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Hitherto, research on grammaticalization has been largely language-typological and universalist in its leanings and as such has been consistently gaining ground within the framework of German…
Fritz Mauthner (1849-1923), famed for his parodies in the Berlin of the Gründerzeit, is best known today for his huge »Contributions to a Critique of Language« (1901/02). In addition, he wrote…
The subject of this volume is 'discussion culture' in German lessons at school. Studies of teaching scenarios undertaken from the perspectives of conversation analysis and didactics show how…
The study sets out to identify the processes and dynamics responsible for the transformation of Switzerland from a country in which in 1700 only a minority could read and write into a nation of…
This workbook gives an initial overview of fundamental problems addressed by interaction research and text linguistics (notably research on text varieties). At the same time, it represents a…
The volume assembles 25 papers delivered at (and additional contributions to) the conference on »Historical Word Formation in German« held 10-14 October 2000 in Erlangen. The main headings are:…
'Reflective didactics' is a method based on a theory of interpersonal (teaching) communication that proceeds from experience gleaned in classroom reality, makes that experience the object of…
This study investigates misunderstandings between Germans and Arabs caused by politeness. The data are mostly conversations in the course of private social gatherings. Gumperz' approach to…
Though ordinary language has long since attracted linguistic interest, there has been little attention paid to declarative knowledge about language phenomena in everyday life (i.e., outside the…
This study undertakes a systematic analysis of neologisms in authentic German texts, both for the structural principles and regularities involved in their formation and the constitution of their…
The study proceeds from the identification of a paradox in communicative foreign-language learning: only a minority of school learners develop into competent, conversationally versatile speakers…
Central to this volume is an empirical study on the following questions: What media experience do eighth grade students have? What subjective theories of written and spoken language have they…
Starting with an analysis of constitutive and pioneering sessions in central German parliaments since 1848, the study demonstrates how plenary debates have become more and more strongly…
How can we analyze an instance of public discourse using linguistic methods? What patterns of argumentation and thinking in connection with the subject of the immigration of workers to the…
The grammatography of historical stages of German and related languages was for a long time a central preserve of the series 'Collection of Short Grammars of German Dialects'. Progress in…
The complex challenge of political language in democracy centers on the way in which it is caught up between the individual interest in effectiveness, on the one hand, and ethical claims on the…
These ten articles discuss language contacts between German and other Germanic languages and dialects: English, Frisian/Low German, Yiddish, the Scandinavian languages, and German dialects. As…
The book provides insights into the realm of unscheduled parliamentary communication. Authentic records of debates are drawn upon to filter out and typify interjections with reference to…
This pilot study in contrastive pragmatics provides a detailed introduction to the problems of intercultural communication between Germans and Russians. Culture-specific conversation behaviour (…
On the basis of existing empirical studies, the study demonstrates that it is questionable to equate grammar knowledge with explicit knowledge of school grammar. For the retrieval of genuine…
The language-norm debate in the last third of the 18th century did not revolve solely around the linguistic question 'What is High German?' Rather, it was preformed and organized by mentalities…
The primary concern of this interdisciplinary and empirical study is to explain language switching and language preservation in terms of linguistic behaviours. With reference to the language…
Against the background of the 'crisis of the humanities' in the Weimar Republic, the present volume examines representative linguistic topics and concepts prevalent in the period in question. In…
»No one's going to make me spell Schifffahrt with 3 f's!« Categorical statements of this kind are typical of the discourse on the new German spelling and punctuation reform. But why is such a…
This study inquires into the difficulties besetting communication via answering machines and ways of dealing with those difficulties. It regards communication from the perspective of…
In the research being done in culturally oriented linguistics and in linguistic historiography geared to the evolution of mentality and discourse, Fritz Hermanns can certainly claim to be one of the…
This is a contrastive politico-linguistic study analyzing the semantic operations serving specific communication strategies in speeches by representatives of the extreme left. Speeches by Lenin…
Social stereotypes (e.g. images of women) are language-based and are thus reflected in a society's designative and descriptive practices. With reference to literary discourse in 19th century…
The study describes everyday 19th century written German as the 'unmarked case' displaying developments that are crucial for the understanding of the tendencies discernible in the present-day…
The Phraseological Dictionary of Middle High German contains phrasemes, i.e., proverbs, idioms, formulaic greeting and farewell expressions, imprecations, standardized pairings (like 'good and…
The study is devoted to intercultural communication between German and North American students. Conversations in German between English-speaking North American learners of German and German…
How do we argue in exceptional situations? What argumentative patterns do we fall back on in a bid to justify decisions with major ethical repercussions? What kinds of text are produced under…
This collection of articles derives from a conference organized in Szeged (Hungary) in 2003. It represents a contribution to the ongoing discussion on approaches to the grammar of spoken…
Up to the present Goebbels' speech at the Sportpalast has been regarded as a supreme example of manipulation, not least because it has frequently been reduced to the one question cited in the…
In this book, writing done by students in an academic context is investigated as a writing development phenomenon. A style-biographical part-corpus (various pieces of written work for seminars…
Das Buch vereint zwei Gegenstandsbereiche der Literatur und Ästhetik um 1800: die anthropologische Frage nach dem neuen, ganzen Menschen und dem Zusammenhalt von Leib und Seele, nach den Sinnen…
This volume inquires into the evolution of narrative prose structures in a period in which traditional idealisms had proved obsolete and a generally inchoate intellectual climate and…
This study interprets the correspondence between Goethe and Zelter in the period 1799 to 1832 as an autobiographical and anthropological text. From the first letters exchanged to the final years…
This study is based on the current understanding of parody as an ironic and metaliterary type of intertextuality. The affinity between parody and irony asserted in Early Romantic literary theory…
Wolfhart Spangenberg (1567-1636?) is the anonymous author of the 'EselKönig' ('King Ass') (1625), the most vitriolic known satire against Rosicrucians, Pansophists and Paracelsists, movements…
The study introduces a concept that makes it possible to give a more precise description of literary stances in the transitional phase from modernism to post-modernism. Modernity is understood…
The last book published by the Jewish author Gertrud Kolmar (1894-1943?) during her lifetime was 'Die Frau und die Tiere' (1938). Shortly after its publication, this collection of poems fell…
Katharina Tucher, a widow from Nuremberg, wrote a spiritual 'diary' with 94 entries dating from 1418-21. In these 'Revelations' she tells of her mystical visions and her many conversations with…
Meticulous analysis of works by Rolf Hochhuth (»Die Berliner Antigone«), Günter Kunert (»Ikarus 64«), Volker Braun (»Iphigenie in Freiheit«), Botho Strauß (»Ithaka. Schauspiel nach den Heimkehr-…
The volume assembles papers delivered at an international conference organized in 1999 to essay a rapprochement between Romantic drama and the latest concerns of research into Romanticism.…
This study picks up current debates about perspective and meaning in Wolfram von Eschenbach's »Willehalm«. Adapting Mika Bal's model of narratology, it concentrates on two major complexes -…
Although parody is central to the famous 'encounter with the Devil', the 'ironical German''s novel has generally been held to be anything but parodistic. But if we eschew normative thinking on…
In opposition to the widely-held view that the formal idiom of Eichendorff's poetic oeuvre can be justly described as 'time-less', the present study undertakes a chronological reading of…
On the occasion of Hans-Georg Kemper's 60th birthday, nine literary scholars and a theologian assemble for an exchange of views on 'hermeticism', a phenomenon that by its very definition should…
In the wake of Enlightenment doubt and the theodicy problem, blasphemous laughter quickly developed into a literary motif around the middle of the 18th century. The study begins by discussing…
In Ludwig Achim von Arnim (1781-1831), the deeply unsettling experiences of crisis in the period of revolution and war around 1800 cemented the conviction of a utopian potential inherent in the…
The history of the contemplation of the heavens is at the same time a history of the hermeneutics of cosmic signs. Where literary observers of the universe look up to the heavens,…
The publication of the »Xenien« (1796) by Goethe and Schiller not only triggered one of the greatest scandals in German literary history; the advent of the xenion also established a form of…
This volume is an attempt to provide a first comprehensive appreciation of Hölderlin's Tower Poems (the poems of his madness). It begins by reconstructing the poetology underlying them under the…
This book recalls young writers who made their debut in the Third Reich or experienced their literary breakthrough in this period only, to fall victim to dictatorship, organized terror, and war…
With reference to Celan's renderings of French poetry, the author discusses the poetics underlying Paul Celan's translations and the changes it underwent in the course of time. The study…
For the writers Charlotte von Stein, Marianne von Willemer, and Bettina von Arnim, Goethe was not only a common feature of their biographies but also a joint poetological element. All three…
In the light of the differential approach taken in this investigation of Heinrich Heine's Buch der Lieder , the collection stands revealed from a new perspective. The analysis shows it to be not…
This study leaves aside films on the Holocaust to concentrate on the portrayal of Jewish life and milieus in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the modern age. It looks at films and TV plays…
Taking its bearings from Franz K. Stanzel's theory of typical narrative situations, this study examines the narrative structuring of literary works and the way this is transposed into the medium…
This volume represents the first attempt to develop a systematic theory of film along hermeneutic lines and reflects upon the methodological consequences of such an approach for the analysis and…
The year 1609 saw the first appearance of a weekly newspaper in German. The new medium caught on so quickly that almost every urban centre soon had a newspaper of its own. The newspapers' main…
The study proceeds from the observation that culture and journalism are in a state of flux and that the classical 'Arts' or 'Review' sections are coming under increasing pressure to be more…
In the general acceptance of the term, charisma is used to refer to people with unusual abilities and a high degree of personal magnetism. Many of them are however only perceived as such via the…
This volume is a study of the weekly SS newspaper »Das Schwarze Korps« published between 1935 and 1945 under the aegis of Heinrich Himmler. With editor-in-chief Gunter d'Alquen at the helm, the…
With reference to the French press, this study is the first of its kind to portray the historical development of the journalistic interview. From a Romance studies perspective, the study…
Commercials are an integral part of television 'text' and can no longer be appropriately described as 'external' to it. Instead they need to be regarded in their interrelation with the text…
