Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Latein, Note: 2,0, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena (Institut fur Altertumswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Augustinus - De civitate dei, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Seit jeher bietet die Debatte zum hochsten Gut reichlich Diskussionsstoff. Worin besteht das Endziel? Was ist der wahre Frieden? Wo findet sich das hochste Gut? Wie kann es erlangt werden? All diesen Fragen widmeten sich bereits in der Antike und Spatantike Philosophen und Theologen und kamen dabei zu meist hochst unterschiedlichen Argumenten und Antworten. Die Stoiker knupften den...

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Historical Linguistics, language: English, abstract: Language change is a steadily continuing process. Languages were changing 2000 years ago. They are changing today and they will certainly be changing in the future. So we are able to determine different steps in the development of the English language: roughly speaking, Old English, Middle English, and Modern English. All of them are different from each...

Examination Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: Throughout the history of English the language was changing steadily. Not only was the English grammar, pronunciation or vocabulary being altered over the centuries but also the semantics of the lexemes. The changes in the field of semantics might have had several reasons. According to Antoine Meillet, a French linguist, there are basically three major causes of semantic change:...

Throughout the history, English was changing steadily. Not only was the English grammar, pronunciation or vocabulary being altered over the centuries but also the semantics of lexemes. A major factor that has a considerable impact on the semantics of words is the influence of foreign languages. This study deals with semantic changes due to the Latin influence on the English language in the Early Modern English period. The aim of the analysis is - with the help of the Oxford English Dictionary Online - to determine potential patterns of meaning alterations of English lexemes that were caused...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Klassische Philologie - Latinistik - Literatur, Note: 1,7, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena (Institut fur Altertumswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Horaz - Ars poetica, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Ars poetica des Horaz, der Brief an die Pisonen, aus der Zeit der augusteischen Klassik ist als eine theoretische Betrachtung der Dichtkunst selbst Dichtung, also im Versma, in Hexamtern, formuliert, und zugleich eine Reflexion uber die Dichtung. Dabei, so Manfred Fuhrmann in seinem Buch "Die Dichtkunst der Antike," gehe Horaz gegen "Plattheit,...