Dialect, slang and jargon Books
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc OK
Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. OK as a word accepts proposals, describes the world as satisfactory (but not good), provides conversational momentum, or even agrees (or disagrees). OK as an object, however, tells a story of how technology writes itself into language, permanently altering communication. OK is a young word, less than 200 years old. It began as an acronym for all correct when the steam-powered printing press pushed newspapers into the mainstream. Today it is spoken and written by nearly everyone in the world. Drawing on linguistics, history, and new media studies, Michelle McSweeney traces OK from its birth in the Penny Presses through telephone lines, grammar books, and television signals into the digital age. Nearly ubiquitous and often overlooked, OK illustrates the never-ending dance between language, technology, and culture, and offers lessons for our own techno-historical moment. ObjecTrade Review[A] slim and lucid addition to the Object Lessons series. . . . McSweeney traces the word's evolution through the present, illuminating the ways in which its meaning developed over time. * The Millions *More than just OK. . . . A quick and fascinating read. . . . Short, but mentally nutritious. * The DreamCage *A concise yet wide-ranging tour though the history of how technology has influenced the way we talk with each other. * Gretchen McCulloch, linguist and author of Because Internet *OK is more than just okay—it's the handiest and most up-to-date account of this mysterious yet deathless little expression available. Witness the history of something we say all day every day that's actually new enough that it would have left Thomas Jefferson scratching his head. * John McWhorter, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Columbia University, USA, author of Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter Then, Now and Forever and host of the podcast Lexicon Valley *Table of Contents1. Ok (Introduction) 2. Oll Korrect (Origins) 3. Ok? (Alternative Origins) Grains of Truth An Exotic Loanword Food 4. Olde Kinderhook (Branding) Ok Products 5. Okay (Literature) 6. Oh-kay (Telephone) A Modern Ok 7. Ok! (Television) Culture, Technology, and War 8. K (the Internet) Bulletin Board Systems 9. Kk (Social Media) English 10. [OK emoji] (Gesture) 11. O.k. Ok, Ok, Lol (Conclusion) Bibliography Index
£9.49
De Gruyter East Midlands English
Book SynopsisThis volume will provide a comprehensive yet accessible description of East Midlands English, an area of neglect in linguistic research. Existing publications, which aggregate the findings of earlier surveys and more recent localised studies presenting an overview of regional speech in the UK, are either lacking up-to-date research data from the East Midlands or simply ignore the region. A coordinated survey of dialects of the East Midlands was part of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) in the 1950s. This data is now over sixty years old and focuses almost exclusively on broad rural dialect speakers. This book will fill the knowledge and literature gaps by comparing vernacular speech in different urban and rural locations in the East Midlands, and examining whether the East Midlands is a 'transition zone' between the North and South. Recordings held by the British Library will be used, and will be supplemented with recordings made with local speakers. Language in the East Midland
£103.55
De Gruyter East Anglian English
Book SynopsisThis book is the first full-scale scientific study of East Anglian English. The author is a native East Anglian sociolinguist and dialectologist who has devoted decades to the study of the speechways of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex. He examines their relationships to other varieties of English in Britain, as well as their contributions to the formation of American English and Southern Hemisphere Englishes.
£98.32
University of South Carolina Press Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect
Book SynopsisA unique creole language spoken on the coastal islands and adjacent mainland of South Carolina and Georgia, Gullah existed as an isolated and largely ignored linguistic phenomenon until the publication of Lorenzo Dow Turner's landmark volume Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect. In his classic treatise, Turner, the first professionally trained African American linguist, focused on a people whose language had long been misunderstood, lifted a shroud that had obscured the true history of Gullah, and demonstrated that it drew important linguistic features directly from the languages of West Africa. Initially published in 1949, this groundbreaking work of Afrocentric scholarship opened American minds to a little-known culture while initiating a means for the Gullah people to reclaim and value their past. The book presents a reference point for today's discussions about ever-present language varieties, Ebonics, and education, offering important reminders about the subtleties and power of racial and cultural prejudice. In their introduction to the volume, Katherine Wyly Mille and Michael B. Montgomery set the text in its sociolinguistic context, explore recent developments in the celebration of Gullah culture, and honor Turner with a recounting of his life and scholarly accomplishments.
£19.76
De Gruyter Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors: Introduction to the Dialect Mixture in Homer, with Notes on Lyric and Herodotus
Epic is dialectally mixed but Ionic at its core. The proper dialect for elegy was Ionic, even when composed by Tyrtaeus in Sparta or Theognis in Megara, both Doric areas. Choral lyric poets represent the major dialect areas: Aeolic (Sappho, Alcaeus), Ionic (Anacreon, Archilochus, Simonides), and Doric (Alcman, Ibycus, Stesichorus, Pindar). Most distinctive are the Aeolic poets. The rest may have a preference for their own dialect (some more than others) but in their Lesbian veneer and mixture of Doric and Ionic forms are to some extent dialectally indistinguishable. All of the ancient authors use a literary language that is artificial from the point of view of any individual dialect. Homer has the most forms that occur in no actual dialect. In this volume, by means of dialectally and chronologically arranged illustrative texts, translated and provided with running commentary, some of the early Greek authors are compared against epigraphic records, where available, from the same period and locality in order to provide an appreciation of: the internal history of the Ancient Greek language and its dialects; the evolution of the multilectal, artificial poetic language that characterizes the main genres of the most ancient Greek literature, especially Homer / epic, with notes on choral lyric and even the literary language of the prose historian Herodotus; the formulaic properties of ancient poetry, especially epic genres; the development of more complex meters, colometric structure, and poetic conventions; and the basis for decisions about text editing and the selection of a manuscript alternant or emendation that was plausibly used by a given author.
£113.52
American University in Cairo Press Blowing on Yogurt and Other Egyptian Arabic
Book SynopsisA lively and informative collection of fifty common Egyptian colloquial expressions and proverbs, this book is must for learners of Arabic, language enthusiasts, and lovers of the country and its cultureThe idioms in this small, yet mighty, linguistic treasure trove have been put together to showcase the use of the Egyptian word illi, in itself a fascinating anomaly of the language as the only relative pronoun that exists in this dialect. Organized around their day-to-day linguistic function, each expression includes the original Arabic, a translation, an English equivalent or explanation, as well as whimsical illustrations.This book covers a wide array of meanings and contextspacked full of expressions that will console, threaten, encourage, and much moreand is sure to entertain and inform both lovers of language and Egypt enthusiasts.
£14.99
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas: Popular
Book SynopsisHow on earth did 'with bells on' come to express enthusiasm? What do chips on shoulders have to do with inferiority complexes? ... And who is the face that launched a thousand ships? Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas provides us with the meanings of these well-worn and much-loved phrases by putting these linguistic quirks in context, and explaining how and why they were first used. For example, did you know that 'the rule of thumb' refers to the use of the thumb to make measurements, as the first joint of the average adult thumb measures one inch?Absorbing, diverting and fascinating - as far as gift books go, Spilling the Beans really is the bee's knees!Trade ReviewIf you'd like to know the origins of some of our most baffling phrases, take a look at this * Daily Express *Provides a wealth of fascinating facts about the meaning and origin of phrases we use every day... With every page guaranteed to entertain and inform, this really is the bee's knees when it comes to the perfect gift! * Lancashire Evening Post *Reveals the origins and meanings of some of the most popular and obscure sayings we use today * Daily Mirror *
£7.59
O'Brien Press Ltd The Book of Feckin' Irish Slang that's great
Book SynopsisThe almost incomprehensible wit and wonder of Irish slang words. Can you tell your bowsies from your gougers from your gurriers? No? Well, it's time to stop acting the maggot and find out, courtesy of this invaluable reference book that's been donkey's years in the making (only coddin').
£10.43
O'Brien Press Ltd The Book of Feckin' Irish Sayings For When You Go
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£7.99
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd Lost in Translation: Misadventures in English
Book SynopsisSpoken by over 700 million jabbering individuals, the English language has travelled to all corners of the globe – unfortunately, some of it has got a bit muddled along the way ...Lost in Translation: Misadventures in English Abroad affectionately demonstrates the very best – and worst – instances of genuine grammar-gargling from around the world, discovered by the author and his intrepid team of researchers. It includes everything from hilarious hotel signs to baffling advertisements, such as the German beauty product offering a 'cream shower for pretentious skin', the notice at a French swiming pool which proclaimed that 'swimming is forbidden in the absence of the saviour', or the warning sign at a Czech zoo which instructed visitors: 'No smoothen the lion'.Trade ReviewVery funny [and] beautifully illustrated * The Spectator *A wonderful collection of recent outrageous howlers from all over the world * Irish Independent *
£7.59
Gemini Books Group Ltd The Pocket Geordie English
Book SynopsisA pocket guide to Geordie, the English regional dialect spoken in Newcastle and on the banks of the river Tyne in the north-east of England.
£7.59
Transworld Publishers Ltd Scots: The Mither Tongue
Book SynopsisScots: The Mither Tongue is a classic of contemporary Scottish culture and essential reading for those who care about their country's identity in the twenty-first century. It is a passionately written history of how the Scots have come to speak the way they do and has acted as a catalyst for radical changes in attitude towards the language. In this completely revised edition, Kay vigorously renews the social, cultural and political debate on Scotland's linguistic future, and argues convincingly for the necessity to retain and extend Scots if the nation is to hold on to its intrinsic values. Kay places Scots in an international context, comparing and contrasting it with other lesser-used European languages, while at home questioning the Scottish Executive's desire to pay anything more than lip service to this crucial part of our national identity. Language is central to people's existence, and this vivid account celebrates the survival of Scots in its various dialects, its literature and song. The mither tongue is a national treasure that thrives in many parts of the country and underpins the speech of everyone who calls themselves a Scot.Trade ReviewThe Scots tongue, like most of the world's minority languages, is under pressure and Billy Kay in this excellent and cogent survey draws together the strands of our concern * Daily Express *Kay is the best writer on his own language I have read since Burchfield on English; his book should be put in schools, for it is capably seditious * The Herald *Moving, delightful, even inspiring * Edinburgh Review *It is not the kind of dry academic tome so cherished by linguistic nitpickers, but a bright, radical examination of the language which is at the heart of our existence * Aberdeen Press and Journal *A fresh and invigorating overview of a fascinating subject * Stirling Observer *
£13.49
O'Brien Press Ltd The Feckin' Book of Irish History: for anyone who
Book SynopsisForget the boring stuff you learned in school. Here’s the REAL skinny on Irish history. Invasions, Emergencies, one Big Rising, all sorts of Troubles; the Siege of Limerick (continuing), Paddy of the Snakes, Niall of the Nine Hostages, The Big Fella, The Long Fella, Aer Lingus and the Flight of the Earls, Daniel O’Connell, Wolfe Tone and other singers, Gun-running at Howth, Wind-surfing at Lahinch; the IRB, the IRA, the EEC, the GAA, the Celtic Tiger, RIP. With illustrations that put the Book of Kells in the ha’penny place.Trade Review'the 10th book in O’Brien’s best-selling Feckin’ series' -- Irish Independent'like its forerunners it’s a riot' -- Irish Independent'hilarious' -- Books Ireland
£11.39
New Island Books Kiss My...: Dictionary of English-Irish Slang
Book SynopsisFind out what the gaeilgeoir means when he/she uses the Irish words for ‘nerdy’, ‘well-hung’, ‘effing and blinding’, ‘slimeball’ or ‘drop-dead-gorgeous’? It’s all there, with numerous entries under the letters C and F. Already a cult hit, Kiss My... will appeal to the Irish-language student and the open-minded traveller alike.
£7.59
Truran Cornish Sayings Superstitions and Remedies
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Bodleian Library The Real McCoy and 149 other Eponyms
Book SynopsisThe English language is rich with eponyms – words that are named after an individual – some better known than others. This book features 150 of the most interesting and enlightening specimens, delving into the origins of the words and describing the fascinating people after whom they were named. Eponyms are derived from numerous sources. Some are named in honour of a style icon, inventor or explorer, such as pompadour, Kalashnikov and Cadillac. Others have their roots in Greek or Roman mythology, such as panic and tantalise. A number of eponyms, however, are far from celebratory and were created to indicate a rather less positive association – into this category can be filed boycott, Molotov cocktail and sadist. Encompassing eponyms from medicine, botany, invention, science, fashion, food and literature, this book uncovers the intriguing tales of discovery, mythology, innovation and infamy behind the eponyms we use every day. The perfect addition to any wordsmith’s bookshelf.Trade Review'An eponym, as you know, is a word named after an individual, and the above paragraph contains fourteen of them, all derived from The Real McCoy and 149 Other Eponyms by the excellent Claire Cock-Starkey, author of A Library Miscellany and The Book Lovers' Miscellany.' * TLS *'From boycotts to Biros, the English language is rich in eponyms - a place or thing named after individuals. But who were the people behind them? In a fascinating new book, Claire Cock-Starkey reveals all …' * Daily Mail *Recommended in 'The Guardian' Christmas Best Buys under £10'Pleasing little compendium. From "melba toast" named after the world famous opera singer Dame Nellie Melba for whom the cracker was first developed at the savoy in London, to "Kalashnikov", called after the Soviet peasant who invented the AK47, there is plenty of fun but useless knowledge to discover here. Perfect for fans of QI.' * The Idler *
£13.26
Bodleian Library That's the Ticket for Soup!: Victorian Views on
Book SynopsisThe vocabulary of past times, no longer used in English, is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists of the day. Here we have Victorian high and low society, with its fashionable and unfashionable slang, its class awareness and the jargon of steam engines, motor cars and other products of the Industrial Revolution. Then as now, people had strong feelings about the flood of new words entering English. Swearing, new street names and the many borrowings from French provoked continual irritation and mockery, as did the Americanisms increasingly encountered in the British press. In this intriguing collection, David Crystal has pored through the pages of the satirical magazine, Punch, between its first issue in 1841 and the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, and extracted the articles and cartoons that poked fun at the jargon of the day, adding a commentary on the context of the times and informative glossaries. In doing so he reveals how many present-day feelings about words have their origins over a century ago.
£13.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Greek Dialects
Book SynopsisIn the ADVANCED LANGUAGE series, this new edition of the 3rd revised is the standard introduction and reference work on questions of dialect. Its virtues are comparative clarity and conciseness on a subject too often treated, for example by contemporary work in German, with prolixity and obscurity.
£37.99
Brewin Books The Little Book of Slang, Sayings, Jargon &
Book SynopsisThe definition of slang according to the Oxford Dictionary is'a type of language consisting of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal are more common in speech than in writing and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people'. Thus, the choice of a phrase, or the use of 'jargon', a saying, or abbreviation, can accurately reflect our links to a specific place, employment or situations that impact upon us in our everyday lives. In the UK alone it is estimated that there are at least fifty-six regional interpretations of how we use English to convey our feelings and to communicate with one another. This little book contains some 2,000 such phrases, sayings and abbreviations drawn together, in the main,from the experiences of one family. It manifestly displays what a diverse world we now live in as families transcend different cultures and countries. It is not an academic study, rather it is designed to promote memories, to enable reflection on previous life experiences and, above all else, to simply have some fun whilst reading it. Preserving our past whilst understanding the present helps us to create history for the future as new generations go on to create their own versions of 'slang' applicable to that period. 'Ta-Ra-A-Bit'.
£10.13
Battlebridge Publications From French to Creole
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£18.00
New Writing North Aal Aboot Geordie
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£6.28
Edinburgh University Press Scots Thesaurus
Book SynopsisUnique subject guide to over 20,000 Scots words. * Subject-by-subject access to Scots words with definitions in English * Wide-ranging coverage of different subjects including animal and plant life, farming and fishing, food and drink, emotions and character * Introduction commenting on the distinctive aspects and qualities of the Scots language * English index to guide users to the appropriate Scots words
£18.99
Battlebridge Publications Comparative Creole Syntax: Parallel Outlines of
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£22.49
Battlebridge Publications Black Through White: African Words and Calques
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£25.16
McNidder & Grace Fishing and Folk Life and Dialect on the North
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£10.79
iEdutainments Ltd Learn 101 Valencian Verbs In 1 Day: With
Book SynopsisThe colour coded verb table allows the reader to focus all of their attention on one colour tense at a time enabling them to make immediate connections between the subject and the verb! The Valencian LearnBots are a great resource for dyslexic learners, children and adult learners. Children can start to identify what a verb is and the way it changes with the subject of the sentence. Advanced learners can go on to learn the different tenses and improve their accuracy. This book also works along-side its very own kick-starter app on Googles Android and Apples App Store allowing the user the ability to hear some of the conjugations being read out loud by a native speaker. The app also allows the user to test their ability in remembering verbs and conjugations.Trade ReviewBook review for LearnBots by Dr. Josep-Lluis Gonzalez Medina (Eton College England) "After a number of years in which educational trends favoured oral fluency over grammatical accuracy, it is encouraging to see a book which goes back to basics and makes learning verbs less daunting and even easy. At the end of the day, verb patterns are fundamental in order to gain linguistic precision and sophistication, and thus should not be regarded as a chore but as necessary elements to achieve competence in any given language. The colour coding in this book makes for quick identification of tenses and the running stories provided by the pictures are an ideal mnemonic device in that they help students visualize each verb. I would heartily recommend this fun verb book for use with pupils in the early stages of learning and for later on in their school careers. It can be used for teaching but also, perhaps more importantly, as a tool for independent study. This is a praiseworthy attempt to make verbs more easily accessible to every schoolboy and girl in the country."
£11.39
Helion & Company Russian World War II Dictionary: A
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£39.96
Bradwell Books Leicestershire Dialect
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£6.30
Headline Publishing Group The Little Book of Profanities: Know your Sh*ts
Book SynopsisKeep your swearing as fresh as a f*cking daisy with The Little Book of Profanities. There's nothing better than that perfect swear word. In a battle of wits, it can make all the difference. And, like all things in life, variety is the spice of swear words. Why call someone a d*ck, when a choad is so much more – satisfying. Stuffed with 100 of the obscene, offensive and outrageous swear words known to construction workers all over the world, The Little Book of Profanities encourages you to flex and stretch your foul-mouthed muscles so when that awesome opportunity to use a big, hairy curse word arises you're not hoisted by your own petard. In these uncertain and challenging times of political and social chaos, when all you want to do is shout obscenities at the world for being crap, The Little Book of Profanities is here to help you survive the day in style. Swearing – it's big, it's clever and anyone who thinks otherwise can f*ck off. 'The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest is just a f*cking lunatic.' Stephen Fry on the joy of swearing, as seen on theguardian.com, 20 August 2007, by Sam Wollaston. Fact: The word's etymology can be traced back to around 450AD when scite (dung), scitte (diarrhoea) and scitan (to defecate) were all thrown about. Sh*t evolved millennia later into schitte (excrement) and shiten (to defecate). Example: 'Life is a crap carnival with sh*t prizes.' - Stephen King. Table of ContentsMildly Wild • Lewd and Rude • Nasty But Nice • Savage Swears • Classic Curses • Obscenely Offensive • Profoundly Profane • Expletive Deleted • Bawdy and Blasphemous.
£6.93
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Grammaticalization Paths of English and High
Book SynopsisExistential constructions are a fundamental feature of many Indo-European languages, and constructions with non-referential subjects have developed in all of the latter, albeit at different stages in their histories. High German does not feature a prototypical existential construction that is equivalent in syntactic and pragmatic function and semantic meaning to the English existential there-construction. How did a prototypical existential structure originate in English? Why is it that High German has never developed such a construction? Has it ever shown a tendency towards developing one? How did two closely related languages such as English and High German come to differ so much with respect to these constructions? By means of investigating a variety of historical and contemporary data this study shows that not only semantic, pragmatic and syntactic factors are involved, which decide the choice of a certain construction, but also very much the more general different linguistic development that the two languages underwent in the course of time.Table of ContentsContents: The Beginnings. Towards a Historical Explanation of the Difference between English and High German Existential Constructions: Word Order in the History of English - The Derivation of the English ETC - Word Order in the History of High German - The Derivation of the High German Existential da-Construction - The Derivation of High German ‘es’-Constructions – ETCs in Modern English: Syntactic Classification - Semantic Classification - Pragmatic Approach – The Modern High German Counterparts: The Status of es in ModHG - Syntactic Approach to the High German Counterparts - Semantic and Pragmatic Approaches to the ModHG Counterparts.
£72.72
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften From «Beowulf» to Caxton: Studies in Medieval
Book SynopsisSenshu University has hosted many international conferences on medieval English literature – primarily on Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland – as well as in the related fields of Old Germanic, medieval French and Renaissance Italian literature. These international collaborations inform and contribute to the present volume, which addresses the heritage bequeathed to medieval English language and literature by the classical world. This volume explores the development of medieval English literature in light of contact with Germanic and Old Norse cultures, on the one hand, and Romance languages, on the other. The book includes a comparative study of Beowulf in the Germanic context, discusses aspects of Piers Plowman and its tradition, and offers philological approaches to Chaucer (especially his Troilus and Criseyde). The articles assembled here collectively suggest how the torches of classical learning were carried from continental Europe to illuminate the pages of medieval English literature.Table of ContentsContents: Tomonori Matsushita: Introduction – Graham D. Caie: A Case of Double Vision: Denmark in Beowulf and Beowulf in England – Kazutomo Karasawa: Hrothgar in the Germanic Context of Beowulf – A.V.C. Schmidt: The Four Elements as a Structural Idea in Piers Plowman – Helen Barr: The Place of the Poor in ‘the Piers Plowman Tradition’ – Masatoshi Kawasaki: ‘My Wyl Is This’ (Canterbury Tales. I [A] 1845): Chaucer’s Sense of Power in The Knight’s Tale and The Clerk’s Tale – Yoshiyuki Nakao: Textual Variations in Troilus and Criseyde and the Rise of Ambiguity – Yoshiyuki Nakao/Masatsugu Matsuo: A Comprehensive Textual Comparison of Troilus and Criseyde: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 61 and B.A. Windeatt’s Edition of Troilus and Criseyde (1990) – Mitsu Ide: The Old English Equivalents for Factum Esse and the Salisbury Psalter – Akiyuki Jimura: On the Decline of the Prefix y- of Past Participles – Hiroshi Yonekura: Compound Nouns in Late Middle English: Their Morphological, Syntactic and Semantic Description – Masa Ikegami: Robert Henryson’s Rhymes between ‘Etymological -ē and -ī’ and the Special Development of Unstressed /i/ – Akinobu Tani: Word Pairs or Doublets in Caxton’s History of Reynard the Fox: Rampant and Tedious? – Sylvia Huot: Senshu University Manuscripts 2 and 3 and the Roman de la Rose Manuscript Tradition – Patrick P. O’Neill: The Senshu Psalter.
£47.16
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Studies in Bilingual Education
Book SynopsisThis book deals with bilingual education in general, but it pays special attention to bilingual education in monolingual areas. One central aim is to study the effects of bilingual programmes during the final stages of Primary and Secondary Education in contexts where the L2 (English) is not normally used as an instrument of social communication in the students’ environment, but instead is used only at school, where some subject areas are undertaken totally or partially in this language. The reader interested in bilingual education will find a valuable source of information on different bilingual programmes in the USA and Spain: what schools do and the contents they teach, their timetable and extracurricular activities; the specific objectives that they aim to achieve and the methodology they use, with special reference to the CLIL approach, the schools and the students’ level of success with bilingual education, the most common problems that they have to face in monolingual areas and how to solve them.Trade Review«Alles in allem liefert das Buch einen spannenden Blick darauf, was alles möglich ist, wenn politischer Wille, finanzielle Mittel, dynamische Schulstrukturen, engagierte Lehrkräfte und interessierte SchülerInnen aufeinandertreffen, und stellt einen interessanten Beitrag zum Forschungsstand über die Rolle bilingualer Unterrichtsformen bei der Förderung von Mehrsprachigkeit und Plurilingualismus in Europa dar.» (Elisabeth Wielander, Info DaF 2/3, 2013)Table of ContentsContents: Daniel Madrid/Stephen Hughes: Introduction to Bilingual and Plurilingual Education – José Luis Ortega Martín: The Primary and Secondary School Curriculum in Spain – Sacramento Jaímez/Ana M. López Morillas: The Andalusian Plurilingual Programme in Primary and Secondary Education – José Roa/Daniel Madrid/Inmaculada Sanz: A Bilingual Education Research Project in Monolingual Areas – Ana María Ramos García/José Luis Ortega Martín/Daniel Madrid: Bilingualism and Competence in the Mother Tongue – Javier Villoria/Stephen Hughes/Daniel Madrid: Learning English and Learning through English – Daniel Madrid: Monolingual and Bilingual Students’ Competence in Social Sciences – Ana María Ramos García: The Cultural Knowledge of Monolingual and Bilingual Studies – Miguel Angel Pérez Abad: The International Spanish Academies in California – Diego Uribe: The Dual Immersion Program at R.W. Emerson Elementary (USA) – Miguel Fernández Álvarez/Juan Ignacio García Rico: Bilingual Education at Roosevelt Elementary School in Cicero (USA) – José Manuel Vez: Plurilingual Education in Bilingual Areas: The Case of Galicia – Stephen Hughes/Daniel Madrid: Synthesis of Principles, Practices and Results.
£69.73
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Saggi in onore di Piergiuseppe Scardigli
Book SynopsisIl 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 Italia e all’estero. Il libro comprende una serie di contributi che trattano aspetti e problematiche delle letterature e delle lingue germaniche antiche, medievali e moderne, prescelti tra quelli cari al dedicatario. Alcuni di questi saggi traggono spunto da indicazioni fornite dallo stesso Scardigli, altri seguono le linee di pensiero da lui tracciate o fanno un bilancio della ricerca in campi nei quali egli ha profuso il suo impegno scientifico, come la lingua, la letteratura e la civiltà gotica, i longobardismi in italiano e il germanico nell’ambito dell’indeuropeo. Il libro contiene 16 contributi in italiano, quattro in tedesco e tre in inglese ed è corredato da una bibliografia completa e particolareggiata di tutti gli scritti di Piergiuseppe Scardigli, anche di ambiti diversi da quello germanico.Table of ContentsContenuto: Giancarlo Breschi: Ricordo di Piero – Massimo Fanfani: Un maestro intravisto da lontano – Fabrizio D. Raschellà: Scardigli studioso e maestro. Un breve profilo scientifico e maieutico – Hans-Gert Roloff: Piergiuseppe Scardiglis langer Weg zur deutschen Sprache – Klaus von See: Erinnerungen an Piergiuseppe Scardigli (1933-2008) – Adele Cipolla: I Germani come problema storico. Nach vierzig Jahren – Michael Dallapiazza: Scardigli und das deutsche Publikum – Raffaella Del Pezzo: Riflessioni su appunti inediti di Piergiuseppe Scardigli – Vittoria Dolcetti Corazza: I Goti e la «germanizzazione» del Vangelo – Carla Falluomini: A Text-Critical Study of the Pauline Epistles in Gothic – Elisabetta Fazzini: Piergiuseppe Scardigli e gli studi sui dialetti walser in Italia. I toponimi di Macugnaga – Nicoletta Francovich Onesti: Altopascio e dintorni – Renato Gendre: Pier Giuseppe Scardigli non germanista – Anna Maria Guerrieri: L’elmo della invisibilità: sulla identificazione di un elemento del meraviglioso germanico – Claudia Händl: Considerazioni sulla posizione giuridica della donna longobarda – Patrizia Lendinara: The figura etymologica in Old English – Simona Leonardi: Traduttori e interpreti nell’alto medioevo germanico – Marcello Meli: Il contributo di Piergiuseppe Scardigli allo studio della tradizione norrena – Elda Morlicchio: Goti, Longobardi e mondo romanzo – Verio Santoro: Der Streit um die deutsche Philologie am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts in Italien – Magnús Snædal: The Runic Inscriptions from Kovel and Pietroassa – Letizia Vezzosi: La ‘via’ di Piergiuseppe Scardigli – Alessandro Zironi: Dal gotico al norreno: tracce di un percorso culturale nel lavoro scientifico di Piergiuseppe Scardigli.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English
Book SynopsisThe study of the work of Geoffrey Chaucer – still regarded as a literary genius more than 600 years after his death – centres on the problems of detailed readings of his poetry (including in some cases the textual authority for these readings) and the historical context that gives them meaning. In some ways, the modern understanding of the shaping historical context was undermined in the second half of the twentieth century by the dogmatism of Robertsonian Augustinianism, as a basis for the interpretation of medieval literature in general and of Chaucer’s poetry in particular, and at the same time by the reactions of determined opposition provoked by this approach. Undeniably, medieval views often fail to coincide with modern ones and they are frequently uncomfortable for modern readers. Nevertheless, Chaucer’s brilliance as an observer of the human scene coexists with and irradiates these unfamiliar medieval ideas. The essays in this volume explore in detail the historical context of Chaucer’s poetry, in which orthodox Catholic ideas rather than revolutionary Wycliffite ones occupy the central position. At the same time, they offer detailed readings of his poetry and that of his famous contemporaries in an attempt to do justice to the independent and original work of these poetic masters, writing in the great royal households of England in the period 1360-1400.Table of ContentsContents: Simon Horobin: Review – Anne J. Duggan: ‘The Hooly Blisful Martir for to Seke’ – Alan J. Fletcher: Piers Plowman and the Benedictines – Caroline E. Jones: A Lesson in Patience – Gavin Hughes: Fourteenth-Century Weaponry, Armour and Warfare in Chaucer and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – David Scott-Macnab: Sir Thopas and his Lancegay – William Marx: An Absent King: Perceptions of the Politics of Power in the Reign of Richard II and the Middle English Prose Brut – Gerald Morgan: Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale: The Book of the Duke – Barry Windeatt: Plea and Petition in Chaucer – Mary Carr: The Fall of Lucifer and the Sin of Pride in Piers Plowman – A.V.C. Schmidt: The Humanity of Pearl – Brendan O’Connell: The Poetics of Fraud: Jean de Meun, Dante and Chaucer – Nicolas Jacobs: Criseyde’s Last Word.
£41.49
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften The Shaping of English Poetry- Volume II: Essays
Book SynopsisThis second volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English Poetry continues the project set out in the Preface to the first volume, discussing the three golden poets of the Golden Age of English poetry in the second half of the fourteenth century. The first two essays address the great alliterative poems Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman and the remaining six essays are on Chaucer, five of them on The Canterbury Tales. There is no doubt about the sustained excellence (and often the sublimity) of these works, and it remains a hard task for readers and scholars to measure up to them. The essays on Chaucer are predominantly concerned with the influence of Italian poetry and Aristotelian moral philosophy. These influences have long been recognised, but their depth and weight have not so readily been acknowledged. In particular, the influence of Aristotle – not merely on Chaucer’s poetry but on thirteenth- and fourteenth-century English and European culture as a whole – presents an intellectual challenge that scholars of medieval English literature have often been reluctant to confront. These essays seek to demonstrate that in engaging with Chaucer’s response to Aristotelian moral philosophy our perspective will not only be enriched but dramatically altered.Table of ContentsContents: Misogyny in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – The dignity of Langland’s Meed – The adaptation of Boccaccio’s Temple of Venus in The Parliament of Fowls – Moral and social Identity in the General Prologue – Obscenity in The Miller’s Tale – The Man of Law and the argument for Providence – The logic of The Clerk’s Tale – Boccaccio’s Filocolo and the moral argument of The Franklin’s Tale.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften The Shaping of English Poetry- Volume III: Essays
Book SynopsisThis third volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English Poetry includes, as in the previous volumes, essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer and Spenser; it also includes essays on Beowulf and Dante. It was never the author’s intention to exclude Old English poetry from the historical continuum of English poetry, and practical rather than ideological considerations explain the absence of Beowulf from the two previous volumes. The language of Beowulf is in all essentials the language of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman, in one and the same native alliterative tradition, and also the language of Chaucer, in the European tradition inherited from the great French and Italian poets. The transition from Beowulf to Dante may seem abrupt, but the poetry of Chaucer, whose assimilation of Italian influences is both formidable and remarkable, requires us to make it. Indeed, the exploration in this volume of Dante’s exposition of love in the Purgatorio takes us to the heart of the poetry that we associate with the period of Chaucer’s greatness in the 1380s and 1390s. Here we see not an anachronistic system of courtly love, imposed on medieval poems by modern critics, but distinctions of natural, sensitive and rational love that make sense (among other things) of the ending of Troilus and Criseyde as the poem’s logical and persuasive conclusion.Table of ContentsContents: The Treachery of Hrothulf – Natural and Spiritual Movements of Love in the Soul: An Explanation of Purgatorio, XVIII. 16-39 – The Validity of Gawain’s Confession in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Langland and the Love of Money: How Piers Beat His Peers – The Ending of Troilus and Criseyde – The Worthiness of Chaucer’s Worthy Knight – Experience and the Judgment of Poetry: A Reconsideration of The Franklin’s Tale – Spenser’s Conception of Courtesy and the Design of The Faerie Qveene – ‘Add faith vnto your force’: The Perfecting of Spenser’s Knight of Holiness in Faith and Humility.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Reading Chaucer: Selected Essays
Book SynopsisThis volume contains ten essays, principally on Chaucer, but also on other English writers of the period such as John Gower, Ranulph Higden and Thomas Hoccleve. The Chaucerian focus includes the dream visions and Troilus and Criseyde as well as the Canterbury Tales. Reading Chaucer is divided into three sections, on Borderlands, Interiors and After-Images. The essays are representative of methods and approaches to Chaucer that are central to current scholarship: textual criticism, interdisciplinarity, manuscript study, cultural context, iconography, close reading and historicism. The book provides a coherent and authoritative introduction to some of the key frameworks – literary, political, social, scientific, aesthetic and religious – within which Chaucer’s works are now read, while covering the full range of his writings and the defining genres of his creative moment, including the chronicle, romance, fabliau and petition.Table of ContentsContents: Higden’s Britain – On the Borders of Middle English Dream Visions – Towards a Bohemian Reading of Troilus and Criseyde – The Prison of Theseus and the Castle of Jalousie – Shot wyndowe (Miller’s Tale, I. 3358 and 3695): An Open and Shut Case? – The Containment of Symkyn: The Function of Space in the Reeve’s Tale – An Optical Theme in the Merchant’s Tale – Is the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale Apocryphal? – Journey’s End: The Prologue to the Tale of Beryn.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Helen Waddell Reassessed: New Readings
Book SynopsisThe Irish writer and critic Helen Waddell burst onto the publishing scene of the 1920s and 1930s as a phenomenon, a scholar whose books became instant bestsellers. Cross-fertilizing academic research with a vivid imagination, her literary history The Wandering Scholars explores the secular joys of the scholares vagantes, an emotional undercurrent traceable throughout the ascetic centuries. Waddell’s translations of Mediaeval Latin Lyrics read as poems in their own right; her novel, Peter Abelard, grounds the tragedy of the famous lovers Heloise and Abelard in the woof and warp of medieval humanism. At the time, the academy acknowledged her learning but deemed her methods insufficiently objective. Modern scholarship has finally caught up with Waddell, and the essays in this volume reassess her achievement from the perspectives of medieval, English, cultural and Irish studies. They investigate this romantic’s modernist insights and demonstrate how her Irish roots were reinscribed in her cross-cultural, transnational humanism. They examine her scepticism regarding conventional historiography and her cutting-edge engagement with medieval theology. They explore the range of her writings, from adaptations of ancient Chinese lyrics through translations from medieval Latin, interacting allusively with cultural ideologies and literary texts. These new readings show how Waddell’s accessible, imaginative, scholarly works continually challenge academic and literary orthodoxies.Trade Review«[T]his book is a delight to read, full of unpretentious scholarship, of exact enthusiasms and lively and suggestive judgements.» (Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Óenach: Journal of the Forum for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Ireland 6.1, 2014)Table of ContentsContents: Constant J. Mews: Helen Waddell and Heloise: The Continuity of a Learned Tradition – Charles Lock: Scholar of the Dark: Helen Waddell and the Middle Ages – Ann Buckley: Wandering Scholars and Saintly Cults: The Liturgical Legacy – Jennifer FitzGerald: Women, Love and Mime: The Evolution of The Wandering Scholars – Stephen Kelly: The Ghost of a Voice: Waddell’s Peter Abelard between Benjamin and Collingwood – Amanda Tucker: Reviving Helen Waddell’s Lost Decade: Ireland and the Transnational Imaginary – Norman Vance: Helen Waddell: Presbyterian Medievalist – Jennifer FitzGerald: Reading (into) The Wandering Scholars: The (Inter)textual Text – Louise Wasson: Women Scholars and Early Twentieth-Century Medievalism: Helen Waddell and Hope Emily Allen – Norman Vance: Writing Beyond Rome and Geneva – Helen Carr: Wandering Poets and the Spirit of Romance in Helen Waddell and Ezra Pound – David Burleigh: Chinese Originals: Helen Waddell and Arthur Waley – Nini Rodgers: Helen Waddell and the Victorian Family.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Diachrony and Synchrony in English Corpus
Book SynopsisThe volume brings together a selection of invited articles and papers presented at the 4th International CILC Conference held in Jaén, Spain, in March 2012. The chapters describe English using a range of corpora and other resources. There are two parts, one dealing with diachronic research and the other with synchronic research. Both parts investigate several aspects of the English language from various perspectives and illustrate the use of corpora in current research. The structure of the volume allows for the same linguistic aspect to be discussed both from the diachronic and the synchronic point of view. The chapters are also useful examples of corpus use as well as of use of other resources as corpus, specifically dictionaries. They investigate a broad array of issues, mainly using corpora of English as a native language, with a focus on corpus tools and corpus description.Table of ContentsContents: Alejandro Alcaraz-Sintes: Dictionary- and corpus-based research in historical linguistics – Nuria Calvo-Cortés: A corpus-based study of gradual meaning change in Late Modern English – Teresa Fanego: Dictionary-based corpus linguistics and beyond: developments in the expression of motion events in the history of English – María José López-Couso/Belén Méndez-Naya: The use of if as a declarative complementizer in English: theoretical and empirical considerations – Matti Rissanen: On English historical corpora, with notes on the development of adverbial connectives – Ondřej Tichý/Jan Čermák: Measuring typological syntheticity of English diachronically with the use of corpora – Salvador Valera-Hernández: Dictionary- and corpus-based research in applied and descriptive linguistics – Miguel-Ángel Benítez-Castro: Formal, syntactic, semantic and textual features of English shell nouns: a manual corpus-driven approach – Eduardo Coto-Villalibre: From prototypical to peripheral: the ‘get + Ven’ construction in contemporary spoken British English – Thomas Egan: Encoding ‘throughness’ in English and French – Beatriz Mato-Míguez: If you would like to lead: on the grammatical status of directive isolated if-clauses in spoken British English – Detmar Meurers/Julia Krivanek/Serhiy Bykh: On the automatic analysis of learner corpora. Native Language Identification as experimental testbed of language modelling between surface features and linguistic abstraction – Juan Santana-Lario: ‘Adjective + whether/if-clause’ constructions in English. An exploratory corpus-based study – Paul Thompson: Exploring Hoey’s notion of textual colligation in a corpus of student writing.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften A Late Middle English Remedy-book (MS Wellcome
Book SynopsisThe present edition offers the diplomatic transcription of MS Wellcome 542, housing a late Middle English hitherto unedited remedy-book based on the medical lore of Hippocrates, Socrates and Galen. A glossary, notes and introduction also accompany the edition. The introduction has been conceived as a state of the art of this scientific treatise, and deals with the textual transmission of the text, a codicological/palaeographic description together with the scribe’s dialect and idiolect. The edition therefore conforms itself as a primary source for research not only in Historical Linguistics but also in other related fields such as the History of Medicine or Ecdotics.Table of ContentsContents: The manuscript – The language.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Is there Hiberno-English on them?:
Book SynopsisThis book studies the uses of the dialect known as Hiberno-English in the works of several canonical Irish writers of the twentieth century: James Joyce, Flann O’Brien, George Bernard Shaw and Brian Friel. Irish writers of this period faced the challenge of creating a literature in English that would be independent of the English literary tradition. The use of Hiberno-English is both a literary device and a practice that bears on the question of an Irish national identity. This work examines above all the uses of Hiberno-English as a literary device. One of the potential functions of a literary text is to call into question received ideas, and the texts discussed here do this with the help of Hiberno-English. Here, this dialect stands as a form of authenticity which is questioned and through which received ideas are criticised. This book also contains a large corpus whose primary purpose is to record the abundance of Hiberno-English in the works under review. The corpus provides a gloss and outlines the grammatical and phonetic features of Hiberno-English.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Trends in Phonetics and Phonology: Studies from
Book SynopsisThis volume was inspired by the 9th edition of the Phonetik & Phonologie conference, held in Zurich in October 2013. It includes state of the art research on phonetics and phonology in various languages and from interdisciplinary contributors. The volume is structured into the following eight sections: segmentals, suprasegmentals, articulation in spoken and sign language, perception, phonology, crowdsourcing phonetic data, second language speech, and arts (with inevitable overlap between these areas).Table of ContentsContents: Jürgen Trouvain: On clicks in German – Ole Schützler: Transforming acoustic vowel data: A comparison of methods, using multi-dimensional scaling – Daniel Friedrichs/Dieter Maurer/Heidy Suter/Volker Dellwo: Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of steady state vowels – Conceição Cunha/Jonathan Harrington/Sylvia Moosmüller/Julia Brandstätter: The influence of consonantal context on the tense-lax contrast in two standard varieties of German – Julia Brandstätter/Christian H. Kaseß/Sylvia Moosmüller: Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German – Yshai Kalmanovitch: The role of longterm acquaintances in speech accommodation – Melanie Weirich/Adrian P. Simpson: Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker sex on vowel length in German – Nadja Schauffler/Antje Schweitzer/Katrin Schweitzer/Petra Augurzky: Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study – Petra Augurzky/Arndt Riester/Fabian Tomaschek: Segmental effects on prosody: Modeling German argument structure – Hansjörg Mixdorff/Ryoko Hayashi/Saori Ushiyama: Identification of word boundaries and accented syllables in German by German and non-German listeners – Tim Bressmann: The poor man’s MRI: Reconstruction of pseudo-3D tongue surfaces from multiple coronal ultrasound images – Felipe Venâncio Barbosa/Janice Gonçalves Temoteo/Rodrigo Rossi Nogueira Rizzo: What generates Location? Study on the arm and forearm of lexical items in the Brazilian Sign Language – Fabian Tomaschek/Hubert Truckenbrodt/Ingo Hertrich: Discrimination sensitivities and identification patterns of vowel quality and duration in German /u/ and /o/ instances – Christina Otto: Vertical variation in East Thuringian - Perception of vowel characteristics of speakers from Zeitz – Daniel Duran: Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods – Mitsuhiro Nakamura: Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: An articulatory-acoustic analysis – Laurence Voeltzel: Dissimilation in Western Nordic – Marie-José Kolly/Adrian Leemann: Dialäkt Äpp: Communicating dialectology to the public - crowdsourcing dialects from the public – Ingrid Hove/Adrian Leemann/Marie-José Kolly/Volker Dellwo/Jean-Philippe Goldman/Ibrahim Almajai/Daniel Wanitsch: Voice Äpp: «My voice - my dialect» – Frank Zimmerer/Jürgen Trouvain: «Das Haus» or «das Aus»? - How French learners produce word-initial /h/ in German – Milena Insam/Barbara Schuppler: Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech - A case study report – Mikhail Ordin/Leona Polyanskaya/Petra Wagner: Development of timing patterns in second language acquisition: A cross-linguistic study – Volker Dellwo/Stephan Schmid: Speaker-individual rhythmic characteristics in read speech of German-Italian bilinguals – Ursula Ritzau: The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish – Kostis Dimos/Leopold Dick/Volker Dellwo: Use of speech and prosody in Composed Theatre – Dieter Maurer/Heidy Suter/Daniel Friedrichs/Volker Dellwo: Acoustic characteristics of voice in music and straight theatre: Topics, conceptions, questions.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 'Truthe is the beste': A Festschrift in Honour of
Book SynopsisThe 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 comprehensive four-text edition of Piers Plowman, the fruit of a lifetime’s work on that text. He has also made a major contribution to the study of Chaucer and the medieval English contemplatives, and these authors also find a place in this collection. The essays presented here are intended to build upon the legacy of Carl Schmidt’s exemplary scholarship.Trade Review«[…] 'Truthe is the beste': A Festschrift in Honour of A. V. C. Schmidt has much to offer its readers, who will find its contents stimulating and masterful.» (M. Teresa Tavormina, The Yearbook of Langland Studies 29/2015)Table of ContentsContents: J. A. Burrow: Punctuation in the B Version of Piers Plowman – Mary Carruthers: Terror, Horror and the Fear of God, or, Why There Is No Medieval Sublime – Helen Cooper: Kynde Names: Acts of Naming in Piers Plowman – Mary Clemente Davlin: The Style of Prayer in Piers Plowman – P. J. C. Field: Malory’s Fyleloly: The Origin and Meaning of a Name – Alan J. Fletcher: Review of A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English (third edition) – Vincent Gillespie: Dame Study’s Anatomical Curse: A Scatological Parody? – Nicolas Jacobs: Nebuchadnezzar and the Moral of the Nun’s Priest’s Tale – Rory McTurk: Aicill in Piers Plowman? – Gerald Morgan: Chaucer’s Tellers and Tales and the Design of the Canterbury Tales – Thorlac Turville-Petre: Proverbs in Middle English Alliterative Poetry – Barry Windeatt: Julian of Norwich and Medieval English Visual Culture.
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Verlag Peter Lang The Decay of a Language: The Case of a German
Book SynopsisTopic of this volume is Pomattertitsch, a German dialect which is doomed to extinction. This Allemanic (Walser) dialect is spoken at Formazza, a tiny Alpine community in Italy, and after centuries of semi-secluded existence is now undergoing major transformations due to the rapidly declining number of its speakers and the limited range of its functions. Within the framework of language decay and death this analysis focuses on phenomena of linguistic variation at a morphosyntactic level. This comprehensive study includes a large body of spoken data collected from informants of different age groups and with different levels of language fluency and thus displays a unique picture of an endangered language.
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Verlag Peter Lang Methods and Data in English Historical
Book SynopsisThis volume contains a selection of papers presented at the First International Conference on English Historical Dialectology (ICEHD), organized at the University of Bergamo in September 2003. It includes papers on fundamental aspects of English historical dialectology, from Old English to Late Modern English. The papers discuss points in two thematically distinct but related sections, Methods' and Data'. The volume also includes the transcript of a debate on methodological issues, in which the main themes are the principles of historical investigation of geographical varieties, the new approaches provided by corpus linguistics and computer technology, and the need for greater awareness of textual reliability.
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Verlag Peter Lang Getting into German: Multidisciplinary Linguistic
Book SynopsisThis volume, composed mainly of papers given at the 1999 conferences of the Forum for German Language Studies (FGLS) at Kent and the Conference of University Teachers of German (CUTG) at Keele, is devoted to differential yet synergetic treatments of the German language. It includes corpus-lexicographical, computational, rigorously phonological, historical/dialectal, comparative, semiotic, acquisitional and pedagogical contributions. In all, a variety of approaches from the rigorously pure' and formal to the applied, often feeding off each other to focus on various aspects of the German language.
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Verlag Peter Lang Clerks, Wives and Historians: Essays on Medieval
Book SynopsisThis volume comprises selected papers of SEM VI to VIII (Studientage Englisches Mittelalter), held at Jena, Bochum, and Zurich between 2004 and 2007. It presents a representative cross-section of topics in the field of English medieval studies in Germany and Switzerland. The spectrum ranges from philological textual criticism, cultural studies centring around the history of ideas, questions of historical writing, alliteration, and the depiction of the monstrous in early modern literature, to philological and linguistic approaches focussing on morphology and grammar.Table of ContentsContents: Roland Schuhmann: The King’s Speech in the Finnsburg Fragment – Sebastian I. Sobecki: That Dizzy Height of Wisdom: Augustinian Vision and Kynde’s Mountain in Piers Plowman B XI – Franziska Scheitzeneder: «For myn entente nys but for to pleye». On the Playground with the Wife of Bath, the Clerk of Oxford and Jacques Derrida – Nicole Nyffenegger-Staub: Subjectivity and Crisis in Fourteenth-Century English Historical Writing – Kathrin Prietzel: Treachery and Betrayal in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: The Incident of 1051 – Thomas Honegger: Romancing the Form: Alliterative Metre and William of Palerne – Winfried Rudolf: Seven Diverse Loans in Middle English Alliterative Poetry - A Preliminary Study – Maik Goth: «Infinite Shapes of Thinges»: Monsters and the Monstrous in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene – Robert Mailhammer: The Typological Significance of Ablaut in the Prehistory of English – Svenja Kranich: Some Problems Connected with the Analysis of Gerunds with Direct Objects in Middle English.
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Verlag Peter Lang Chaucer’s Narrators and the Rhetoric of
Book SynopsisMethods of representing individual voices were a primary concern for Geoffrey Chaucer. While many studies have focused on how he expresses the voices of his characters, especially in The Canterbury Tales, a sustained analysis of how he represents his own voice is still wanting. This book explores how Chaucer’s first-person narrators are devices of self-representation that serve to influence representations of the poet. Drawing from recent developments in narratology, the history of reading, and theories of orality, this book considers how Chaucer adapts various rhetorical strategies throughout his poetry and prose to define himself and his audience in relation to past literary traditions and contemporary culture. The result is an understanding of how Chaucer anticipates, addresses, and influences his audience’s perceptions of himself that broadens our appreciation of Chaucer as a master rhetorician.Table of ContentsContents: Geoffrey Chaucer – Late fourteenth century literature – Orality as a mode of transmitting texts in Middle English literature – The narrator – Rhetorical constructions of the self – The narrator as a persona – Medieval ways of reading texts – Performance of the self – Constructing identities through texts – Identifying audiences in the Middle Ages – Identifying contemporary audiences of historical texts – Rhetorical topoi in literature – Textual transmission in the late fourteenth century – Creating identities in Middle English literature – Defining the relationship between author, narrator, and audience – The idea of the author in Middle English literature – Ricardian social history and literature – Works discussed: The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, The Parliament of Fowls, The Pearl-Poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman, William Langland.
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