The Wider Scope of English: Papers in English Language and Literature from the Bamberg Conference of the International Association of University ... Studies in English Linguistics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3631555091 ISBN 13: 9783631555095

Publisher: Peter Lang AG, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

The Editors: Herbert Grabes is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Gießen (Germany). His main areas of research are sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, modern American literature, and literary theory.
Wolfgang Viereck is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics and Medieval English Literature at the University of Bamberg (Germany). He has published widely in the following areas: the history of English, regional and social variation of English world-wide, and contact linguistics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang AG
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631555091
• ISBN 13: 9783631555095
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 227
• Editor: Grabes Herbert, Viereck Wolfgang