Search results for "cultural studies."

Einiges zu den Skythen, ihrer Sprache, ihrem Nachleben. By Manfred Mayrhofer. pp. 48x. Wein, Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,…

2009

Neue Entwicklungen in der Wakhi-Sprache Von Gojal (Nordpakistan). By Beate Reinhold. pp. xxxx. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006.

2009

Nasīr al–Dīn Tūsī, Paradise of Submission, A Medieval Treatise on Ismaili Thought: A New Persian Edition and English Translation of Tūsī's Rawda–yi T…

2005

Exploring Beyond the River and Inside the Valleys: Settlement Development and Cultural Landscape of the Araxes River Basin Through Time

2020

Geographical landmarks, especially rivers, have always played an important role in forming or hampering interplay between societies. In some cases, they act as a “communication route” and in some o...

Rapport Management in the German–Chinese Workplace: Interculturality as a Resource?

2021

In intercultural communication research, rapport management has been studied primarily with a focus on the conflicts and misunderstandings resulting from culturally different conventions. The prese...

Antislavery discourses in nineteenth-century German American women’s fiction

2017

The essay discusses the transatlantic as well as the gendered perspectives on US American slavery in the works of two nineteenth-century German immigrant women writers, Therese Robinson (writing un...

History of Islam in German Thought: From Leibniz to Nietzsche * By IAN ALMOND

2012

Indoctrinated, but not Incurable? Klaus Mann's Interrogation of German Prisoners of War in 1944

2011

It has been stated that ‘die personlichen Erfahrungen […] mit deutschen Kriegsgefangenen zu Ende des Krieges’ led to disillusion and disappointment among the German exiles who fought in the war against Hitler.1 This disappointment manifested itself in the many conflicts between former exiles on the one hand and representatives of the governments of their host nations as well as fellow Germans on the other. Like Stefan Heym, Hans Habe and others, the writer in exile Klaus Mann felt obliged to devote himself to the war against National Socialism, not only in his works, but also as a man of action. As a member of the Psychological Warfare Branch of the Fifth Army he worked in a propaganda unit…

Involvement in sedentary activities and academic performance in adolescents: differences according to sociodemographic variables /Implicación en acti…

2016

AbstractThis study provides a first-time analysis of the differences in the time dedicated each day to different sedentary activities (SA) (productive, technology-based recreation and social activities) and their relation with the academic performance of Spanish adolescents according to sex, school year and socioeconomic status (SES). The sample was made up of 681 participants (50.2% girls), between 12 and 18 years old, who completed self-reported questionnaires. The likelihood of obtaining lower levels of academic success increase in adolescents who spend two or more hours on social SAs and have a lower SES. With boys, this increases further if they spend four or more hours on SAs involvin…

New Older Users’ Attitudes Toward Social Networking Sites and Loneliness: The Case of the Oldest-Old Residents in a Small Italian City

2021

Older adults make little use of social networking sites (SNS). SNS has become essential for maintaining social contacts and countering loneliness in the current era marked by the Covid-19 pandemic. This study explores the attitudes of the oldest-old on SNS after attending a training course on SNS use. The study’s goals are to investigate their personal experiences, choices of use and to survey their views on the usefulness of SNS and its effects on mitigating loneliness for older people. The interviews were conducted in the context of the “Ageing in a Networked Society—Social Experiment Study.” The participants, who were randomly selected for the course on SNS use, agreed to be interviewed…