China Schreibt Anders In einer Zeit, da China immer wichtiger wird, wird es auch immer wichtiger, China zu verstehen. Viel ist da noch zu tun. Die chinesische Schrift ist das komplizierteste System von Formen, welches die Menschheit geschaffen hat, und … Weiterlesen
OKAY across languages: toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction OKAY has been termed ‘a spectacular expression’ and ‘America’s greatest invention.’ This volume offers an in-depth empirical study of the uses that have resulted from its global spread. … Weiterlesen
Data Analytics in Cognitive Linguistics Contemporary data analytics involves extracting insights from data and translating them into action. With its turn towards empirical methods and convergent data sources, cognitive linguistics is a fertile context for data analytics. There are key … Weiterlesen
Seit September 2022 ist die sprachwissenschaftliche Datenbank „Ethnologue“ für unsere Nutzer:innen lizenziert. It’s hard to find clarity in a sea of over 7,000 languages.With Ethnologue you can get the details right – and make wise decisions for your business, clients, … Weiterlesen
Imperial paradoxes: training the senses and tasting the eighteenth century At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments. … Weiterlesen
Food Culture and Literary Imagination in Early Modern Italy As the long sixteenth century came to a close, new positive ideas of gusto/taste opened a rich counter vision of food and taste where material practice, sensory perceptions and imagination contended … Weiterlesen
The Oxford handbook of languages of the Caucasus This Handbook offers an introduction to the linguistically diverse languages of the Caucasus, spoken in southern Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. Three indigenous language families of the area include Nakh-Dagestanian, Northwest Caucasian … Weiterlesen
Loanwords and native words in Old and Middle Icelandic: a study in the history and dynamics of the Icelandic medieval lexicon, from the twelfth century to 1550 Anyone familiar with the Modern Icelandic language will know that the country’s policy … Weiterlesen
Arabic dislocation Since the early years of generative grammar (Chomsky 1977, inter alia), the phenomenology of dislocation has proved to be a fertile area of research. This, however, has not been the case for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and hence … Weiterlesen
Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies With Python The use of quantitative methods in the humanities and related social sciences has increased considerably in recent years, allowing researchers to discover patterns in a vast range of source materials. Despite this growth, … Weiterlesen
Superparticles: a microsemantic theory, typology, and history of logical atoms This book is all about the captivating ability that the human language has to express intricately logical (mathematical) meanings using tiny (microsemantic) morphemes as utilities. Languages mark meanings with identical … Weiterlesen
Germany from the outside: rethinking German cultural history in an age of displacement The nation-state is a European invention of the 18th and 19th centuries. In the case of the German nation in particular, this invention was tied closely to … Weiterlesen
Negation, expectation and ideology in written texts: a textual and communicative perspective During an election campaign in 2008, Ken Livingstone said to a newspaper reporter “this election is not a joke”. By doing so, he introduced an expectation into the … Weiterlesen
Global debates in the digital humanities Often conceived of as an all-inclusive “big tent,” digital humanities has in fact been troubled by a lack of perspectives beyond Westernized and Anglophone contexts and assumptions. This latest collection in the Debates in … Weiterlesen
Germanic myths in the audiovisual culture Germanic mythology is currently experiencing a significant boom in audiovisual media, especially among younger audiences. Heroes such as Thor, Odin and Siegfried populate television and comic series, films, and video games. When and why … Weiterlesen