This study explores the epistemic conditions underlying aesthetic experience during the reading of 20th-century Italian poetry. By analyzing immanent processes of consciousness that occur in the act of reading, the work ...

On the basis of recent German texts between 2002 and 2010, the dissertation analyzes typical motive structures and thematical patterns of contemporary generational novels. Family and self-realization are often depicted as ...

The position of the book as key cultural communication medium has been surrendered to electronic and digital media. However, this break with traditional media has been the catalyst for a ...

Modernity is underlined by a new notion of time, which can be described as linear and progressive. This notion of time marks and provokes the continuous breakup between the past, present and future, which may be defined ...

Localization, which corresponds to the spatial anchoring of referents to the signing space, functions as a very powerful, yet not necessarily obligatory, device to track referents and maintain coherence in the discourse ...

This thesis is concerned with questions regarding the semantics and pragmatics of counterfactual conditionals. Its point of departure is provided by a problem mentioned in Veltman [2005], which I call 'Veltman's puzzle'. ...

French humanists, as soon as they think about languages in a comparative way, are haunted by the inadequacy of their language. This haunting is expressed through a precise and recurrent metaphor, that compares the proper ...

This study examines various aspects of ancient Egyptian demography. The study begins with the well-known figures given by the Greek historians Diodor and Flavius Josephus, who claim a total ...

English was first introduced as a taught foreign language in Vietnam in 1986, yet more than 40 years later the Vietnamese people still find it difficult to speak the language. To improve the students’ proficiency in speaking ...