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  • 11
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    The Semantics of Development in Asia : Exploring 'Untranslatable' Ideas Through Japan (2024)
    Singapore : Springer
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    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Development: Which Ideas Now? -- 1 Sources of Development Ideas -- 2 How Did We Leave Behind Our Own Development Ideas? -- 3 Why Japan Matters -- 4 Overview of the Book -- Notes -- References -- Doboku: Changes in the Social Evaluation of Infrastructure Development in Japan -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Emergence of Doboku -- 3 The Lack of a Philosophy of "Doboku" -- 4 Negative Images of "Doboku" -- 5 Attempts to Establish a Philosophy of "Doboku" -- 6 Conclusion: "Doboku" Redeemed -- References -- Kaizen: Why is It so Difficult to Understand? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What is Kaizen?-Continuous Operational Improvements Through a Bottom-Up, Hands-On, Participatory Approach -- 3 Why Has Kaizen Become a Vital Development Policy in Recent Years? -- 4 The Difficulty of Translating Kaizen -- 4.1 Can Kaizen Be Implemented Outside Japan? -- 4.2 Why Did These Differences in Content Arise? -- 4.3 The Distinctiveness of Japan's System of Business Management -- 4.4 The Context-Specific Nature of Kaizen -- 4.5 Criticisms of Kaizen -- 5 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Genba-Shugi: Understanding Through a Hands-On Approach -- 1 What Gave Rise to Genba-Shugi? -- 2 The Discovery of "Japanese-Style" Engineers and Companies in Manufacturing -- 3 The Emphasis on Japanese Uniqueness -- 4 JICA's Pursuit of Autonomy -- 5 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Asianism: Continuity and Divergence in Japan's Foreign and International Cooperation Policy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Alliance-Style Asianism and Japan-China Cooperation -- 3 Leadership-Style Asianism and the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere -- 4 Reparations and the Commencement of Japanese ODA -- 5 The Bandung Conference and South-South Cooperation -- 6 The Fukuda Doctrine and Assistance for ASEAN.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (250 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9789819712151
    Series Statement: The University of Tokyo Studies on Asia Series
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    Language: English
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    The Play of Language in Ancient Greek Comedy : Comic Discourse and Linguistic Artifices of Humour, from Aristophanes to Menander (2024)
    Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Metaphors and Personifications Onstage -- Imaginary Wor(l)ds: Comic Language and the Construction of Fantasy -- A Less Maculate Muse -- Like a Rabid Dog: Animal Metaphors and Similes in Aristophanes -- The Shop of Aristophanes the Carpenter: How Comic Poets Assembled (and Disassembled) Words -- "When He Should Have Said..." The Treatment of Humour παρ' ὑπόνοιαν in the Aristophanic Scholia -- Rhyme in Greek Comedy -- Three Words in Aristophanes' Wealth (999, 1037, 1083) -- Spoudaiogeloion Revisited: Homeric Text between a Scholar and a Cook -- Proper Names, Nicknames, Epithets: Aspects of Comic Language in Middle Comedy -- Strategies of Verbal Humour in Menander's Dyskolos: From Linguistics to Dramaturgy -- List of Contributors -- Index Nominum et Rerum -- Index Locorum -- Index of Notable Greek Words and Phrases.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (446 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783111295282
    Series Statement: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series v.154
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    DDC: 882.0109
    Language: English
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    Emerging Subjectivity in the Long 19th-Century Middle East : Philological Approaches (2024)
    Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Contents -- Part I: Background / Settings -- 1 Arab perspectives on the late Ottoman Empire -- 2 The simultaneity of the non-simultaneous -- Part II: Linguistic aspects The language of the Nahḍa -- 3 Morpho-semantic evidence of emerging subjectivity in the language of the Nahḍa -- Part III: Transitions: Continuity and rupture New attitudes / genres in the making -- 4 Adab as the art to make the right choice between local tradition and Western values: A comparative analysis of Khalīl al-Khūrī's Way, idhan lastu bi-Ifranjī! (1859) and Aḥmed Midḥat's Felāṭūn Beğ ile Rāḳım Efendī (1875) -- 5 Concepts that changed the world -- 6 What does it mean to design a plot? -- 7 From water-carrying camels to modern storytellers -- Part IV: The emerging subject seeking to assert itself -- 8 Even in a maqāma! The shift of focus from "trickster" to "narrating subject" in Fāris al-Shidyāq's al-Sāq ʿalà l-sāq (1855) -- 9 The modern subject sensing its agency -- 10 "Wa-hākadhā kāna ka-Iblīs": Satan and social reform in a novel by Salīm al-Bustānī (Bint al-ʿaṣr, 1875) -- 11 "Fa-ghrawraqat ʿuyūnuhum bi-l-dumūʿ...": Some notes on the flood of tears in early modern Arabic fiction -- Part V: The Nahḍa at its zenith Nation building and "Yes, we can!" enthusiasm -- 12 A manifesto of early adab qawmī: ʿĪsà ʿUbayd's programmatic preface to "Miss Ihsan" - Introduction and translation -- 13 Maḥmūd Taymūr (1894-1973) -- 14 The Modern School and global modernity: The example of an Egyptian ghost story of the mid-1920s (Maḥmūd Ṭāhir Lāshīn's Qiṣṣat ʿifrīt -- 15 Aspects of literary representation in Reşat Nuri Güntekin's Çalıkuşu -- Part VI: From "upswing" to crisis and demise: 100 years of Middle Eastern modernity - Thematic threads.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (518 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783111350837
    Series Statement: Studies on Modern Orient Series v.51
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    Vietnamese Language, Education and Change in and Outside Vietnam (2024)
    Singapore : Springer
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    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Praise for Vietnamese Language, Education and Change In and Outside Vietnam -- Contents -- 1 Foregrounding Vietnamese Language, Education, and Change in and Outside Vietnam -- Setting the Scene -- The Conceptual Edge and Significance -- References -- Part I Vietnamese Language Education and Language Issues in Diverse Contexts -- 2 Literacy Education in Vietnamese Schooling System -- Introduction -- Literacy Education in Vietnam: A Brief History -- The Revolutionary State and Its Literacy Education Campaign (1945-1989) -- The Đổi Mới Spirit and Reformation Processes of Literacy Education in Contemporary Vietnam -- Central Control Model of Literacy Education in Contemporary Vietnam -- Achievements and Shortages -- Emerging Changes and Challenges for the Literacy Education in Vietnam -- Reformation to Be Continued: The General Education Curriculum and Its New Phase of Literacy Education -- Critical Changes in Teaching Methods -- Methods of Teaching Reading -- Methods of Teaching Writing -- Methods of Teaching Speaking and Listening -- Critical Changes in Assessment and Evaluation -- Concluding Discussion: Toward Global Standards and Inter-connected Settings -- References -- 3 Institutional Transformation for Internationalization: The Making of National Language Program in Higher Education in Contemporary Vietnam -- Introduction -- An Overview of the Education Programs Vietnamese for Foreigners -- Before 1945-The Spread of Religion by the West and the Domination of French in Vietnam -- The Period of the Two Governments, North and South Vietnam: 1945-1975 -- From Period of Reunification to Doi Moi: 1976-1990, the Period of Country Reconstruction After War -- The Context of Doi Moi and Governmental Policies Toward HEI's Vietnamese Language Education -- Institutional Transformation and Internationalization of National Language Program at HE.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (299 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9789819990931
    Series Statement: Global Vietnam: Across Time, Space and Community Series
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    Ǧawāhir Al-Akhbār Wa-Mulaḥ Al-Ashʿār : Or Gems of the Tales and Anecdotes of Poetry (2024)
    Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Introduction -- Ǧawāhir al-Akhbār wa-Mulaḥ al-Ashʿār.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (494 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783111488271
    Series Statement: Bibliotheca Islamica Series v.66
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    Language: Arabic
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    Literarische Formen des Erinnerns : Die Deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur Zwischen Aufstörung und Stabilisierung (2024)
    Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Inhalt -- Formen des Erinnerns in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur zwischen Aufstörung und Stabilisierung - Vorbemerkungen -- Von Erinnerungsverlusten und Gedächtnisfälschungen - Neurophysiologische und psychologische Aspekte des Erinnerns -- Die fragile Erinnerung - Ursachen und Folgen -- Zwischen Traumatischem Erinnern, verlorener Hoffnung und Gegenerinnerung -- Trauma und Erinnerung in der deutschen Literatur nach dem Ersten und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg -- Alexander Kluges Erinnerungsprojekt „Schlachtbeschreibung" als Spielart der antagonistischen Rhetorik des kulturellen Gedächtnisses -- Gegenerinnerung - Georg Kreislers „Weg zur Arbeit" -- Aporien sozialistischer Erinnerungskultur? - Christoph Heins „Die Ritter der Tafelrunde" -- Verklärte und verschwiegene Zonen in den zeitzeugenschaftlichen Texten Lenka Reinerovás am Beispiel der Erinnerungen an das Prag der 1930er Jahre und an die kommunistische Ära in der Tschechoslowakei -- Die Gegenwärtigkeit des Vergangenen - Trauma und Geschichte in Robert Menasses Roman „Die Vertreibung aus der Hölle" -- Topographien der Abwesenheit - Spaniens Massengräber und „Memory Boom" in Verena Boos' Roman „Blutorangen" -- Transnationales, Wende und Nachwende in der DDR erinnern -- Postmemoriale Gegenwartsliteratur als Aushandlungsort transnationaler Erbschaften und multidirektionaler Erinnerungspraxis - Assia Djebars „Les Nuits de Strasbourg" (1997) und Katja Petrowskajas „Vielleicht Esther" (2014) -- Generationenkonflikte und Abschiede - Die negative Erinnerung der DDR in den Romanen der 1990er Jahre -- Generationsspezifische Modi des Erinnerns - Die DDR in autobiographischen Texten -- Die Rückeroberung verdrängter Geschichte(n) - Kindheitserinnerungen an die DDR in den Romanen von Annett Gröschner, André Kubiczek und Manja Präkels.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (434 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783111267777
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    Language: German
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    Auslandsdeutsche Pressesprache in Europa, Asien und Nordamerika (2024)
    Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Auslandsdeutsche Medien im Brennpunkt: Pressesprache in vielen Facetten -- Inhalt -- Deutsche Pressesprache in Polen -- Im Zwischenraum von Sprachen. Die deutsch-polnischen Zeitschriften „Die Brücke" und „Hoffnung" als Beispiele für das oberschlesische Identitätskonstrukt -- Pressesprache im deutsch-polnischen Kulturkontakt: das Beispiel „Antidotum" -- Überlegungen zum sprachlichen Profil der deutschsprachigen Presse in Oberschlesien: Transferenzphänomene im grammatischen Bereich am Beispiel des Periodikums „Oberschlesische Stimme" -- Topoi in der deutschsprachigen Presse im polnischen Oberschlesien am Beispiel der „Oberschlesischen Stimme" -- Deutsche Pressesprache in Ungarn -- Sprache der ungarndeutschen Lokalpresse: vergleichende Betrachtungen anhand der „Batschkaer Spuren" und der „Bonnharder Nachrichten" -- Sprachwahl und Themen der Berichterstattung der deutschen Minderheit in der lokalen Presse von Sankt Iwan bei Ofen/Pilisszentiván von 1990 bis 2019 -- Deutsche Pressesprache in Rumänien -- Überlagerung der Chronotopoi in der Jubiläumsausgabe des „Siebenbürgisch- Deutschen Tageblatts" (1924) -- Zeitenwende - Sprachenwende. Rumäniendeutsche Pressesprache im Jahr 1990 am Beispiel der Aussiedlung der Rumäniendeutschen -- Deutsche Pressesprache in der Slowakei -- Das „Karpatenblatt" - Überlegungen zur Pressesprache in der Zeitschrift der karpatendeutschen Minderheit in der Slowakei -- Verbalisierungen der karpatendeutschen Identität in der Presse: Vorüberlegungen zu einer diskurslinguistischen Analyse am Beispiel des „Karpatenblattes" -- Deutsche Pressesprache in Slowenien -- Die neue „Laibacher Zeitung" (ab 2017). Kontaktsprachliche und soziokulturelle Aspekte in der deutschen Minderheitenzeitung aus Slowenien -- Deutsche Pressesprache in der Russischen Föderation.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (338 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783111247694
    Series Statement: Deutsch Als Fremd- und Fachsprache Series v.4
    URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=31361036
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    Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Higher Plants : Fundamentals and Applications (2024)
    Singapore : Springer
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    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (352 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9789819982202
    URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=31281948
    DDC: 579.517852
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    Literarische Organotechnik : Studien Zu Einer Diskurs- und Imaginationsgeschichte (2024)
    Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    Description / Table of Contents: Das aktuelle Spektrum der Literaturwissenschaft ist durch eine komparatistische und kulturwissenschaftliche Öffnung mit mannigfachen interdisziplinären Anschlüssen gekennzeichnet. Die Reihe spectrum Literaturwissenschaft versteht sich als Forum dieser pluralistischen Neuformierung der Literaturwissenschaft; sie präsentiert Studien von methodisch innovativem, häufig komparatistischem Zuschnitt, deren Ergebnisse über enge nationalphilologische Horizonte hinaus von exemplarischer Bedeutung sind.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (312 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783110775310
    Series Statement: Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / Spectrum Literature Series v.79
    URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=31361026
    Language: German
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    Chinese Mental Health Scale Translation (2024)
    Singapore : Springer
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    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Pressing Need for Chinese Translation of Mental Health Scales -- 1.1 Variations in How Mental Disorders Are Expressed -- 1.2 Pressing Need to Translate and Cross-culturally Adapt Mental Health Scales -- 1.3 Prevalence of Mental Disorders in China and Translation of Mental Health Scales into Chinese -- References -- 2 Exemplification of Mental Health Scales -- 2.1 Mental Health Scales -- 2.2 Mental Health Locus of Control Scales -- 2.3 Attitude Assessment Scales -- 2.4 Summary -- References -- 3 Translating and Adapting the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale FORM C to a Chinese Scale Specifically Used for Measuring People's Beliefs About the Prevention and Treatment of Depression in Mainland China -- 3.1 Background -- 3.2 Methods -- 3.2.1 Translation and Adaptation of the MHLC Form C -- 3.2.2 Using the Chinese MHLC Form C to Classify Patients and Identifying Factors Associated with Low Self-efficacy -- 3.3 Results -- 3.3.1 Translation and Adaptation of the MHLC Form C -- 3.3.2 Using the Chinese MHLC Form C to Classify Patients and Identifying Factors Associated with Low Self-efficacy -- 3.4 Discussion -- 3.4.1 Principal Findings -- 3.4.2 Implications -- 3.4.3 Limitations -- 3.4.4 Conclusions -- References -- 4 Development of a Method and an Assessment Construct for Person-Centered Translation of Dementia Public Stigma Scales -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.1.1 Prevalence of Dementia and Dementia-Related Stigma -- 4.1.2 Stigma as a Social Construct -- 4.1.3 Developing Socioculturally-Relevant Dementia Public Stigma Scales -- 4.2 Design and Methods -- 4.2.1 Overall Design -- 4.2.2 Developing the Chinese Version of the DPSS -- 4.2.3 Developing a Method and an Assessment Construct for Person-Centered Translation of Dementia Public Stigma Scales -- 4.3 Results.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (91 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9789819722693
    Series Statement: New Frontiers in Translation Studies
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