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SWR2 Zeitwort: „16.7.1951: „Der Fänger im Roggen“ von J.D. Salinger erscheint““ „Das Buch enthält 44 Mal das Wort „fuck“, 255 Mal „verdammt“ und machte Salinger weltberühmt: „Der Fänger im Roggen“ erzählt die Geschichte einer Odyssee…
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Blending, from English to Arabic This book examines the interesting linguistic phenomenon of blending, where new words are formed to enrich the lexicon of a language. Blending in English has been thoroughly investigated to the…
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Pejorative suffixes and combining forms in English The book is a research monograph that reviews and revises the concept of linguistic pejoration, and explores the role of 15 suffixes and combining forms, such as -ie,…
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„Das literarische Genre „Nature writing“ entwickelte sich mit der Industrialisierung in England und den USA. Naturerscheinungen werden sachkundig, aber aus subjektiver Perspektive beschrieben. Denn ist nicht der Mensch auch Teil der Natur?“ (Bayern 2, Justina…
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English rock and pop performances: a sociolinguistic investigation of British and American language perceptions and attitudes This book addresses the phenomenon of non-American rock and pop singers emulating an Americanized singing style for performance purposes.…
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„Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. When three witches prophesy that Macbeth will be king one day, he is not prepared to wait and almost the next day he murders King…
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Dynamic Dialects contains an articulatory video-based corpus of speech samples from world-wide accents of English. Videos in this corpus contain synchronised audio, ultrasound-tongue-imaging video and video of the moving lips. We are continuing to augment…
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„Als Präsident Obama aus dem Amt schied, gab er den Amerikanern einen Satz von Atticus Finch mit auf den Weg: „Du wirst einen Menschen nie richtig verstehen, solange du nicht in seine Haut schlüpfst und…
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Discourse structuring markers in English This book is a contribution to the growing field of diachronic construction grammar. Focus is on corpus evidence for the importance of including conventionalized pragmatics within construction grammar and suggestions…
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Do you call a ‘bread roll’ a cob, batch, bread cake, barm cake or scuffler? How do you pronounce the words cup and plant? And are you sitting or sat while reading this? The UK is a rich landscape of regional accents and dialects, each evidence of our…