Emotionen sind für das menschliche Leben und Erleben konstitutive Phänomene: Sie bestimmen maßgeblich unsere Bewusstseins-, Denk- und Handlungsprozesse. Mittels der Sprache werden Emotionen ausgedrückt und benannt, geweckt, intensiviert oder generiert. Das vorliegende Buch zeigt, wie vielfältig die sprachlichen Möglichkeiten sind, unserer Gefühlswelt Ausdruck zu verleihen. Emotion wird zunächst als mehrdimensionales Kenntnis- und Bewertungssystem definiert und es wird ein integrativer Ansatz vorgestellt, demzufolge Sprache, Kognition und Emotion relevante Schnittstellen haben. Anhand innovativer Fallstudien werden die textuellen Manifestationen zentraler Gefühle erörtert, die eine besonders intensive Symbiose von Emotion und Sprache aufweisen: Angst, Trauer, Liebe, Verzweiflung und Hass.

European-Jewish Studies reflect the interdisciplinary network and competence of the new “Centre for Jewish Studies Berlin and Brandenburg”. The Centre gathers together the most important institutions working on Jewish studies in the region – including the relevant universities and establishments in Berlin and Potsdam. The interdisciplinary character of the series places particular emphasis on the way in which history, the humanities and cultural science approach the subject, as well as on fundamental intellectual, political and religious questions that inspire Jewish life and thinking today, and have influenced it in the past. The CONTRIBUTIONS publish excellent monographs and anthologies on the entire spectrum of themes from Jewish studies. The series is peer-reviewed.

The buzzwords “Information Society” and “Age of Access” suggest that information is now universally accessible without any form of hindrance. Indeed, the German constitution calls for all citizens to have open access to information. Yet in reality, there are multifarious hurdles to information access – whether physical, economic, intellectual, linguistic, political, or technical. Thus, while new methods and practices for making information accessible arise on a daily basis, we are nevertheless confronted by limitations to information access in various domains. This new book series assembles academics and professionals in various fields in order to illuminate the various dimensions of information's inaccessability. While the series discusses principles and techniques for transcending the hurdles to information access, it also addresses necessary boundaries to accessability.

The series European-Jewish Studies reflects the international network and competence of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish studies (MMZ). Particular emphasis is placed on the way in which history, the humanities and cultural sciences approach the subject, as well as on fundamental intellectual, political and religious questions that inspire Jewish life and thinking today, and have influenced it in the past.