Sufische Geschichten sind ein charakteristisches Element der islamisch-orientalischen Mystik. Heiter bis skurril, dramatisch, philosophisch oder auch marchenhaft angelegt ist die "Story" ein Medium, mit deren Hilfe die eigentliche, spirituelle Botschaft transportiert wird. Diese zeitlosen Geschichten wurden vor Jahrhunderten von islamischen Mystikern erfunden und eingesetzt, um Menschen auf der Suche nach Gott und bei der Entwicklung des Selbst Wege zu weisen. Die faszinierende Wirkung sufischer Geschichten entfaltet sich erst richtig im Nachdenken und Diskutieren uber diese Erzahlungen. In diesem Buch wurden zwanzig sufische Geschichten aus alten persischen Quellen ubersetzt und mit Interpretationen und Kommentaren fur die Lebenswirklichkeit moderner Menschen erschlossen.

This textbook uses corpus analysis and empirical data to provide a comprehensive overview of spoken hexagonal French. Its eight chapters cover past research, linguistic theory, historical aspects, typology, and variations. A key focus is placed on the synchronic description of modern-day French in terms of the properties that distinguish familiar from formal language pragmatically, syntactically, semantically, and phonetically. Exercises are provided at the end of each chapter."

This AQA AS and A Level English Language Student Book prepares students and teachers for the requirements of the AQA A Level English Language specification. Structured and written to build on skills students acquired at GCSE, this book helps students to develop the skills needed to succeed in their AQA AS and A Level English Language exams and coursework. Through a range of source texts, activities and practice exam questions students of all abilities will be able to make clear progress. Whether students are taking AS or A Level AQA English Language, this resource offers guidance and activities to help all students achieve their potential.

Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to Cantonese as spoken by native speakers in Hong Kong. It presents a fresh and accessible description of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in current Cantonese. This makes it the ideal reference source for all learners and users of Cantonese, irrespective of level, in schools, colleges, universities and adult classes of all types. Moreover, it will provide a lasting and reliable resource for all fluent speakers of the language. The book is organized to promote a thorough understanding of Cantonese grammar. Arranged by both syntactic categories and language functions, the Grammar provides an in-depth treatment of structures and pays special attention to idiom and speech registers, including trendy language. Explanations are full, clear and free of jargon. A glossary, extensive index and generous use of cross-references provide readers with easy access to the information they require. Features include: * comprehensive pronunciation section * full use of examples from films, advertising and authentic conversations * Cantonese-English parallels highlighted throughout the book * all examples given in Cantonese characters as well as Yale romanization * a Companion Website with supplementary multimedia material. Stephen Matthews is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong and Virginia Yip is Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. They are Directors of the Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre and have previously co-authored: Basic Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook (Routledge, 1999) and Intermediate Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook (Routledge, 2000).

Russian Through Art: For Intermediate to Advanced Students develops all four language skills while enhancing students' cultural knowledge through exposure to Russian visual arts. Each of the six thematically organised chapters is accompanied by online resources, available at https://ccle.ucla.edu/course/view/russnart. These supporting materials include online lectures, readings, audio and video clips and assignments of varying levels of difficulty, starting with description and narration tasks and progressing to discussion and debate. Each chapter contains a number of task-based and project-based assignments. The book and website's modular design make it easy to adapt this comprehensive resource to different course needs and different levels. By the end of the course students will have broadened their active vocabulary, enhanced their grammatical skills while familiarising themselves with Russian art in its various representations and periods.

Die Diskussion um die Entstehung der neuhochdeutschen Schriftsprache begleitet die Germanistik von ihren Anfangen bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart. Die wesentlichen Fragen, um deren Beantwortung es in der Diskussion geht, sind die nach dem Entstehungsort - der "Wiege" - der neuhochdeutschen Schriftsprache und die nach ihrem moeglichen Schoepfer. Eng mit der letzten Frage verbunden ist die nach der Richtung der Entwicklung: "von unten nach oben" also volkssprachlicher Ausgleich als Basis fur die Schriftsprache oder schreibsprachlicher Ausgleich und Ruckwirkung auf die Mundarten. Das zentrale Problem der Diskussion zeigt sich nach wie vor darin, dass keiner der wichtigeren theoretischen Ansatze a priori voellig absurd erscheint. Jede Theorie enthalt wohl einen Teil der Wahrheit: Sowohl Siedlerbewegungen als auch die Bildung, sowohl Luther als auch die Kanzleien und Offizinen, sowohl die Grammatiktheoretiker als auch die Dichtung, sowohl Sprachwertsysteme als auch die sich herausbildende Polyfunktionalitat und die allmahliche Herausbildung einer zentralen Zielvarietat spielen eine mehr oder weniger bedeutsame - aber in der Regel noch nicht zufriedenstellend ausgelotete - Rolle.

Os sons do portugues is a practical introduction to the phonetics and pronunciation of Portuguese, with a focus on the sound patterns of Portuguese from a nontheoretical perspective. Written entirely in Portuguese, the book addresses the correspondence between sounds and spelling rules, syllabic structure and stress patterns of the language, as well as an introduction to phonetic notation, terminology, and transcription. Key features: * Easy-to-follow organization, with gradual development from introductory to advanced material to build on students' pre-existing knowledge of Portuguese pronunciation. * A range of activities, including descriptive and audio-visual exercises based on examples from cultural products of Portuguese-speaking communities. * Illustrative descriptions and audio-visual samples of the main dialects of the Lusophone world, particularly from Brazil and Portugal. * Online access to audio files that accompany the text. This is an ideal resource for non-native and heritage speakers of Portuguese at level B2-C2 of the Common European Framework for Languages, and Intermediate High-Advanced High on the ACTFL proficiency scales.

Cardinal Bessarion is renowned for having bridged the frontier that existed between the Western world of Latin and the Eastern world of Greek. As an integrative intermediary and humanistic patron of culture, he served as a witness to the epoch s diverse and momentous processes of inclusion and exclusion. The articles attempt to reconstruct the mechanisms of cultural integration and disintegration that marked the Early Modern Era."

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The 30 articlesin this handbook provide an extensive overview of German parts of speech. The articles describe the form and function of each individual part of speech, taking historical and cross-linguistic aspects into account. The handbook concludes with a discussion of the didactics of the parts of speech.

How to Teach a Foreign Language was first published in 1904.

This new study reconciles cognitive metaphor theory with Critical Discourse Analysis to offer a fresh approach to the study of metaphor. In applying this framework to a substantial corpus of texts from business magazines, the author shows how metaphors of war, sports and evolutionary struggle are used to construct business as a masculinized social domain. In view of the subtle but pervasive socio-cognitive impact of these metaphors, the study raises the question of possible alternatives and the scope for change in business media discourse.

Karl Philipp Moritz is best known as the author of the novel Anton Reiser, and as a scholar of classical aesthetics. However, there is another area of his workthat was extremely important to him: his engagement with language. Against the backdrop of European intellectual history, this book spotlights Moritz as an original grammarian and philosopher of language. It also illustrates the ways that his reflections on language helped develop the methods of thinking that later became the foundation for his aesthetics.

Since the nineteenth century various housing solutions have evolved, such as sprawling Australian home ownership and compact Dutch social rental housing. This phenomenon cannot be adequately explained with simple descriptions of key events, politics and housing outcomes. Critical Realism and Housing Studies pushes debate forward, arguing that a new ontological perspective is required to address fundamental issues in housing and comparative research. This book is clearly organized into three parts which: evaluate ontological and methodological alternatives for comparative housing research provide two historical case studies inspired by critical realist ontology compare the causal tendencies that explain diverging housing pathways in Australia and the Netherlands. Lawson proposes that we turn to critical realism for the solution. From this perspective the causal tendencies of complex, open and structured housing phenomena are highlighted. With this insight we are able to extract the key social arrangements which promote different housing solutions from the historical case studies. Social arrangements which are found to influence alternative pathways in housing history concern the property rights, circuit of savings and investment, as well as labour and welfare relations. As they develop differently over time and space they affect where, when and how housing solutions develop.

Tests for the measurement of language abilities must be constructed according to a coherent validity framework based on the latest developments in theory and practice. This innovative book, by a world authority on language testing, deals with all key aspects of language test design and implementation. It provides a road map to effective testing based on the latest approaches to test validation. A book for all graduate students in Applied Linguistics or TESOL, and for professional language teachers.

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.

Written in an extended dictionary format, the Manual for Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language aims to cover all key terms related to teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Each section contains an introduction with language-specific information, and identifies students and teachers' common questions, including the capacity of Chinese as a morphologically unmarked language to indicate categories such as tense and mood. Many entries listed in this manual come with an explanation, a commentary, and rich examples. The Manual for Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language appeals to both Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) teachers and students, as well as being the ideal reference for researchers conducting comparative studies of the Chinese and English languages.

Advertising has traditionally communicated messages to consumers with strong local and national identities. However, increasingly, products, producers, advertising agencies and media are becoming internationalized. In the development of strategies that appeal to a large multinational consumer base, advertising language takes on new 'multilingual' features. The author explores the role of advertising language in this new globalized environment, from a communicative theory point of view, as well as from a close linguistic analysis of some major advertising campaigns within a multicultural and multilingual marketplace.

In recent decades there has been increased interest and fascination in the concept of openness as a kind of communication. Openness is in fact a communicative ideal of the modern age because this ideal has existed without interruption since the Enlightenment. Another reason is that the idealization of openness is closely interwoven with central social and intellectual developments that were intensified in the modern age. Based on a wide spectrum of sources concerning communication, Juliane Schroter examines the history of this ideal from the 18th century to the present."

Perhaps you are one of the millions who has tuned in and turned on to the hugely popular Oprah's Book Club. And perhaps by watching it, you've discovered a new, or rekindled an old, passion for reading. Now, with the guidance of Rachel W. Jacobsohn's revised and updated edition of The Reading Group Handbook, you, too, can start your own book club Book clubs and reading groups give fellow members the chance to break out of established reading patterns and learn adventurous approaches to creative material. With the help of The Reading Group Handbook, you'll get a definitive, step-by-step guide to starting your own book club, written by a professional reading group leader who has organized and led groups--face-to-face and even online--for over twenty years. In this newly revised and expanded edition, you'll get information on: Where to meet: homes, local bookstores, libraries, and onlineHow to select members and decide a format for the meetingsHow to read material critically and constructively in preparation for the gatheringThe art of the discussionOver thirty-five suggested reading lists, including an expanded list of year-by-year Pulitzer Prize winners, Oprah's Book Club picks, and personal recommendations from the author and her groups' membersWhere to go to get more information on the books you choose and on book clubs throughout the country As reading groups have become the latest trend in socializing, anyone who wants to combine a love of literature with the opportunity to meet others will not want to be without The Reading Group Handbook. With The Reading Group Handbook, readers will enjoy the benefits of a good book and a good book club.