Wissenschaftliche Literatur English

Anna Barnau / Božena Džuganová

English for Health Care Professionals

Didaktik in Forschung und Praxis

The book English for Health Care Professionals is intended primarily for students of Biology and Medicine, teachers of English for Specific Purposes, and health care professionals. Suggestions of exercises and tasks to improve listening as well as reading comprehension are given for classes, small groups and self-studying individuals. The volume combines theoretical approaches and didactic-methodologically based exercises and tasks developed by the authors. English for…

Anna Barnau / Bozena Dzuganova / Nora Malinovska

Effective English Language Teaching Through Videos

Theory and Praxis

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

This book is intended primarily for teachers of English, students of Biology and Medicine and health care professionals. Suggestions of exercises and tasks to improve listening comprehension are given for classes, small groups as well as for individualized self-study using a PC with Internet access in the classroom or at home.

The volume combines theoretical approaches and didactic-methodologically based exercises and tasks developed by the authors. “Effective…

Sijing Zhou

English in Chinese Popular Culture

Discourses of TV Commercials, Popular Music and Entertainment TV Shows

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

In the past few decades, a number of studies have addressed various aspects of English in China. Although few studies to date have investigated English in Chinese pop culture, the influence from Western culture and the English language on Chinese culture cannot be ignored. Thus, focusing on English in Chinese pop culture is an appropriate and significant topic.

First, surveying the history of English development in China and exploring the current roles and…

Hannes Schluchter

The Diachrony and Synchrony of Language and Dialect Phenomena in Great Britain

Distribution and Development of English Surname Clusters

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Die Gesamtheit der britischen Nachnamen stellt einen einzigartigen Teil des englischen Vokabulars dar, weil sie parallel zur Standardsprache eine unterschiedliche Entwicklung durchlief. Vor der Einführung eines Rechtschreibstandards um 1700 herum war die historische Schreibweise nicht einheitlich und führte dadurch zu vielen Schreibvarianten derselben Wörter. Dieselbe Situation trifft auch auf Nachnamen zu, aber der Standardisierungsprozess der englischen Schreibung…

Christian Marino Baudy

Producing Verbal Play in English

A Contrastive Study of Advanced German Learners of English and English Native Speakers

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Verbal play production feeds on the ability to deliberately manipulate language. It is frequently employed by native speakers (of English) in human interaction to achieve a communicative goal „with a laugh?. Foreign language learners hardly employ such strategic moves. Research into foreign language play typically observes and categorizes spontaneous humorous productions. In contrast, the focus of this study is on planned English punning. It aims to uncover the respective…

Kevin J. Pike

Legal Lexis in Online Learner‘s Lexicography

To What Extent are the ‘Big Five‘ English Online Monolingual Learner‘s Dictionaries Fit for the Particular Purpose of Legal ESP Classes?

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

This book deals with the practical application of e-lexicography as a fundamental teaching tool in English for Special Purposes (ESP) classes in the field of law. It is very much interdisciplinary, covering the fields of lexicography, metalexicography, law, ESP teaching and linguistics. It begins with a look at the methodology undertaken during a detailed piece of research conducted by the author amongst several hundred predominantly law students at the…

Mehmet Ali Akgün

The Success and the Effective Implementation of the Cape Town Convention

With a Comparative Analysis of the Securities over Movable Properties among German, English, Turkish Laws, and the Laws of the USA

Studien zur Rechtswissenschaft

Das Kapstädter Übereinkommen und seine ausrüstungsspezifischen Protokolle sind von großer Bedeutung für Harmonisierungsdiskussionen. Das Luftfahrzeugprotokoll ist in Kraft, und das internationale Register verzeichnet bereits über eine Million Eintragungen. Die Ratifizierung und effektive Umsetzung ermöglichen Vertragsstaaten den Zugang zur sogenannten Cape Town Discount List. Staaten auf dieser Liste profitieren von Rabatten von bis zu 10 % über Exportkreditagenturen.…

Michał Grzegorz Baran

Welsh as a Fortis-Lenis Language

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

The book entitled “Welsh as a Fortis-Lenis Language” presents the results of a study on the laryngeal system of the Welsh consonants. The analysis of the laryngeal system in Welsh is conducted on the basis of phonetic evidence, phonological facts and a brief comparison with the laryngeal system operating in English. The main conclusion is that the Welsh language exhibits a fortis-lenis distinction of consonants complemented with some further phonologically distinctive…

Maria Aleksandrovich / Marta Gierczyńska-Kolas (eds.)

Multilingual Dictionary of the Headwords of the Academic Words List

Russian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian and Polish

TRANSLATOLOGIE – Studien zur Übersetzungswissenschaft

We would like to present the first Multilingual Dictionary of the Headwords of the Academic Word List compiled specifically of Academic Word List (the AWL). It follows the publication of the AWL by Averil Coxhead in 2000. The Academic Word List replaces the University Word List.

The AWL is a list of 570 word families that are not in the most frequent 2,000 English words but which are frequent in a wide range of academic texts. The words are grouped into ten…

Martina Bredenbröcker

A Corpus-Based Approach to English as a Foreign Language at Primary School Level

Collocations for Early Beginners

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

In der englischen Sprachwissenschaft wie in der Fachdidaktik Englisch ist die Bedeutung von Kollokationen und anderen phraseologischen Einheiten sowohl für den Muttersprachler als auch für den Sprachenlerner seit langem anerkannt. Natürlich vorkommende Sprache besteht zu einem überwiegenden Teil aus wiederkehrenden Phrasen, die sprachenspezifisch und damit schwierig für die Lerner sind. Erkenntnisse aus der kognitiven Psychologie und Psycholinguistik belegen, dass das…