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Speakers and Structures in Language Contact
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 333

Speakers and Structures in Language Contact

This book is a collection of innovative studies on language contact. It contains novel works on unexplored issues related to language contact in different settings and aims to contribute multi-perspective insights to the current state of the art on language contact. Novel approaches to contact-related change, variation, attrition, and emergence of new varieties are explored from the lens of sociolinguistic, typological, synchronic, and diachronic perspectives. The contact settings vary from official and majority languages to minority, endangered and/or non-official varieties in different parts of the world.

Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 596

Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited

Cognitive Sociolinguistics draws on the rich theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics and focuses on the social factors that underlie the variability of meaning and conceptualization. In the last decade, the field has expanded in various way. The current volume takes stock of current and emerging advances in the field in short academic contributions. The studies collected in this book have a usage-based approach to language variation and change, drawing on the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics and are sensitive to social variation, be it cross-linguistic or language-internal. Three types of contributions are collected in this book. First, it contains theoretical overview papers on the domains that have witnessed expansion in recent years. Second, it presents novel research ideas in proof-of-concept contributions, aimed at blue-sky research and out-of-the-box linguistic analyses. Third, it showcases recent empirical studies within the field. By combining these three types of contributions, the book provides an encompassing overview of novel developments in the field of Cognitive Sociolinguistics.

Speaking to Job in Greek
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 576

Speaking to Job in Greek

This study investigates the Old Greek translation of Job regarding its text, Vorlage, translation technique, literary contexts, and theological profile. To situate OG Job within its ancient contexts, both the strategies employed by the translators and the literary profile of the translated text have to be taken into account. Thus, an approach is employed encompassing a thick description of translational strategies; and a reading of the translated text in its own right. This framework is applied in an investigation of God’s answer to Job in OG Job 38:1-42:6. The results show that the translators worked from a Vorlage similar to, but not fully identical with MT, and produced a coherent, styl...

German(ic) in language contact
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

German(ic) in language contact

It is well-known that contact between speakers of different languages or varieties leads to dynamics in many respects. From a grammatical perspective, especially contact between closely related languages/varieties fosters contact-induced innovations. The evaluation of such innovations reveals speakers’ attitudes and is in turn an important aspect of the sociolinguistic dynamics linked to language contact. In this volume, we assemble studies on such settings where typologically congruent languages are in contact, i.e. language contact within the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. Languages involved include Afrikaans, Danish, English, Frisian, (Low and High) German, and Yi...

Between Separation and Symbiosis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

Between Separation and Symbiosis

The book deals in detail with previously understudied language contact settings in the Balkans (South East Europe) that present a continuum between ethnic and linguistic separation and symbiosis among groups of people. The studies in this volume achieve several aims: they critically assess the Balkan Sprachbund theory; they analyse general contact theories against the background of new, original, representative field and historical Greek, Albanian, Romance, Slavic and Judesmo data; they employ and contribute to recent methods of research on linguistic convergence in bilingual societies; they propose new general assessments of extra- and intralinguistic factors of Balkanization over the centuries; and they outline prospects for future research. The factors relevant to contact scenarios and linguistic change in the Balkans are identified and typologized through models such as those related to a balanced or unbalanced (socio)linguistic situation.

Der Groundhopper
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 654

Der Groundhopper

Mögen die Spiele beginnen I.C. hat zugeschlagen und ist bereit, sein Spiel auf die Spitze zu treiben. Der tödliche Tanz zwischen Fußball und Verbrechen hat begonnen. Wirst du dabei sein? Dann nimm meine Einladung zum Spiel an. Wo wird I.C. als nächstes zuschlagen? Und was hat Borussia Dortmunds Heimspiel gegen Leverkusen damit zu tun? Wirst du es herausfinden? Die Uhr tickt, und die Jagd hat begonnen. Catch me if you can Ein sonniger Strand in Tunesien wird zur Bühne eines grausamen Verbrechens, als die Nichte des Innenministers ermordet aufgefunden wird. Doch dies ist erst der Anfang eines tödlichen Katz- und Mausspiels, in das der leitende Ermittler Ali Ben Tahar bald hineingezogen w...

Sprachwelten und Sprachwissen
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 500

Sprachwelten und Sprachwissen

Die Studie entwirft auf der Basis eines sozio-kognitiven Wissensbegriffs ausgehend von den alltäglichen Lebenswelten ein umfassendes Modell laienlinguistischen Wisssens, das mittels einer empirischen Untersuchung plausibilisiert wird. Zudem findet zum ersten Mal eine umfassende Modellierung des Laien statt. Am Ende stehen damit ein theoretisch fundiertes Bild des linguistischen Laien sowie umfassend analysierte Daten zu Sprachkonzepten im Alltag.

Optimistic Marketing in Challenging Times: Serving Ever-Shifting Customer Needs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 436

Optimistic Marketing in Challenging Times: Serving Ever-Shifting Customer Needs

Marketing is one of the most optimistic business disciplines with the goal of serving consumers or organizations and increasing customer satisfaction and happiness. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the optimism of the world, thus hindering these marketing goals. This book explore the challenges faced by marketers during and post-COVID-19 and offers strategies for marketers to invoke a sense of optimism as the world enters the “new normal”. It provides success stories and regional case studies to offer marketers new ways in which to serve consumers and satisfy their needs. It also acknowledges the role digital technology and innovation have played a crucial role during these dark times...

Laien, Wissen, Sprache
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 350

Laien, Wissen, Sprache

Die Frage, was Sprecherinnen und Sprecher von ihrer eigenen Sprache wissen und wie sie ihr gegenüber eingestellt sind, wurde von der Forschung von einigen Seiten beleuchtet. Allerdings steht bisher eine gemeinsame theoretische wie empirische Basis noch aus. Der vorliegende Sammelband gibt deshalb einen Überblick über die aktuellste Forschung auf dem Gebiet der Laienlinguistik und versammelt Beiträge mit neuen theoretischen Impulsen, innovativen methodischen Ansätzen sowie praktischer Forschung.

Dynamik in den deutschen Regionalsprachen: Gebrauch und Wahrnehmung
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 221

Dynamik in den deutschen Regionalsprachen: Gebrauch und Wahrnehmung

Das "Forum Sprachvariation" der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen und das Nachwuchskolloquium des Vereins für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung bieten lebendige Diskussionen zur Variationslinguistik. Einige Projekte und Ergebnisse bündelt der neue Sammelband zu den Kolloquien. Sein Schwerpunkt liegt auf innovativen theoretischen und methodischen Zugängen zur Dynamik in den deutschen Regionalsprachen. Dabei werden sowohl gebrauchs- als auch wahrnehmungsbasierte Ansätze vorgestellt, die unter Verwendung unterschiedlicher Datengrundlagen und Theorien spezifische Winkel des gemeinsamen Forschungsgegenstandes ausleuchten. Die Beiträge betreffen ebenso hochdeutsche wie niederdeutsche Regionalsprachräume.