Schlagwort: Englisch
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Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Anglistik 2024.1
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Language and characterisation in television series This book explores how language is used to create characters in fictional television series. To do so, it draws on multiple case studies from the United States and Australia.…
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The Very Short Introductions Podcast: „The Beats“
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Im Oktober 2023 sprach David Sterritt im Very Short Introductions Podcast über eins seiner Forschungsthemen, zu dem er ein Buch in der gleichnamigen Reihe bei Oxford University Press geschrieben hat: In this episode, David Sterritt…
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Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Anglistik 2023.11
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On the avenue of the mystery: the postwar counterculture in novels and film This volume is a study of eight major novels from the postwar period (1945–65) in conjunction with the films made from them…
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Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Slavistik 2023.11
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The grammar of English infinitives with Czech comparison This book aims to clarify some puzzles that have been topical in formal linguistics for many decades now. It concerns the status of English and, for comparison,…
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Kennen Sie schon … den „Historical Thesaurus of English“?
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Der von der Universität Glasgow herausgegebene Thesaurus dokumentiert Bedeutungsentwicklungen im englischen Vokabular: It consists of almost every recorded word in English from early medieval times to the present day, all arranged into detailed hierarchies of…
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WDR ZeitZeichen zu Jane Austens Roman „Stolz und Vorurteil“
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„Der Roman „Stolz und Vorurteil“ ist einer der populärsten Klassiker der englischen Literatur. Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts schreibt die Autorin Jane Austen eine Liebesgeschichte – und kombiniert sie mit Sozialkritik. Elizabeth ist eine der fünf…
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Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Anglistik 2023.9
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English complex words: Exercises in construction and translation English Complex Words is a lively, essential companion for multilingual explorations of word-formation processes, both in English and across 40 other languages. It offers today’s broadest available…
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BBC Radio 4 „Great Lives“: James Baldwin
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„The chef and co-founder of The River Cafe, Ruth Rogers, picks the life of the writer and activist James Baldwin. A writer, poet, playwright and activist, Baldwin was known as a trailblazing explorer of race,…
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Podcast „99% Invisible“: „Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse“
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„In 1920, a Dutch writer named Gerard Nolst Trenité published a poem in English titled The Chaos, designed to draw attention to English spelling and pronunciation — and all the confusion its absurdities have let…
