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Englisches in gesprochenem Deutsch: Eine empirische Analyse der Aussprache und Beurteilung englischer Laute im Deutschen
(2007)
Englische Wörter und Eigennamen sind in der deutschen Sprache allgegenwärtig (z.B. Servicepoint, Shareholder, Hardware, cool, Tony Blair). Wie aber werden diese Wörter von deutschen Sprechern ausgesprochen? Es scheint auf ...
Syntactic and Pragmatic Functions of þa in Old English Prose and Verse
(2014-06-18)
Ambiguous headwords such as þa, þær, and þonne still pose a challenge to translators and editors of Old English texts. The question whether clauses introduced by þa are subordinate (‘when’) or principal ...
Amerikanismen in der gegenwärtigen britischen Lexikographie des Englischen: Erfassung, Markierung und Datenbasis
(2005)
Die Lexikographie des Englischen in Großbritannien hat sich in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten in beachtlichem Maße fortentwickelt. Für die Verfasserin dieser Arbeit war diesbezüglich von Interesse, ob sich die angesprochenen ...
"I tell you what we could do, we could say, cut it to a hundred and ninety-five, and offer you a significant discount on breakfast" - Expressing Commitment in Business Discourse: An Empirical Analysis of Offers in Irish English Negotiations
(2009-10-26)
In the present study it is claimed that the outcome of a negotiation is the result of the interactive dealing with offers during the negotiation process. The general importance of offers and their strategic potential is ...
I believe it's possible it might be so....: Exploiting Lexical Clues for the Automatic Generation of Evidentiality Weights for Information Extracted from English Text
(2016-09-15)
Information formulated in natural language is being created at an incredible pace, far more quickly than we can make sense of it. Thus, computer algorithms for various kinds of text analytics have been developed to try to ...
The Pragmatic and Prosodic Realisation of Apologies: A Matter of Severity and Sincerity?
(2024-03-21)
Though apologies are noticeably well researched, the role of prosodic dimensions in their successful delivery remains strikingly underrepresented in the literature, where considerations rarely go beyond the assumption that ...