The impression one initially has of lexicology is rather diffuse. As a discipline, it suffers from the fate of either not being noticed at all or of being itself broken down into semi-independent sub-disciplines such as phraseology and mental lexicon. It is against this background that the handbook identifies and deals with the following aims for academic progression and practical/theoretical research: the establishment and maintenance of an independent profile for the discipline of lexicology the collection and documentation of up-to-date knowledge in the field of lexicology the documentation of research still outstanding and the provision of guidelines on concrete fields of study The handbook starts off with the two main sections: 'word' and 'vocabulary'. The sense relations act as the threads which bind these two sections together, because their ability to link words in pairs allows us to make successive inroads into the vocabulary. Moving from the term 'word' to the term 'lexical element' forces us into a more detailed investigation of phraseology. Detailed treatments of each of the ways of looking at 'vocabulary' are provided, in view of the ambiguity of the term 'vocabulary' (vocabulary in its relation to a natural language vs. vocabulary in its relation to an individual [mental lexicon] vs. vocabulary in its relation to grammar [lexicon]). Similarly, synchronic and diachronic points of view are taken into account, in order to be able to arrive at an adequate description of the underlying dynamics of the vocabulary of natural languages. In conclusion the present state of lexicology made it necessary to deal thoroughly with questions about the discipline, its methodology and its links with related disciplines. Key features: International handbook series Two volumes offering the current state of research Fundamental and theoretical approaches of the discipline

A poetics of literary dialogue is not something only invented in the modern age. Back in the Middle High German a ~Classicala (TM) era, a culture was already beginning to develop of verbal strategies for resolving conflict and performing other conversational functions, with literary texts representing their ideal forms. The papers in this volume combine methods from linguistics and literary studies to approach a new description of the dialogues in large-scale MHG epics. They present supratextual accounts of different types of dialogue and forms typical of certain genres and media as well as case studies of important individual epics.

Pragmatic Syntax is a research program deriving the explanation of the syntactic form of utterances from underlying principles of speech action. This enables it to focus on linguistic phenomena necessarily phased out in non-pragmatic approaches. Among these are specific word order regularities, elliptic sentences, foregrounding in sentences, and the use of phraseological forms. The articles in the volume approaching the connection between language use and the syntactic form of utterances from various perspectives, but are all informed by a joint commitment to the idea of using pragmatics to get to the bottom of syntax.

Die Reihe "Historische Dialogforschung" eroffnet ihre Publikationen mit einem Tagungsband, der mit seiner methodischen Ausrichtung nicht nur an der Schnittstelle von Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft steht, sondern auch interdisziplinar komparatistisch ausgerichtet ist. Der Tagungsband bietet eine vergleichende Sicht auf Formen und Funktionen von Redeszenen, auf Rhetorik und Poetik von Mundlichkeit in Schriftlichkeit. Im Fokus stehen mittelalterliche Gesprachskulturen und ihre Transferprozesse, von der lateinischen Bildungskultur in die Volkssprache (und umgekehrt) sowie innerhalb der volkssprachigen Literaturen. Das Spektrum der Beitrage umfasst die Gestaltung und Funktionalisierung von elaborierter Mundlichkeit in mittelalterlicher Grossepik bis hin zur Analyse unterschiedlicher Kommunikationsstrategien und -stile. Dabei erlaubt der komparatistische Ansatz eine weiterfuhrende, komplexe Analyse von sprachlicher und kultureller Differenz fur das europaische Mittelalter."

The impression one initially has of lexicology is rather diffuse. As a discipline, it suffers from the fate of either not being noticed at all or of being itself broken down into semi-independent sub-disciplines such as phraseology and mental lexicon. It is against this background that the handbook identifies and deals with the following aims for academic progression and practical/theoretical research: the establishment and maintenance of an independent profile for the discipline of lexicology the collection and documentation of up-to-date knowledge in the field of lexicology the documentation of research still outstanding and the provision of guidelines on concrete fields of study The handbook starts off with the two main sections: 'word' and 'vocabulary'. The sense relations act as the threads which bind these two sections together, because their ability to link words in pairs allows us to make successive inroads into the vocabulary. Moving from the term 'word' to the term 'lexical element' forces us into a more detailed investigation of phraseology. Detailed treatments of each of the ways of looking at 'vocabulary' are provided, in view of the ambiguity of the term 'vocabulary' (vocabulary in its relation to a natural language vs. vocabulary in its relation to an individual [mental lexicon] vs. vocabulary in its relation to grammar [lexicon]). Similarly, synchronic and diachronic points of view are taken into account, in order to be able to arrive at an adequate description of the underlying dynamics of the vocabulary of natural languages. In conclusion the present state of lexicology made it necessary to deal thoroughly with questions about the discipline, its methodology and its links with related disciplines. Key features: International handbook series Two volumes offering the current state of research Fundamental and theoretical approaches of the discipline

Das Forschungsprojekt "Semantik der Adjektive des Deutschen. Strukturelle Analyse der semantischen Relationen in den Wort- feldern der deutschen Gegenwartssprache" wurde in den Jahren 1978 bis 1980 vom Minister fur Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen mit Sach- und Personalmitteln ge- fordert. Mit Materialerfassungs- und Sortierarbeiten waren im Rahmen des Forschungsvorhabens zeitweilig folgende Mit- arbeiter beschaftigt: Alfred Haubner, Wolfgang Niehuser, wil- helm Franke als Wissenschaftliche Hilfskrafte, Klaus Robering, Regina Frettloh, Monika Ausel, Arno Beyer, Volker Luckemeyer als Studentische Hilfskrafte. Wir sind ihnen allen zu Dank verpflichtet. INHALT A: Einlei tung ----------------------------------------- 3 B: Zusammenhang von Gebrauchstheorie und semantischer Beschreibung ------------. -----------. -------------- 5 c: Grundlegung einer semantischen Beschreibung der Adjektive des Deutschen . . --------. . . --------------. 16 I. Begrtindung der Materialauswahl -. --------------- 16 II. Prinzipien der Materialerfassung . . . ---------. -- 19 III. Verfahren und Ergebnisse einer Grobklassi- zierung --. ----------. ----. . --. . ------. -------. . 24 D: Weitere Forschungsperspektiven --------. --------. --- 48 I. Aspekte einer Binnendifferenzierung ----. ------- 48 II. Moglichkeiten einer Erfassung der Bedeutun- posi tionen . ------------------. -. . . ----. -------. 58 E: EDV-Erfassung --------------. ---. ---. -. -----------. - 62 F: Literatur ---. -------. ---. --. --. ----. . -. . . -. -------- 64 G: Anhang 1. Liste der Stimmungs-Adjektive mit Erl uterung und Siglenverzeichnis -------. . . . . . . . . . . --------- 72 2. Obersicht der erfaBten Synonymengruppen anhand der Orientierungslesarten --. -------. -. ------. . -. 89 3. Ausgew hlte Synonymengruppen im Bereich der Stimmungs-Adjektive -. . --. -----. . ------. . -------. 91 4. Das System der Bedeutungspositionen von seharf .