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Der Verfasser würdigt die Bedeutung des Buchs "The Social Construction of Reality" von Berger und Luckmann anlässlich des 25. Jahrestags seines Erscheinens. Er betont vor allem die Bedeutung, die das Buch als Wegbereiter des symbolischen Interaktionismus, der Soziolinguistik, der Ethnomethodologie und des "interpretativen Paradigmas" generell hatte. Alfred Schütz' phänomenologische Analyse der Lebenswelt aufgreifend thematisierten Berger und Luckmann die Tatsache, dass Realität sozial konstruiert ist, und wiesen der Soziologie die Aufgabe zu zu untersuchen, wie dies geschieht. (ICE)

The traditional safety management approach is a control-oriented approach that seeks to direct and control workers to complete the expected company safety standards and regulations. This approach to safety management is partially compatible with the growing complexity of contemporary organisations. Therefore, a more comprehensive and modern approach to safety management is necessary, hence, the resilience management system. This study is part of a PhD programme. The study's objective was to establish the level of resilience capabilities of construction safety management systems (SMSs) in Ghana's construction industry. The targeted respondents were health and safety (HS) managers, managing directors, project managers, site engineers and construction managers of D1K1, D2K2, D3K3 and D4K4 construction companies. The list of 144 construction companies surveyed in this study was obtained from the Association of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors Ghana and deemed to be in good standing. The study used purposive sampling techniques to reach out to the respondents. Descriptive statistics, a one-sample t-test, a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and its post hoc test and the resilience analysis grid (RAG) were employed. The results revealed that out of the seven SMSs assessed, only "policy" measured up to the acceptable level of resilience, thus establishing that the entire safety management system (SMS) is not resilient. These findings have empirically established that SMSs in the Ghanaian construction industry are not resilient. The results further highlight the necessity for contractors and stakeholders to switch from a conventional safety management strategy to a more proactive safety management approach and to establish a customised method to a more robust safety management system.

On de-limiting context / Marina Terkourafi -- Constructions and context : when a construction constructs context / José Deulofeu and Jeanne-Marie Debaisieux -- Representing contextual factors in language change : between frames and constructions / Mirjam Fried -- Grammatical constructions in dialogue / Per Linell -- Interactional construction grammar : contextual features of determination in dialectal Swedish / Camilla Wide -- Contextual cues for particle placement : multiplicity, motivation, modeling / Bert Cappelle -- Conditionals and mental space set-up : evidence from German word order / Ilona Vandergriff -- Semantics and pragmatics in construction grammar : the case of modal verbs / Ronny Boogaart

International projects and other cross-border activity have become a common part of the European construction scene. As well as opportunities, this phenomenon brings challenges and risks. It has become vital for those working outside their own national boundaries to have some appreciation of the legal environment in which they are operating, not as a substitute for specialist legal advice, but as a basis for understanding. 00This book, prepared under the auspices of the 'European society of Construction Law', contains accounts of the law of twelve major European jurisdictions in Ưrelation to a range of construction matters. Some are general, such as standard form contracts and sub-contracting, and the respective obligations of employer and Ưcontractor. Others are specific aspects of contractual performance: the duty to warn, payment, subsoil conditions, delay and disruption and liquidated damages. Issues of liability and dispute resolution are also considered. 00The work offers students and practitioners the opportunity to make Ưcomparisons between different approaches to common construction law issues in the Ưjurisdictions represented. These are: Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Romania, France, Slovak Republic, Germany, Sweden, Greece, Switzerland, Italy and United Kingdom