischen, ungarischen Literatur sowie der Migrationsliteratur. Gemeinsam ist ihnen das Streben nach Überschreitung der methodologischen Grenzen der Philologie in Richtung einer transdiziplinären und interkulturellen Literaturwissenschaft. 112 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Die seit den 1970ern in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika aktive Chicana-Bewegung bedient sich der Sprache, des Sprechakts und lebhafter mythischer Bilder und Erzählungen, um auf ihre Lebenswirklichkeit hinzuweisen. Ziel ist es, diese Lebensbedingungen zu verbessern, oder aber zumindest ihre Entwicklungen positiv zu lenken. Es zeigt sich, dass Sprache und Mythos tatsächlich großen Einfluss auf die Lebensumstände und die mit ihnen einhergehenden selbst auferlegten und fremd gesetzten physischen und psychischen Grenzsetzungen haben. Im Rahmen der Arbeit werden die Mechanismen untersucht, die dabei greifen und die Verschiebung von sozialen, ökonomischen und gesellschaftspolitischen Grenzen bewirken können.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book explores the concept of displacement in the fiction produced by the Chilean writer Isabel Allende between 1982 and 2000. Displacement, understood in the author¿s analysis to encompass social, geographical, linguistic and cultural phenomena, is argued to play a consistently central role in Allende¿s fictional output of this period. Close readings of Allende¿s texts illustrate the abiding importance of displacement and reconcile two apparently contradictory trends in her writing: as the settings of her fiction have become more international, questions of individual identity have gained in importance. This discussion employs displacement as a means of engaging with critical debates both on Allende¿s individual texts and on her status as an original writer. After examining in detail the seven works of fiction written by Allende during this period, the book concludes with reflections on the general trajectory of her work in this genre. 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This study argues that James Kelman¿s work should not be construed as a resigned capitulation to capitalist domination or to the fracture of a once unified working-class collective purpose. Politics are to be found not only in the content but also the form of Kelman¿s work. The radical aspect of his style is that rather than pandering to a ready-made identity, he remains antagonistically non-identical to the prevailing logic of capitalism by contesting its supposedly shared worldview and modes of perception. Instead, Kelman¿s fiction continually disputes the notion of consensus by revealing the voices of those excluded, those who are unaccounted for in that false consensus. His work uncovers a stark contradiction in the governing logic of our times: we are asked to accept that class has disappeared at the same time that we are told the system that causes it in the first place ¿ capitalism ¿ is inevitably here forever. Even the most alienated individuals in his stories remind us that isolation can transcend itself by returning us to the social conditions that are its cause. We find politics in Kelman¿s aesthetics, as his work formally contests who has the right to feel, to think, to speak.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 252 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -By combining the analysis of the new forms and environments of the digital world with critical scholarship of the role of the users, this book argues that cultural field is facing a challenge of the digital turn. The digital turn hereby implies that changes in the use and application of digital technology bring on changes in practice and in the relationships between cultural institutions and audiences. We approach the changes in society from the structural (institutional) as well as from the agential (audiences, users, individuals) perspective. The authors represented in this book share the view that there is no need to fear the new media pushing aside traditional cultural forms, acknowledging at the same time that the scope of this cultural change is far from understood. 298 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Derivate haben wie kein anderes Finanzinstrument die Bankenkrise geprägt. Sie stellten die wesentliche Ursache für eine Schieflage der Banken dar, die durch das Bankaufsichtsrecht eigentlich hätte verhindert werden sollen. Ihre komplexe Risikostruktur macht ihre Eigenmittelunterlegung zu einer anspruchsvollen Aufgabe. Die Berechnung der risikoadäquaten Unterlegung erfolgt auf der Grundlage der finanzmathematisch geprägten Regelungen der Solvabilitätsverordnung. In der Arbeit werden diese erläutert und anhand von Beispielen verdeutlicht. Darüber hinaus wird analysiert, ob sie zu einer risikoadäquaten Unterlegung führen und welche Änderungen in der Solvabilitätsverordnung gegebenenfalls vorgenommen werden müssten. 108 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -«This is an interesting and important book, the first attempt to encapsulate the highly idiosyncratic ¿uvre and career of Evgeny Popov, a major and controversial figure in the late Soviet and post-Soviet literary landscape.» (Michael Pushkin, University of Birmingham)«Morris is excellent in his treatment of the writer¿s attitude towards the past and history; and he differentiates between Popov¿s more nuanced and ambiguous view of the Soviet experiment and those writers, likewise liberals, who have adopted a ¿confessional¿ stance.» (Robert Porter, University of Bristol)«A broad contextualization of the works of this important Russian author.» (Christine Engel, University of Innsbruck)This is the first book devoted to the writings of Evgeny Popov (born 1946), a major and controversial figure in the late Soviet and post-Soviet literary landscape. The author uses a wide range of primary and secondary sources, many of them in Russian, alongside detailed analysis of the novels and stories themselves. The introduction charts the course of Popov¿s personal and professional biography, including major turning points such as the Metropole affair of 1979. A chapter on critical contexts provides a clear account of the history of Popov¿s reception. Other chapters focus on the first collection of short stories and the complexities of narrative voice, the concept of the ¿non-elucidatory principle¿ at the heart of Popov¿s poetics, and the short story cycles in Metropole and Catalogue, from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Finally the author addresses the key phenomenon of Popov¿s self-fictionalization in both his shorter and longer works up to the present day.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 246 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book is about re-inventing Africa ¿ it aims to induct a new cohort of dedicated professionals, guided not by material gains and power, but by personal commitment, in building a better society. It is about an education that develops responsible citizens inspired by the desire to serve their fellow men and women, people who can contribute their time and talents to make society a better place in which to live. Unless people are empowered by an education tailored to address their needs, they cannot be effective participants in bringing about constructive change. An education that prepares Africans to live confidently, as Africans, in today¿s globalized world is a prerequisite for developing an active and responsible citizenry. The book also examines some of the key critical areas on which African countries need to focus their attention: poverty eradication; combating corruption; peace, security and development; democracy and constitutionalism; good governance; social justice; globalization and empowerment. It criticizes extremes, creates a healthy synthesis of African and Western thought about education ¿ particularly education for citizenship and for social transformation ¿ an education which concerns itself with human dignity, social equality and respect, rather than fear, for authority.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 216 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware 312 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Daniel Kehlmann ist im deutschsprachigen Raum medial präsent wie kaum ein zweiter österreichischer Autor. Aber wie nutzt er die Medien, um sich im österreichischen literarischen Feld zu positionieren Und welche Rahmenbedingungen spielen dabei eine Rolle Unter Berücksichtigung von Bourdieus Feldtheorie, Medientheorien und Ansätzen der Alltagsinszenierung werden Interviews von Kehlmann analysiert und kategorisiert. Daraus ergeben sich die Grundzüge seines Habitus und seine Positionierung kann klar gezeigt werden. 140 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Written shortly after the capture of the Inca Atahualpa at Cajamarca, Peru, True Account of the Conquest of Peru by Francisco de Jerez, Francisco Pizarrös secretary and notary, is the most influential of the early accounts of the conquest of the Andean region. This fascinating text brings to life Pizarro and his men¿s arrival in the central Andes of South America and their capture of Inca Atahualpa, the ruler of one of the continent's largest and most powerful civilizations. Injured during the massacre that took place immediately after the capture of Atahualpa but wealthy thanks to his share of the ransom offered by Atahualpa for his freedom, Jerez published his account of the events just months after arriving in Seville in 1534.The present edition is based on the English translation Reports on the Discovery of Peru published by Clement Markham in London in 1872 and also includes his translations of the Letter from Hernando Pizarro to the Royal Audience of Santo Domingo and the Report on the Distribution of the Ransom of Atahualpa by Pedro Sancho. This volume is an invaluable tool for scholars, professors, and students of Latin American studies and students of history and literature interested in the history of the conuest of the Andean region as well as a must read for those fascinated by the history, civilization, and culture of Peru and the Andean region in particular and the Americas in general.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 152 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The Everyday of Memory explores manifestations of the communist past in the everyday lives of Eastern Europeans today. Representing a wide range of disciplines including cultural studies, film studies, urban studies, sociology, media, literature and art, the contributors to this book question the myth of a homogeneous Eastern European identity (as opposed to its historical Western counterpart). At the same time, they insist that those who experienced communism have a ¿right to remember¿, and that their memories offer an alternative to the project of globalizing capitalism.The volume presents a critique of the current withdrawal of Eastern European politics from discussion of the communist past, in which the latter tends to be regarded as an obstacle to the neoliberal transition to democracy. As the book¿s microstudies of the everyday life of memory show, communism has never been isolated from its capitalist nemesis: the two systems have been intertwined in the post-Enlightenment interplay of the humanist ideals that underpin the modernist project. Through a close observation of the unconstrained ways in which memory works, this book offers an insight into the paradoxes of the two ideological powers which posited the subservient homo sovieticus against the civilized homo economicus. The book also invites debate about the contemporary relevance of the ideological polarization of communism and capitalism.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 332 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -People with intellectual disability cannot assume that they can speak up for and represent themselves. A host of socially constructed factors act as barriers to their becoming self-advocates. This book analyses the nature of these factors and investigates how the label ¿intellectual disability¿ is understood and interpreted. It also analyses the power imbalance between people with intellectual disability and non-disabled people, an imbalance which leads to the perpetuation of dependence of the former on the latter. The book proposes self-advocacy as a way of providing an environment in which this power imbalance can be redressed, negative perceptions of the label ¿intellectual disability¿ challenged, and independence and autonomy promoted. In this way, contexts can be created in which the voices of people with intellectual disability are heard and valued. Self-advocacy thus enables people with intellectual disability to become more active agents in their own lives with the necessary support.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 312 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Ancient Greek philosophers generally accept the claim that ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ is within our power to achieve, regardless of circumstance. Conversely, external goods ¿ physical health, education, social standing ¿ are frequently present or absent due to circumstances beyond our control. Can eudaimonism explain how more than a privileged elite can attain ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ when so few enjoy the requisite external goods A satisfactory account of the relation between external goods and well-being must accommodate both the insight that there is an essential connection between prosperity and the flourishing life and that there is a real sense in which ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ is a self-sufficient concept. The «applied intellectualist» interpretation of eudaimonism defended here accommodates important insights of several ancient Greek traditions: Aristotle¿s account of human nature, specifically the role of external goods as necessary preconditions for leading a human life; Socratic and Stoic analysis that external goods are necessary constituents of moral action; and Platös commitment to a criterion for judging the compatibility of external prosperity with a life of ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿.This text provides a comprehensive linguistic and ethical analysis of key terms and arguments across several centuries of ancient Greek ethical thought on this fascinating topic, making it an excellent foundation for an upper-division undergraduate seminar in ancient Greek ethics, virtue ethics, or applied ethics.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -With the purpose of making the process of legal translation accessible to investigation, the author resorts to the parametrization of translational reality as an inalienable component of her translational theory being proposed here for consideration. The aim is to propose a more precise theory of legilinguistic translation which compels the author to clearly distinguish primitive terms and postulates. These latter specify the image (model) of the reality in question in terms of relevant dimensions used to characterize a set of translational objects and relations. The dimensions secure a systematic examination of the translation reality and process. In order to illustrate the practical application of the parametrization in legal translation, the discussion concerning this translation approach is limited to certain selected types of legal communicative communities which is amply exemplified. The research is based on data and information gathered during an in-depth case study of translations and parallel text corpora mainly in the field of civil law including insolvency and bankruptcy law.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 292 pp. Englisch.