für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Written corrective feedback (WCF), a pedagogy that is often used when helping learners improve their written accuracy, has captured researchers` attention in recent decades. This study looks at the effectiveness of direct and indirect WCF when using them with 26 intermediate ESL learners` writings, and investigates whether giving them the type of feedback they preferred or less preferred would influence their actual performance. The study draws on three linguistic forms (definite/indefinite articles, singular/plural nouns, and present simple tense), and using three different groups of pictures to elicit participants to write a 250 words paragraph. It contributes information not only on whether direct or indirect WCF helps learners improve their written accuracy more, but also shows direct or indirect feedback is more effective when learners dealing with the three linguistic forms. This book will be especially useful to language teachers, and researchers in the field. ····· 10361102720
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Most studies that consider the heterogeneous nature of Hispanic cultures outside of Spain focus on Latin America. Nevertheless, the breath of Hispanic cultures covers Africa as well. This work undertakes a transatlantic study of writings by Donato Ndongo (Equatorial Guinea), Mayra Montero (Cuba and Puerto Rico), and Luis Goytisolo (Spain). It underscores the kind of post-colonial criticism that subverts Eurocentric discourses of power-as manifested in religious, scientific, and economic contexts-not merely by outright rejection but by engagement, coercion, and appropriation. We argue that the encounter between the European and the African was not a mere overpowering of one culture by another. The process of engagement, negotiation, and signification that invariably arose produced some very subtle modes of resistance. It is this very subtle mode of resistance to discourses and practices of power, which we define as `composite post-colonialism`, and its effectiveness as a tool for subversion that we bring to the forefront in the texts we study. ····· 10361102663
für 71.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Children`s constant exposure to visual media influences the way authors write literature for children and young adults. Initially, it appears nostalgic as adults reflect on the literature they encountered as children and want to share with the current generation. However, media influence children`s literature through the hypermediacy consumer culture creates surrounding popular literature franchises. Marketing companies and fan communities attempt to create immediacy and reality for characters that saturate the reader. This co-mingling of media and literature creates global knowledge communities, including complex fan cultures, which continually challenge readers to participate with texts beyond initial one-time readings by considering how characters mediate themselves and how the readers can mediate themselves. Knowledge communities then want authors to join their participatory culture through transmedia storytelling, setting the stage for hypertext storytelling. This book invites parents, educators, and scholars to discover as media influence children`s literature, an intelligent reader emerges, a reader who wants to understand the multiply dimensions of a story. ····· 10361102628
für 61.20€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Since the mid 20th century, English language expansion has been exponential in terms of both L1and L2 speakers it has permeated societies everywhere, and is predominantly used worldwide in all sectors of life and knowledge. This has, of course, led to a global movement in education and curriculum change, as societies struggle to implement education policies that will lead their people to build competence in English. In this context, the present work attempts to look into language education policies that have been undertaken in the four countries under study: Ghana, Pakistan, Rwanda and Singapore. First, the book describes language policies involving teaching English as a foreign language in the four countries. It then discusses strengths and weaknesses of the policies as it also explores reactions from scholarly and public domains to each country`s language policies, with focus on English language teaching. Finally, after shedding light on the pedagogical complexities and implications of the policies, the work offers a set of recommendations to be observed as guides in developing and implementing any policy involving teaching English as a foreign language. ····· 10361102601
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray River covers animal poetry, shamanism, metaphysics and mythology. It is also representative of the poet`s eloquence and love for nature. There, movement is literally the paramount means of expression for the poet: it lies in the form of the writing itself, through rhythm and many other literary tricks, as well as through the settings and events described.The whole book is pervaded with movement, which seems to be to the poet what dance is to a dancer. River combines this particular feature with most of the properties of Ted Hughes` poetry. It is bulging with meanings, symbols, literary and philosophical conceits. It also leads the reader to a deeper understanding of the poet`s vision of life and the universe, through the symbolical microcosm of the riverside environment. A vision generated by the struggle of opposites such as light versus darkness, movement versus stillness, sound versus silence, the world below versus the outside world. If the poet`s outlook is mainly dualistic, one can find a unifying element: Ted Hughes` interest in shamanism, aiming at vital awareness and harmony. ····· 10361102517
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The author is already dead and the narrator is not reliable anymore, in the contemporary fiction. Then, is the reader alone while re-creating the narrative during the process of reading. Is s/he supposed to remain the only humanistic subject during this process or do we have the character as another living subject within the text This book explores Ray Bradburry`s Fahrenheit 451 and Paul Auster`s Book of Illusions in order to find an answer to these questions. The characters of both of the novels are in the quest of saving the books and/or movies from being burned down. And while trying to save the works from the consuming power of the flames, they themselves are captured by the consuming power of the text. And apparently it turns out that after the author and the narrator, the character betrays the reader and leaves him/her alone with the text as the only living subject. ····· 10361102489
für 53.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Oral interview has been used to assist making decisions on the proficiency of foreign students applying to American universities since 1980s. Regardless of the advances made on the use of technology in assessing language and computerizing this assessment, not much has been done to contribute to validity of oral interview. The current research has been undertaken to verify the use of short or long prompts in order to improve the validity of this assessment tool by assisting the candidate`s resources to enhance communicative effectiveness. ····· 10361102380
für 79.00€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The reception of the works by Witold Gombrowicz in German-speaking countries is of a dual nature. This phenomenon consists in the fact that a significant number of translations, analyses and theatre adaptations of the works by this Polish writer was of a particular interest to a narrow circle of literary scholars, theatre experts and journalists. In the first part the author discusses the history of the reception of Witold Gombrowicz Diary in German speaking countries. The second part is the analysis of the most important decisions of the translator in the lexical-semantic, cultural and aesthetic code. The presented examples of translating solutions within the scope of idiomatic expressions, colloquial expressions, irony and the writer`s style, illustrate how close the picture of the world in the original text is to its German versions and in what way the transposition of its individual elements was carried out. The analysis should be useful to literary translators and scholars. ····· 10361102328
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The key to understanding Twain`s travel writing is in the introduction of his first book, The Innocents Abroad. Here Twain promises to strip foreign lands of romantic illusion, by describing people and places exactly as they are--even if that means exposing the glories of Europe and the mysteries of the Holy Land as one big tourist trap. This study argues that, in order to accomplish this goal, Twain uses his skills as a master orator to not merely relate his travels, but to perform them in a comic frame. As one laughs at Twain`s antics, one begins to see foreign lands as both an actor in Twain`s drama, and as an observer of that drama. Mark Twain was a master story teller, and his descriptions of foreign lands, cultures, and people are able to argue for new perspectives. Despite the power of these arguments, Twain`s books remain enjoyable means to escape from the world over here and experience Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and Africa from the comfort of one`s own armchair. ····· 10361102309
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The Shona culture is a book which interrogates the Shona people`s culture. The book traces the origin of the Shona as a people and how they became to be known as the Shona. Two polemical views of the origin of the Shona people are proffered.The book takes an Afro-centric approach in its interrogation and interpretation of the Shona culture.In order for the readers to fully understand and appreciate the Shona culture, the book has explored topics on the Shona family, the Shona traditional beliefs, the Shona marriage and the Shona rites of passage.The book has abundantly shown, through its argument, that the Shona culture has changed over a period of time, discarding things which could not be adaptable to the foreign influence while its resilient nature has helped it to continue to be relevant in the present times. ····· 10361102304
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The purpose of this study is to examine Chinua Achebe`s critique of both African and European cultures in his four novels: Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, No Longer at Ease, and A Man of the People. This study utilizes strategies of close textual analysis in the context of postcolonial and cultural studies. It explores the native culture before the arrival of the white man and its contact with the alien culture. Moreover, it deals with the impact of colonial education upon the native community and upon the colonized person`s identity. Colonial education creates ambivalent persons, who suffer from hybrid identity. Finally, this study explores Achebe`s critique of the native culture after colonialism. The native customs and values have been turned upside down and replaced by Western material values. The loss of spiritual control over the materialistic elements leads to the spread of corruption and chaos. The study concludes that the pre-colonial Africa is more organized than the post-independence Africa, which experiences a new form of colonialism known as neo-colonialism. ····· 10361102216
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray This study explores the potential of English loanwords as an aid to teaching English vocabulary, with special focus on Japanese learners studying English in Japan. The finding has shown that negative transfer of English loanwords could be seen in a learners` English usage. The level of the negative influence is decided by the types of modifications that loanwords undergo in their adoption process: It is also found that there are levels of difficulties in acquiring correct usage of Speech Modification Semantic Modification Wasei Eigo (English made in Japan) Morphological Modification Straightforward Loanwords ( ` means is more difficult than`). In addition, the study has also shown that learners who have a positive attitude towards loanwords in English vocabulary learning made more errors in a test than those who were sceptical. ····· 10361102164
für 71.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray What is aesthetic experience How does language reach out to it Is it one thing to have aesthetic experience and quite another to express it What is the human dimension behind creation and appreciation of articulate art like literature, so that, as soon as readers are ushered into an imagined-to-be-perceptible world, they acquire a mode of consciousness Is language capable of creating this wonder Is there rhetoric of feelings In the attempt of answering these questions, a model of literary criticism has eventually evolved. ····· 10361101849
····· lezzter Preis 44.10€ ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray To the hope of many and the disgust of some, a group of academics has, from 1996 onwards, yearly sent in a Nobel Prize nomination for Bob Dylan, nominating him to be rewarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Thirteen years later, Dylan has not yet received the Nobel Bob Dylan could not care less. In contrast to Bob Dylan`s never-ending stoicism, however, the nomination revived the ongoing Dylan debate about Dylan`s canonical status in the academic world Does Bob Dylan deserve the Nobel Prize in Literature Is Bob Dylan`s art literature Is Bob Dylan a poet Is Bob Dylan high culture or mere pop culture In the currently expanding field of literary Dylan Studies, there is the, logical, tendency to study Dylan`s songs from a textual perspective. In these analyses however, Dylan`s song lyrics are treated as mere words, text, entirely leaving his music out of the academic discussion. In this book, Frank Bond provides a critical look into the most prominent academic approaches to Dylan`s lyrics, and subsequently proposes a more productive and adequate analysis which also incorporates the musical elements of Dylan`s song lyrics. ····· 10361101830
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray A critique of the theme of self-identity in Edwin Muir`s poetry, the four essays in the book dissect the poet`s diction to explore the philosophical context of issues intrinsically interrogative and inconclusive. Studying the self`s attempts to recover and identify with an internalized other, the first essay evaluates the politics of archetypes, illustrating how the vision of unqualified harmony is marred by intricate dualisms of subjectivity/objectivity, time/memory and reality/dream. The second essay, ontologically analyzing the plurality of split-personality, discusses the dimensions of fractured linguistic icons i.e., the alienation of the components of the referential system within which the self operates. The third essay interprets poems that defy the idealist approach to the human mind in the light of the theory of externalism while the fourth one, exploiting Derrida`s theory of metaphysics of presence, examines the dynamics of the absent self that makes its presence conspicuous by the very virtue of being absent. The book is designed to help students and researchers in the disciplines of both literature and philosophy. ····· 10361101694
für 71.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray This book aims to reveal that the analogy of Za Ahang Jing (T101) is a treasure-reservoir for both studying the early development of Buddhism and the Later Han/Eastern Han ( ) literature and language, because this analogy of twenty-seven s tras is translated into Chinese in the 2nd century by An Shigao ( , 148-170A.D.).In terms of Buddhist studies, this analogy reveals several intrigued characteristics, such as unique translation style, distinct wordings and other special linguistic elements for identifying its rendering time, authorship and Buddhist school affiliation. These factors are invaluable resources for investigating not only the transmission of early Buddhism but also the development of Chinese Buddhist history and translation. Furthermore, Za Ahan Jing also provides many significant resources for studying the Later Han literature and language. For instance, the translation of Za Ahang Jing clearly discloses the transitional feature of literary Chinese used in the Later Han. In addition, the verse-format of this analogy unveils that there may be a close relation between the development of zayanshi of yuefu and the translation of the Buddhist verses. ····· 10361101670
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray V. Nabokov`s Lolita as a Postmodernist Text: What makes Lolita a Postmodernist Text Although Lolita, a book by the Russian émigré, Vladimir Nabokov, received a demoralizing public inimicality shortly after its publication in 1955, it has gained so far a prolific success among critics and researchers. It is acclaimed for its playful nature. It is the case study of miscellaneous readings and interpretations. My MA dissertation is one of those attempts to explore its contradictory, subversive, intertextual, parodic, ironic, and rhizomatic characteristics. The point is to show that our text is postmodernist par excellence. Its elusive and self-reflexive features back up its postmodernist trend, regardless of its unreliability, ambiguity, and confusion on the levels of narration, characterization, and style. ····· 10361101435
für 71.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The book traces the relevance of Nadine Gordimer`s apartheid theme to the contemporary world. Gordimer`s fictional depiction of countries ripped by conflicts offers a ray of hope that any dismal situation will see the light of day. Also, any solution is the source for new problems.The world progresses through the rugged path of battling interests of warring factions. Violence is a continuum. Gordimer perceives that apartheid is only one of the many forms of manifestation of man`s inhumanity.There is also a study of Gordimer`s women characters engaged in the political struggle. Gordimer`s novels are a testimony to the fact that she is one of the greatest among women political novelists. The book also deals with the themes of the writer from a postcolonial perspective. ····· 10361101353
für 71.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The coursebook purports to enlarge and to variegate learners` lexis, to make them more sensitive to the meanings of synonyms, to raise their awareness of, predominantly, formal and academic English. The coursebook tackles some of the modern scholastic issues, such as cognitive linguistics , ludicrous communication and other. The 12 Units chosen for the course are predominantly based on contemporary texts, selected not only going by the author`s personal preference, but also by their topicality, relevance to learners` needs, lexical and stylistic contents. An attempt has been made to select texts whose levels of difficulty are commensurate with learners` capabilities. Some of the exercises presuppose elementary research by learners and encourage them to work on their own outside a classroom setting. The authour genuinely hopes that the coursebook will be of use to those willing to hone their English language skills and learn new facts about medieval and modern England, British sense of humour and what ludicrous communication and language play are all about. ····· 10361101325
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray Western culture has for years privileged only the highly visible, commodified narratives of the Holocaust, sacrificing a crucial lens for gazing at the Holocaust`s buried narratives. This essay examines the function of language in one such narrative, Imre Kertesz`s Fatelessness, the story of a young Hungarian`s experiences in concentration camps. Here, language is the tool for fate`s imposition the imposition of an identity and a future upon an individual that does not cohere with his experience. Since language provides the mechanism for the unwinding of a hostile fate, language becomes an inadequate vehicle of communication but one with no alternative. Declaring language utterly incapable or, conversely, without fault, is an oversimplification of language`s more subtle intersection with society.Contextualizing these ideas, this essay focuses on the concept of the buried narrative, and the importance of buried narratives in light of the Holocaust`s importance in shaping the normative standard for genocide. This study sheds new light on the use of language during the Holocaust for historians, literature scholars, and students of the Holocaust. ····· 10361101216
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray This book first provides a detailed and comprehensive account of existentialism the etymology of existentialism the relationship between existentialism and the philosophical sources like metaphysics, idealism, phenomenology and epistemology, the theological and the literary sources the immediate background and foundation of existentialism a short biography of twenty important existentialists major existentialist themes exploration of the fundamental concepts including Dasein, being-in-the world, being-in-itself and being-for-itself, existence and essence Kant`s synthesis of empiricism and rationalism, and his distinction between the phenomena and the noumena and the relationship and difference between psychology, anthropology and existentialist anthropology. Rooted in this wide-ranging setting, this book seeks to provide a hermeneutic analysis of Kafka`s works The Metamorphosis, The Castle and The Trial in the light of existentialism. It includes an analysis of the techniques of surrealism and expressionism to trace the existentialist elements. It will serve as a good reference book in the study of existentialism and its relevance to Kafka`s works. ····· 10361101197
für 71.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray This book provides a historical, cultural, and political phenomenon of the popular animated cartoon Tom and Jerry, and Amar Chitra Katha series and examines the modes in which these popular animated cartoon and comic books help consolidate the position of the dominant class and thus exposes the fundamental relations between cultural power and textual/visual interpretation and the implicit authoritarianism within the hierarchical structure of the society. It also examines how popular cultural artifacts, like cartoons, comic strips and animated cartoons, articulate their position on race and ideology, systematically and artfully reducing the real people, here the subaltern, to abstractions. ····· 10361101176
für 53.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray The book offers an analysis of carnivalesque or popular festive laughter in O`Casey`s drama. Drawing upon the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, Malik argues that a fuller understanding of the artistic and ideological significance of O`Casey`s drama can be arrived at by situating it in the low or popular cultural traditions of his society. A detailed discussion of O`Casey`s plays is attempted to show how the forms of laughter function to interrogate contemporary hegemonic political, economic, and cultural discourses. The Dublin trilogy counters the nationalist ideology and its constructions of history, while the later comedies focus on the issues of cultural domination and religious authoritarianism. This negative critique of the dominant order is accompanied, in these plays, by a celebration of the rich energy of popular collective life, and its capacity to resist domination and to create an alternative society. The study extends this perspective to include a consideration of O`Casey`s dramaturgic choices and his deployment of popular forms of theatrical representation which are radically different from and often inimical to established aesthetic norms. ····· 10361101036
für 44.10€ kaufen ···· Rheinberg-Buch.de - Bücher, eBooks, DVD & Blu-ray This study comparatively analyses the importance of the writers` use of mentally unstable characters in the projection of the political, social and economic realities in post-independence Zimbabwe. The texts examined are Mapenzi (1999) and Chairman of Fools (2005). The study argues that the writers use characters` mental instability both as a condition and a technique to comment on the social reality obtaining in the post-independence era. This becomes an effective strategy as it allows the writers not only to aptly capture the human condition but also the freedom to comment on overt and sensitive political, social and economic issues which most writers focusing on the period have not addressed. In other words, the characters` mental condition becomes a shield against possible victimisation for saying out issues which are considered subversive. ····· 10361100888· 1 · ::::: · 11 ·· 12 ·· 13 ·· 14 ·· 15 ·· 16 ·· 17 · ::::: · 37 ·
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