Bøker utgitt av Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

This volume focuses on vocabulary size, vocabulary knowledge, affix acquisition, pronunciation, translanguaging, language learning strategies, considerations of oral participation and academic adaptation. Contexts explored are Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Japan and Thailand. Education levels explored are elementary, secondary and tertiary.

This political proposal for the creation of a federal European republic that would replace and succeed the EU, its member states and other willing countries, analyses the reasons why, and the means how, to arrive to that goal. It also introduces the policies to follow in a large number of areas.

The book presents the Triple-Decker Model that describes the interactive mechanism among key constituents of English for Specific Purposes Ability (ESPA): language knowledge, strategic competence and background knowledge (nursing knowledge).

Focussing on European countries, this edited volume examines the variety of European VET governance and VET governance research. In particular, it provides insights into regional, local and decentralized governance at meso as well as micro level. As such, the edited volume sheds light on the hitherto far less explored dimensions of VET governance.

This book is concerned with frequency in foreign language learning, in particular with contrastive frequency across English and Italian, and to what degree this is captured in dictionaries. With the aid of corpus analysis, this survey brings out unexpected frequency differences in the areas of lexis, grammar and collocation.

This book illustrates the advantage of a diachronic perspective to learning and teaching language and translation. This perspective is applied to English spelling pedagogy, translation studies, bilingual education, approaches to teaching culture, new genre development, aspects of legal English, and meaning shifts in American lexis.

This book explores subjectless ing- and ed-supplement constructions in the recent history of English from a corpus-based perspective in an attempt to provide their syntactic and semantic characterisation in terms of prototypicality and to describe diachronic variation in Late Modern and Present-day English.

Esta monografia presenta resultados del proyecto de investigacion CULTURFIL El objetivo principal es establecer un marco de referencia sobre la proyeccion cultural, tomando como modelo las principales ferias internacionales del libro y sus invitados de honor.

This book proposes a series of ten "lessons" on many of the important ethical questions in human life, based on a wide-ranging series of poems in English. These poems are treated as testimonies to the poets' experience and understanding of such topics as forgiveness, centering, self-reliance, and one's ultimate parting from life.

Omniprésent dans les médias, le terme transhumanisme nécessite un éclaircissement académique. En e¿et, il n¿existe pas un, mais des transhumanismes.La parole est ici donnée à des penseurs de diverses disciplines, plus ou moins ouverts à ce courant d¿idées parfois taxé d¿idéologie, voire de menace pour l¿Humanité.Ces craintes sont-elles fondées ? Quelles sont les origines de ce mouvement de pensée ? Quels en sont les di¿érentes rami¿cations ? Quelles en sont les réalisations, notamment dans le domaine médical ? Un encadrement éthique et/ou juridique de ces pratiques est- elle nécessaire ? De nouveaux droits fondamentaux méritaient-ils d¿être reconnus ?La parole est ici donnée tant aux militants transhumanistes qu¿aux penseurs critiques än de croiser leurs regards.

The book Researchers Remember: Research As an Arena of Memory Among Descendants of Holocaust Survivors, A Collection of Academic Autobiographies is composed of over 30 chapters written by prominent researchers worldwide who belong to the "Second Generation" and "Third Generation" of Holocaust offspring.

The book concerns the church of Sant'Ambrogio at Milan. It discusses previously overlooked material which calls into question the conventional reconstruction of the building history. Correspondingly, it offers a reappraisal of the building's transmutations over several periods, from the Romano-Christian to the Romanesque.

This volume aims at bridging the gap between LSP translation, gender issues, and the professional world. The purpose is to broaden the discussion on gender awareness in LSP and translation.

Die Beitrage des Bandes untersuchen Paracelsus' aggressiv wirkende Rhetorik, seine speziellen Aussagen uber die Evolution, seine Konzepte von Engeln und Geistern sowie die Paracelsus-Bezuge russischer Gelehrter. Prasentiert werden ein authentischer Brief des Paracelsus und Bucheintrage im Stift Einsiedeln.

This book explores if/si-constructions in spoken English, French and Spanish, from a functional-pragmatic and corpus-based perspective. The data are retrieved from parliamentary discourse and conversations corpora.

The book is composed of 18 autobiographical essays written by American-Jewish women who made aliyah between 1967 and 2017. Each essay traces the author's path to making that choice, and describes and analyses her life after her immigration and at various crossroads of her life.

Many questions remain open about the transmission and international reception of pedagogical tools and methods peculiar to Neapolitan conservatories in the eighteenth century. This volume collects contributions from an international conference that was held in Milan and Bern in 2017 on these issues.