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Our book aims at readers who want to learn more about how language works both in everyday ordinary verbal communication and in memorable works of verbal art and how the principles of ordinary communication interact with artistic creativity. The two interests are interdependent. After all, poems, though made of ideas, sensations or emotions, are first and foremost made of words and sentences, objects of fascination for linguists as well as poets and their readers. And it is only against the background of an awareness of the rules governing ordinary language that we will be able to appreciate and describe the pleasurable liberties poetic language takes with them. This book thus aims at providing pleasurable insights into verbal art in its rich diversity of periods and genres, ranging from Shakespearean plays to modern and postmodern narratives, from lyrical poetry to pop-songs and commercials. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. And the proof of linguistic theories for literary studies in our hands-on analyses is in the reading, in the heuristic surplus value these theories generate when confronted with great literature, with language taken to the limits of its complexity and density, suggestive power and memorable beauty.

Seit langem besteht in der Fremdsprachendidaktik Übereinkunft darüber, dass durch einen umfassenden Vergleich von Muttersprache und zu erlernender Fremdsprache verbesserte Grundlagen für den Fremdsprachenunterricht und das Studium einer Fremdsprache geschaffen werden können. Der wichtigste Teil dieses Programms der kontrastiven Linguistik, nämlich das Erstellen von umfassenden, detaillierten Bestandsaufnahmen der wesentlichen Kontraste zwischen zwei Sprachen, ihrer Zusammenhänge und ihrer Erklärungen, wurde lange Zeit nicht realisiert. Das vorliegende Buch schließt diese Lücke, indem es einen feinkörnigen Sprachvergleich des Deutschen und Englischen vorlegt, der auf zahlreichen kontrastiven Untersuchungen der Autoren, auf der einschlägigen Literatur zu den beiden Sprachen und auf den verfügbaren sprachtypologischen Einsichten aufbaut. Die 4. Auflage wurde im Anfangs- und im Schlusskapitel um einige relevante Einsichten neuerer Literatur erweitert. Taking up some of the goals of the Contrastive Program formulated in the sixties and seventies of the last century, this book presents a comprehensive and fine-grained analysis of the major contrasts between German and English with the aim of showing how far the two closely related languages have moved apart and of providing new foundations for the study and the teaching of English from the perspective of German and the study of German from the perspective of English. It is based on numerous contrastive studies published by the authors and on a thorough exploration of the relevant literature on the two languages and on language typology in general. Parsimonious in its use of complex technical jargon, the book can be used both for the relevant B.A. modules and the relevant M.A. modules, as well as for more general courses on Comparative Linguistics and Contrastive Analysis. The fourth edition has added further elaborations of the introductory and final chapters on the basis of recent contributions.

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