Publications
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Gardens of the Iberian Peninsula
(2023)
In garden research, Spanish and Portuguese green spaces are scarcely visible. This is a striking contrast not only to their diversity and quality but also to the global network of both countries, especially during the Early ...
Risiko und Unsicherheit in der modernen islamischen Praxis
(2024)
The principle of insurance as a calculable assumption of risk emerged in Europe as early as the late Middle Ages. Despite their high economic relevance, however, they were not fully institutionalized in law until the 19th ...
Sprachlenkung
(2017)
Is it possible to change the language in a group? And if so, how? In politics and business, conclusive answers to these questions are of great interest. Karolina Suchowolec finds them by analysing the current state of ...
Beschreiben in Theorie und Unterrichtspraxis
(2024)
Describing is one of the central speech acts. Mastering it is a prerequisite for others, such as arguing. In a didactic context, however, describing has hardly been empirically researched to date. This volume takes a ...
Einfach aussortieren? Anregungen für kritische Lektüren des Literaturkanons
(2024)
Cancel culture, canon wars, new culture wars - the media debate about which texts are still “allowed” to be read with children is not only unsettling parents. Literature houses and theaters, universities, publishers and ...
Russland im Spiegel der Medien
(2022)
Is Russia a fearful giant, an economic partner or a belligerent aggressor? The answer to this question depends on the perspective. What perspectives and consequently what answers does the German press landscape have to ...
Handbook of Accessible Communication
(2024)
Accessible communication comprises all measures employed to reduce communication barriers in various situations and fields of activity. Disabilities, illnesses, different educational opportunities and/or major life events ...
Krim – Erkundungen am Rand Europas
(2022)
The Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea, rich in history and charm, is of great geostrategic importance. This leads to political conflicts time and again. But what is everyday life like in Crimea beyond the discourses about ...
Ost und West in der Romania / Entre Est et Ouest
(2023)
Literary multilingualism and the transnational turn are currently hot topics in literary studies. They are best studied in the multilingual and widely networked Romanian literatures. The contributions collected here ...
Qualitätssicherung
(2019)
Translation revision is essential for ensuring the quality of translations. It is a service of its own, which involves the provision of additional personnel, time and financial resources. The quality standards, the auditing ...
Spanischunterricht digital
(2024)
The digital transformation is affecting all areas of life, including teaching and learning. Foreign language teaching in schools is changing: hybrid learning environments, new text types and ephemeral information on social ...
Mikroprozesse der Bediensituation
(2024)
Interactions and feedback effects are important influencing factors for specialized communicative actions. This particularly affects product research in the context of producing user manuals. What role do communicative ...
Unzuverlässiges Erzählen in Literatur und Medien
(2024)
Unreliable narration is a fascinating phenomenon. When it is uncertain whether the narrated events can be trusted, opportunities for interpretation arise. This applies not only to classical literature but also to children's ...
Semiotische Effizienz interfachlicher Sprache-Bild-Textsorten
(2019)
Communicative efficiency can be measured with conventions. Besides linguistic means, pictures and diagrams are also an expression of such conventions. In the practice of technical editing, this refers to multimodal text ...
Paratexts in Translation
(2022)
As something that surrounds, extends, and presents a text to the world, the phenomenon of paratext is gaining more and more attention within the discipline of Translation Studies. This edited volume, with contributions by ...
Handbuch Audiovisuelle Translation
(2024)
This handbook provides compact, well-founded and comprehensible information on the entire spectrum of audiovisual translation, or AVT for short. In five thematic sections, 30 experts provide a comprehensive overview of ...
Accessibility – Health Literacy – Health Information
(2022)
Recent studies show that more than half of the German population have difficulties in accessing, understanding, appraising, and applying health information, thus giving accessibility in health communication new traction. ...
Translationspolitik für Regional- oder Minderheitensprachen
(2018)
A reasonable evolution model is indispensable for the comprehensibility and justification of translation policy decisions. On the one hand, this model should take into account the general objectives of protecting a regional ...
Kompetenzen in DaF/DaZ
(2019)
Competence orientation opens up always new perspectives for teaching German as an Foreign and as a second language (DaF/DaZ) . The current tendencies of competence orientation presented here are include: - Specialist ...
Begegnungen von Jung und Alt in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
(2024)
Age is a central characteristic of literary characters. It determines their scope of action, their behavioral repertoire, their social relationships with others and much more. The category of age is particularly significant ...