Anglistik & Amerikanistik

Interaction Between Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Factors

<p><em>Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives</em> compiles over 30 state-of-the-art articles on Japanese psycholinguistics. It emphasizes the importa...

Interactional Humor

<p>The central question explored in this volume is: How is humor multimodally produced, perceived, responded to, and negotiated? To this end, <strong></strong>it offers a panoram...

Between Text, Meaning and Legal Languages

<p> This collection on legal interpretation in a broad sense presents state-of-the-art linguistic approaches that are applied for studying interpretation and meaning generation in various le...

The Weaponizing of Language in the Classroom and Beyond

<p> In this edited volume, language weaponization — or the weaponization of language — is used to describe the process in which words, discourse, and language in any form can be used to ...

Special Onymic Grammar in Typological Perspective

Thomas Stolz / Julia Nintemann

<p>For the first time, proper names are made the topic of a cross-linguistic account of morphosyntactic properties which formally distinguish place names, personal names, and common nouns. I...

Linguistics Out of the Closet

<p>Queer linguistics – in its position as both a linguistic science of and for queer folk – is inherently agitating to the disciplinary anxiety of a general linguistic science. It repres...

Signed Language and Gesture Research in Cognitive Linguistics

<p>This volume represents the first time that researchers on signed language and gesture have come together with a coherent focus under the framework of cognitive linguistics. The pioneering...

Attitudes Towards Gender Neutral Language

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2022 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 2,6, University of Dortmund, language: English, abstract: This paper aims to investigate a...

The Fashion of the First Lady. Differences in the Media Portrayal of Michelle Obama and Melania Trump

Nathalia Rölli

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Augsburg (American Studies), course: First Ladies, language: English, abstract: This work w...

Exploring Genre Fluidity. The Marriage of Horror and Comedy in 'Good Omens' and Beyond

Marie-Christin Spitznagel

Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Constance, language: English, abstract: This study focuses on the ex...

Semantic Transitivity in the "Into"-Causative. An Analysis

M. Klaiber

Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: This essay disc...

Lucy's relationships with Cecil and George and their importance for her personal development in “A Room with a View”

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Trier, language: English, abstract: A main issue of the novel is the...

The Role of the German Mother Tongue for the Acquisition of Grammatical Structures of English

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Trier, language: English, abstract: The aim of the paper is to find...

Unveiling Hybridity and Identity. A Comparative Study of Olive and Vivien's Experiences in Andrea Levy's "Never Far From Nowhere"

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Trier, language: English, abstract: This paper explores the concepts...

Funktionen und Deutungen der Stadt in J. D. Salingers "The Catcher in the Rye"

Helene Berg

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 1,3, Universität Trier, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Als Roman der Nachkriegszeit wurde Salingers Werk bisher häufig u...

Tiermetaphorik und soziale Determination in Stephen Cranes "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets"

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 1,7, Universität Trier, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit widmet sich Stephen Cranes "Maggie: A Girl of the ...

Linguistic Gender Differences. Examining Apologies of Social Media Figures

Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, , language: English, abstract: This term paper looks at politeness behaviour from...

Martin Luther Kings “I Have a Dream” Rede. Bedeutung und Funktion von Naturmetaphern

Helena Besch

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 1,3, Universität Trier, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Seminararbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, was die Naturm...

Henry James' "The Portrait of a Lady". Darstellung des 'American Dream'

Thomas Reis

Akademische Arbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese wissenschaftliche Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Darstellung des 'American ...

Developing Translanguaging Repertoires in Critical Teacher Education