German Studies, Old and New Challenges

German Studies, Old and New Challenges
Author: Peter Rolf Lutzeier
Publisher: Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This collection of specially commissioned contributions by leading scholars in German Studies gives a comprehensive overview of the current and future state of the discipline in British and Irish universities; in particular in terms of topics taught and methodologies used in Undergraduate Programmes. Any such course provision faces the challenge of striking the right balance between academic standards, the expectations and interests of the students, demands by potential employers and the tightening of resources.

Modern Languages

Modern Languages
Author: Alison Phipps
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2004-05-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780761974185

This accessible book is written by teachers of modern languages and tackles the specifics of the discipline while situating it within the literature on teaching Modern Languages in Higher Education.

Investigating Gender, Translation and Culture in Italian Studies

Investigating Gender, Translation and Culture in Italian Studies
Author: Monica Boria
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 1905886225

The past few years have witnessed a growing academic interest in Italian Studies and an increasing number of symposia and scholarly activities. This volume originates from the Society for Italian Studies Postgraduate Colloquia that took place at the University of Leicester and Cambridge in June 2004 and April 2005 respectively. It gathers together articles by young researchers working on various aspects of Italian Studies. It well illustrates current trends in both typical areas of research, like literature and 'high culture', and in those which have gained momentum in recent years, like translation and language studies. The volume offers a taste of the dynamic outlook of current research in Italian Studies: the interdisciplinary approach of the essays in translation and gender studies, and the innovative methodological perspectives and findings offered by the new fields of Italian L2 and ethnography. The book is divided into three sections, each grouping contributions by broad subject areas: literature and culture, translation and gender studies, language and linguistics. Cross-fertilizations and interdisciplinary research emerge from several essays and the coherent ensemble constitutes an example of the far-reaching results achieved by current research.

New Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Modern Languages

New Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Modern Languages
Author: Simon Green
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781853594717

This exciting new publication featuring chapters from some of the foremost practitioners in the field of modern languages today closely examines research-based analysis, structural contexts and classroom practice in teaching and learning. After analysing the current situation, each author proposes radical solutions to current problems and the whole book provides much needed fresh thinking on methodology and pedagogy.

New Europe, New Germany, Old Foreign Policy?

New Europe, New Germany, Old Foreign Policy?
Author: Douglas Webber
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2001
Genre: Europa
ISBN: 9780714681856

The contributions to this volume analyze how and the extent to which German foreign and European policy has changed since German unification.

In Practice

In Practice
Author: Holger Mathias Briel
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2001
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Contents: Holger Briel/Andreas Kramer: Introduction - Josh Cohen: Dialectic of Entanglement: Adorno, Auschwitz, and the Contradictions of Representation - Ben Morgan: Dialectic of Enlightenment: A Missing Link in Histories of the Self - Arne Klawitter: 'We must produce something that doesn't yet exist': Tasks and Problems in Adorno's and Foucault's Social Criticism - Ingolfur Bluhdorn: From Critical Theory to the Theory of Societal Self-Critique: Ulrich Beck's Attempt at Saving the Critical Project - Colin B. Grant: Fictions and Counterfactual Ideals in the Concept of 'Intersubjectivity' - Holger Briel: Thinking Adorno: The Necessity of Poetry - Michael Spindler: Adorno's Critique of Veblen - Martin Roiser: The American Reception of The Authoritarian Personality - Amresh Sinha: Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory - Martin Brady: Film as Music and Script: Adorno's Transparencies on Film - Eugenia Afinoguenova: Adorno - a Farce Character, or: The Origins of Cultural Critique in Spain - Rajeev S. Patke: Adorno: An Asian Extrapolation.

Vermittlungen

Vermittlungen
Author: Rüdiger Görner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1999
Genre: German literature
ISBN:

Germany

Germany
Author: Herbert Kitschelt
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780714684734

This text offers an interpretation of recent German economic performance, asking why the relationship between organized labour and employers, on which the German capitalist system depends, has begun to break down.

National Varieties of German Outside Germany

National Varieties of German Outside Germany
Author: Gabrielle Hogan-Brun
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2000
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2000. num. fig. and tab. German Linguistic and Cultural Studies. Vol. 8 General Editor: Peter Rolf Lutzeier In what way do the national varieties of German outside Germany differ? How do they manifest themselves in different levels of language use? What attitudes exist towards the use of these varieties and how are they reflected in national and European-wide language policies? What is the role of the media? This collection of especially commissioned articles, written in English by internationally renowned experts, explores these and related questions. It draws together research on the status and role of German and on attitudes towards its use in Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy (South Tyrol), France (Alsace), Denmark (Nordschleswig) and Hungary. Contents: Gabrielle Hogan-Brun: The Landscapes of German across Europe: An Ecolinguistic Perspective - Stephen Barbour: 'Deutsch' as a Linguistic, Ethnic and National Label: Cultural and Political Consequences of a Multiple Ambiguity - Stefan Wolff: German as a Minority Language: The Legislative and Policy Framework in Europe - Felicity Rash: Outsiders' Attitudes towards the Swiss German Dialects and Swiss Standard German - Victoria Martin: The German Language in Austria - Peter Nelde and Jeroen Darquennes: German in Old and New Belgium - Gerald Newton: The Use of German in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg - Antony Alcock: From Tragedy to Triumph: The German Language in South Tyrol 1922-2000 - Karen Margrethe Pedersen: German as First Language and Minority Second Language in Denmark - Judith Broadbridge: Alsatian: A Living Variety? A Sociolinguistic Study of SouthernAlsace - Patrick Stevenson: The Multilingual Marketplace: German as a Hungarian Language.