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

International Association Of University Professors Of Englis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820487007 ISBN 13: 9780820487007

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing, 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

Herbert Grabes is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Gieen (Germany). His main areas of research are sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, modern American literature, and literary theory.

Wolfgang Viereck was a full professor of English philology at the University of Graz (Austria) from 1973 to 1978 and held the chair of English Linguistics and Medieval Studies at the University of Bamberg from 1978 until 2005. He was president of several international associations, received three honorary doctorates from renowned foreign universities and is a member of six academies of sciences, including the Academia Europaen (London).

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820487007
• ISBN 13: 9780820487007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 219
• Editor: Grabes Herbert, Viereck Wolfgang