Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft (419 Artikel)

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christian Mair ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Englische Linguistik der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

The book presents new issues and areas of work in modality and evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other European languages (French, Galician, Lithuanian, Spanish). Given the complexit...

"English Poetry in Context" offers an accessible, comprehensive survey of the genre from the early modern period to the present day. Situating close readings of selected poems within their larger l...

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With English-medium higher education burgeoning in Europe and elsewhere outside the English-speaking world, this book is the first to offer an ethnographically-embedded analysis of such classroom d...

The Contributors: Maria Dakowska, Larry Selinker, Beatrice Baumgartner-Cohen, Carol Kinahan, Eric Mathieu, Anatoly Dorodnych, Anita Fetzer, Benita von Heynitz, J. Tudor Morris, Karlheinz Hengst, In...

Serving as an introduction to English morphology and word-formation, this book also tries to advance the state-of-the-art in this field. The author takes his readers gently through the basic notion...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface / Fischer, Hermann -- 1. Joseph Hall: Virgidemiarvm. Lib. Iii -- 2. JOHN DONNE: Satyre II -- 3. JOHN MARSTON: The Scourge of Villanie. Satyre. VIII. -- 4. ANONYMO...

This paper generally lends support to the arguments advanced by Awonusi (1989, 1990, 2004) and others in favour of an endornormative as opposed to an exonormative standard for English pronunciation...

Which of the possible futures might be a good future, and how do we know? Stephanie Bender looks at contemporary films and novels to address major ethical challenges of the future: the ecological c...

An event, defined as the decisive turn, the surprising point in the plot of a narrative, constitutes its tellability, the motivation for reading it. This book describes a framework for a narratolog...

The history of English spans more than 1500 years. From humble beginnings, English has developed into the world's most important language, as even opponents of globalization have to admit, and it h...

Studies in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

This book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American literature and the problem of political emergency. Arguing that the United States endured sustained conflicts over the nature and oper...

Anna K?dra-Kardela is Associate Professor of English Literature at Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University, Lublin (Poland). She published on metaphysical poetry, cognitive poetics, narratology, and the ...