English for Central Europe - Interdisciplinary Saxon-Czech Perspectives

English for Central Europe - Interdisciplinary Saxon-Czech Perspectives PDF Author: Josef J. Schmied
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN: 3865374204
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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English for Central Europe - Interdisciplinary Saxon-Czech Perspectives

English for Central Europe - Interdisciplinary Saxon-Czech Perspectives PDF Author: Josef J. Schmied
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN: 3865374204
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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English Projects in Teaching and Research in Central Europe

English Projects in Teaching and Research in Central Europe PDF Author: Josef Schmied
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN: 3867276641
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 167

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Essays on Language in Societal Transformation

Essays on Language in Societal Transformation PDF Author: Tunde Opeibi
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN: 3736949219
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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This paper generally lends support to the arguments advanced by Awonusi (1989, 1990, 2004) and others in favour of an endornormative as opposed to an exonormative standard for English pronunciation in Nigeria. They include the fact that the existing, exonormative standard, British Received Pronunciation (RP), has undergone and is still undergoing changes in its homeland, and is not homogeneous. The heightened social mobility of today’s world perhaps works against the demarcation and homogenization of language varieties, and this is all the more true of the varieties or lects that have been proposed for Nigerian English when these are related, more or less explicitly, to educational attainment. Major attention is given in the paper to a schema of basilect, mesolect, and acrolect presented by Ugorji (2010), with a focus on his account of vowels and his presentation of a mechanism derived from optimality theory for evaluating vowels in contention. The basilect and the mesolect are found to be so close to each other that they might be combined. There would then be just two varieties. In contrast, the acrolect is close to British RP, albeit with many variants due to the conflict of two standardising forces, i.e. British RP and the basilect-mesolect. The vowel system of an officially adopted endonormative standard – ‘Nigerian RP’ – would mainly be the same as that of British RP, but the optimality mechanism could be employed to give preference to some of the Nigerian variants for inclusion in it.

From Uncertainty to Confidence and Trust

From Uncertainty to Confidence and Trust PDF Author: Jessica Dheskali
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN: 3736966369
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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This publication originated from the idea that uncertainty should not be taken as fear of the unknown that should be avoided, but as a natural starting point for scientific and journalistic writing. Risk awareness is seen as a necessary prerequisite for gaining confidence and evoking trust. Moving from uncertainty to confidence and trust is also an integral part of international academic collaboration, as the discussions of the partners from Germany (Chemnitz), Macedonia (Skopje, Ohrid/Bitola), Albania (Vlora), Serbia (Niš, Vršac), Croatia (Split) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Banja Luka) have shown throughout this and previous years. The project, funded by DAAD, aimed to bridge the diverse cultural academic and media contexts in Southeast Europe and to show that uncertainty can and should be taken as an opportunity. This was achieved through discussions and research projects in the course of an online workshop and summer school and this publication.

Critical Discourse and Corpus Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar

Critical Discourse and Corpus Approaches to Systemic Functional Grammar PDF Author: Chenguang Chang
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN: 3736963475
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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The present volume draws on the experience of the Workshop held in Germany in late 2018 to combine the specialisations of the two linguistic research teams of the two partner universities, Sun Yat-sen University in China and Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany. It combines more theoretical approaches by experienced scholars and case studies by young researchers on topics and texts on current Chinese developments. The contributions can also serve as a general model for open and critical international and intercultural academic discourse.

Comparing Confidence and Trust Online and Offline

Comparing Confidence and Trust Online and Offline PDF Author: Josef Schmied
Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN: 3736967780
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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The present volume draws on the experience of the Summer School held online in 2021 and in Serbia in August 2022, where graduate students and experienced scholars met from Germany, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Northern Macedonia, and Croatia. All contributions discuss original empirical research on the construction of confidence and trust online and offline in the case of academic or journalistic writing, mainly from South Eastern European but also from German perspectives. The contributions can also serve as a general model for open and critical international and intercultural academic discourse in joint teaching, research and publishing.

Complexity and Coherence

Complexity and Coherence PDF Author: Josef Schmied
Publisher:
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Category : Cohesion (Linguistics)
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Social Exclusion in Later Life

Social Exclusion in Later Life PDF Author: Kieran Walsh
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030514064
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people. The book considers five domains of exclusion (services; economic; social relations; civic and socio-cultural; and community and spatial domains), with three chapters dedicated to analysing different dimensions of each exclusion domain. The book also examines the interrelationships between different forms of exclusion, and how outcomes and processes of different kinds of exclusion can be related to one another. In doing so, major cross-cutting themes, such as rights and identity, inclusive service infrastructures, and displacement of marginalised older adult groups, are considered. Finally, in a series of chapters written by international policy stakeholders and policy researchers, the book analyses key policies relevant to social exclusion and older people, including debates linked to sustainable development, EU policy and social rights, welfare and pensions systems, and planning and development. The book’s approach helps to illuminate the comprehensive multidimensionality of social exclusion, and provides insight into the relative nature of disadvantage in later life. With 77 contributors working across 28 nations, the book presents a forward-looking research agenda for social exclusion amongst older people, and will be an important resource for students, researchers and policy stakeholders working on ageing.

Social Sciences and the Military

Social Sciences and the Military PDF Author: Giuseppe Caforio
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134223625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Analyzes the military from a broad interdisciplinary basis in the social sciences, filling the gap in the market Contains an international cast of scholars from the fields of military sociology and social sciences Will appeal to scholars of military sociology, conflict resolution, peace studies, military history, security studies and professionals in NGOs and military colleges

Scholars of Early Modern Studies

Scholars of Early Modern Studies PDF Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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