Pejorative suffixes and combining forms in English The book is a research monograph that reviews and revises the concept of linguistic pejoration, and explores the role of 15 suffixes and combining forms, such as ‑ie, ‑o, ‑ard, ‑holic, ‑rrhea, ‑itis, … Weiterlesen
„Das literarische Genre „Nature writing“ entwickelte sich mit der Industrialisierung in England und den USA. Naturerscheinungen werden sachkundig, aber aus subjektiver Perspektive beschrieben. Denn ist nicht der Mensch auch Teil der Natur?“ (Bayern 2, Justina Schreiber) Sie können die Sendung, … Weiterlesen
English rock and pop performances: a sociolinguistic investigation of British and American language perceptions and attitudes This book addresses the phenomenon of non-American rock and pop singers emulating an Americanized singing style for performance purposes. By taking a novel approach … Weiterlesen
„Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. When three witches prophesy that Macbeth will be king one day, he is not prepared to wait and almost the next day he murders King Duncan as he sleeps, a … Weiterlesen
Dynamic Dialects contains an articulatory video-based corpus of speech samples from world-wide accents of English. Videos in this corpus contain synchronised audio, ultrasound-tongue-imaging video and video of the moving lips. We are continuing to augment the database. The website contains … Weiterlesen
„Als Präsident Obama aus dem Amt schied, gab er den Amerikanern einen Satz von Atticus Finch mit auf den Weg: „Du wirst einen Menschen nie richtig verstehen, solange du nicht in seine Haut schlüpfst und darin herum läufst.“ Ein Appell … Weiterlesen
Discourse structuring markers in English This book is a contribution to the growing field of diachronic construction grammar. Focus is on corpus evidence for the importance of including conventionalized pragmatics within construction grammar and suggestions for how to do so. … Weiterlesen
Do you call a ‘bread roll’ a cob, batch, bread cake, barm cake or scuffler? How do you pronounce the words cup and plant? And are you sitting or sat while reading this? The UK is a rich landscape of regional accents and dialects, each evidence of our society’s continuity and change, our … Weiterlesen
Seit 2018 gibt es bei „Bunny Trails: A Word History Podcast“ wöchentliche Folgen: Welcome to our whimsical adventure of idioms and other turns of phrase. Each week, we delve into the origins of phrases to find out how they came … Weiterlesen
Words, books, images, and the long Eighteenth Century The essays collected in this volume engage in a conversation among lexicography, the culture of the book, and the canonization and commemoration of English literary figures and their works in the long … Weiterlesen
Les mots de la Covid-19: étude linguistique d’un corpus français et britannique L’ouvrage propose une analyse linguistique de la communication liée à la pandémie de Covid-19 (début de la crise, février – juin 2020). Il se base sur les outils … Weiterlesen
„Keine Schriftstellerin hat sich derart umfassend zur eigenen Person geäußert wie Anaïs Nin. Die Erotik spielte dabei eine zentrale Rolle. Auch in den Tagebüchern, die ihr 1966 zum langersehnten literarischen Durchbruch verhalfen, verwebte sie Phantasien, Wunschträume, Deutungen und real Erlebtes.“ … Weiterlesen
Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature: emotions, ethics, dreams Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. … Weiterlesen
Frequency in the dictionary: a corpus-assisted contrastive analysis of English and Italian This book is concerned with frequency in foreign language learning, and in particular with contrastive frequency across languages. The focus is on the learning of English and Italian, … Weiterlesen
Visualization of Time-Oriented Data Time is an exceptional dimension that is common to many application domains such as medicine, engineering, business, science, biography, history, planning, or project management. Understanding time-oriented data enables us to learn from the past in order … Weiterlesen