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Andreas Gardt
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Using German as the main exemplar, but looking at other European languages as well, this book examines topics such as the geographical and demographic spread of languages, language and identity…
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This text presents a history of reflection on language in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present. It features a chronological review of work on the philosophy of language…
Clear and concisely written, this series provides comprehensive insight into linguistic interrelationships. Each volume addresses a different linguistic phenomenon, rather than being devoted to a specific subfield. Beyond providing systematic…
Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral)–Universiteat Heidelberg, 1987.
Do we have true access to reality or are we merely surrounded by our own constructions of reality? This classic question has been taken up again with great urgency in…
Features contributors Wolfgang Thierse (president of the German Bundestag), Peter Eisenberg (involved in the German spelling reform), David Crystal (famous linguist), representatives of the Goethe institute; current and politically controversial…
This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific…
Since the 1970s, language historians have been describing systemic linguistic phenomena in their social and cultural context. This volume deals with systematic aspects of culturally-orientated language history and with the…
Papers from a conference held at Universit'at Heidelberg June 11-14, 1992.
Florian Biehl
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Semiotik, Pragmatik, Semantik, Note: 1,0, Universitat des Saarlandes, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: UEber dreissig Jahre ist es nun her, dass die linksextreme…
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Wissensordnungen und Praktiken der Wissensvermittlung sind eng mit der Materialitat und spezifischen Medialitat des Buches verbunden. Der mittelalterliche Codex, die fruhen Drucke, das moderne und schliesslich das digitalisierte Buch sind…
Wort und Wortschatz stellen einen der bedeutendsten Gegenstandsbereiche der allgemeinen und der germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft dar. Und so versammelt die vorliegende Festschrift fuuuml;r Oskar Reichmann, dessen wissenschaftliches Schaffen eng mit der…
Die Diskussion uber Herleitung und Bestimmung der eigenen Identitat durchzieht die Geschichte Europas und seiner Nationalstaaten. In dem interdisziplinar ausgerichteten Band werden Identitatsentwurfe in verschiedenen Raumen vom Mittelalter bis zum…
