Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft (389 Artikel)

Language, Author and Context

This is an innovative study of variation among linguistic items in what has been traditionally described as present perfect contexts. The study offers analyses of new data sets taken from an intere...

Faces of English explores the phenomenon of increasing dialects, varieties, and creoles, even as the spread of globalization supports an apparently growing uniformity among nations. The book's chap...

The study develops a new theoretical approach to the relationship between two media (jazz music and writing) and demonstrates its explanatory power with the help of a rich sampling of jazz poems. C...

This is the first study of the typological change of English from a synthetic towards an analytic language that focuses exclusively on the lexical domain of the language. It presents an innovative ...

The book is concerned with the acquisition of English phonology, both segmental and suprasegmental, by learners of English as a second language, as a third language and by speakers of a postcolonia...

Jing Huang received his PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Hong Kong. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Education Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. His researc...

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...

Ruth Breeze has researched and published widely in the area of Discourse Analysis applied to media language and specialised discourse, focusing particularly on the field of legal English. She is He...

Ironie gilt in der Moderne als Ausdruck eines skeptisch gebrochenen Weltbezugs. Daher wirkt es anachronistisch, ein ironisches Erzählen im Mittelalter anzunehmen. Verschiedene Mittelalter-Disziplin...

Dynamics of Language and Migration in a Capital City

A Multimethod Perspective on Constructional Alternations

Exemption and the American Campus Novel

This book examines selected short stories and novels by Kate Chopin through the lens of the city of New Orleans. Chopin's depictions of and references to New Orleans celebrate the vibrancy of this ...

Catherine Resche is a full-time Professor of English for economics at Panthéon-Assas-Paris 2 University. A member of CELTA (Centre de Linguistique théorique et appliquée) at the Sorbonne (Paris IV)...