Lexicography Books
Lexington Books Redefining the Hypernym Mensch:in in German:
Book SynopsisRedefining the Hypernym Mensch:in in German: Gender, Sexuality, and Personhood examines how the verbalization of ‘human’ in gender normative terms results in implicit exclusion. Situated in the tension between traditional rules and progressive language use, this book criticizes the heteronormativity of masculine hypernyms and argues for the adoption of gender-inclusive linguistic practices.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Conceptionalization of the Human as HeteromasculineChapter 2 The Man, the Human Being and GenderChapter 3 The Change of Categories in the Heterohuman Order
£82.80
Equinox Publishing Ltd Statistical Methods in Language and Linguistic Research
Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is try to illustrate with numerous examples how quantitative methods can most fruitfully contribute to linguistic analysis and research. In addition, it does not intend to offer an exhaustive presentation of all statistical techniques available to linguistics, but to demonstrate the contribution that statistics can and should make to linguistic studies. This book shows how quantitative methods and statistical techniques can supplement qualitative analyses of language. It attempts to present some mathematical and statistical properties of natural languages, and introduces some of the quantitative methods which are of the most value in working empirically with texts and corpora, illustrating the various issues with numerous examples and moving from the most basic descriptive techniques to decision-taking techniques and to more sophisticated multivariate statistical language models.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Some Basic Issues 2. Scales and Variables 3. Parametric Versus Non-parametric Statistics 4. Reducing Dimensionality: Multivariate Statistics 5. Word Frequency Lists 6. Words in Context Appendix 1: Standard Normal Distribution Appendix 2: Examples of Appropriate Statistics Appendix 3: T-distribution Appendix 4: F-distribution Appendix 5: Pearson Product-moment Correlation Coefficient Appendix 6: U-distribution for a Two-tailed Mann-Whitney Test Appendix 7: Sign Test Appendix 8: Chi-square Distribution Appendix 9: Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient
£63.75
Cambridge Scholars Publishing Yesterday’s Words: Contemporary, Current and
Book SynopsisYesterday’s Words: Contemporary, Current and Future Lexicography reflects the main issues of scholarly discussion in the fields of historical lexicography and lexicology including the historiography of lexicography. The state-of-the-art volume offers a wide range of contributions in five chapters. After the editors’ introduction to Yesterday’s Words, the chapter Dictionaries and Dictionary-Makers of Former Ages concentrates on historical lexicography, including both the main lexicographical works in English and German and dictionaries of minority languages such as Frisian, Welsh, Irish and Scots. The Vocabulary of the Past discusses historical lexicological and etymological issues such as the results of early language contact in the West-Germanic area and in Jamaica in more recent times. Researchers involved in ongoing lexicographical projects, such as the first dictionary of Old Dutch, report on their practice and methodological approach in Current and Future Lexicography and Lexicology. Many dictionaries or dictionary research projects discussed in the volume have been or are being carried out in a digital environment. In the final chapter, Technology of Today for Yesterday’s Words, special attention is paid to projects in which computer techniques and the development of new applications have been essential. The volume is an essential text for lexicographers, historiographers and historical linguists.
£39.99
Golden House Publications Die frühen Inschriften Ägyptens: Eine Konkordanz
Book SynopsisThe numbering system for the Early Egyptian inscriptions, which was originally introduced by J. Kahl (1994) and which was expanded by I. Regulski in her Database of Early Dynastic inscriptions, is mapped on the numbering system defined by J. Kahl, N. Kloth and U. Zimmermann (1995) for the 3rd Dynasty inscription and on this of P. Kaplony (IÄF, IÄFS, KBIÄF). The numbering system has been expended to provide a unique identifier for each inscription that can be used as a reference in databases and printed publications. (German introduction.)
£40.50
PIE - Peter Lang Lexicalisation de l'Onomastique Commerciale:
Book SynopsisLes effets du développement de la société de consommation et d'un marché très concurrentiel sont perceptibles de manière privilégiée dans l'essor de l'onomastique commerciale qui occupe un espace de plus en plus important dans notre communication. L''ensemble des articles réunit dans le présent ouvrage se propose de mener une réflexion sur les processus de lexicalisation des noms de marque et de produit, sur leurs motivations, ainsi que sur la complexité de leur encadrement sémantique. En effet, les noms de marque qui entrent dans nos conversations, dans la presse, dans les discours spécialisés, mais aussi dans la musique, le cinéma et la littérature représentent des unités de désignation difficiles à catégoriser, se trouvant à la marge de toute analyse lexicologique, tout comme les noms propres auxquels ces derniers sont souvent assimilés. Cependant, bien que leur rôle soit souvent dénotatif, dans le discours ils se chargent de connotations supplémentaires produisant des effets de sens bien précis. La réflexion menée ici vise à examiner l'onomastique commerciale et sa symbolique en tenant compte du système morphosémantique de la langue française, le plus souvent en relation avec différentes variétés du français ou avec d'autres langues : ce renouvellement lexical de la langue française laisse ainsi apparaître à la fois l'exploitation du patrimoine lexico-phonétique et lexiculturel français, mais aussi une homogénéisation des sons et des sens à l'ère de la mondialisation.
£47.70
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Whose Space is it Anyway?: Place Branding and the
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the potentially deleterious impact of place branding on the social fabric, ecosystems and local economies of the places concerned. As the different essays show, place branding is a fundamentally political practice, often driven by hidden agendas that marginalize certain groups within society. Contributors explore place branding from a wide variety of angles, including: the role played by the visual arts in city branding; the applied arts, and speci cally the fashion industry’s potential for shaping perceptions of a particular place; the different ways in which sport has been exploited by the political elites; the role of design in place branding, including the architectural design of sports stadia; and the potentially insidious economic and societal consequences of excessive consumption of branded places.Table of ContentsWhose Space Is It Anyway? Place Branding: Past, Present, Future Pascale Cohen-Avenel & Graham H. Roberts – Imagining Space – From Drancy to Alentour: A Symbolic Metamorphosis. From Disadvantaged Suburb to UNESCO World Heritage Candidate Heidi Wood – Ethnic Districts Beyond Spectacularization: Mobilising the Public Imagery of Milan’s Chinatown Through Graphic Novels and Artistic Interventions – Giada Peterle & Tania Rossetto – (Re)fashioning Space – From the Steppes to the Runway: Mongolia’s Fashion Imaginary Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas & Babette Radclyffe-Thomas – (Dis)playing Space – Kazan, the ‘Sports Capital of Russia’ Lukas Aubin – Branding Springbok Rugby, Branding the Nation: Memorial Marketing and Nation-Building in South Africa – Bernard Cros – Designing Space – ‘Your Hub in Eurasia!’: Spectacular Logistics and the Rebranding of Azerbaijan Yéléna Mac-Glandières – Consuming Space Who Pays the Price for Consuming Nature? Tourism and the Politics of Belonging in the Rural Coastal Community of Newport, Oregon, USA – Akbar Keshodkar – Beyond Sun, Water, Mountains and Wine: A Question of Rebranding in Mendoza, Argentina Joy Logan – The Businessman as a Samurai: Exoticism in Western Management Literature of the 1980s Séverine Antigone Marin – Afterword – Branded Visions of the Future: Places, People, Politics Nadia Kaneva – The Authors
£31.35
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Terminology in English Language Teaching: Nature
Book SynopsisBased on original research and novel concepts, this book investigates the nature and use of terminology from linguistic and applied viewpoints. Throughout, problems with terminology, such as overuse by teachers and cases of synonymy and polysemy, are considered and solutions are offered. Part One looks firstly at some basic concepts, then draws important distinctions between pedagogic and scientific terminology, and between transparent, opaque and iconic terms, before examining the historical, lexical and grammatical nature of terms. Part Two attempts to estimate the value and relevance of terminology in language teaching and describes the use and knowledge of terminology in various language-teaching-related constituencies: learners, teachers, textbooks, grammars and research. It concludes with a discussion of the criteria for evaluating terms and an analysis of terms used in ELT.Table of ContentsContents: Pedagogic and scientific terminology – Types of terms – The development of terms – The lexis of terms – The grammar of terms – The place of terminology in language teaching – Terminology and learners’ knowledge – Terminology and teachers – Terminology in pedagogic grammars – Grammatical terminology in textbooks – Terminology in research and testing – Evaluating terms: some criteria for the selection of terms – A metalingual analysis of English grammatical terms.
£65.11
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Early Modern Northern English Lexis: A Literary
Book SynopsisThe history of regional ‘Englishes’ in the Early Modern period still presents numerous lacunae that need to be filled, in order to provide a complete insight into the English linguistic setting at this time. This book aims to remedy these deficiencies in some measure. In particular, this monograph seeks to shed light upon the history of Early Modern Northern English vocabulary by means of the first corpus of Early Modern texts where Northern linguistic traits are used for literary purposes. It provides a linguistically documented description of Northern words from a synchronic standpoint, dealing with their distribution, etymology, as well as with some of their morphological and semantic characteristics. In addition, this study offers a discussion of the Early Modern literary representations of Northern speech. A thorough revision of the treatment that Northern lexical items are given in contemporary and modern lexicographic sources is also presented, together with a glossary that outlines the diachronic profile of the terms gathered.Table of ContentsContents: Representations of the North in Early Modern English literature: sources for linguistic analysis – The Salamanca Corpus – Lexicographical sources for the study of Early Modern northern words: data and problems of analysis – Northern and non-northern words used in the literary representations of the North – Etymological, morphological and semantic characteristics of the words recorded – Quantitative investigation into the lexical di alect data of the corpus texts – Lexicological and lexicographical potential of the corpus data – Diachronic profile of the words gathered.
£83.07
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Translation, Technology and Autonomy in Language
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together contributions from academics, language teachers and practitioners from across Europe and beyond to discuss questions of autonomy and technology in the area of language learning and translation. The book focuses on English, French, Italian, Irish and Spanish language acquisition, but many of the essays also develop an interlinguistic perspective from a plurilingual point of view. The book opens with key contributions from a number of leading scholars: Dr Daniel Cassany on critical literacies, Professor Henrik Gottlieb on translation into ‘minor’ languages, and Professor David Little on autonomy in language learning. These are followed by explorations of translation, technology, intercultural issues, autonomous learning and the European Language Portfolio. The volume represents an important contribution to the development of new plurilingual approaches to language teaching and learning.Table of ContentsContents: Daniel Cassany: Foreign Language Reading from the Point of View of New Literacy Studies – Henrik Gottlieb: Translation into ‘Minor’ Languages: Invisibility vs. Anglification – David Little: Learner Autonomy, the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, the European Language Portfolio and Language Teaching at University – Emma García Sanz: El uso del diccionario en el aula de traducción – Elisa Ghia: Audiovisual Translation as Acquisitional Input: Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects – Cristina Oddone: Translation in Language Learning: Comparing and Contrasting Film Titles – Maria Pavesi: The Potentials of Audiovisual Dialogue for Second Language Acquisition – Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez: The Use of Translation towards Foreign Language Autonomous Learning – Verónica C. Trujillo-González: Principales Características y Dificultades traductológicas de un diccionario cultural – Emanuela Cotroneo: Da Facebook a Ning per imparare l’italiano: quando il social network fa didattica – Alessandra Giglio: ‘Racconto L2.0’: Esercitare la Produzione Scritta in Rete – Susanna Nocchi: Buongiorno, mi dica…or: Can a Virtual World Help Me Learn How to Deal with a Real Life Problem? – Florence Le Baron-Earle: Social Media and the Acquisition of Intercultural Communicative Competence: A Focus on Discussion Forums – Victor Bayda: Teagasc na Gaeilge i Stát-Ollscoil Mhoscó – Claudia Borghetti: Pursuing Intercultural and Communicative Goals in the Foreign Language Classroom: Clues from Selected Models of Intercultural Competence – Encarnación Atienza/M. Vicenta González Argüello: El portafolio de formación desde el punto de visa del formando – Patrick Farren: Autonomous Language Teaching: Pre-requisite to Autonomous Language Learning – Belinda McHale: An Foghlaimeoir Machnamhach: Fís Mhíréadúil nó Féidearthacht Mhór? – Linda Butler: Building Autonomy in Language Learning through Drama – Nataša Gajšt: Autonomous Business and Economics Terminology Acquisition in a Bilingual Context: A Glossary Based Approach – Elena González-Cascos Jiménez/Laura Filardo Llamas: Are They Children or Adults? The Lack of Impact of the Tenor Contextual Variable in EFL Classroom Materials – Jennifer Hatte: Technology, Tradition and Flexibility in the Teaching of Second Year ab initio French to Distance University Students in the Australian Context – Éamon Ó Cofaigh: Learning French through Irish: The Impact of Bilingualism on the Acquisition of French as an L3.
£61.75
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Researching Online Foreign Language Interaction
Book SynopsisThis book provides an accessible introduction to some of the methods and theoretical approaches for investigating foreign language (FL) interaction and exchange in online environments. Research approaches which can be applied to Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) are outlined, followed by a discussion of the way in which tools and techniques for data-collection in diverse online contexts can contribute to our understanding of online foreign language interaction. The compilation of chapters presents a comprehensive overview of key issues in virtual, intercultural and multimodal research contexts and gives insight into the particular challenges and situations which this area of language learning implies.Researching Online Foreign Language Interaction and Exchange addresses the needs of researchers and newcomers to the area who are hoping to learn about the current state of the field by providing overviews of varying approaches and extensive literature review as well as extracts of real data to illustrate the theories, methods or issues in question.Table of ContentsContents: Melinda Dooly/Robert O’Dowd: Researching Online Interaction and Exchange in Foreign Language Education: Introduction to the Volume – Jonathon Reinhardt: Accommodating Divergent Frameworks in Analysis of Technology-Mediated L2 Interaction – Françoise Blin: Introducing Cultural Historical Activity Theory for Researching CMC in Foreign Language Education – Paige Ware/Brenna Rivas: Researching Classroom Integration of Online Language Learning Projects: Mixed Methods Approaches – Melinda Dooly/Mirjam Hauck: Researching Multimodal Communicative Competence in Video and Audio Telecollaborative Encounters – Andreas Müller-Hartmann: The Classroom-Based Action Research Paradigm in Telecollaboration – Luisa Panichi/Mats Deutschmann: Language Learning in Virtual Worlds - Research Issues and Methods – Martina Möllering/Mike Levy: Intercultural Competence in Computer-Mediated-Communication: An Analysis of Research Methods – Nina Vyatkina: Applying the Methodology of Learner Corpus Analysis to Telecollaborative Discourse – Breffni O’rourke: Using Eye-Tracking to Investigate Gaze Behaviour in Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication for Language Learning.
£63.74
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Economic Terms and Beyond: Capitalising on the
Book SynopsisThis book, which is aimed at researchers in specialised varieties of English, provides an illustration of how linguists can use terms, i.e. the expression of concepts in specialised fields, as entry points to explore any specialised domain, whether academic or professional, and to get acquainted with its history, its culture, and the evolution of the ideas that have nurtured it. Choosing the field of economics as an example, the author approaches terms from a diachronic, descriptive and contextual perspective, focusing on neonyms, metaphorical, ambiguous or indeterminate terms, as well as interface terms likely to underscore the evolving character of the domain. The analysis points out the role of terms as milestones highlighting key discoveries that have shaped scientific fields; terms can also be considered as barometers of the evolution of knowledge in a specific field and of a changing social environment. Whoever thought terms were only interesting for their definitions or for translation purposes will no doubt be surprised at the insights that can be gained from considering them from a different angle and for other purposes.Trade Review«[Catherine Resche's] book does very well in its avowed aim of opening many windows onto practices, beliefs and intentions in economics mirrored by terms, not to mention a few doors allowing readers to pursue for themselves the topics raised, thanks to various methodological innovations.» (John Humbley, Terminology 20, 2014/1)Table of ContentsContents: Terminology, ESP and Specialised Varieties of English – The specificity of economics – Insights from economic neonyms – Insights from metaphorical terms – Insights from indeterminate terms with relation to discourse – Insights from interface terms.
£61.38
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften «Foreigners», «Auslaender», «Extranjeros»:
Book SynopsisThe book investigates the European debate on culture and identity by pointing to those uses of language that shape the image and perception of migrants in host societies. The term ‘foreigner’ is highly sensitive to changes experienced by communities. Its meanings transcend its traditional semantic scope and lead to the discussion of notions such as nation, nationality, immigration, integration, citizenship, nationalism and multiculturalism. The words ‘foreigner’, ‘Ausländer’, ‘extranjero’ and the network of related terms are discussed from a multidisciplinary approach with the aim of identifying the core features of the concept of ‘foreignness’ in German, Spanish and English. Dieses Buch untersucht die europäische Diskussion über Kultur und Identität. Im Zentrum steht dabei derjenige Sprachgebrauch, der das Bild und die Wahrnehmung hinsichtlich der Migranten in den Gastgeberländern prägt. Bei gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen wandelt sich auch der Gehalt des Begriffs «Ausländer». Seine Bedeutung geht über den traditionellen semantischen Rahmen hinaus und führt zur Diskussion über Konzepte wie Nation, Nationalität, Migration, Integration, Bürgerschaft, Nationalismus und Multikulturalität. Die Wörter ‚foreigner‘, ‚Ausländer‘, ‚extranjero‘ und deren semantisches Umfeld werden fachübergreifend behandelt, um die Grundmerkmale des Begriffs ‚Fremdartigkeit‘ auf Deutsch, Englisch und Spanisch zu identifizieren.Table of ContentsContents/Inhalt: Mariann Larsen Pehrzon: ‘Foreigners’ and the discourse on Multiculturalism – Marta Nadales Ruiz: Portrayals of the English as foreigners: Cultural and linguistic representations in travellers’ discourse – Irene Szumlakowski Morodo: «Menschen ausländischer Herkunft» - Bezeichnungen der Ausländer in den Weihnachtsreden der Staatsoberhäupter in Spanien und Deutschland – Urszula Wojcik: The idea of Nativeness and its repercussions on the concept of Competent Translator – Paloma Sánchez Hernández, Irene Szumlakowski Morodo: Von «Arbeitsmigrant» bis «Zuwanderer» - eine analytische Sammlung deutscher Bezeichnungen für den Begriff «Ausländer» – Paloma Tejada Caller: The static conceptualisation of foreignness in Spanish dictionaries. Implications for a new cognitive frame of migration – Elena Orduna Nocito: Understanding the semantic field of «foreignness» in English: a cognitive-semantic study of the term «foreigner» and other related ones.
£53.46
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften The Perception of Nature in Travel Promotion
Book SynopsisGiven the consolidated effects of the greening process on the tourism industry, this volume investigates the relationship between three areas of research – the natural environment, tourism and discourse –, and how this relationship is affected by and affects society as a whole. In particular, the book highlights the central role of language in constructing eco-friendly tourist sites. Since the images associated to nature are various, this study examines the uses of nature and explores how the terms nature and natural are constructed within the texts. The research identifies how nature is linguistically defined and constructed by advertisers in travel promotion texts in order to attract potential ‘green’ tourists. The study also analyses the promotion of protected areas to verify the extent to which these areas meet the criteria on sustainable tourism set by the World Tourism Organization. By adopting a corpus-based discourse analysis perspective which combines both qualitative and quantitative approaches, the book unravels the complex interrelationship between the environment, tourism and advertising.Table of ContentsContents: The tourism sector and the language of tourism – Environment, Tourism and Advertising: A complex interaction – Research framework – Identifying the linguistic and social construction of nature – Functions of nature – The TPT Corpus and sustainable tourism.
£45.36
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Defining collocation for lexicographic purposes:
Book SynopsisThis volume aims to promote a discussion on the definition of collocation that will be useful for lexicographic purposes. Each of the papers in the volume contains addresses in detail one or more aspects of three main issues. The first issue concerns, on the one hand, the boundaries between collocations and other word combinations, and the way in which lexicographers convey classifications to dictionary users. The second issue is the possibility, or even necessity, of adapting the definition of collocation to the objectives of different types of dictionaries, taking into account their specific micro- and macro-structural properties and their users’ needs. The third issue concerns the methods for collocation extraction. In order to tailor the definition of collocation to the actual dictionary function, it is necessary to develop hybrid methods relying on corpus-based approaches and combining data processing with criteria such as native speakers’ evaluation and contrastive analysis.Table of ContentsContents: Adriana Orlandi/Laura Giacomini: Introduction – Adriana Orlandi: Monolingual collocation lexicography: State of art and new perspectives – Vincenzo Lo Cascio: Congruency principles in word combination and lexicography – Michele Prandi: Distributional restrictions based on word content and their place in dictionaries – Béatrice Lamiroy: For a typology of phraseological expressions: how to tell an idiom from a collocation? – Daniela Capra: What do we talk about when we talk about collocation in Spanish? – Gloria Corpas: Pastor: Collocations dictionaries for English and Spanish: the state of the art – Laura Giacomini: Defining collocations for lexicographic purposes. A matter of boundaries and arrangement – Veronica Benigno/Olivier Kraif: Core vocabulary and core collocations: combining corpus analysis and native speaker judgement to inform selection of collocations in learner dictionaries – Francis Grossmann/Agnès Tutin: NOUN PREP NOUN collocations in French: the case of scientific lexicon – Luigi Matt: Italian dictionaries of collocations.
£75.64
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Explorations in Second Language Vocabulary
Book SynopsisReflecting current understanding of vocabulary as a multifaceted construct, this edited volume presents a collection of qualitative and quantitative studies which shed light on key theoretical concepts associated with learning and using vocabulary in second language contexts. Themes explored in the volume include the concept of partial vocabulary knowledge, the relationship between reading ability and vocabulary knowledge, the specialised vocabulary of high school science, morphological and orthographical components of word learning, the impact of word aspects on difficulty of learning, the nature of affix knowledge, and early speech development. The findings presented in the volume contribute to our growing and deepening appreciation of the contribution of vocabulary knowledge to learning and using language in second language contexts.Table of ContentsDavid Hirsh: Introduction – Hua Flora Zhong: Partial Vocabulary Knowledge of Young English as Foreign Language Learners – Xuan Wang: How Is Vocabulary Knowledge Related to Reading Ability in a Second Language Context? – Warren Matsuok/David Hirsh: The Specialised Vocabulary of High School Science –Chen-Chun Lin: Metalinguistic Knowledge of Morphology and Orthography in L2 Word Learning – Hua Flora Zhong/David Hirsh: Difficulty Level of Word Aspects: An Exploratory Study of Development Hierarchy of Vocabulary Acquisition – Apisak Sukying: Investigating Receptive and Productive Affix Knowledge in EFL Learners – Yuko Yamashita: Experts on Language Learning: The Shaping of Children’s Speech Development During the First Two Years of Life Through Universal and Language-specific Characteristics – Notes on Contributors
£59.44
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Palabra de maestro: Análisis del léxico
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£57.74
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual
Book Synopsis Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues presents ground-breaking research on the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality. The book includes papers on key theoretical issues (the nature of evidential inference and the challengeability criterion for evidentiality), and descriptive studies covering various European languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Catalan and Latvian), based on general corpora or specific discourse types. The prominent corpus-based contrastive methodology uncovers a wide range of idiosyncratic discourse-pragmatic features of diverse languages, discourses and genres. The contributions are representative of the work on evidentiality and epistemic modality in a substantial number of countries.Table of ContentsTable of Contents- Introduction - Marta Carretero, Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Elena Domínguez Romero and Mª Victoria Martín de la Rosa- Section A. Evidentiality: Conceptual Issues - Patrick Dendale and Johanna Miecznikowskiand Tabea Reiner Section B. Evidentiality and Modality: Descriptive Issues and Corpus-based Studies-. Nicolas Tournadre , Tanja Mortelmans , Aoife Ahern, José Amenós-Pons, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, . Cecilia-Mihaela Popescu and Oana-Adriana Duţă, Dorota Kotwica, Andreu Sentí and Andra Kalnača and Ilze Lokmane- Section C. Evidentiality and Modality in Discourses and Genres -. Natalia Mora-López and Liisa Vilkki - Notes on Contributors - Marta Carretero, Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Elena Domínguez Romero and Mª Victoria Martín de la Rosa
£54.00
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften A linguistic Insight into Legislative Drafting:
Book Synopsis The main assumption proposed in this book is that legislative drafting represents an example of professional discourse, where the propositions of specialized information is translated into meanings, and such meanings are given as input to the rules and strategies of grammatical formulation. A relevant question for our understanding of modern legislative process is related to the effects of ‘context’ at different levels, within which legislative process takes place. By looking at those levels, the analysis conducted in the book demonstrates that it becomes possible to reach a deeper understanding of the professional groups taking part in the process, better assess the lexico-grammatical and textual features of its final product (i.e., normative texts), and suggest alternative linguistic and textual strategies aimed at making texts more accessible to potential readers and/or intended users.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements — Introduction — Law and language — Professional discourse and legislation — The UK Parliament — Legislative drafting process — Improving legal communication — Conclusions — References — Appendix — Index
£41.40
Verlag Peter Lang The Influence of French on Eighteenth-Century
Book SynopsisThis book seeks to establish the degree to which Gallicisms permeated the Russian language in the eighteenth century. The largest group of borrowings were the semantic and phraseological calques. In order to examine this influence, the author has selected scores of examples from the original works, translations and correspondence of Russian writers from the 1730s to the end of the century. The calques analysed belong to various registers of the literary language, from the prose used in essays and correspondence to the most lyrical form found in poetry and certain translations. This book concludes that the French influence was overwhelming and fully enhanced the Russian literary language that was developed during this period.
£72.27
Peter Lang AG Language Contact and the Lexicon in the History
Book SynopsisCypriot is unique among the Modern Greek dialects in possessing such a variegated vocabulary testimony, indeed, to the chequered history of the island. This book presents a thorough investigation of the foreign component of the Cypriot lexis. It traces, firstly, the relevant socio-cultural factors that gave rise to it. It presents, secondly, a detailed account of how words from sources as diverse as Romance, Arabic, Turkish and English became fully nativised and indistinguishable from the native stock. A fresh case study of language contact and lexical borrowing, it addresses such issues as the extent of lexical borrowing, the types of vocabulary borrowed, the relationship between the social integration and the structural adaptation of loans, and the degree and predictability of the phonological, morphological and even semantic modification affecting foreign words.
£45.27
Verlag Peter Lang The Interpretation of the Hebrew Word A' (people)
Book SynopsisThis study of the word people in the biblical context touches one of the central issues of biblical literature. The author addresses the semantic and literary-critical problems involved in interpreting the Hebrew word ?? within the complex texts of 1-2 Samuel and 1-2 Kings. While the word is often rendered by the English word people and its cognates in the modern languages, it is also shown that the idea of people, together with its semantic range in the modern usage, is not identical to the ancient Hebrew. Concerted effort is thus made to identify the basic factors and patterns that explain its meaning in various Hebrew contexts. The study explains how ?? expresses both Israel's identity as a secular polity as well as its identity as a religious entity. The discussion is carried out in the light of a number of chosen texts, and these are analyzed both synchronically and diachronically.
£88.88
Verlag Peter Lang Modern Approaches to Terminological Theories and
Book SynopsisThis volume comprises contributions originally presented at the 15th European Symposium on Languages for Special Purposes held at the University of Bergamo on 29 August - 2 September 2005. The volume is divided into four parts: Approaches to Terminological Theories; Terms in Discourse; Knowledge Elicitation, Ordering and Management; Term extraction and terminographical work. The research presented in the various contributions to this volume clearly indicates that terminology as an inter- and transdisciplinary field of knowledge is firmly developing its theoretical foundations and practical applications in accordance with and within the framework of its overall goal: to ensure and to augment the quality of communication with professional content.
£97.06
Verlag Peter Lang Syntax, Style and Grammatical Norms: English from
Book SynopsisThe volume features a selection of new work presented at the 2004 meeting of the International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL). Main conference themes reflected in this volume are: the maturation and broadening of historical corpus linguistics, a new interest in English for Specific Purposes as a diachronic phenomenon, and the role of grammar writing in the process of change. A further thematic strand of this book is the significance of functional aspects in the development of grammar and discourse, especially in domains beyond phonology and morphology. Several contributions focus on the operation of socio-pragmatic and functional factors in historically identifiable social networks, especially in the 18th century. Apart from that there is also a strong emphasis on developments in the 19th and 20th centuries.
£66.29
Verlag Peter Lang The Directionality of Conversion in English: A
Book SynopsisThis book received the Leocadio Martín Mingorance award This book describes three of the main problems that the word-formation process known as conversion presents, namely those related to its definition, its delimitation, and its directionality. The latter constitutes, however, the main focus of the study, which is based on a corpus of over seven hundred lexical units and, more specifically, on 231 actual noun-verb conversion pairs. Considering that directionality is intrinsic to conversion, the main question is whether it is always possible to establish the direction of conversion or whether it is possible to do so only in some cases. Moreover, the study reveals what type' of directionality is involved, that is, whether the process is unidirectional, bidirectional or multi-directional. In order to answer these questions, both diachronic (etymology and dates of first records) and synchronic criteria (semantic dependence, restriction of usage, semantic range, semantic pattern, phonetic shape, morphologic type, stress, and the principle of relative markedness) are analysed and assessed.
£74.66
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De Gruyter Synagoge: [Synagoge lexeon chresimon] Texts of
Book SynopsisThe "Synagoge" (Gk: collection of useful word explanations) is one of the most important lexicographical sources from early Byzantine times. The anonymous author quotes extracts from the works of ancient authors which have not been preserved elsewhere and gives details of customs and myths from the epoch. At the same time, he presents his own age and provides a rich source of information on education and scholarship. The present edition combines all the available manuscripts of the oldest version of the "Synagoge", and thus provides the first complete and critical survey of the context of the genesis and developmental stages of this work. In addition, the second part presents a new edition of the letter alpha from manuscript B, which contains particul-arly valuable data and thus required a new edition, the only previous version dating back to 1828. Comprehensive indexes provide access to the edition.Trade Review"Die neue Ausgabe der Synagoge ist praktisch die erste Ausgabe, die diesen Namen verdient. Es ist ein grundsolides und zuverlassiges Werk, das eine grosse Lucke unserer Kenntnis schliesst; wir haben dem Autor fur seine langjahrige und aufopferungsvolle Arbeit zu danken:"Helmut von Thiel in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 2/2005
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De Gruyter Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics: A Mutualistic Entente
Book SynopsisThe recent history of linguistics has witnessed the development of some disciplines that were conceived apart but benefited from common intuitions. One example of this phenomenon is the relationship established throughout time between pragmatics and corpus linguistics. Although their arrival heralded the application of two paradigms based on distant theoretical principles, they always showed an interest in their mutual advances and their practical reconciliation gave birth to an intellectual synergy that proved very fruitful. The present volume is an homage to the symbiosis of pragmatics and corpus linguistics and gathers the works of some of the scholars that have striven to create the liaison between them for a better understanding of language.
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De Gruyter Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement
Book SynopsisThe theory of signifying (significs), formulated and introduced by Victoria Welby for the first time in 1890s, is at the basis of much of twentieth-century linguistics, as well as in other language and communication sciences such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, translation theory and semiotics. Indirectly, the origins of approaches, methods and categories elaborated by analytical philosophy, Wittgenstein himself, Anglo-American speech act theory, and pragmatics are largely found with Victoria Lady Welby. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say, in addition, that Welby is the "founding mother" of semiotics. Some of Peirce's most innovative writings - for example, those on existential graphs - are effectively letters to Lady Welby. She was an esteemed correspondent of scholars such as Bertrand Russell, Charles K. Ogden, Herbert G. Wells, Ferdinand S. C. Schiller, Michel Bréal, André Lalande, the brothers Henry and William James, and Peirce, as well as Frederik van Eeden, Mary Everst Boole, Ferdinand Tönnies, and Giovanni Vailati. Her writings directly inspired the Signific Movement in the Netherlands, important for psycholinguistics, linguistics and semantics and inaugurated by van Eeden and developed by such authors as Gerrit Mannoury. This volume, containing introductions and commentaries, presents a selection from Welby's published and unpublished writings delineating the whole course of her research through to developments with the Significs Movement in the Netherlands and still other ramifications, contemporary and subsequent to her. A selection of essays by first-generation significians contributing to the Signific Movement in the Netherlands completes the collection, testifying to the progress of significs after Welby and even independently from her. This volume contributes to the reconstruction on both the historical and theoretical levels of an important period in the history of ideas. The aim of the volume is to convey a sense of the theoretical topicality of significs and its developments, especially in semiotics, and in particular its thematization of the question of values and the connection with signs, meaning, and understanding, therefore with human verbal and nonverbal behavior, language and communication.
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De Gruyter A Dictionary of Atong: A Tibeto-Burman Language of Northeast India and Bangladesh
Book SynopsisAtong is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India and Bangladesh. In this dictionary, Seino van Breugel provides a rigorous, well-illustrated and well-referenced lexical description of the language, making this book of great interest and value to general linguists, typologists, as well as area specialists and cultural anthropologists. Comprising not only of an Atong-English, but also an English-Atong dictionary, as well as semantic lexica, this volume is one of the most thorough lexical descriptions of a Bodo-Garo language to date. The grammatical lexica allow the reader quick access to lists of members of the various Atong word classes, collocations and idiomatic expressions. The grammatical compendium makes this book self-contained, while its many references link it to the rest of the author’s corpus on the Atong language. The appendix of photos not only provides visual illustrations to many of the Atong dictionary entries, but also offers the reader a glance at the physical environment in which the language is spoken.
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De Gruyter Dictionary Use and Dictionary Teaching
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de Gruyter The Theory and Practice of Examples in Bilingual
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Walter de Gruyter Ein Fachsprachliches Elektronisches
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de Gruyter Spießförster Sprossen
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De Gruyter Sixty years of Swedish computational lexicography
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de Gruyter Lexicography of Coronavirusrelated Neologisms
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de Gruyter Wörterbuch Der EweSprache
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de Gruyter Zur Japanischen Phototypieausgabe Des
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De Gruyter Konkordanz Zu Goethes Werken
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Harrassowitz Der Verstohlene Blick: Zur Metaphorik Des
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Harrassowitz Supplement to the Akkadian Dictionaries: Vol. 2:
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Harrassowitz Dra' Abu El-Naga II: Hieratische Ostraka Und
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Harrassowitz Fluche Und Unfromme Wunsche in Der Arabischen
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Das Dialektologische Informationssystem Von
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Peter Lang AG The Incorporation of Nigerian Signs in Deaf
Book SynopsisIn a country like Nigeria with over 200 spoken languages and hundreds of dialects, many consider the talk of a Nigerian sign language emerging, an impossibility. The research and results documented in The Incorporation of Nigerian Signs in Deaf Education in Nigeria, A pilot Study, and A Dictionary of Nigerian Signs, Volumes I and II respectively, offers this possibility. This dictionary, the first of its kind, constitutes a good reference book in the implementation of the Nigerio/Americo Communication System for the Deaf, recommended for classroom instruction. This method, which promotes the use of Nigerian signs with supplements from the American Sign Language in classroom instruction, lays a foundation for the growth of a Nigerian sign language over time. The provison of this dictionary, which is subject to expansion, would most likely speed up this growth. These books provide the deaf, educators of the deaf, administrators and all those interested in the education of the deaf in Nigeria and indeed in the whole of Africa, with a new insight into deaf education.
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Peter Lang GmbH A Corpus-based Study of Proper Names in
Book SynopsisBased on a large sample of press data extracted from the British National Corpus (BNC), the book undertakes a detailed investigation of present-day English proper names, an important but under-researched area in English linguistics. Employing the statistical technique of binary logistic regression, this book presents a new method of analysing non-discrete categories in linguistics with reference to the grammatical notion of gradience and the principle of parsimony. The focus is particularly on the grammatical factors influencing the choice between use and non-use of the definite article a well-known issue of uncertainty in modern English. The study also concentrates on multi-word organisation names, which have been little studied, although they occur frequently in newspaper language and have special characteristics of their own. By making precise predictive statements about the conditions under which the definite article is preferred or dispreferred, the book is also able to shed light on the theory of linguistic performance.
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Peter Lang AG Englischer Sprachkontakt in den Varietaeten des
Book SynopsisDieser Band enthält eine Auswahl von zehn Aufsätzen, welche auf Vorträgen basieren, die in der Sektion Language & Linguistics des Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations (CAGCR) am Queen Mary College der University of London seit Herbst 2006 gehalten wurden. Behandelt wird zunächst die Frage nach der Stellung der Sprachwissenschaft in den britischen German Studies. Sodann wird nicht nur der englischsprachige Einfluss auf das deutsche, österreichische und schweizer Deutsch abgedeckt, sondern auch jener des Deutschen auf das Englische. Weitere Beiträge beschäftigen sich hinsichtlich Anglizismen mit deren Integration, mit Problemen ihrer Genusbildung, mit ihrem Vorkommen im Luxemburgischen, mit ihrer Rolle in einer multiethnischen Jugendsprache, sowie mit möglichen Zusammenhängen zwischen Sprachpurismus und Globalisierung. This volume contains a selection of ten papers based on lectures which have been given in the Language & Linguistics section of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations (CAGCR) at Queen Mary, University of London, since autumn 2006. The first paper discusses the position of Linguistics in British German Studies; subsequent papers discuss not only the influence of English on Swiss German, Austrian German, and German in Germany, but also the German influence on English. Other papers deal with the integration of anglicisms in the German language, problems of the grammatical gender of anglicisms, their position in Luxembourgish, their role in a multi-ethnic youth variety, and the connections between linguistic purism and globalization.Table of ContentsAus dem Inhalt/Contents: Falco Pfalzgraf: Vorwort – Sylvia Jaworska: Where Have All the Linguists Gone? The Position of Linguistics in British German Studies from the mid-19th Century until 2000 – Anthony Stanforth: The Influence of High German on the English Language – Alexander Onysko: Divergence with a Cause? The Systemic Integration of Anglicisms in German as an Indication of the Intensity of Language Contact – David Yeandle: English Loan Words and their Gender in German. An Etymological Perspective – Kerstin Paul/Eva Wittenberg: «Aşkım, Baby, Schatz...». Anglizismen in einer multiethnischen Jugendsprache – Rudolf Muhr: Anglizismen und Pseudoanglizismen im Österreichischen Deutsch: 1945-2008. Ein Bericht – Felicity Rash: «Englisch ist cool»: The Influence of English on Swiss German – Gerald Newton: The English Influence on Luxembourgish – Falco Pfalzgraf: Sprachpurismus und Globalisierung – Melani Schröter: Der Thatcher-Merkel-Vergleich in der britischen und deutschen Presse 2005.
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Peter Lang AG Corpus Linguistics, Computer Tools, and
Book SynopsisContents: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: PALC 2007: Where are we now? – Paul Rayson/Dawn Archer/Alistair Baron/Nicholas Smith: Travelling through time with corpus annotation software – Eugene H. Casad: Parsing texts and compiling a dictionary with shoebox – Belinda Maia/Rui Silva/Anabela Barreiro/Cecília Fróis: ‘N-grams in search of theories’ – Piotr Pęzik/Jung-jae Kim/Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann: MedEvi - A permuted concordancer for the biomedical domain – Patrick Hanks: Why the «word sense disambiguation problem» can’t be solved, and what should be done instead – RafałTrade Review«PALC celebrates its 10th anniversary with a bumper conference proceeding – comprising papers on challenges related to learners of English, machine and human translation, terminology extraction, subtitling and challenges related to the role of the ubiquitous Internet in teaching and learning of languages. And, if this was not enough there are two papers related to what the authors call the equivalent of a GUT (grand unified theory) of language. PALC is a conference which always has had an exciting mix of scholars, looking at language from different perspectives but unified in using text corpora, and now speech corpora, and in substantiating their claims through the use of the corpora. And, it is in PALC that West is now meeting East: the Anglo-American-Continental linguists are finding about central and eastern European scholarship; a touch of Chinese and Arabic language scholarship makes PALC a heady mix. These proceedings should and will be widely read.» (Khurshid Ahmad, Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin)Table of ContentsContents: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: PALC 2007: Where are we now? – Paul Rayson/Dawn Archer/Alistair Baron/Nicholas Smith: Travelling through time with corpus annotation software – Eugene H. Casad: Parsing texts and compiling a dictionary with shoebox – Belinda Maia/Rui Silva/Anabela Barreiro/Cecília Fróis: ‘N-grams in search of theories’ – Piotr Pęzik/Jung-jae Kim/Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann: MedEvi - A permuted concordancer for the biomedical domain – Patrick Hanks: Why the «word sense disambiguation problem» can’t be solved, and what should be done instead – Rafał L. Górski: Representativeness of a written part of a Polish general-reference corpus. Primary notes – Michael P. Oakes: Measures from information retrieval to find the words which are characteristic of a corpus – Dimitra Anastasiou/Oliver Čulo: Using topological information for detecting idiomatic verb phrases in German – Elżbieta Dura: Synergies in term extraction from different corpora – Jurij Fiedoruszkow: Methods for electronic retrieval of new words in Russian – Michael Hoey/Matthew Brook O’Donnell: The beginning of something important?: Corpus evidence on the text beginnings of hard new stories – Dagmar Divjak: On (in)frequency and (un)acceptability – Agnieszka Kaleta: Corpus-cognitive methods in discriminating between synonyms: a case of ‘to end’ and ‘to finish’ – Audronė Šolienė: Markers of epistemic possibility and necessity in Lithuanian and English: A corpus-based study – Janusz Badio: Verb complementation in speech - a corpus study – Heli Tissari: On the concept of sadness: Looking at words in contexts derived from corpora – Peter Crompton: Definiteness and indefiniteness in theme: A corpus-based analysis – Anna Bączkowska: Contrasting Polish and English prepositions: The case of w/na deszczu vs. in the rain and w/na słońcu vs. in the sun – Anna Kamińska: Creating comparable corpora for historical syntactic studies: The case of Old English and Old High German – Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski: Variation across disciplines and genres. A preliminary multi-dimensional analysis – Christoph Haase/Josef Schmied: Clause linking in specialized and popular academic English: An investigation into scientific texts from the space corpus – Jerzy Gaszewski: Polish and English answering systems – Salvatore Giammaressi: Second generation Translation Memory systems and formulaic sequences – Julia Lavid: Contrastes: An online English-Spanish textual database for contrastive and translation learning – Meng Ji: Phraseology in corpus-based translation studies – Włodzimierz Sobkowiak: Dictionary definitions as text corpora - a phonolexicographic perspective – Michal Křen: Compilation of the Dictionary of Karel Čapek – Piotr Bański/Beata Wójtowicz: New XML-encoded Swahili-Polish dictionary: Micro- and macrostructure – Geoffrey Williams: Are We European? What verbs reveal about identity in Le Monde and elsewhere – Adam Pawłowski: Corpus approach to the Polish communist propaganda language from the Stalinist period (1953). The method of Short Semantic Representation (SSR) – Monika Kopytowska: Key concepts in framing Africa’s problems - analysing a corpus of TV news reports – Alex Boulton: Looking for empirical evidence of data-driven learning at lower levels – Joanna Jendryczka-Wierszycka: Vagueness in Polglish speech – Łukasz Grabowski: FLT and teaching translation with the National Russian Corpus. Theoretical overview, actual state and future prospects in Poland
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Peter Lang AG People, Products, and Professions: Choosing a
Book SynopsisWhen people collaborate in professional contexts, and more specifically, when they communicate about and through products in business contexts, they have to make a series of basic choices, one of them concerning the language used in the communication. Another, more long-term-oriented decision is the choice of a name for one’s business or product. The two questions are closely related, since in both cases it is an issue of self-presentation for the communicating company or business person. Wenn Menschen in beruflichen Kontexten kooperieren, und insbesondere, wenn sie in Wirtschaftskontexten über Produkte kommunizieren, betrifft eine ihrer grundlegenden Entscheidungen die Wahl einer Sprache für die Interaktion. Eine andere, längerfristige, ist die Wahl eines Namens für Firma oder Produkt. Die beiden Fragen hängen eng zusammen, denn in beiden Fällen geht es darum, wie man sich als Unternehmen oder als Unternehmer selbst präsentiert.Table of ContentsContents/Aus dem Inhalt: Eva Lavric/Fiorenza Fischer/Carmen Konzett/Julia Kuhn/Holger Wochele: Introduction: Professional Name and Language Choices – Marietta Calderón: Frankophonie in Israel. Englisch als LSP in Migrationskontexten – Maya Khemlani David/David Yoong Soon Chye: Code Switching. Talking Down to Older People? – Isabel A. Knoerrich: Consideration of Code Choice and Code Switching in Work Contexts in Ceuta and Gibraltar – Bernhard Bäck: Sprachwahl im Export am Beispiel eines erfolgreichen österreichischen Unternehmens aus der Holzindustrie – Žofia Mrázová: Sprachenpolitik und Sprachgebrauch in der internen und externen Kommunikation eines internationalen Unternehmens in Frankreich – Theresia Schweiger: Sprachwahl in grenznahen Klein- und Mittelunternehmen. Untersuchung zum Bedarf an Tschechisch- und Slowakischkenntnissen im Weinviertel – Kathrin Harder: Multilingualism in Professional Contexts - A Study on Aspects of Language Planning in Internationally Active Companies – Ulla Kleinberger: Mehrsprachigkeit in Schweizer Großbetrieben. Englisch im Aufwind – Helen Kurukulasuriya: Informelle Kommunikation im Großraumbüro – Eva Lavric: Code Choice / Code Switching in Professional Contexts. FL Departments, Business, FL Classrooms – Martin Stegu: Code Switching Awareness - Ein Sonderfall von Sprachbewusstheit – Cornelia Feyrer: Code-switching im translatorischen Handeln - Transferkompetenzen perspektivisch anders betrachtet – Miriam Paola Leibbrand: Code switching und frühe Zweisprachigkeit beim Simultandolmetschen. Eine experimentelle Untersuchung – Carmen Konzett: «Buongiorno a tutti, je vais parler en anglais»: Code Choice and Code Switching in Conversations at Academic Conferences – Ioana-Rucsandra Dascalu: The Phenomenon of Diglossia (Latin and the Vernacular Languages) in Ecclesiastical Latin – Fiorenza Fischer: Von 150710 ZM311 8473 bis zu «Riesiges Kuschelsofa»: Der Informationsgehalt bei Produktnamen im Spannungsfeld Produzent / Konsument. Transparenz versus Opazität – Elwys de Stefani: Spielen Warennamen bei der Kaufentscheidung eine Rolle? Eine Untersuchung spontaner Kundeninteraktion – Eva Martha Eckkrammer: Baycip & Co: Nachforschungen zur Unternehmenspräsenz in pharmazeutischen Produktnamen – Sigrid Muselmann: Kulturelle Elemente in italienischen Lebensmittelmarken – Bertie Neethling: Names as a Vehicle towards Transformation in the South African Wine Industry – Paula Sjöblom: The Linguistic Origin of Company Names in Finland – Julia Kuhn: Gedanken zur Instrumentalisierung von Kunst in der externen Unternehmenskommunikation. Eine exemplarische Untersuchung am Beispiel der Ergonymik von Mexiko DF – Holger Wochele: Regal, Royal, Republică: Synchronische und diachronische Aspekte der Benennung von Hotels am Beispiel von Italien und Rumänien.
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Peter Lang AG Metaphors of the Web 2.0: With Special Emphasis
Book SynopsisThis study is an attempt to semantically decompose the most popular metaphorical expressions associated with two particular Web 2.0 practices: social networks and folksonomies. What is a friend on a social networking Web site like MySpace and StudiVZ? Is it polite to poke strangers on Facebook and give them fives on hi5? How can we subscribe to RSS feeds, if we don’t pay subscription fees? Do we really broadcast ourselves on our YouTube channels? These and other similar questions are dealt with from the perspective of the referential and the conceptual approaches to meaning, i.e., what these words stand for (referential/extensional approach) and which concepts they signify (conceptual/intensional approach). Thus, from the referential point of view, a friend on MySpace is only a hyperlink directing to a profile page of another MySpace user. But from the intensional point of view, a friend is a subscriber to the content generated by the profile owner.Table of ContentsContents: Web 2.0 – Internet – Metaphor – Social networks – Folksonomies – Registration – Profile – Friend – Poke – Tagging – Subscribe – Channel – Tag cloud – Social bookmarks – Search engines – Homepage – RSS – Facebook – MySpace – StudiVZ – hi5 – YouTube – Flickr – Delicious – Metonymy – Cognitive linguistics – Semantics – Pragmatics – Grammar – Sociology.
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