Markus Bieswanger Libros

It is one of the basic tenets in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology that language is not only situated in but also shaped by the social and cultural environment in which it is used. This volume seeks to explore the interface of society, culture and cognition in gendered, global and media uses of language in the 21st century. With its focus on topical developments in language use in contexts around the globe, this collection of twelve contributions by international scholars is attractive for scholars and students interested in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics, computer-mediated communication (CMC), language, culture and cognition, as well as discourse analysis.

Introduction to English Linguistics ist eine praxisorientierte Grundlage für Einführungskurse in die englische Sprachwissenschaft, einschließlich der neuen Bachelor-Studiengänge. Sie finden hier gesichertes Basiswissen über: - die Geschichte der englischen Sprache; - die zentralen Arbeitsbereiche der Linguistik: Phonetik & Phonologie, Morphologie, Syntax, Semantik, Pragmatik und Soziolinguistik.

The fourth volume in the series Language Competence and Language Awareness in Europe features contributions from various philologies in the young but rapidly growing research area of linguistic variability. The book grew out of a nucleus of papers presented at a North German Linguistics Workshop organised by the chair of English Linguistics, and developed into a collection of doctoral and post-doctoral research papers on variability in different domains of language use, variability as conceptual cum linguistic variability, and variability as studied in the mainstream research framework of corpus linguistics. It is the integrative presentation of thematic breadth and pluralistic research methodologies that inspired the title New Approaches to the Study of Linguistic Variability. The volume focuses on sociolinguistic studies of language use as social practice and variability of authentic language use.

Ever since European settlement on the Australian continent began, German speakers have been present and contributed to the development of the Australian nation. It can thus be assumed that the German-speaking minority and the English-speaking majority have been continuously interacting with and influencing each other in one of the longest-standing immigrant language contact situations in Australia. This study is concerned with the influence of the minority language German on the majority language Australian English, which has hitherto received only little attention. German Influence on Australian English, on the one hand, examines the connection between the history of German-speaking immigration to Australia and different types of transference and, on the other hand, synchronically and empirically investigates at the individual levels of language - namely lexis, pronunciation, grammar and toponyms - the results of more than two centuries of German-English language contact that are still visible in Australian English today.

Philosophische, soziologische, historische, amerikanistische, linguistische und wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Beiträge eines Workshops diskutieren – zum Teil im Kontext von Globalisierungstendenzen – Alterität und die Produktivität von Grenzen: Sind Grenzen Brücken oder Schranken? Dabei wird Grenze nicht nur als abgrenzende „natürliche“, „künstliche“ oder „kognitive/mentale“ Linie verstanden, sondern auch als Kontaktraum aufgefasst. Gemäß den Beiträgen sollen Grenzen als Brücken verstanden werden, bei denen Eigenes bewahrt, das Fremde aber nicht vereinnahmt, sondern respektiert und die teilweise Unzugänglichkeit des Fremden im Sinne einer „Normalität des Fremden“ akzeptiert werden soll. Mit Beiträgen von: Prof. Dr. Alfred Bammesberger, Markus Bieswanger M. A., Dr. Manuela Boatcă, Dr. Joachim Grzega, Prof. Dr. Hans Hunfeld, Prof. Mag. Dr. Bernhard Kettemann, Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim König, Stephany Koujou Lic., Claudia Neudecker M. A., Dr. Ralf Ottermann, Prof. Dr. Josef Raab, Prof. Dr. Michael Riekenberg, PD Dr. Stefan Rinke, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rohlfs, Prof. Dr. Stefan Schmid, Jérôme Vadot, Prof. Dr. Hermann J. Schnackertz, Prof. Dr. Peter Schulz, Prof. Dr. Leo Schuster, Christine Strobl M. A.