Putting Crisis in Perspective: Analyses of Past and Present Crises in Literature, Culture, and Foreign Language Teaching (Second Language Learning and Teaching)

Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
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The Crises of the Past
Pragmatic Play in Response to the Crisis in the “Magical World of the Ear” in Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and Its 1999 Film Adaptation
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The Clash of Divergent Political Strategies, Moral Categories and Literary Conventions in the Early Fifteenth Century Poetry: Mum and the Sothsegger as a Reflection of the Tensions Within the Crisis-Ridden Late Medieval Society
	1 The Fourteenth Century as the Age of Crisis
	2 Late Medieval Poverty Controversies
	3 Conflicting Views on Poverty and the Ambiguous Defense the Poor in Mum and the Sothsegger
	4 Conclusion
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The Crisis Appearing in the Construal of the Mediaeval Concepts of Truth, Soth and Faith in The Canterbury Tales with Their Contemporary Counterparts
	1 Introduction
	2 The Semantic Analysis of Trouthe
		2.1 The Link Between Trouthe and Love
		2.2 The Link Between Trouthe and Light
		2.3 The Link Between Trouthe and Wisdom
	3 The Semantic Analysis of Soth
	4 Faith as a Discourse Marker
	5 The Juxtaposition of ME and PDE Concepts of TRUTH, SOTH and FAITH
	6 Conclusions
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Present Crises
Different Shades of Crisis in Selected Advertising Messages
	1 Introduction
	2 Advertising—Selling Ideas and Selling Images
		2.1 Ads’ Categorisation by Purpose
		2.2 The Power of the Visual and the Multimodal in Ads
	3 The Sociocultural Impact of Ads Featuring the Theme of Crisis
	4 The Topic of Crisis in Selected Ads—Analysis
		4.1 Health Crisis
		4.2 Equality Crisis
		4.3 Environmental Crisis
		4.4 War-Related Crisis
	5 Conclusions
	References
Human and Space. Images of Conflict in the Levant Trilogy Project by Rita Leistner
	1 More Than a Thousand Words
	2 Pain Between the Nations
	3 The Neighbors
	4 Project: Into the Conflict
	5 Our Home Was Here
	6 Looking for the Shelter
	7 On the Other Side of the Wall
	8 Summary
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The Influence of the Feeling of Crisis and Anxiety on High School Students’ Oral Performance
	1 Introduction
	2 Research
		2.1 Research Questions
		2.2 Participants
		2.3 Research Instruments
		2.4 Research Procedure
		2.5 Research Results
		2.6 Research Discussion
		2.7 Limitations of the Research
	3 Conclusion
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Conclusion
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