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The History of English in a Social Context
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
From Cognitive Semantics to Lexical Pragmatics
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Frames of Understanding in Text and Discourse
How do words mean? What is the nature of meaning? How can we grasp a word’s meaning? The frame-semantic approach developed in this book offers some well-founded answers to such long-standing, but still controversial issues. Following Charles Fillmore’s definition of frames as both organizers of experience and tools for understanding, the monograph attempts to examine one of the most important concepts of Cognitive Linguistics in more detail. The point of departure is Fillmore’s conception of “frames of understanding” – an approach to (cognitive) semantics that Fillmore developed from 1975 to 1985. The envisaged Understanding Semantics (“U-Semantics”) is a semantic theory sui generis whose significance for linguistic research cannot be overestimated. In addition to its crucial role in the development of the theoretical foundations of U-semantics, corpus-based frame semantics can be applied fruitfully in the investigation of knowledge-building processes in text and discourse.
Lexical-Semantic Relations
This collection of articles sketches the complexity of the subject of lexical-semantic relations and addresses semantic, lexicographic and computational issues on an array of meaning relations in different languages. It brings together a variety of linguistic studies on the contextualised construction of synonymy and antonymy in discourse. It shows that research on language and cognition calls for empirical evidence from different sources. This volume demonstrates how the internet, corpus data, as well as psycholinguistic methods contribute profitably to gain insights into the nature of the paradigmatics in actual language use. Furthermore, the volume is concerned with practical and application-oriented research on lexical databases, and it includes explorations of sense-related items in dictionaries from both a text-technological and lexicographic perspective.
Adverbs
Adverbs as a word class are notoriously difficult to define. The volume deals with the delimitation of this category, its internal structure, the morphological make-up of adverbs and their positions in syntactic structures. A closer look at diachronic developments sheds light on the characteristics of adverbial word-formation. Taking into account adverbs in German, English, Dutch, French and Italian, the contributions to this volume provide new insights into the characteristics of this heterogeneous and multi-faceted category and will be of interest to linguists working in the fields of morphology, syntax and language change.
Bulletin de la Société Néophilologique
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Das dreibändige Wörterbuch erfasst Wörter im Deutschen, die als Teil ihrer individuellen Mehrdeutigkeit gegensätzliche Lesarten aufweisen. Ein solcher Gegensinn ist für das einzelne Wort das Analogon zur bekannten Antonymie zwischen verschiedenen Wörtern. Gegensinn ist relativ unbekannt und im Unterschied zu Synonymen- bzw. Antonymenwörterbüchern gibt es in keiner Sprache Wörterbücher des Gegensinns. Insofern ist das vorgelegte Wörterbuch eine Weltneuheit und bahnbrechend für Lexikologie und Lexikographie. Die mindestens 6000 Lemmata werden mit ihren gegensätzlichen Lesarten erfasst, durch Originalbelege illustriert und über die jeweilige Art des Gegensinns und dem zu Grunde li...
Performance and Performativity in German Cultural Studies
Duttlinger (German, Wadham College, Oxford) introduces a dozen papers selected from a conference held in 2002 at the University of Cambridge that apply the critical theory concepts of performance and performativity to German cultural studies. Though the German language has no single equivalent for performance, English- and German-speaking scholar
The German Evangelical Alliance and the Third Reich
This is the first study to concentrate on evangelical reactions to the National Socialist regime. The author analyses the treatment of National Socialist social, political and economic policies in the Evangelisches Allianzblatt and makes references to other evangelical publications. He highlights the support theological conservatives in Germany gave to the government and examines their reticence in joining the Kirchenkampf. The German evangelical analysis of National Socialism is contrasted with the position taken by the British editors of Evangelical Christendom. The evangelical Vergangenheitsbewaltigung is dealt with in a concluding chapter.
