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Die ersten beiden Beiträge befassen sich mit der Vermittlung von Deutsch als Fremdsprache im südafrikanischen Kontext. Zwei Beiträge haben kollektives Gedächtnis und/oder Gedenken im Fokus: Der erste bezieht sich auf Gedächtnisregimes in Deutschland und der zweite auf die österreichische Erinnerungskultur. Die Flüchtlingskrise in Europa wird einerseits unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der europäischen Perspektiven auf afrikanische Flüchtlinge und andererseits unter Hinweis auf Beteiligung literarischer Texte am öffentlichen Diskurs über diese Krise untersucht. Die thematischen Zusammenhänge zwischen den Werken von Bettina von Arnim und Sophie Mereau zu Politik und Menschenrechten, deuten auf die historische Rolle, die Soziopolitik immer gespielt hat. Zwei Beiträge konzentrieren sich auf die Medien Film und Musik: F.W. Murnaus Nosferatu und zwei Lieder von M.-U. Kling und AnniKa von Trier werden diesbezüglich analysiert. Die abschließenden drei Artikel haben klassische literarische Texte im Fokus: Die Kapuzinergruft von Joseph Roth, W. G. Sebalds Die Ringe des Saturn und Die Verwandlung von Franz Kafka.The first two contributions in this book focus on the teaching of German as a foreign language in the South African context. Two contributions engage with collective memory and/or commemoration: the first considering memory regimes in Germany and the second focusing on Austrian memory culture. The refugee crisis in Europe is evaluated with specific reference to European perspectives on African refugees and by looking at different ways in which literary texts participate in the public discourse on this crisis. An investigation into the thematic connections between the work of Bettina von Arnim and Sophie Mereau on politics and human rights indicates the historical role socio-politics has always played. Two contributions focus on the media of film and music: F.W. Murnau¿s Nosferatu and two songs by M.-U. Kling and AnniKa von Trier are analysed from this perspective. The concluding articles have classic literary texts as its focus: Joseph Roth¿s Die Kapuzinergruft, W.G. Sebald¿s Die Ringe des Saturn and Franz Kafkäs Die Verwandlung.

This book discusses the relations and policies of global and regional powers, especially in the recent period, and the problems and issues that are important on the international level. While it is a stereotypical discourse to state that everything in world politics affects another, its truthfulness reflects an undeniable reality.

The book underlines the vibrancy as well as complexity that characterizes the study of American literature and culture in the twenty-first century with regard to the exploration and understanding of ethnicity and gender.

Employer branding is a concept defined as "the package of functional, economic and psychological benefits provided by employment, and identified with the employing company" (Amber/Barrow, 1996). Even though the concept was originally introduced as a marketing term, the employer branding terminology has entered the human resource management world.

The book offers a deep insight into specific artistic strategies and development of modernist paradigm in the art of Polish avant-garde artists in Berlin both in the pre- and post-Second World War period, from the perspective of the migration experience, as well as relations and identity programmes of particular artists or groups.

Das Drama zählte um 1900 zur Leitgattung an höheren Schulen. Dramen von Schiller, Goethe und Lessing gehörten zum zentralen Bestandteil der Schullektüre. Wie sollte der Umgang mit dem Drama im Deutschunterricht erfolgen? Diese Studie rekonstruiert systematisch den Lektürekanon an höheren Schulen im Deutschen Reich und geht der intensiven Diskussion innerhalb der Literaturpädagogik über die Fragen der Textauswahl und die Möglichkeiten der Literaturvermittlung nach. Ausgewählt wurden Schulen, an denen die Gymnasialprofessoren unterrichteten, die sich mit den Fragen der Vermittlung beschäftigt haben. Hierzu werden Schulprogramme, Lehrpläne, literaturpädagogische Zeitschriften und Monographien ausgewertet, die bislang nur am Rande eine Beachtung gefunden haben.

The boundaries between word classes are often fuzzy. This book looks at the classification of interjections and similar words of other classes. It reviews work done over the past 250 years on a wide range of languages. Most chapters discuss interjections in relation to one of the other parts of speech.

In the last decade, issues of language policy had become more mattering in Finland and Lithuania. The detailed surveys focused on the language attitudes of different population groups in both countries. The investigation was based on a uniquely developed methodological mixture, including the matched-guise technique.

The editors of this book combine new approaches in economics and business administration. The topics of this book range from tax policy, accounting information systems, banking in Turkey, work safety, gender pay gaps and social media marketing to e-municipality processes and Islamic indices.

The book deals with different aspects of the legal comparison of the compliance officer's function within the common law and civil law system such as the legal roots and the cultural background of the compliance function in the US, the UK and Germany.

Some sources state that the number of books Ibn Sina has written is over 240; 153 of these have been discovered. Among his valuable books, the two most well-known books are "al-Shifa", which deals mostly with philosophy, and the five-volume "al-Qanun Fi al-Tibb", which is a complete medical encyclopedia. The Little Qanun is the model of al-Qanun.

The collected volume interrogates the productivity of style as an element of cultural expression and a parameter of cultural analysis. Leading scholars in fields that range from literary criticism to post-structuralist philosophy, and American cultural studies address style in theory, literature, and cultural practice.

The Spectators shaped European identity by developing the strategies of critical journalism and by popularizing the ideas and values of the Age of Enlightenment. In this collection, we present a series of contributions which study "storytelling" in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Czech, Polish and Danish-Norwegian periodicals.

This book explores the relationship between language, culture and human mind in cognitive linguistics perspective. It offers a panchronic analysis of girl and woman as conceptualised in James Joyce's "Dubliners" by highlighting the cultural motivation behind the word.

The authors analyse how contemporary European states attempt to be active actors, responding to the crisis of the international order, in divergent and sometimes contradictory ways. This phenomenon inevitably leads to the undermining of many existing cooperation mechanisms, but it also reveals the limitations in terms of the state actions.