ibidem apr 2017 (11 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -When Sophica was abruptly separated from her father as a toddler, she found a haven in Grandmother Gitté. But one sunny day in July, when she was six years old, gendarmes marching and shouting in the streets stopped her dreamy childhood and her hopes to go to school and to be a big girl like her sister. She was deported together with her mother and the whole of the Jewish community of Mihaileni, Romania. On foot, through icy fields, they arrived in eastern Ukraine, a strip of land called Transnistria. Death, illness, brutality, shame, became her daily scenes. Sophica suffered hunger and fear but kept her hopes and sanity, albeit losing her sister and her father and witnessing her mother being viciously attacked. She survived Typhus and starvation by being strong and quiet. Herman was a jolly little boy who didn't care much needing to wear the yellow star and being forbidden from school. He continued playing outside with his friends while his father and brother were sent to a labor camp. At the age of 14, when the Second World War ended, he joined a Jewish youth movement and embarked on a ship to the Promised Land. However, their journey was interrupted and they were taken to a British detention camp in Cyprus. Sophica and Herman were given new names, Shulamit and Tzvi. They met and made a home in Israel. Shulamit/Sophica never mentioned her sad childhood, but the essence of the past found its ways out. Sixty-five years after those events, her daughter comes across a family secret and starts asking questions, inducing Shulamit to break her silence and become again the frightened little Sophica. This book tells her moving childhood story. 218 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Václav Havel (1936-2011) vollzog einen spektakulären Rollentausch vom Staatsfeind zum Staatsoberhaupt. Während seiner über zwölfjährigen Amtszeit als zunächst tschechoslowakischer, ab dem Jahr 1993 tschechischer Staatspräsident hielt er in seinem Land und aller Welt rund 300 zumeist programmatische Reden, allesamt Glanzstücke zeitgenössischer politischer Rhetorik. Anhand einer repräsentativen Auswahl dieser Reden untersucht der Autor Havels präsidiale Rhetorik mit einem innovativen Blick und gelangt zu dem Ergebnis, dass Havel eine neuartige, da ganzheitliche Rhetorik anwendet. Die ihr gebührende »sinnthetisierende« Methodik veranschaulicht Havels Visionen einer besseren Welt und inspiriert zur Herleitung (r)evolutionärer Dimensionen der politischen Äußerung: einer ganzheitlichen sowie einer holistischen Rhetorik. Allein schon die Betrachtung der ethisch-rhetorischen Wesensart des Phänomens Václav Havel verspricht neue, aufschlussreiche Erkenntnisse: Havels präsidiale Reden bieten eine ethisch basierte politische Rhetorik, die alles andere als gewöhnlich ist. In einem hierauf vom Autor hergeleiteten holistischen Modus kann sie in Havels als auch im Sinne der tschechischen humanistischen Denktradition eine weitere Profilierung erfahren. Der Autor legt ein faszinierendes, in Zeiten vielfach fragwürdiger Politiker-Rhetorik besonders bedeutsames Buch vor, in welchem er aufzeigt, was hohe ethische Standards in der politischen Rhetorik sind, und entwickelt daraus den wohl allerersten philologischen Entwurf einer ganzheitlich-holistischen Rhetorik. 374 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die heutige spanische Sprache beinhaltet zahlreiche Varietäten, deren Ausprägung vor allem durch die Parameter Raum, Gesellschaft und Medien bestimmt wird und die bislang vornehmlich von der Sprachwissenschaft erforscht wurden. Die 13 Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes zeigen jedoch, welch hoher Stellenwert den Varietäten auch aus fremdsprachendidaktischer Sicht zukommt. Das beginnt bereits bei der Entscheidung, inwieweit neben kastilischen auch lateinamerikanische oder jugendsprachliche Anredeformen im Unterricht Verwendung finden sollten. Diskutiert wird auch, wie sich diese diatopischen und diastratischen Aspekte in den Lehrwerken widerspiegeln, welche Textformen sich besonders eignen und welche Varietätenkompetenz auf Seiten der Lernenden letztendlich anzustreben ist. Weitere Artikel beschäftigen sich mit den Auswirkungen, die die Berücksichtigung der Varietäten des Spanischen für die Lehrerbildung und die Gestaltung von Sprachenzertifikaten hat.Die Beiträge verdeutlichen das Potenzial eines interdisziplinären Dialogs. Durch die Verzahnung von fachdidaktischer und linguistischer Forschung werden neue Erkenntnisse zu Fragen der sprachlichen Variation in den Einzeldisziplinen ermöglicht und Perspektiven zukünftiger Forschung skizziert. Zugleich werden zahlreiche Anregungen für die Unterrichtspraxis an Schule und Hochschule gegeben. 316 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The construction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an Anglo-American sage and literary icon was the product of a cult of personality that lay at the center of nineteenth-century cultural politics. A reconstruction of the culture wars fought over Goethe's authority, a previously hidden chapter in the intellectual history of the period ranging from the late eighteenth century to the threshold of Modernism, is the focus of Literature and the Cult of Personality. Marginal as well as canonical writers and critics figured prominently in this process, and Literature and the Cult of Personality offers insight into the mediation activities of Mary Wollstonecraft, Henry Crabb Robinson, the canonical Romantic poets, Thomas Carlyle, Margaret Fuller, George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, and others. For women writers and Jacobins, Scots, and Americans, translating Goethe served as an empowering cultural platform that challenges the myth of the self-sufficiency of British literature. Reviewing and translating German authors provided a means of gaining literary enfranchisement and offered a paradigm of literary development according to which 're-writers' become original writers through an apprenticeship of translation and reviewing. In the diverse and fascinating body of critical writing examined in this book, textual exegesis plays an unexpectedly minor role; in its place, a full-blown cult of personality emerges along with a blueprint for the ideology of hero-worship that is more fully mapped out in the cultural and political life of twentieth-century Europe. 292 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Finally, Bruce King, acclaimed literary critic, presents his autobiography and offers fascinating insights into his life as bon vivant and literary critic. 1042 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores the central fictional minds in three of Ian McEwan's most popular narratives. Mind presentation constitutes the main part of characterization in the second phase of McEwan's writing, where his plot structure depends to a large degree on the presentation of the characters' mental workings. In Amsterdam (1998), Atonement (2003), and On Chesil Beach (2007), the construction process of the fictional minds, the degree their functioning is impacted by their experiences, and the way their mental aspect controls their behavior and relationships are critical to the stories. Relying on insights and methods from Cognitive Narratology, this study follows two purposes: It firstly analyzes the function of fictional minds and their operational modes in these narratives. Secondly, it explores the impact of the characters' experiences on both their mental functioning and their behavior, especially with view of their relationships. Nayebpour reveals that the plot structure of these narratives highly depends on the lack of a sound balance between the two aspects of the represented minds (intermental/joint thought and intramental/individual thought) as well as on the dominance of the intramental one. The tragic atmosphere in these narratives, Nayebpour argues, is the result of this imbalance. 318 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume deals with one of the most understudied aspects of everyday life in Russian society. Its main heroes are the providers of goods and services to whom people turn for healthcare instead of official medical institutions. A wide range of agents is described-from network marketing companies to 'folk' journals on health as well as healers, complementary medicine specialists, and religious organizations. Krasheninnikova's book is based on rich empirical observations and avoids both positive and critical assessment of the analyzed phenomena. Her investigation pays particular attention to the legal, social, and economic status of informal healthcare providers. She demonstrates that these agents tend to flourish in bigger towns rather than in small settlements, where public healthcare is lacking. The study reveals the important role of institutions that are generally not related to alternative medicine, such as pharmacies, libraries, and church shops. The result is a vivid and thorough introduction to the world of self-medication and alternative healing in contemporary Russia. A special emphasis was made on the flexibility of boundaries between formal and informal healthcare due to the evolution of rules and regulations. 312 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die spontane und längerfristige Kategorisierung von Mitmenschen ist wesentlicher Bestandteil der menschlichen Kommunikation. So können durch die Aktivierung einer Kategorisierung gemeinsame Wissensbestände generiert oder erweitert werden, die Voraussetzung einer gelungenen Kommunikation sind. Dabei findet derzeit die Interaktion zwischen Menschen, die bereits länger in einer Gesellschaft leben, und Personen, die neu hinzukommen, besonders große politische wie mediale Beachtung. Sara Dirnagl untersucht Migrationsberatungsgespräche mikroanalytisch, um gegenseitige Zuschreibungen in der Interaktion aufzudecken und Rückschlüsse auf zugrunde liegende Vorstellungen von Realität zu ziehen. Die Ergebnisse geben dabei nicht nur Aufschluss über die untersuchten Gespräche, sondern auch Hinweise auf gesellschaftliche Kategorisierungen im Rahmen der Migrationsdebatte. Die ethnomethodologisch ausgerichtete Studie richtet sich an im Bereich der Linguistik und der Migrationsforschung Tätige sowie allgemein an Leser, die sich für die verdeckten Strukturen interkultureller Interaktion interessieren. 420 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Focusing on the case of Russia during Putin's first two presidential terms, this book examines media manipulation strategies in electoral authoritarian regimes. Which instruments and approaches do incumbent elites employ to skew media coverage in favour of their preferred candidate in a presidential election What effects do these strategies have on news content Based on two case studies of the presidential election campaigns in Russia in 2000 and in 2008, this investigation identifies the critical internal mechanisms according to which these regimes work. Looking at the same country, while it transformed from a competitive into a hegemonic authoritarian regime, allows one to make a diachronic comparison of these two regime types based on the Most-Similar Systems Design. The book explicates the subtle differences between competitive and hegemonic regimes, different types of media manipulation strategies, the diverging extent of media instrumentalisation, various interactions among state actors, large business owners, the media, and journalists, the respective effects that all these factors and interactions have on media content, and the peculiar types of bias prevalent in each type of regime. This deep exploration of post-Soviet politics is based on extensive review of documents, interviews with media professionals, and quantitative as well as qualitative content analyses of news media during two Russian presidential election campaigns. 306 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Sobibor Death Camp was the second extermination camp built by the Nazis as part of the secretive Operation Reinhardt-with intent to carry out the mass murder of Polish Jewry. Following the construction of the extermination camp at Belzec in south-eastern Poland from November 1941 to March 1942, the Nazis planned a second extermination camp at Sobibor, and the third and deadliest camp was built near the remote village of Treblinka. Sobibor was similarly designed as the first camp in Belzec, it was regarded as an 'overflow' camp for Belzec. This account of the Nazis' remorseless and relentless production line of killing at the Sobibor death camp tells of one of the worst crimes in the history of mankind. Chris Webb's painstakingly researched volume ranges from the survivors and the victims to the SS men who carried out the atrocities. What makes this work special is the research which has been gathered on the survivors, who by good fortune, courage, and determination survived Sobibor and built new lives for themselves, new families, but bore the scars of this terrible place for all of their lives. Closing a gap in the existing literature, Webb focuses on the victims and presents details of their lives which have been found and re-tells them to keep their memory alive, to show they are not forgotten. The cruel and barbaric murder process is described in great detail, as well as the confiscation of the valuables and possessions of the unfortunate Jews who crossed the threshold of this man-made hell. One cannot fail to be moved by the personal accounts of those who survived, their loved ones perished in this factory of death. The book covers the construction of the death camp, the physical layout of the camp, as remembered by both the Jewish inmates and the SS staff who served there, and the personal recollections that detail the day to day experiences of the prisoners and the SS. The courageous revolt by the prisoners on October 14, 1943 is re-told by the prisoners and the German SS, with detailed accounts of the revolt and its aftermath. The post-war fate of the perpetrators, or more precisely those that were brought to trial, and information regarding the more recent history of the site itself concludes this book. There is a large photographic section of rare and some unpublished photographs and documents from the author's private archive. 520 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Heterogene Gesellschaften und Lerngruppen, Globalisierung und die Notwendigkeit, sich über Sprach- und Kulturräume hinweg zu verständigen, sind Grundkonstanten, die unser alltägliches Handeln und somit die Anforderungen an Fremdsprachenunterricht bestimmen. Vor diesem Hintergrund ist es angezeigt, das ursprünglich von homogenen Gesellschaften ausgehende Konzept der interkulturellen Kompetenz zu überdenken und zur transkulturellen Kompetenz zu erweitern - im Fremdsprachenunterricht zur transkulturellen kommunikativen Kompetenz. Im vorliegenden Buch wird auf nachvollziehbare Weise erstmals mit Nachdruck dafür plädiert, in der Diskussion über Lernziele des Fremdsprachenunterrichts den Schritt vom Verstehen (interkulturelle Kompetenz) zur Verständigung (transkulturelle Kompetenz) zu vollziehen.Daniel Reimann beleuchtet diese Entwicklung sowohl auf theoretischer Ebene als auch anhand von Fallbeispielen aus den romanischen Schulsprachen Französisch, Spanisch, Italienisch und Portugiesisch. Indem er verschiedene methodische Ansätze - von historischen Quellenstudien über empirische und hermeneutisch-konzeptionelle Untersuchungen bis hin zur Dokumentation unterrichtspraktischer Beispiele - miteinander verbindet, entsteht ein historisch begründetes, evidenzbasiertes und konzeptionell weiterentwickeltes Bild von transkultureller kommunikativer Kompetenz. Reimann gelingt es vortrefflich, Theorie und Praxis des Fremdsprachenunterrichts zu verbinden. Der Band gewinnt nicht zuletzt durch die zahlreichen anschaulichen und detaillierten Fallbeispiele zum Unterricht in allen vier romanischen Schulsprachen. 870 pp. Deutsch.