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The book explores the creative potential of misunderstanding in cross-cultural communication. The concept is studied from the perspective of translation studies, literary and cultural history, sociology. Misunderstanding is viewed as an elementary and unavoidable component of any verbal and cultural communication and a factor in artistic creation.

Das Autorenkollektiv verdeutlicht in dieser Publikation den komplexen Weg der Slowakei bis zu ihrer selbststandigen demokratischen Staatlichkeit im 20. Jahrhundert und zeichnet die wichtigsten Tendenzen der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung nach, die auf den 1. Januar 1993 folgten.

The volume presents the views of ten authors from four PostCommunist Central and East European countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Latvia) on the impact of emerging technologies on human condition. They analyse the topic from anthropological, ethical, philosophical, ontological, empirical and legal perspectives.

The presented text is an attempt to sketch the basic contours of selected issues in the cognitive research of aesthetic experience. The core themes of the book are methodological problems of the unification of philosophical and cognitive-scientific approaches to beauty and aesthetic experience, and cognitive aesthetic of music perception.

The book attempts to outline the fundamental contours of the possible research of emotionality by the means of analysis of the cognitive aspects of an aesthetic experience. The study presents the results of an impressive methodological combination of philosophical (phenomenological) and current cognitive scientific research.

By researching the activities of institutions and monitoring of relations and various phenomena of medieval and early modern society, the authors have outlined and promoted the lines of the continuing story of the Kingdom of Hungary, gradually finding its name in the community of the countries of contemporary Christian Europe.

The book presents a biography of Alexander Dubcek, the icon of the "Czechoslovak Spring" in 1968. It aims to explain his decisions and intellectual development in the context of the turbulent development of the 20th century Central Europe. The text deals with his rise to power, forced isolation and his attempt for a political comeback after 1989.

Language and culture relate to each other. It is important to refine teaching processes to enable language learners to use target languages effectively. This book shows that language and culture should be viewed in their interrelationship as they have a significant impact on the naturalness and appropriateness of discourse.

Die Autorin behandelt die neuere politische Geschichte Sri Lankas seit der Kandyan Convention 1815, der Unabhangigkeit im Jahr 1948 und ihrer Verwicklung mit dem Buddhismus und Herrschaftskonzeptionen der Chronik Mahavamsa. Es geht um Religion und Politik auf Sri Lanka und die Frage, wie das Verhaltnis von Buddhismus und Politik verhandelt wird.

The book tackles the English(es) spoken in post-Independence Namibia beyond variety status. Based on questionnaires and the corpus compiled by herself, the author analyzes morphosyntactical structures, language use and attitudes towards English(es) in comparison to home languages.

The book presents the birth of the psychoanalytical movement on Polish lands in the years 1900-1918, on the broad background of the assimilation processes of Polish Jews. The author points out that Freud's theory played the role of "the promised land", as it was associated with the idea of the establishment of a more just social order.

With the development of industry, both social lives and economies have been significantly affected. Together with the Industry 4.0 revolution, significant changes have occurred in both the social life and the production process. As a result, different sectors are affected by this change.

The book demonstrates the ambiguity in representing North Greenland and the Inughuit in Knud Rasmussen's expedition accounts: The New People and My Travel Diary. The reading of both works is founded on postcolonial critical theory including colonial discourse analysis and Homi Bhabha's notion of ambivalence.

The aim of this book is the analysis of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz's meta-epistemological project of the semantic theory of knowledge and its implementations to solve certain traditional epistemological problems and their metaphysical consequences.

The author of the book discusses the essence and social consequences of the postmodern era in the field of psychology of work and technology. He describes the relationship between the human being and the goals achieved through the use of technical tools, which is of interest to the industrial and engineering psychology.

Influence of politics on media, corruption of media and stereotypes related to the social minorities are, according to the authors, the most significant problems of the 21st-century Slovak media. This book explains why the existence of public media is important and why alternative media fail to inform truthfully, impartially and objectively.

The volume provides a collection of articles on current debates in the fields of politics and public administration. The authors deal with frequently mentioned concepts of our era in political and public administration sciences.

The book focuses on the interpretation of linguistic strategies of interaction between the sacred (the metaphysical world) and the profane (the physical world) in Polish folklore. An analysis of linguistic and ritual behaviour in the context of the origin myth reveals the use of symbolism common to many cultures of the world.

Im Mittelpunkt dieses Bandes steht die Frage, welche der in der Literatur diskutierten Patentauslaufstrategien unter Berucksichtigung der aktuellen Rechtslage und Weiterentwicklung der pharmazeutischen Branche noch anwendbar sind. Die Autorin erstellt daher ein Klassifikationsschema fur Patentauslaufstrategien und gibt Handlungsempfehlungen.

The book focuses on the translation issues connected with cross-cultural communication, selected linguistic and cultural components of nationality, diverse elements of humour and different methods and features of their rendition, intricacies of audiovisual translation and challenges arising in the sphere of a translator's professional training.

The book provides a new way to understand the often unspoken, silenced history of the Asian diaspora experience in the U.S. as articulated in fiction, especially the experiences of suppressed ethnic women who are subordinated by the powers of a male-dominated mainstream American society.

A comparative study of European cinema that explores the turn from national traditions to transnational cooperation. It reactivates the European peace project with a critical history lesson and new overview of culture bound syndromes, changing gender systems, and ethnic conflict fields.

The Islamic World comprises territories of Muslim states throughout the world. This area faces a lot of dilemmas regarding ethnic and religious conflicts as well as political and economic instability. The authors address the topic from the perspective of international security, foreign policy, economic and energy policy as well as regional studies.