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Negation in Gapping
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 48.99This book presents a cross-linguistic investigation of the behaviour of negation in gapping sentences. Sophie Repp focusses on German and English with reference to Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Slovak. She shows that these languages exhibit important differences in the interaction of gapping and negation and further that no account in the literature... more...
Simple Sentences, Substitution, and Intuitions
Clarendon Press 2007; US$ 64.99The phenomenon of substitution failure is a longstanding focus of discussion for philosophers of language. Substitution failure occurs when a change from one co-referential name to another (e.g. from 'Superman' to 'Clark Kent') affects the truth-value of a sentence. Jennifer Saul has shown that this can occur even in the simplest of... more...
Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 225.00Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature of meaning, the relationship of language to reality, and the ways in which we use, learn, and understand language.? The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field, charting its key ideas and movements, and addressing?contemporary... more...
Die Universalpoesie von Friedrich Schlegel
Diplomica Verlag 2012; US$ 26.95Hauptbeschreibung FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL kann als bedeutende Persönlichkeit der Frühromantik bezeichnet werden, die inspiriert durch den Jenaer Frühromantiker Kreis nicht nur der Dichtkunst, sondern auch der Kunst insgesamt sowie der Auffassung von der Welt eine neue, nämlich die romantische Anschauung verliehen hat, welche sich hinter dem Namen progressive... more...
Orality and Literacy
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 31.95Walter J. Ong?s classic work provides a fascinating insight into the social effects of oral, written, printed and electronic technologies, and their impact on philosophical, theological, scientific and literary thought. This thirtieth anniversary edition ? coinciding with Ong?s centenary year ? reproduces his best-known and most influential book... more...
Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95This book contains 17 studies by leading international scholars working on a wide range of topics in Arabic socio-linguistics, divided into four parts. The studies in Part 1 address questions of national language planning in a diglossic situation, with a particular focus on North Africa. Part 2 explores the relationship of identity and language choice... more...
Ferdinand de Saussure: Cours de linguistique générale
Narr Francke Attempto 2013; US$ 138.03Hauptbeschreibung Am 27. Februar 1913 verstarb Ferdinand de Saussure, gerade einmal 55-jährig. 1916 publizierten Charles Bally und Albert Sechehaye seinen Cours de linguistique générale auf der Basis von Studentenmitschriften seiner Vorlesungen und einigen wenigen handschriftlichen Notizen ihres Kollegen. 1931 erschien die deutsche Übersetzung von... more...
A to Z of Arabic - English - Arabic Translation
Saqi 2013; US$ 23.32The A to Z highlights common pitfalls faced by translators working on both Arabic?English and English?Arabic texts. Each translation problem is carefully contextualized and illustrated with examples drawn from contemporary literature and the media. Using a comparative analysis approach, the authors discuss grammatical, lexical and semantic translation... more...
Silence and Concealment in Political Discourse
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013; US$ 135.00This book constitutes a significant contribution to political discourse analysis and to the study of silence, both from the point of view of discourse analysis as well as pragmatics, and it is also relevant for those interested in politics and media studies. It promotes the empirical study of silence by analysing metadiscourse about politicians? silence... more...
Die dominante Kuh
Wallstein Verlag 2013; US$ 8.61Hauptbeschreibung Mit Biss und Humor entlarvt Luise F. Pusch die blinden Flecken in männlicher Sprache und Gesellschaft. Wenn der Damenstudent zum Tanz gebeten wird, die Caprese mit Büffelmilch-Mozzarella zubereitet wird oder auf Facebook aus zwei Freundinnen "Freunde" werden, ist die feministische Linguistik und Gesellschaftskritik gefordert. Ob... more...









