Bøger i Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Europeennes serien

This volume deals with linguistic analysis and contains articles dealing with major grammatical techniques and strategies in Arabic dialects and with linguistic substitution as verbal dynamism. Ce volume traite de sujets de l'analyse linguistique et contient d'articles sur les techniques grammaticales et les strategies dans dialectes arabiques.

Ethno-national identity is an outcome of ideological interpellation, self-writing and narratives. Politics as the enactment of identity has led Ethiopian politics to a dead-end. A theological turn can open the ontological possibility of a new political subject and a reinvention of politics that transcends the impasse.

This research is focused on professional development opportunities for young academics who teach in German universities. The analysis shows how academics reconstruct the relation between teaching and research under given structural conditions of the academic labor market, and how they make career decisions.

The topic of the book is the self-identity of Romanian managers, researched with qualitative and quantitative methods. It aims to explain and to make prognoses about managerial potential and managerial performance from an identity point of view. It proposes identity instruments for the evaluation, prognosis and growth of managerial performance.

The work presents Abrahamic monotheistic religions and the belief of the traditional religions in Africa, especially in Igboland. Religions have come and gone and many are still in existence and they are religiously or socially formed. The faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have their complementary religious conviction with Igbo religion.

The Apologetic thesis of Lukan scholarship should not be over exaggerated. The criticism of the powerful is clearly seen in the double work of Luke. The Magnificat, the Temptation of Jesus and the admonition to serve others within the last supper of the Gospel show the sensitivity of Luke in dealing with the powerful.

This book is the result of ethnographic research carried out in the Academic College of Judea & Samaria, located in the West Bank of Israel/Palestine. The book deals with Israeli citizenship and identity, and examines the ways in which it is being understood and imagined by students and teachers.

America during the seventies as portrayed by Wes Craven, Peter Watkins, Hubert Selby, Jr., Philip K. Dick, Gustav Hasford and George A. Romeo is analyzed. The rhetorical device allegory, Barthes's concept of mythology and Foucault's concept of power relations are utilized in order to expose a discussion of the body under siege.

This book reveals the silent replications of the myths inherent in cross cultural film narratives. Locating Germany as the metropolitan centre and Africa as the alternative space, the book raises questions on the best practice of telling the story of the other. It thus examines bodies and spaces and how they have been assigned or denied agency.

This study addresses the contemporary conflict of national identity in Sudan between the adherents of "Islamic nationalism" and those of "customary secularism". Diverse theoretical models for the formation of a nation-state are considered, where diversity is not discouraged, but states apply laws to promote religious and ethnic diversities.

Based on data from Kurdish-German pre-school bilingual children in Austria, this empirical study aims at giving an analysis of factors that constrain child code-switching. Children can exercise power relations or negotiate identity with their parents through choice of language and can manage language choices and rights-and-obligations balances.

This book highlights an important moment in the history of Romanian sociology: The idea of getting involved in the knowledge and construction of social life as well as the virtues of the sociologic monograph method that were promoted by the Bucharest Sociologic School and the Banat-Crisana Social Institute.

The treatise seeks to describe the encounter between Orthodoxy and psychoanalysis as discussed by Thermos. The interaction of these spheres of knowledge should solve the pastoral vocation problem and clergy ineffectiveness. Yet analysis of Thermos's concepts shows that agreement on this interaction will depend on more intra-Orthodox discussion.

This work sheds a light on Nigeria's problems resulting from its creation and its makeup. The presence of many tribes and religions has created a constant security dilemma. The author presents education and religious dialogue as a solution which can finally lead to mutual understanding.

This study approaches Margery Kempe's roles in her earthly, heavenly and spiritual families. It details the tension between her domestic and spiritual life and the agony and pleasure imposed on her by the divine. Close extensive research is devoted to late medieval female mysticism and the complex authorship and genre of The Book of Margery Kempe.

This study investigates the spatial behavior of the customers of a health-food store that is located at the mixed-use development "Park Place" in Irvine, CA. Using a POS-intercept survey and GIS, the author found that regular health-food shoppers indeed travel significantly farther distances than occasional health-food shoppers.

The book studies intensifiers and reflexive pronouns between two languages (English and Mandarin Chinese). It provides the full use of self, ziji and benren and is the first book that uses contrastive study to talk about intensifiers and reflexive pronouns. It is based on the most distinctive research of the latest 30 years in the linguistic field.

Advancing Ambition

In what may seem as comparative religious studies, this title intends to undertake theological investigations in contemporary Black Africa with the Igbo tribe of south-east Nigeria as a case-study. It is based on J L Austin's concept of performative word, and to be analyzed in the context of sacramental theology and the Igbo traditional religion.

In 2004 tsunami waves caused huge economic losses along the coastline of Southern Thailand. These resulted from direct damages and the following economic downturn. This study investigates the factors that led to this vulnerable situation.

Exchange Marriages in South Punjab, Pakistan

This book brings the study of metaphorical language back to the heart of Psalm scholarship: The author carries out his research by analyzing a few selected Psalms (Pss 18; 19; 28; 31; 42; 62; 71; 73; 78; 89; 92; 94; 95; 144). It results that the address "God, my Rock" is a creative form of language and is a norm or standard when speaking of Yahweh.

Oguz Atay's 1971 novel "The Disconnected [Tutunamayanlar]" is distinctly unique, but it can also be read as a response to Joyce's "Ulysses" - a singular and a very Turkish response. This book establishes Atay's work as a world text in dialogue with the masters of the canon: Shakespeare, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Joyce, and others.

This book is an exploration of the classical music stage within a framework of informal learning through the interactive concert performances of Fazil Say. It presents a detailed demonstration of such a space as a learning medium, and interprets its pedagogical meaning from both the artist's and the audience's perspectives.

Based on Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and the Catholic Social Teaching, this book presents a development ethics that can serve as ethical orientation to assist those who seek new ways to advance social and environmental development of the Niger Delta.

Incorporates the assumption that the 'human' in education is being threatened by certain processes. This title is argued that the debate on education is still dominated by the language of performance and global economic comparison.

The book offers a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the occurrence and combinations of phonemes in Modern Standard Czech. It accounts for more than 500 combinations of consonants as well as combinations of vowels and consonants. It also presents a way to predict structurally possible but actually unattested combinations.

The legislative dynamic in post-Amsterdam era is increasingly challenging the Schengen Acquis as it leads to legal harmonization and fragmentation. This book focuses on theoretical considerations regarding various concepts of Europeanization, and on their effect on the multi-layered policy processes and actors implementing the Schengen complexes.

The island of Cebu, located in Central Philippines, appeared in Western documents basically due to two events in world history. Apart from these events in maritime history, Cebu played a significant role in interisland trading during the pre-Hispanic period. This book investigates, as an example, found pieces of a blacksmith's shop.