Books in the DASK - Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture series

This book features comprehensive qualitative metaphor analyses in US-American college lectures. The author shows that deliberate metaphors fulfill important communicative functions. However, the critical discussion of their identification and application demonstrates problems with 'deliberateness'.

When language users express and negotiate their points of view via Metaphorical Scenarios, they engage in Scenario Negotiation. Based on a corpus of online debates about the European Union, this study focuses on the genre-specific conceptual-communicative functions of Scenario Negotiation in naturally occurring discourse.

This study sheds light on the German influence on the English lexicon in the twentieth century. It provides the first systematic appraisal of the semantic integration and contextual usage of the words adopted from German in the recent past. The results are based on a corpus of 1958 borrowings collected from the Oxford English Dictionary Online.

The author analyzes the discursive construction of cultural identity by examining the cultural identity development of Oromo-Americans in Minnesota. To this end, three linguistic methods were applied: pronoun analysis, conceptual metaphor theory, and the tactics of intersubjectivity.

The Book presents a study of lexical and phonological features of the language of emotions in Igala, one of Nigeria's over 500 languages. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework is used for the analysis of emotion concepts.

The book treats different aspects of language norms. One focus is on standardization and language policy. Other contributions investigate the construction of L2 norms by learners and norms in classroom interaction. Discourse norms are theorized and the way language users make them relevant and explicit is examined in various communicative contexts.

This volume is a corpus-based variationist sociolinguistic study of contemporary urban western Irish English. It demonstrates the diverse local patterns of variability and change in the phonetic realisation of the dental fricatives (th) and (dh) and establishes a considerable degree of divergence from traditional accounts on Irish English.

The volume is concerned with sociolinguistic issues of language endangerment and globalization. In the light of increasingly complex and variable multilingual environments the book explores research areas such as language policy, linguistic inequalities and language attitudes. Case studies of endangered minority languages conclude the book.

The author analyses gender assignment to animal nouns. She looks at grammarians' treatment of gender in present-day English and surveys a corpus of National Geographic and the Journal of Zoology.

The increasing tendency to use English as dominant language of academic instruction and research in Europe is described and discussed. In reports on the situation in various European countries, the development is seen as detrimental to all languages other than English. This concern is also expressed in a resolution offered in 26 European languages.

The author argues that the L1-based prototypicality and basic-level effects will be present in his or her L2 vocabulary learning. The experimental results confirm the hypothesis. The author argues that the two effects are dynamic in L2 contexts, being influenced by factors such as concept familiarity, formal instructions and exposure to L2 culture.

Has postcolonial Africa been the setting for competing external language spread by ex-colonial European countries like France, Portugal and the UK? The case studies presented in this work illustrate the pervasiveness of international European languages in Africa fostered by the history, structure and functioning of the international system.

This book is a corpus-based study of contemporary Malaysian English. It demonstrates the ways in which Malaysian English has changed as a result of contact with Malay and Chinese languages. It suggests that those variations and changes are the results of the communal acquisition and the maintenance of English by a multilingual community.

Provides a detailed overview of functional and pragmatic approaches to the study of language in use. This book is suitable for students at the postgraduate level and also for undergraduate linguistic students who wish to know about approaches to and relevant theoretical frameworks for language in use.

This book is a dictionary of Camfranglais, which presents the lexicon and uses of this sociolect. Lexico-semantic manipulation is presented. Camfranglais is diachronically presented. The major strength of this book is the fact that it does all necessary lexical manipulations before drawing any conclusions.

Offers an approach to tense-aspect teaching from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics. This title aims to provide a coherent account of the English tense-aspect system. It also intends to test the applicability and effectiveness of CL-informed learning materials in the language classroom.

A comprehensive study of the motives for studying German in Australia that was conducted in the late 1980s. It helps to fill the gap of data and at the same time to analyse the data in the context of relevant theories of language learning motivation.

The European linguistic diversity goes far beyond the official national languages of the present 27 member states of the European Union. In every country several languages of smaller or larger groups of speakers are used besides the official language or the languages of the majority population. This book deals with this topic.

The linguistic domains of business and commerce are especially affected by the economic and communicative globalization. The present development in Europe is discussed in several overview articles and a series of reports on the specific situation in various European countries. This title deals with this topic.

Europe lives in and by translation and interpretation. EFNIL's 11th conference dealt with the importance of these two communicative techniques for multilingual Europe. Reports on interpretation and translation at EU-institutions and on training and practice of interpreters and translators in various European countries are given and discussed.

The tenth EFNIL conference investigated the different ways in which people in Europe access lexical information. In this volume, general reflections by several experts on the history, the present state and new developments of lexicography in Europe are presented, followed by reports on special lexicographic projects in several European countries.

The studies contained in this volume explore the relations between linguistic (structural), socio-cultural and cognitive aspects involved in language variation. Methodologically, the contributions range from individual case studies to larger-scale corpus analyses and combine both qualitative and quantitative findings.

The European Union has conceived itself as multilingual since its beginning in 1956. In this volume, several general reflections on the main topic are followed by a critical discussion of language instruction in the United Kingdom and reports on foreign language education in various other countries.

The development of smaller and more powerful computers and the introduction of new communication channels by the interlinking of computers by the Internet and the World Wide Web, have caused great changes for linguistics. This volume presents general reflections and overview articles on these developments.

This book provides the study of language policy interventions in higher education from several countries and regions. It explores the impact of internationalisation and anglification on language use in universities. It focuses on language strategies implemented to maintain the national or local language or to foster multilingualism.