Transcultural Dictionary of Misunderstandings. European and Chinese Horizons
Extraits
Guides pratiques
French Phrasebook & Dictionary 8ed - Anglais
Lonely Planet's French Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful French phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Order tasty cheeses, talk wine with the locals and seek out hidden villages ; all with your trusted travel companion. Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases for Every Travel Situation ! Feel at ease with essential tips on culture, manners, idioms and multiple meanings Order with confidence, explain food allergies, and try new foods with the menu decoder Save time and hassles with vital phrases at your fingertips Never get stuck for words with the 3500-word two-way, quick-reference dictionary Be prepared for both common and emergency travel situations with practical phrases and terminology Meet friends with conversation starter phrases Get your message across with easy-to-use pronunciation guides Inside Lonely Planet's FrenchPhrasebook and Dictionary : Full-colour throughout User-friendly layout organised by travel scenario categories Survival phrases inside front cover for at-a-glance, on-the-fly cues Convenient features 5 Phrases to Learn Before You Go 10 Ways to Start a Sentence 10 Phrases to Sound like a Local Listen For - phrases you may hear Look For - phrases you may see on signs Shortcuts - easy-to-remember alternatives to the full phrases QandA - suggested answers to questions asked Covers Basics - time, dates, numbers, amounts, pronunciation, reading tips, grammar rules Practical - travel with kids, disabled travellers, sightseeing, business, banking, post office, internet, phones, repairs, bargaining, accommodation, directions, border crossing, transport Social - meeting people, interests, feelings, opinions, going out, romance, culture, activities, weather Safe Travel - emergencies, police, doctor, chemist, dentist, symptoms, conditions Food - ordering, at the market, at the bar, dishes, ingredients The Perfect Choice : Lonely Planet'sFrench Phrasebook and Dictionary, a pocket-sized comprehensive language guide, provides on-the-go language assistance ; great for language students and travellers looking to interact with locals and immerse themselves in local culture.
10/2023
Non classé
Iàsyr Shivaza: The Life and Works of a Soviet Dungan Poet
The Dungans are Chinese Muslims, living mainly in the Kirghiz and Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republics, whose ancestors migrated to Russia more than a hundred years ago. They speak the Kansu and Shensi dialects, but write their Chinese speech with the Cyrillic alphabet. Iàsyr Shivaza (1906-1988) is the most celebrated poet of the Dungans. He wrote numerous poems and many novels, he translated works from Russian and Kirghiz into Dungan, he compiled school textbooks for Dungan children and he helped in the creation of the present Dungan alphabet. Iàsyr Shivaza worked in the Kirghiz State Publishing House, edited a Dungan newspaper, and served in the Second World War as a war correspondent. The present work discusses his life and achievements.
11/1991
Espagne
Secret Seville
Far from the crowds and the well-worn clichés, Seville still has many hidden gems it only reveals to locals and visitors who head off the beaten track. An essential guide for those who thought they knew Seville well or are seeking to discover another side of the city. Why is there a stone relief of Grace Kelly on the wall of Seville Town Hall and how can you track down the railway from the Ibero-American Expo of 1929 ? Where might you find the legacy of Christopher Columbus' son, a medieval Jewish cemetery in a car park, the oddest of barbershops, forgotten souvenirs from the Guadalquivir steamboats, Masonic symbols in a church, the last remaining vestiges of the Andalusian pavilions from the '29 Expo, a little-known Modernist electric power station, an example of the Nazi Enigma machine, a collection of Chinese and Japanese art in a Renaissance mansion or the pillars of a medieval synagogue ?
04/2022
Autres langues
Polish. Avec 1 Cassette audio
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Over 1200 phrases for any situation. Useful travel information and easy-to-read pronunciation guide. Unique quick reference color-coded system.
01/1993
Théâtre
European Drama and Performance Studies N° 3, 2014
European Drama and Performance Studies est une revue scientifique consacrée à l'histoire des arts du spectacle. Les numéros thématiques sont publiés en français et/ou en anglais.
10/2014
Théâtre
European Drama and Performance Studies N° 2, 2014
European Drama and Performance Studies est une revue scientifique consacrée à l'histoire des arts du spectacle. Les numéros thématiques sont publiés en français et/ou en anglais.
03/2014
Sociologie
National and European Law on the Threshold to the Single Market
The volume contains the reports and discussion papers presented at an English-German Colloquium in May 1992. Scholars and practicing lawyers from the United Kingdom and Germany deal with seven important fields of law : History of Environmental Law - Current Issues of Local Government - Immigration and Asylum - Towards European Private Law Principles - Product Safety and Product Liability - Social Security - The Single Market and the Legal Profession.
03/1993
Vocabulaire
French Visual Dictionary. 4000 words and expressions & 2000 photographs, Edition bilingue français-anglais
In this practical guide, you will find everything you need to communicate in French and to understand French words and sentences. Find in this book : more than 4000 words and phrases, and hundreds of photographs.
01/2024
Droit
The gay's and lesbians's rights in an enlarged European Union
During the last few years, gay and lesbian rights have reached the European Union human rights agenda and different instruments to combat discrimination have been adopted, which have had major implications for the gay and lesbian communities all over Europe, This volume focuses on less known and less studied aspects of these accomplishments. Its originality lies both in the multidisciplinary nature and the international approach of this project ; researchers from different universities throughout Europe (Brussels, Leiden, Stockholm, Athens, Ljubljana, Budapest, Bucharest, Paris and Krakow) and from different disciplines (law, political science, sociology and journalism) have contributed to this volume. Through case studies and theoretical reflection, the articles collected here aim at reinforcing the existing interest for the topic as well as offering an academic look at the subject, with a view to fostering scientific dialogue and contributing to the development of this field of research. The book is structured in three different parts, covering a broad spectrum of issues, among which : legal achievements on outlawing discrimination on sexual orientation within the European Union, the evolution of same-sex partnership and marriage, the accomplishments in the candidate countries. By providing a comprehensive overview of the aforementioned topics, this book can be appreciated by different categories of readers, from those interested in human rights to those working in the specific field of non-discrimination or studying the evolution of norms.
02/2006
Tourisme étranger
China in a mirror
China in a Mirror is the third and final part of a triptych devoted to three great civilizations - Islam, India, and China - exploring the theme of permanence. Using the mirror as their motif, photographer-poets Roland and Sabrina Michaud pair traditional Chinese artworks with their own photographs taken over a period of nearly twenty years. These astonishing pairings bear witness to an enduring civilization, just as the mirror, transcending space, links the past with the present.
09/2008
Théâtre - Essais
European Drama and Performance Studies N° 18/2022 : Molière and After. Aspect of the Theatrical Enterprise in 17th - and 18th - Century France
European Drama and Performance Studies est une revue consacrée à l'histoire des arts du spectacle. Les numéros thématiques sont publiés en français et/ou en anglais.
03/2022
Histoire internationale
Late-Imperial Russia: An Interpretation
Late-Imperial Russia deals with some of the great questions of modern Russian history. It uses methods of intellectual history, political economy, ethnography and quantitative history to analyse the Peasant Question in late- Imperial Russia. A study of ideas in action, the book is unique in letting all key participants speak : the intelligentsia, the state and the peasantry. It analyses their opinions, rôles and actions, explaining understandings of the fate of the peasants and the future of Russia. Key intellectual, political, demographic and socio-economic trends are assessed in tandem. Late-Imperial Russia is revealed as a deeply-divided society of three visions and two cultures, each dismissing and misconceiving the other. This unusual contrast of the cultures, ideas and actions of the state, the peasantry and the intelligentsia shows who really wielded power in the crucial decades between the Emancipation and the Revolution. Cross-cultural misunderstandings emerging in the last decades of the Imperial era helped shape the instabilities of the Revolutions of 1917-1921 and their Stalinist aftermath.
09/1997
Histoire internationale
La société civile face à l'Etat dans les traditions chinoise, japonaise, coeéenne et vietnamienne
Civil Society versus State In Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese Tradition Proceeding of the American-European Symposium, Paris, May 29-31 The study of the social nature of man has been given a new dimension by work like those of Jürgen Habermas that no longer simply analyze the relations between the individual and the group, but that take into account both the effects the members of a group acting freely and spontaneously among themselves have upon the organization of a community and the constraints the very structure of the group exert upon itself, and these two aspects of the problem are now seen as interacting dialectically. How is a civil society created in the context of state rule ? How do the private and public sectors intrude upon one another ? What cultural and ideological conditions are necessary to create a given form of civil society ? A colloquium of specialists on East Asia who gathered together in Paris in 1991 tried to find at least partial answers to these questions as they concern the history of societies in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. This collection of the papers presented - in English and French - gives us a striking panoramic view of some of the most characteristic forms of the social systems of ancient, medieval and China, of feudal and post-feudal Japan, of traditional Korea and of Vietnam in the seventeenth century. La société civile face à l'Etat Dans les traditions chinoise, japonaise, coréenne et vietnamienne Actes du colloque américano-européen de Paris, 29-31 mai 1991, édités par Léon Vandermeersch La problématique de la sociabilité a été renouvelée par les travaux qui, comme ceux de Jürgen Habermas, engagent l'analyse non plus simplement sur les rapports de l'individu et du groupe, mais sur l'organisation de la collectivité sous l'effet de la libre spontanéité de ses membres d'une part, et du pouvoir contraignant d'autre part, en interaction dialectique. Comment se constitue la société civile face à l'Etat ? La sphère privée en interférence avec la sphère publique ? Dans quelles conditions de la production culturelle et idéologique ? A ces questions, un colloque de spécialistes de l'Asie orientale, réuni à Paris en 1991, a voulu apporter des éléments de réponse relativement à l'histoire des sociétés chinoise, japonaise, coréenne et vietnamienne. Le recueil des communications présentées - en anglais et en français - met en perspective certaines des formes les plus caractéristiques du système social de la Chine ancienne, médiévale et moderne, du Japon féodal et postféodal, de la Corée traditionnelle, du Viet-nam du XVIIè siècle.
01/1994
Non classé
Lingua Legis in Translation
This book describes the historical development of the Polish and English lingua legis. The intention is to point out the major differences between the legal realities, which significantly affect the process of translation. Secondly, the following characteristic features of lingua legis, concerning the level of words and syntagmas, are touched upon : vocabulary used in lingua legis including technical and semi-technical terms, conservatism of legal texts (Latin and Latinisms ; synonymous strings, archaic adverbs etc.), borrowings, terms with non-precise meanings (the problem of indeterminacy), neologisms, euphemisms, vulgarisms, performative verbs, metaphors and religious elements, prepositional phrases, time expressions, compound nouns and the problems connected with nominalization, false cognates which cause major misunderstandings, and finally methods of providing translation equivalents. The problem of ambivalence is analysed as well. The problems connected with the Polish-English and English-Polish translation of the texts belonging to the following legal genres are examined : university diplomas and certificates, statutes, judgments, law reports, powers of attorney, petitions, contracts and deeds, testaments, birth, death and marriage certificates, and popular fiction.
07/2007
Philosophie
Phenomenological Realism
The phenomenology of Edmund Husserl is being analyzed in regard to its ontological implications. It is demonstrated that Husserl's method of reduction directly leads to an ontological idealism for which there is no epistemological justification. An alternative to this "idealistic" misunderstanding of the phenomenological approach is being developed in applying Heidegger's existential analysis to questions of epistemology and transcendental philosophy. It is thus shown that phenomenology may be established on safer grounds : not on the basis of a pure transcendental subject, but on life-world understood in the realistic sense of transcending the ego.
12/1986
Linguistique
Revue de littérature comparée N°1-2023
Jean Boutan, De Don Juan à Kasperl : le devenir populaire d'un mythe européen dans le théâtre de marionnettes en Europe centrale François Géal, Quelques réflexions sur trois traductions françaises de "La casada infiel" de Federico García Lorca (Romancero gitano, n° 6) Milos Zelenka, Paul Van Tieghem et son contexte tchèque (Sur les rapports des littératures comparées française et tchèque dans l'entre-deux-guerres) Sonja Stojmenska-Elzeser, Comparative Research of Slavic Intercultural Community in North Macedonia Jonathan Locke Hart, J. Hillis Miller : The Theorist as Reader and Rhetorical Critic Ya-hui Chang, Is Chinese Theory in Europe Analogous to French Theory in America ? In memoriam Michel Cadot
05/2023
Histoire de France
The External Relations of the European Union
The book analyses the attitudes of non-EU countries towards European integration in historical and contemporary perspectives. The authors study a range of actors in Europe and beyond to explain the impact of the creation of the European Communities on the international system and how the EU is perceived in the world. The book further shows the significance of the institutional interplay within the EU, and between EU institutions, member states and external actors led by their own internal dynamics to explain policy outcomes. It investigates to what extent the perceptions of the international community towards the European Communities and the EU have been influenced by the complexity of their decision-making and the difficulty of reconciling the views of member states on key external relations issues. The authors also study the interplay of non-EU countries and the EU within the broader context of international and regional institutions and forums for international cooperation.
12/1987
12 ans et +
Horizons
Parti à la recherche de son père, un éminent physicien disparu dans des circonstances mystérieuses, Jacob se retrouve malgré lui dans un univers parallèle. En dehors de l'espace futuriste d'une cité secrète, les avancées techniques y sont interdites ; les habitants vivent à l'époque médiévale. Dans ce monde archaïque divisé par des lois oppressives, deux camps adverses s'affrontent pour leur survie. La famine menace, la révolte gronde. La folie des hommes serait-elle seule responsable ? Que dissimule l'infranchissable chaîne de montagnes qui barre l'horizon ?
06/2018
Littérature française
Horizons
Horizons est un parfait livre de plage - au moins de plaine -, à lire face à l'horizon. Par le truchement de trois points de vue sur une même question, une même énigme, vous naviguerez, de phrase en phrase, de page en page, de personnage en personnage, vers ce même point insaisissable. Ce roman se lit comme un ruisseau, à l'eau douce, rafraîchissante, chatoyante, mais toujours fuyante, vers la mer, vers l'horizon. Pour le dire autrement : il fait sensation.
11/2022
Littérature française
Horizons
Horizons est explosion de couleurs temporelles, Ivoire parchemin de régénérescence à la Gloire Solaire, d'Histoires Nouvelles vogue l'ironie, les germes du futur, Histoire en devenir, l'Amour, la Nature et leurs fresques, Orbes signe l'espoir par delà les
02/2022
Non classé
Chronobiology & Chronomedicine- Basic Research and Applications
The time structure of living systems, which rules the autonomous temporal order of organisms as well as their coherence with the outer environment, has aroused considerable attention in biology and medicine since 1937, when a few European scientists gathered to establish this new field of research. This volume contains the Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Chronobiology, held in Marburg in 1986. It mirrors the great advances of chronobiology and chronomedicine in theory and practice up to the present. Distinguished scientists from European and other countries report on recent results in basic research and medical applications.
06/1987
Sciences politiques
European Union Foreign Policy and the Global Climate Regime
Ever since the first international negotiations on climate change in the early 1990s, the European Union has aspired to play a leading role in global climate politics. This book engages in a longitudinal analysis of the EU's participation in and impact on the United Nations climate regime. It provides not only comprehensive insights into the evolution of EU foreign climate policy, but also a thought-provoking audit of the potential and limits of the EU's influence in a major domain of global affairs.
03/1993
BD tout public
The 5000-year-long civilizationcomic-4 (manga en chinois)
This book is based on the 5, 000-year-long civilization, which is written in comics. It depicts many cute and individual figures in this book, which shows the evolution process of Chinese history. It is written in a humorous and interesting style with funny dialogues. Readers will learn history and have fun at the same time.
01/2012
Histoire de l'art
Paris Moderne, 1914-1945. Art - Design - Architecture - Photography - Literature - Cinema - Fashion
Whether at peace or at war, Paris during the first half of the twentieth century pulsated with frenzied energy. Creatives from across Europe flocked to the French capital where they had free rein to experiment with innovative forms of expression. Inspired by the challenge made possible through technological advances and market expectations, members from every artistic discipline-art, design, architecture, photography, fashion, and cinema-forged the new face of this resolutely modern city. A kaleidoscopic portrait of this exhilarating artistic surge is documented here in dictionary form, through biographical profiles of nearly one hundred leading creators, including Josephine Baker, Coco Chanel, Le Corbusier, Tamara de Lempicka, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Man Ray, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé, Helena Rubinstein, and Gertrude Stein. The richly illustrated volume is completed with a photographic journal of Paris today by Antonio Martinelli, retracing the incredible architectural and urban landscape that still bears the hallmarks of this wildly prodigious period. J-L. C. , G. M. J.
09/2023
Art contemporain
LiFang. Edition bilingue français-anglais
Born in China in 1968 and living in France since 2001, Li Fang capture in her paintings the oscillations of the contemporary world. Although her work is figurative, her technique, which uses large flat areas of colour like blocks sculpted from pictorial matter, clearly forges a link with abstraction. This stylistic unity unfolds in a variety of series that reflect her life and our times : portraits of loved ones, scenes of swimming, anonymous urban crowds, resistance to Chinese censorship, the tragedy of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea... Despite being current or seemingly simple, her themes echo universal feelings : the loneliness of modern society, the choice of exile, the tenderness of childhood, the power of water or the vitality of bodies in nature. Whether light or profound, joyful or tragic, Li Fang's work is timeless and open-ended, and this first monograph reveals its full richness.
12/2023
Sciences politiques
An International Bibliography of Computer-Assisted Language Learning with Annotations in German
This bibliography is a sequel to volume I of the International Bibliography of Computer Assisted Language Learning compiled by the Senior Editor and published in 1988. The roughly 2000 entries mainly cover the period from 1987 to 1991. Together, the 3051 entries in volumes I and II constitute a fairly comprehensive picture of CALL around the world. This bibliography is not restricted to English as a first, second or foreign language. The articles indexed - some 600 of them have annotations in German - report on the teaching of Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Thai as target languages. A German and an English subject index help to locate entries.
09/1993
Droit
Intra-Group Arrangements under Articles 85 and 86 of the Treaty Establishing the European Economic Community
The theory of enterprise unity is of particular importance to multinational enterprises with many affiliates. The law pertaining to the relationship of the various entities within such a group has to address itself to a whole array of problems. The comparison of the approaches taken by the legal systems surveyed is concerned with the antitrust perspective as discernible from the enforcement practice. The possible application of the Competition Rules to such intra-group arrangements involves an examination of conspiratorial situations in which corporate personnel, agents, unincorporated divisions and incorporated subsidiaries as well as corporations owned by the same person(s) take part.
12/1984
Sociologie
Western European Integration in the 1980s
The Single European Act was formally approved by the European Council in February 1986. When Maastricht hit the headlines in the early 1990s, the Single European Act instantly became history. However, it was the Single Market programme - the main content of the Single European Act - and the years of preparation leading up to it which really gave new momentum to European integration after the "Eurosclerosis" of the 1970s. The process which led to the Single European Act was never publicly discussed. The architects and initiators of the Single Market have not become household names, however, it is these protagonists and their efforts which are the subject of this book. With information gathered from extensive interviews with key players and EC documentation, the author reviews the forces behind the acceleration of European integration.
10/1997
Normandie
Un village en France. Le Pas : une petite commune au Nord-Ouest de la France
Portrait d'un village situé au Nord-ouest de la France (en Mayenne, région des Pays de la Loire). Village présenté dans le dictionnaire de l'abbé Angot comme étant un " territoire boisé, sillonné par les vallons de deux affluents de la Varenne : l'Aversale et le Buron. Une voie ancienne, visible sur une notable partie du tracé de Loré à Gorron devait aborder le bourg. " Portrait of a village located in the North-west of France (in Mayenne, Loire country). Village presented in the dictionary of the abbot Angot as being a " wooded territory, crisscrossed by the valleys of two tributaries of the Varenne river : the Aversale and the Buron. An old road, visible on a notable part of the route from Loré to Gorron had to approach the village. "
03/2023
Sciences politiques
The European Union Transformed. Community Method and Institutional Evolution from the Schuman Plan to the Constitution for Europe
This book has established itself as one of the most concise and authoritative guides to the institutional development of the European Union. Covering the evolution from the original European Communities to the Constitution for Europe, Youri Devuyst introduces the reader to the divisions and dilemmas that have resulted in today's European Union. In doing so, the book provides much-needed clarification of the principles and practice behind the Union's institutions, decision-making and external relations. This knowledge is of crucial importance in grasping not just the Union's way of doing business but also the current debate on the future of the enlarged European Union and its new Constitution. Written in a clear and comprehensible style throughout, The European Union Transformed includes 20 topic-specific guides to further reading, making it the ideal source for all those who wish to understand the functioning of the European institutions.
11/1999
