Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Anglistik 2026.4

13. April 2026

Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Anglistik 2026.4

von

Viola Voß

Anglicisms around the Globe: Cross-linguistic Studies on the Impact of English

This collection explores the global impact of English through fact-based and contrastive analyses of different types of Anglicisms across a wide range of languages.

This volume showcases the ways in which contact-induced language change operates across several different languages simultaneously. This approach allows for an examination of similarities and differences in the adaptation processes of English models in languages with differing phonetic, morphological, syntactic, and writing systems. Drawing on data from the Global Anglicism Database (GLAD), the first multilingual repository featuring lexical and phraseological Anglicisms, chapters look not only at visible Anglicisms, such as augmented reality or easy listening, which reflect their English origin, but also at invisible Anglicisms, cases in which English expressions are translated verbatim and cases when words in a recipient language change their meaning due to English influence. This volume offers a multi-layered perspective on how Anglicisms develop and blend into different languages, and readers are presented with a nuanced understanding of contact-induced language change.

This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in language contact, World Englishes, language policy and planning, bilingualism, and lexicography.

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Women (Re)Writing Illness as Their Own

Women (Re)Writing Illness as Her Own illuminates ways in which writing processes and products enable women to create spaces of their own—spaces that interrogate illness, challenge restitution (re)constructions, and work within and around various limitations associated with women writing illness.

Bridging trauma studies with women’s studies, this collection blends creative writing and literary studies to explore how illness can weigh on the process of writing. The chapters examine narrative products to better understand how women write illnesses in relation to identity (re)constructions, how they challenge triumphant tropes, how they work within and beyond narrative and linguistic limitations, how the very metaphors and/or genres selected work to aid in their narrating processes, and how their writing acts and products work in conjunction with their illness and (sometimes) healing journeys.