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

This book is a convergence of heterogeneous insights (from languages and literature, history, music, media and communications, computer science and information studies) which previously went their separate ways; now unified under a single framework for the purpose of preserving a unique heritage, the language. In a growing society like ours, description and documentation of human and scientific evidence/resources are improving. However, these resources have enjoyed cost-effective solutions for Western languages but are yet to flourish for African tone languages. By situating...

Located at the intersection of humanities and applied informatics, the fledgling discipline of Digital Humanities is bringing new impulses to the field of (Romance) linguistics. Those are especially productive in the context of migration and heteroglossic practices, which encounter constraining language ideologies in Western societies.

The aim of this volume is to critically reflect on both the usefulness and limitations of digitization in different areas and superdiverse contexts of the Spanish-speaking world. Through 11 case studies, it illuminates the digital turn from...

Der Band vereint neueste, empirisch abgesicherte Forschung zu den Zusammenhängen zwischen Genus, Sexus und der sozialen Kategorie Gender. Reflektiert werden sprachliche Erscheinungen auf der Wortebene, im Bereich der Syntax und Textkohärenz und soziopragmatische sowie diskurstheoretische Fragen. Die wortzentrierten Beiträge umfassen Untersuchungen zu genderstereotypen Bedeutungsangaben in Wörterbüchern, zur in-Movierung bei Anglizismen und zur Reichweite des Genus-Sexus-Prinzips bei Tierbezeichnungen. Syntaktische Fragestellungen zielen auf anaphorische...