Proceedings / Anglistentag 1995 Greifswald

Jürgen Klein, Vanderbeke Dirk, Jürgen Klein, Vanderbeke Dirk

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9783484401402
• eBook ISBN:
  9783111714141
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Preface
• Contents
• SECTION I: LITERATURE AND CULTURE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
• Introduction
• Eighteenth-Century Culture: Questions of Textuality
• Popular Political Culture in the Mid 1790s
• Hogarth’s ‘Industry and Idleness’: Representing the Criminal
• A Woman Under the Influence. Women, Crime and Punishment in 18th-Century England
• To Make Sense of the Senseless The Representation of Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England
• Pamphlets in the Seven Years’ War: More Change Than Continuity ?
• “The wilderness pleases” - But why not in the novel?
• Conflicting Definitions of the Culture of Sensibility
• City Vice: New Urban Myths in Eighteenth-Century England
• SECTION II: FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR
• Introduction
• The Function of Role Types in Unmarked Theme- Rheme Structures
• Supplementive Adjective Clauses in English
• Functional Grammar and the Analysis of English
• A Functional Approach to Modality
• Systemic Functional Linguistics - A Chomsky-Theory or a Mead-Theory?
• Theme in translation: some considerations
• Functional-Semantic Fields
• SECTION III: SOCIETY, GENRE, AND LANGUAGE IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
• Introduction
• Genres, Texts and Corpora in the Study of Medieval English
• William Caxton’s Dialogues in French and English as a Source of Information about Social Reality
• Dream Theory and Dream Lexis in the Middle Ages
• Chaucer’s Prose in the Canterbury Tales as Parody
• Morphological Reclassification: The Morphological and Morphophonemic Restructuring of the Weak Verbs in Old and Middle English
• Bishops’ Courts as Cultural Centres: The Case of the Harley Lyrics
• Wycliffite Sermons: A Critical Commentary on Late 14th-Century England
• The Late Middle English Paston Letters
• SECTION IV: SOUTH AFRICA
• Introduction
• South African Literary History - The Black and the White Perspective
• Literature for a National Culture in South Africa: Perspectives of Oppressed Groups
• From Vasco da Gama’s Astrolabe to John Barrow’s Artificial Horizon: The Cape Colony and Cartographical Momentum
• Transitional Identity: Autobiography in South Africa
• Cultural Politics in Es’kia Mphahlele’s Works
• Literature and Civil Society in South Africa
• Spatial Symbolism in Nadine Gordimer’s None to Accompany Me
• English - The Language of a New Nation The Present-Day Linguistic Situation of South Africa
• SECTION V: VARIA
• Workshop: Teaching Utopian Fiction - A Contribution to Cultural Studies
• Subjective Theories of Second Language Acquisition
• A Text-Based Approach to the Study of English Punctuation
• English Literature in Germany - German Literature in England: An Analysis of a Lopsided Bicultural Exchange
• Food in English Literature
• Being True to the Story: Myth, Identity, and Art in Momaday’s The Ancient Child