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The present volume is the first in a series that provides an introductory treatment of central topics in linguistics. Its aim is to offer students and individu...

Interest in traditional school languages such as English, French, Italian, and Spanish has changed considerably in  the tertiary education sector over the last...

The deaf-blind poet Irene Ransburg (1898-1944) and the blind German philology student Gisela Kaufmann (1907-1941) were two extraordinary women in Graz during t...

The Irreverse is the world we live in. It is a world defined by the inability to go back, undo or rewind. Even when we retrace our steps and wal...

The focus of this anthology is on linguistic action patterns as socially elaborated forms of acts and on text types as tried and tested procedures for coping w...

English Language Teaching (ELT) has become an integral part of the Austrian education system and as such comes with its own demands and challenges. This book i...

While the discourse of peace and conflict research is already very broad, the field of academic engagement with the phenomena of peace and conflict is even bro...

This paper “The Code-Switching of bilingual Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, German-speaking children – a linguistic study of preschool children with a migration back...

This book examines memory cultures within italophone migration literature. Starting with a definition of the genre ‘migration literature’ and its current situa...

This work presents an investigation of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s speech production in his first language (L1), Austrian German, and his second language (L2), Ame...

This thesis is dedicated to cinematic adaptations of literature. For this, two works shall be analysed: the story IHR GLÜCKLICHEN AUGEN by Ingeborg Bachmann fr...