Dominik Brückner 
Geschmack [PDF ebook] 
Untersuchungen zu Wortsemantik und Begriff im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Gleichzeitig ein Beitrag zur Lexikographie von Begriffswörtern

A multimodal ethnography of language as living process, this book demonstrates methods for the integrated analysis of talk, gesture, and material culture, developing a fresh way to understand human l …

This book adopts a corpus-based discourse analysis approach to the study of the communicative practices of pick-up artists, offering a systematic exploration of distinct language use in an online com …

There are plenty of books on the market which tell you how to write stylish prose, attention-grabbing headlines or market yourself better as a freelance writer. But how do you get that first piece pu …

Is your creative writing in need of inspiration? Do you need confidence to create watertight plots and believable characters? The Writer”s Source Book provides dozens of practical exercises to help …

How well can you decode the signs that permeate our daily lives? All of us, consciously or not, constantly engage in the acts of reading and interpreting the signs in the world around us. But how do …

First published in 1984. The authors’ basic aim in this volume has been to set forth a certain perspective on psychological phenomena and to show how this perspective enables one to order and integra …

Translating Institutions outlines a framework for research on translation in institutional settings, using the Finnish translation unit at the European Commission as a case study. Because of their fo …

This book examines the topic of communication strategies, the ways in which people seek to express themselves or understand what someone else is saying or writing. Typically, the term has referred to …

‘I can”t even speak my own language, ‘ were the words overheard in a college staffroom that triggered the writing of this book. Calling something ”my own” implies a personal, proprietorial relatio …

Filling a gap in the study of early modern literature, Massimiliano Morini here exhaustively examines the aims, strategies, practice and theoretical ideas of the sixteenth-century translator. Morini …