Language teaching & learning Books

Die Beiträge des Bandes thematisieren die Förderung interkultureller Kompetenzen, den Medieneinsatz beim Fremdsprachenlehren und -lernen, die Zielgruppe der Herkunftssprecher*innen, die Nutzung von Erschließungsstrategien, den Sprachtransfer und die...

Das Arzt-Patient-Gespräch wurde als das Herz der Medizin bezeichnet. Unbestritten ist die Bedeutung für die Gesundung und das Wohlbefinden der Patientinnen und Patienten, aber auch der Ärztinnen und Ärzte selbst. Wie viel wissen wir über...

Este volumen se centra en el tema de la fraseología y consta de dos apartados. En el primero se exponen cuestiones de morfosintaxis y un balance sobre el estudio de las colocaciones, principalmente del español. La inclusión o exclusión de las...

This book offers a concise introduction to synchronic English linguistics. Following an introduction to language and linguistics as such, it provides detailed descriptions of the different language levels: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and...

This book provides an overview of basic syntactic categories, analytical methods and theoretical frameworks that are needed for a comprehensive and systematic description and analysis of the syntax of English as it is spoken and written today. It is...

Zwischen 1949 und 1960 ließ die US-Regierung neun Amerika Haus-Neubauten im unprätentiösen Stil der deutschen Nachkriegsmoderne für die Hauptstützpunkte der kulturpolitischen Informationsarbeit in der BRD errichten. Die fächerübergreifende Untersuchung...

Thema der Untersuchung ist der literarische Widerhall, welchen die arabische politische Rhetorik der ersten islamischen Jahrhunderte in der klassischen arabischen Literatur gefunden hat. Dafür ist ein Textkorpus erstellt worden, welches einen...

This work is a thorough investigation and comparison of intonational features of two varieties of English: the English spoken by speakers of educated Southern British English and the English spoken by native speakers of Finnish. The investigation is...

This book examines the early work of Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), writer, journalist and woman of letters. She became famous in the 1830s with her Illustrations of Political Economy, a series of 25 short novels popularizing the basic principles of...

This collection of new essays addresses a key debate in Irish studies. While it is important that new research endeavours to accommodate the new and powerful manifestations of Irishness that are evident today in our globalised economy, these...

This research focuses on the historical study of the third person pronouns ta and tamen in the past 100 years' history of Modern Written Chinese. Since the replacement of wenyan (classical literary Chinese) by baihua (written vernacular Chinese) as the...

A relevant question in modern legislative process is related to the effects of 'context' at different levels, within which legislative process takes place. The analysis conducted in the book demonstrates that it becomes possible to suggest alternative...

By using a unique combination of methods and tools, including sentiment analysis and usage fluctuation analysis, this book sheds light on the interplay between language and socio-economic dynamics, showing how the sentiment of specialized terms in the...

The essays collected here are responses to books of poetry and prose published during the transition period from the apartheid regime of the mid-1980s to the first democratic election in South Africa in 1994. The volume comprises a variety of texts...

The book brings together a rich variety of perspectives on abstracts as an academic genre. Drawing on genre analysis and corpus linguistics, the studies collected here combine attention to generic structure with emphasis on language variation and change,...

This book explores the interrelationship between Science, Religion and Literature in the Graeco-Roman world during the Imperial Period, and especially in Alexandria, situating it within the context of the long tradition of knowledge that had been...

Studies in LSP in Colombia began in the 1990's, mainly in the discipline of terminology. Since then, studies in translation, terminology, and LSP have spread out throughout the country. Many papers have been written since then in national and...

This study deals with the frequency and use of clausal complementation in the oral production of two different Spanish learner groups (i.e. Galician/Spanish learners and Spanish learners) as compared with a further learner group (i.e. German learners)...

The thirteen essays in this book, presented in honour of Dr A.V.C. (Carl) Schmidt, are designed to reflect the range of his interests. Dr Schmidt, who was a Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford from 1972 until his retirement in 2011, is best known for his...

Die Mittlere Deutsche Literatur zwischen 1400 und 1750 weist einen beträchtlichen Bestand an deutschsprachiger Rezeptionsliteratur auf, deren Vorlagen der antiken Literatur (griech. röm.), der Literatur Italiens, Frankreichs und Englands, vor allem aber...

This third volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English Poetry continues to explore the work of the Gawain-poet, Langland, Chaucer and Spenser. It also includes analysis of Beowulf, a direct ancestor of Sir Gawain and Piers Plowman, and...

This book discusses the three golden poets of the Golden Age of English poetry in the second half of the fourteenth century, concentrating in particular on Chaucer's response to Aristotelian moral philosophy.

This book is the first critical survey of the work of Éric Jourdan. Jourdan first came to public attention as a schoolboy in 1955, when he published Les Mauvais anges, a sulphorous novel of adolescent male-to-male love, which was banned by the censors in...

Il presente volume contiene una raccolta di saggi dedicati alla figura e all'opera di Piergiuseppe Scardigli (Altopascio 1933 - Firenze 2008), insigne docente di filologia germanica e geniale studioso del mondo germanico antico e medievale, apprezzato in...

This original and engaging study explores the way in which Colm Tóibín repeatedly identifies and disrupts the boundaries between personal and political or social histories in his fiction. Through this collapsing of boundaries, he examines the cost of...

This book examines the themes and narrative features in Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love. It deals with unresolved questions regarding asymmetrical intercultural relationships and the historical reasons for the present cultural conflicts. It also looks at...

Speech Acts and Politeness are among the main areas of interest in pragmatics. These communicative phenomena can be considered universal and at the same time language and culture-specific. It is this latter dimension that has been at the centre of recent...

The reader is taken on a journey to Dolpo, one of Nepal's remotest Tibetan enclaves with a large community that follow the Bon religion. The present ethnography regards the landscape of Dolpo as the temporary result of an ongoing cumulative cultural...

In the early modern period, there have been a vigorous debate in the public arena on the nature of women and their place in society. For instance, most women had been excluded from inheritance. The author of this work is shedding light on how the notion...

Investigating Specialized Discourse is a shortened and revised textbook edition of the monograph Specialized Discourse (2003). This book analyses the various features of specialized discourse in order to assess its degree of specificity and...

Johann Jakob Hemmer, Hofkaplan des pfälzischen Kurfürsten Carl Theodor in Mannheim, hat theologische Schriften aus dem Französischen übersetzt, sprachwissenschaftliche Arbeiten verfasst, Franklins Blitzableiter weiterentwickelt, physikalische und...

Gesamtsätze, ihre Strukturen und Funktionen wurden in der historischen Syntax des Deutschen bisher vernachlässigt. Ihre Behandlung ist das Ziel der neun Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes. Alle Arbeiten sind empirisch orientiert und berücksichtigen bisher noch...

Inspired by Frank Palmer's work, this book addresses a set of specific topics pertaining to the description of modality in English and places them in a broader context. A number of more general theoretical and typological matters are also raised, which...

In dieser Studie wird eine neue Definition des Begriffs 'Liedermacher' erarbeitet. Ausgangspunkt ist der Begriff 'Autoren-Lied', das sich klar von anderen Liedgattungen wie Volkslied und Kunstlied abgrenzt. Ein solches Verständnis von 'Liedermacher'...

Este volumen recoge una selección de las comunicaciones presentadas en el Congreso Internacional sobre Descortesía y violencia verbal en español, organizado por el Grupo de investigación Argumentación y persuasión en Lingüística en la Universidad de...

Bücher waren in den Gesellschaften des Nahen Ostens ein Medium der Wissensvermittlung und des intellektuellen Austausches, aber zugleich ein Teil der materiellen Kultur und bisweilen sogar Gegenstand der Verehrung. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes untersuchen...

Academic texts present subject-specific ideas within a subject-independent framework. This book accounts for the presence of academic words in academic writing by exploring recurring patterns of function in texts representing different subject areas. The...

Cet ouvrage explore les pratiques langagières et les représentations identitaires de citoyens mobiles dans l'espace européen. Ces migrants renvoient à un phénomène migratoire récent et très minoritaire. Leur identité est abordée à travers la...

By exploring the often hidden ideological agenda(s) of place branding, and analyzing the ways in which practitioners often marginalize, or ignore, local stakeholders on the ground, this volume of essays offers a fresh and topical perspective on an...

L'ouvrage est le premier à faire le point sur la littérature avec le numérique　: comment la lecture, l'écriture et l'étude des textes littéraires sont-elles influencées par les usages désormais ordinaires du numérique, que ce soit dans la sphère privée...

L'auteur propose une description syntaxique et sémantique des parémies au prisme d'outils linguistiques comme la généricité implicative, la médiativité, les matrices lexicales, rimiques et rythmiques, permettant d'établir les limites et les libertés des...

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