Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft (365 Artikel)

""Art"" is not the first topic that comes to mind when thinking of Paul Auster's novels and films. ""Solitude"", ""emptiness"", ""loss"" and ""desperation"" are more likely to suit the reader's exp...

This study focusses on Byron's largely disregarded career as a playwright and establishes Shakespeare as an important influence on his plays. This brings them closer to stage representa-tion althou...

The essays collected in this volume represent a selection of publications on binomials and multinomials by Hans Sauer (1946-2022), professor emeritus of English Philology at the University of Munic...

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is one of the most popular works of fiction of the twentieth century and beyond. It has been sold over 100 million times in different countries around the w...

If asked about which writer they associate with Anglophone literature, most students might come up with William Shakespeare, who has also become an integral part of British cultural identity. As a ...

'An Epistle of Noble Poetrye' is a late-fifteenth-century English translation of Christine de Pizan's 'L'Epistre d'Othéa' (ca. 1400). The 'Epistle' survives in London, British Library, MS Harley 83...

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...

Silvia Granata graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures in 2002. After attending an MA at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York, she received a PhD at the University o...

Lisa Freigang 'There Was No Looking Away' Representations of Post-Partition Communal Violence in Indian English Literature ISBN 978-3-86821-952-4 The partition of the Indian subcontinent into the s...

This study is concerned with the continuity between the Romantic conception of nature and contemporary Euro-American environmental discourses and literary practices. More specifically, it examines ...

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...

Eusebio V. Llácer Llorca has published several works on Poe's short stories and his research interests cover Literatures, Linguistics and Translation. Currently, he teaches North American Literatur...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- NUMERALS -- NATURE -- FISH -- BIRDS -- PLANTS -- BODY -- SPIRIT, GAMES -- HUMAN RELATIONS -- MAN-MADE THINGS -- QUALITIES -- PRONOUNS, ADVERBS, GREETINGS -- INFLECTED FORM...

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...

The book presents a systematic theoretical account of the fundamental constructional mechanisms that underlie deverbal nominalization in general, and it makes an original descriptive contribution b...

A Grammar of Bunaq

A Grammar of Eton is the first description of the Cameroonian Bantu language Eton. It is also one of the few complete descriptions of a North-western Bantu language. The complex tonology of Eton is...

Gaagudju is a previously undescribed and now nearly extinct language of northern Australia. This grammar provides an overall description of the language. Australian languages generally show a high ...

The late fifteenth-century Middle English manuscript Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29 contains a universal history of the world, which begins with the creation and covers large swathes of biblical an...

An Unclassified Language of Guizhou

Whatever kind of high-level language user you are - university student, serving language teacher, or advanced school learner - A Student's Advanced Grammar of English (SAGE) offers you support, inf...

This dictionary provides a valency description of English verbs, nouns and adjectives. Each entry contains a comprehensive list of the complementation patterns identified on the basis of the larges...

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In diesem Buch geht es um die Entstehung eines scheinbar bloßen Kuscheltiers. Im Verlauf der Geschichte entwickelt er sich zu einem besten Freund und vor allem festen Familienmitglied. Alpaky beric...

In diesem Buch geht es um die Entstehung eines scheinbar bloßen Kuscheltiers. Im Verlauf der Geschichte entwickelt er sich zu einem besten Freund und vor allem festen Familienmitglied. Alpaky beric...

Frontmatter -- INHALTSVERZEICHNIS -- VORWORT -- VERZEICHNIS DER ABKÜRZUNGEN UND ZEICHEN -- VERZEICHNIS DER TEXTE. VERZEICHNIS DER TABELLEN -- 1. EINFÜHRUNG -- 2. GRAPHEME UND PHONEME -- 3. MORPHOLO...

Inclusion and Exclusion in US Culture

'American English Pronunciation: A Drillbook' is designed to accompany lecture courses on American English phonetics and language laboratory classes in American English pronunciation at university ...

Christopher F. Laferl und Bernhard Pöll, Universität Salzburg, Österreich.

Frontmatter -- Chapter I. General Problems. Words, Words, Words -- Chapter II. The Linguistic Sign. What's in a Word? -- Chapter III. The Internal Structure of Words. Word-Formation, Features, and ...

A Study of English Neologisms and Occasionalisms

A Study of English Neologisms and Occasionalisms

Linguistic Features, Experiential and Functional Dimensions of Online and Scripted Interactions

Das Buch liefert eine grundlegende Einführung in die Theorien der maßgeblichen Begründer der 'New Rhetoric', vertreten durch Ivor A. Richards, die Vertreter der Allgemeinen Semantik, Richard M. Wea...

Current research within the framework of Construction Grammar (CxG) has mainly adopted a theoretical or descriptive approach, neglecting the more applied perspective and especially the question of ...

The book is the first corpus-based study giving a comprehensive overview of English items which have been used as adverbial connectors ('conjuncts', 'linking adverbials'), from Old English to Prese...

A Constructionalist Perspective

As vozes da luz é primeiro livro da série filhos da luz cuja temática principal é a religiosa e as relações entre as pessoas. Tem o objetivo de informar, refletir, questionar valores e nos colocar ...

Associated Motion

The beginning of the 21st century saw the rise of "New" Atheism and a resulting conflict with Theists - at the same time as the resurgence of fantasy in popular culture. This volume analyses the im...

Jing Huang received his PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Hong Kong. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Education Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. His researc...

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

This book calls for an investigation of the >borderlands of narrativity< -- the complex and culturally productive area where the symbolic form of narrative meets other symbolic logics, such as data...

Towards a Typology of Complex Lexemes

Romanticism - an era of rebellion, of overreachers revolting against previous generations' conventions of taste, style and morals. Romantics made transgression their badge of honour and prided them...

"White trash" is a liminal figure that dramatizes the intersection of race and class. Contemporary British novelists like Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths and John King use this originally US-American...

Ex Oriente Lux - aus dem Osten kommt das Licht. Aber die Welt ist rund. Wenn man immer weiter nach Osten geht, kommt man schließlich wieder zu den abendländischen Ursprüngen zurück, die unser Denke...

»Camp Comforts« investigates the wide-ranging impact of camp on AIDS literature and places this impact within two different traditions of camp analysis: a politically subversive one that aims at so...

Exemption and the American Campus Novel

This volume pays homage to Monika Seidl, a key figure of cultural studies at the University of Vienna's Department of English and American Studies and spotlights her many achievements in the field....

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...

Systemic Functional Perspectives

This book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging new structural and discoursal characteristics of ...

Gerald Morgan was formerly a Senior Lecturer and Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. His publications include (2005) and (Peter Lang, 2010).

Although Chaucer's 'Boece' has been edited many times, this is the first edition to offer not only a critical text but also collations with all extant medieval and late-medieval authorities and als...

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 guiding question of this study is how the theme of knowledge is realized in the genre of fantasy. Drawing from the research fields of literature and knowledge, theory of fantasy, narratology, a...

Using the theoretical frameworks of Freud, Todorov, and Bahktin, this book explores how American writers of the late 20th century have translated the psychoanalytical concept of »the uncanny« into ...

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...

Climate Change and Writing the Canadian Arctic

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...

Common Ground in First Language and Intercultural Interaction

While much attention has been devoted to simple nominal relators, especially prepositions and case markers, complex nominal relators have not yet been the focus of a systematic and cross-linguistic...

Renaat Declerck is Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Susan Reed is Assistant Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

Conjunctions and Other Parts of Speech

This collection of articles brings together new research from both established and emerging international experts in the study of English grammar, all of whom have engaged with the notion of 'const...

In what ways are language, cognition and perception interrelated? Do they influence each other? This book casts a fresh light on these questions by putting individual speakers' cognitive contexts, ...

How to Do Things with Memoir

Borders, Networks, Escape Lines

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

Freundschaft, chaos und andere Katastrophen, Roadtrip. Der weg einer Freundschaft über 14 Jahre hinweg,

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...

This book analyzes the form and function of the English passive from a verb-based point of view. It takes the position that the various surface forms of the passive (with or without thematic subjec...

Dystopian fiction is booming. Booksellers can barely make enough room for all the works of 'young adult' dystopian fiction being published, and 'adult' dystopias continue to dominate the bestseller...

Habt ihr Zeit für eine Geschichte, in der die Zeit selbst eine große Rolle spielt? Ich frage mich nämlich, ob man Zeit verlieren kann wie einen Hut. Kann man sie gewinnen wie einen Pokal? Und kann ...

Der mittelalterliche Gelehrte Alkuin von York verdankt seinen Bekanntheitsgrad in der Neuzeit vor allem, dass er lange Zeit als wichtigster Berater Karls des Großen galt. Während des Mittelalters w...

Als Jack und seine Freunde durch ein Seeungeheuer getrennt werden, müssen er und seine Freunde sich mit den Fischkriegern zusammenschließen, um wieder zueinander zu finden und einen gemeinsamen, Ja...

Als Jack und seine Freunde durch ein Seeungeheuer getrennt werden, müssen er und seine Freunde sich mit den Fischkriegern zusammenschließen, um wieder zueinander zu finden und einen gemeinsamen, Ja...

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...

The book deals with the development of descriptive models of English grammar writing during the Early Modern English period. For the first time, morphology and syntax as presented in Early Modern E...

What factors influence the choice between alternative grammatical structures such as the following: a lit / a lighted cigarette, more full / fuller of convincing arguments, the main thesis of the b...

Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence in Local ELT

Developing Translanguaging Repertoires in Critical Teacher Education

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...

Was ist ein Dandy? Während die klassischen l'homme et l'oeuvre-Ansätze die Figur des Dandys als Amalgam von Autorintention, Werk und Leben sehen, wird hier der Versuch unternommen, den Dandy mit ak...

Die Chronologie von Emily Brontës «Wuthering Heights»

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...

'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...

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

Die frühesten Übersetzungen aus dem Englischen ins Französische sind bisher Gegenstand nur weniger Studien geworden, die überwiegend älteren Datums sind. In diesem Band werden Strategien und Verfah...

Robin Hood, Little John und der Sheriff von Nottingham. Wer kennt sie nicht, diese Namen und ihre Geschichten? Seit Robin Hood 1370 zum ersten Mal literarische Erwähnung fand, wurden seine Abenteue...

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...

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...

During the past twenty-five years, ecocriticism has become an increasingly prolific field of study. Broadly speaking, ecocriticism examines historically variable concepts of nature, environments an...

Catherine Resche is a full-time Professor of English for economics at Panthéon-Assas-Paris 2 University. A member of CELTA (Centre de Linguistique théorique et appliquée) at the Sorbonne (Paris IV)...

Wer ist Rubbeldiduck? Rubbeldiduck ist ein junger Enterich, der mutig in die Welt hinausgeht und sich entschieden hat, der größte Ritter im ganzen Land zu werden. Diese wunderschöne Gutenachtgeschi...

Amerika in allen Facetten. Von den Pilgrim Fathers bis zu Desperate Housewives, von kolonialen Reiseberichten bis zur 9/11-Literatur: Die Einführung gibt einen umfassenden und systematischen Überbl...