Language: Reference and general Books

Black and Wiliam's (1998) influential article Inside the Black Box prompted an increasing interest in assessment processes within the classroom. However, to date most of this research has been done in general and science education. This book reports on a...

The development of smaller and more powerful computers and the introduction of new communication channels by the interlinking of computers, by the Internet and the World Wide Web, have caused great changes for linguistics. They affect the methods in the...

This book contains discussions of a broad range of issues of the relation between language and cognition, inspired mainly by recent developments in Cognitive Linguistics. The individual texts discuss, from various perspectives, conceptual strategies,...

This volume attempts to keep track of the most recent developments in corpus-based, corpus-driven and corpus-informed studies. It signals the widening scope and perspectives on language and computers by documenting new developments and explorations in...

Al centro di questo studio ci sono la comunità italica di Banzi, la colonia greca di Taranto ed i loro rispettivi statuti, incisi su bronzo nella prima metà del I secolo a. C. Si tratta dei più antichi statuti locali dell'Italia antica a noi pervenuti...

Dieser Sammelband enthält Beiträge der sprechwissenschaftlichen Fachtagung Interpersonelle Kommunikation - Analyse und Optimierung (7.-10.10.2010 in Halle). Die Beiträge befassen sich mit Forschungsstand, Forschungsfragen und Desiderata der Analyse und...

The last comprehensive study of the motives for studying German in Australia was conducted in the late 1980s. The main objective of this thesis is not only to fill the gap of recent data but at the same time to analyse the new data in the context of...

The volume offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the phenomenon of migration and mobility in the modern globalised world and their impact on multiple aspects of culture and communication. Contributors, who are literary scholars, linguists and...

Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit der Sprachwahl in der deutsch-russischen Unternehmenskommunikation. Sie basiert auf schriftlichen und mündlichen Umfragen bei deutschen und russischen Unternehmen sowie bei deutschen wirtschaftsfördernden Institutionen wie...

An Fallstudien sprachlichen Transfers ins Finnische, Lettische, Litauische und Isländische werden Aspekte sprachlicher Normierungstätigkeiten aufgezeigt. Die aus einer soziolinguistischen Konferenz zu dem Thema ausgewählten Beiträge haben nicht die...

This book, which gathers seventeen contributions, investigates some lexical and textual aspects in the 'sacred texts' - like the Bible in its several textual traditions, and the Qur'ān -, particulary those elements that serve to provide the textual...

This book treats various areas of the phonetics, orthography, morphology, syntax, and lexica of artificial languages in an effort to determine what features such languages have in common, and how they differ. Among the topics dealt with are affricates,...

This publication was awarded the Jacqueline Ross TOEFL Dissertation Award in 2009. Since its publication in 2001, the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) has been the most frequently-cited performance standard in language testing in Europe. To...

It is one of the basic tenets in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology that language is not only situated in but also shaped by the social and cultural environment in which it is used. This volume seeks to explore the interface of society, culture...

Do loanword adaptations apply on a phonological or a phonetic level? This study addresses this issue by investigating the adaptation of German and French loanwords and proper names with front rounded vowels into Japanese. The adaptation forms of front...

The volume brings together up-to-date contributions on translation and accessibility, with a major focus on audiovisual texts, their translations and receivers across languages and cultures. Featuring studies of dubbing, interlingual subtitling,...

Different national varieties of Spanish, for instance Argentinian, Colombian and Mexican, use different address systems, with different numbers of pronouns, and also give pronouns a different social significance. For the first time, this study discusses...

Die Überlieferung der deutschen Sprache zeugt seit ihren Anfängen im 8. Jahrhundert von einem intensiven und anhaltenden Kontakt mit den Sprachen in ihrer Nachbarschaft. Umgekehrt hat auch das Deutsche im Laufe seiner Geschichte mehr oder weniger starke...

This book provides the first systematic description of the linguistic accommodation of Moravian migrants in Bohemia. By analyzing the linguistic behaviour of 39 university students from different parts of Moravia living at a hall of residence in Prague,...

This volume ranges widely - even wildly - over many speech and language disciplines and typologically diverse languages, demonstrating that the search for regularities traditionally at the forefront of linguistic work cannot afford to ignore close...