OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2025)This book is a collection of 15 narratives in Hewramî. It offers a unique window into the life of Hewramî speakers, including their oral and social history, social relations, recollections of past life, and storytelling ...
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(2025)The volume Discourse structure and narration: A diachronic view from Germanic deals with questions of information structuring at discourse level, focusing on narrative discourses. More precisely, it is about the contribution ...
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(2025)This volume contains a selection of papers that were originally presented at a workshop "Cross-disciplinary approaches to Information Structure in African languages", held in Porto-Novo, Benin in 2022. Eight papers explore ...
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(2025)This collection of ten texts offers a unique glimpse into the language and culture of the Muyu, a Papuan people living in the heart of New Guinea. It features narratives from six storytellers, all of which have been ...
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(2025)Asking a question means, essentially, presenting the hearer with a set of propositions with the request that she choose from it those that are true. It is a well-known fact about natural language that questions can be ...
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(2025)This volume presents a timely discussion on one of the most fundamental and yet elusive questions in historical linguistics: why do certain linguistic changes take place in some languages at specific times, but not in ...
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(2025)North American Norwegian (NAmNo) is a diasporic heritage variety of Norwegian spoken primarily in the Upper Midwest of the United States. NAmNo has been in use since the mid-19th century, but it is now moribund. This volume ...
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(2025)This is the first modern grammar and dictionary of Sherbro, an endangered Mel language spoken by ca. 50,000 people in Sierra Leone. The language faces significant pressure being abandoned in favor of the lingua francas ...
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(2025)Japhug is a vulnerable Gyalrongic language, which belongs to the Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) family. It is spoken by several thousand speakers in Mbarkham county, Rngaba district, Sichuan province, China. This grammar ...
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(2022)Ohne Pflanzen können Menschen nicht leben. Trotz dieser elementaren Bedeutung der Pflanzen hat die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft ihnen bisher nur wenig Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet. Dies ändert sich zurzeit: Seit einigen ...
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(2024)Schwarze Deutsche, die in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren in Heimen aufwuchsen, sind in der deutschen Erinnerungskultur bislang unsichtbar. Ausgehend von dieser Leerstelle stehen in ÜberLebenswege die biografischen Erzählungen ...
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(2020)The Politics of Military Force examines the dynamics of discursive change that made participation in military operations possible against the background of German antimilitarist culture. Once considered a strict taboo, ...
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(2019)When people discuss politics, they often mention the promises politicians make during election campaigns. Promises raise hopes that positive policy changes are possible, but people are generally skeptical of these promises. ...
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(2020)Accountability is crucial to every successful democratic system. The failure to develop functioning mechanisms of accountability has undermined democratic consolidation worldwide. Reliable tools that hold officials accountable ...
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(2022)While a substantial body of research explains how the conflict between India and Pakistan originated and developed over time, a systematic and multivariate inquiry cutting across different IR paradigms to understand this ...
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(2020)Domestic terrorist groups, like all violent nonstate actors, compete with governments for their monopoly on violence and their legitimacy in representing the citizenry. Battle for Allegiance shows violence is neither the ...
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(2025)In recent years, global higher education has undergone unprecedented transformation due to the deepening of globalization, rapid advances in digital technology, and the profound impact of the recent global pandemic. Against ...
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(2025)This book contains several relevant chapters that will facilitate further progress in the fields of Emotional Intelligence, Well-Being, and Learning Strategies, as well as the application of their findings in various ...
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(2025)Preschool Education in the 21st Century – Innovative Insights, Strategies, and Practical Approaches explores early childhood teaching, learning, and learning to teach, focusing on young children and fostering the 4 C’s of ...
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(2026)This book brings together a range of perspectives to examine the evolving landscape of diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) in modern workplaces. Through interdisciplinary approaches and real-life case studies, it ...
