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New Discourse on Language
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 140.00New Discourse on Language addresses the need for innovative analyses of multi-modal discourse, identity and affiliation within functional linguistics. The chapters in this volume are connected by their common underlying theoretical approach, Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), and by their focus on semantic variation (across modalities of communication... more...
Organische Chemie für Dummies
Wiley 2013; US$ 19.95Die ganze Chemie ist in zwei Teile geteilt, von denen einer die anorganische und einer die organische Chemie, von uns auch Organik genannt, ist. Sie unterscheiden sich in Elementen, Zweck und Gesetzen. Die organische Chemie wird durch die Kohlenstoffverbindungen von der anorganischen Chemie getrennt. ?Organische Chemie für Dummies? führt... more...
Geotechnik
Wiley 2008; US$ 49.95Das Buch vermittelt alle wichtigen Aspekte über den Aufbau und die Eigenschaften des Bodens, die bei der Planung und Berechnung sowie bei der Begutachtung von Schäden des Systems Bauwerk-Baugrund zu berücksichtigen sind. Schwerpunkte sind die Baugrunderkundung, die Ermittlung von Bodenkennwerten im Labor, sowie die Behandlung von Setzungs-... more...
Geotechnik
Wiley 2012; US$ 47.95Das komplexe und technisch hoch spezialisierte Gebiet der Geotechnik bildet ein Fundament des Bauingenieurwesens, dessen Herausforderungen heute u. a. im innerstädtischen Infrastrukturbau, im Bauen im Bestand oder in der Gestaltung tiefer, in das Grundwasser hineinreichender Baugruben liegen. Das vorliegende Buch befähigt Bauingenieure, grundbauspezifische... more...
Language Processing in Discourse
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95This book argues that language systems determine language use to a greater extent than is generally assumed. The author demonstrates how the typological characteristics of a language determine even the most general aspects of our stylistic preferences. Through extensive analysis of examples in German and English, the author demonstrates how analogous... more...
Towards a 'Natural' Narratology
Routledge 1996; US$ 44.95In this ground breaking work of synthesis, Monika Fludernik combines insights from literary theory and linguistics to provide a challenging new theory of narrative. more...
Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction
Routledge 1993; US$ 228.00Fludernik provides a detailed analysis of free indirect discourse as it relates to narrative theory and the cucial problematic of how speech and thought are represented in fiction. She opens up a new set of questions in narrative theory. more...
Migrant Women
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 148.00Policy-makers are concerned with facilitating labour mobility in the EU. In the 1990s, take-up of employment in other EU countries has remained small. This seminal work looks at the obstacles faced by women in the nursing and banking professions when they migrate between member states. Basing her analysis on the personal accounts of migrants, and discussions... more...
Kybernetes. The international journal of systems & cybernetics
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 199.00Heinz von Foerster never paid heed to the boundaries of academic disciplines. Having worked for a decade in research on short- and microwave technology, he published a molecular theory of memory. It was adopted by a prominent neurophysiologist because it seemed to overcome the problem of storage space in the head. more...









