The way speakers in multilingual contexts develop own varieties in their interactions sheds light on code switching and multimodal dynamic co-constructions of grammar in use. This volume explores the intersection of multimodality and language use of multilingual speakers. Firstly, theoretical frames are discussed and empirical studies involving Catalan, German and Spanish as L1, L2 or FL are presented interconnecting verbal and gestural modalities into grammar description or exploring actions as sources for gestures, which may nonverbally represent the argument in German dynamic motion verbs. Other chapters focus on positionings in interviews, lexical access searches or proxemics in greetings and farewells. The contributions secondly focus on verbal features of language use in multilingual contexts related to self-representation and co-construction of identity through code-switching, deixis or argumentative reasoning in different communicative events based on multilingual data of languages including Croatian, English, Italian, Brazilian-Portuguese and Polish. The findings call for a reviewed conception of grammar description with implications also for the conceptualization of deixis, for L2/foreign language acquisition and language teaching policies.

The human body is a recurrent theme in contemporary literatures in English. The aim of this collection of essays is to explore its multiple representations and functions within a wide range of texts drawn together from various Anglophone cultures. For thematic coherence, this volume is divided into four parts: Diseased Bodies, Invented Bodies, Gendered and Transgender Bodies, and Fragmented and Mutilated Bodies. By adopting multi-disciplinary perspectives, each group of essays illustrates the different ways in which these become multiply signifying sites of cultural and political representation, whether the mode is realistic or daringly speculative and fantastic, as in the case of genetically designed bodies, monstrous and machine bodies. This book contributes to understanding the body as a culture-specific construct.

Angesichts der neuen Herausforderungen, denen die Geisteswissenschaften und insbesondere die Germanistik ausgesetzt sind, versteht sich dieser Kongressband als ein UEberblick uber die aktuellen und kunftigen Forschungsperspektiven in den Bereichen der germanistischen Literatur-, Kultur- und Sprachwissenschaft, jedoch unter starker Berucksichtigung der Beziehung zur Vergangenheit. Die Aufsatze gehen auf die 13. Germanistenwoche zuruck, die im Januar 2011 in Madrid stattfand. In dieser Hinsicht widmet sich ein grosser Teil der Beitrage dem Thema des NS-Exils und der Exilforschung. Sie bilden eine erste Sektion, wahrend die zweite Sektion sprachwissenschaftliche Arbeiten beinhaltet und die dritte literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Aufsatze anbietet. A la luz de los nuevos desafios que encaran las Humanidades, y muy especialmente la Germanistica, este volumen brinda una panoramica de las perspectivas de investigacion actuales y futuras en los estudios literarios, culturales y linguisticos, dando ademas cumplida cuenta de hitos pasados. El libro recoge los resultados de la XIII Semana de Estudios Germanicos celebrada en Madrid en enero de 2011. Una serie de contribuciones se centran en el tema del exilio y su investigacion. Estos articulos conforman una primera seccion, en tanto que la segunda comprende trabajos de indole linguistica y la tercera, ensayos sobre estudios literarios o culturales.

This volume features a collection of papers on emerging concepts, significant insights, novel approaches and ideas in information systems development (ISD). It examines and investigates up-and-coming trends in ISD in general, emphasizing the continuous collaboration between developers and operators to optimize the software delivery time. The book gathers selected papers from the 29th International Conference on Information Systems Development held at Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, September 8-10, 2021. The theme of ISD2021 was "Crossing Boundaries between Development and Operations (DevOps) in Information Systems." The revised and extended papers focus on the influences among information systems, organizational structures, processes and people from its conception to its operation. They examine methodological issues and ways in which the IS designers, developers and operators are transforming organisations and society through information systems.

Antimicrobial polymers are materials that prevent microorganism growth and are needed for many everyday applications from food packaging and water treatment to medicine and healthcare. This new book covers different areas of antimicrobial materials based on polymers including chitosan, polymers with ammonium and phosphonium groups, polymer nanofibers, carbon-based polymer Nanocomposites, polymeric and non-polymeric metal complexes, and biomimetic materials. By combining the information of different materials as well as antimicrobial action modes and applications within one source, the book provides a general summary of the field. Polymeric Materials with Antimicrobial Activity starts with a general introduction to antimicrobial polymers and presents the most common types of microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, yeast and algae) along with the main areas of application of antimicrobial polymeric materials. Specific chapters then detail different polymer systems covering the fundamental issues of synthesis, characterization, physico-chemical properties and applications. With contributions from leading scientists the book is suitable for researchers in polymers, chemistry, biology and materials science interested in an overview of antimicrobial polymeric materials as well as the recent advances in their synthesis, properties and applications.

Las diferentes contribuciones que componen el presente volumen suponen un homenaje al profesor Luis A. Acosta Gomez, un reconocimiento a su brillante carrera profesional y a la relevancia de sus aportaciones a la germanistica espanola e internacional. Siguiendo las lineas fundamentales de su dilatada trayectoria investigadora, las contribuciones, que se centran en una amplia diversidad de ambitos tematicos que vinculan lo literario, lo cultural y lo linguistico, se ocupan, desde diferentes perspectivas, de la teoria y la recepcion literarias, de las relaciones culturales y literarias hispano-alemanas, del drama documental, de la novela historica y la historia novelada y, por ultimo, de la linguistica textual. Representados estan multiples autores y epocas de la literatura en lengua alemana, asi como una valoracion especificamente linguistica del texto. Son unos estudios que recogen, como muestra de agradecimiento, las ensenanzas tan gratamente recibidas del profesor Acosta.

Este volumen cubre lagunas en la investigacion linguistica sobre el espanol del siglo XVII, cenido hasta ahora fundamentalmente a obras literarias y autores prestigiosos, en conjuncion con el XVI. Tomando como eje transversal a Cervantes y su legado, estos trabajos comparten la idea de la existencia de un modelo linguistico distinto, que va transformandose, no solo en el plano morfosintactico, sino tambien en el discursivo, y desemboca en el "espanol moderno". La lengua de este periodo se analiza desde perspectivas de analisis diferentes y una gran variedad de corpus, que logran aproximar al lector a la complejidad del espacio variacional de la epoca a ambos lados del Atlantico y a las concepciones teoricas sobre la lengua del XVII, subyacentes a la codificacion normativa.