Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft (394 Artikel)

Diese Studie widmet sich dem kaum untersuchten Phänomen der frühen schriftstellerischen Profilbildung, das die literaturtheoretischen und literaturkritischen Diskurse der Gegenwart bisher nicht prä...

Dieses Buch erzählt die Geschichte der englischen Literatur des 20.Jahrhunderts im Blick auf das gesellschaftlich-politische und kulturelle Gesamtgeschehen. Aus der Fülle möglicher Perspektiven wäh...

Bis zur Mitte des 20. Jh. war das Englische eine von mehreren konkurrierenden Weltsprachen. Seitdem dominiert es als weltumspannende Lingua Franca in Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und zunehmend auch in ...

Das Shakespeare Jahrbuch ist eine der führenden Publikationen der internationalen Shakespeare-Forschung; es wendet sich aber nicht nur an Spezialisten. Es enthält deutsch- und englischsprachige wis...

(Verlag: Anja Kellermann)

Ayub Sheik is Professor in English Education at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. His scholarly predilections are poetry, academic literacy, decolonisation, and the supervision of...

Mit diesem ersten in Deutsch verfassten Walisischlehrbuch können sowohl Anfänger als auch Fortgeschrittene die moderne walisische Sprache systematisch und praxisorientiert erlernen bzw. vorhandene ...

This paper generally lends support to the arguments advanced by Awonusi (1989, 1990, 2004) and others in favour of an endornormative as opposed to an exonormative standard for English pronunciation...

The Phonology of Maaloula Aramaic

Diese Einführung skizziert Entwicklungslinien und Entwicklungsformen des amerikanischen Dramas von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Sie legt dabei den Schwerpunkt auf das 20. Jahrhundert. Die Studie...

Many students of English struggle with phonetic transcription. This book is intended as a companion for students from the start of their linguistic training up to graduate or postgraduate level whe...

Serving as an introduction to English morphology and word-formation, this book also tries to advance the state-of-the-art in this field. The author takes his readers gently through the basic notion...

Der Band vermittelt die Grundlagen der englischen Fachdidaktik und regt zur forschenden Auseinandersetzung mit den zentralen Herausforderungen des Englischunterrichts an. Die Kapitel befassen sich ...

Further Observations on the Tangled History of the English Language. Paperback

Do 'bad guys' in Hollywood movies necessarily speak 'broken' English? What happens when film characters switch between English, French, or even Serbian? Why does Hollywood show Mozart and his wife ...

How do educated English speak English? Does it sound like Oxford or rather like Cockney? Why did traditional pronunciation habits and criteria of acceptability change radically during the 20th cent...

Interpreting U.S. Public Diplomacy Speeches is an attempt to bring a methodical consideration of social context into the interpreter's approach to analyzing discourse. In this book, speeches delive...

This book explores how contemporary American novelists express the malaise and sense of contingency felt in the crisis-ridden historical present through two distinct tropes in their storytelling: h...

This study is an attempt at tracing and understanding Shakespearean intertextuality with the help of both qualitative and quantitative methods. The author looks for (near-)verbatim quotations of Sh...

Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Sicher im Studium

Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Sicher im Studium

Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Sicher im Studium

Sicher im Studium - perfekt vorbereitet auf die Prüfung: Die Reihe mit dem Grundlagenwissen sämtlicher Teildisziplinen des Studienfaches Anglistik - für die gezielte schnelle Vorbereitung auf Hochs...

This bilingual volume compares the various thematical and stylistical approaches of award-winning press articles in America and Germany. The presented materials are based on the International Repor...

Table of content: Introduction · Cognate object constructions: past and present · Basic tenets of cognitive linguistics · A cognitive linguistic description of COCs: general issues · Consulting the...

One of the most far-reaching changes that has been observed for the English language was its progressive transformation from a highly inflectional language to a more analytic one. As a case in poin...

Die in diesem Band zusammengestellten 35 Aufsätze aus 35 Jahren Forschung und Lehre sollen zum einen den Beitrag des Autors zur Begründung und Entwicklung der kulturwissenschaftlichen Dimension in ...

This book deals with the topic of English loanwords in the Japanese language. Anglicisms are a phenomenon in almost every language, but hardly anywhere are they as dominant as in Japanese. Due to s...

The book is a clear yet challenging overview of both the theoretical and the practical aspects of doing semantic research through the use of language corpora. Via a very hands-on approach it presen...

Der Aufstieg von Englisch als Lingua Franca gehört derzeit zweifellos zu den größtenHerausforderungen für DolmetscherInnen.Gründe dafür sind einerseits real erschwerte Arbeitsbedingungen, andererse...

Marion Schulte lehrt Englische Sprachwissenschaft an der Universität Bielefeld.

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christian Mair ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Englische Linguistik der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

Die Autorin: Ulrike Sköries, 1957 in Haiger geboren, studierte Anglistik und Germanistik in Marburg, Gießen und Frankfurt; 1998 Promotion. Forschungsschwerpunkte: funktionale Linguistik, Pragmatik.

The Contributors: Maria Dakowska, Larry Selinker, Beatrice Baumgartner-Cohen, Carol Kinahan, Eric Mathieu, Anatoly Dorodnych, Anita Fetzer, Benita von Heynitz, J. Tudor Morris, Karlheinz Hengst, In...

The Editor: Paul Neubauer has studied at the Universities of Munich and Regensburg, the University of Alberta at Edmonton, Canada, and Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee, USA, spent year...

The Editors: Peter Lucko studied English and German at Humboldt University, Berlin. He received his Dr. phil. in 1981 and his Dr. sc. phil. in 1987. Lothar Peter studied the same subjects at Humbol...

Der Autor: Professor Dr. Werner Welte lehrte seit 1979 Englische Sprachwissenschaft an der Universität Hamburg. Er verstarb am 17. September 1995. Wichtigste Buchveröffentlichungen: Moderne Linguis...

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 Editors: Wojciech H. Kalaga is Professor of Literary Theory and English Literature at the University of Silesia, Poland, Chair of the Department of Literary and Cultural Theory and Director of ...

The Author: Katarzyna Ancuta is Assistant Professor at the Institute of British and American Culture and Literature at the University of Silesia (Poland). A Gothicist by specialisation, her researc...

is a collection of essays featuring new scholarship in the field of medieval English philology in general and medieval English prose in particular, presented in honour of Tadao Kubouchi. Many of th...

The Editor: Raoul J. Granqvist is Professor of English Literature at Umeå University where he teaches English and postcolonial literatures with a special attention to the semiotics of space, gender...

This volume offers new research and thoughtful reflection on the subject of canonicity in Scottish literature, from the Romantic grand narratives of the 18th and 19th century to post-modernist deco...

The Editors: Angela Stock teaches at the English Department of the University of Bielefeld (Germany). Cornelia Stott is a freelance language teacher and translator in St. Albans (England).

The Author: Sabine Heinz, born in Berlin, studied Russian, English, and Celtic languages at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and obtained her Ph.D. in Translation theory there. She has since lectu...

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...

The Author: Rolf Kreyer, born in 1973, studied English Language and Literature, Mathematics and Pedagogy in Bonn and Lampeter (Wales). He holds the Chair of English Linguistics at the University of...

This book is written for students of English who are interested in the history of the language and would like to read an accessible but also comprehensive and reasonably detailed introduction. Apar...

David Woolley was born in Shanghai, China, 30 August 1924, and was educated in Japan and Australia. He first read in 1944, and has made a study ever since of the esteemed author's writings in prose...

Das Auenland war vor langer Zeit, und Narnia liegt nur hinter der richtigen magischen Pforte - sei es ein Kleiderschrank oder ein Wandbild. Zufällig ist in den Ländern der Magie nichts, ebenso weni...

The Author: Patrick Müller was born in 1975 and studied English Literature and Language, Philosophy, and German Language and Literature at the Universities of Münster and Edinburgh between 1996 and...

The honouree, Professor Hans Sauer, has held the Munich chair for English Linguistics and Medieval English Literature since 1997. His career gives evidence of his strong commitment to academic life...

Ralph Schucht wurde 1970 in Detmold geboren. Sein Studium in Anglistik und Philosophie absolvierte er in Hamburg und Aberdeen. Schon während des Studiums bildete sich der Schwerpunkt in Literatur u...

Markus Oppolzer holds a PhD from the University of Salzburg, where he is currently employed as a lecturer (Post-Doc) at the Department of English and American Studies, teaching British literature a...

Miriam Acartürk-Höß studierte Anglistik und Romanistik an der Universität Stuttgart und der University of Wales, Aberystwyth; ein Forschungs- und Arbeitsaufenthalt bei der Société Internationale de...

Dieter Petzold lehrte bis Ende 2007 englische Literatur an der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Er ist seit 12 Jahren Herausgeber des Inklings-Jahrbuchs und hat Bücher über die englische Nonsensliter...

Joanna Mstowska (PhD) is a lecturer in the Department of English at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru?. Her academic interests include British and American sea novels. She is also interested i...

Marta Koval teaches American literature and culture in the Institute of English and American Studies of University of Gda?sk (Poland). Her interests and publications cover contemporary American lit...

Birte Sause was born in Bremen. She studied English and Economics at the Universities of Oldenburg and Sunderland (UK). In 2003, she became a research fellow at the University of Oldenburg where sh...

This volume offers a survey of analyses of Gothic texts, including literary works, feature films, a TV serial, and video games, with a view to showing the evolution and expansion of the Gothic conv...

Katharina Glas received her PhD in English Language Teaching from the University Jena (Germany) and teaches English and Language Pedagogy at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile).

Miros?awa Buchholtz, Professor of English and Director of the English Department, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru? (Poland); author and editor of numerous publications on Henry James, postco...

Janusz Semrau teaches American literature at Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna? and at the Academy of Management in Warsaw. He is the author of various publications.

Melinda Veggian wurde in Aachen geboren. Für ihren Magisterabschluss an der RWTH Aachen wurde sie mit der Springorum-Denkmünze ausgezeichnet. Bereits im Rahmen ihrer Magisterarbeit befasste sie sic...

Liliana Sikorska, PhD in 1994, D. Litt in 1996; professor of English Literature; visiting scholar at the University of Florida, Brown University and the University of California Los Angeles, visiti...

Andrzej Kopcewicz (1934-2007) was the first of American literature in the history of English studies in Poland. For over thirty years, he was head of the first department of American literature in ...

Krzysztof Przygo?ski received his PhD at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna? and works currently at Pozna? University College of Business where he teaches EFL courses and lectures in linguistics...

On the occasion of Hermann J. Real's seventy-fifth birthday, this collection honours a scholar whose contagious curiosity has been dedicated to the study of Jonathan Swift's life and works for the ...

Alastair G.H. Walker studierte Germanistik und Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft an der Universitder Universität Reading, England. Er war viele Jahre Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Fach Friesische P...

Vor dem Hintergrund der bisher eher geringen Beachtung des Unterrichtsfachs Musik für ein integriertes Sachfach- und Fremdsprachenlernen (Content & Language Integrated Learning) untersucht diese Ar...

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

This book explores the many interdependencies and crossovers between living and writing, or, in more specific terms, between writers' lives on the one hand and their literary output on the other. T...

The author analyzes the multi-layered and multidimensional theme of identity construction recurring in Tony Harrison's work from the seventies onwards looking at the way it evolved throughout the y...

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit dem amerikanischen Dichter Ezra Pound, einem der wichtigsten Vertreter der literarischen Moderne. Seine epochalen Theorien des Imagismus und Vortizismus sind die Apize...

Conjunctions and Other Parts of Speech

Katrin Dauenhauer is a lecturer at the University of Bonn's North American Studies Program. Her research focuses on American politics and culture, international relations, and human rights.

Sabine Sielke is Chair of North American Literature and Culture and Director of the North American Studies Program and the German-Canadian Centre at the University of Bonn. Her research ranges from...

Language can be seen as a therapeutic tool to the visually impaired. The author explores the psycho-linguistic therapy «Touching the World» which is rooted within two areas. The mental one pivots o...

Ewa Jonsson is a researcher in English linguistics at Mid-Sweden University.

Systemic Functional Perspectives

Silvie Kruse studierte Englisch und Spanisch für das Lehramt an Gymnasien sowie Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache an den Universitäten Siegen und Southampton. Sie war wissenschaftliche Mitarbeite...

After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, terrorism as a literary theme has flourished in Australian literature. This book examines how terrorism as a theme has been represented in fiv...

Literary and cultural forays into the contemporary

Studies in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Grammatical Collocations of Verbs and Prepositions

A Sociophonetic Study

This edited volume seeks ways to present a unifying picture of TESOL policies and practices from different contexts in the broader Mediterranean basin and beyond. The book is divided into three maj...

Destruction in this Land

Die Chronologie von Emily Brontës «Wuthering Heights»

Beim Erlernen einer Fremdsprache im schulischen Kontext ist der Umgang mit Wörterbüchern relevant. Die Autorin untersucht die Verwendung von Online-Wörterbüchern in einem themengeleiteten und schül...

Die Autorin untersucht die Repräsentation der amerikanischen Ostküste in den Lehrwerken des fortgeschrittenen Englischunterrichts verlags- und schulartenübergreifend. Neben den Zielen und Inhalten ...

A Study in Their Semantics, Dialectology and Frequency

This book analyses certain ideologies which governed the middle class' hegemonic approach to leisure in Victorian Manchester. The study presents different forms of leisure, recreation and entertain...

Transculture, société et savoirs dans les Amériques

This book is mapping the fields of modern output-oriented teaching, intercultural learning, and drama methods in the foreign language class. It explains that drama-based language learning transcend...

Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence in Local ELT

The book explores a newly compiled corpus of American Gulf War captivity narratives, their claim to truth and their construction of identity and ideology, as well as concepts of heroism and anti-he...

Der durch Vorurteile, Gewohnheit und Erziehung sanktionierten Erniedrigung der Frau zu Unterwürfigkeit und Unwissenheit stellen die Moralischen Wochenschriften ihr auf humanistischem Gedankengut be...

Andrea Hammel is a Research Fellow at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies and Tutorial Fellow in German history and culture at the University of Sussex. Godela Weiss-Sussex is Senior Lecturer in M...

Burghard Baltrusch is senior lecturer in Lusophone and Translation Studies at the University of Vigo ( and collaborates with the GAELT research group (Studies in Literature and Translatology) and s...