Anglo-German Linguistic Relations
©2008
Conference proceedings
184 Pages
Series:
Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik - Reihe A, Volume 98
Summary
This is a collection of papers presented at the conference «Anglo-German Linguistic Relations», held at Queen Mary, University of London in November 2007. The papers cover a wide variety of topics about the relationship between the English and German languages or relate to cultural and literary contacts between English-speaking and German-speaking regions. Individual papers discuss Anglo-German linguistic interplay and affinities both as contemporary phenomena and from a historical perspective. Themes include codification, translation and discourse production from the 17th century to the Second World War; shared metaphors in English and German; political propaganda in English and German; and authorial positioning and perspective in a selection of autobiographical and literary works.
Details
- Pages
- 184
- Publication Year
- 2008
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783039116560
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- London (2007) Englisch Sprachkontakt Deutsch Geschichte 1700-2007 Kongress
- Published
- Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2008. 184 pp.
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