In this article, we deal with the two writing systems that were used in the Hittite kingdom of the 2nd millennium B.C. and in the Iron Age Luvian states, focussing on the diachronic, comparative and functional graphemics of the Hittite cuneiform script and the socalled Anatolian hieroglyphs. Im vorliegenden Aufsatz besprechen wir die zwei Schriftsysteme, die im hethitischen Königsreich des 2. Jahrtausends und in den eisenzeitlichen luwischen Staaten verwendet wurden. Schwerpunkt der Besprechung ist die diachrone, vergleichende und funktionale Graphematik der hethitischen Keilschrift und der sogenannten anatolischen Hieroglyphen.
1. Historical Contexts for "The Economic Model" 2. The Public Good, Credible Framing, and Daniel Defoe's Fictions 3. The Bank of England, Virtue, and the Pamela Controversy Chapter 4. Paper Contracts, Public Fictions, and the Money It-Narrative 5. Abstraction, Social Mediation, and the Novel of Sensibility
Article 38. Framing Spaces in Motion: Tracing Visualizations of Earthquakes into Twentieth-Century San Francisco was published on November 1, 2016 in the journal English and American Studies in German (volume 5, issue 1).
Initiating a transgeneric, inter medial and interdisciplinary approach to narrative unreliability, this volume is meant to enrich, modify and refine our understanding of (un)reliable narration by taking into account research in a variety of fields. The three sections of the volume comprise articles on the theory of unreliable narration, transgeneric and intermedial issues, and studies from areas such as journalism, politics, law and medicine.
Public information messages are an important means of state-citizen communication in today’s societies. Using this genre, citizens are directed to “never ever drink and drive”, to “slow down” and to “learn to say no”. Yet, this book presents the first in-depth analysis of public information messages from a linguistic perspective, and indeed also from a cross-cultural perspective. Specifically, the study, adopting genre analysis, contrasts a corpus of state-run national public information campaigns in Germany and Ireland. A taxonomy of moves is developed inductively and the interactional features of the genre are analysed and related to the context of use. The comprehensive discussion of theoretical and methodological issues, the in-depth analysis and the extensive bibliography make this book of interest to researchers and students in (contrastive) discourse analysis, (cross-cultural) pragmatics, contrastive rhetoric, advertising, social psychology, mass communication and media studies. Copy-writers will also profit from the insights gained, particularly within the context of an increase in Europe-wide public information campaigns.
Article 11. Wordplay and Metalinguistic/Metadiscursive Reflection: Authors, Contexts, Techniques, and Meta-Reflection was published on November 1, 2016 in the journal English and American Studies in German (volume 5, issue 1).
Discourse is language as it occurs, in any form or context, beyond the speech act. It may be written or spoken, monological or dialogical, but there is always a communicative aim or purpose. The present volume provides systematic orientation in the vast field of studying discourse from a pragmatic perspective. It first gives an overview of a range of approaches developed for the analysis of discourse, including, among others, conversation analysis, systemic-functional analysis, genre analysis, critical discourse analysis, corpus-driven approaches and multimodal analysis. The focus is furthermore on functional units in discourse, such as discourse markers, moves, speech act sequences, discourse phases and silence. The final section of the volume examines discourse types and domains, providing a taxonomy of discourse types and focusing on a range of discourse domains, e.g. classroom discourse, medical discourse, legal discourse, electronic discourse. Each article surveys the current state of the art of the respective topic area while also presenting new research findings.
