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  • Rituals in an Unstable World Rituals in an Unstable World
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    Rituals in an Unstable World

    Refuting prophecies of an unstoppable increase in secularization, the fascination of religious rituals proofs to be unbroken in the late modern world. This book contests classical paradigms that reduce the rationale of rituals to normativity (Durkheim),...
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  • Modernism and Coherence Modernism and Coherence
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    Modernism and Coherence

    Modernism and Coherence is an attempt to develop a negative aesthetics conceived as determinate resistance of artworks against the meaning assigned to them by criticism. From the accumulation of arguments on great texts of modernism, the book describes...
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  • Anglizismen in deutschen Werbeanzeigen Anglizismen in deutschen Werbeanzeigen
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    Anglizismen in deutschen Werbeanzeigen

    Die Studie untersucht, ob der Gebrauch von Anglizismen in der Werbung tatsächlich vorwiegend auf wirkungsintentionalen Motiven beruht, und kommt dabei zu einem gegenteiligen Ergebnis: Insbesondere ökonomische Motive können bei der Verwendung von...
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  • Biology of Cognition and Linguistic Analysis Biology of Cognition and Linguistic Analysis
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    Biology of Cognition and Linguistic Analysis

    This book is an attempt to re-evaluate some basic assumptions about language, communication, and cognition in the light of the new epistemology of autopoiesis as the theory of the living. Starting with a critique of common myths about language and...
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  • A Document (Re)turn A Document (Re)turn
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    A Document (Re)turn

    When people are checking in to flights, making reports to their company manager, composing music, delivering papers for exams in schools, or examining patients in hospitals, they all deal with documents and processes of documentation. In earlier times,...
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  • Gender and Citizenship in a Multicultural Context Gender and Citizenship in a Multicultural Context
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    Gender and Citizenship in a Multicultural Context

    The articles in this book share a dedication to broadening and stretching the scholarly field of feminist citizenship studies and invite the reader to reflect on the many different ways citizenship is formed in contemporary Europe. They do so by...
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  • Die Nibelungen zogen nach Daenemark Die Nibelungen zogen nach Daenemark
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    Die Nibelungen zogen nach Daenemark

    Die Nibelungensage hat sich in Deutschland und in Skandinavien seit Jahrhunderten großer Beliebtheit erfreut. Während einige Bearbeitungen als Meisterwerke gelten, hat die Hvenische Chronik keine Beachtung gefunden. In der dänischen Prosaerzählung von...
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  • Asienbild und Asienmotiv bei Thomas Mann Asienbild und Asienmotiv bei Thomas Mann
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    Asienbild und Asienmotiv bei Thomas Mann

    Die Arbeit untersucht die Darstellungen Asiens bzw. das Asienmotiv in Thomas Manns Der Tod in Venedig, Der Zauberberg und Die vertauschten Köpfe. Unter der methodischen Leitlinie der komparatistischen Imagologie zeigt die Analyse, dass 'Asien' in den...
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  • 50 Jahre Leipziger Uebersetzungswissenschaftliche Schule 50 Jahre Leipziger Uebersetzungswissenschaftliche Schule
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    50 Jahre Leipziger Uebersetzungswissenschaftliche Schule

    Mit der Veröffentlichung ausgewählter Publikationen von den Hauptvertretern der Leipziger Schule, Gert Jäger, Otto Kade und Albrecht Neubert sowie von weiteren Mitstreitern, die z.T. bis in die Gegenwart (auch als Neuzugänge) in Leipzig wirken,...
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  • Aspekte des Phantastischen Aspekte des Phantastischen
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    Aspekte des Phantastischen

    Der baltische Erzähler und Dichter Werner Bergengruen (1892-1964), noch in den sechziger Jahren einer der meistgelesenen deutschen Schriftsteller, wurde bisher selten mit phantastischer Literatur in Verbindung gebracht. Diese literaturwissenschaftliche...
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  • Bridges and Barriers in Metalinguistic Discourse Bridges and Barriers in Metalinguistic Discourse
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    Bridges and Barriers in Metalinguistic Discourse

    Linguistics has found itself in the middle of a lively debate about its disciplinary integrity, its future and role in modern societies. The ongoing discussions thrive on impulses coming from within the field and from other disciplines that either inform...
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  • Britneys, Fritten, Gangschta und wir Britneys, Fritten, Gangschta und wir
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    Britneys, Fritten, Gangschta und wir

    Die Jugendsprache- und Identitätsforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum hat das weibliche Geschlecht bis heute sträflich vernachlässigt. Die Arbeit setzt an dieser Forschungslücke an und liefert auf der Grundlage eines umfangreichen Korpus Einblicke in...
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  • Deutsche und armenische Werbesprache im Vergleich Deutsche und armenische Werbesprache im Vergleich
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    Deutsche und armenische Werbesprache im Vergleich

    Während der Kunde in Deutschland seit 50 Jahren über sämtliche Medien beworben wird, steckt die kommerzielle Werbung in Armenien noch in den Kinderschuhen. Wie sich die erheblichen wirtschaftlichen, politischen und soziokulturellen Unterschiede zwischen...
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  • Textsemiotik Textsemiotik
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    Textsemiotik

    Aktuelle Medientexte mutieren immer mehr zum visuellen Erlebnis. Durch die Ausbeutung der verschiedensten Zeichenressourcen werden den bildverwöhnten Konsumenten der Informationsgesellschaft Botschaften möglichst augenfällig, anziehend und eingängig...
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  • Abbild - Modell - Simulation Abbild - Modell - Simulation
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    Abbild - Modell - Simulation

    Die Repräsentation von Wissen und Wissensgenerierung werden in den Aufsätzen des Bandes am Beispiel verschiedenster Medien, Textsorten und Gegenstände untersucht. Ein besonderes Merkmal ist hierbei ausschlaggebend: Immer geht es um Probleme zwischen...
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  • Kuenstlerische Medienbildung Kuenstlerische Medienbildung
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    Kuenstlerische Medienbildung

    Das Konzept der Künstlerischen Medienbildung bietet ein theoretisches Grundgerüst für eine engere Kooperation der Medienpädagogik und der künstlerischen Pädagogik. Es werden Analogien in den Diskursen und Zielsetzungen beider Fachbereiche dargestellt, um...
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  • Film und Musik im spanischsprachigen Roman der Gegenwart Film und Musik im spanischsprachigen Roman der Gegenwart
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    Film und Musik im spanischsprachigen Roman der Gegenwart

    Untersucht wird die intermediale Produktionsästhetik an vier ausgewählten spanischsprachigen Texten, bei denen die Medien Musik und Film als Produktionsgeneratoren fungieren: El perseguidor von Julio Cortázar, El invierno en Lisboa von Antonio Muñoz...
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    Wieland der Schmied in neuer Perspektive

    Entgegen dem Konsens der germanistischen Forschung ist der Name Wieland samt dem Wissen um Wielands Schmiedestatus nicht erst durch die Normannen, sondern durch die Franken und/oder Burgunder nach Frankreich gebracht worden, und zwar ausschließlich in...
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  • Narratologie interkulturell Narratologie interkulturell
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    Narratologie interkulturell

    Narratologie hat sich mit theoretischen Konzepten zum Erzählen und systematisch angelegten Verfahren zur Analyse von erzählenden Texten seit den 1960er Jahren im nationalen und internationalen Zusammenhang der Wissenschaftskulturen entwickelt. Solche...
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  • Das Jugendalter Das Jugendalter
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    Das Jugendalter

    Unter einer interdisziplinären Perspektive vereint der Band aktuelle Beiträge zur komplexen Thematik des Jugendalters, wobei die Autorinnen und Autoren hierbei die vielfältigen Facetten dieser kritischen Lebensphase beleuchten. Die hier versammelten...
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  • Memories of the Origins of Ethnographic Film Memories of the Origins of Ethnographic Film
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    Memories of the Origins of Ethnographic Film

    Ethnographic Film, which combines documentary filming and anthropological research, originated in the late 19th century. Early on, anthropologists used film to record cultures. Documentary filmmakers in the early 20th century developed different...
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  • Beyond Tenderpreneurship Beyond Tenderpreneurship
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    Beyond Tenderpreneurship

    Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policies have been a central pillar of attempts to overcome the economic legacy of apartheid. Yet, more than two decades into democracy, economic exclusion in South Africa still largely reflects the fault-lines of the...
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  • Research Universities in Africa Research Universities in Africa
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    Research Universities in Africa

    From the early 2000s, a new discourse emerged, in Africa and the international donor community, that higher education was important for development in Africa. Within this ‘zeitgeist’ of converging interests, a range of agencies agreed that a...
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  • Rethinking Migration Rethinking Migration
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    Rethinking Migration

    With the increasing worldwide problems of migration, research into its causes and effects become ever more urgent. This volume takes stock of recent advancements that social science research in both Europe and the United States has made to understanding...
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  • Willingness-to-pay Surveys Willingness-to-pay Surveys
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    Willingness-to-pay Surveys

    These guidance notes describe good practice for conducting robust 'willingness-to-pay' (WTP) surveys in small towns, using the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM), as part of a demand-responsive approach to the supply of services. The urban water sector in...
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  • Modeling Economic Growth in Contemporary Slovakia Modeling Economic Growth in Contemporary Slovakia
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    Modeling Economic Growth in Contemporary Slovakia

    Following the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the Slovak Republic emerged as an independent nation and embarked on a journey of economic transition and reform. During the thirty early years of independence, Slovakia faced many challenges,...
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  • The Changing Character of War and Peacemaking The Changing Character of War and Peacemaking
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    The Changing Character of War and Peacemaking

    Geo-politics shifted dramatically with the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. This major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which had started in 2014, drew in the United States, most of Western Europe, and their allies around the world...
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  • Beyond Inequalities 2008. Women in Southern Africa Beyond Inequalities 2008. Women in Southern Africa
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    Beyond Inequalities 2008. Women in Southern Africa

    Beyond Inequalities 2008: Women in Southern Africa provides an analysis on the status of women and the various challenges, limitations and opportunities encountered in accelerating the pace to achieve gender equality in SADC, through identifying the...
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  • Listen. Think. Act. Listen. Think. Act.
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    Listen. Think. Act.

    This is a book about community development and how to do it better! It is a book for anyone interested in doing good community development work. This interactive textbook addresses gaps in best practices and aims to educate students, researchers,...
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  • China's Great Road China's Great Road
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    China's Great Road

    China in 42 years, 1978-2020, far less than a single lifetime, has gone from one of the world's poorest countries, with more than 850 million people living in internationally defined poverty, to the brink of becoming a high-income economy by World Bank...
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  • The Origin of Scientific Revolutions The Origin of Scientific Revolutions
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    The Origin of Scientific Revolutions

    What are the unequivocal causes of a scientific revolution? In The Origin of Scientific Revolutions, Rinat Nugayev proposes an ideal model that strives to reconcile cognitive and social facets of the advancement of science and to provide analytical tools...
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  • Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2017 Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2017
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    Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2017

    Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2017 represents the result of a nationwide conversation—beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition—to...
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  • Media and Mass Communication Media and Mass Communication
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    Media and Mass Communication

    This book on media and mass communication discusses the recent technical developments that have affected media portrayal, media transmission methods and media consumption technologies. Advancement of technology plays an important role in the way media is...
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    Economic Assistance and the Northern Ireland Conflict

    This study explores images of economic assistance to explain the importance of tailoring such assistance to the distinctive social needs of the targeted communities, and how third parties must consider and include local perspectives in their attempts to...
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  • Pony Express in Utah Pony Express in Utah
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    Pony Express in Utah

    The Pony Express stands out in the history of the American West, memorable and captivating for the romance and adventure it evokes. The image of the intrepid young rider on a fast horse, crossing mountain and desert with his precious cargo of mail, is...
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