Innovative approaches to research in Hispanic linguistics. Regional, diachronic, and learner profile variation This volume presents research from across the subdisciplines of Hispanic Linguistics in an attempt to showcase how new research methods, together with a renewed focus on language … Weiterlesen
Joseph Brodsky and Modern Russian Culture This volume is a major contribution to the study of the life, work and standing of Joseph Brodsky, 1987 Nobel Prize Laureate and the best-known Russian poet of the second half of the twentieth … Weiterlesen
Building the nation: N. F. S. Grundtvig and Danish national identity Denmark became a nation amidst the turbulence of the nineteenth century, an era plagued by war, bankruptcy, and territorial loss. Building the Nation is an insightful study of this … Weiterlesen
Muslim masculinities in literature and film: transcultural identity and migration in Britain A climate of Islamophobia allows anxieties about Muslim men living in and migrating to Britain to endure. British Muslims men are often profiled in highly negative terms or … Weiterlesen
Karneval und Identität in der deutschsprachigen Literatur Die Frage nach der Rolle des Karnevals in der deutschsprachigen Literatur wurde bislang nicht näher erörtert. Vor dem Hintergrund, dass das närrische Brauchtum ein kulturelles Phänomen von universeller Natur ist, war eine Untersuchung … Weiterlesen
Confrontation in academic communication This book examines the argumentation strategies employed by linguists in voicing criticism, looks for explanations for confrontation in academic discourse, and evaluates the positive and/or negative effects it has on international academic communication. Issues such as … Weiterlesen
Cultural realism: reconsidering magical realism in the works of contemporary American women writers This book is committed to women as writers and storytellers; all the selected novels are female-centric in that the main characters are women. The authors, also women, … Weiterlesen
Computergestützte Transkription arabisch-deutscher Gesprächsdaten: ein methodischer Beitrag zur Untersuchung gedolmetschter Gespräche Computergestützte Transkription empirischer Sprachdaten ist ein Grundinstrument verschiedener linguistischer Ansätze. Die schriftbasierte (orthografische) Rekonstruktion gesprochener Sprache stößt auf Hindernisse, wenn die Daten mehrsprachige, varietätenreiche und polydialektale Interaktionsprozesse dokumentieren. Dies … Weiterlesen
Anxiety in Modern Scandinavian Literature: August Strindberg, Inger Christensen, Karl Ove Knausgård This book explores how states and traits of anxiety are reflected in the style and structure of certain works by three key figures of modern Scandinavian literature: August … Weiterlesen
Historical dictionary of children’s literature History is constantly evolving, and the history of children’s literature is no exception. Since the original publication of Emer O’Sullivan’s Historical Dictionary of Children’s Literature in 2010, much has happened in the field of children’s … Weiterlesen
Die tote Frau als Ikone: Zur Verbindung von Tod, Weiblichkeit und (Heiligen-)Bild bei Fedor Dostoevskij, Vasilij Perov, Ivan Turgenev und Evgenij Bauer – Dissertation von Valentin Peschanskyi, Wissenschaftler am Münsteraner Institut für Slavistik – Die zum Reflexionsbild erstarrte Frauenleiche ist … Weiterlesen
Die Kontroverse um die geschlechtsindifferente Referenz in der Frankophonie: Eine soziolinguistische Untersuchung zu laienlinguistischen Einstellungen In ihrer Dissertation taucht die Autorin tief in die Kontroverse der geschlechts-indifferenten Referenz, einer Thematik, die weltweit ins öffentliche Interesse gerückt ist, ein. Sie untersucht … Weiterlesen
Redefining the hypernym Mensch*in: gender, sexuality, and personhood in German Redefining the Hypernym Mensch:in in German: Gender, Sexuality, and Personhood examines how the verbalization of ‘human’ in gender normative terms results in implicit exclusion. Situated in the tension between traditional … Weiterlesen
Explorations in Internet Pragmatics: Intentionality, Identity, and Interpersonal Interaction This volume takes the reader on an exploration in the dynamics underlying digital interaction. The chapters investigate the ways in which individuals shape and interpret intentions, construct identities, and engage in … Weiterlesen
Text and textuality in early medieval Iberia: the written and the world, 711‑1031 This book is a study of the functions and conceptions of writing and reading, documentation and archives, and the role of literate authorities in the Christian kingdoms … Weiterlesen