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How have national identities changed, developed and reacted in the wake of transition from communism to democracy in Central and Eastern Europe? Central and Eastern Europe After Transition defines and examines new autonomous differences adopted at the state and the supranational level in the post-transitional phase of the post-Communist area, and considers their impact on constitutions, democracy and legal culture. With representative contributions from older and newer EU members, the book provides a broad set of cultural points for reference. Its comparative and interdisciplinary approach includes a useful selection of bibliographical resources specifically devoted to the Central Eastern European countries' transitions.
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The Turkish language in diaspora is in process of change due to different language constellations of immigrants and the dominance of majority languages. This led to a great interest in various research areas, particularly in linguistics. Against this background, this study focuses on developmental change in the use of adverbial clause-combining constructions in Turkish-German bilingual students' oral and written text production. It illustrates the use of non-finite constructions and some unique alternative strategies to express adverbial relations with authentic examples in Turkish and German. The findings contribute to a better understanding of how bilingual competencies vary in expressing adverbial relations depending on language contact and extra-linguistic factors. Dr. Seda Yilmaz Wörfel completed a Ph.D. in German linguistics at the University of Potsdam, Germany. She works as a research associate at the Mercator-Institute for Literacy and Language Education at the University of Cologne. Her research interests are Turkish-German Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition, Multiliteracy and Language Contact.
The present volume offers a selection of papers on current issues in Slavic languages. It takes stock of the past 20 years of linguistic research at the Department of Slavic Studies at Leipzig University. Within these two decades, the scientific writing, teaching, and organization done in this Department strengthened the mode of research in formal description of Slavic languages, formed another center for this kind of linguistic research in the world, and brought about a remarkable amount of scientific output. The authors of this volume are former or present members of the Department of Slavic studies or academic friends. Based on the data from East, West, and South Slavic languages, the papers tackle issues of all grammatical subdisciplines in current models of description, compare parts of the grammars of Slavic languages, explain categories and phrases in Slavic languages that do not exist in present-day Indogermanic languages of Western Europe, and propose ways how to update the standard of lexicography in still less described Slavic languages. A study of language competence is dedicated to the actual requests on heritage speakers and shows how their abilities can be evaluated.
Historians have mainly seen the ghettos established by the Nazis in German-occupied Eastern Europe as spaces marked by brutality, tyranny, and the systematic murder of the Jewish population. Drawing on examples from the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghettos, Dance on the Razor’s Edge explores how, in fact, highly improvised legal spheres emerged in these coerced and heterogeneous ghetto communities. Looking at sources from multiple archives and countries, Svenja Bethke investigates how the Jewish Councils, set up on German orders and composed of ghetto inhabitants, formulated new definitions of criminal offenses and established legal institutions on their own initiative, as a desperate attempt t...
Klaudia Köhn untersucht, welche Rolle die Tschechische Republik im Irak-Konflikt 2003 spielte und erläutert, was das Švejk’sche Rätsel ist: Wenn einerseits eine ABC-Waffen-Abwehreinheit in Kuwait, Überflugrechte für US-amerikanische B-52-Bomber und ein Feldlazarett im Südirak bewilligt wurden, andererseits das tschechische Militär aber offiziell keine Truppen für die Kampfhandlungen bereitstellte. Die Autorin zeigt auf, mit welcher eindeutigen Uneindeutigkeit sich die tschechische Außenpolitik darstellt. Welche Erklärungen gibt es für die taktisch kluge Sicherheits-Strategie eines kleinen mittelosteuropäischen Landes, um weder die EU noch die USA zu brüskieren? Eine Švejk’sche Außenpolitik.
Giving deserved attention to nearly 150 neglected films, this book covers early sound era features, serials and documentaries with genre elements of horror, science fiction and fantasy, from major and minor studios and independents. Full credits, synopses, critical analyses and contemporary reviews are provided for The Blue Light, The Cat Creeps, College Scandal, Cosmic Voyage, The Dragon Murder Case, The Haunted Barn, Lost Gods, Murder in the Red Barn, The New Gulliver, Return of the Terror, Seven Footprints to Satan, S.O.S. Iceberg, While the Patient Slept, The White Hell of Pitz Palu and many others.
Aufgrund der zunehmenden Migrationsbewegungen sind die Sprachmittlung an den Schulen und ein sprachbewusster Fachunterricht wichtiger denn je. Dieser Band erläutert die Grundlagen des Zweitspracherwerbs und erklärt Konzepte wie Mehrsprachigkeit und Interkulturalität. Weitere Kapitel gehen auf die Vermittlung sprachlicher Kompetenzen ein, auf die Stellung von Deutsch als Zweitsprache im Schulsystem sowie auf Sprachstandserhebungen und Sprachförderung im Elementarbereich. Erläuterungen zu Deutsch aus kontrastiver Perspektive schließen den Band ab. - Im zweifarbigen Layout, mit Definitionen und Abbildungen.