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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 ...
Decolonising Medieval Fennoscandia
(2023)
The study investigates the relationship between Norse and Saami peoples in the medieval period and focuses on the multifaceted portrayal of Saami peoples in medieval texts. Through a systematic analysis of the sources, ...
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 ...
Mapping the Sensible
(2022)
Mapping figures in cinema as an experiential process inscribed within historically specific aesthetic regimes. The three long essays in this book explore mapping as a process of violent inscription on colonial landscapes ...
Diokletian und die Tetrarchie
(2012)
Renowned scholars from Germany, Great Britain, Croatia, Slovenia and Switzerland contributed to an international conference held in Split in 2003. Their papers collected here show the present state of research on the ...
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 ...
Variants and Variance in Classical Textual Cultures
(2024)
How textual variations develop in different cultures what variants say about a culture’s understanding of text, and (collective) authorship what happens when variants generate their own strands of tradition how changes in ...
Feminizid in Recht und Literatur
(2024)
This study examines the crime of femicide in the Latin American context in the novels of D. Zúñiga (Chile), L. Restrepo (Colombia), and F. Melchor (Mexico). It reveals how these literary texts shed light on the systematic ...
Kunst und Geld
(2023)
"Leiter setzte Geld in den Sand" titelte die Kasseler Lokalzeitung HNA im August 2017 und brachte geleakte Informationen aus dem Aufsichtsrat der documenta 14, einer weltweit renommierten Kunstausstellung, an die Öffentlichkeit: ...
Handbook of Stemmatology
(2020)
Stemmatology studies aspects of textual criticism that use genealogical methods. This handbook is the first to cover the entire field, encompassing both theoretical and practical aspects, ranging from traditional to digital ...
Historische Textmuster im Wandel
(2023)
Text patterns can be described in several interwoven dimensions. This volume looks at examples of empirical studies of historical text types to show how quantitative methods from corpus linguistics can be productively ...
The Trump Carnival
(2024)
A truly interdisciplinary approach to the Trump phenomenon. This book offers a unique holistic theoretical framework that includes a wide range of structural factors. While most books single out one specific factor, such ...
Context-Dependence, Perspective and Relativity
(2010)
This volume brings together original papers by linguists and philosophers on the role of context and perspective in language and thought. Several contributions are concerned with the contextualism/relativism debate, which ...
Literarische Formen des Erinnerns
(2024)
The contributions in the volume follow the path of a “rhetoric of memory” in its various forms in the area of tension between canonization and decanonization as well as disruption and stabilization. The fundamental premise ...
Heilige, Heiliges und Heiligkeit in spätantiken Religionskulturen
(2012)
Holy places; Holy times; Holiness; History of Religion; Sacralization
Griechen im Heiligen Römischen Reich
(2024)
This is the first volume to deal with the migration of Greeks to the Holy Roman Empire in detail. It reveals that there were three types of migrants: almsmen, students, and traders. Greek migrants from the Ottoman Empire ...
Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta
(2024)
This book focuses on the philosophy of the sixteenth-century Mādhva Vedānta philosopher Vyāsatīrtha. Vyāsatīrtha’s Nyāyāmr̥ta influenced philosophers throughout India and propelled his tradition to the center of the ...
Der grüne Kakadu
(2020)
In The Green Cockatoo, a one-act play from 1898, Arthur Schnitzler thematizes the indistinguishability of fiction and reality. The historical-critical edition reconstructs the history of the play and its publication, ...
Demographic Change in Japan and the EU
(2010)
This volume contains selected papers of the 2008 annual conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung e.V. – VSJF). The academic meeting ...
Knowledge, Freedom, and Taste
(2024)
This volume presents original contributions from former students of Paul Guyer, the 2024 recipient of the International Kant Prize. The authors engage with central aspects of Guyer’s work on Kant’s critical philosophy, ...
Predigt und Politik im frühmittelalterlichen Bayern
(2015)
Many sermon manuscripts were created around 800 CE over the course of the Carolingian reform movement, but until now, historical researchers have largely overlooked them. The presentation analyzes selected sermon collections ...
Geschichten im digitalen Raum
(2024)
In the age of digitality, the question is not so much whether learning about history is relevant in the digital space but how it should be modeled. In this volume, Alexandra Krebs develops a theoretical concept for such a ...
Historische Textmuster im Wandel
(2023)
Text patterns can be described in several interwoven dimensions. This volume looks at examples of empirical studies of historical text types to show how quantitative methods from corpus linguistics can be productively ...
Chapter Sarazenen als „Fremde“?
(2009)
The subjects of this volume are views and perceptions of the “other” (i.e. strangers, enemies or curiosities) within the Islamic world, as well as in the interplay between the Islamic and non-Islamic worlds. More than 20 ...
Unruly Narrative
(2022)
This study deals with the formative powers of modern liberal ideas of private property. The liberal subject emerged with the formations of European liberalism, Atlantic slavery, and settler colonial expansion in the New ...
Remote Places, Public Spaces
(2024)
The SMOTIES network is a partnership of ten design universities, research centres, creative agencies, and national associations. Each partner selected a small and remote place in their country to benefit from the design ...
Nicht-Naives Erzählen
(2018)
What is “naïve narrative” and to what extent should we regard it as obsolete? This study examines the poetological effects of the modern crisis in narration on German literature at the turn of the century based on the ...
Predigt und Politik im frühmittelalterlichen Bayern
(2015)
Many sermon manuscripts were created around 800 CE over the course of the Carolingian reform movement, but until now, historical researchers have largely overlooked them. The presentation analyzes selected sermon collections ...
Berlin International
(2023)
By the time West Berlin was declared the European Capital of Culture of 1988, a heavily internationalized literary scene had already been developing on both sides of the Wall. In fifteen contributions, this volume traces ...
Apostellegenden
(2024)
Written around 1300, the Passional is the first major collection of legends in the German language and considered among the most significant and influential literary works of Middle High German spiritual epic poetry. Books ...
Apostellegenden
(2024)
Written around 1300, the Passional is the first major collection of legends in the German language and considered among the most significant and influential literary works of Middle High German spiritual epic poetry. Books ...
The Cold War
(2017)
The traces of the Cold War are still visible in many places all around the world. It is the topic of exhibits and new museums, of memorial days and historic sites, of documentaries and movies, of arts and culture. There ...
Demographic Change in Japan and the EU
(2010)
This volume contains selected papers of the 2008 annual conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung e.V. – VSJF). The academic meeting ...
Kunst und Geld
(2023)
"Leiter setzte Geld in den Sand" titelte die Kasseler Lokalzeitung HNA im August 2017 und brachte geleakte Informationen aus dem Aufsichtsrat der documenta 14, einer weltweit renommierten Kunstausstellung, an die Öffentlichkeit: ...
Immanuel Kant – Freiheit, Vernunft, Sinnlichkeit
(2024)
This volume takes the Kant anniversary year 2024 as an opportunity to give space to the many-voiced echoes of Kant's philosophy by renowned authors of the 20th century (Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Gilles Deleuze, ...
Immanuel Kant – Freiheit, Vernunft, Sinnlichkeit
(2024)
This volume takes the Kant anniversary year 2024 as an opportunity to give space to the many-voiced echoes of Kant's philosophy by renowned authors of the 20th century (Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Gilles Deleuze, ...
Nicht-Naives Erzählen
(2018)
What is “naïve narrative” and to what extent should we regard it as obsolete? This study examines the poetological effects of the modern crisis in narration on German literature at the turn of the century based on the ...
Die metrische Psalmenmetaphrase des Manuel Philes
(2024)
This book is the first comprehensive study on the psalm metaphrase by Byzantine poet Manuel Philes (fourteenth century) and contains the first critical edition of the entire text (about 3,500 verses). It arranges metaphrase ...
The Global Cold War on Campus
(2023)
How and why did students at Kabul University engage in political activism or refrained from it between 1964 and 1992? Based on oral history interviews with former students, this book reveals how they – as many others around ...
Chapter Multilingualism, Multiscripturalism, and Knowledge Transfer in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Graeco-Roman Judaea
(2018)
How did ancient communities approach the concept of religious knowledge? Was it something to be shared with all, or was it the provenance of certain initiates? This volume of collected essays illustrates a range of approaches ...