In 11 Hauptkapiteln vermittelt dieses Werk einen grundlichen Uberblick uber alle wesentlichen Aspekte der deutschen Sprache: uber ihre Verbreitung und Konzepte ihrer Beschreibung, uber das System der deutschen Gegenwartssprache (Wortschatz, Wortbildung, Grammatik, Phonematik/Graphematik), uber ihre Varietaten, den Text, die Geschichte der deutschen Sprache sowie uber Namenkunde und Sprachkultur. Das Buch bietet vor allem gesichertes Wissen, orientiert aber auch uber Forschungsmethoden und deutet in der Fachliteratur noch umstrittene Probleme an. Es richtet sich nicht nur an Fachgermanisten, sondern auch an Lehrer, Studenten, Wissenschaftler und Praktiker anderer Disziplinen, auch an Auslander: an alle, die ihr Wissen uber Strukturen und Funktionen sowie uber die Entwicklung der deutschen Sprache erweitern wollen.

Providing an accessible introduction to narrative discourse, this book takes the reader from its present theory and practice to its future research and applications. Narrative Discourse offers a sound discussion of the theoretical principles underlying the study of narrative, covering what narrative is, how it has been understood in the last forty years and the issues surround the different conceptualisations of narrative discourse. It presents a comprehensive overview of its practical applications, covering topics such as narratives in the workplace and narratives of immigration. It also provides readers with advice and guidance on how to set up their own projects for analysising narrative discourse. This is an essential addition to the book collection of advanced students and researchers interested in the theory and practice of narrative discourse.

English summary: The project "Deutsche Wortfeldetymologie in europaischem Kontext" (German etymology of lexical fields in a European context) categorizes the vocabulary of German nouns relating to persons from Old High to present day German according to lexical fields, analyzing it in semantic and etymological terms and placing it within its European context. German description: Im Projekt "Deutsche Wortfeldetymologie in europaischem Kontext" wird der auf den Menschen bezogene Substantiv-Wortschatz des Deutschen vom Althochdeutschen bis zur Gegenwartssprache nach Wortfeldern gegliedert in semantischer und etymologischer Hinsicht untersucht und in seinen europaischen Bezugen dargestellt.

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access - for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language - to the different topics, traditions and methods which together make up the field of Pragmatics, broadly conceived as the cognitive, social and cultural study of language and communication, i.e. the science of language use. The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers, which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995. It is also available online.

This book offers an analysis of blind people's pragmatic abilities. By exploring the impact of visual impairment on the interpretation of utterances, it identifies common ground between the pragmatic analysis of comprehension and visual impairment, and shows how the study of pragmatics can be enriched by the study of visual impairment.It also investigates the role of accessible contextual cues and the effect of visual impairment on comprehension. Although it is generally accepted that context plays a crucial role in comprehension, it is still unknown what effect a lack (or insufficiency) of certain contextual information has on interpretation and mutual communication between people. This raises the question of whether people who are blind are equally competent and successful in interpreting spoken language as sighted people. Also, bearing in mind the specific difficulties and delays faced by blind children in social and linguistic development indicated in previous studies, it is worth exploring whether these initial difficulties are eventually overcome by blind adults. This book, in offering a satisfactory answer to this relevant question, is one of the very few publications devoted to the analysis of the pragmalinguistic consequences of blindness.

First volume: This book is the first in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. In addition, it explores ethnopragmatics and conversational humour, with a further focus on semantic analysis more broadly. Second Volume: This book is the second in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. It focuses on meaning and culture, with sections on "Words as Carriers of Cultural Meaning" and "Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context". Third Volume: This book is the third in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. This third volume explores the potential of Minimal English, a recent offshoot of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage, with special reference to its use in Language Teaching and Intercultural Communication. Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings (semantic primes) that can be expressed in all languages. It has been used for linguistic and cultural analysis in such diverse fields as semantics, cross-cultural communication, language teaching, humour studies and applied linguistics, and has reached far beyond the boundaries of linguistics into ethnopsychology, anthropology, history, political science, the medical humanities and ethics.

In recent years, the study of formal semantics and formal pragmatics has grown tremendously showing that core aspects of language meaning can be explained by a few principles. These principles are grounded in the logic that is behind - and tightly intertwined with - the grammar of human language. In this book, some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, including Noam Chomsky and Barbara H. Partee, offer new insights into the nature of linguistic meaning and pave the way for the further development of formal semantics and formal pragmatics. Each chapter investigates various dimensions in which the logical nature of human language manifests itself within a language and/or across languages. Phenomena like bare plurals, free choice items, scalar implicatures, intervention effects, and logical operators are investigated in depth and at times cross-linguistically and/or experimentally. This volume will be of interest to scholars working within the fields of semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition and psycholinguistics.

The book is a collection of 10 papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, and is divided into two sections. Part I, devoted to Theoretical Linguistics, addresses a range of issues pertaining to phonology, morphophonology, morphology, cognitive semantics, syntax and lexicology, and consists of six chapters. Part II, Applied Linguistics, comprises four chapters, which investigate the intricacies of language acquisition, psycholinguistics and pragmatics, discourse analysis, and translation studies. The languages analysed include Polish, English, French, Spanish, Russian, Middle English, Middle French, Anglo-Norman and Bangor Welsh. Some of the phenomena analysed in the volume are the properties of Bangor Welsh diphthongs in the light of the Lateral Theory of Phonology, Polish palatalization within Element Theory, lexical convergence in Psalters, bilingual acquisition, impoliteness in talk-show political discourse, and translation and localisation of video games, among others.