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Del 59 - DASK – Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
Translating Tolkien
Philological Elements in "The Lord of the Rings"
AvAllan Turner,Ulrich Ammonm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
860 kr
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The literary works of J. R. R. Tolkien, especially The Lord of the Rings, are marked by their author’s professional interest in the history of English. This study shows how philological features such as nomenclature, archaism and echoes of Old English poetic forms have been reflected in a selection of published translations into Germanic and Romance languages. It demonstrates how current translation theory based on a hermeneutic approach can explain translators’ compensation techniques such as the use of analogous historical resources in the target languages, and how these can preserve literary and poetic effects. In doing so, it also offers a survey of characteristic stylistic features in the source text.
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Empowerment through Language and Education
Cases and Case Studies from North America, Europe, Africa and Japan
AvAlbert Weideman,Birgit Smieja
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
762 kr
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The last two decades have alerted applied linguists and their bureaucratic counterparts – those who make or advise government on language policy – to the issue of dealing with language problems in an accountable fashion. Why do these problems seem so intractable? How is it that these problems have not yet satisfactorily been solved? What is it that continues to drive the interest in this? To the scholars from many parts of the world who have been invited to discuss this anew in the proposed volume, it was evident that language planners, policy makers and language managers do not know just how much work there is for language teachers to do if all of the academically desirable arrangements or policies proposed are to be implemented successfully. Indeed, the challenge to implement these at times ambitious plans of language policy makers is normally much bigger than the policy makers estimate.
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Language, Mind, and the Lexicon
AvIraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano,Carlos Inchaurraldem. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
846 kr
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This 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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Martin Aedler and the «High Dutch Minerva»
The First German Grammar for the English
AvFredericka van der Lubbe
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 009 kr
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Who wrote the High Dutch Minerva? And why? This work seeks to disprove the reasons offered by scholars for the emergence of the first German grammar for the English, the High Dutch Minerva (1680), by considering biographical material on the author, Martin Aedler (1643-1724), placing the author and his work in their German and English social contexts. It argues that Aedler, a lecturer in Hebrew, published his grammar for the use of the English intellectual elite, but did so to satisfy the patriotic imperatives of members of the German language societies and their desire to legitimate the German language for a new audience; Aedler does this through the use of universal grammar. Included is an edition of his correspondence which sheds light on the teaching of Hebrew at Cambridge.
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Trends in Cognitive Linguistics
Theoretical and Applied Models
AvJavier Valenzuela,Ana Rojom. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
1 702 kr
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This book aims to give a general overview of the current theoretical and applied models which are being developed in the field of Cognitive Linguistics. With this purpose in mind, a number of papers have been selected from some of the most representative areas in the cognitive linguistics arena: mental imagery, metaphor and metonymy, cognitive grammar and construction grammar, the pragmatic and discourse background of language use and linguistic relativism. Some of the contributions presented herein propose new ways to refine existing theoretical frameworks: others apply some of those existing theoretical proposals to specific areas; and a final group aims to provide empirical grounding to some of the theoretical assumptions found in Cognitive Linguistics.
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«No, they won’t ‘just sound like each other’»
NNS-NNS Negotiated Interaction and Attention to Phonological Form on Targeted L2 Pronunciation Tasks
AvLaura Sicola,Martin Pütz
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
955 kr
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Can two non-native speakers (NNSs) work together to improve their L2 pronunciation? This book explores this question by extending task-based learning research into the field of L2 phonology/pronunciation. Three university-level L2 English pronunciation classes performed a two-way, interactive map task balancing communicative value and form essentialness in order to maximize the need to negotiate the target form. Analysis sought to identify processes by which NNSs drew each other’s attention to the targeted phoneme through corrective feedback, modified production and other strategies. The influence of task design was also explored. Participants’ ability to push each other toward more targetlike control – rather than appropriating each others’ non-targetlike productions – provided evidence of steps in adult learners’ L2 phonological development, and hold implications for the use of a task-based approach to teaching pronunciation in the L2 classroom.
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Language Use in Business and Commerce in Europe
Contributions to the Annual Conference 2008 of EFNIL in Lisbon
AvGerhard Stickel (EFNIL)
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
721 kr
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The linguistic domains of business and commerce are especially affected by the economic and communicative globalization. Since language use in these domains has an impact on the use of a language in other domains, the future development of the European languages will not mainly depend on language-internal processes, but will increasingly be influenced by the use of English as the international vehicular language. The present development in Europe is discussed in several overview articles and a series of reports on the specific situation in various European countries. In addition, the Lisbon Resolution of EFNIL, pointing at the advantages of multilingualism in international business, is presented in 26 languages including the 23 official languages of the European Union. It calls the EU and its members to acknowledge languages as key factors for economic success, also from the perspective of consumers and workers.
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Understanding Tropes
At the Crossroads between Pragmatics and Cognition
AvJavier Herrero Ruiz
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
1 360 kr
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This book attempts to analyse irony, paradox, oxymoron, overstatement, understatement, euphemism, and dysphemism from the point of view of both Cognitive Linguistics and Pragmatics. In order to do so, we have regarded each trope as a cognitive model, and observed that the various ICMs that resulted from this approach had in common an essential feature: they were all constructed around the creation of contrasts. Also, we have developed a common processing model for these ICMs, which shows that these so-called figures of speech can be fully considered conceptual mechanisms of meaning creation and derivation. Apart from determining which specific pragmatic implications these models bring about and studying their underlying cognitive operations, we have argued that they should be described in terms of the contextual effects they produce. Therefore, a new classification and definition of these tropes is provided.
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Code Switching in Malaysia
AvMaya Khemlani David,James McLellanm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
734 kr
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Code switching seems to be natural for most multilingual speakers because they can switch from different languages freely depending on what is available in their linguistic repertoire. This collection of studies aims to bring current Malaysian code switching and language alternation research to the attention of a worldwide readership. In so doing we attempt to follow the path taken by our late friend, colleague and mentor, Professor Rodolfo Jacobson. The approach and conceptual framework adopted by the contributors in this volume tends to focus more towards the functional rather than the purely linguistic or grammatical. Research into Malaysian code switching demonstrates the need to seek out ways of merging these approaches, rather than keeping them separate, and several of the chapters in this volume attempt such a merger of approaches and methods.
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Language, Languages and New Technologies
ICT in the Service of Languages- Contributions to the Annual Conference 2010 of EFNIL in Thessaloniki
AvGerhard Stickel (EFNIL),Tamás Varadi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
655 kr
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The development of smaller and more powerful computers and the introduction of new communication channels by the interlinking of computers, by the Internet and the World Wide Web, have caused great changes for linguistics. They affect the methods in the various disciplines of pure linguistics as well as the tools and ways of applied linguistics such as translation and interpretation, language teaching, learning, and testing. This volume presents general reflections and overview articles on these new developments by noted experts followed by reports on the concrete uses of information technologies for linguistic purposes in different European countries and at the European Parliament. A discussion of another important linguistic issue is added: the various uses of the highly symbolic term national language.
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Malaysian English
Language Contact and Change
AvSiew Imm Tan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
878 kr
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Malaysian English: Language Contact and Change is a corpus-based study of contemporary Malaysian English. Based on linguistic features extracted from the Malaysian English Newspaper Corpus, this study demonstrates the diverse ways in which Malaysian English has changed as a result of contact with Malay and Chinese languages. The interactions between groups of speakers who are dominant in English and those who are dominant in Malay or Chinese have resulted in wide-ranging changes in Malaysian English. Multilingual individuals who juggle several languages in their daily communications have also shaped the structure of this variety. This volume suggests that variation and change in Malaysian English are the results of both the communal acquisition and the maintenance of English by a multilingual community.
Del 93 - DASK - Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
Untergreabt Deutschland Selbst Die Internationale Stellung Der Deutschen Sprache?
Eine Folge Der Feorderung Von Englisch Im Bildungsbereich
AvHans Wagener
Inbunden, Tyska, 2012
725 kr
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Die Arbeit untersucht, wieweit durch das Englische die Position des Deutschen als Fremd- und Wissenschaftssprache Schaden nimmt. Die Zahlen von 2005 und 2010 der Ständigen Arbeitsgruppe Deutsch als Fremdsprache (StADaF) mit dem starken Verlust an Lernern des Deutschen scheinen dies nahe zu legen. Ein Drittel der befragten Lehrenden des Deutschen als Fremdsprache oder der Germanistik sieht diese Gefahr ebenfalls. Ein Zurückdrängen der Rolle des Englischen ist bei der globalen Entwicklung in allen Bereichen sicher nicht möglich. Es kann also nur eine Balance zwischen der Verwendung des Englischen und Deutschen und insgesamt ein Festhalten an Mehrsprachigkeit angestrebt werden. Vorschläge, wie dies erreicht werden kann, bietet das Schlusskapitel und greift dabei auch die Empfehlungen der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz vom November 2011 zur Sprachenpolitik an den Hochschulen auf.
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Language Education in Creating a Multilingual Europe
Contributions to the Annual Conference 2011 of EFNIL in London
AvGerhard Stickel (EFNIL),Michael Carrier
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
605 kr
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The European Union has conceived itself as multilingual since its beginning in 1956. EFNIL, the network of the central language institutions of all states of the Union and several other European countries, promotes the enhancement of individual plurilingualism of the people in Europe as an important prerequisite for European multilingualism. The EFNIL conference hosted 2011 by the British Council in London was devoted to the discussion of how individual plurilingualism is being achieved by language education in Europe. In this volume, several general reflections on the main topic are followed by a critical discussion of present language instruction in the United Kingdom and reports on foreign language education in various other countries. Reports on four current projects that aim to describe the present linguistic diversity of Europe follow. A detailed interim report on the results of one of these projects (ELM) concludes the book.
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Lexical Challenges in a Multilingual Europe
Contributions to the Annual Conference 2012 of EFNIL in Budapest
AvGerhard Stickel (EFNIL),Tamás Varadi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
746 kr
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The tenth EFNIL conference investigated the different ways in which people in Europe access lexical information – both in their own language and in other languages – and how governments, language institutions, publishers, and others go about the business of compiling and disseminating this lexical information. In this volume, general reflections by several experts on the history, the present state and new developments of lexicography in Europe are presented, followed by reports on special lexicographic projects in several European countries. The Budapest Resolution of EFNIL on the Lexical Challenges in Multilingual Europe offered in the official languages of most of the member states of the European Union and other European countries concludes the book.
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Languages at War: External Language Spread Policies in Lusophone Africa
Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau at the Turn of the 21 st Century
AvCarla Figueira
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
888 kr
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This study explores the argument that postcolonial Africa has been the setting for competing external language spread policies (LSPs) by ex-colonial European countries at the turn of the 21st Century. It focuses on the external LSPs developed by the governments of Portugal, Brazil, United Kingdom, France and Germany towards Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau from the 1990s to the present. The study offers a perspective on the web of relationships involving European ex-colonial powers and the African postcolonial countries of Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. The author seeks to examine the development of external (European) LSPs and the construction of politico-linguistic blocs in a complex context whilst taking into account the colonial heritage and its lingering dependencies, the construction and maintenance of nationhood and the increasing globalisation of the world.
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Dictionary of Camfranglais
AvHector Kamdem
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
812 kr
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This book is a simple and clear presentation of the lexis of Camfranglais, an urban youth sociolect in Cameroon. It presents this sociolect as an outgrowth of language contact phenomena that have fossilized especially around the Littoral Region of Cameroon. Methodologically speaking, it uses a lexicographic as well as an ethnographic approach to data collection. Lexical elements have been collected from such diverse sources as Cameroonian popular music, online chat groups and forums like Facebook, blogs, Youtube videos etc. Besides there were group conversations organized for the collection of data. The major strength of this book lies in the diversity and authenticity of its sources which are all traceable. Moreover, all the regular statements it makes about the origin, semantic categories, grammatical classes of the lexis of Camfranglais are the result of the necessary lexical manipulations that should precede these statements. A complete alphabetical lexicon of Camfranglais is presented, and, where possile, etymologies are given. For all entries, real examples are quoted so as to guide the reader to the usage of words. Idiomatic expressions are also presented for different lexical entries. The book will serve as reference for those working on Camfranglais as well as a starting point for lexico-semantic studies on Camfranglais.
Del 109 - DASK – Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
Language Use in University Teaching and Research
Contributions to the Annual Conference 2014 of EFNIL in Florence
AvGerhard Stickel,Cecilia Robustelli
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
899 kr
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The twelfth conference of the European Federation of the National Institutions of Language (EFNIL) at the Accademia della Crusca dealt with the increasing tendency to use English as the language of academic instruction and research in Europe. This development can be seen as progress in international scientific communication at the cost of all languages other than English. The volume presents general reflections, reports and discussions on the linguistic situation at the universities of various European countries, some with a historical perspective. As a conclusion it offers a «Resolution of Florence concerning Language Use in University Teaching and Research» in the 26 official languages of most member states of the European Union and other European countries.
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Studies on Language Norms in Context
AvElena Maria Pandolfi,Johanna Miecznikowskim. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
1 039 kr
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This book deepens the insight into the setting and monitoring of language norms in different contexts. One focus lies on institutional contexts, in which the authors examine standardization, language policy and the implementation of usage norms. In the context of language learning, the authors investigate cognitive strategies of L2 norm construction by initial learners, L2 norms in grammars as well as interactional norms regulating teacher behavior. Finally, the volume theoretically explores the nature of discourse norms and examines their management and metadiscursive formulation in a variety of communicative activities and genres.Contributions to the volume are predominantly in English, some in German.
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Vanishing Languages in Context
Ideological, Attitudinal and Social Identity Perspectives
AvMartin Pütz,Neele Mundt
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
1 105 kr
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This volume grew out of the 36th International LAUD Symposium, which was held in March 2014 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. There is general consensus among language experts that slightly more than half of today’s 7,000 languages are under severe threat of extinction even within fifty to one hundred years. The 13 papers contained in this volume explore the dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why this matters, and what can be done and achieved to document and support endangered languages especially in the context of an ever increasing globalized world. The issue of vanishing languages is discussed from a variety of methodologies and perspectives: sociolinguistics, language ecology, language contact, language policy/planning, attitudes and linguistic inequalities.
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Linguistic Change in Galway City English
A Variationist Sociolinguistic Study of (th) and (dh) in Urban Western Irish English
AvArne Peters
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
907 kr
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This volume is a novel approach to the corpus-based variationist sociolinguistic study of contemporary urban western Irish English. Based on qualitative data as well as on linguistic features extracted from the Corpus of Galway City Spoken English, this study approaches the major sociolinguistic characteristics of (th) and (dh) variability in Galway City English. It demonstrates the diverse local patterns of variability and change in the phonetic realisation of the dental fricatives and establishes a considerable degree of divergence from traditional accounts on Irish English. This volume suggests that the linguistic stratification of variants of (th) and (dh) in Galway correlates both with the social stratification of the city itself and with the stratification of speakers by social status, sex/gender and age group.
Del 113 - DASK – Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
Discursive Construction of Bicultural Identity
A Cross-Generational Sociolinguistic Study on Oromo-Americans in Minnesota
AvOromiya-Jalata Deffa
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
907 kr
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The author examines the cultural identity development of Oromo-Americans in Minnesota, an ethnic group originally located within the national borders of Ethiopia. Earlier studies on language and cultural identity have shown that the degree of ethnic orientation of minorities commonly decreases from generation to generation. Yet oppression and a visible minority status were identified as factors delaying the process of de-ethnicization. Given that Oromos fled persecution in Ethiopia and are confronted with the ramifications of a visible minority status in the U.S., it can be expected that they have retained strong ties to their ethnic culture. This study, however, came to a more complex and theory-building result.
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Use of Gender Markers in Animals
As Demonstrated by Issues of National Geographic
AvLudmila Zemková
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
682 kr
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This book is a contribution to the study of the linguistic concept of gender. It focuses on the problem of assigning gender to animal nouns. This problem is topical in view of the fact that in present-day English, gender is a marginal grammatical category and therefore recedes into the background in descriptions of today’s English. Grammatical gender is a rare topic of research, scientific discussions or papers. The detailed analysis of gender assignment to animal names is based on two subcorpora: the English edition of National Geographic and the English edition of the Journal of Zoology. The book closes with a contrastive analysis of gender markers.
Del 115 - DASK – Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
Twentieth-Century Borrowings from German to English
Their Semantic Integration and Contextual Usage
AvJulia Schultz
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
1 007 kr
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While there are plenty of studies on the impact English has exerted on the German language, the reverse contact situation has been relatively neglected. This monograph sets out to shed light on the German influence on the English lexicon in the twentieth century. It provides the first systematic appraisal of the semantic integration and contextual usage of the words adopted from German in the past few decades. The results presented in this study are based on the evaluation of a comprehensive lexicographical corpus of 1958 twentieth century German borrowings retrieved from the Oxford English Dictionary Online. The present-day usage of the borrowings is illustrated with linguistic documentary evidence collected from a wide range of English language corpora.
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«Eating Regret and Seeing Contempt» – A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to the Language of Emotions in Igala (Nigeria)
AvLillian Brise,Martin Pütz
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
527 kr
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This book deals with the expression of emotions in Igala – a Nigerian minority language with about two million speakers – from a Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The author investigates the network of the Igala language of emotions using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework as developed by Anna Wierzbicka and her collaborators. The claims of adequacy of NSM in its present form for the analysis of emotion concepts universally will be challenged. This is due to the way emotions are conceptualized in the Igala language and due to the absence of certain semantic primes which are considered necessary for the analysis of emotions.Therefore, this study presents a testing ground for further development of the framework as well as a peek into research in African languages.
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Role of (Deliberate) Metaphor in Communicating Knowledge in Academic Discourse
An Analysis of College Lectures from Different Disciplines
AvAnke Beger,Martin Pütz
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
1 138 kr
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While the relatively recent notion of ‘deliberate’ metaphors – metaphors that supposedly play a special role in communication – is contested among researchers, the debate lacks empirical grounding. This book presents the first large-scale study of forms and functions of deliberate metaphors in authentic spoken academic discourse. The author’s comprehensive qualitative analyses of 23 US-American college lectures from four different disciplines demonstrate that deliberate metaphors occur in various forms and fulfill important communicative functions. While these findings may indicate the value of deliberate metaphors, the author’s critical discussions of both identification and application of deliberate metaphors in authentic discourse also point out issues with the very concept of ‘deliberate’ metaphor.
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Scenario Negotiation in Online Debates about the European Union
Analysing Metaphor in Communication
AvStefanie Vogelbacher,Martin Pütz
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
791 kr
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For decades, the focus of Metaphor Studies laid on Conceptual Metaphor and its role in the human conceptual system. This study, however, focuses on metaphor in communication. Its aim is to shed light on how commenters in online debates discuss EU-related topics via Scenario Negotiation, expressing and negotiating their points of view via Metaphorical Scenarios. The study offers a review of current metaphor theory and practical approaches and proposes an Integrated Model of Scenario Negotiation. The results are based on context-sensitive, qualitative analysis of data which stem from a corpus of online debates from the Guardian’s Comment is free section. The discussion illustrates the genre-specific conceptual-communicative functions of Scenario Negotiation in naturally occurring discourse.
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English(es) in Post-Independence Namibia
An Investigation of Variety Status and Its Implications for English Language Teaching
AvHelene Steigertahl,Martin Pütz
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
975 kr
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This volume contributes to the fields of World Englishes, English Language Teaching and Second Language Acquisition, assessing the English(es) spoken in post-Independence Namibia beyond variety status. Based on questionnaires and corpus analysis, the author analyzes morphosyntactical structures, language use and attitudes towards English(es) in comparison to home languages. She gives new insights into the structure of spoken language and potential varieties of English in particular. Focus is put on a geographical area that only recently attracted increasing attention in the field of World Englishes. The author’s work can be regarded as an attempt to bridge several aspects of the frequently discussed «paradigm gap» between World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition studies.
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Internationalization of Universities and the National Language
Language Policy Interventions and Case Studies
AvDanny Pieters,Thijs Keersmaekers
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
573 kr
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Universities are pressed to compete within the global scene of international higher education. What is the status of the national or local language in higher education when the dominance of English in the academic world increases? Universities have become an interesting field for research on sociolinguistic and language policy aspects. How can the global edge and the local function of universities be effectively combined?This book combines case study contributions from countries within and outside Europe in order to underline the key language policy challenges universities around the world face in their attempt to remain nationally leading and interna-tionally competitive institutions. The grouping of different countries and contexts leads to the scrutiny of a variety of scopes that complement each other.
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Cultural Linguistics Applied
Trends, Directions and Implications
AvArne Peters,Neele Mundt
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
897 kr
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This book offers a range of empirically-based case studies in the field of cultural linguistics and neighbouring disciplines such as intercultural pragmatics and language pedagogy. The first section explores intercultural communication and cross-linguistic/cross-cultural investigations in settings such as Brazil, Nigeria, Cameroon, Tanzania, Morocco, France and Canada. The second section focuses on applications of cultural linguistics in the field of foreign language teaching. By drawing on English as a Foreign Language and English as a Second Language contexts, the case studies presented further examine the ramification of cultural linguistics in the language classroom, enabling a better understanding of culture-specific conceptual differences between learners’ first and target language(s).
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Explorations into Language, Literature and Culture
Studies in Honour of Martin Puetz
AvMonika Reif,Neele Mundtm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 028 kr
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Over the past 25 years, previously separate fields of linguistic research have moved closer together, resulting in constructive collaborations: Cognitive Sociolinguistics draws on the framework of Cognitive Linguistics to investigate social factors in linguistic variation. Linguistic Landscape studies merge Semiotics and Sociolinguistics. Critical Discourse Studies link ideological dimensions of language to general conceptual principles. Language pedagogy is constantly informed by developments in Applied Linguistics. Furthermore, there is lively communication with neighbouring disciplines such as Literary and Cultural Studies. The present volume reflects this fruitful fluidity. It is a tribute to the linguist Martin Pütz, whose work has always been guided by this interdisciplinary spirit.

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Del 59 - DASK – Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
Translating Tolkien
Philological Elements in "The Lord of the Rings"
AvAllan Turner,Ulrich Ammonm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
860 kr
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The literary works of J. R. R. Tolkien, especially The Lord of the Rings, are marked by their author’s professional interest in the history of English. This study shows how philological features such as nomenclature, archaism and echoes of Old English poetic forms have been reflected in a selection of published translations into Germanic and Romance languages. It demonstrates how current translation theory based on a hermeneutic approach can explain translators’ compensation techniques such as the use of analogous historical resources in the target languages, and how these can preserve literary and poetic effects. In doing so, it also offers a survey of characteristic stylistic features in the source text.
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Empowerment through Language and Education
Cases and Case Studies from North America, Europe, Africa and Japan
AvAlbert Weideman,Birgit Smieja
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
762 kr
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The last two decades have alerted applied linguists and their bureaucratic counterparts – those who make or advise government on language policy – to the issue of dealing with language problems in an accountable fashion. Why do these problems seem so intractable? How is it that these problems have not yet satisfactorily been solved? What is it that continues to drive the interest in this? To the scholars from many parts of the world who have been invited to discuss this anew in the proposed volume, it was evident that language planners, policy makers and language managers do not know just how much work there is for language teachers to do if all of the academically desirable arrangements or policies proposed are to be implemented successfully. Indeed, the challenge to implement these at times ambitious plans of language policy makers is normally much bigger than the policy makers estimate.
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Language, Mind, and the Lexicon
AvIraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano,Carlos Inchaurraldem. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
846 kr
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This 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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Martin Aedler and the «High Dutch Minerva»
The First German Grammar for the English
AvFredericka van der Lubbe
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
1 009 kr
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Who wrote the High Dutch Minerva? And why? This work seeks to disprove the reasons offered by scholars for the emergence of the first German grammar for the English, the High Dutch Minerva (1680), by considering biographical material on the author, Martin Aedler (1643-1724), placing the author and his work in their German and English social contexts. It argues that Aedler, a lecturer in Hebrew, published his grammar for the use of the English intellectual elite, but did so to satisfy the patriotic imperatives of members of the German language societies and their desire to legitimate the German language for a new audience; Aedler does this through the use of universal grammar. Included is an edition of his correspondence which sheds light on the teaching of Hebrew at Cambridge.
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Trends in Cognitive Linguistics
Theoretical and Applied Models
AvJavier Valenzuela,Ana Rojom. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
1 702 kr
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This book aims to give a general overview of the current theoretical and applied models which are being developed in the field of Cognitive Linguistics. With this purpose in mind, a number of papers have been selected from some of the most representative areas in the cognitive linguistics arena: mental imagery, metaphor and metonymy, cognitive grammar and construction grammar, the pragmatic and discourse background of language use and linguistic relativism. Some of the contributions presented herein propose new ways to refine existing theoretical frameworks: others apply some of those existing theoretical proposals to specific areas; and a final group aims to provide empirical grounding to some of the theoretical assumptions found in Cognitive Linguistics.
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«No, they won’t ‘just sound like each other’»
NNS-NNS Negotiated Interaction and Attention to Phonological Form on Targeted L2 Pronunciation Tasks
AvLaura Sicola,Martin Pütz
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
955 kr
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Can two non-native speakers (NNSs) work together to improve their L2 pronunciation? This book explores this question by extending task-based learning research into the field of L2 phonology/pronunciation. Three university-level L2 English pronunciation classes performed a two-way, interactive map task balancing communicative value and form essentialness in order to maximize the need to negotiate the target form. Analysis sought to identify processes by which NNSs drew each other’s attention to the targeted phoneme through corrective feedback, modified production and other strategies. The influence of task design was also explored. Participants’ ability to push each other toward more targetlike control – rather than appropriating each others’ non-targetlike productions – provided evidence of steps in adult learners’ L2 phonological development, and hold implications for the use of a task-based approach to teaching pronunciation in the L2 classroom.
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Language Use in Business and Commerce in Europe
Contributions to the Annual Conference 2008 of EFNIL in Lisbon
AvGerhard Stickel (EFNIL)
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
721 kr
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The linguistic domains of business and commerce are especially affected by the economic and communicative globalization. Since language use in these domains has an impact on the use of a language in other domains, the future development of the European languages will not mainly depend on language-internal processes, but will increasingly be influenced by the use of English as the international vehicular language. The present development in Europe is discussed in several overview articles and a series of reports on the specific situation in various European countries. In addition, the Lisbon Resolution of EFNIL, pointing at the advantages of multilingualism in international business, is presented in 26 languages including the 23 official languages of the European Union. It calls the EU and its members to acknowledge languages as key factors for economic success, also from the perspective of consumers and workers.
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Understanding Tropes
At the Crossroads between Pragmatics and Cognition
AvJavier Herrero Ruiz
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
1 360 kr
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This book attempts to analyse irony, paradox, oxymoron, overstatement, understatement, euphemism, and dysphemism from the point of view of both Cognitive Linguistics and Pragmatics. In order to do so, we have regarded each trope as a cognitive model, and observed that the various ICMs that resulted from this approach had in common an essential feature: they were all constructed around the creation of contrasts. Also, we have developed a common processing model for these ICMs, which shows that these so-called figures of speech can be fully considered conceptual mechanisms of meaning creation and derivation. Apart from determining which specific pragmatic implications these models bring about and studying their underlying cognitive operations, we have argued that they should be described in terms of the contextual effects they produce. Therefore, a new classification and definition of these tropes is provided.
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Code Switching in Malaysia
AvMaya Khemlani David,James McLellanm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
734 kr
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Code switching seems to be natural for most multilingual speakers because they can switch from different languages freely depending on what is available in their linguistic repertoire. This collection of studies aims to bring current Malaysian code switching and language alternation research to the attention of a worldwide readership. In so doing we attempt to follow the path taken by our late friend, colleague and mentor, Professor Rodolfo Jacobson. The approach and conceptual framework adopted by the contributors in this volume tends to focus more towards the functional rather than the purely linguistic or grammatical. Research into Malaysian code switching demonstrates the need to seek out ways of merging these approaches, rather than keeping them separate, and several of the chapters in this volume attempt such a merger of approaches and methods.
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Language, Languages and New Technologies
ICT in the Service of Languages- Contributions to the Annual Conference 2010 of EFNIL in Thessaloniki
AvGerhard Stickel (EFNIL),Tamás Varadi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
655 kr
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The development of smaller and more powerful computers and the introduction of new communication channels by the interlinking of computers, by the Internet and the World Wide Web, have caused great changes for linguistics. They affect the methods in the various disciplines of pure linguistics as well as the tools and ways of applied linguistics such as translation and interpretation, language teaching, learning, and testing. This volume presents general reflections and overview articles on these new developments by noted experts followed by reports on the concrete uses of information technologies for linguistic purposes in different European countries and at the European Parliament. A discussion of another important linguistic issue is added: the various uses of the highly symbolic term national language.
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Malaysian English
Language Contact and Change
AvSiew Imm Tan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
878 kr
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Malaysian English: Language Contact and Change is a corpus-based study of contemporary Malaysian English. Based on linguistic features extracted from the Malaysian English Newspaper Corpus, this study demonstrates the diverse ways in which Malaysian English has changed as a result of contact with Malay and Chinese languages. The interactions between groups of speakers who are dominant in English and those who are dominant in Malay or Chinese have resulted in wide-ranging changes in Malaysian English. Multilingual individuals who juggle several languages in their daily communications have also shaped the structure of this variety. This volume suggests that variation and change in Malaysian English are the results of both the communal acquisition and the maintenance of English by a multilingual community.
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Untergreabt Deutschland Selbst Die Internationale Stellung Der Deutschen Sprache?
Eine Folge Der Feorderung Von Englisch Im Bildungsbereich
AvHans Wagener
Inbunden, Tyska, 2012
725 kr
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Die Arbeit untersucht, wieweit durch das Englische die Position des Deutschen als Fremd- und Wissenschaftssprache Schaden nimmt. Die Zahlen von 2005 und 2010 der Ständigen Arbeitsgruppe Deutsch als Fremdsprache (StADaF) mit dem starken Verlust an Lernern des Deutschen scheinen dies nahe zu legen. Ein Drittel der befragten Lehrenden des Deutschen als Fremdsprache oder der Germanistik sieht diese Gefahr ebenfalls. Ein Zurückdrängen der Rolle des Englischen ist bei der globalen Entwicklung in allen Bereichen sicher nicht möglich. Es kann also nur eine Balance zwischen der Verwendung des Englischen und Deutschen und insgesamt ein Festhalten an Mehrsprachigkeit angestrebt werden. Vorschläge, wie dies erreicht werden kann, bietet das Schlusskapitel und greift dabei auch die Empfehlungen der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz vom November 2011 zur Sprachenpolitik an den Hochschulen auf.
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Language Education in Creating a Multilingual Europe
Contributions to the Annual Conference 2011 of EFNIL in London
AvGerhard Stickel (EFNIL),Michael Carrier
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
605 kr
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The European Union has conceived itself as multilingual since its beginning in 1956. EFNIL, the network of the central language institutions of all states of the Union and several other European countries, promotes the enhancement of individual plurilingualism of the people in Europe as an important prerequisite for European multilingualism. The EFNIL conference hosted 2011 by the British Council in London was devoted to the discussion of how individual plurilingualism is being achieved by language education in Europe. In this volume, several general reflections on the main topic are followed by a critical discussion of present language instruction in the United Kingdom and reports on foreign language education in various other countries. Reports on four current projects that aim to describe the present linguistic diversity of Europe follow. A detailed interim report on the results of one of these projects (ELM) concludes the book.
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Lexical Challenges in a Multilingual Europe
Contributions to the Annual Conference 2012 of EFNIL in Budapest
AvGerhard Stickel (EFNIL),Tamás Varadi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
746 kr
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The tenth EFNIL conference investigated the different ways in which people in Europe access lexical information – both in their own language and in other languages – and how governments, language institutions, publishers, and others go about the business of compiling and disseminating this lexical information. In this volume, general reflections by several experts on the history, the present state and new developments of lexicography in Europe are presented, followed by reports on special lexicographic projects in several European countries. The Budapest Resolution of EFNIL on the Lexical Challenges in Multilingual Europe offered in the official languages of most of the member states of the European Union and other European countries concludes the book.
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Languages at War: External Language Spread Policies in Lusophone Africa
Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau at the Turn of the 21 st Century
AvCarla Figueira
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
888 kr
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This study explores the argument that postcolonial Africa has been the setting for competing external language spread policies (LSPs) by ex-colonial European countries at the turn of the 21st Century. It focuses on the external LSPs developed by the governments of Portugal, Brazil, United Kingdom, France and Germany towards Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau from the 1990s to the present. The study offers a perspective on the web of relationships involving European ex-colonial powers and the African postcolonial countries of Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. The author seeks to examine the development of external (European) LSPs and the construction of politico-linguistic blocs in a complex context whilst taking into account the colonial heritage and its lingering dependencies, the construction and maintenance of nationhood and the increasing globalisation of the world.
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Dictionary of Camfranglais
AvHector Kamdem
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
812 kr
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This book is a simple and clear presentation of the lexis of Camfranglais, an urban youth sociolect in Cameroon. It presents this sociolect as an outgrowth of language contact phenomena that have fossilized especially around the Littoral Region of Cameroon. Methodologically speaking, it uses a lexicographic as well as an ethnographic approach to data collection. Lexical elements have been collected from such diverse sources as Cameroonian popular music, online chat groups and forums like Facebook, blogs, Youtube videos etc. Besides there were group conversations organized for the collection of data. The major strength of this book lies in the diversity and authenticity of its sources which are all traceable. Moreover, all the regular statements it makes about the origin, semantic categories, grammatical classes of the lexis of Camfranglais are the result of the necessary lexical manipulations that should precede these statements. A complete alphabetical lexicon of Camfranglais is presented, and, where possile, etymologies are given. For all entries, real examples are quoted so as to guide the reader to the usage of words. Idiomatic expressions are also presented for different lexical entries. The book will serve as reference for those working on Camfranglais as well as a starting point for lexico-semantic studies on Camfranglais.
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Language Use in University Teaching and Research
Contributions to the Annual Conference 2014 of EFNIL in Florence
AvGerhard Stickel,Cecilia Robustelli
Inbunden, Engelska, 2015
899 kr
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The twelfth conference of the European Federation of the National Institutions of Language (EFNIL) at the Accademia della Crusca dealt with the increasing tendency to use English as the language of academic instruction and research in Europe. This development can be seen as progress in international scientific communication at the cost of all languages other than English. The volume presents general reflections, reports and discussions on the linguistic situation at the universities of various European countries, some with a historical perspective. As a conclusion it offers a «Resolution of Florence concerning Language Use in University Teaching and Research» in the 26 official languages of most member states of the European Union and other European countries.
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Studies on Language Norms in Context
AvElena Maria Pandolfi,Johanna Miecznikowskim. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
1 039 kr
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This book deepens the insight into the setting and monitoring of language norms in different contexts. One focus lies on institutional contexts, in which the authors examine standardization, language policy and the implementation of usage norms. In the context of language learning, the authors investigate cognitive strategies of L2 norm construction by initial learners, L2 norms in grammars as well as interactional norms regulating teacher behavior. Finally, the volume theoretically explores the nature of discourse norms and examines their management and metadiscursive formulation in a variety of communicative activities and genres.Contributions to the volume are predominantly in English, some in German.
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Vanishing Languages in Context
Ideological, Attitudinal and Social Identity Perspectives
AvMartin Pütz,Neele Mundt
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
1 105 kr
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This volume grew out of the 36th International LAUD Symposium, which was held in March 2014 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. There is general consensus among language experts that slightly more than half of today’s 7,000 languages are under severe threat of extinction even within fifty to one hundred years. The 13 papers contained in this volume explore the dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why this matters, and what can be done and achieved to document and support endangered languages especially in the context of an ever increasing globalized world. The issue of vanishing languages is discussed from a variety of methodologies and perspectives: sociolinguistics, language ecology, language contact, language policy/planning, attitudes and linguistic inequalities.
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Linguistic Change in Galway City English
A Variationist Sociolinguistic Study of (th) and (dh) in Urban Western Irish English
AvArne Peters
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
907 kr
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This volume is a novel approach to the corpus-based variationist sociolinguistic study of contemporary urban western Irish English. Based on qualitative data as well as on linguistic features extracted from the Corpus of Galway City Spoken English, this study approaches the major sociolinguistic characteristics of (th) and (dh) variability in Galway City English. It demonstrates the diverse local patterns of variability and change in the phonetic realisation of the dental fricatives and establishes a considerable degree of divergence from traditional accounts on Irish English. This volume suggests that the linguistic stratification of variants of (th) and (dh) in Galway correlates both with the social stratification of the city itself and with the stratification of speakers by social status, sex/gender and age group.
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Discursive Construction of Bicultural Identity
A Cross-Generational Sociolinguistic Study on Oromo-Americans in Minnesota
AvOromiya-Jalata Deffa
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
907 kr
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The author examines the cultural identity development of Oromo-Americans in Minnesota, an ethnic group originally located within the national borders of Ethiopia. Earlier studies on language and cultural identity have shown that the degree of ethnic orientation of minorities commonly decreases from generation to generation. Yet oppression and a visible minority status were identified as factors delaying the process of de-ethnicization. Given that Oromos fled persecution in Ethiopia and are confronted with the ramifications of a visible minority status in the U.S., it can be expected that they have retained strong ties to their ethnic culture. This study, however, came to a more complex and theory-building result.
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Use of Gender Markers in Animals
As Demonstrated by Issues of National Geographic
AvLudmila Zemková
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
682 kr
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This book is a contribution to the study of the linguistic concept of gender. It focuses on the problem of assigning gender to animal nouns. This problem is topical in view of the fact that in present-day English, gender is a marginal grammatical category and therefore recedes into the background in descriptions of today’s English. Grammatical gender is a rare topic of research, scientific discussions or papers. The detailed analysis of gender assignment to animal names is based on two subcorpora: the English edition of National Geographic and the English edition of the Journal of Zoology. The book closes with a contrastive analysis of gender markers.
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Twentieth-Century Borrowings from German to English
Their Semantic Integration and Contextual Usage
AvJulia Schultz
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
1 007 kr
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While there are plenty of studies on the impact English has exerted on the German language, the reverse contact situation has been relatively neglected. This monograph sets out to shed light on the German influence on the English lexicon in the twentieth century. It provides the first systematic appraisal of the semantic integration and contextual usage of the words adopted from German in the past few decades. The results presented in this study are based on the evaluation of a comprehensive lexicographical corpus of 1958 twentieth century German borrowings retrieved from the Oxford English Dictionary Online. The present-day usage of the borrowings is illustrated with linguistic documentary evidence collected from a wide range of English language corpora.
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«Eating Regret and Seeing Contempt» – A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to the Language of Emotions in Igala (Nigeria)
AvLillian Brise,Martin Pütz
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
527 kr
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This book deals with the expression of emotions in Igala – a Nigerian minority language with about two million speakers – from a Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The author investigates the network of the Igala language of emotions using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework as developed by Anna Wierzbicka and her collaborators. The claims of adequacy of NSM in its present form for the analysis of emotion concepts universally will be challenged. This is due to the way emotions are conceptualized in the Igala language and due to the absence of certain semantic primes which are considered necessary for the analysis of emotions.Therefore, this study presents a testing ground for further development of the framework as well as a peek into research in African languages.
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Role of (Deliberate) Metaphor in Communicating Knowledge in Academic Discourse
An Analysis of College Lectures from Different Disciplines
AvAnke Beger,Martin Pütz
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
1 138 kr
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While the relatively recent notion of ‘deliberate’ metaphors – metaphors that supposedly play a special role in communication – is contested among researchers, the debate lacks empirical grounding. This book presents the first large-scale study of forms and functions of deliberate metaphors in authentic spoken academic discourse. The author’s comprehensive qualitative analyses of 23 US-American college lectures from four different disciplines demonstrate that deliberate metaphors occur in various forms and fulfill important communicative functions. While these findings may indicate the value of deliberate metaphors, the author’s critical discussions of both identification and application of deliberate metaphors in authentic discourse also point out issues with the very concept of ‘deliberate’ metaphor.
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Scenario Negotiation in Online Debates about the European Union
Analysing Metaphor in Communication
AvStefanie Vogelbacher,Martin Pütz
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
791 kr
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For decades, the focus of Metaphor Studies laid on Conceptual Metaphor and its role in the human conceptual system. This study, however, focuses on metaphor in communication. Its aim is to shed light on how commenters in online debates discuss EU-related topics via Scenario Negotiation, expressing and negotiating their points of view via Metaphorical Scenarios. The study offers a review of current metaphor theory and practical approaches and proposes an Integrated Model of Scenario Negotiation. The results are based on context-sensitive, qualitative analysis of data which stem from a corpus of online debates from the Guardian’s Comment is free section. The discussion illustrates the genre-specific conceptual-communicative functions of Scenario Negotiation in naturally occurring discourse.
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English(es) in Post-Independence Namibia
An Investigation of Variety Status and Its Implications for English Language Teaching
AvHelene Steigertahl,Martin Pütz
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
975 kr
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This volume contributes to the fields of World Englishes, English Language Teaching and Second Language Acquisition, assessing the English(es) spoken in post-Independence Namibia beyond variety status. Based on questionnaires and corpus analysis, the author analyzes morphosyntactical structures, language use and attitudes towards English(es) in comparison to home languages. She gives new insights into the structure of spoken language and potential varieties of English in particular. Focus is put on a geographical area that only recently attracted increasing attention in the field of World Englishes. The author’s work can be regarded as an attempt to bridge several aspects of the frequently discussed «paradigm gap» between World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition studies.
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Internationalization of Universities and the National Language
Language Policy Interventions and Case Studies
AvDanny Pieters,Thijs Keersmaekers
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
573 kr
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Universities are pressed to compete within the global scene of international higher education. What is the status of the national or local language in higher education when the dominance of English in the academic world increases? Universities have become an interesting field for research on sociolinguistic and language policy aspects. How can the global edge and the local function of universities be effectively combined?This book combines case study contributions from countries within and outside Europe in order to underline the key language policy challenges universities around the world face in their attempt to remain nationally leading and interna-tionally competitive institutions. The grouping of different countries and contexts leads to the scrutiny of a variety of scopes that complement each other.
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Cultural Linguistics Applied
Trends, Directions and Implications
AvArne Peters,Neele Mundt
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
897 kr
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This book offers a range of empirically-based case studies in the field of cultural linguistics and neighbouring disciplines such as intercultural pragmatics and language pedagogy. The first section explores intercultural communication and cross-linguistic/cross-cultural investigations in settings such as Brazil, Nigeria, Cameroon, Tanzania, Morocco, France and Canada. The second section focuses on applications of cultural linguistics in the field of foreign language teaching. By drawing on English as a Foreign Language and English as a Second Language contexts, the case studies presented further examine the ramification of cultural linguistics in the language classroom, enabling a better understanding of culture-specific conceptual differences between learners’ first and target language(s).
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Explorations into Language, Literature and Culture
Studies in Honour of Martin Puetz
AvMonika Reif,Neele Mundtm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 028 kr
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Over the past 25 years, previously separate fields of linguistic research have moved closer together, resulting in constructive collaborations: Cognitive Sociolinguistics draws on the framework of Cognitive Linguistics to investigate social factors in linguistic variation. Linguistic Landscape studies merge Semiotics and Sociolinguistics. Critical Discourse Studies link ideological dimensions of language to general conceptual principles. Language pedagogy is constantly informed by developments in Applied Linguistics. Furthermore, there is lively communication with neighbouring disciplines such as Literary and Cultural Studies. The present volume reflects this fruitful fluidity. It is a tribute to the linguist Martin Pütz, whose work has always been guided by this interdisciplinary spirit.

DASK – Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture – serie

Translating Tolkien

Empowerment through Language and Education

Language, Mind, and the Lexicon

Martin Aedler and the «High Dutch Minerva»

Trends in Cognitive Linguistics

«No, they won’t ‘just sound like each other’»

Language Use in Business and Commerce in Europe

Understanding Tropes

Code Switching in Malaysia

Language, Languages and New Technologies

Malaysian English

Untergreabt Deutschland Selbst Die Internationale Stellung Der Deutschen Sprache?

Language Education in Creating a Multilingual Europe

Lexical Challenges in a Multilingual Europe

Languages at War: External Language Spread Policies in Lusophone Africa

Dictionary of Camfranglais

Language Use in University Teaching and Research

Studies on Language Norms in Context

Vanishing Languages in Context

Linguistic Change in Galway City English

Discursive Construction of Bicultural Identity

Use of Gender Markers in Animals

Twentieth-Century Borrowings from German to English

«Eating Regret and Seeing Contempt» – A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to the Language of Emotions in Igala (Nigeria)

Role of (Deliberate) Metaphor in Communicating Knowledge in Academic Discourse

Scenario Negotiation in Online Debates about the European Union

English(es) in Post-Independence Namibia

Internationalization of Universities and the National Language

Cultural Linguistics Applied

Explorations into Language, Literature and Culture

DASK – Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture – serie

Translating Tolkien

Empowerment through Language and Education

Language, Mind, and the Lexicon

Martin Aedler and the «High Dutch Minerva»

Trends in Cognitive Linguistics

«No, they won’t ‘just sound like each other’»

Language Use in Business and Commerce in Europe

Understanding Tropes

Code Switching in Malaysia

Language, Languages and New Technologies

Malaysian English

Untergreabt Deutschland Selbst Die Internationale Stellung Der Deutschen Sprache?

Language Education in Creating a Multilingual Europe

Lexical Challenges in a Multilingual Europe

Languages at War: External Language Spread Policies in Lusophone Africa

Dictionary of Camfranglais

Language Use in University Teaching and Research

Studies on Language Norms in Context

Vanishing Languages in Context

Linguistic Change in Galway City English

Discursive Construction of Bicultural Identity

Use of Gender Markers in Animals

Twentieth-Century Borrowings from German to English

«Eating Regret and Seeing Contempt» – A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to the Language of Emotions in Igala (Nigeria)

Role of (Deliberate) Metaphor in Communicating Knowledge in Academic Discourse

Scenario Negotiation in Online Debates about the European Union

English(es) in Post-Independence Namibia

Internationalization of Universities and the National Language

Cultural Linguistics Applied

Explorations into Language, Literature and Culture