Wissenschaftliche Literatur Linguistics

Vicente López-Folgado, María del Mar Rivas-Carmona (eds.)

Essays on Translation

Multilingual Issues

TRANSLATOLOGIE – Studien zur Übersetzungswissenschaft

There are no easy answers to one of the most complex exercises man can face, as the English critic F. R. Leavis argued. Since the early 1980’s A. Lefevere, who has been a major theoretical influence for most translators, in the last few years, insisted on the role of the translator as an interpreter, to the extent that, far from being an objective act, translating should never attempt the goal of objectiveness if it also claims honesty. He thus relativizes the…

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 mind that they pose diverse techniques in order to demonstrate that finding such an appropriate equivalent depends not only on the skill of the translator, but…

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 timeless „truths“, judgments or opinions which have become fixed in a given language and constitute products of a particular society, fixed formulae…

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 conventions in translations into German. This hypothesis is tested using two genres within annual reports: letters to shareholders and corporate statements, which…

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 Wattss s sense), unexpected politeness and rudeness. Then I examine how participants can exceed the expectations of politeness and in that way use politeness as a…

Hjalmar P. Petersen

Gender Assignment in Modern Faroese

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

This monograph is the first of its kind to deal specifically with gender assignment in a North Germanic language.

A long upheld view in linguistics was that gender was totally arbitrary, but the present study shows that this is not the case. On the contrary, gender is rule based, where semantic rules usually take precedence over morphological rules; that is the Gender Assignment Hierarchy. When exceptions are found, they are in a limited set, as when small…

Mirco Mankel

Lernstrategien und E-Learning

Eine empirische Untersuchung

Computergestütztes Lernen

Die Studie, die sich auf der Schnittstelle zwischen der Lehr-/Lernforschung und den Medienwissenschaften befindet, liefert einen wertvollen Beitrag zu der seit Jahren intensiv geführten Diskussion um den Stellenwert von E-Learning im Kontext der geisteswissenschaftlichen Hochschulbildung. Im Gegensatz zum vorherrschen Trend, in erster Linie die technischen Möglichkeiten hypermedialen Lernens zu beforschen, fokussiert die Untersuchung vor allem…

Claudia Börger

Word-Formation Processes from a Cognitive Perspective

An Analysis of Complex Prepositional Lexemes

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

The COLLINS Cambridge International Dictionary of English illustrates the meaning of prefixed OVER with a contemporarys characterisation of American troops in Britain during World War II: Overpaid, overfed, oversexed and over here. The quote is well chosen - not just because of ist expressiveness. The meaning of OVER in these compounds in fact represents the meaning found with the vast majority of complex lexemes containing the preposition as a first constituent.…

B. Symanzik, G. Birkfellner, A. Sproede (Hrsg.)

Frau und Mann in Sprache, Literatur und Kultur des slavischen und baltischen Raumes

Schriften zur Kulturwissenschaft

Die vorliegenden Beiträge dokumentieren Vorträge, die im Rahmen des international besetzten Symposions Frau und Mann in Sprache, Literatur und Kultur des slavischen und baltischen Raumes im Mai 2000 an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster gehalten wurden.

Das Anliegen der Veranstalter war es, Beiträge aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen an dieser Konferenz zu versammeln. Aus diesem Grund wurde die Fragestellung, die Gegenstand des…

Wolfgang Zach (Hrsg.)

English Studies: Past - Present - Future

Variata – Titel ohne Schriftenreihenzuordnung

Contents:

Wolfgang Zach: Introduction

Silvia Albertazzi: English Studies in Italy: The (Western) Canon and After

Klaus Bartenschlager: Vom Anglisten zum Literaturübersetzer: Erfahrungen und Überlegungen

Walter Bernhart: Ruminations on the Study of English Literatur in Media Society

Peter Bierbaumer: ESP (English for Specific Purposes) im Neuen Studienplan [...]