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Cet ouvrage analyse la question des personnes deplacees (DPs) en Allemagne occupee apres 1945 selon 3 perspectives : la politique des Etats et des administrations internationales a l'egard des DPs, entre rapatriement et emigration ; le quotidien de ces deracines a l'echelon local ; la constitution de leurs reseaux et modes de representation.

This book increases awareness about Paul's community formation preaching which has been widely ignored in the contemporary homiletical field where the New Homiletic has exerted a strong influence. This interdisciplinary study suggests that contemporary preachers should preach shared narratives and communal norms for the creation of boundaries.

Late nineteenth-century Ireland saw the emergence of a thriving advertising industry and the Irish child played a vital role in establishing this nascent consumer state. Analysing advertisements, historical materials and literature, this book links the child-centred consumer culture of Victorian Ireland with the setting up of the independent state.

Today, we are witnessing a turn in the fashion imaginary as issues related to social, environmental and cultural sustainability come to predominate in many areas of human activity. The book explores a multitude of fashion issues that feed the contemporary fashion imaginary.

This book weaves intensely personal and evocative stories into a layered autoethnographic text about the author's experience of childhood deafness, sign language and education. It is an important contribution to the study of deaf education, disability and deaf health and well-being.

Arguing that certain song types constitute forms of collective memory, this book explores Irish theatre from the 1950s and 1960s to show that songs provide valuable insights into changes in the popular consciousness. As well as illuminating the performances and reception of the plays, it also challenges orthodox narratives of de Valera's Ireland.

This book presents a comparative interdisciplinary socio-psycholinguistic study on plurilingual code-switching (CS) in Italy, Croatia and Scotland-UK, based on Italian in contact with four standard varieties (Spanish, English, Philipino and Croatian) and five non-standard varieties (Arbereshe, Occitan, Calabrese, Istrovenetian and Chakavski).

In the first years of the twentieth century, the tourist industry made the Mediterranean and the Balearic Islands accessible to visitors who capture them in image and word. This book examines how these images were created, developed and articulated to cronstruct a space consecrated to pleasure and leisure signified in today's Majorca and Ibiza.

The PEERS program proposes international exchanges adapted to the context of teacher training institutions wishing to take advantage of internationalization in order to link training, research, and practice. The aim of this collective book is to give an overview of the Issues, case studies and perspectives of the PEERS program.

As a corpus-based typological cognitive study of English binominal quantitative expressions based on English-Chinese comparison, the book discovers functional equivalents of Chinese numeral classifiers in English, i.e. `Quasi-Numeral Classifiers' (QNCs) and unveils the categorisation process reflected by five cases of Dimensionality-based QNCs.

The book investigates social capital in the periods of normality and crisis in SEE; it looks how different dimensions of social capital interact with migration experience and extends this focus to the role of ethnic diversity in affecting social capital. It ends by analysing how ethnic diversity affects the economic performance of individuals.

The volume focuses on discourse-pragmatic studies on evidentiality, epistemic modality, and on deontic modality. It presents studies on the functions and discourse-pragmatic variation of evidential and modal expressions, applying corpus-based methodologies and addressing cross-linguistic issues in several European languages.

This book argues that postnational and postsovereign multi-level governance regimes, including the EU, are mechanisms of global capitalism aimed at privatizing democracy. Through detailed analysis of the Basque case, it illustrates how democratization is closely linked to territory, collective empowerment and institutional political capacity.

In the wake of the Irish potato famine, E.K. Tenison and his wife, Lady Louisa, left their estate in Ireland to reside and travel in Andalusia and, later, in Castile. The adventure on which they embarked led to a husband-and-wife team of astonishing cultural production. This book documents their travels and presents their work to a new readership.

The aim of this book is to propose an original hypothesis to account for the difficulties associated with dyslexia, suggesting that this disorder is characterized by deficits affecting the subject's phonological and processing abilities. The results of four experimental protocols are discussed, providing further support for this hypothesis.

The volume deals with the development of the String Quartet in Spain from the eighteenth century up to the present. It includes 24 studies on composers and specific works from different perspectives, and provides information about the primary and secondary sources located to date.

This new study investigates how Spain was represented in Irish fiction, plays, poems and travelogues written in a period covering the first five decades of Irish independence as well as the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975).

This volume focuses on the study of linguistic manipulation, persuasion and power in the written texts of professional communication, bringing forth studies on the language of various specialised fields such as law and arbitration, engineering, economics, advertising, business, politics, medicine, social work, education and the media.

The aim of this volume is to give voice to the various perspectives in the investigation of tourism discourse in its written, spoken, and visual aspects. The chapters focus on the interaction between the participants involved in the tourism practices, that is the promoters of tourist destinations, tourists or prospective tourists.

The study presents the oldest detailed mortality tables worldwide, for the year 1635, including model life tables. Mortality tables are also provided for the times of plague epidemics, something never done before. Gaps are also filled with population structures and age pyramids, with premarital sex and with the importance of remarriages.

During the early half of the twentieth century, Chinese society was disillusioned by both internal dissension and external invasion, and the churches experienced many challenges. In response to the traumatic events of 1920-1949, the Chinese theologian Prof. T. C. Chao tried to construct a 'new religion' for China.

This book tells the story of mid-20th century Jewish America through the eyes of Bernice Cohen Schwartz, born in NYC in 1923, whose life reflects much of American Jewry's 20th century history: the Great Depression, WWII, Jewish educational and Institutions, the response to Israel, and the development of Jewish suburbia.

What should we do with places that were theatres of mass suffering and atrocity? Should we keep them as they were, to remind us of the past, or transform them? This volume addresses these questions by discussing selected key trauma sites, analysed with an innovative semiotic methodology that sheds new light on the notions of trauma and memory.