Publications
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Easy Language Research
(2020)
This volume presents new approaches in Easy Language research from three different perspectives: text perspective, user perspective and translation perspective. It explores the field of comprehensibility-enhanced varieties ...
Sprachmacht auf engstem Raum
(2021)
Audio films enable blind and visually impaired people to enjoy a feature film. An audio film consists of the original audio track of the film and the audio description. This film description compensates for the video track ...
Poesie – Musik – Übersetzung
(2024)
The translation of art songs is an attractive subject of research: their musical aesthetics unite two "sacred originals" - the poetry of a renowned poet's text and the melody of a respected composer. In view of the long ...
Kinder im Gespräch – mit Kindern im Gespräch
(2019)
How do children behave in conversations? The authors of this book provide answers that are relevant to research and practice. The analysis is based on authentic conversations in everyday situations. The discussion process ...
Trauma – Generationen – Erzählen
(2020)
Reminiscent narratives on Eastern, Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe and their investigation from a comparative literary perspective are the core of the volume Trauma - Generations - Narrative. With recourse to trauma ...
Gardens of the Iberian Peninsula
(2023)
In garden research, Spanish and Portuguese green spaces are scarcely visible. This is a striking contrast not only to their diversity and quality but also to the global network of both countries, especially during the Early ...
Multikodalität und Digitales Lehren und Lernen
(2021)
Nothing has highlighted the importance of digital teaching and learning opportunities more obviously than the Corona pandemic. This book therefore focuses on multicodal or multimedia digital teaching. The authors examine ...
Medien – Sprechen – Klang
(2021)
This volume brings together empirical studies on language and speech as well as on their linkage with musical-sound elements in the media (radio, audio guide, audio book, radio play as well as YouTube and Instagram videos). ...
Rechtskommunikation und Barrierefreiheit
(2019)
Accessible legal communication seems to be a contradiction in itself: Legal terminology places high demands on comprehension. Easy language, on the other hand, aims for maximum comprehensibility. Isabel Rink explores the ...
Schreiben mit der Hand
(2021)
Why do people still write by hand today? Is typing by hand actually handwriting? And what have signatures got to do with identity? Andi Gredig explores these and many other questions about handwriting from a linguistic and ...
East Asian Landscapes and Legitimation
(2024)
The conquest of Sichuan and Vietnam by the Chinese Empire led to very different outcomes. This volume examines the negotiations between central authority and local autonomy, the physical manifestations of socially constructed ...
Accessibility – Health Literacy – Health Information
(2022)
Recent studies show that more than half of the German population have difficulties in accessing, understanding, appraising, and applying health information, thus giving accessibility in health communication new traction. ...
Verbunden mit den Slaven
(2022)
"Connected with the Slavs" - this leitmotif unites contributions by Slavists and representatives of neighbouring disciplines. Together they show the wealth and impressive range of Slavic research: from language history to ...
The Dictionary of Accessible Communication
(2021)
Terminology on Accessible Communication has primarily evolved and been published within the borders of a given country with no or only little exchange across these borders. Since English can be regarded as the „lingua ...
Automatisierte Wissenskommunikation
(2024)
The Model of Automated Knowledge Communication outlined in this postdoctoral thesis aims to broaden the scope of current conceptualizations of specialized communication to account for self-adapting, AI-/LLM-based machines ...
Chapter Русский перевод книги Антуана де Плювинеля
(2022)
In the second half of the 17th century, the translators of the Russian ambassadorial office had to translate a large number of books. Among them, the equestrian books by Antoine de Pluvinel from the 1620s stand out: Maneige ...
Auffindbarkeit, Wahrnehmbarkeit, Akzeptabilität
(2021)
Many public authorities are now obliged to use plain language on their websites. The aim is to improve the participation of people with disabilities. But are the legal requirements and the resulting textual practice suitable ...
Translation und Exil (1933–1945) II
(2023)
Translation does not work in a vacuum. Making it visible as action in a structured context is the goal of this book. This broad context includes individuals and, more significantly, collective actors-publishers, reviewers ...
A Responsibility to the World
(2023)
In a 1987 interview, José Saramago eloquently expressed what could be considered his political-philosophical manifesto: “Human beings should not content themselves with the role of mere observers. They bear a responsibility ...
Romper o solo instável
(2024)
O livro Romper o solo instável — Estudos sobre a Herança Filosófica e Poético-Política de José Saramago oferece uma ampla análise da herança multifacetada de José Saramago, com especial enfoque no seu pensamento filosófico ...
Central Europe and the Non-European World in the Long 19th Century
(2022)
Central Europe and the Non-European World in the Long 19th Century explores various ways in which inhabitants of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy perceived and depicted the outside world during the era of European imperialism. ...
Handbook of Accessible Communication
(2024)
Accessible communication comprises all measures employed to reduce communication barriers in various situations and fields of activity. Disabilities, illnesses, different educational opportunities and/or major life events ...
Uncertainty in deliberate lexical interventions
(2020)
Language managers in their different forms (language planners, terminologists, professional neologists …) have long tried to intervene in the lexical usage of speakers, with various degrees of success: Some of their lexical ...
Kompetenzen in DaF/DaZ
(2019)
Competence orientation opens up always new perspectives for teaching German as an Foreign and as a second language (DaF/DaZ) . The current tendencies of competence orientation presented here are include: - Specialist ...
Translationspolitik für Regional- oder Minderheitensprachen
(2018)
A reasonable evolution model is indispensable for the comprehensibility and justification of translation policy decisions. On the one hand, this model should take into account the general objectives of protecting a regional ...
Semiotische Effizienz interfachlicher Sprache-Bild-Textsorten
(2019)
Communicative efficiency can be measured with conventions. Besides linguistic means, pictures and diagrams are also an expression of such conventions. In the practice of technical editing, this refers to multimodal text ...
Sprachlenkung
(2017)
Is it possible to change the language in a group? And if so, how? In politics and business, conclusive answers to these questions are of great interest. Karolina Suchowolec finds them by analysing the current state of ...
Qualitätssicherung
(2019)
Translation revision is essential for ensuring the quality of translations. It is a service of its own, which involves the provision of additional personnel, time and financial resources. The quality standards, the auditing ...
Evaluieren und Prüfen in DaF / DaZ
(2020)
Consistent evaluation is an important prerequisite for quality assurance and continuous further development in the area of DaF/DaZ. With a focus on virtual learning, this volume deals with the evaluation of the Inverted ...
Handbuch Audiovisuelle Translation
(2024)
This handbook provides compact, well-founded and comprehensible information on the entire spectrum of audiovisual translation, or AVT for short. In five thematic sections, 30 experts provide a comprehensive overview of ...
Stimmstörungen – ein Fokus der Klinischen Sprechwissenschaft
(2016)
Working on the voice, whether diagnosticly, therapeuticly, preventively or restoratively, is and will remain one of the core areas of clinical speech science. The authors of this volume provide information on current vocal ...
Recherche im Translationsprozess
(2022)
What do I need to know in order to successfully complete a translation job? How do I acquire the relevant knowledge? This is what information mining is about. Gaps in a translator’s knowledge can occur in a variety of ...
Kognitive Aspekte des Übersetzungsprozesses
(2022)
What happens in the mind when we translate? And how does our mother tongue influence our speaking, writing, thinking and translating? In the answer to one question lies the resolution of the other. KyeongHwa Lee has explored ...
Handbuch Barrierefreie Kommunikation
(2018)
Barrier-free communication includes all measures to reduce obstacles to communication in various situations and fields of action. Due to disabilities, illnesses, different educational opportunities or drastic life events, ...
Russland im Spiegel der Medien
(2022)
Is Russia a fearful giant, an economic partner or a belligerent aggressor? The answer to this question depends on the perspective. What perspectives and consequently what answers does the German press landscape have to ...
Miteinander sprechen – verantwortlich, kompetent, reflektiert
(2021)
Speech science has a history of over 120 years. In addition to the self-image of the discipline, this book focuses on everything that makes the subject so attractive: With its vital research and teaching subject, speaking ...
Translation, Mediation and Accessibility for Linguistic Minorities
(2022)
Linguistic minorities are everywhere, and they are diverse. In this context, linguistic mediation activities – whether translation or interpreting – are key to the social inclusion of any kind of linguistic minority. In ...
Paratexts in Translation
(2022)
As something that surrounds, extends, and presents a text to the world, the phenomenon of paratext is gaining more and more attention within the discipline of Translation Studies. This edited volume, with contributions by ...
Die Ukraine als Objekt russischer Großmachtansprüche
(2024)
This volume brings together contributions on the background to the Russian attack on Ukraine from a (socio-)linguistic, linguistic and literary-historical and political perspective. The emphasis is not on day-to-day political ...
Accessible Communication
(2020)
Easy-to-Understand (E2U) text practices enable and facilitate accessible communication. E2U refers both to Plain and to Easy Language. These two powerful methods of language and content comprehension enhancement are ...