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Dickinson, G. Lowes: The Development of Parliament During the Nineteenth Century. 2005

Dickinson, G. Lowes. The Development of Parliament During the Nineteenth Century. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895. viii, 183, 24 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584774945; ISBN-10: 1584774940. Cloth. New. * Considered "a brilliant essay on parliamentary reform" by Lunt, this study examines Parliament's gradual democratization of Parliament through the passage of the Reform Bills of 1832, 1867 and 1884, which expanded male suffrage, and other related acts. This historical account is then used to frame "one of the most important questions to which that process has given rise--the question of the competence of a democratic House of Commons to direct to a satisfactory issue the socialistic tendencies of the future.": Preface, [iii]. A remarkable study, it forecast the Labor Party's prominence during the twentieth century. Lunt, History of England 912 cited Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 209.

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Crompton, Peter: Theme in Text Weighing the Evidence, VDM VERLAG DR. MÜLLER, , Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3639132157
A distinctive and controversial feature ofSystemic-Functional Grammar, as theorised by MichaelHalliday, has been its analysis of formal units intoTheme and Rheme. It has been argued that the functionof sentence Themes is to expound the organisingprinciple, or 'method of development,' of a text ortext-segment. This book reviews that claim and setsout to test it empirically by examining sentenceThemes in a corpus of 80 short argumentative texts byauthors of four differing levels of linguistic andrhetorical competence. Evidence for semanticpatterning in Theme is considered and compared withevidence for comparable patterning in Rheme andSubject. The research also investigates interactionbetween Theme and other formal features of textassociated with discourse organisation, such asdefiniteness, lexical cohesion, retrospectivelabelling, prospection, and adverbial clauses withextended discourse scope. The author concludes thereis little evidence that Theme has a privileged rolein expounding text structure. The book will appeal tothose interested in functional theories of grammar,corpus-based approaches to written text analysis, andcomposition instruction.

NEUBUCH! 2009. 248 S.

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Wössner, Stephanie: Linguistics and Teaching, GRIN VERLAG, Oktober 2009, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3640442199
Grammar is what has always made English a school subject. (Lewis,1993: iii) - Jimmie Hill's opinion on English as a school subject is one of the simplest put but most accurate views I have ever come across so far. In this short phrase lies far more than one would imagine at first sight. Its explicit message is, of course, that grammar is a feature of great value for a student learning English and I would never contradict that. However, reading and thinking about this short sentence one comes to understand that there must be far more than that to really be able to communicate in English. In his list of principles Michael Lewis puts it as follows: Successful language is a wider concept than accurate language. (Lewis, 1993: vi)That means that in order to communicate not only grammatical competence is required but that there are other factors which need to be considered when teaching English. A student learning a great amount of grammar will not be able to communicate in English if he isn't, for instance, able to communicate at all, no matter if in his mother tongue or in the language he is newly acquiring because socio - linguistic competence - communcative power - precedes and is the basis, not the product of grammatical competence. (Lewis, 1993: vii) As a consequence, a teacher of English (for Germans) can't only teach grammar to his students and expect them to be able to fluently and correctly speak English but he or she (I will in the following stick to the masculine form only) is also obliged to keep in mind various long - term aims which cannot be checked on in the form of a test or an essay. Here arises the question about what a teacher of English might want to know about linguistics in order to provide students with the best conditions for successfully communicating in English especially outside the classroom situation. In which way and to what extent should a teacher make use of his linguistic knowledge though Should students be made familiar with linguistic theories Will it be sufficient if a teacher is aware of these theories and lets them slip into his teaching in class on a secondary basis Or should he just forget about linguistics at all because it is too complicated a field to be used in teaching English to high school students

NEUBUCH! 2009. 28 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 2 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V1567

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Nicoletti, Luigi: Paper Local Government and Civil Society from Cooperation to Co-Participation, GRIN VERLAG, Oktober 2009, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3640452259
Peace Culture... where who what and How They are only some questions that it needs I handed for really beginning to walk in this path.Reading two resolutions of the General Assembly of United Nation ('53/243 A. Declaration culture of Peace' and 59/143. International Decade Cultures of Peace and Not-Violence for the Children of the world, 2001-2010) we notice that the centre of such articles and resolutions it is the human being. We understand therefore that the level from which to depart for transforming the diffused one and as many brutal Cultures of War in Cultures of Peace is that individual. To this point it must quickly be underlined as in the actual International law also proposed by the United Nation System, the principal guarantor of the human integrity it is the government institution, therefore for this we have to insert as second level whether to intervene that community, in this case government but also his Local government. Considered that the government level is not a lot receptive in this field, and that the claims of the individuals and the different forms of community are not often listened (in the reality) we meet therefore the necessity to put an inferior level to the institutions government able to influence the choices of States through numerous inputs and at the same time to develop the guardianship of the human integrity through also a constant interaction with the civil society. These institutions can be seen as the corporate body of local government, institutions that are not only reproductions to local level of the government system and that they are legitimated by this same, but these also have the important characteristic to be on direct contact with the civil society, building continuous points of dialogue with it, to have an action more effective on the territory of competence (and not only) in order to promote the Culture of Peace. There is besides to say that very often such local government, don't follow a political ideology dictated by parties, but contrarily they create coalitions with the purpose to directly satisfy the needs of the citizens and the communities and equally they are organized in international networks to follow these goals.

NEUBUCH! 2009. 32 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 2 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V136645

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