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Book SynopsisRhetorische Fähigkeiten sind gefragt! Gut und wirkungsvoll zu reden und zu verhandeln, ist in unserer medienorientierten Gesellschaft wichtiger denn je. Nach einem umfangreichen historischen Abriss bietet der an Schulen und Universitäten erprobte Klassiker eine grundlegende Einführung in die Technik und Methode der Redekunst. Das Werk stützt sich dabei auf das antike Rhetoriksystem, das bis heute als das theoretisch differenzierteste gilt. Für die 5. Auflage wurde der Band durchgesehen und aktualisiert.

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Book SynopsisSprachkritik ist – in einem ganz allgemeinen Verständnis – die positive wie negative Würdigung der menschlichen Sprache und ihrer Leistungen sowie des Gebrauchs, der von ihr gemacht wird. Diese Würdigung kann sich auf verschiedene Sprachbeschreibungsebenen beziehen: etwa auf das Wort und auf den Satz, auf den Text und auf den Diskurs, auf die Rechtschreibung und auf den Stil. Als wissenschaftliche Handlung setzt Sprachkritik theoretische Grundlagen, systematische Ansätze und Methoden der Beschreibung und Bewertung von Sprache und Sprachgebrauch voraus. Ausgehend von dem Konzept der funktionalen Angemessenheit präsentiert das Handbuch den aktuellen Forschungsstand der linguistisch begründeten Sprachkritik.Table of ContentsI. Einleitung.- II. Wortkritik.- III. Text-/Stilkritik.- IV. Diskurskritik.- V. Kritik am kommunikativen Handeln.- VI. Querschnittsthemen.- VII. Anhang

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on a hitherto neglected area of research within the fields of academic and professional discourse: the language of conferencing. The volume represents a range of perspectives, from the conference as a whole event to the conference as a system of potential genres, within a given discourse community. Some discourse features of conference language are examined in detail, such as strategies for politeness and other interpersonal management during presentations and discussions. The pedagogical implications of conference research are also addressed; and indeed there is a growing need for such a focus. Novice conference participants need explicit linguistic description of and training in, the relevant genres to enable them to become fully-fledged members of their professional discourse communities. Additionally, the work in this volume makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of the intercultural and educational dimensions of the increasing dominance of English as an international lingua franca in conferences and beyond.

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Book SynopsisStyle is an important component of communication: it is the how in communicating the what, demonstrating the ontological unity of the two in language variability that provides the ground for the functioning of what-how and what-for. This volume approaches style within the framework of cognitive linguistics, a usage-based functional model, which interprets language as being conceptual, whereas conceptual knowledge is interpreted as experiential. Consequently, style is considered not as a set of predetermined ornaments on texts, but as a system of context-sensitive probability schemes of formation contributing to the meaning of discourse. Style is the outcome of linguistic potential, constrained by socio-cultural factors, functioning in the on-line and consolidated stylistic structure of discourse.

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Book SynopsisThis book deals with various indigenous traditions of grammatical thought across the globe. Its main perspective is a cross-cultural sociolinguistic and anthropological linguistic account of Indigenous Grammar. The concept (relating to Bruno Liebich's term Einheimische Grammatik') is taken in its widest sense here to account for a continua of forms and ways of language-oriented research, various degrees of systematic reflection on language structure and use, the culture-specific ingredients of different grammatical schools, linguistic and folk-linguistic speculation, language awareness, linguistic ideologies and similar endeavours. Some assumptions underlying the central hypotheses of this book are: Linguistics, every grammatical description, has a strong cultural binding. It is worthwhile to describe the culturally bound differences in a systematic fashion. There are indigenous grammars and grammarians of entirely different denominations than what Western linguists are accustomed to dealing with. A heuristic continua of indigenous grammar can be set up which is worth being studied by linguists in a cross-cultural comparative fashion.

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Book SynopsisIm Zentrum der Beiträge steht die Erforschung des soziolinguistischen Phänomens deutsche Sprachinsel' unter kontaktlinguistischem, sprachhistorischem, dialektologischem und sprachpolitischem Aspekt. Die vielfältigen linguistischen und soziolinguistischen Entwicklungen, die deutsche Sprachvarietäten außerhalb des deutschen Sprachraums durchlaufen, konvergieren dabei letztlich in dem Gegeneinander von Spracherhaltung und Sprachverlust. The focus of the essays is the investigation of the sociolinguistic phenomenon of German linguistic enclaves with respect to language contact, language history, dialectology and language politics. The multifaceted linguistic and sociolinguistic developments, which German language varieties separated from the German-speaking homeland undergo, converge in the final analysis in the juxtaposition of language maintenance and language loss.

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Book SynopsisWhen something is in focus, light falls on it from different angles. The lexicon can be viewed from different sides. Six views are represented in this volume: a cognitivist view of vagueness and lexicalization, a psycholinguistic view of lexical access in speech production, a patholinguistic view of lexical organization in schizophrenics, and three analyses from different points of view in computational linguistics, which deal with problems of the syntax-semantics interface, compositionality, and systematic polysemy. A metalinguistic initial contribution outlines the historical development of lexical semantics with its complementary, competing and converging strands. The introduction completes this integration of the different facets of research into a wider picture of lexicology.

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Book SynopsisThis publication describes the usage of languages in the multilingual society of Ethiopia. It is based on empirical studies conducted in nine states of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in 1997 and 1998. A research team of German and Ethiopian scholars surveyed about 3,500 high school students from 35 Ethiopian towns regarding their language behaviour. The data on the distribution of mother tongues and second languages are published here for the first time and are representative for a typical Ethiopian town. These data outline the development of multilingualism over three generations (students/parents/grandparents) and elucidate factors which promote the spread of multilingualism. The frame for the representation and explanation of the data is an adapted model of the social network theory.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of selected papers dealing with the interplay between language and mind, with an emphasis on the role of the lexicon in this relationship. The lexicon is a very important part of any contemporary linguistic model nowadays, and can be studied from different perspectives. However, the focus here will be on the lexicon as an interface between mind activity and the linguistic message in terms of meaning, both denotative and connotative, because the lexicon is perhaps the most important conceptual descriptive structure that can show how mind interacts with language.

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Book SynopsisEstonian and Latvian are members of different language families. Estonian is a Finno-Ugric language, while Latvian belongs to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European languages. The cultural and socio-political developments of Estonia and Latvia, however, have been remarkably similar since the Christianisation of the two peoples in the 13th century. The Estonian and Latvian cultures were both moulded to form part of Christian Europe by German-speaking mediators who worked hard from the 16th to 18th centuries in order to create the Estonian and Latvian literary languages by translating ecclesiastical texts. The authors assume that similarities in the cultural history must have left some similar traces in the structures of the two languages as well. This book represents a collection of papers on certain common developments in the Estonian and Latvian cultural history, which are obviously related to the formation of the two literary languages.

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Book SynopsisThe collection of articles chosen by the editors presents a broad variety of issues connected with Jewish languages (Judeo-Spanish, Yiddish) and co-territorial languages used by Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews in different places and periods. Thus, the book contains both strictly linguistic and sociolinguistic descriptions (including the aspects of evaluating language, language in contact or linguistic identity), the presentation of languages in literary works (and their translations) from different periods, as well as lexicographical and cultural observations. This thematic variety shows opportunities for the research into the languages of both Jewish groups and inspires other scientific projects in this field.Table of ContentsYiddish and Judeo-Spanish speakers and the acquisition of English - A positive image of Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish in the Jewish Press - Sarajevo Sephardim and their linguistic and Jewish identification - Eating and drinking among Bulgarian Sephardim - Language as Oikos: the case of Margalit Matitiahu - Sefer ha-Berit in Ladino - Yitskhok Katsenelson’s Dos lid fun oysgehargetn yidishn folk - The Yiddish subjective resultative construction

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Book SynopsisThis volume is dedicated to Professor Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Head of the Department of English and General Linguistics at the University of Łódź, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It includes texts written by his students, colleagues and friends, dealing with a variety of urgent, widely discussed topics in the contemporary language studies. Spanning contributions from language history, philosophy, rhetoric and argumentation, methodology, and discourse studies, it provides an authoritative outline of the field and a timely response to the existing challenges, thus making for a concise handbook of modern linguistics. It is recommended to graduate students of philology, as well as researchers working in linguistics and other disciplines within the broad spectrum of humanities and social sciences.Table of Contentslinguistics – language history – philosophy of language – argumentation – rhetoric – methodology – discourse studies – challenges in language analysis – interdisciplinarity – domains of linguistics – research procedures – methods of linguistics – linguistic theory – language data

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Book SynopsisEva Teshajev Sunderland studierte Angewandte Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Sie arbeitete an der Universität Miskolc (Ungarn) sowie an der Adam-Mickiewicz-Universität Poznan (Polen) und ist seit 2017 an der Europa-Universität Viadrina tätig. Im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit steht das einflussreichste lexikografische Werk der Volksrepublik Polen, das einsprachige Wörterbuch Slownik jezyka polskiego, herausgegeben von Witold Doroszewski (SJPDor).Es wird gezeigt, inwiefern das SJPDor als zeitgeschichtliches Dokument die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen in der Volksrepublik fixiert, wie sich die politischen Rahmenbedingungen auf das SJPDor auswirkten, in welchem Umfang eine politische Einflussnahme nachgewiesen werden kann und mit Hilfe welcher lexikografischen Mittel politisch-ideologische Inhalte transportiert werden. Als Untersuchungsmethoden dienten die Auswertung von Archivquellen, Befra-gung der am SJPDor beteiligten Lexikografen, Analyse des Wörterbuchtextes und der Vergleich mit anderen Wörterbüchern.

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Book SynopsisThe book describes the fate of Poles in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. Poland did not exist for over a hundred years on the political map of Europe at that time, and the Poles had to fight for the opposite sides of the conflict: Germany, Austria, and Russia. In the German army, regiments recruited in Poznań, Upper Silesia, Masuria, and Eastern Pomerania were considered as “Polish.” They were sent to the Western front and participated in the great battles of Arras, Verdun, and the Somme. Poles were also present on the Eastern front, in the Balkans, on the Italian front, and even in the colonies. An important part of the forgotten history of Poles in the Kaiser’s army was the relationship between Polish soldiers and German officers. In regiments recruited on the Polish soil, it was common to use the Polish language, and from 1917 Poles deserted to the Polish Army formed in France.Table of Contents Table of Contents I. Poles in Prussian Regiments Before the First World War The Prussian Army After the Unification of Germany Poles in Prussian Regiments Before the First World War The Recruit’s Training II. First Fights in Autumn 1914 The Mobilization Border Struggles To the West Baptism of Fire Rossignol Cutry Baslieux Always Marching III. In the Trenches of the Western Front A Soldier in the Trench Assault and Defense New Armaments Losses Beyond the Front German Officers and Polish Soldiers IV. Major Battles in the West Verdun The Battle of the Somme Lorette V. On the Eastern Front Galicia and the Carpathians Transylvania In Northern Russia The Eastern Front in the Eyes of a Pole in a German Uniform VI. On the Italian Front VII. 1918: Failed Spring Offensive and Retreat Last German Offensive The Retreat Postwar Epilogue Annex Afterword to the English Edition Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is the role and position of Russophone/Russian culture in Ukraine today? How can the dynamics of Ukrainian culture lend insight into the possibility of a global Russian culture, or multiple Russian cultures, in the contemporary world? The author responds to these questions by investi-gating the interplay between literature, politics, market, and identity in the contemporary Ukrainian cultural process (1991–2018). This book explores the contested encounters of the Russian language and culture with other languages, cultures, and traditions in the post-Soviet space, highlighting pressing contemporary issues related to—and affected by—political and social developments.Trade ReviewThis book will be of interest to anyone working in the field of post-Soviet studies or interested in post-Soviet subjectivities, in that it makes a clear case for others to consider hybridity as an analytical tool in their studies of post-Soviet contexts. (Anna Vozna, Ab Imperio, 2020/4, 336-340) Marco Puleri’s 291-page book reframes the simplified notions of identity clashes in Ukrainian society and demystifies the perception of Ukrainian Russophonia […] The volume can be considered as an indispensable read for both students of social sciences and humanities, as well as for researchers interested in the subject (Géza Barta, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2021) Marco Puleri’s book is a thought-provoking study which for the first time consequently maps the Russophone literature from Ukraine as a hybrid discourse and a liminal cultural practice. (Alexander Chertenko, Ideology and Politics Journal, 2 (16), 2020: 382-391) This book is an excellent attempt in unmasking the current situation of Ukrainian culture. This book will appeal to scholars of both Ukraine and Russia, helping to set the stage for future analysis of identity in greater post-Soviet space. (Dexter Blackwell, H-Net Reviews, July 2021). […] diese Arbeit einen äußerst wichtigen Beitrag zur gegenwärtigen Slawistik mit ihren Teildisziplinen dar. Neben seinen konkreten, überaus (er-) kenntnisreichen Analysen, die sowohl für RussistInnen als auch für UkrainistInnen von großem Interesse sein werden, liefert seine Arbeit dringend notwendige Impulse für die konzeptionelle Weiterentwicklung, ja vielleicht sogar Neuausrichtung der zukünftigen Slawistik im Allgemeinen und der Russistik im Besonderen. (Miriam Finkelstein, Anzeiger für Slavische Philologie, (XLVII) 2019, 187-196) A rendere originale e pionieristico questo contributo sono non solo l'oggetto di studi e la cospicua mole di letteratura specialistica con cui intraprende un proficuo dialogo critico, bensì anche il fatto di fornire una prospettiva sui più recenti sviluppi socioculturali in Ucraina dal punto di vista degli intellettuali russofoni e della loro produzione letteraria; il volume costituisce pertanto una lettura che risulterà assai utile non solo per chi si interessi di Ucraina, ma per chiunque voglia conoscere meglio le complesse sfaccettature della realtà culturale dei paesi post-sovietici (Fabio De Leonardis, Nazioni e regioni, 16, 2020, 76-78).Table of Contents Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration Introduction: From (Global) Russian to Ukrainian Culture—and Back Again From Russianness to Russophonia In-between (Literary) Russophonia Recasting “Ukrainianness” through the Prism of “Russianness” The Long Road to Post-Soviet Transition: A Russophone Perspective Part I: From Culture to Politics—Displaced Hybridity/ies (1991–2013) Chapter 1 The Missing Hybridity: Framing the Ukrainian Cultural Space Ukraine: A Laboratory of Political and Cultural Identity/ies Shifting Social Dynamics in Post-Soviet Ukraine New (Old?) Cultural Standards in the Post-Soviet Era Post-Soviet Russophonia in Ukraine: An Intellectual (and Political) Debate In Search of a New Self-Determination Chapter 2 Post-Soviet (Russophone) Ukraine Speaks Back 81 Ukrains’ka Rosiis’komovna literatura versus Rosiis’ka literatura Ukrainy The Self-Identification in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature in Russian At the Intersection of Two Cultural Models From Marginality to Minority Chapter 3 A Minor Perspective on National Narrative(s): Deterritorializing Post-Imperial Epistemology Andrei Kurkov: The Displaced Transition in Mass Literature Of Other Spaces (and Of Other Times): Aleksei Nikitin’s Literary Heterotopias Vladimir Rafeenko: The Ukrainian “Magical Realism” Part II: From Politics to Culture—After Revolution of Hybridity (2014–2018) Chapter 4 Hybridity Reconsidered: Ukrainian Border Crossing after the “Crisis” Dialectic of Transition from Post-Soviet to Post-Maidan: Between Old and New Narratives Moving Centripetally: Reconsidering Hybridity The (Political) Acceleration of Cultural Change Chapter 5 Values for the Sake of the (Post-Soviet) Nation Towards Shifting Cultural Policies in the Post-Maidan Era Envisioning Identity Markers after the Ukraine Crisis At the Crossroads between Normative Measures and Blurred Cultural Boundaries in the Post-Soviet Space Chapter 6 Towards a Postcolonial Ethics: Rewriting Ukraine in the “Enemy’s Language” Demistifying Anticolonial Myths: The “Ukrainian Russians” Transgressing the (National) Code: Recasting History and Language in Light of War The End of the Transition? In Place of a Conclusion: The Future of “Russianness” in Post-Maidan Ukraine Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBritish representations of Spain and Portugal have often relied on persistent ideological biases, prejudices, and interpretations. This volume aims to offer a broader, more nuanced outlook on the last five hundred years of Anglo-Iberian relations. The chapters focus on relatively little-known episodes and figures in Anglo-Iberian history and cover a wide temporal span: from the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth century. They aim to look beyond the clichéd dichotomies, received ideas, and normative voices that have often charac-terised mainstream studies. Ultimately, the book seeks to expose and transcend stereotyped narratives emphasising Anglo-Spanish acrimony and contribute to mutual understanding.Table of ContentsAnglo-Iberian relations – Spanish Dominicans – Religion – Translation – Roderigo de Cuero – Paul Rycaut – The Critick – Diplomacy – Politics – Emotions – Women writers – Gertrude Thimelby – Iberian motifs, – Ideological representations – Colonies – Darien Scheme – Scotland – Brazil – Periodicals – British travellers – Don Esteban – Reviews – Opera – Byron en Venecia

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Book SynopsisNicht die belgischen Symbolisten, sondern kaum bekannte Autoren der französischsprachigen Literatur Belgiens sind Gegenstand der acht Arbeiten, die der Marburger Romanist im vorliegenden Band zusammengestellt hat. Mögen sie auch so disparate Fragestellungen behandeln wie André van Hasselt und die belgische Romantik oder auch die Rezeption des Kreuzritters Gottfried von Bouillon im belgischen 19. Jahrhundert, so zeichnet doch alle Artikel ein gemeinsames kulturhistorisches Interesse aus, ohne dass ein genuin literaturwissenschaftlicher Ansatz zu kurz käme. Geradezu Curiosia greifen die beiden Artikel über den Prince de Ligne und den Kunsthistoriker Antonio Ponz auf. Ersterer entdeckt bei einer Reise auf die Krim die Relevanz der mit dem Schwarzen Meer verbundenen antiken Mythen. Letzterer beschreibt bei seiner Rückreise nach Spanien die einstigen Spanischen Niederlande.Der vorliegende Band bietet eine kenntnisreiche Darstellung, die nicht als Randgebiet abgetan werden sollte.

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Book SynopsisDas Nordisch-Baltische Germanistentreffen (NBGT) ist das wichtigste Forum für den fachlichen Austausch der in der Germanistik bzw. im Hochschulfach Deutsch Tätigen in Dänemark, Estland, Finnland, Island, Lettland, Litauen, Norwegen und Schweden.Der Band versammelt ausgewählte Beiträge des XII. Nordisch-Baltischen Germanistentreffens 2022 in Reykjavík und bietet einen Überblick über die aktuelle sprachwissenschaftliche, literaturwissenschaftliche und didaktische Forschung in der Region.Angesichts der zahlreichen internationalen Vernetzungen sind die vorgestellten Ergebnisse auch über die nordischen und baltischen Länder hinaus von Bedeutung.

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Book SynopsisDie elf Beiträge dieses Bandes diskutieren theoretische, methodische und praxisbezogene Problemfelder sprachbiographischer Forschung. Dabei umspannen sie die zentralen Anwendungsgebiete des sprachbiographischen Zuganges wie die Untersuchung von Mehrsprachigkeit und Migrationsprozessen und die Regionalsprachenforschung. Sie fragen zugleich nach der Aussagekraft sprachbiographischen Materials für die Rekonstruktion gesellschaftlicher Sprachwandelprozesse, verbreiteter Einstellungsmuster und Identitätskonstruktionen. Und sie erörtern das heuristische Potential des noch jungen Forschungsparadigmas für solche Bereiche, die bislang noch wenig im Fokus sprachbiographischer Analysen standen, wie die Gebärdenkommunikation oder die historische Soziolinguistik. Auf diese Weise dient der Sammelband sowohl einer Standortbestimmung des sprachbiographischen Paradigmas als auch seiner methodischen und thematischen Weiterentwicklung.

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Book SynopsisEn esta obra se estudia la trayectoria vital y literaria de Bartolomé Gutiérrez (1701-1758): poeta culto tardobarroco -y popular al mismo tiempo-, así como autor de una Historia de Xerez, en cuatro tomos, que no llegó a ver impresa. Se aborda la ecdótica de su paratexto y se analizan en detalle las circunstancias vitales que obstaculizaron e impidieron finalmente su publicación.La segunda parte de la monografía ofrece importantes testimonios de la obra de Gutiérrez, en la que destaca la variedad de composiciones inéditas, así como el texto crítico íntegro del Poema histórico, las octavas proemiales de la Historia y las distintas redacciones paratextuales.Nos encontramos, en definitiva, ante una sólida obra que desvela con rigor y amenidad los variados registros de Gutiérrez, a través de cuyas páginas desfilan importantes figuras de la centuria ilustrada como Mayans, Feijoo, Flórez o Campomanes, así como los inexcusables historiógrafos de la Antigüedad y del Siglo de Oro.

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Book SynopsisDieses Lehrbuch führt aus einer komparatistischen Perspektive in die linguistische Beschreibung und Analyse des Deutschen, Englischen, Französischen, Italienischen und Spanischen ein. Die charakteristischen Lauteigenschaften, Flexionsmerkmale und Wortbildungsprozesse sowie der diesen Sprachen eigene Satzbau werden vorgestellt. Eigene Kapitel widmen sich den historischen Entwicklungen dieser Sprachen sowie den sozial und geographisch geprägten Varietäten, so dass eine umfassende Darstellung dieser fünf Sprachen, ihrer Strukturen, ihres Gebrauchs und ihrer historischen Entwicklung entsteht. Zwei Kapitel zur Semantik und Pragmatik, die universelle Aspekte der Bedeutungsanalyse bzw. der Prinzipien des Sprachgebrauchs erläutern, runden das Bild ab. – Im zweifarbigen Layout mit Definitionen, Vertiefungen und Übungsaufgaben. Goethe formulierte: „Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen“. Prägnanter kann man den Nutzen einer komparatistischen Darstellung nicht formulieren. Um die Besonderheiten des Deutschen klar zu erkennen, ist die Gegenüberstellung mit der dominanten Weltsprache Englisch sowie den romanischen Sprachen Französisch, Italienisch und Spanisch von großem Nutzen. Für Studierende des Englischen und romanischer Sprachen erlaubt die komparatistische Perspektive einen besonders reflektierten Zugang zur Linguistik der studierten Fremdsprache.Table of Contents1 Phonetik und Phonologie.- 2 Syntax.- 3 Morphologie.- 4 Semantik.- 5 Pragmatik.- 6 Varietätenlinguistik.- 7 Diachrone Linguistik.

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