This is a collection of papers presented at the conference «Anglo-German Linguistic Relations», held at Queen Mary, University of London in November 2007. The papers cover a wide variety of topics about the relationship between the English and German languages or relate to cultural and literary contacts between English-speaking and German-speaking regions. Individual papers discuss Anglo-German linguistic interplay and affinities both as contemporary phenomena and from a historical perspective. Themes include codification, translation and discourse production from the 17th century to the Second World War; shared metaphors in English and German; political propaganda in English and German; and authorial positioning and perspective in a selection of autobiographical and literary works.
Author(s): Falco Pfalzgraf & Felicity Rash
Series: Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik - Reihe A Band 98
Publisher: Lang
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 173
City: Bern
Introduction 9
German Dictionaries of Anglicisms and their Treatment of Borrowings from English, Ulrich Busse 13
Are Shared Metaphors the Same? English and German Body Imagery in Comparison and Contrast, Andreas Musolff 33
English and German in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg: Language, Culture, Business Markus Oliver 53
Constructing Germany: The German Nation in Anglo-German Grammars of the 18th Century Fredericka van der Lubbe 63
„Im Unterhause abscheulich groß Getöse“: Representations of Eighteenth Century British Parliamentary Democracy in Early Modern German Newspaper Discourse and their Treatment of Borrowings from English, Astrid Ensslin 73
Non-Standard Language from the Lower Classes during the Nineteenth Century in Germany and Britain, Wim Vandenbussche 97
Female and Fascist: Gender, Identity and Power in the Discourse of Women Fascists in Britain and Germany, Geraldine Horan 109
Kraft durch Furcht: An Example of British Counter-Propaganda Published in German, Felicity Rash 127
