Manfred Görlach Bücher

Katalog zur Ausstellung „Weltsprache Englisch“ von Manfred Görlach vom 06.07.-31.08.2002 in der Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln

Rezeptionsgeschichte eines Kinderbuches: Wilhelm Buschs berühmte Bildergeschichte „Max und Moritz“ ist in viele Sprachen und Dialekte übersetzt worden und findet noch heute in Werbung und Karikatur vielfältige Verwendung.

Englische Sprachgeschichte soll in dieser Einführung an Texten erarbeitet werden. Unter Anwendung moderner linguistischer Methoden werden die wichtigsten strukturellen Wandlungen des Englischen auf den verschiedenen sprachlichen Ebenen (Schriftsysteme, Phonologie, Morphologie, Syntax, Lexik, Semantik, Lehnbeziehungen) exemplarisch behandelt. Das Buch ist als Komplement zu einem Grundkurs Linguistik konzipiert. Vorherige Auflagen sind in der Reihe UTB für Wissenschaft/ Uni-Taschenbücher erschienen.

Reviews tend to be the most ephemeral products in scholar's life - and yet, many are worth keeping and re-reading. Some forty of the author's reviews are here selected and arranged under Medieval studies, Historical linguistics and the history of English, Dialectology, socio-linguistics and contact linguistics, and Lexicography. A full bibliography of all the reviews 1972-2002 and indexes conclude the book.

The evolution of modern European languages has been shaped significantly by their expanding functions since 1500, leading to notable developments in syntax and lexis, particularly through the conventionalization of text types. This account offers a comprehensive exploration of the history and current state of the English language, beginning with the German concept of Textsorte from the 1960s. It links designations of text types to stable forms that guide both writers and readers, allowing for the identification of standard and misused forms. Approximately two thousand designations are listed, each accompanied by minimal definitions and dates of first occurrences. The focus then shifts to selected illustrative types, such as book dedications, cooking recipes, advertisements, church hymns, lexical entries, and jokes, examining their functions and historical development in relation to linguistic characteristics and societal changes. The discussion also includes the functional range of text types beyond England, highlighting the impact of English categories on Scots/Scottish English and English in India. The analysis is enriched with textual excerpts and over fifty pages of facsimiles, emphasizing typographical insights. A comprehensive bibliography and indices are included, making this work valuable for constructing representative text corpora and encouraging further research into diverse text types and contrastive analyses among

This final collection of the author's papers devoted to the history of English comprises ten recent (revised) contributions to conferences, journals and festschriften combined with a few original chapters. Topics range from corpus linguistics to linguistic problems of editing, text type analysis and to the impact of rhetoric, and from semantic change to transnational problems of medieval texts. These are framed by an outline account of the structural development of English and the contribution of world English to historical linguistics. Finally, an annotated bibliography of the 300 most relevant titles of the discipline is included.