Umlaut Phenomena in Early New High German Discourse

A Pragmatic Approach / Lee Forester.

Lee Allen Forester (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

276 Seiten

1999
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-3084-3 (ISBN)

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semantic and discourse considerations. Umlaut Phenomena in Early New High German Discourse is an investigation of the spread and regularization of umlaut in Early New High German that focuses on semantic and pragmatic influences. In a detailed analysis of excerpts from three texts - Brant's Narrenschiff, von Tepl's Ackermann von Böhmen, and Luther's Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen - lexical items displaying variation in umlaut spelling are compared in an attempt to isolate discourse factors that influenced the choice of each variant. This work differs from other studies on umlaut in that, on the basis of evidence from these Early New High German texts, it postulates that the development of umlaut was not only a phonological matter, but was in fact significantly influenced by semantic and discourse considerations.

The Author: Lee Forester received his Ph.D. in Germanic Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently Associate Professor of German and Russian at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.

Reihe/Serie	Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics ; 25
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Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Germanistik
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ISBN-10	0-8204-3084-6 / 0820430846
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-3084-3 / 9780820430843
Zustand	Neuware