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Die Jugend des Dionysos
(2016)
The Millennium Studies seek to transcend boundaries, boundaries between epochs and regional spaces, as well as boundaries between disciplines. Millennium is international, transdisciplinary and epoch-wide. The editorial ...
Comics und Intersektionalität
(2024)
This volume expands on existing approaches in German-language comics studies by taking a deliberate intersectional perspective. The thematic core of the volume is a scholarly, interdisciplinary exploration of various forms ...
Languages Across Boundaries: Studies in Memory of Anna Siewierska
(2013)
Linguistic Typology; Person and Pronoun;s Grammatical Alignment; Grammatical Voice
Die Inschriften zu den Ludi saeculares
(2020)
The Saecular Games are considered one of the best-testified religious festivals of ancient Rome. The most significant source are two inscriptions, the Acta augustea and the – partially badly damaged – Acta severiana. The ...
The Languages of World Literature
(2024)
This volume opens the series of papers presented at the Vienna Congress of AILC/ICLA 2016, beginning with eight keynotes. Among others, thirty-four further papers are dedicated to the central theme of the conference: the ...
Chapter 87 Scalar implicature as a grammatical phenomenon
(2012)
This article develops various arguments for the view that scalar implicatures should be de-rived within grammar and not by a theory of language use (pragmatics). We focus primarily on arguments that scalar implicatures can ...
Chapter Mapping to prosody
(2015)
This study investigates the prosody of different types of sentence-medial parentheticals in Turkish. The results of a production experiment show that clausal parentheticals exhibit cues similar to intonation phrase-level ...
Spracheinstellungen und Identitätskonstruktion
(2014)
This study examines statements about language attitudes expressed by bilingually raised Germans of Vietnamese origin during language biographical interviews in search of specific conversational features. A further focus ...
Multimodale Konstruktionen im „Alltagskonsumkosmos“
(2024)
To which extent is the notational iconicity of text (layout, emphasis, etc.) grammatically significant? This volume provides an answer by taking an expanded cognitive-grammatical approach to examine a corpus of food packaging ...
Chapter 8 Classifiers
(2012)
Classifiers (currently also called ‘depicting handshapes’), are observed in almost all sign languages studied to date and form a well-researched topic in sign language linguistics. Yet, these elements are still subject to ...
Rural Revival
(2024)
About this book When most of their jobs disappear, how do communities survive? In the hard-hit area explored in this book – the Bonavista Peninsula, on the island of Newfoundland – many residents transitioned into "everyday" ...
The World's First Full Press Freedom
(2022)
The book investigates the world's first full legal press freedom. In 1770, king Christian 7's physician, the German enlightener J.F. Struensee, effectively became ruler of Denmark. His first decree, complete abandonment ...
Audiovisuelle Rhetorik als politische Intervention
(2024)
How do films and videos position themselves in the age of the "Alt-Right," #BlackLivesMatter, and financial and climate crises? In their interventions, they shape the perception of contemporary political crises. They raise ...
Die Inschriften zu den Ludi saeculares
(2020)
The Saecular Games are considered one of the best-testified religious festivals of ancient Rome. The most significant source are two inscriptions, the Acta augustea and the – partially badly damaged – Acta severiana. The ...
The Book of Job
(2017-06-26)
The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. Why has Job`s response to disaster become a touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events? ...
In the Wake of the Compendia
(2015)
In the Wake of the Compendia examines the composition of technical literature in the ancient Semitic-speaking world. Compendia on astrology, magic, medicine, lexicography, and alchemy were composed in several languages and ...
Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts
(2022)
Medieval manuscripts combining multiple languages, whether in fusion or in collision, provide tangible evidence for linguistic and cultural interactions. Such encounters are documented in this volume through case studies ...
Audiovisuelle Rhetorik als politische Intervention
(2024)
How do films and videos position themselves in the age of the "Alt-Right," #BlackLivesMatter, and financial and climate crises? In their interventions, they shape the perception of contemporary political crises. They raise ...
Chapter Gog and Magog
(2016)
This volume addresses Jewish, Christian and Muslim future visions on the end of the world, focusing on the respective allies and antagonists for each religious society. Spanning late Antiquity to the early modern period, ...
Cultures of Eschatology Volume 1: Empires and Scriptural Authorities in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities
(2020)
The belief in the Last Things has an integral place in Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. The two volumes want to explain how eschatological thought influenced and factored into the political and religious perception and ...