Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Monatsschrift Für Das Deutsche Geistesleben
Author: Ambiguity
Author: Susanne WinklerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110403587
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This edited volume investigates the concept of ambiguity and how it manifests itself in language and communication from a new perspective. The main goal is to uncover a great mystery: why can we communicate effectively despite the fact that ambiguity is pervasive in the language that we use? And conversely, how do speakers and hearers use ambiguity and vagueness to achieve a specific goal? Comprehensive answers to these questions are provided from different fields which focus on the study of language, in particular, linguistics, literary criticism, rhetoric, psycholinguistics, theology, media studies and law. By bringing together these different disciplines, the book documents a radical change in the research on ambiguity. The innovation is brought about by the transdisciplinary perspective of the individual and co-authored papers that bridge the gaps between disciplines. The research program that underlies this volume establishes theoretical connections between the areas of (psycho)linguistics that concentrate on the question of how the system of language works with the areas of rhetoric, literary studies, theology and law that focus on the question of how communication works in discourse and text from the perspective of both production and perception. A three-dimensional Ambiguity Model is presented that serves as a theoretical anchor point for the analyses of the different types of ambiguities by the contributors of this volume. The Ambiguity Model is a hybrid model which brings together the different perspectives on how language and the language system work with respect to ambiguity as well as the question of how ambiguity is employed in communication and in different communicational settings. A set of specific features that are relevant for the description of ambiguity, such as whether the ambiguity arises in the production or perception process, and whether it occurs in strategic or nonstrategic communication, are defined. The research program rests on the assumption that both the production and the perception of ambiguity, as well as its strategic and nonstrategic occurrence, can only be understood by exploring how these factors interact with each other and a reference system when ambiguity is generated and resolved. The collection Ambiguity: Language and Communication constitutes a superb introduction to the workings of ambiguity in language and communication along with extensive analyses of many different examples from different fields. As such it is relevant for students of linguistics, literary studies, rhetoric, law and theology and at the same time there is sufficient quality analysis and new research questions to benefit advanced readers who are interested in ambiguity.
Jews in German Literature since 1945
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900448552X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
This volume contains some 46 essays on various aspects of contemporary German-Jewish literature. The approaches are diverse, reflecting the international origins of the contributors, who are based in seventeen different countries. Holocaust literature is just one theme in this context; others are memory, identity, Christian-Jewish relations, anti-Zionism, la belle juive, and more. Prose, poetry and drama are all represented, and there is a major debate on the controversial attempt to stage Fassbinder’s Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod in 1985. The overall approach of the volume is an inclusive one. In his introduction, the editor calls for a reappraisal of the terms of German-Jewish discourse away from the notion of ‘Germans’ and ‘Jews’ and towards the idea that both Jews and non-Jews, all of them Germans, have contributed to the corpus of ‘German-Jewish literature’.
Major and Minor Keys
Author: Ricaredo DemetilloPublisher:
ISBN: 9789711002879
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Essays om filipinsk litteratur
The German Classics from the Fourth to the Nineteenth Century
Author: Friedrich Max MüllerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German literature
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Passages from the works of Shakespeare, selected and tr. into Germ., including the Engl. text, by G. Solling
Author: William ShakespeareGerman Pronunciation
Author: Wilhelm ViëtorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German language
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Sämtliche Werke in Englisch-deutscher Parallel-Ausgabe
Author: ShakespeareCitizens in a Strange Land
Author: Hermann WellenreutherPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271069619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
In Citizens in a Strange Land, Hermann Wellenreuther examines the broadsides—printed single sheets—produced by the Pennsylvania German community. These broadsides covered topics ranging from local controversies and politics to devotional poems and hymns. Each one is a product of and reaction to a particular historical setting. To understand them fully, Wellenreuther systematically reconstructs Pennsylvania’s print culture, the material conditions of life, the problems German settlers faced, the demands their communities made on the individual settlers, the complications to be overcome, and the needs to be satisfied. He shows how these broadsides provided advice, projections, and comment on phases of life from cradle to grave.
Hermann und Dorothea
Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoethePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German language
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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