Cette étude est consacrée au passage du prénom au nom commun en allemand et en français et aux mots qui en résultent, les " déonomastiques de prénoms " tels que Metze prostituée, Hanswurst guignol, catin et jean-foutre.
This book compares the ways in which the national media in two different countries construct (frame) and develop the image of the religious other, in this case Muslims in all their variety.
This volume provides a concise overview of the diachronic development of composite predicates (CPs) in Late Modern English, offering clearer evidence of ongoing language change using data less readily available in other corpora.
Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life history of these developments, from triggering events to driving forces and endpoints.
In The Struggle for a Multilingual Future, Christina Davis examines the tension between ethnic conflict and multilingual education policy in the linguistic and social practices of Sri Lankan minority youth.
Von Mainz bis Worms dient »der Schambes«, der Klassiker unter der hiesigen Mundart-Literatur, dem stillen Amüsieren und regen Gebrauch: Der Ur-Rhoihesse – mithin der angesprochene Schambes (= rheinhessische Verballhornung des Vornamens Jean-Baptiste) – kann seinen Schimpf-Wortschatz ergänzen, während die jüngere Generation endlich das Schennen (= Schimpfen) der Großeltern versteht.
Després de la desfeta del valencianisme republicà com a conseqüència de la Guerra Civil, a finals dels anys cinquanta del segle XX la premsa valencianista reprèn la tradició històrica.
This book defines and describes the linguistic features of these languages and considers the dynamic developments that bring them into being and lead to changes in their structure.
This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive cross-linguistic overview of an understudied typological phenomenon, the clause-level argument-like behaviour of internal possessors.
Joanna Smereka legt mit dieser Untersuchung eine der wenigen sprachwissenschaftlichen Studien vor, die die Untersuchung einer historischen Textsorte zum Gegenstand hat.
In an age of migration, in a world deeply divided through cultural differences and in the context of ongoing efforts to preserve national and regional traditions and identities, the issues of language and translation are becoming absolutely vital.
Part of the series on American English from 1781 to 1921, Volume VIII includes a guide to the phonetics of American English with the purpose to provide a rational method of examining pronunciation, the most important of the practical aspects of speech.
The interactions and multiple identities of indigenous and Mediterranean communities in Southern Gaul come to life through sociolinguistics and archaeology.
Die lutherischen Duale "Gesetz und Evangelium", "Glaube und gute Werke", "Alter und Neuer Bund", "Verheißung und Erfüllung" haben eine ambivalente Geschichte: Sie dienten lutherischer Theologie, Frömmigkeit und insbesondere der Predigtkultur über fast fünf Jahrhunderte als Schlüssel zum Verstehen der Vielfalt biblischer Texte.
Taking an anthropological perspective, Alan Barnard explores the evolution of language by investigating the lives and languages of modern hunter-gatherers.
Lysias' 21st speech "e;On a charge of taking bribes"e; is an important example of Attic oratory that sheds significant light on Classical history and society.
This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.
This book outlines a system of phonological features that is minimally sufficient to distinguish all consonants and vowels in the languages of the world.
As the second volume of a two-volume set that studies the Chinese rhyme tables, this book seeks to reconstruct the ancient rhyme tables based on the extant materials and findings.
