Inhalt: M. Alinei: Yankee: A Dutch Etymology Revisited W.-D. Bald: If and Falls J. B. Berns: Niederlandisches im englischen Wort-atlas L. E. Breivik: There in Space and Time F. Chevillet: Dialectal Aspects of the English Strong Verb System J. Culpeper / M. Kyto: Towards a Corpus of Dialogues, 1550-1750 X. Dekeyser: Alway(s) and Algate(s) L. Elmevik: Did OE stede, Placeae also Have the Meaning, (Enclosed) Pastureae? J. Fisiak: OE hyll in the East Midlands in Early Middle English H. Goebl: Dialektometrische Beobachtungen A. Huebler: English Stock Market Metaphors A. Iwamoto: The Entanglements of English Personal Pronouns K. Janicki: On Unconventional Metaphors as a Source of Misunderstanding G. Knappe: On Regional Differences in the Development and Substitution of the Middle English Voiceless Velar Fricative [x] in Syllable Coda Position G. Melchers: Proverbial Similes in English Dialects H. Pilch: Irish Influence on American English? M. Rissanen: Salem Witchcraft Trials as Evidence of Early American English M. Ryden: A Pre-Linnean Swedish Botanico-Philological Tract and an Early English Analogue K. I. Sandred: The Value of Onomastic Boundaries in Dialect Studies Focus on Some Medieval Norfolk "Diese Festschrift ist eine sehr hochwertige mit vielen guten wissenschaftlichen Beitragen, was zeigt, dass das wissenschaftliche Ansehen des Jubilars zu etlichen Anstrengungen der Beitrager und zur sorgfaltigen Auswahl des Eingebrachten gefuehrt hat." Zeitschrift fuer Dialektologie und Linguistik.
In this volume, the author's selected writings that he has written during the past 40 years will be presented. The topics treated range from the dissemination of early (insular) manuscripts on the European continent and Celtic-English linguistic contact to selected features of English dialectal variation. These are correlated with several extralinguistic factors, such as the results of haematological research. One contribution on computer cartography appears in French.
From a diachronic point of view, two linguistic contributions deal with grammaticalization and iconicity and with metaphorical aspects of compounding. The other two linguistic papers are related to the present. One offers a critique of perceptual dialectology and the other is concerned with recent developments in computer cartography. The contributions in the domains of literary and cultural studies demonstrate the wide extension of the field of enquiry and of current methods. Historically, they reach from the Old English period to the present day, and systematically, from new approaches in the interpretation of particular works through overviews over the regional validity of modes of literary aesthetics to recent innovations in literary theory and narratology.
The thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's international currency. The first section of the book focuses on the field of paremiology (proverb studies) in general, the spread of Anglo-American proverbs in Europe, and the phenomenon of modern proverbs. The second section analyzes the use of proverbs in the world of politics, including a chapter on President Obama, while the third concentrates on the uses of proverbs in literature. The final section ends with detailed cultural studies of the origin, history, dissemination, use, function, and meaning of specific proverbs. Noted scholar Wolfgang Mieder shows that proverbs matter in culture, literature, and politics. Proverbs remain part and parcel of oral and written communication, and, he demonstrates, they deserve to be studied from a range of viewpoints. While various chapters deal with a variety of issues and approaches, they cohere through a rhetorical perspective that looks at the text, texture, and context of proverbs as speech acts that make a noteworthy impact on culture and society. Whether proverbs appear in everyday speech, on the radio, on television, in films, on the pages of newspapers or magazines, in advertisements, in literary works, or in political speeches, they serve as formulaic verbal devices to add authoritative weight through tradition, convention, and wisdom.
This study has been revised to include new finds about the composition dates of several Mozart works. A new bibliography and a collation with the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe edition of letters, edited by O.E.Deutsch, W.A.Bauer and J.H.Eibl: Baerenreiter, 1962-75 is also included.
Addresses core issues of the future financial affordability of the German welfare state. Considers the public retirement system, public health and long-term care insurance, unemployment insurance and subsistance allowances, and family benefits. Includes developments since 1960 and projections of the population situation to the year 2070.
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This Biographical Companion will be an indispensable reference tool for the serious student and scholar of Islamic Studies. It enables the user to quickly gain knowledge on the life, work, and professional background of almost every major and minor author, and thus to place each author in his/her proper perspective.
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