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Imperien, Nationen, Regionen
(2023)
This eighth volume of the Communications of the Joint Research Committee on the Contemporary History of German-Russian Relations documents the 2016 colloquium held in Moscow devoted to the theme "Empires, Nations, and ...
Germanistik in Wien
(2016)
The series "QUELLEN UND FORSCHUNGEN ZUR LITERATUR- UND KULTURGESCHICHTE" (Sources and Research in the History of Literature and Culture), with a rich tradition stretching back to 1874, is an established feature among the ...
Lernwelt Hochschule 2030
(2022)
Tertiary institutions are facing expectations of change on all sides resulting from the challenges of new public management, the Bologna Process, a shift from teaching to learning, competence orientation, and societal ...
Sprachlich konstruierter Extremismus
(2024)
How are extremist ideologies constructed in texts and conveyed in a potentially persuasive manner? This volume responds to this question by looking at German-language magazines published by the "Islamic State." It examines ...
»Es gibt noch Arbeiter in Deutschland«
(2024)
Laborers have long since disappeared from the political stage – seemingly inevitably as a result of structural change. However, if one understands ‘laborers’ as a resource of social knowledge, actors such as trade unionists, ...
Zerstörung von Geschriebenem Historische und transkulturelle Perspektiven
(2019)
Inscribed artifacts are exposed to a range of practices that damage them. These practices vary dramatically across historical periods and cultural contexts. This book studies a number of representative examples spanning ...
1308: Eine Topographie historischer Gleichzeitigkeit
(2010)
The Year 1308 ;Johannes Duns Scotus; Philosophy/ in the Middle Ages; History/ in the Middle Ages; Theology/ in the Middle Ages
Cognitive Linguistic Explorations in Biblical Studies
(2014)
Cognitive linguistics; biblical studies; biblical interpretation
Gespeicherte Gefühle
(2024)
Archive sind Orte der Diskretion, die jede Menge an Indiskretionen aufbewahren: geheime Liebeskorrespondenz, Aufkündigungen enger Freundschaften, Schnorrbriefe, juristische Verfolgung von Verrissen, Kampf um geistiges ...
Spanisch in Berlin
(2020)
Welche Motivationen stehen hinter dem Wunsch, Spanisch zu lernen? Welche Einstellungen verbinden Lernende mit der Sprache? Das Buch zeigt die Ergebnisse einer Reihe von Befragungsstudien mit Lernenden in Berlin an Hochschulen ...
Chapter Punktzeit als (Ver-)Störung
(2013)
This collected volume aims to generate a concise theoretical presentation of the "perturbation principle" in the humanities and the natural sciences. Incorporating findings from natural scientific research, the contributors ...
Chapter Wulfstan at Work: Recovering the Autographs of London, British Library, Additional 38651, fols. 57r–58v
(2019)
In this volume, scholars from different disciplines – Old English and Anglo-Latin literature and linguistics, palaeography, history, runology, numismatics and archaeology – explore what are here called ‘micro-texts’, i.e. ...
Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies
(2022)
This volume approaches the phenomenon of slavery and other types of strong asymmetrical dependencies from two methodologically and theoretically distinct perspectives: semantics and lexical fields. Detailed analyses promise ...
Bilder von dem Einen Gott: Die Rhetorik des Bildes in monotheistischen Gottesdarstellungen der Spätantike
(2016)
Monotheism; image rhetoric; late antiquity
Family Constellations in Contemporary Ibero-American and Slavic Literatures
(2024)
The volume investigates historical imaginaries in contemporary Ibero-American and Slavic literatures, where family narratives are used to reflect paradigmatically on the construction and self-understanding of regional, ...
Chapter 12 The tense-mood-aspect systems of the languages of Suriname
(2017)
This chapter deals with tense, mood, and aspect (TMA) marking in the languages of Suriname, focusing on the stability of forms, meanings, and structural pat-terns. Despite its prominent position in the creolization debate ...
Die Briefe Christiana von Goethes
(2024)
As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s life partner, Christiana von Goethe (née Vulpius) corresponded extensively, providing remarkable insights into her language and writing practice. This volume examines her letters linguistically ...
Modernity and the Construction of Sacred Space
(2024)
This book explores the intersection of modern architecture and religious studies. It focuses on rethinking the concept of sacred space in a modern context, bringing together scholars from diverse fields into an interdisciplinary ...
The Play of Language in Ancient Greek Comedy
(2024)
Within this volume, aspects of linguistic humour in ancient Greek comedy are explored. A rich repertoire of verbal artifices and types of joke is analysed, with emphasis on their contribution to the creation of comic effect ...
Genealogie in der Moderne
(2022)
What was the significance of searching for and finding "family" and kinship through the ages? Which methods and strategies did actors use to produce relational connections, and into what structures and discourses can these ...
The Poetry of Li He
(2023)
Li He (790-816) gained his early renown particularly for his lyrical reimaginings of lost song traditions from ancient times. The poet's premature death, along with the otherworldly quality of many of his works, led later ...
Chapter On a theorem of Erdős and Simonovits on graphs not containing the cube
(2013)
Turán graph problem; bipartite extremal graphs; cube graph
Chapter Udug
(2014)
Assyriology; Mesopotamia; Ancient Near East
Future Narratives: Theory, Poetics, and Media-Historical Moment
(2013)
This head volume of the ´Narrating Futures` series defines and identifies Future Narratives. It parses their characteristic features and aims at an abstract classification of the whole corpus, irrespective of its concrete ...
Language, Migration and Multilingualism in the Age of Digital Humanities
(2023)
The digital turn has far-reaching implications for linguistic research, from data collection and analysis to storage infrastructure. It also brings about profound changes in epistemological and ethical practices as well ...
Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought
(2021)
During the 13th century, the Franciscan school became prominent among the first universities such as Oxford and Paris and other European centres of learning. This volume explores the contributions to scholarship of some ...
Chapter 6 Statistical observations on implicational (verb) hierarchies
(2015)
Implicational hierarchies have been one of the key ingredients in linguistic typology for around half a century, i.e., ever since the discovery of Berlin & Kay (1969) that the presence of a certain color term in a language ...
Imaginationen
(2019)
In the 18th century, the power of the imagination, which had previously been regarded as problematic, experienced a radical upsurge in esteem. In the modern era, imagination has been viewed as an essential moment in processes ...
Nationalism in a Transnational Age
(2021)
Nationalism was declared to be dead too early. A post-national age was announced, in which transnational alliances like the European Union were supposed to become more important, but we are witnessing the rise of strong ...
African Data Protection Laws
(2024)
This volume documents the results of the "African Data Protection Laws: Regulation, Practice, and Policy" conference held in Accra, Ghana in September 2022. The contributions combine multidisciplinary perspectives on current ...
Computational Drama Analysis
(2024)
Work on drama has always been at the forefront of research in computational literary studies. The explicit structure of plays lends itself to formal analysis and has already been explored before the age of computers. ...
Chapter 44 A “Composite Utterances” approach to meaning 45. Towards a grammar of gestures
(2013)
This chapter argues for a composite utterances approach to research on body, language, and communication. It argues that to understand meaning we need to begin with the utterance or speech act as the unit of analysis. From ...
De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens’ Assemblies
(2023)
The De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens’ Assembly showcases the state of the art of Citizens’asembly and opens new perspectives informed by multidisciplinary research and new thinking about deliberative participatory processes.
The Poetry and Prose of Wang Wei
(2020)
Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial ...
Fremde, Feinde und Kurioses: Innen- und Außenansichten unseres muslimischen Nachbarn
(2009)
Islam; the Orient and Islam
Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum II commentariorum I-VI versio Arabica. Volume I: Commentaria I-III
(2016)
This two-volume monograph offers the first critical edition of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on Book 2 of the Hippocratic Epidemics produced by Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. ca. 870). The edition is based ...
Raum und Interieurs in Thomas Manns Erzählwerk
(2018)
The 19th century was, in Walter Benjamin’s diagnosis, “addicted to dwelling.” That era’s sense of space – what August Schmarsow called its Raumgefühl – shaped the narratives of Thomas Mann. This study examines Mann’s ...
Chapter Black box approaches to genealogical classification and their shortcomings
(2013)
In the past 20 years, the application of quantitative methods in historical linguistics has received a lot of attention. Traditional historical linguistics relies on the comparative method in order to determine the ...
Manual der Koloproktologie
(2024)
This is the standard textbook for every medical or surgical coloproctologist from the German Society for Coloproctology. In two volumes, it covers the full anatomy of the colon from the ileocecal valve to the anus. Each ...
Der einsame Weg, Band 2 : Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2024)
The 15th volume of the “Historical-Critical Edition of Arthur Schnitzler’s Early Works” – edited by Konstanze Fliedl since 2010 – presents Schnitzler’s play “Der einsame Weg” (1904). The entire extensive corpus of material ...
Staatsorganisationsrecht
(2022)
This textbook, written by university researchers, contains basic knowledge about German state organization law (Staatsorganisationsrecht). It presents exam-relevant material specifically for students. It also contains ...
Powers of Protection
(2021)
This volume explores the most extensive tradition of Buddhist dharani literature and provides access to the earliest available materials for the first time. The Dhāraṇīsaṃgraha collections have been present in South Asia, ...
Complex Lexical Units Compounds and Multi-Word Expressions
(2019)
The volume explores compounds and multi-word expressions and their interrelation regarding their status in lexicon and grammar in a variety of European languages, including a contrastive overview with a focus on German. ...
Gefängnis als Schwellenraum in der byzantinischen Hagiographie
(2021)
This volume investigates the literary depiction of prison as a liminal space in early and middle Byzantine martyrs’ Passions. Prison proves to be a transitional space where both the formation of corporeal endurance and the ...
AI in Business and Economics
(2024)
Rapid advances in AI technologies have generated intense interest and debate about their potential to reshape industries and societies. This book compiles academic papers from "The Economic Perspective of Artificial ...
Mathematics and Life Sciences
(2012)
Mathematical Method; Statistical Method; Modeling Method; Life Sciences Application
Visualizing the invisible with the human body
(2020)
Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an ...
Stile extremistischer Tatschreiben
(2024)
This volume examines the stylistic characteristics of threatening and abusive letters by right-wing extremists as well as left-wing extremist position papers and claims to responsibility. It applies qualitative and ...
Sprachenpolitik in Österreich
(2024)
This volume is the third publication on language policy in Austria after those of 2001 and 2011, documenting the period 2011 to 2021. In over 20 chapters, experts carry out reviews of various areas of language policy, in ...
Architectures of Colonialism
(2024)
The question of what heritage is and how we deal with it is not a neutral one. Recent events such as the Black Lives Matter movement and the toppling of monuments have made evident how much the colonial past is inscribed ...
Reflektierte algorithmische Textanalyse. Interdisziplinäre(s) Arbeiten in der CRETA-Werkstatt
(2020)
The Center for Reflected Text Analytics (CRETA) develops interdisciplinary mixed methods for text analytics in the research fields of the digital humanities. This volume is a collection of text analyses from specialty ...
Chapter 8 Voice-enabled assistive robots for handling autism spectrum conditions
(2014)
Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) are neurodevelopmental conditions, characterized by impairments in social interaction, communication (i.e., verbal and non-verbal language), and by restricted interests and repetitive ...
SCHNITZLER:REIGEN (2BD.E) E-BOOK OA Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2019)
La Ronde is one of Arthur Schnitzler’s most controversial works. The historical-critical edition provides an introduction to its history, reconstructs the provenance of the manuscript, and presents a facsimile of the ...
Datenmärkte, Datenintermediäre und der Data Governance Act
(2024)
Mit dem Data Governance Act (DGA) hat sich der europäische Gesetzgeber für eine strenge Regulierung von Datenvermittlungsdiensten entschieden. Anbieter von Datenvermittlungsdiensten werden durch Art. 10-15 DGA verpflichtet, ...
Chapter 52 Experimental methods in co-speech gesture research
(2013)
This chapter provides an introductory overview of some of the basic experimental paradigms traditionally employed in the field of gesture studies to investigate both comprehension and production in adult and child populations. ...
Byzantinische Rechtsgeschichte im internationalen Kontext
(2024)
In twenty papers from a joint conference held by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and the Humanities, this volume provides an overview of the latest issues in Byzantine legal ...
Les musiques du français parlé
(2016-01-01)
This volume presents a series of critical essays on the accentuation, rhythm, and intonation of contemporary French which offer new insight into the formal and functional characteristics of French prosody from three different ...
Sri Ksetra Museum Collection Inventory
(2022)
The Sri Ksetra Museum Inventory is the most comprehensive single source of Myanmar's Pyu material culture. With artifacts dating from the early centuries of the first millennium, the inventory includes material retrieved ...
Tracing the Jerusalem Code
(2021)
With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of ...
Hochdeutsch
(2024)
This study examines discourses surrounding historical attitudes to language and language standardization from the 16th to the 18th century and shows what knowledge or accompanying beliefs scholars of the time associated ...
Expanding the Lexicon
(2018)
The book series is dedicated to the study of the multifaceted dynamics of wordplay as an interface phenomenon. The contributions aim to bring together approaches from various disciplines and present case studies on different ...
Das Temeswarer Banat
(2022)
As a region, the Banat has many unique features owing to its specific geographical location, its multi- and intercultural composition, and the cultural diversity of the people who live there. The goal of this volume is to ...
Whiteface
(2022)
This study originates in the observation that improv comedy or improvised theater has such a vast majority of white people practicing it, while other improvisational or comedic art forms (jazz, freestyle rap, stand up) are ...
Selbstversklavung im klassischen römischen Recht
(2024)
Aside from being born as a slave or being enslaved during war, classical legal sources recognize other cases in which it was no longer possible to regain at least freedom. One of these cases was sale for the purpose of ...
Vedānta, Bhakti, and Their Early Modern Sources
(2024)
This volume considers the Prabodhacandrodaya Nāṭaka (c. 1760 CE), an allegorical drama composed by Brajvāsīdās in Brajbhāṣā. It contributes to the study of vernacular nāṭakas with its first complete English translation. ...
Producing and Debating History
(2024)
This book explores how historical knowledge is produced in one of the most central digital communities of knowledge, Wikipedia. By placing Wikipedia editors at the center of inquiry and by shedding light on the debates ...
Materiality in Roman Art and Architecture
(2021)
Material is the substance of the world of things. Literary sources suggest that materiality was part of aesthetic perception, loaded with meaning and bound to function even in antiquity. To date, this complex reading of ...
Precarity in European Film
(2022)
This volume explores how contemporary European cinema engages with the increasing precarization of life and work on the continent. It compares how the filmic traditions of different countries reflect the socioeconomic ...
Religion from the Inside
(2024)
Within some religions, the inside view is engaged mainly with questions of theology: the contemplation of the divine and all things in relation thereto. Within others, it is preoccupied with the conforming of human action ...
Bourdieu in der Germanistik
(2022)
This volume brings into dialogue current research interests in literary studies and linguistics that work with Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts and theory. In light of the twentieth anniversary of the death of the French sociologist ...
Sprachkontakt generativ
(2023)
This book makes a theoretical contribution to research on the dynamics and processes of structural language contact and language change resulting from contact. It also provides insights into the syntax of Cimbrian, one of ...
Schule im deutschen Spielfilm
(2024)
Darstellungen von Schule in deutschen Spielfilmen scheinen immer wieder auf ähnliche Bilder und Semantiken von Bildung, Erziehung und sozialer Selektion zurückzukehren, selbst bei Filmen, die zeitlich weit voneinander ...
Vernacular Chinese-Character Manuscripts from East and Southeast Asia
(2024)
This collection brings together studies on vernacular manuscripts in regional Chinese dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien, those of non-Han peoples in China and Southeast Asia, and one in Vietnamese. Coverage includes ...
Integrated Chemical Processes in Liquid Multiphase Systems
(2022)
The essential principles of green chemistry are the use of renewable raw materials, highly efficient catalysts and green solvents linked with energy efficiency and process optimization in real-time. Experts from different ...
›Humanitas‹ in the Imperial Age
(2024)
One of the most polysemic Latin words, humanitas was a core concept in Roman society and has become very influential in Western culture. Notwithstanding, some periods in the long history of humanitas have been little ...
The Qur'an Seminar Commentary
(2016-11-11)
The Qur'an Seminar Commentary is an unprecedented work of collaboration in the field of Qur'anic Studies, involving the insights of 25 scholars on 50 Qur'anic passages. These scholars represent a diverse range of disciplinary ...
The Lost Libraries of Tunis
(2024)
The libraries of Tunis are considered lost since the sack of the city by European armies in 1535. This study reconstructs the original holdings of Tunis’ medieval libraries by bringing together dispersed manuscripts from ...
Authorship and Text-making in Early China
(2018)
Der vorliegende Band berichtet über die bisherigen Aktivitäten des Instituts, seine Historie und Perspektiven und erlaubt darüber hinaus auch einen Blick hinter die Kulissen des Aufbaus eines Instituts in Afrika und auf ...
Geschichtspolitik als Unternehmenskommunikation
(2023)
There is hardly any other German company that was so polarizing in the twentieth century as Krupp. Publicly, "Krupp haters" and "Krupp fans" exchanged high-profile punches. Roelevink delves into this conflict, inquiring ...
The Cultural Net
(2018)
I developed the basic theoretical approach here outlined, which consists in a network theory of cultural (specifically literary) production. The main area of exemplification for the theoretical assumptions, early modern ...
Stealing the Club from Hercules
(2017-04-30)
In this book, conceived as a sort of Prolegomena to his two Teubner editions, Conte gives account of his choices in editing his Virgilian text. Engaging in a passionate debate with his predecessors and critics, he guides ...
Big Data Security (Volume 3)
(2019)
After a short description of the key concepts of big data the book explores on the secrecy and security threats posed especially by cloud based data storage. It delivers conceptual frameworks and models along with case ...
Large Scale Inverse Problems
(2013-08-29)
This book is thesecond volume of a three volume series recording the "Radon Special Semester 2011 on Multiscale Simulation & Analysis in Energy and the Environment" that took placein Linz, Austria, October 3-7, 2011. ...
Abraham Abulafia’s Esotericism Secrets and Doubts
(2020)
This book focuses on Abraham Abulafia’s esoteric thought in relation to Maimonides, Maimonideans, and Islamic thought in the line of Leo Strauss’ theory of the history of philosophy. A survey of Abulafia’s sources leads ...
Histoire, société et études islamiques au 21e siècle
(2024)
This edited volume challenges the simplistic view of Islam as a monolith. Its diverse contributions underscore the plurality of Islam in the context of yesterday, today, and tomorrow by addressing issues related to otherness ...
Practicing Interdisciplinarity
(2024)
A representation of the experiences and yields of the interdisciplinary work of a humanities and social science research training group with disciplinary breadth as well as historical depth. The disciplines range among ...
Theatron
(2012)
This volume presents 22 studies on aspects of rhetorical culture from Late Antiquity to the last years of the Byzantine Empire. Many of them concentrate on the effects and social relevance of the art of public speaking, ...
Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion
(2015)
The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has different salience, and is understood differently, from place to place and time ...
Ancient Jewish Historians and the German Reich
(2024)
These seven studies analyze interpretations of ancient Jewish history by prominent Jewish scholars in the German world in the 19th and 20th centuries. Although focusing on diverse figures and episodes, they all argue that ...
Assessing the Overheating Risk of Buildings
(2024)
The book presents the current state of the art for assessing the overheating risk of buildings. This includes the main effects and correlations related to site climate (including meso- and microclimate), comfort assessment, ...
Hate Speech
(2023)
Hate speech creates environments that are conducive to hate crimes and broad-scale conflict. This book discusses the mechanics of hate speech and its expression from a linguistic perspective. The author addresses the ...
Chapter 3 Challenges and opportunities for optochemical genetics
(2013)
The transmembrane proteins that underlie neural processing are now known at a level of detail that has greatly increased our understanding of these sophisticated molecular machines. Starting with MacKinnon’s seminal structure ...
Code-switching Between Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives
(2015)
This volume brings together linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic perspectives on code-switching. Featuring new data from five continents and languages with a large range of linguistic affiliations, the ...
Figuren der Endlichkeit in der Europäischen Romantik
(2024)
The volume examines figures of finitude in European Romanticism. The starting point is the observation that figures of the last - last people (J.-B Grainville: Le dernier homme (1805); M. Shelley: The Last Man (1826)), ...
Berkeley’s Doctrine of Signs
(2024)
Throughout his philosophical works, George Berkeley (1685–1753) emphasises the role that sign-usage, particularly in language, plays in human life, connecting it to our relationship with God—a central issue in his thought. ...
Contesting Religion
(2018)
As Scandinavian societies experience increased ethno-religious diversity, their Christian-Lutheran heritage and strong traditions of welfare and solidarity are being challenged and contested. This book explores conflicts ...
Hazardous Future: Disaster, Representation and the Assessment
(2015)
Disaster; catastrophe; risk future
Dialekte machen
(2020)
This empirical study examines the importance of dialect and dialect use in Switzerland. Based on interdisciplinary approaches, it explores the extent to which linguistic perception and assessment on the part of laypersons ...
Saša Stanišić: Poetologie und Werkpolitik
(2023)
Saša Stanišić is one of the most important voices in contemporary German literature. This volume reveals new perspectives on Stanišić’s work and his authorial persona. It focuses on previously neglected aspects, such as ...
La ricezione dell’ultimo Alessandro
(2024)
This volume focusses on the reception of Alexander the Great from a broad and multifocal perspective, ranging from the description of the mirabilia associated with the late Eastern campaign to the contrasting characterisation ...