Thomas Hoffmann Boeken

The paper examines the German government's response to the Fukushima disaster in 2011, highlighting the decision to shut down half of the country's nuclear power plants immediately and aim for a complete phase-out by 2022. It discusses the strategies implemented to compensate for the energy loss, focusing on the expansion of renewable energy sources such as solar collectors and windmills. The analysis reflects on the implications of this energy transition for Germany's energy landscape and sustainability efforts.

Preposition placement, the competition between preposition stranding (What is he talking about?) and pied-piping (About what is he talking?), is one of the most interesting areas of syntactic variation in English. This is the first book to investigate preposition placement across all types of clauses that license it, such as questions, exclamations and wh-clauses, and those which exhibit categorical stranding, such as non-wh relative clauses, comparatives, and passives. Drawing on over 100 authentic examples from both first-language (English) and second-language (Kenyan) data, it combines experimental and corpus-based approaches to provide a full grammatical account of preposition placement in both varieties of English. Although written within the usage-based construction grammar framework, the results are presented in theory-neutral terminology, making them accessible to researchers from all syntactic schools. This pioneering volume will be of interest not only to syntacticians, but also second language researchers and those working on variation in English.

This volume deals with the so-called new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their interrelationship with Muslims and the interpretation of Islam. This volume taps into what has been labelled Media Studies 2.0, which has been characterized by an intensified focus on everyday meanings and 'lay' users - in contrast to earlier emphases on experts or self-acclaimed experts. This lay adoption of ICT and the subsequent digital 'literacy' is not least noticeable among Muslim communities. According to some global estimates, one in ten internet users is a Muslim. This volume offers an ethnography of ICT in Muslim communities. The contributors to this volume also demonstrate a new kind of moderation with regard to more sweeping and avant-gardistic claims, which have characterized the study of ICT previously. This moderation has been combined with a keen attention to the empirical material but also deliberations on new quantitative and qualitative approaches to ICT, Muslims and Islam, for instance the digital challenges and changes wrought on the Qur'an, Islam's sacred scripture. 0As such this volume will also be relevant for people interested in the study of ICT and the blooming field of digital humanities. Scholars of Islam and the Islamic world have always be engaged and entangled in their object of study. The developments within ICT have also affected how scholars take part in and influence public Islamic and academic discussions. This complicated issue provides basis for a number of meta-reflexive studies in this volume. It will be essential for students and scholars within Islamic studies but will also be of interest for anthropologists, sociologists and others with a humanistic interest in ICT, religion and Islam

Currently, the most influential sociolinguistic model for the evolution of 'Post-Colonial Englishes' is the Dynamic Model. In this Element, I outline how Construction Grammar, the most prominent cognitive syntactic theory, can provide a cognitive foundation for the assumptions made by the Dynamic Model.

Investigates the change and evolution of a fascinating English construction - comparative correlatives (e.g. the more you eat, the fatter you get). This book will appeal to scholars and advanced students in English linguistics, grammar, syntax, and the history of the English language.

Employing a state-of-the-art cognitive approach, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of English morphology and syntax, looking at how children acquire language, as well as how we can account for language variation and change. It is essential reading for undergraduate linguistics students.

What a lot of people do not feel well although their doctors repeatedly attest that everything is in order! What a lot of people are ill although medical science is proclaiming greater and greater successes and more and more alternative healing methods are coming on to the market! The impression we inevitably have is that something fundamental is lacking or going wrong. In easy to understand language and a compelling style, this book develops an entirely new understanding of health, at the same time showing how we can also achieve this “true health.” It not only provides information with the help of case studies but above all motivates and gives concrete advice so that everyone can discover the missing fundamental elements for themselves and develop them.

Is our today’s world actually still worth living in? Isn’t everything overshadowed by worries, problems and difficulties? Do you often wonder how everything is supposed to keep on going? The euro, the EU, refugees, demonstrations, terror, the economy, the environment, health, pensions, etc, etc, etc … Things are coming to a head everywhere, everything is getting more and more complicated and difficult and there are no solutions or ways out in sight. The fear of a collapse or even a war is growing. Where will it all lead to? If you have such concerns, you should read this book, not because it will distract you from the problems but because it presents a practical solution – and, above all, because it gives you a clear idea of what your everyday life might look like concretely if a few things are changed. Join us on the journey to a better world and return with a vision which is absolutely tangible and can be implemented with just a certain amount of concerted commitment.

Der Autor konfrontiert eine schwere Krankheit und entscheidet sich entgegen aller Prognosen, aktiv zu leben. Er erfüllt sich den Traum, am Finnmarkslopet, einem der härtesten Schlittenhunderennen der Welt, teilzunehmen. In einem eindrucksvollen Bericht beschreibt er die 1000 Kilometer durch Eis und Einsamkeit, wo er sich unermüdlich den Naturgewalten stellt. Diese Reise wird zum Weg zu neuen Horizonten, während er seine physischen und psychischen Grenzen neu definiert und die Kraft des Lebens in der extremen Umgebung entdeckt.

Im Mainstream der gegenwärtigen Moralphilosophie bleibt es letztlich rätselhaft, weshalb Menschen danach streben sollten, Gutes zu tun und gut zu sein. Es wird nämlich nicht mehr verstanden, wie Moral und praktische Rationalität die Natur des Menschen ausmachen können, weil nicht mehr verstanden wird, wie Natur etwas anderes sein könnte als die bloss naturwissenschaftlich beschreibbare Natur. Zudem wird die praktische Rationalität des Menschen lediglich als instrumentelle Rationalität aufgefasst, die bloss die geschickte Verwirklichung beliebiger subjektiver Ziele ist. Dabei scheint die Qualität, die sie für Menschen im Allgemeinen haben, keineRolle zu spielen. Damit einher geht die nonkognitivistische Auffassung, dass moralische Urteile nicht wahrheitsfähig sind und es demnach auch keine objektiv bestehenden moralischen Tatsachen geben kann, sondern bestenfalls intersubjektiven Konsens. All dies führt zu einem Bild von Moral und praktischer Rationalität, das ihrer Rolle im Leben von Menschen nicht gerecht wird. In Das Gute wird das alternative Bild eines hermeneutischen Naturalismus skizziert, der begreifbar macht, wie die Natur des Menschen das für ihn praktisch Gute und wie Moral natürlicherweise gut für Menschen sein kann.