Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Alphabets & Writing Systems

In den meisten Fallen ist es den Schreibenden auch intuitiv klar, welche Verbindungen Worter sind, und welche keine Worter, also Syntagmen - es bereitet kaum jemandem Probleme, 'gruner Tee' getrennt zu schreiben und 'Gruntee' zusammen. Diese Studie beschaftigt sich mit Verbindungen, bei denen der Wortstatus unklar ist. Diese Zweifelsfalle in der Schreibung sind haufig auch Zweifelsfalle in der Grammatik. Hier wird an verschiedenen Verbindungen diskutiert, inwieweit komplexe Worter und inwieweit Syntagmen vorliegen: Substantiv-Verb-Verbindungen, Adjektiv-Adjektiv-Verbindungen, Verbindungen...

In diesem Buch wird die Geschichte des Diskurses uber die Rechtschreibreform aus diskurslinguistischer Perspektive nachgezeichnet. Auf der Basis eines umfangreichen Korpus - mit 733 Zeitungsartikeln und uber 300 000 Wortern aus den Focus-, Spiegel- und SZ-Jahrgangen 1994 bis 1999 - konzentriert sich die Analyse auf die Selektivitat und Emotionalitat des Diskurses. Die Selektivitat des Diskurses schlagt sich in einer Reihe von Beispielen wie dass, Stangel, Spagetti, Schifffahrt und Tollpatsch nieder, die u.a. aufgrund ihres haufigen Vorkommens als...

Schon seit ihrer Grundung in den 1970er-Jahren ist die Reihe Germanistische Linguistik (RGL) exponiertes Forum des Faches, dessen Namen sie im Titel fuhrt. Hinsichtlich der thematischen Breite (Sprachebenen, Varietaten, Kommunikationsformen, Epochen), der Forschungsperspektiven (Theorie und Empirie, Grundlagenforschung und Anwendung, Inter- und Transdisziplinaritat) und des methodologischen Spektrums ist die Reihe offen angelegt. Das Aufgreifen neuer Trends hat in ihr ebenso Platz wie das Fortfuhren von Bewahrtem. Die Publikationsformen reichen von Monographien und Sammelbanden...

At the turn of the millennium, Guatemala experienced a Mayan cultural renaissance often referred to as the Maya Movement. One aspect of this movement was the revitalization of indigenous Mayan languages for written purposes. The Mayan writing system is one of the oldest in the world; thus its reinvention includes a new standardized alphabetic system for each of the twenty-two Mayan languages spoken in Guatemala as well as the incorporation and continuation of some of its ancient elements. This book represents a case study conducted in two Mayan villages in the Guatemalan highlands, and it...

Throughout the East, writing is held to be a gift from the gods, and the divinely inspired letters and characters are objects of the highest veneration. The religious significance of calligraphy has thus led to a unique development of the art of brush and ink in Japan, China, India, and Tibet. This beautifully illustrated book covers such topics as the history and spirit of Eastern calligraphy, the art of copying religious texts, the biographies of important Zen calligraphers, and practical instructions on materials and techniques for the contemporary student. No knowledge of the languages...

The emergence and spread of literacy in ancient human society an important topic for all who study the ancient world, and the development of written Chinese is of particular interest, as modern Chinese orthography preserves logographic principles shared by its most ancient forms, making it unique among all present-day writing systems. In the past three decades, the discovery of previously unknown texts dating to the third century BCE and earlier, as well as older versions of known texts, has revolutionized the study of early Chinese writing.

The long-term continuity and stability of...

The subject of this book is linguistic minorities, and how language is used by speakers of languages which are not the main language of communication. This is a core topic for sociolinguists, who examine how language is actually used within a given context. Globalization, migration, and the erosion of nationhood is creating far more linguistic minorities as society becomes increasingly pluralistic. One of the major sites of contact between languages is the school, and this book focuses on linguistic interaction within this educational context. Through a careful examination of the language...

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Complete, compact and authoritative--this Japanese language book provides all the information needed to learn kanji and kana, including the 92 basic hiragana and katakana phonetic symbols (known collectively as Japanese Kana) and the 2,136 standard Joyo Kanji characters that every Japanese person learns in school. This new and completely revised edition reflects recent changes made to the official Joyo kanji list by the Japanese government.

The kana and kanji are presented...