Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - General

This book presents a systematic literary comparison of the retranslations by adopting a mixed-method and bottom-up (inductive) approach by developing an empirical corpus approach. This corpus is specifically tailored to identify and study linguistic and non-linguistic modernist features throughout the texts, such as stream of consciousness-indirect interior monologue and free indirect speech. All occurrences are analysed quantitatively in the computations of inferential and comparative statistics, such as tests of time trends, lexical variety, and lexical frequency. The target...

Der vorliegende Band enthält einige Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachdidaktik und Literaturwissenschaft, die bei der internationalen Germanistentagung 2022 an der Universität Oulu präsentiert wurden. Zu dieser Tagung in Nordfinnland kamen Referierende aus Dänemark, Deutschland, Finnland, Großbritannien, Italien, Lettland, Österreich, Polen, Schweden, der Schweiz, Spanien, Tschechien, der Ukraine und Ungarn. Acht Plenarvorträge, 44 Referate mit 50 Vortragenden in vier Parallelsektionen zeigten ein breites Spektrum aktueller Forschungen zur Germanistik international....

This is the first book solely dedicated to the systematic description of the linguistic and discourse features of Malaysian English. The descriptions are based on research done by the author and data from the Corpus of Spoken Malaysian English. The book also discusses current trends in the use of Malaysian English. Because of its scope and research-based content, the book provides valuable insights on the sub-varieties subsumed under the umbrella term 'Malaysian English'. It also examines where Malaysian English is situated within the milieu of regional and global Englishes. A...

This book is the first comprehensive grammar of Lisu, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in southwestern China, northern Burma, northern Thailand and northeastern India by over a million people. It provides a typological overview of Lisu grammar, an outline of the dialectal differences within Lisu and how they developed, and an overview of traditional and modern Lisu literature and culture.