Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft (372 Artikel)

The Editors: G. F. Mitrano is the author of (2005). She works on the intersection of critical thought, literature, and the visual arts. She has taught at the University of Maryland in Europe, the U...

The History of English / Historical Outlines from Sound to Text

Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary...

Jörg Zorbach studied American Studies, Sociology, and Social Anthropology at the Universities of Mainz (Germany) and Canterbury (United Kingdom).

The Languages and Linguistics of Australia: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The volume provides a t...

This volume presents a selection of essays by established Italian and international scholars in the field of Romantic drama. It is divided into four main sections: 1) Dramatic Theory and Practice; ...

In South Korea, English is a language of utmost importance, sought with an unprecedented zeal as an indispensable commodity in education, business, popular culture, and national policy. This book i...

A Multimethod Perspective on Constructional Alternations

The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English (WAVE) presents grammatical variation in spontaneous spoken English, mapping 235 features in 48 varieties of English (traditional dialects, high-conta...

Language, Author and Context

The Author: Sabine Baltes studied English Language and Literature, Modern History, and Economics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, and at the University of Ulster at Coleraine / No...

The Phonology of Maaloula Aramaic

Vituperation, disparagement, and debasement seem to have become part of the mainstream discourse in contemporary US-American media culture. Zooming in on a distinct televisual comedy genre, Katja S...

Sabina D'Alessandro is a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Palermo (Italy). She was a Visiting PhD Student at the Royal Holloway, University of London in 2006 and obtained her PhD from t...

Irish English, while having been the focus of investigations on a variety of linguistic levels, reveals a dearth of research on the pragmatic level. In the present volume, this imbalance is address...