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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Escaping Education challenges the modern certainty that education is a universal good and a human right. It opens doors to alternative landscapes of learning and living that still flourish at the grassroots, within the cultures of the uneducated, the undereducated, and the illiterate who constitute the social majorities or the Two-Thirds World. It celebrates the richness of their traditions, their pluriverse of commons, common sense, and communal teaching, keeping at bay the modern reign of homo oeconomicus and homo educandus. Standing the all-too-familiar tale of education on its head, it joins the regeneration of soil cultures, resisting cultural meltdown in the global classroom.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 172 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -«Beyond Lisbon: A European Strategy for Globalisation» is the product of six months¿ work and extensive Europewide consultations within the framework of a mission entrusted to Laurent Cohen-Tanugi by the French government ahead of France¿s presidency of the European Union.It provides the first assessment of the Lisbon strategy ¿ generally presented as «the European response to globalisation» ¿ established at the initiative of a Member State since its 2005 relaunch, as well as an analysis of the new challenges and opportunities facing the EU in the years to come.Against that background, the Cohen-Tanugi report demonstrates that in spite of its merits, the Lisbon strategy no longer represents a sufficient European response to globalisation not only because of its intrinsic shortcomings, but also because it constitutes solely an internal reform agenda designed to adapt the European economies and societies to globalisation without attempting to influence it. The report advocates a more ambitious strategy beyond 2010 that includes, along with a more effective innovation-based competitiveness agenda («Lisbon Plus»), an external dimension based on common policies to help Europe shape globalisation and stay in the race in the 21 century¿s global economy.Following the mission¿s interim recommendation, the European Council of March 2008 has officially launched the reflection on a post-Lisbon globalisation strategy.As a pioneer, substantive contribution to this exercise, the Cohen-Tanugi report has been met with significant interest throughout the EU since its delivery to the French government, and is likely to influence future EU policy in this critical area. 324 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Youth Poets documents an ethnographic study of the literacy learning of urban high school youth in June Jordan's Poetry for the People program. The book emphasizes how seven students adopted empowering literacies as they read, wrote, published, and performed poetry in and outside of school. Using a sociocultural and critical framework on literacy and pedagogy, the book focuses on the experiences of urban youth - from their own perspectives - to examine the various processes, products, and practices associated with poetry. It contributes to current research on literacy pedagogy in urban contexts, and further grounds connections between poetry production and academic and critical literacies. Not only does the research presented here support the use of poetry in itself, but it makes a case for the ways in which poetry can lead to transformative possibilities in diverse and multicultural classrooms. 230 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Critical Literacy as Resistance is a collaborate effort among secondary and university educators from across the United States that addresses questions such as: What does a critical literacy classroom look like What various texts are used What strategies do teachers use to encourage students and teacher candidates to recognize how texts construct power and privilege How do educators inspire activism in and out of the classroom This book documents the experiences of scholars and teachers who have successfully bridged theory and practice by applying critical literacy into their respective content areas. The authors spell out the difference between critical thinking and critical literacy, then show how to write and implement curriculum that incorporates diverse texts and multiple literacies in all content areas (including world language), and includes the voices of students as they confront issues of race, class, gender, and power. The principles and practices laid out here will help teachers use literacy to liberate and empower students both in and outside the classroom by respecting and studying the literacies students bring to school, while simultaneously teaching (and challenging) the literacies of those in power. This is a book for pre- and in-service teachers in all content areas, staff developers, secondary literacy specialists, university professors, and anyone interested in social justice.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware 266 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Revitalizing Practice is designed to help theological faculties engage a common set of challenges, particularly in the areas of diversity, formation, and institutional identity. These are not technical problems but are instead the very stuff out of which teaching and learning are practiced. Yet addressing such issues requires intentional strategies and collaborative work. Revitalizing Practice offers four such intentional strategies: «A New Ecology Model», «An Improvisational Model», «An Appreciative Inquiry Model», and «A World Café Model». Each of these models provides a thorough and practical framework (based on sound theoretical concepts) designed to help faculties revitalize their practices of theological teaching and learning. 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In enger Zusammenarbeit mit einem international besetzten Mitarbeiterstab verschiedener Universitäten, Museen und archäologischer Fachinstitutionen leistet der Herausgeber Gotthard G. G. Reinhold erstmals einen umfassenden Beitrag zur Siebenzahl-Symbolik in der Bibel und ihrer altorientalischen Umwelt. Besonderes Augenmerk wird dabei auf archäologisches Fundmaterial gelegt, das mit verschiedensten Motiven der Siebenzahl verbunden ist: Tonwareverzierungen, Siegel- und Rollsiegeldarstellungen, Intarsienarbeiten, Abbildungen auf Keilschrifttafeln, Tonlampenverzierungen, Münzenprägungen, Felsritzungen, Reliefdarstellungen, u. a. mehr. Was die Bibel betrifft, werden die Heptaden im Kultleben des Alten Testaments, in Erzählungen, Kampfberichten, Psalmen und Sprüchen, in prophetischen Texten (Altes und Neues Testament), in der Onomastik und in der Struktur des biblischen Textes aufgespürt und analysiert. Für Dozenten, Studenten und Bibelinteressierte der Archäologie des Alten Orients und der Geschichte und Religion Israels soll der Band eine Grundlage bilden, um Detailforschungen zur Zahlensymbolik in altorientalischer Zeit voranzutreiben. In close cooperation with colleagues belonging to different universities, museums and archaeological institutions around the world, the final editor Gotthard G. G. Reinhold is the first to offer us an exhaustive contribution on the symbolism of the number seven in the Ancient Near East. Special attention is given to archaeological material related to various elements relevant to the number seven: decoration on ancient pottery, iconography on stamp and cylinder seals, ivory and shell carving and inlays, depictions on cuneiform tablets, decoration of oil lamps, coins, rock carvings, etc. As for the Bible, the heptades in the cultic life of the Old Testament, in narratives, war traditions, Psalms and Proverbs, in prophetic literature (in both the Old and New Testaments), in the onomasticon and in the literary structure of the biblical texts are traced and analysed. This is an important volume on the subject of numerical symbolism in the Ancient Near East for professors, students and ancient near eastern archaeologists interested in Bible alike. 202 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Although the world has seen a strong increase in global incomes in the last two decades and consequently a decline in global poverty rates, the number of persons living in absolute poverty remains on unacceptably high levels. Besides rising incomes can not distract from the fact that resources to fight global problems remain scarce. These resources have to be devoted to the fight against different global problems like the fight against communicable and non-communicable diseases (especially HIV/AIDS and Malaria) or the fight against global warming. The main precondition to achieve the best results with these limited resources is a good knowledge about the determinants and the best policies to fight each problem. But before being able to analyze the determinants of the different global problems and especially of poverty, it is of fundamental importance to find the right indicators for each phenomenon. This book contributes to the discussion of appropriate poverty indicators for the different dimensions of poverty like income poverty, undernutrition and child mortality and proposes a multidimensional poverty indicator that takes the income distribution into consideration. 156 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book examines the language studies of Western missionaries in China and beyond. The goal of this study is to examine the purpose, methods, context, and influence of missionary language studies. The book reveals new insights into the hitherto less well-known and unstudied origins of language thinking. These publically unknown sources virtually form our «hidden history of language». Some key 17th century and pre-17th century descriptions of language not only pass on our Greco-Latin «grammatical» heritage internationally for about two millennia. They also reveal grammar, speaking, and language as an esoteric knowledge. Our modern life has been formed and influenced through both esoteric and common connotations in language. It is precisely the techniques, allusions, and intentions of language making revealed in rare, coded texts which have influenced our modern identities. These extraordinary and highly controversial interpretations of both language and Christianity reveal that our modern identities have been largely shaped in the absence of public knowledge and discussion. 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This collection of papers provides a small overview of educational research in Estonia. The papers in the collection treat school reforms since the renewal of independence in 1991, new approaches to teacher training, the implementation of a child-centred approach in school, the achieving of educational aims and other actual topics in education. The results of many surveys have been presented in the papers, for example, parental beliefs about home-school co-operation, novice teacher assessments of their induction year, student evaluations of teacher behaviour in the classroom, etc. 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Sociology and Education is a sound introduction to sociology of education. The book examines the respective logics behind the contemporary sociological approaches to education, their assumptions and their limits. It clarifies the links between psychology of cognitive development, micro-sociology and macro-sociology, as well as the role ascribed to human reason in social action. Special attention is given to major scientific discussions and empirical findings regarding inequality of educational opportunity. Rooted in both American and European sociology, the book helps the reader grasp the viewpoint of the different theoretical approaches to formal education and thus to envisage new perspectives. 318 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Maternal Conditions analyzes the depiction of motherhood in the works of Barbara Kingsolver, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdrich, and Ruth Ozeki. The book examines the politics underlying and engendered by ethnically diverse representations of the maternal, interrogating the dominant cultural understanding of the good mother. This analysis then moves to a study of how the subjective experience of mothers is portrayed in these writings, ending with an exploration of the relationship between motherhood and ethics. 184 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -In the last decades of the twentieth century, North American drama has powerfully enacted the problematic notions of cultural memory and identity, as the essays assembled in this critical anthology demonstrate. Echoing Derrida's non-essentialist interpretation of the term «signature», this collection provides an innovative focus on North American theatre and drama as a site of latent cultural memories. In this volume, the concept of cultural memory offers a privileged vantage point from which to redefine issues of diasporic identities, exilic predicaments, and multi-ethnic subject positions at the dawn of a new century. Playwrights examined here include noted Canadian and US artists such as Marie Clements, Eva Ensler, Lorraine Hansberry, Tomson Highway, Cherríe Moraga, Djanet Sears, Guillermo Verdecchia, August Wilson, and Chay Yew, to cite but a few. In the process of remembering, North American dramatists develop new aesthetic modes in which the signatures of the past merge with the present and foreshadow an imagined future. 314 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Long before Patrick O'Brian's and C. S. Forester's novels of the great age of combat sail, a vast popular poetry abounded in Britain about the war at sea against the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire. This book tells the story of how that poetry, with its sailors and admirals as folk heroes, became a driving force for morale, national identity and patriotism that would flourish until 1918. Focusing on the sea poetry of Britain during that twenty-two year war, 1793-1815, the book shows how heretofore overlooked invasion poems, sea battle ballads, victory odes, seascapes and sailors' elegies are crucial to a full understanding of literary, naval, and social history during the era of Nelson and Romanticism. The author opens a straight channel to link literary and military readerships and lays an important plank in the bridge of war literature arching from Homer to Hemingway. 206 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Repetition, Difference, and Knowledge dialogues with novels, theatre, philosophy, and literary theory in order to explore how three thinkers - Samuel Beckett, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze - employ repetition as a means with which to radically unsettle some of the most fundamental notions of the human experience (among them, time, presence, originality, and being). Due to its interdisciplinary scope and its focus on repetition as an epistemological concept, this book will attract a broad audience of academic specialists across the humanities from the fields of literary criticism, philosophy, French studies, and poststructural studies. Its simplicity of style, deliberate avoidance of complex jargon, and clarity of argument - particularly when dealing with complicated theoretical ideas and texts - also makes it an invaluable tool for use in both graduate- and undergraduate-level literature and philosophy courses. Repetition, Difference, and Knowledge provides experienced and beginning scholars alike with greater insight into the works of Beckett, Derrida, and Deleuze and into the role that repetition has played and continues to play in determining how we read our world and come to meaning. 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Ce livre constitue une réflexion sur les défis que posent la diversité culturelle et le pluralisme à l¿enseignement de l¿histoire. Étant donné que le développement des sociétés pluralistes ou plurinationales tend à l¿émergence d¿un paradigme historiographique saisi diversement à partir des termes du cosmopolitisme, du postnationalisme, du transnationalisme, ou encore par la revendication d¿une histoire dite « consensuelle », « conviviale » ou « rassembleuse », comment articuler la reconnaissance du pluralisme des sociétés actuelles sans récuser les fondements mémoriels de cultures substantielles L¿accueil de la diversité culturelle au sein de la discipline historique se fait-il dans la perspective d¿une fondation plus cohérente d¿un vivre ensemble cosmopolite ou bien dans celle d¿une juxtaposition hétéroclite d¿individus issus d¿horizons différents L¿évincement préconisé de l¿État-nation comme principe narratif dominant de l¿historiographie, ou comme métaphore structurante, entraîne-t-il celui du politique Voici quelques-unes des questions fondamentales soulevées dans cet ouvrage. 178 pp. Französisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book investigates the experiences of a Chinese and Taiwanese community on the U.S.-Mexico border from a critical communication perspective. Based on ethnographic material from El Paso/Juárez, the book critically explores the processes of identity-crafting in accordance with the global geopolitical landscape. By examining the everyday communications within a group of transnational travelers and dwellers in between boundaries, the book illustrates how cultural practices and identities are strategically accomplished through communication. In tracing the forces behind these transnational movements and understanding the multiple worlds of travelers and dwellers, Culturing Interface brings to light the previously unheard voices of the Chinese people on the U.S.-Mexico border. 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book focuses on the mother-daughter relationship as it features in a number of films from the 1990s onwards. Bringing the insights of psychoanalysis and feminism to bear on a diverse and compelling range of representations of the mother-daughter dynamic, the author addresses a range of questions relating to the social, historical and cultural conditions which go to inform the female experience. These include, in relation to Dolores Claiborne, Heavenly Creatures and The Others, an exploration of different forms of familial violence and resistance to it and in One True Thing, Stepmom and Pieces of April, questions about the construction of the ideal mother and her loss. From The Pianös engagement with French feminism and Losing Chase¿s reworking of the life and work of Virginia Woolf to the depiction of cross-racial relationships during apartheid in Friends, the films that go to make up this study all share a central concern with both the literal and symbolic forms that the mother-daughter relationship encompasses. 226 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book examines the role of Samuel Beckett in contemporary philosophical aesthetics, primarily through analysis of both his own essays and the various interpretations that philosophers (especially Adorno, Blanchot, Deleuze, and Badiou) have given to his works. The study centres around the fundamental question of the relationship between art and truth, where art, as a negative truth, comes to its complete exhaustion (as Deleuze terms it) by means of a series of ¿endgames¿ that progressively involve philosophy, writing, language and every individual and minimal form of expression.The major thesis of the book is that, at the heart of Beckett¿s philosophical project, this ¿aesthetics of truth¿ turns out to be nothing other than the real subject itself, within a contradictory and tragic relationship that ties the Self/Voice to the Object/Body. Yet a number of questions remain open. ¿What¿ or ¿whö lies behind this process What is left of the endgame of art and subjectivity Finally, what sustains and renders possible Beckett¿s paradoxical axiom of the ¿impossibility to express¿ alongside the ¿obligation to express¿ By means of a thorough overview of the most recent criticism of Beckett, this book will try to answer these questions. 270 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book focuses on the development of civism as it contributed to ancient Greek culture, and helped shape the psychology of citizenship in the Western world. The strength of this work is its interdisciplinary examination of those trends and influences that combined to give new insights into the rise and the fall of democracy in the ancient polis of Athens. The author presents an extensive description of the intellectual forces that attracted «international» scholars and teachers to Athens, who in turn established important schools of higher learning as they labored to develop and advance the study of rhetoric and philosophy as competing alternative approaches for addressing the perceived weakness of the democratic system. This volume is an ideal supplement for instruction in courses in classical history, political science, philosophy, history of Western education, and advanced foundations of education. 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book opens a view into the dialogical methods used in national policy programmes and in local action research projects in Finland. On the basis of versatile academic and facilitator experience the authors shed light on the theoretical-philosophical backgrounds of the methods and analyze the prerequisites and the challenges of dialogue in case studies in different work environments - from day care to new technology. Dialogue is seen both as episodic situations and as continuous processes that may promote the quality of working life and the effectiveness of organizations. The creation of permanent development structures by using dialogue as a driver of learning, action and change is proposed to be one of the most challenging aims of the research-assisted development activities. 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Not only scientific research, but also modern-day social life, is demonstrating a strongly renewed interest in ¿chance¿ ¿ a theme that has accompanied the whole history of human thought. This volume brings together many of the topics in which chance, or randomness, plays a significant role.The interest in randomness has been accentuated by the emergence of theories and concrete phenomena, which appear to be homing in upon the complex, many-sided, multidimensional and uncertain aspects of reality, such as the dynamics of living or economic systems, or of technological and political trends. Furthermore, in scientific and technological fields, there is a growing need for ¿good¿ random sequences of numbers or symbols for use in simulation or testing activities, cryptographic methods, and so on. 286 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Politics, Humor, and the Counterculture discusses the post-war period (1945-1972) through the lenses of three artists: Ken Nordine, Lenny Bruce, and Firesign Theatre. Their humor cut through the hypocrisy of the Cold War and the prevailing culture and expanded our horizons. From the Beats to the peace and civil rights movements, these humorists illuminate America from their unique perspectives. Vwadek P. Marciniak highlights the poetic nature of humor as well as its insights on our political and social habits: addiction, conformity, marketing, and fear. The modern is giving way to the post-modern, the fixed to an existential attitude: humanism and humor. 164 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Lying Bodies explores how to survive with invisible, non-normative identities by focusing on literally 'invisible' differences. The first half of the book attempts a theoretical account of the self in the field of vision, drawing on psychoanalytic theories of the formation of the self. In order for the survival of the self with a visual image that both enables and threatens it, the book proposes the strategy of 'the lying body', which combines mimicry with equivocality. The second half of the book demonstrates possible forms of 'the lying body' through an analysis of specific examples of cultural practices, including works by artists Cindy Sherman and Morimura Yasumasa, as well as the claim of invisible sexual differences by feminine-looking lesbians. 154 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The suitors in the Odyssey strikingly resemble a very specific audience of iambic poets such as Archilochus or Semonides. Justifying these young men¿s deaths, the Odyssey engages in a polemic intertext with Archilochus¿ attacks against the threatening epic discourse. This study is concerned with reading both the traces of this often hidden quarrel in the Odyssey and the answers we can find within the iambic texts. Although iambus and epos have been connected in earlier studies, the direct portrait of the iambic audience within the Odyssey has not been examined. This book allows the reader to see these issues in the larger social context. 162 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This volume provides a comprehensive study of widowhood in Medieval Britain based on literary and historical sources from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries. The book is divided into two parts: the first deals with the Anglo-Saxon period, the second with the Medieval period. Because widows shared certain preoccupations specific to their status, the two parts deal with similar topics: the fundamental role played by the Church in the doctrine of marriage, and the dominant male discourse about widows. Widows had a specific legal status: special laws affected their lives and their relationships with their children and other relatives. Much attention is consequently devoted to family structures and to the legal and social aspects of inheritance. The volume also explores the various options widowhood offered and the highly debated degree of independence widows had in their life choices.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 358 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book spans the most significant phases of Ford¿s literary production, from his art criticism to his main modernist novels: The Good Soldier, Parade¿s End, The Rash Act and Henry for Hugh. The aim is to explore the uncharted territory of Ford¿s interest in the scopic field, claiming that his investigation of the optical unconscious is his most original contribution to the modernist concern for the stream of consciousness.This is the first in-depth study of Ford¿s interest in the gaze and how it is related to writing, painting, music, sculpture, visual technologies and forms of popular entertainment. Undermining the clichéd critical vision of Ford as the last Pre-Raphaelite or proto-Futurist, this study analyses Ford¿s fascination with the visual avant-garde and his response to the revolution of photography and (proto-) cinematographic forms from the specific angle of the scopic drive. Part history, part theoretical discussion embedded in the close reading of the texts, this book is also concerned with Ford as a great stylist whose writing strives to project an image of itself and its structures in the reader¿s eye. Drawing inspiration from psychoanalysis and art criticism, the author capitalises on the theories of Jacques Lacan, Rosalind Krauss, Hal Foster, Jonathan Crary, and Norman Bryson to disclose the fascinating and baffling universe of Ford¿s gaze.This is a revised and extended English translation of the original book Ford Madox Ford: Visione/visualità e scrittura. 280 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Migration und Mehrsprachigkeit stellen die Schulen in vielen Ländern vor eine bedeutende Herausforderung: Wie sollen sie mit der sprachlichen Verschiedenheit umgehen Der Band stellt Konzepte und Erfahrungen zum mehrsprachigen Lehren und Lernen und insbesondere das Modell der doppelten Immersion vor.La migration et le plurilinguisme sont un défi majeur pour les systèmes éducatifs de nombreux pays : comment nos écoles peuvent-elles gérer la diversité linguistique Ce volume rassemble des approches théoriques et rend compte d¿expériences d¿apprentissage et d¿enseignement plurilingues, notamment du modèle de l¿immersion réciproque.How to deal with linguistic diversity Migration and multilingualism raise substantial issues for schools in many countries. This volume engages with concepts such as double immersion and presents experiences with multilingual teaching and learning from Europe and the US. 436 pp. Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -«Reading Thoreaüs Journal, I discover any idea I¿ve ever had worth its salt,» notes the American composer John Cage in 1968. Upon reading the words of nineteenth-century nature philosopher Henry Thoreau, Cage is immediately fascinated with the Transcendentalist¿s ideas, in particular his views on music and silence. Recognizing his own beliefs in Thoreaüs writings, Cage began to rely heavily on the thoughts of the nineteenth-century man and implement them as the basis for his own compositions ¿ both musical and written. Drawing on the complete oeuvres of Cage¿s and Thoreaüs written works, this book surveys the intertextual relation between the writings of the two men. In the juxtaposition of these authors¿ aesthetics, this book reveals surprising overlaps in the thoughts of Cage and Thoreau. 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Die Globalisierung verlangt mehr als je nach einer multilingualen Kommunikation, doch ökonomische Zwänge haben die Verwendung einer einzigen lingua franca bewirkt. Dies kollidiert mit dem seit geraumer Zeit postulierten egalitären Multilingualismus der europäischen Institutionen, die nicht zuletzt auf linguistische Menschenrechte verweisen, die jedem das Recht zugestehen, seine Sprache immer und überall verwenden zu dürfen. Angesichts dieses Gegensatzes können Translatoren, sofern sie eine umfassende Ausbildung erhalten haben, sowohl zu einer effizienten Kommunikation als auch zur Wahrung der weltweiten sprachlichen Vielfalt beitragen.In diesem Kontext haben sich die Redner des CIUTI FORUMS 2006 an einen noch jungen Wissenschaftsbereich gewagt, der sich mit Fragen der wirtschaftlichen Attraktivität von Sprachen befasst. Eine der Hauptursachen für die Attraktivität einer Sprache ist die Beteiligung ihrer Sprecher am Welthandel. Denn je höher eine solche Beteiligung der Bevölkerung eines Staates ist, umso höher ist die wirtschaftliche Stärke einer Sprache, umso höher ist dann auch der Bedarf an Translationsleistungen, an Übersetzern und an Ausbildungseinrichtungen für diese.La mondialisation nécessite plus que jamais une communication multilingue, mais les contraintes économiques ont suscité l¿usage universel d¿une lingua franca. Cet état de fait se trouve en opposition avec le multilinguisme égalitaire prôné depuis un certain temps par les institutions européennes. Celui-ci, s¿appuyant sur les droits humains linguistiques, donne à chacun le droit de s¿exprimer dans sa propre langue, en tout temps et partout. Face à cette contradiction, les traducteurs peuvent contribuer à une communication efficace et à une sauvegarde de la multiplicité des langues pour autant qüils possèdent une formation adéquate.Dans ce contexte, les intervenants au Forum de la CIUTI 2006 se sont notamment intéressés à une branche scientifique encore récente qui traite de questions portant sur l¿attractivité économique des langues et qui considère qüune des causes principales pour l¿attractivité d¿une langue est la participation de ses locuteurs dans le commerce mondial. Plus cette participation est importante, plus la demande en traductions est grande ¿ ce qui engendre, à son tour, une demande accrue de traducteurs et, donc, d¿universités qui forment ces traducteurs.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 274 pp. Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch.