Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Anglistik 2024.7

Icons of the alpha­bet: let­ter names, pho­net­ic nota­tion and the phonol­o­gy and orthog­ra­phy of Eng­lish
This book exam­ines the names by which we refer to the let­ters of the Eng­lish alpha­bet, argu­ing that these let­ter names pro­vide unri­valled insights into the phono­log­i­cal struc­ture of Eng­lish, present and past, as well as the many pecu­liar­i­ties of Eng­lish pro­nun­ci­a­tion and spelling. Clas­si­fied either as con­tronyms, ambinyms or tau­tonyms, the mod­ern phono­log­i­cal pro­files of our ancient Semit­ic let­ter names reveal what is unique to Eng­lish, what is fun­da­men­tal to lan­guage and how let­ter names emerge as the semi­otic prod­uct of inter­chang­ing lan­guages com­bined with intralan­guage change. This vol­ume promis­es a much more exten­sive and deep­er lin­guis­tic treat­ment of Eng­lish let­ter names than has pre­vi­ous­ly been attempt­ed. It will be of par­tic­u­lar inter­est to stu­dents and schol­ars of his­tor­i­cal lin­guis­tics, phonol­o­gy and orthog­ra­phy, the his­to­ry of Eng­lish, semi­otics, and lan­guage and lit­er­a­cy teach­ing.
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From Panem to the Pan­dem­ic: An Intro­duc­tion to Cul­tur­al Stud­ies
Today, vir­tu­al­ly all BA pro­grams in Eng­lish at Ger­man uni­ver­si­ties place a strong focus on Cul­tur­al Stud­ies. How­ev­er, text­books that intro­duce first-year stu­dents to the sub­ject are rare, and the few exist­ing ones are too com­pli­cat­ed or not com­pre­hen­sive enough. By con­trast, this text­book intro­duces the key the­o­ries and con­cepts of Cul­tur­al Stud­ies sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly and thor­ough­ly. It puts par­tic­u­lar empha­sis on their appli­ca­tion, aim­ing to enable stu­dents to do their own analy­ses of cul­tur­al arte­facts and prac­tices. The author draws on many exam­ples, most­ly tak­en from Amer­i­can cul­ture, but in each chap­ter, he applies the ideas intro­duced to The Hunger Games fran­chise and the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic to show how dif­fer­ent the­o­ries can lead to very dif­fer­ent inter­pre­ta­tions of the same phe­nom­e­non. Each chap­ter ends with exer­cis­es that allow stu­dents to apply what they have learned.
This text­book intro­duces first-year stu­dents sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly and com­pre­hen­sive­ly to the key the­o­ries and con­cepts of Cul­tur­al Stud­ies. It puts par­tic­u­lar empha­sis on their appli­ca­tion, aim­ing to enable stu­dents to do their own analy­ses of cul­tur­al arte­facts and prac­tices. The author draws on many exam­ples, most­ly tak­en from Amer­i­can cul­ture, but in each chap­ter, he applies the ideas intro­duced to The Hunger Games fran­chise and the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic to show how dif­fer­ent the­o­ries can lead to very dif­fer­ent inter­pre­ta­tions of the same phe­nom­e­non.
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zum Buch auf der Ver­lags-Web­site