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Word-Formation
This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The XVI chapters of the handbook provide the reader, in both general articles and individual studies, with a wide variety of perspectives: word-formation as a linguistic discipline (history of science, theoretical concepts), units and processes in word-formation, rules and restrictions, semantics and pragmatics, foreign word-formation, language planning and purism, historical word-formation, word-formation in language acquisition and aphasia, word-formation and language use, tools in word-formation research. The final chapter comprises 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective. These portraits afford the first overview of this kind and will prove useful for future typological research. This handbook will provide an essential reference for both advanced students and researchers in word-formation and related fields within linguistics.
Current Research in Applied Linguistics
This volume offers a representative selection of the papers presented at the Third ELC International Postgraduate Conference on Language and Cognition (ELC3), held in Santiago de Compostela, 21–22 September 2012. The book is structured into four parts. Part I comprises syntactic studies on the auxiliary verb get in Indian English, the grammar of verbs capable of occurring with or without an object in Contemporary English, and isolated if-clauses. Part II includes two papers dealing with word formation patterns and with crosslinguistic influences on motion expression in English and Spanish. The studies in Part III discuss topics related to second language acquisition, such as the difficulties encountered by Spanish speakers in learning English pronunciation, verbal morphology production by Japanese learners of English, and the effects of elicitation on students’ production of English past tense forms. The papers in Part IV revolve around discourse analysis and psycholinguistics, addressing topics such as automatic sentiment detection, perspectival construal patterns in language and cognition, and the effect of emotional valence on disambiguation processes.
Handbuch Werberhetorik
Das Handbuch Werberhetorik bietet einen Überblick über rhetorische Phänomene in der Werbung. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf der Rhetorik der Wirtschaftswerbung. Sie wird in ihrer historischen Entwicklung von der Antike über die Frühe Neuzeit und das Aufkommen des Markenartikels bis hin zur massenmedialen Konsumwerbung offline und online in den Blick genommen. Rhetorische Phänomene werden dabei sowohl in unterschiedlichen Werbemedien aufgespürt (Print, Rundfunk, Online-Formate u.a.) als auch in ihrer Multimodalität in den Blick genommen: So werden neben sprachlich-textuellen Phänomenen auch visuelle Ausdrucksformen (Bilder, Typographie) in ihrer Eigenwertigkeit und ihrer Relation zu...
Media as Procedures of Communication
The book explores the multifaceted nature of media and communication by challenging traditional views that consider media solely as technical infrastructures for transmitting information. Instead, it focuses on mediality as an empirically relevant concept and proposes to understand media as socially constituted semiotic procedures that shape and are shaped by communicative practices. The book is structured around this central idea, with four main sections. Part I examines digital environments, analyzing the interplay between multimodal approaches and mediality through case studies such as digital learning platforms and Zoom seminars. Part II focuses on journalistic procedures, investigating ...
Anglicisms in Europe
The present volume deals with the influence of the English lexis on other European languages in various fields of discourse, social attitudes towards this phenomenon and its reflections in recent lexicographical work. It contains some of the papers read at the conference Anglicisms in Europe 2006, which took place at the University of Regensburg, Germany. It links linguistic aspects with psychological, social, political and cultural issues, tracing relationships and differences between the respective research interests and findings. Its aim is to put the influx of anglicisms into languages other than English into a wide perspective encompassing the European heterogeneity of cultures, traditi...
The Epic Imaginary
This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent ‐ and hence legitimating ‐ stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power. Manifest in eighteenth-century poetics above all in the disjunction between programmatic definitions of the epic and actual experiments with the genre, this ambivalence can also arise within a single epic over the course of its narrative. The present study thus traces how particular eighteenth-century epics explore an originary incompleteness of political power and its narrative legitimations....
Wortbildung diamedial
Das Buch widmet sich den Zusammenhängen zwischen Wortbildungen als morphologische Konstruktionen einerseits und geschriebenen wie gesprochenen Texten als pragmatisch-kommunikative Einheiten andererseits. Als Datengrundlage der quantitativen und qualitativen Korpusstudien dienen monologische und dialogische Textsorten, die das gesamte Kontinuum konzeptioneller Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit abdecken (z.B. Zeitungsbericht, Bundestagsrede, YouTube-Kommentar, Hochschulprüfungsgespräch, WhatsApp-Chat, Alltagsgespräch). Die Arbeit deckt auf, wie Wortbildung an der Konstitution von Texten und der Prägung von Textsorten beteiligt ist, welche mentalen Prozesse bei der Rezeption von Wortbildun...
Remotivierung
In diesem Band untersuchen Forscher/-innen aus der germanistischen Linguistik Remotivierungsprozesse im Deutschen auf den Gebieten der Morphologie, der Wortbildung, der Phraseologie sowie der Pragmatik und diskutieren deren theoretische Einordnung im Rahmen von Grammatikalisierungs- und Lexikalisierungsprozessen sowie deren Gegenprozessen. Dieser Band steht wie auch der 2010 von Rüdiger Harnisch herausgegebene und ebenfalls in der Reihe LIT erschienene Band Prozesse sprachlicher Verstärkung – Typen formaler Resegmentierung und semantischer Remotivierung in der Tradition der Passauer Remotivierungsforschung. Ausgehend von morphologischen Forschungen zu Sprachwandelprozessen fällt auf, da...
Cognitive Linguistics between Universality and Variation
“This volume takes up the challenge of assessing the present state of Cognitive Linguistics on the cutting edge between universality and variability. Claims of universality have never been explicitly articulated by cognitive linguists but studies on embodiment, motivation and cognitive processes such as metaphor, metonymy, and conceptual integration rely on general cognitive abilities and hence tacitly assume cross-linguistic commonalities. Variability within a language and across languages has received growing attention, especially in contrastive and corpus-based studies. Both perspectives are given ample space in the articles collected in the volume. “The present volume is the first to...
The Dynamic Lexicon of English
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. This study investigates the interrelation between use, meaning and the mind as a central issue of contact-induced linguistic variation and change, using the influence of French, Spanish, German and Yiddish on English as case studies. It relies on innovative methodological approaches, including the use of an integrative, socio-cognitive model of the dynamic lexicon, to describe borrowing processes and their linguistic outcomes. The multitude of socio-cultural contexts relevant to the introduction of the various borrowings since the nineteenth century has been reconstructed. This implies the identification of borrowings reflecting connections of linguistic features and culturally embedded attitudes. Taking the effects of cognitive and social factors on conventionalization and entrenchment processes into account, this study makes an original contribution to existing research.
