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Readings in the Anthropocene brings together scholars from German Studies and beyond to interpret the German tradition of the last two hundred years from a perspective that is mindful of the challenge posed by the concept of the Anthropocene. This new age of man, unofficially pronounced in 2000, holds...

This book studies the linguistic representation of events by examining the relevance of two salient event characteristics-- telicity and durativity-- to the grammatical system of natural language. The study of events, and of event characteristics, is an important testing ground for theories...

In this discourse history, W J Dodd analyses the ‘unquiet voices’ of opponents whose contemporary critiques of Nazism, from positions of territorial and inner exile, focused on the ‘language of Nazism’. Individual chapters review ‘precursor’ discourses; Nazi public discourse from 1933...

First published in 1985, this book analyses temporal meaning in German. The framework is that of a model-theoretic semantics, more specifically one incorporating a multi-dimensional tense logic. The first chapter presents this logic and argues that three dimensions are optimal for the description...

You want to learn German quick and easy without getting bored about grammar? This book will help to train your language skills while saving your time. It contains five short and easy reading texts about the topic Shopping. These short stories train your vocabulary. Reading is an effective method to...

You want to learn German quick and easy without getting bored about grammar? This book will help to train your language skills while saving your time. It contains five short and easy reading texts about the topic Working. These short stories train your vocabulary. Reading is an effective method to...

You want to learn German quick and easy without getting bored about grammar? This book will help to train your language skills while saving your time. It contains five short and easy reading texts about the topic Living. These short stories train your vocabulary. Reading is an effective method to...

Thanks to Oktoberfest and the popularity of beer gardens, our thoughts on German food are usually relegated to beer, sausage, pretzels, and limburger cheese. But the inhabitants of modern-day Germany do not live exclusively on bratwurst. Defying popular perception of the meat and potatoes diet, Ursula...

Die ersten drei Beiträge setzen sich mit Reiseberichten über Afrika aus dem 18. und 19. Jahrhundert auseinander, von den Reisen des österreichischen Afrikaforschers Oscar Baumann nach West- und Ostafrika bis zu den Reisen von Georg Forster und Adelbert von Chamisso ans Kap der Guten Hoffnung. Es...

Der erste Teil «Afrika schreiben», zugleich Schwerpunktsetzung des Jahrbuchs, versammelt Beiträge über Afrikaverarbeitungen in der deutschen Literatur und im kulturellen Gedächtnis, die bezeugen, dass der afrikanische Kontinent nicht erst seit seiner Kolonisierung zu Imaginationen im europäischen...

You want to learn German quick and easy without getting bored about grammar? This book will help to train your language skills while saving your time. It contains five short and easy reading texts about the topic Health. These short stories train your vocabulary. Reading is an effective method to...

You want to learn German quick and easy without getting bored about grammar? This book will help to train your language skills while saving your time. It contains five short and easy reading texts about the topic „In the City“. These short stories train your vocabulary. Reading is an effective...

You want to learn German quick and easy without getting bored about grammar? This book will help to train your language skills while saving your time. It contains five short and easy reading texts about the topic „Family“. These short stories train your vocabulary. Reading is an effective method...

You want to learn German quick and easy without getting bored about grammar? This book will help to train your language skills while saving your time. It contains five short and easy reading texts about the topic „Travel“. These short stories train your vocabulary. Reading is an effective method...