Publications
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Imperien, Nationen, Regionen
(2023)
This eighth volume of the Communications of the Joint Research Committee on the Contemporary History of German-Russian Relations documents the 2016 colloquium held in Moscow devoted to the theme "Empires, Nations, and ...
Germanistik in Wien
(2016)
The series "QUELLEN UND FORSCHUNGEN ZUR LITERATUR- UND KULTURGESCHICHTE" (Sources and Research in the History of Literature and Culture), with a rich tradition stretching back to 1874, is an established feature among the ...
Lernwelt Hochschule 2030
(2022)
Tertiary institutions are facing expectations of change on all sides resulting from the challenges of new public management, the Bologna Process, a shift from teaching to learning, competence orientation, and societal ...
Sprachlich konstruierter Extremismus
(2024)
How are extremist ideologies constructed in texts and conveyed in a potentially persuasive manner? This volume responds to this question by looking at German-language magazines published by the "Islamic State." It examines ...
»Es gibt noch Arbeiter in Deutschland«
(2024)
Laborers have long since disappeared from the political stage – seemingly inevitably as a result of structural change. However, if one understands ‘laborers’ as a resource of social knowledge, actors such as trade unionists, ...
Zerstörung von Geschriebenem Historische und transkulturelle Perspektiven
(2019)
Inscribed artifacts are exposed to a range of practices that damage them. These practices vary dramatically across historical periods and cultural contexts. This book studies a number of representative examples spanning ...
1308: Eine Topographie historischer Gleichzeitigkeit
(2010)
The Year 1308 ;Johannes Duns Scotus; Philosophy/ in the Middle Ages; History/ in the Middle Ages; Theology/ in the Middle Ages
Cognitive Linguistic Explorations in Biblical Studies
(2014)
Cognitive linguistics; biblical studies; biblical interpretation
Gespeicherte Gefühle
(2024)
Archive sind Orte der Diskretion, die jede Menge an Indiskretionen aufbewahren: geheime Liebeskorrespondenz, Aufkündigungen enger Freundschaften, Schnorrbriefe, juristische Verfolgung von Verrissen, Kampf um geistiges ...
Spanisch in Berlin
(2020)
Welche Motivationen stehen hinter dem Wunsch, Spanisch zu lernen? Welche Einstellungen verbinden Lernende mit der Sprache? Das Buch zeigt die Ergebnisse einer Reihe von Befragungsstudien mit Lernenden in Berlin an Hochschulen ...
Chapter Punktzeit als (Ver-)Störung
(2013)
This collected volume aims to generate a concise theoretical presentation of the "perturbation principle" in the humanities and the natural sciences. Incorporating findings from natural scientific research, the contributors ...
Chapter Wulfstan at Work: Recovering the Autographs of London, British Library, Additional 38651, fols. 57r–58v
(2019)
In this volume, scholars from different disciplines – Old English and Anglo-Latin literature and linguistics, palaeography, history, runology, numismatics and archaeology – explore what are here called ‘micro-texts’, i.e. ...
Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies
(2022)
This volume approaches the phenomenon of slavery and other types of strong asymmetrical dependencies from two methodologically and theoretically distinct perspectives: semantics and lexical fields. Detailed analyses promise ...
Bilder von dem Einen Gott: Die Rhetorik des Bildes in monotheistischen Gottesdarstellungen der Spätantike
(2016)
Monotheism; image rhetoric; late antiquity
Family Constellations in Contemporary Ibero-American and Slavic Literatures
(2024)
The volume investigates historical imaginaries in contemporary Ibero-American and Slavic literatures, where family narratives are used to reflect paradigmatically on the construction and self-understanding of regional, ...
Chapter 12 The tense-mood-aspect systems of the languages of Suriname
(2017)
This chapter deals with tense, mood, and aspect (TMA) marking in the languages of Suriname, focusing on the stability of forms, meanings, and structural pat-terns. Despite its prominent position in the creolization debate ...
Die Briefe Christiana von Goethes
(2024)
As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s life partner, Christiana von Goethe (née Vulpius) corresponded extensively, providing remarkable insights into her language and writing practice. This volume examines her letters linguistically ...
Modernity and the Construction of Sacred Space
(2024)
This book explores the intersection of modern architecture and religious studies. It focuses on rethinking the concept of sacred space in a modern context, bringing together scholars from diverse fields into an interdisciplinary ...
The Play of Language in Ancient Greek Comedy
(2024)
Within this volume, aspects of linguistic humour in ancient Greek comedy are explored. A rich repertoire of verbal artifices and types of joke is analysed, with emphasis on their contribution to the creation of comic effect ...
Genealogie in der Moderne
(2022)
What was the significance of searching for and finding "family" and kinship through the ages? Which methods and strategies did actors use to produce relational connections, and into what structures and discourses can these ...
The Poetry of Li He
(2023)
Li He (790-816) gained his early renown particularly for his lyrical reimaginings of lost song traditions from ancient times. The poet's premature death, along with the otherworldly quality of many of his works, led later ...
Chapter On a theorem of Erdős and Simonovits on graphs not containing the cube
(2013)
Turán graph problem; bipartite extremal graphs; cube graph
Chapter Udug
(2014)
Assyriology; Mesopotamia; Ancient Near East
Future Narratives: Theory, Poetics, and Media-Historical Moment
(2013)
This head volume of the ´Narrating Futures` series defines and identifies Future Narratives. It parses their characteristic features and aims at an abstract classification of the whole corpus, irrespective of its concrete ...
Language, Migration and Multilingualism in the Age of Digital Humanities
(2023)
The digital turn has far-reaching implications for linguistic research, from data collection and analysis to storage infrastructure. It also brings about profound changes in epistemological and ethical practices as well ...
Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought
(2021)
During the 13th century, the Franciscan school became prominent among the first universities such as Oxford and Paris and other European centres of learning. This volume explores the contributions to scholarship of some ...
Chapter 6 Statistical observations on implicational (verb) hierarchies
(2015)
Implicational hierarchies have been one of the key ingredients in linguistic typology for around half a century, i.e., ever since the discovery of Berlin & Kay (1969) that the presence of a certain color term in a language ...
Imaginationen
(2019)
In the 18th century, the power of the imagination, which had previously been regarded as problematic, experienced a radical upsurge in esteem. In the modern era, imagination has been viewed as an essential moment in processes ...
Nationalism in a Transnational Age
(2021)
Nationalism was declared to be dead too early. A post-national age was announced, in which transnational alliances like the European Union were supposed to become more important, but we are witnessing the rise of strong ...
African Data Protection Laws
(2024)
This volume documents the results of the "African Data Protection Laws: Regulation, Practice, and Policy" conference held in Accra, Ghana in September 2022. The contributions combine multidisciplinary perspectives on current ...
Computational Drama Analysis
(2024)
Work on drama has always been at the forefront of research in computational literary studies. The explicit structure of plays lends itself to formal analysis and has already been explored before the age of computers. ...
Chapter 44 A “Composite Utterances” approach to meaning 45. Towards a grammar of gestures
(2013)
This chapter argues for a composite utterances approach to research on body, language, and communication. It argues that to understand meaning we need to begin with the utterance or speech act as the unit of analysis. From ...
De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens’ Assemblies
(2023)
The De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens’ Assembly showcases the state of the art of Citizens’asembly and opens new perspectives informed by multidisciplinary research and new thinking about deliberative participatory processes.
The Poetry and Prose of Wang Wei
(2020)
Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial ...
Fremde, Feinde und Kurioses: Innen- und Außenansichten unseres muslimischen Nachbarn
(2009)
Islam; the Orient and Islam
Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum II commentariorum I-VI versio Arabica. Volume I: Commentaria I-III
(2016)
This two-volume monograph offers the first critical edition of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on Book 2 of the Hippocratic Epidemics produced by Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. ca. 870). The edition is based ...
Raum und Interieurs in Thomas Manns Erzählwerk
(2018)
The 19th century was, in Walter Benjamin’s diagnosis, “addicted to dwelling.” That era’s sense of space – what August Schmarsow called its Raumgefühl – shaped the narratives of Thomas Mann. This study examines Mann’s ...
Chapter Black box approaches to genealogical classification and their shortcomings
(2013)
In the past 20 years, the application of quantitative methods in historical linguistics has received a lot of attention. Traditional historical linguistics relies on the comparative method in order to determine the ...
Manual der Koloproktologie
(2024)
This is the standard textbook for every medical or surgical coloproctologist from the German Society for Coloproctology. In two volumes, it covers the full anatomy of the colon from the ileocecal valve to the anus. Each ...
Der einsame Weg, Band 2 : Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2024)
The 15th volume of the “Historical-Critical Edition of Arthur Schnitzler’s Early Works” – edited by Konstanze Fliedl since 2010 – presents Schnitzler’s play “Der einsame Weg” (1904). The entire extensive corpus of material ...