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    The Event Structure Metaphor The Event Structure Metaphor
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    The Event Structure Metaphor

    This book is a further step towards a crosslinguistic generalization concerning the metaphor cluster called the Event Structure Metaphor (ESM). ESM may be a candidate for a metaphorical universal because of its universal experiential motivation. In ESM,...
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    Mora Obstruent Allomorphy in Sino-Japanese Morphemes Mora Obstruent Allomorphy in Sino-Japanese Morphemes
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    Mora Obstruent Allomorphy in Sino-Japanese Morphemes

    Modern Japanese exhibits apparently irregularallomorphic behaviour amongst a subset of bimoraic S[ino]-J[apanese] morphemes, those with a final mora in -/ki/, whenappearing as the initial morpheme in a SJ bimorphemic compound whosesecond morpheme is...
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    Virginia Woolf and Women in Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf and Women in Mrs Dalloway
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    Virginia Woolf and Women in Mrs Dalloway

    Virginia Woolf's works and extraordinary figure not only made her known and respected as one of the leading Modernists of her time, but she also proved to be an exciting challenge for Postmodern literature and art. Reinterpretations and adaptations of...
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    John Fowles' Individuality in "The Collector" John Fowles' Individuality in "The Collector"
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    John Fowles' Individuality in "The Collector"

    The present research paper may be an excellent guide for those readers who are interested in John Fowles' outstanding narrative techniques and unique view of life. His well-known book The Collector brings together two totally different world-views and...
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  • La sintaxis de los determinantes específicos y definidos La sintaxis de los determinantes específicos y definidos
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    La sintaxis de los determinantes específicos y definidos

    La sintaxis de los determinantes específicos y definidos es una monografía que estudia el resultado de la combinación de los dos rasgos de la identificación de referentes en español y en otras familias lingüísticas. Los lectores encontrarán una...
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  • Navigating Tapestry of Translation Studies in Tuerkiye Navigating Tapestry of Translation Studies in Tuerkiye
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    Navigating Tapestry of Translation Studies in Tuerkiye

    Embark on a journey into the dynamic world of Translation Studies in Türkiye with "Navigating Tapestry of Translation Studies in Türkiye." This compelling volume, curated by esteemed scholars, provides a comprehensive exploration of the evolving...
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  • Wiener Slawistischer Almanach Band 85/2020 Wiener Slawistischer Almanach Band 85/2020
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    Wiener Slawistischer Almanach Band 85/2020

    Der Band verfolgt das Ziel, die gegenüber der Holocaustforschung unzureichend berücksichtigten literarischen Auseinandersetzungen mit der Erfahrung von stalinistischem Terror, GULAG und autoritärer Herrschaft in Osteuropa in der internationalen Debatte...
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  • Vielfalt der Linguistik Vielfalt der Linguistik
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    Vielfalt der Linguistik

    Dieser Band enthält 17 wissenschaftliche Beiträge von jungen und etablierten Forscherinnen und Forschern zu mehreren Aspekten diachroner und synchroner Sprachwissenschaft. Eingegangen wird u.a. auf textlinguistische, onomastische und lexikologische...
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  • Sprachliche Unsicherheit in der Romania Sprachliche Unsicherheit in der Romania
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    Sprachliche Unsicherheit in der Romania

    Dieser Band beschreibt das Konzept der sprachlichen Unsicherheit bei spanisch-, französisch- und italienischsprachigen Sprechergruppen in der Romania. Die Beiträge des Sammelbandes bieten neue Anreize zur Definition, Methodik und Einbettung von...
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  • Défis et enjeux de la médiation interculturelle Défis et enjeux de la médiation interculturelle
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    Défis et enjeux de la médiation interculturelle

    Le caractère novateur de ce volume réside dans sa interdisciplinarité et sa plurilinguité : la linguistique, la traductologie, l'histoire et la littérature invitent à une réflexion sur la diversité culturelle, le plurilinguisme, la transculturalité et...
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    Formalization of Grammar in Slavic Languages

    This book assembles the contributions of the Eighth European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL VIII) which took place from 2nd to 5th December 2009 at the University of Potsdam. The concern was to bring together excellent...
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    Patterns of Linguistic Variation in American Legal English

    Translators, law students or legal professionals who begin to deal with legal language face a bewildering variety of legal writings. Even though legal language has been examined from a multitude of perspectives, there are virtually no studies explicitly...
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    How to Do Things with Texts

    The things we do with words are reflected in texts and we do things with texts just as we do things with words. This book sets out to explore how texts function in a given discourse community, and how the functions that texts may have in that particular...
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    Labeling and Ideology in the Press

    This book examines the discursive construction of Nigeria's Niger Delta ethnic militias in the Nigerian press. Over time, certain lexical items have been noted to occur frequently in the Nigerian press in representing the militia groups and their...
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    Anglicisms in Russian and German Blogs

    This investigation examines three languages: English, German and Russian. Nowadays there is an acute awareness of the need to preserve the national language. Therefore, it is vital to find out how English loans are integrated into the systems of German...
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    Accent and Listening Assessment

    Given the linguistically diverse nature of academic institutions in English-speaking contexts, a strong rationale exists for the incorporation of L2 accents of English in academic listening assessment on the grounds of authenticity and construct...
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    Current Trends in Metrical Analysis

    This volume is a representative selection of current methods of metrical-rhythmical analysis. Leading experts in the field present the latest state of the art in metrical theory, including Generative Metrics, the Russian quantitative-statistical...
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    Der deutsche Teil des Florianer Psalters

    Der Florianer Psalter, eine dreisprachig (lateinisch-polnisch-deutsch) angelegte Psalmenübersetzung des 14./15. Jahrhunderts, steht am Beginn der polnischen Schriftlichkeit. In Ergänzung zu den zahlreichen Untersuchungen zur polnischen Sprache in dieser...
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    Bedeutungskonstitution in verbalem Humor

    Diese Arbeit bietet einen ersten systematischen Versuch, Einsichten der kognitiven Linguistik sowie verwandter gebrauchsbasierter Ansätze mit dem Gebiet der linguistischen Humorforschung zu verknüpfen. Ausgangspunkt ist die Basishypothese, dass verbaler...
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  • Vom politischen Gebrauch der Sprache Vom politischen Gebrauch der Sprache
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    Vom politischen Gebrauch der Sprache

    Dieser Band bietet eine Einführung in die linguistische Beschäftigung mit politischem Sprachgebrauch und orientiert sich dabei an den zentralen Untersuchungsgegenständen in diesem Bereich - Wort, Text und Diskurs. Sein Anliegen ist es, sowohl einen...
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  • Postmodifying Attributive Adjectives in English Postmodifying Attributive Adjectives in English
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    Postmodifying Attributive Adjectives in English

    This study investigates three different postmodifying adjective constructions in the English language. While English adjectives generally precede the entities they modify, they may also occur in postmodifying position. This study assumes that the...
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  • Jugendsprachen Jugendsprachen
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    Jugendsprachen

    Jugendsprache ist vielstimmig und vielgestaltig und scheint durch eine nahezu unbegrenzte Heterogenität gekennzeichnet. Der Sammelband präsentiert 19 Beiträge aus der internationalen linguistischen Jugendsprachforschung zu einzelnen Faktoren des...
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  • Anglizismen in deutschen Werbeanzeigen Anglizismen in deutschen Werbeanzeigen
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    Anglizismen in deutschen Werbeanzeigen

    Die Studie untersucht, ob der Gebrauch von Anglizismen in der Werbung tatsächlich vorwiegend auf wirkungsintentionalen Motiven beruht, und kommt dabei zu einem gegenteiligen Ergebnis: Insbesondere ökonomische Motive können bei der Verwendung von...
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  • Der Wellness-Effekt Der Wellness-Effekt
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    Der Wellness-Effekt

    Das Thema Anglizismen wird hier aus einer neuen, kognitiven Perspektive angegangen. Die Studie gründet auf der These, dass die Bedeutung eines sprachlichen Ausdrucks nicht per se gegeben ist, sondern von der Kognition der Sprecher in Abhängigkeit von...
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  • The Language of the Peterborough Chronicle The Language of the Peterborough Chronicle
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    The Language of the Peterborough Chronicle

    This book is the first (linguistic) publication which exclusively focuses on one of the most famous and important documents in the history of English: the Early Middle English 'Peterborough Chronicle'. This book contains 10 original and hitherto...
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  • Perlokutionaere Kraefte Perlokutionaere Kraefte
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    Perlokutionaere Kraefte

    Über Sprechakte reden bedeutet für Sprechakttheoretiker in der Regel über Illokutionen reden. Seltsamerweise, denn sprechend zu wirken ist der wesentliche Antrieb für verbale Kommunikation. Eine der interessantesten Fragen dürfte doch wohl sein, wie...
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  • Martin Aedler and the High Dutch Minerva Martin Aedler and the High Dutch Minerva
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    Martin Aedler and the High Dutch Minerva

    Who wrote the High Dutch Minerva? And why? This work seeks to disprove the reasons offered by scholars for the emergence of the first German grammar for the English, the High Dutch Minerva (1680), by considering biographical material on the author,...
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  • Die Entstehung der neuhochdeutschen Schriftsprache Die Entstehung der neuhochdeutschen Schriftsprache
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    Die Entstehung der neuhochdeutschen Schriftsprache

    Die Diskussion um die Entstehung der neuhochdeutschen Schriftsprache begleitet die Germanistik von ihren Anfängen bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart. Die wesentlichen Fragen, um deren Beantwortung es in der Diskussion geht, sind die nach dem...
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  • Occitano in Piemonte Occitano in Piemonte
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    Occitano in Piemonte

    Quando si pensa all'Occitania come realtà geografica ci si sofferma spesso su determinate regioni della Francia e della Spagna. Dal 1999 però, la lingua occitana parlata in alcune valli piemontesi viene riconosciuta anche dallo Stato italiano con la...
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  • Text - Sorten - Kompetenz Text - Sorten - Kompetenz
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    Text - Sorten - Kompetenz

    Mittels einer echten Längsschnittuntersuchung wird ermittelt, wie sich die Fähigkeit von Kindern in der 2., 3. und 4. Klasse entwickelt, Texte im Rahmen verschiedener kommunikativer Anforderungen zu schreiben: Erzählung, Bericht, Instruktion,...
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  • Untersuchungen zur Syntax niederdeutscher Dialekte Untersuchungen zur Syntax niederdeutscher Dialekte
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    Untersuchungen zur Syntax niederdeutscher Dialekte

    In der fast zweihundertjährigen Tradition wissenschaftlicher Dialektforschung spielt die Syntax nur eine marginale Rolle. Das liegt nicht nur an mangelndem Interesse, sondern auch an methodischen Problemen, wie hier am Beispiel der Beiträge zum...
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  • Medieval English and its Heritage Medieval English and its Heritage
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    Medieval English and its Heritage

    The volume features new work in English historical linguistics. It focuses on Medieval Englishes, but also discusses how processes originating there continued to unfold in later stages of linguistic evolution. In language internal terms, it deals with...
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  • Teoría fraseológica de las locuciones particulares Teoría fraseológica de las locuciones particulares
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    Teoría fraseológica de las locuciones particulares

    Una vez superada la centralidad de la palabra en la descripción lingüística, el estudio de la fraseología de las lenguas se ha convertido en una de las tareas fundamentales de la investigación. La fraseología teórica ha experimentado un gran desarrollo...
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  • Die entnazifizierte Sprache Die entnazifizierte Sprache
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    Die entnazifizierte Sprache

    Die Arbeit zeichnet den Diskurs über die deutsche Sprache im Nationalsozialismus nach, wie er in der Besatzungszeit von 1945 bis 1949 bei den Kontrollbehörden der westlichen Alliierten geführt wurde. Neben kultur- und bildungspolitischen Aspekten wie der...
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  • Reflexivity and Intensification in English Reflexivity and Intensification in English
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    Reflexivity and Intensification in English

    Present-Day English is unique among the Germanic languages in employing the same forms (himself, herself etc.) both as reflexive pronoun and intensifier. While a lot of attention has been directed at the grammaticalization of the compound reflexive, the...
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  • The Cognitive Basis of Polysemy The Cognitive Basis of Polysemy
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    The Cognitive Basis of Polysemy

    The volume aims to explore the relationship between the theoretical modelling and the mental representation of the perceived multiplicity of lexical meanings. The collection is divided into three thematic sections, discussing psycholinguistic and...
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  • I can look through muddy water I can look through muddy water
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    I can look through muddy water

    With its 1.5 million words BLUR is the biggest electronic corpus of nonstandard English. The present study describes the stages in the design, the compilation, and the editing of BLUR and attempts to gauge its linguistic profit. This is done both from a...
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