Wissenschaftliche LiteraturLinguistics

Ilona Schulze / Wolfgang Schulze

A Handbook of the Minorities of Armenia

A Sociocultural and Sociolinguistic Survey. In collaboration with Garnik Asatrian, Viktoria Arakelova, Vardan Voskanian, and others

SOCIALIA – Studienreihe soziologische Forschungsergebnisse

The „Handbook of the Minorities of Armenia“ presents the results of a project funded by the German VolkswagenStiftung in the years 2012-2016. The Handbook aims at a comprehensive sociocultural and sociolinguistic survey of the minorities in the Republic of Armenia. Even though Armenia is generally considered to be…

Ilona Schulze

Sprache als fait culturel

Studien zur Emergenz, Motiviertheit und Systematizität des Lexikons des Minderico (Portugal)

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Die alltagssprachliche Erfahrung ist gemeinhin mit der Annahme verbunden, dass Sprache Teil des kulturellen Wissens einer Sprachgemeinschaft darstellt. Die Monographie geht dieser Frage systematisch nach. Sie präsentiert ein umfassendes Modell von Sprache, das deren Eigenschaft als „fait culturel“ aus einer…

Julia Analena Hollmann

Language & the Brain: The Neural Basis of Foreign Language Proficiency

Angewandte Linguistik aus interdisziplinärer Sicht

The heart of this book is constituted by the scientific discipline of neurolinguistics. The fascinating field of neurolinguistics encompasses the study of the neural mechanisms in the human brain that control the comprehension, production, and acquisition of a native or foreign language. Neurolinguistic research…

Angelika Goldstein & Biljana Golubović (eds.)

Foreign Language Movies – Dubbing vs. Subtitling

Schriften zur Medienwissenschaft

The subject of this volume is motion picture translation, that is, theories, methods and results of research aimed at various aspects of foreign movies and the implementation of motion pictures in foreign language classes.

This collection of papers on the translation of motion pictures consists of 15…

Patric Meyer

Semantic Influences on Episodic Memory

ERP and fMRI Evidence

Studienreihe psychologische Forschungsergebnisse

Recognition memory based on familiarity judgments is a form of declarative memory that has been repeatedly associated with the anterior medial temporal lobe. It has been argued that this region sustains familiarity-based recognition not only by retrieving item-specific information but also by coding for those…

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…

María Isabel González Rey (Hrsg.)

A Multilingual Focus on Contrastive Phraseology and Techniques for Translation

Schriften zur Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft

The most important problem that translating phraseological units from one language to another usually presents is that of finding an appropriate equivalent in the target language. This fundamental topic is debated by the seventeen specialists that take part in the collective work at hand. It is with this end in…

María Álvarez de la Granja (ed.)

Fixed Expressions in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

A Multilingual and Multidisciplinary Approach

Schriften zur Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft

When approaches linking language to other cognitive and behavioural phenomena, culture, the environment and society are flourishing, the strength and momentum of phraseological studies in recent years is hardly surprising given the nature of ist object of study. Fixed expressions include proverbs, bearers of…

Claudia Böttger

Lost in Translation? An Analysis of the Role of English as the Lingua Franca of Multilingual Business Communication

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

The study explores the influence of English as a lingua franca on multilingual business texts, in the context of the growing Americanisation of German business communication. It is based on the central hypothesis that the dominance of lingua franca English leads to a convergence with Anglophone text…

Alexandra Kallia

Politeness and Implicature

Expanding the Cooperative Principle

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Major approaches to politeness so far analyse it as a strategy to ensure smooth interaction. Politeness is seen as a norm, the expected thing in communication whose occurrence is not noticed most of the time. In my thesis I argue first for a threefold distinction among expected politeness (politic behaviour in…