Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft (552 Artikel)

'3e knowe ek that in forme of speche is chaunge Withinne a thousand 3eer, and wordes tho That hadden pris, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thenketh hem, and 3et thei spake hem so.' 'Ihr wisst ja: i...

Janna Müller hat an der Universität Göttingen Englische Philologie, Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte sowie Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft studiert. Sie war Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin...

Die amerikanische Ostküste - Didaktische Analysen für den Englischunterricht

Nadine Scherr schloss ihr Studium als Diplom-Übersetzerin für Englisch und Französisch am Fachbereich Translations-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft der Universität Mainz ab. Während ihres Studiums ...

The concept of the "human" has been broadly re-visited and modified, and the term "posthuman" has now become a term of continuous inquiry. Gender (representations) play(s) a critical role in works ...

'Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; - they are the life, the soul of reading'. So declared Laurence Sterne in his Tristram Shandy, the greatest of all monuments to digression. The modern...

Dimensions of Diffusion and Diversity

That English has no diminutives is a common myth. The present study shows, however, that English does possess diminutives, and not only analytic but also synthetic diminutive markers. Analytic mark...

The Author: Leszek Drong is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Silesia (Poland). His major publications include (Peter Lang 2001) and numerous essays concerned with subjectivity, a...

Im ersten Teil der Arbeit wird geklärt, was unter Diskursdeixis zu verstehen ist. Da Deixis und speziell Diskursdeixis meist im Zusammenhang mit dem Anaphorabegriff diskutiert werden, wird zunächst...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I. Childhood and Cambridge: The Conservative Background -- II. London, Early 1791: Towards Political Commitment -- III. France, 1792: ...

What determines whether we say She gave him a book instead of She gave a book to him? The author views this 'dative alternation' as a sociolinguistic variable and explores its distribution across d...

Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels, this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon (»DiverCity«). By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto, »What We All Long F...

Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Culture at Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University in Lublin. She is the author of a book study on Virginia Woolf's novels (200...

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