The Editor: John Partridge is a graduate of the Universities of Liverpool and Regensburg. After teaching English for seven years in Germany at school and university levels he is now Lecturer in German and Linguistics at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He has published on pragmatics, CALL, the English-language crossword and the expression of passive sense in English and German. His research interests include pragmatics, German–English contrastive linguistics and computer applications for language purposes.

• Contents: John Partridge: Introduction – Manfred W. Hellmann: The Lexicographic Exploitation of the Wendekorpus: Looking back at the Themes and Discourses of the Wende with the Wende-Wörterbuch – Doris Steffens: Neologismen im Deutschen = Angloamerikanismen? – Peter Rolf Lutzeier: Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics – Allan Ramsay/Mathias Schulze: Die Struktur deutscher Worte – Wiebke Brockhaus: No Syllables in German? – Charles V.J. Russ: The language in the Letters of Friedrich Schiller’s Mother: Aspects of Standardisation in eighteenth-century German – John Partridge: Accent in English and German: linguistic or what? – Klaus Fischer: Semantic Transparency and ‘Parole’: Some statistical Observations on German and English Sentences – Elisabeth El Refaie: ‘Strangers’ in Schengen Europe: Discursive Constructions of Refugees in Austrian Newspaper Texts and Images – Regina Weinert: Formulas, Limited Productivity and Rules in Second Language Acquisition – Jenny Bruen: Language Learning Strategies and Oral Proficiency: Profiling the Successful Student.

The Editor: John Partridge is a graduate of the Universities of Liverpool and Regensburg. After teaching English for seven years in Germany at school and university levels he is now Lecturer in German and Linguistics at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He has published on pragmatics, CALL, the English-language crossword and the expression of passive sense in English and German. His research interests include pragmatics, German–English contrastive linguistics and computer applications for language purposes.

• Contents: John Partridge: Introduction – Manfred W. Hellmann: The Lexicographic Exploitation of the Wendekorpus: Looking back at the Themes and Discourses of the Wende with the Wende-Wörterbuch – Doris Steffens: Neologismen im Deutschen = Angloamerikanismen? – Peter Rolf Lutzeier: Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics – Allan Ramsay/Mathias Schulze: Die Struktur deutscher Worte – Wiebke Brockhaus: No Syllables in German? – Charles V.J. Russ: The language in the Letters of Friedrich Schiller’s Mother: Aspects of Standardisation in eighteenth-century German – John Partridge: Accent in English and German: linguistic or what? – Klaus Fischer: Semantic Transparency and ‘Parole’: Some statistical Observations on German and English Sentences – Elisabeth El Refaie: ‘Strangers’ in Schengen Europe: Discursive Constructions of Refugees in Austrian Newspaper Texts and Images – Regina Weinert: Formulas, Limited Productivity and Rules in Second Language Acquisition – Jenny Bruen: Language Learning Strategies and Oral Proficiency: Profiling the Successful Student.

The Editor: John Partridge is a graduate of the Universities of Liverpool and Regensburg. After teaching English for seven years in Germany at school and university levels he is now Lecturer in German and Linguistics at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He has published on pragmatics, CALL, the English-language crossword and the expression of passive sense in English and German. His research interests include pragmatics, German–English contrastive linguistics and computer applications for language purposes.

• Contents: John Partridge: Introduction – Manfred W. Hellmann: The Lexicographic Exploitation of the Wendekorpus: Looking back at the Themes and Discourses of the Wende with the Wende-Wörterbuch – Doris Steffens: Neologismen im Deutschen = Angloamerikanismen? – Peter Rolf Lutzeier: Lexicology and Corpus Linguistics – Allan Ramsay/Mathias Schulze: Die Struktur deutscher Worte – Wiebke Brockhaus: No Syllables in German? – Charles V.J. Russ: The language in the Letters of Friedrich Schiller’s Mother: Aspects of Standardisation in eighteenth-century German – John Partridge: Accent in English and German: linguistic or what? – Klaus Fischer: Semantic Transparency and ‘Parole’: Some statistical Observations on German and English Sentences – Elisabeth El Refaie: ‘Strangers’ in Schengen Europe: Discursive Constructions of Refugees in Austrian Newspaper Texts and Images – Regina Weinert: Formulas, Limited Productivity and Rules in Second Language Acquisition – Jenny Bruen: Language Learning Strategies and Oral Proficiency: Profiling the Successful Student.