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
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
Sehen, Hören, Berühren: Multisensorische Perspektiven auf Medialität in Osteuropa Unter dem Begriff der Multisensorik, also dem Zusammenspiel verschiedener Sinne, hat sich in den letzten Jahren ein neues geisteswissenschaftliches Paradigma etabliert, das in Slavistik und Osteuropastudien jedoch noch kaum erforscht ist. … Weiterlesen
The fine-grained structure of the lexical area. Gender, appreciatives and nominal suffixes in Spanish This is the first book that presents a complete description and analysis of the Spanish suffixes that alter the grammatical behaviour of nouns and adjectives without … Weiterlesen
Charlemagne in the Norse and Celtic worlds The reception of the Charlemagne legends among Nordic and Celtic communities in the Middle Ages is a shared story of transmission, translation, an exploration of national identity, and the celebration of imperialism. The … Weiterlesen
Language and Mediated Masculinities: Cultures, Contexts, Constraints From television shows to the manosphere and from alt-right communities to fatherhood forums debates about masculinity have come to dominate the media landscape. What does it mean to be a man in contemporary … Weiterlesen
200 years of national philologies: from romanticism to globalization The 17 contributions in this volume pursue a positioning of the philologies, which – based on the ‚Volksgeist‘ (popular spirit) of the 19th century and the cultural studies of the 20th … Weiterlesen
Modeling irony: a cognitive-pragmatic account This book adopts a broad cognitive-pragmatic perspective on irony which sees ironic meaning as the result of complex inferential activity arising from conflicting conceptual scenarios. This view of irony is the basis for an analytically … Weiterlesen
In der letzten Zeit sind u.a. diese frei verfügbaren Titel erschienen: Die Entwicklung des Definitartikels im Althochdeutschen: Eine kognitiv-linguistische Korpusuntersuchung Johanna Flickhttps://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/230 & https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3932780 Wie in vielen anderen Sprachen der Welt hat sich auch im Deutschen der Definitartikel aus einem … Weiterlesen
In der Romanistik gibt es erfreulicherweise immer mehr Zeitschriften, die gemäß des Open-Access-Prinzips kostenlos zugänglich sind.Kennen Sie diese schon? altrelettere https://www.altrelettere.uzh.ch/ & Poster zur Zeitschrift La rivista altrelettere, fondata nel 2012 presso la Cattedra di Letteratura Italiana dell’Università di Zurigo, pubblica articoli relativi … Weiterlesen
Frequency in the dictionary: a corpus-assisted contrastive analysis of English and Italian This book is concerned with frequency in foreign language learning, and in particular with contrastive frequency across languages. The focus is on the learning of English and Italian, … Weiterlesen
Innovations and challenges: women, language and sexism nnovations and Challenges: Women, Language and Sexism brings together an outstanding collection of essays from internationally recognised researchers to recontextualise some of the questions raised by feminist thinkers 40 years ago. By taking … Weiterlesen
The syntax of surprise: expletive negation and the left periphery Negation is a universal syntactic phenomenon only employed in human languages. People use negative sentences in everyday conversations, and they display complex semantic and syntactic properties when doing so. Crucially, … Weiterlesen
Gender and exemplarity in medieval and early modern SpainGender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain gathers a series of studies on the interplay between gender, sanctity and exemplarity in regard to literary production in the Iberian peninsula. The … Weiterlesen
Was könnte man statt „Abteilungsleitertreffen“ sagen, wenn man z.B. die Einladungs-E-Mail dazu gendergerecht formulieren möchte? Wie könnte man „Mitarbeiterverpflegung“ unformulieren? Oder: Gibt es eine Alternative für „Verbrüderung“? Seit 2015 sammelt Johanna Usinger Antworten auf solche Fragen: Das Genderwörterbuch dient als … Weiterlesen