Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Historical & Comparative

Die historische Lexikographie steht seit geraumer Zeit in einem besonderen Spannungsfeld zwischen den Anforderungen traditioneller Philologie, moderner Metalexikographie und technischer Innovation. Die Beitrage dieses Sammelbandes spiegeln die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen wie ihre Bewaltigung. Sie zeigen, dass die historische Lexikographie konzeptionell wie institutionell durchaus in der Lage ist, sich von Generation zu Generation neu zu erfinden und sich damit den Herausforderungen zu stellen, die die jeweilige Gesellschaft ihnen abverlangt.

Zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen formen unsere Sprache und unseren Sprachgebrauch, und diese wiederum gestalten unsere Beziehungen. Obwohl diese Wechselwirkung ebenso grundlegend wie vielfaltig ist, hat sich um sie bis jetzt kein linguistisches Forschungsfeld ausgebildet, das ahnlich systematisch bearbeitet worden ist wie dasjenige um Sprache und Geschlecht, Sprache und Alter oder Sprache und soziale Gruppen.

Der Band versammelt 15 Beitrage, die das Forschungsfeld Sprache und Beziehung exemplarisch besetzen. Sie beziehen sich raumzeitlich auf den deutschen Sprachraum vom...

Words are the most basic of all linguistic units, the aspect of language of which everyone is likely to be...

First published in 1816 and revised in 1916, this edition of George Crabb's English Synonyms contains the entirety of his most enduring work. The revised edition is supplemented by a large number of words, the applications of which had grown into the language in the preceding years or had taken on a deeper significance in light of the First World War. It also contains comprehensive cross-referencing, which brings closely related words together and facilitates the quick location of a desired term.

The 'story' of English is continually re-told and re-written, as more and more people use the language and have a part in shaping the way it develops.

Varieties of Modern English provides a critical introduction to the study of regional, social, gendered, context- and medium-related varieties of the language, and explores some of the debates concerning the role and impact of English in different parts of the world today.

Beginning by outlining the main types of variation in language, the book focuses on the link between language or dialect and the...

Discourse analysis is a wide ranging area of study that examines the features of language beyond the limits of a sentence including vocal, written and sign language, along with any significant semiotic events. It has been employed from a number of interdisciplinary perspectives in an attempt to reveal a person s socio-psychological characteristics through the practical analysis of naturally-occurring language rather than artificially created examples.

Routledge Library Editions: Discourse Analysis brings together an extensive collection of scholarship that reflects the broad...

This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, adopting an integrated approach to diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include psycholinguistic and acquisition-oriented aspects of child and adult multilingualism such as bilingual language processing, second language acquisition, and bilingual first language acquisition; social, formal-structural, and conversational aspects of code switching; diachronic and typological aspects of contact-induced...

Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change - an issue so far largely neglected both in (mostly lexical) historical semantics as well as historical syntax, but recently brought into focus by grammaticalization theory as well as Minimalist diachronic syntax. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages including Vedic Sanskrit, Middle Indic, Greek as well as English and German, and discuss a range of...

Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England is the seminal text in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Demonstrating the real-world application of sociolinguistic research methodologies, this book examines the social factors which promoted linguistic changes in English, laying the foundation for Modern Standard English.

This revised edition of Nevalainen and Raumolin-Brunberg s ground-breaking work:

• discusses the grammatical developments that shaped English in the early modern period;
• presents the...

Exploring over two thousand years of human enquiry, The Stories of Linguistics is an accessible introduction to the individuals, ideas and events that have shaped the field of linguistics. From Herodotus to Chomsky, and from philosophy to neuroscience, Kim Ballard presents a fascinating narrative that brings to life a dynamic subject with a rich history.

The Stories of Linguistics:
- uses a thematic rather than a traditional chronological approach to explore the complex development...

• The volume is based on state-of-the-art research in dialectology around the world, providing the most current work available with an unusually broad scope of topics
• Provides a practical guide to the many methodological and statistical issues surrounding the collection and analysis of dialect data
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The book contrasts two approaches to cultural conventions in general, and poetic conventions in particular. They include what may be called the "culture-begets-culture" or "influence-hunting" approach, and the "constraints-seeking" or "cognitive-fossils" approach here expounded. The former assumes that one...

The book is devoted to Professor Ọladele Awobuluyi of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria. It contains forty (40) well-researched papers selected through a rigorous assessment process out of the many submitted for consideration. The papers are grouped into four sections: Language and Society; Formal Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Pragmatics, Language Acquisition & Lexicography. Readers will find these papers useful in their continuous quest for invaluable knowledge in African linguistics.

Warum welche Form der kausalen Verknupfung im Deutschen gewahlt wird, ist nicht uberzeugend geklart. Ob man auf Konnektoren wie weil, denn, darum, deshalb oder Prapositionen wie wegen zuruckgreift, hangt mit den pragmatischen Eigenschaften dieser Ausdrucke zusammen. Sie erlauben namlich dem Sprecher in unterschiedlicher Weise, seine Einstellung zu verdeutlichen. Modalisierungen dieser Art erklart der Ansatz von Eve Sweetser, nach welchem etwa kausale Verknupfungen auf drei pragmatischen Ebenen verstanden werden konnen: der Sachverhaltsebene, der epistemischen und...

Texts of the past were often not monolingual but were produced by and for people with bi- or multilingual repertoires; the communicative practices witnessed in them therefore reflect ongoing and earlier language contact situations. However, textbooks and earlier research tend to display a monolingual bias. This collected volume on multilingual practices in historical materials, including code-switching, highlights the importance of a multilingual approach. The authors explore multilingualism in hitherto neglected genres, periods and areas, introduce new methods of locating and analysing...

This volume, first published in 1988, represents in its papers the wide-ranging yet coherent linguistic interests of the late Barbara Strang (1925-1982). For her, the history of English and its current state were two sides of the same coin, and the principle theme of this collection is that neither one may be properly understood without invoking the other. It is a real-data collection, in that its contributors share the view that the facts of language, patiently gathered, recorded and collated, must govern the theory within which they are described, and not vice versa. This philosophy may...