Publications
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Semiotische Effizienz interfachlicher Sprache-Bild-Textsorten
(2019)
Communicative efficiency can be measured with conventions. Besides linguistic means, pictures and diagrams are also an expression of such conventions. In the practice of technical editing, this refers to multimodal text ...
Sprachlenkung
(2017)
Is it possible to change the language in a group? And if so, how? In politics and business, conclusive answers to these questions are of great interest. Karolina Suchowolec finds them by analysing the current state of ...
Kompetenzen in DaF/DaZ
(2019)
Competence orientation opens up always new perspectives for teaching German as an Foreign and as a second language (DaF/DaZ) . The current tendencies of competence orientation presented here are include: - Specialist ...
Translationspolitik für Regional- oder Minderheitensprachen
(2018)
A reasonable evolution model is indispensable for the comprehensibility and justification of translation policy decisions. On the one hand, this model should take into account the general objectives of protecting a regional ...
Virtuelle und hybride Fremdsprachenlehre
(2023)
Virtual and hybrid teaching: what has been a stopgap solution for many in recent years is becoming increasingly important for foreign language teaching today. This book presents current developments in digitised language ...
Gardens of the Iberian Peninsula
(2023)
In garden research, Spanish and Portuguese green spaces are scarcely visible. This is a striking contrast not only to their diversity and quality but also to the global network of both countries, especially during the Early ...
Optimierung von Gesprächen in der professionellen Telefonie
(2017)
Telephone service conversations are a central component of social and economic communication practice. They are to a considerable extent pre-planned and standardized. In addition to the desired positive effects (uniformity, ...
Kinder im Gespräch – mit Kindern im Gespräch
(2019)
How do children behave in conversations? The authors of this book provide answers that are relevant to research and practice. The analysis is based on authentic conversations in everyday situations. The discussion process ...
Stimmstörungen – ein Fokus der Klinischen Sprechwissenschaft
(2016)
Working on the voice, whether diagnosticly, therapeuticly, preventively or restoratively, is and will remain one of the core areas of clinical speech science. The authors of this volume provide information on current vocal ...
Easy Language – Plain Language – Easy Language Plus
(2020)
This book shows how accessible communication, and especially easy-to-understand languages, should be designed in order to become instruments of inclusion. It examines two well-established easy-to-understand varieties: Easy ...
Easy Language Research
(2020)
This volume presents new approaches in Easy Language research from three different perspectives: text perspective, user perspective and translation perspective. It explores the field of comprehensibility-enhanced varieties ...
Rechtskommunikation und Barrierefreiheit
(2019)
Accessible legal communication seems to be a contradiction in itself: Legal terminology places high demands on comprehension. Easy language, on the other hand, aims for maximum comprehensibility. Isabel Rink explores the ...
Evaluieren und Prüfen in DaF / DaZ
(2020)
Consistent evaluation is an important prerequisite for quality assurance and continuous further development in the area of DaF/DaZ. With a focus on virtual learning, this volume deals with the evaluation of the Inverted ...
Uncertainty in deliberate lexical interventions
(2020)
Language managers in their different forms (language planners, terminologists, professional neologists …) have long tried to intervene in the lexical usage of speakers, with various degrees of success: Some of their lexical ...
Handbuch Barrierefreie Kommunikation
(2018)
Barrier-free communication includes all measures to reduce obstacles to communication in various situations and fields of action. Due to disabilities, illnesses, different educational opportunities or drastic life events, ...
Schreiben mit der Hand
(2021)
Why do people still write by hand today? Is typing by hand actually handwriting? And what have signatures got to do with identity? Andi Gredig explores these and many other questions about handwriting from a linguistic and ...
Miteinander sprechen – verantwortlich, kompetent, reflektiert
(2021)
Speech science has a history of over 120 years. In addition to the self-image of the discipline, this book focuses on everything that makes the subject so attractive: With its vital research and teaching subject, speaking ...
Trauma – Generationen – Erzählen
(2020)
Reminiscent narratives on Eastern, Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe and their investigation from a comparative literary perspective are the core of the volume Trauma - Generations - Narrative. With recourse to trauma ...
Mehrsprachigkeit am Arbeitsplatz
(2021)
Communication at work as well as multilingualism, language policy and language politics are increasingly in the focus of linguistic research. Global division of labor, internationalization of labor and trade markets, ...
Medien – Sprechen – Klang
(2021)
This volume brings together empirical studies on language and speech as well as on their linkage with musical-sound elements in the media (radio, audio guide, audio book, radio play as well as YouTube and Instagram videos). ...
Multikodalität und Digitales Lehren und Lernen
(2021)
Nothing has highlighted the importance of digital teaching and learning opportunities more obviously than the Corona pandemic. This book therefore focuses on multicodal or multimedia digital teaching. The authors examine ...
Kontexte kreativen Schreibens
(2021)
Creative writing is booming: in writing institutes, adult education centers and schools, in therapy and integration work, as well as in writing workshops for amateurs. Universities in German-speaking countries are also are ...
Accessible Communication
(2020)
Easy-to-Understand (E2U) text practices enable and facilitate accessible communication. E2U refers both to Plain and to Easy Language. These two powerful methods of language and content comprehension enhancement are ...
Translation, Mediation and Accessibility for Linguistic Minorities
(2022)
Linguistic minorities are everywhere, and they are diverse. In this context, linguistic mediation activities – whether translation or interpreting – are key to the social inclusion of any kind of linguistic minority. In ...
Recherche im Translationsprozess
(2022)
What do I need to know in order to successfully complete a translation job? How do I acquire the relevant knowledge? This is what information mining is about. Gaps in a translator’s knowledge can occur in a variety of ...
Sprachmacht auf engstem Raum
(2021)
Audio films enable blind and visually impaired people to enjoy a feature film. An audio film consists of the original audio track of the film and the audio description. This film description compensates for the video track ...
The Dictionary of Accessible Communication
(2021)
Terminology on Accessible Communication has primarily evolved and been published within the borders of a given country with no or only little exchange across these borders. Since English can be regarded as the „lingua ...
Handbook of Easy Languages in Europe
(2021)
The Handbook of Easy Languages in Europe describes what Easy Language is and how it is used in European countries. It demonstrates the great diversity of actors, instruments and outcomes related to Easy Language throughout ...
Verbunden mit den Slaven
(2022)
"Connected with the Slavs" - this leitmotif unites contributions by Slavists and representatives of neighbouring disciplines. Together they show the wealth and impressive range of Slavic research: from language history to ...
Chapter Русский перевод книги Антуана де Плювинеля
(2022)
In the second half of the 17th century, the translators of the Russian ambassadorial office had to translate a large number of books. Among them, the equestrian books by Antoine de Pluvinel from the 1620s stand out: Maneige ...
Russland im Spiegel der Medien
(2022)
Is Russia a fearful giant, an economic partner or a belligerent aggressor? The answer to this question depends on the perspective. What perspectives and consequently what answers does the German press landscape have to ...
Krim – Erkundungen am Rand Europas
(2022)
The Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea, rich in history and charm, is of great geostrategic importance. This leads to political conflicts time and again. But what is everyday life like in Crimea beyond the discourses about ...
Paratexts in Translation
(2022)
As something that surrounds, extends, and presents a text to the world, the phenomenon of paratext is gaining more and more attention within the discipline of Translation Studies. This edited volume, with contributions by ...
Central Europe and the Non-European World in the Long 19th Century
(2022)
Central Europe and the Non-European World in the Long 19th Century explores various ways in which inhabitants of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy perceived and depicted the outside world during the era of European imperialism. ...
Auffindbarkeit, Wahrnehmbarkeit, Akzeptabilität
(2021)
Many public authorities are now obliged to use plain language on their websites. The aim is to improve the participation of people with disabilities. But are the legal requirements and the resulting textual practice suitable ...
Kognitive Aspekte des Übersetzungsprozesses
(2022)
What happens in the mind when we translate? And how does our mother tongue influence our speaking, writing, thinking and translating? In the answer to one question lies the resolution of the other. KyeongHwa Lee has explored ...
Ost und West in der Romania / Entre Est et Ouest
(2023)
Literary multilingualism and the transnational turn are currently hot topics in literary studies. They are best studied in the multilingual and widely networked Romanian literatures. The contributions collected here ...
O corpo-cronômetro
(2023)
The studies presented in this volume examine the intertwining of corporeality and temporality in Brazilian literature from interdisciplinary perspectives. In some narratives, the texts make explicit the protagonism of the ...
Translation und Exil (1933–1945) I
(2022)
Research into exile has so far focused on numerous groups of people persecuted by the National Socialists: Writers, artists, scientists, politicians and many others. One group, however, has remained largely invisible until ...
Die Ukraine als Objekt russischer Großmachtansprüche
(2024)
This volume brings together contributions on the background to the Russian attack on Ukraine from a (socio-)linguistic, linguistic and literary-historical and political perspective. The emphasis is not on day-to-day political ...
Corps et capital dans le roman français du XIXe siècle = Körper und Kapital im französischen Roman des 19. Jahrhunderts
(2023)
Since Pierre Bourdieu, we have known that the body forms incorporated cultural and social capital. It is a commodity and means of production, a sign of belonging to a social class, a place where sex, gender and power ...
Automatisierte Wissenskommunikation
(2024)
The Model of Automated Knowledge Communication outlined in this postdoctoral thesis aims to broaden the scope of current conceptualizations of specialized communication to account for self-adapting, AI-/LLM-based machines ...
A Responsibility to the World
(2023)
In a 1987 interview, José Saramago eloquently expressed what could be considered his political-philosophical manifesto: “Human beings should not content themselves with the role of mere observers. They bear a responsibility ...
Handbuch Audiovisuelle Translation
(2024)
This handbook provides compact, well-founded and comprehensible information on the entire spectrum of audiovisual translation, or AVT for short. In five thematic sections, 30 experts provide a comprehensive overview of ...
Begegnungen von Jung und Alt in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
(2024)
Age is a central characteristic of literary characters. It determines their scope of action, their behavioral repertoire, their social relationships with others and much more. The category of age is particularly significant ...
Poesie – Musik – Übersetzung
(2024)
The translation of art songs is an attractive subject of research: their musical aesthetics unite two "sacred originals" - the poetry of a renowned poet's text and the melody of a respected composer. In view of the long ...
Accessibility – Health Literacy – Health Information
(2022)
Recent studies show that more than half of the German population have difficulties in accessing, understanding, appraising, and applying health information, thus giving accessibility in health communication new traction. ...
Translation und Exil (1933–1945) II
(2023)
Translation does not work in a vacuum. Making it visible as action in a structured context is the goal of this book. This broad context includes individuals and, more significantly, collective actors-publishers, reviewers ...
Stimme – Sprechen – Theater
(2024)
Elocution and speech training are among the core areas of speech science in research, teaching and practice. The volume Voice – Speech – Theater. Sprechwissenschaft im Dialog offers an update on the current scientific and ...
Translation und Exil (1933–1945) III
(2024)
Translation and Exile (1933-1945) III examines the motives, functions and effects of translations. Exile is often discussed in terms of loss and the exodus of scholars and artists is lamented. If we abandon this nation-state ...
Mikroprozesse der Bediensituation
(2024)
Interactions and feedback effects are important influencing factors for specialized communicative actions. This particularly affects product research in the context of producing user manuals. What role do communicative ...
Sprachförderung in DaZ
(2024)
Germany has been a country of immigration for decades. Language support for immigrants is therefore not a new topic. However, massively increasing numbers of refugees reveal the gaps and challenges of the German education ...
Aussprachenormen für das Sprechen und Singen auf der Bühne im 19. Jahrhundert
(2024)
The development of oral language norms prior to the publication of Theodor Siebs' set of rules "Deutsche Bühnenausprache" (1898) has hardly been systematically studied to date. Ulrich Thilo Hoffmann offers the first ...
Unzuverlässiges Erzählen in Literatur und Medien
(2024)
Unreliable narration is a fascinating phenomenon. When it is uncertain whether the narrated events can be trusted, opportunities for interpretation arise. This applies not only to classical literature but also to children's ...
East Asian Landscapes and Legitimation
(2024)
The conquest of Sichuan and Vietnam by the Chinese Empire led to very different outcomes. This volume examines the negotiations between central authority and local autonomy, the physical manifestations of socially constructed ...
Zwischenstationen = Inbetween
(2024)
Intermediate Stops – Communication with Refugees takes a look at situations where refugees come into contact with others at various stages of their journey. For understanding and being understood, the presence of interpreters ...
Risiko und Unsicherheit in der modernen islamischen Praxis
(2024)
The principle of insurance as a calculable assumption of risk emerged in Europe as early as the late Middle Ages. Despite their high economic relevance, however, they were not fully institutionalized in law until the 19th ...
Einfach aussortieren? Anregungen für kritische Lektüren des Literaturkanons
(2024)
Cancel culture, canon wars, new culture wars - the media debate about which texts are still “allowed” to be read with children is not only unsettling parents. Literature houses and theaters, universities, publishers and ...
Translation im Kontext
(2024)
What role do context and contextualization play in translation and interpreting? And what impact do they have on the reception of the translation? The relevance of context for both the creation of translations and their ...
Mixed-Methods-Designs in der Spracherwerbsforschung
(2024)
This publication formulates a comprehensive picture of children's expression of empathy, while also developing a complex mixed-methods design. The study focusses on the linguistic and communicative abilities of 22 children, ...
Spanischunterricht digital
(2024)
The digital transformation is affecting all areas of life, including teaching and learning. Foreign language teaching in schools is changing: hybrid learning environments, new text types and ephemeral information on social ...
Beschreiben in Theorie und Unterrichtspraxis
(2024)
Describing is one of the central speech acts. Mastering it is a prerequisite for others, such as arguing. In a didactic context, however, describing has hardly been empirically researched to date. This volume takes a ...
Romper o solo instável
(2024)
Handbook of Accessible Communication
(2024)
Accessible communication comprises all measures employed to reduce communication barriers in various situations and fields of activity. Disabilities, illnesses, different educational opportunities and/or major life events ...
Literatur und Abtreibung
(2025)
Abortions have always existed and will continue to exist – both in real life and in literature. This volume traces the literary history of abortion from the Romantic period to the present day. The contributions deal with ...
Künstliche Intelligenz in DaF/DaZ
(2025)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a part of our professional and personal lives – and thus also of education and teaching. The field of DaF/DaZ (German as a foreign/second language in research and teaching) ...
DeutschGPT – Deutschunterricht im Dialog mit Künstlicher Intelligenz
(2025)
Large generative language models (LLMs) have lost the exoticism of their early days. They have long since become part of everyday life, including in teaching and learning. In this new phase of linguistic and literary ...
Normwidriger Gebrauch deutscher Präpositionen: schwierige Verhältnisse
(2025)
True or false? Ulrich Schmitz examines the uncertain, variable, erroneous, and often surprising use of prepositions in written German, for example: It requires a great deal of effort; There are concerns about this proposal; ...
Zeitgenössische russischsprachige Prosa der Diaspora
(2025)
Literary translation always involves engaging with linguistic structures and reflecting on cultural particularities – areas that are equally relevant to both linguistics and literary studies. This is why Katrin B. Karl and ...
Literarästhetisches Lernen außerhalb des Klassenzimmers
(2025)
Literature and classroom teaching have a complex relationship: literature is not a subject that can be conveyed or taught in the conventional sense. It cannot be fully understood in a traditional way, and it allows for ...
Literaturausstellungen und Vermittlung
(2025)
Do literature and exhibitions go together? Definitely — as this volume demonstrates from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Literature exhibitions establish relationships with literature. They offer insights into ...
Qualitätssicherung
(2019)
Translation revision is essential for ensuring the quality of translations. It is a service of its own, which involves the provision of additional personnel, time and financial resources. The quality standards, the auditing ...
