Dieses Wörterbuch zur englischen Phraseologie ist zwar bereits einige Jahre alt, aber für die Erweiterung Ihrer Englisch-Kenntnisse können die über 6.000 Einträge nach wie vor gute Dienste leisten! 🙂 Did you know that ‘flavour of the month’ originated in a … Weiterlesen
„Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origin of this personification of the English everyman and his development as both British and Britain in the following centuries. He first appeared along with Lewis Baboon (French) and Nicholas Frog (Dutch) in 1712 … Weiterlesen
Transplantation Gothic: tissue transfer in literature, film, and medicine Transplantation Gothic is a shadow cultural history of transplantation, as mediated through medical writing, science fiction, life writing and visual arts in a Gothic mode, from the nineteenth-century to the present. … Weiterlesen
In der letzten Zeit sind u.a. diese frei verfügbaren Titel erschienen: Concessive constructions in varieties of English Ole Schützlerhttps://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/370https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8375010 This volume presents a synchronic investigation of concessive constructions in nine varieties of English, based on data from the International Corpus of … Weiterlesen
Law, literature, and social regulation in early medieval England Pre-Conquest English law was among the most sophisticated in early medieval Europe. Composed largely in the vernacular, it played a crucial role in the evolution of early English identity and exercised … Weiterlesen
„Susan Sontag gilt als scharfsinnigste, einflussreichste und streitbarste Intellektuelle der USA. Die Menschenrechtsaktivistin und Kriegsgegnerin lebt im Bosnienkrieg drei Jahre lang im belagerten Sarajewo. „Es ist meine Aufgabe, die Weltgeschehnisse aufmerksam zu verfolgen. Vielleicht bin ich genau deshalb Schriftstellerin geworden. … Weiterlesen
Die „TVPD“ ist aus einem Forschungsprojekt an der Uni Freiburg hervorgegangen:
Riddles and Wonders: Defining Humanity in Anglo-Saxon England Throughout the history of human civilization, the definition of the animal and its relationship to humans have been contentious issues. This book investigates the notion of what constituted an animal in Early … Weiterlesen
„Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. First published ninety years ago in Paris, Joyce’s masterpiece is a sprawling and startlingly original work charting a single day in the life of the Dubliner Leopold Bloom. Some early … Weiterlesen
Language and characterisation in television series This book explores how language is used to create characters in fictional television series. To do so, it draws on multiple case studies from the United States and Australia. Brought together in this book … Weiterlesen
Im Oktober 2023 sprach David Sterritt im Very Short Introductions Podcast über eins seiner Forschungsthemen, zu dem er ein Buch in der gleichnamigen Reihe bei Oxford University Press geschrieben hat: In this episode, David Sterritt introduces the Beats, the generation … Weiterlesen
On the avenue of the mystery: the postwar counterculture in novels and film This volume is a study of eight major novels from the postwar period (1945–65) in conjunction with the films made from them during a later period of … Weiterlesen
The grammar of English infinitives with Czech comparison This book aims to clarify some puzzles that have been topical in formal linguistics for many decades now. It concerns the status of English and, for comparison, Czech infinitives, as opposed to … Weiterlesen
Der von der Universität Glasgow herausgegebene Thesaurus dokumentiert Bedeutungsentwicklungen im englischen Vokabular: It consists of almost every recorded word in English from early medieval times to the present day, all arranged into detailed hierarchies of meaning. Of major interest to … Weiterlesen