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 ...

This doctoral research study empirically investigates the factors which influence the development of intercultural competence as an integral part of the German Studies in Moldova. The research is based on the assumption ...

Research Approach: My work fuses the major themes of the labour historiography of India as well as the history of health and technology. I propose to discuss the major themes of labour history like the nature of labour ...

The way we describe fictional entities in different contexts suggests conflicting ontologies. For example, we sometimes explicitly deny the existence of Sherlock Holmes („Holmes doesn’t really exist“), while at other times ...

This study examines a subject that has been disregarded in literary history, namely Israeli literature written in the German language. Two authors, Jenny Aloni and Netti Boleslav, as well as their poetry, are used as ...

In this thesis, different types of dependent clauses will be investigated with respect to their behavior in a question-driven discourse model. It will be argued that one group of dependent clauses is conventionally marked ...

In this dissertation the question is examined, if it is justified to ascribe rights to animals. The theory of animal rights of American philosopher Tom Regan ranks as one of the most important approaches of animal ethics. ...

Both from a legal and a moral perspective, human rights are an essential component of the current normative reality. In the field of moral philosophy there is a marked tendency to consider that human beings as individuals ...

Plans from 1733 already suggested equipping the University of Göttingen with a natural history collection. Only in 1773, however, did the Georgia Augusta obtain a so called Academic Museum. Its collection contained ...