This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction. For "classic" linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints, while in the more recent branches of communication science the handbooks will give researchers both an overview and orientation. To attain these objectives, the series aims for a standard comparable to that of the leading handbooks in other disciplines, and to this end strives for comprehensiveness, theoretical explicitness, reliable documentation of data and findings, and up-to-date methodology. The editors, both of the series and of the individual volumes, and the individual contributors, are committed to this aim. The language of publication is English. The main aim of the series is to provide an appropriate account of the state of the art in the various areas of linguistics and communication science covered by each of the various handbooks; however no inflexible pre-set limits will is imposed on the scope of each volume. The series is open-ended, and can thus take account of further developments in the field. This conception, coupled with the necessity of allowing adequate time for each volume to be prepared with the necessary care, means that there is no set time-table for the publication of the whole series. Each volume is a self-contained work, complete in itself. The order in which the handbooks are published does not imply any rank ordering, but is determined by the way in which the series is organized; the editors of the whole series enlist a competent editor for each individual volume. Once the principal editor for a volume has been found, he or she then has a completely free hand in the choice of co-editors and contributors. The editors plan each volume independently of the others, being governed only by general formal principles. The series editors only intervene where questions of delineation between individual volumes are concerned. It is felt that this (modus operandi) is best suited to achieving the objectives of the series, namely to give a competent account of the present state of knowledge and of the perception of the problems in the area covered by each volume. To discuss your handbook idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Das Buch bietet eine umfassende Einfuhrung in den aktuellen Stand der Medienlinguistik. So werden einerseits grundlegende kommunikationstheoretische Begriffe der Medienlinguistik vorgestellt ("Autor," "Medientext," "Intertextualitat" usw.), andererseits werden - nach einem kurzen historischen Ruckblick - die wichtigsten sprachlichen Phanomene in den heutigen deutschsprachigen Massenmedien Presse, Radio und Fernsehen an aktuellem Beispielmaterial beschrieben (Mundlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit, das sprachliche Profil des "Moderators," mediale Textsorten, insbesondere Nachrichten und ihre narratologischen Aspekte, Standardsprache und Dialekte etc.). Dabei ist auch das Verhaltnis der Sprache zu anderen Zeichensystemen (Bilder, Gerausche) zu berucksichtigen. Ein Ausblick auf die "neuen" Medien soll skizzieren, wie "neue" und "alte" Medien sich zueinander verhalten. Das Buch stellt eine umfassende Neubearbeitung und Weiterfuhrung der zweiten Auflage des Goschen-Bandes "Sprache der Massenmedien" (1990) dar."

This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction. For "classic" linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints, while in the more recent branches of communication science the handbooks will give researchers both an overview and orientation. To attain these objectives, the series aims for a standard comparable to that of the leading handbooks in other disciplines, and to this end strives for comprehensiveness, theoretical explicitness, reliable documentation of data and findings, and up-to-date methodology. The editors, both of the series and of the individual volumes, and the individual contributors, are committed to this aim. The language of publication is English. The main aim of the series is to provide an appropriate account of the state of the art in the various areas of linguistics and communication science covered by each of the various handbooks; however no inflexible pre-set limits will is imposed on the scope of each volume. The series is open-ended, and can thus take account of further developments in the field. This conception, coupled with the necessity of allowing adequate time for each volume to be prepared with the necessary care, means that there is no set time-table for the publication of the whole series. Each volume is a self-contained work, complete in itself. The order in which the handbooks are published does not imply any rank ordering, but is determined by the way in which the series is organized; the editors of the whole series enlist a competent editor for each individual volume. Once the principal editor for a volume has been found, he or she then has a completely free hand in the choice of co-editors and contributors. The editors plan each volume independently of the others, being governed only by general formal principles. The series editors only intervene where questions of delineation between individual volumes are concerned. It is felt that this (modus operandi) is best suited to achieving the objectives of the series, namely to give a competent account of the present state of knowledge and of the perception of the problems in the area covered by each volume. To discuss your handbook idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Kinder in der Deutschschweiz mussen mit den beiden Sprachvarietaten Schweizerdeutsch und Hochdeutsch umgehen koennen: Hochdeutsch ist Schul- und Schriftsprache und der Dialekt schichtubergreifende Alltagssprache in jeder Situation. Fur die meisten einsprachigen Kinder ist das unproblematisch - dies beweisen umfangreiche Studien. Wie sieht die Situation aber bei mehrsprachigen Kindern aus? Beeinflusst das Nebeneinander von Dialekt und Standard das Deutschlernen dieser Kinder? Behindert der Dialekt gar den (Hoch)-Deutscherwerb? Wissen die Kinder im Primarschulalter uberhaupt, was Hochdeutsch und Schweizerdeutsch ist und wann man diese beiden Varietaten einsetzt? Oder mischen sie beides ohne System? Um Antworten auf diese Fragen zu erhalten, analysiert diese Studie hochdeutsche und schweizerdeutsche Bildergeschichten von Primarschulkindern hinsichtlich ihrer Sprache. Verschiedene Tests geben Aufschluss uber das Bewusstsein der Sprachdifferenzierung. Ein Fragebogen hilft bei der Klarung weiterer wichtiger Faktoren. Sie leistet somit einen wichtigen Beitrag zur linguistischen und sprachpadagogischen Debatte um die Unterrichtssprache Deutsch in unserer mehrsprachigen Gesellschaft.

With the rapidly evolving XML technology and thereby ever-increasing number of XML documents, the importance of providing efficient tools for managing these enormous amounts of data is rising every day. Native XML database systems are such tools. Like other XML database systems they need indices in order to provide efficient and fast access to the data. These indices represent redundant data structures in the database and therefore have to be kept consistent, whenever the underlying base data is manipulated. Updating fragments of an XML document with automated, transparent, and efficient index maintenance is the central theme of this book. Author Harald Burger first analyses the two most prominent existing proposals for XML updates, namely the W3C's proposed extension of XQuery with operations for data manipulation and XUpdate. He then introduces an efficient and simple way to keep the indices in an XML DBMS consistent: the Simple Update API for the native XML database management system Infonyte DB. This book is addressed to professionals involved in XML and database development. It is also directed towards researchers in the XML area and beginning graduate or advanced undergraduate students of computer science.

The new edition of this textbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to media linguistics. It presents basic terms in communication theory and describes the major linguistic phenomena in today's German-language mass media (press, radio, TV, and the "new media"), including recent examples.

Seit vielen Jahren wird in der Deutschschweiz im fachlichen und bildungspolitischen Umfeld daruber diskutiert, ab welchem Alter und in welcher Weise Hochdeutsch erlernt werden soll. Die schweizerdeutschen Dialekte geniessen einen hohen Stellenwert, jedoch ubernimmt das Hochdeutsche sowohl in kultureller als auch in politischer Hinsicht eine wichtige Rolle. Lange Zeit begann der gesteuerte Hochdeutscherwerb in der Deutschschweiz fruhestens ab der ersten Primarklasse. Seit einigen Jahren wird nun aber in verschiedenen Kindergarten Hochdeutsch gesprochen. Unterstutzt diese Unterrichtssprache die Kinder bei einem spontanen und emotionalen Umgang mit dem Hochdeutschen? Welche Kinder profitieren in besonderem Masse von Hochdeutsch im Kindergarten und welche haben Muhe damit? Wie gehen die Eltern und Lehrpersonen mit dieser Unterrichtssprache um? Diese Studie vergleicht die Hochdeutschkompetenzen von Kindern aus einem Hochdeutsch-Kindergarten mit denjenigen von Kindern aus einem Schweizerdeutsch-Kindergarten beim Schuleintritt. Im Rahmen einer linguistischen Analyse der kindlichen Sprachdaten und Befragungen von Eltern und Lehrpersonen geht sie den obigen Fragen nach und leistet damit einen Beitrag zum aktuellen Diskurs um die Unterrichtssprache Hochdeutsch.