Focuses on post-merger intercultural integration, effective communication between the relevant cultures and the different politeness strategies adopted by them. In this book, it is argued that cultural differences are a key issue in misunderstandings and miscommunication, which can affect a smooth post-merger integration.
A story is initially memorised by the author in a mental structure which is transferred to the page via the author's choice of location, organisation and imagery. It describes and uncovers memory systems (including the memory palace and the memory journey) in medieval texts.
Offers a discussion of business English vocabulary, a psycholinguistic discussion of what aspects of linguistic knowledge and (meta)cognitive processing mechanisms are involved in completing the task, a psychometric-methodological discussion of how these aspects are measured and scored, and an applied discussion of the usefulness of the test.
By focusing on migration as a journey, the research considers all stages of migration (remigration in particular) and complements the approach to the phenomenon with a life-long perspective. This book discloses motive as a complex phenomenon, which may also change over time.
An attempt to determine why and how tests rose to prominence in an educational system that used to rely on qualitative tests and teacher evaluations. It addresses the important issues of how testing interacts with and influences an educational system, and which common factors are involved in order to implement testing in an educational system.
Through the usage of identification approaches, combined with an extensive presentation of the specific features of Norwegian nation-building, this book offers a lucid account of how Norway's history and culture shape the prism through which many Norwegians view the merits of their country's relations with the emerging European Union.
In pursuit of selfhood, the non-conformist hero of the Post-World War II American South sets out on an uncertain path leading to confrontation and finally transformation. This study examines William Styron's "Sophie's Choice", Flannery O'Connor's "The Violent Bear It Away" and Bobbie Ann Mason's "In Country".
The African Union (AU) aims at creating an African Economic Community (AEC) by 2034. This book shows that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is currently the most advanced and promising REC but still behind schedule in reaching its own integration objectives.
Throughout 1990s, several observers of post-communist transformation in East Central Europe viewed Slovaks as a non-historic nation hastily modernized during the communist era. This study examines Slovakia's evolution from downfall of Communism to accession of independent Slovak Republic into European Union from a broader historical perspective.
Renewable energy has an important role to play as they provide solutions to pressing environmental and developmental challenges particularly in developing countries. This book explores the conditions under which wind energy projects are successfully deployed in Indian states.
Examines the learning intents and learning capacities of partner companies in selected cases of alliances as well as the types of knowledge they acquired through the alliances. This title identifies the pattern of inter-partner learning and the factors affecting learning in such asymmetric alliances.
Essays on Labor Market and Human Capital - Korea and Germany
Presents a novel matrix of the regional embeddedness of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and systematically classifies the case study firms. This title shows that geographical proximity to Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) is important for Open Innovation and enables MNEs to strengthen their absorptive capacity.
Comparing Selected Modern Methods of Teaching English to Young Learners
Access to European Justice for Environmental Civil Society Organizations
Computer Networks, the Internet and Next Generation Networks
Addresses the vagueness of past conceptualizations by providing a theoretical background, the development of a reliable and valid measurement model of CEO reputation as well as the validation of identified relations to its antecedents and consequences.
From Peasants to Farmers? Agrarian Reforms and Modernisation in Twentieth Century Romania
Focusing not only on Gould's writings on music technology but also on those of Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) and Jean Le Moyne (1913-1996), this book provides a fresh perspective on Gould's thinking, which was embedded in and keenly alert to the intellectual world outside music.
Allocating scarce medical resources has become an important topic in public discussion. In this book, the author shows how the concepts of Nash and Kalai/Smorodinsky can be applied to a medical allocation problem and discusses implications of their properties and solutions for the German health system.
This book provides a thorough discussion of Dutch multicultural society seen through the lens of literature. The literary work of four important contemporary authors - Kader Abdolah, Robert Anker, Abdelkader Benali and Hafid Bouazza - is analysed alongside the public debate about the encounter between Islam and the West.
The book describes English language contact-induced features in the language of medicine through contact linguistic analysis of Hungarian cardiology discharge reports. The author investigates how Hungarian physicians are influenced by the English language and the types of interferences in the Hungarian documents written by them.
In this study, the author takes the Nigerian situation for offering new opportunities for developing a poverty alleviation strategy that aims at creating decent work opportunities in the informal economy. An important contribution to further development of the Catholic social ethics for Africa and at reducing poverty in a sustainable way.
This book studies causes and effects of country specialization and industry concentration in Europe. The most important indices used in studying the heterogeneity of countries and industries are examined, the economic development of individual industries is analyzed in detail and the heterogeneity across Western European countries is shown.
The book considers sequential competitive location problems on networks. It reviews the relevant literature and extends well known models by incorporating proportional choice rules, edge demand or a pricing stage. The models are analyzed with respect to their computational complexity. Mathematical models and adequate solution methods are presented.
This book deals with reasons for the persistence of the practice of female genital cutting (FGC) among the Kurya in Tanzania. The study recommends intervention programmes based on in-depth cultural knowledge, and concludes that addressing the problem in its local context is crucial for efforts directed at stopping the practice.
The book focuses on Russian-Hebrew bilingual speech. It identifies, describes and accounts for diverse types of bilingual varieties spoken in the Russian immigrant community in Israel. Therefore an interdisciplinary approach was chosen, examining the structural aspects of the immigrants' speech under consideration of their personal social networks.
This book explores how emotions, ethnic or national belonging and digital technologies work together in constructing an apocalypticizing national self. Thus, it offers a complex analysis of far rightist apocalyptic narratives that imagine the Gypsification and Hungarization of Romania and the Islamization of Europe as irreversible change.
The Muslim festival of sacrifice, id al-adha, is celebrated all over the world annually in the month of pilgrimage. The book examines the foundations of this festival in the Qur'an and early Islamic history. In the analysis it applies ritual theories to the narratives about various sacrifices, esp. the role of Muhammad for the Muslim community.
Drawing upon theoretical and methodological paradigms from speech science and applied linguistics, this study advances our understanding of the factors that constrain attainment and assessment of second language pronunciation.
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