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Are the educational systems in Europe becoming more similar or more different? This book deals with the issue of divergence and convergence in relation to systems, learning environments, and learne...

Este volumen recoge los resultados del proyecto Linguaturismo, un programa de investigación interuniversitario sobre la lengua de la comunicación turística español-italiano, que consiste en la crea...

This edited collection investigates historical linguistic politeness and impoliteness. Although some research has been undertaken uniting politeness and historical pragmatics, it has been sporadic ...

Around the tenth century Jewish merchants from Central Asia arrived in Kaifeng. Welcomed by the Emperor, they integrated into China's economy, society and culture. They intermarried with their host...

In what ways has language been central to constructing, challenging and reconfiguring social and political boundaries? This volume traverses space and time to explore the construction of such bound...

Anna Vives es profesora de estudios catalanes y lengua española en la Universidad de Leicester y Secretaria Honoraria de la Anglo-Catalan Society. Sus publicaciones se centran en diversos aspectos ...

Christian Giordano has doctorates in sociology (University of Heidelberg) and anthropology (University of Frankfurt/M.) and an honoris causa doctorate from the University of Timisoara. He is Full P...

Nature, a topic central to art history, is concurrently a dominant concept in contemporary art, art theory and its related disciplines such as cultural theory, philosophy, aesthetic theory and envi...

This book focuses on the themes of intimacy and identity in the contemporary novel and, in particular, in the novels of A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson. Not only do the specificit...

Les archives d'université constituent une branche particulière et relativement récente de l'archivistique. A la fois archives administratives, d'enseignement et de recherche, publiques et privées, ...

Doctor Who is one of television's most enduring and ubiquitously popular series. This study contends that the success of the show lies in its ability, over more than half a century, to develop its ...

Cet ouvrage rend compte des résultats d'une étude qui analyse les pressions psychosociales que connaissent deux groupes de professionnels de la relation d'aide : ceux engagés dans l'action (interve...

Maxim Gorky was dubbed the father of socialist realism in the Soviet period, but he had forged his career as an internationally known novelist and dramatist some three or more decades earlier. Posi...

The fundamental principle of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics were introduced by Wang in 2007 and 2010, respectively. Due to the polarization of ions in a crystal that has non-central symmetry i...

The poet and artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924-76) is widely recognized as a key figure in 20th century art who questioned the nature of art, the role of the artist, the functioning of the museum and...