Die universitäre Fremdsprachendidaktik verfolgt seit langem eine doppelte Ausrichtung: In ihrer Funktion als forschende Disziplin erforscht, beschreibt und interpretiert sie Unterricht, seine Teilnehmer:innen sowie seine Lehr-Lernprozesse. Als (aus-)bildende Disziplin beschäftig…
Fremdsprachenunterricht unterliegt stetigem Wandel und zeigt immer neue Facetten. Living Language Teaching greift diesen Gedanken auf und richtet den Fokus auf fremdsprachenunterrichtliche Lehrwerke und Unterrichtsmaterialien in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart sowie deren Entwicklun…
Due to the scarcity of sources regarding actual Jewish and Muslim communities and settlements, there has until now been little work on either the perception of or encounters with Muslims and Jews in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region. The volume provides the reader with …
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic pheno…
This volume examines the use of French in European language communities outside France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The phenomenon of French language usage is explored in a wide variety of communities, namely Bohemian, Dutch, medieval English, German (Prussian)…
Main description: The rapidly growing interest in Chinese language teaching has not resultedin the development of a strong research framework for the discipline. Thebook addresses this gap by drawing together research from international scholars working in the field of Chinese a…
Main description: Grammatische Strukturen verbinden Systeme des Denkens und Systeme des Sprechens und Zeigens, deren jeweilige Bedingungen kaum zueinander zu passen scheinen. Der Reparaturansatz betrachtet den regulären Umgang mit Übersetzungsproblemen innerhalb des grammatische…
Acknowledgements; Preface; Table of Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 What is failed humor?; 1.3 Why study failed humor?; 1.4 Background; 1.4.1 Language and interaction; 1.5 Discourse analysis and the study of (failed) humor; 1.6 Structure of the book; 2 Conceptual…
Historical corpora - The demise of five preterite-present verbs in English - Detailed description of the forms and uses of these verbs in Old and Middle English - The reasons for their elimination from the language Based on four historical corpora, the book is a comprehensive s…
Narratology has been flourishing in recent years thanks to investigations into a broad spectrum of narratives, at the same time diversifying its theoretical and disciplinary scope as it has sought to specify the status of narrative within both society and scientific research. Th…
Biographical note: Mariusz Kami?ski, School of Higher Vocational Education, Nysa, Poland. So far there have been few attempts at a systematic study of the history of popular dictionaries. A dictionary like Chambers deserves special attention because of its long tradition that g…
Productive Digression is a translation of the ancient term poetics: as a practice of theory. The products produced in the mode of poiesis are 'digressive' in that they operate off track; they resist the main stream of every day prose. They do so for various reasons and in variou…
Productive Digression is a translation of the ancient term poetics: as a practice of theory. The products produced in the mode of poiesis are 'digressive' in that they operate off track; they resist the main stream of every day prose. They do so for various reasons and in variou…
