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This book presents a purposeful didactic intervention aiming to develop information competence in translation students. The study findings may be particularly useful for translation teachers and professional translators who want to improve their web search expertise.

The book presents a linguo-cultural picture of traditional values reflected in Anglo-American and Polish proverbs. The paremiological analysis carried out from a contrastive perspective provides additional evidence supporting the claim about the existence of distinct axiological differences specific only to a given linguo-culture.

Esta obra presenta una novedosa taxonomia para la categorizacion de los errores ortograficos en zonas de contacto linguistico, disenada a partir de la combinacion del analisis contrastivo entre la ortografia del ingles y del espanol con los errores detectados en Gibraltar para comprobar como el contacto linguistico se ve reflejado en la ortografia.

Memories, which are subjective reconstructions of past events, reflect collectively constructed "truths" about the surrounding world, and, thus, contribute to the further construction of the image or interpretation of the past and the present. This book focuses on the topic of memory in the Middle and Far Eastern societies.

Based on the ethnographic method, this volume offers analytical insights into the workings of agency in late industrialism, revealed in interactions between a power plant and a local community in Opole, Silesia, in southwestern Poland. Political, economic, ethnic, gender, and mobility issues are examined through the prism of various scales.

This book investigates the ways and the degree in which bilingualism affects language, cognitive and narrative abilities in bilingual children. The results of the research reveal the significance of biliteracy in the above areas. The book also provides research observations and classroom implications of the finds or the research.

The book describes an empirical study into the involvement of secondary school learners in the production of two happenings. It took the form of particpatory action research and used a research strategy based upon bricolage and the rhizome. The data showed learners were actively involved in the happening project, unlike their school lessons.

This book includes studies of main conflict areas in modern Western societies where religion has been a central element, ranging from popular movements and narratives of opposition to challenges of religious satire and anti-clerical critique. Special attention is given to matters of politics and gender.

En esta obra se expone un programa básico sobre la observación, la enseñanza y la representación del conocimiento geográfico. Un curso de Geografía promovido por Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, principal representante de la Ilustración española, para quien la Geografía era una ciencia útil (para la economía y la política) y una ciencia necesaria (para la vida).

State intervention in economic activities to drive development requires specificinstitutional prerequisites that maintain strategic collaboration between thestate and businesses.

The book examines the early modern debates on just war, transatlantic conquest and slavery, the 18th- and 19th-century shift towards natural science, and contemporary philosophy on decolonization. Political circumstance and exploiting available terminology produced new meanings or "translations" which increasingly developed a momentum of their own.

Based on the empirical analysis of a wide range of communicative situations, the book shows how phonetic, pragmatic, textual, and interactional perspectives can help to better understand how prosodic features and communicative settings are interrelated.

The object of the present study is the analysis of how the media presented the information when the Securitate files were exposed. To illustrate the extent to which the reports were made objectively, or manipulated public opinion, the author chose to analyze one of the most controversial cases, that of Mona Musca.

The book deals with the concept of the person present in the personalism of Karol Wojtyla. It advances some main topics necessary to understand the theory of the person developed within European continental philosophy, especially in a specific connection of Thomism and phenomenology.

The book discusses the political dramas of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard regarding their employment of the two critical terms used in its title. It provides a new look at the output of the artists in reference to the employment of the grotesque, justifying their classification together with the East European absurdist playwrights.