This volume of conference proceedings brings the “Kitab Dede Korkut” into the spotlight of intercultural comparative studies of medieval heroic epic poetry. The oldest and only complete manuscript version of this pre-Osman epic is preserved in the Saxon State Library (Dresden). The most recent German translation is by Mainz Turkologist Hendrik Boeschoten. Thus ideal opportunities for academic cooperation between Azerbaijan and Germany are presented, aiming to bring Eastern and Western academic discourses together. Topics from areas such as syntax, lexis, word formation, onomastics and speech act theory are examined from the different linguistic perspectives of the two traditions. This represents not just a bridging of the gap between East and West, but it is also new territory for German research on the “Nibelungenlied”.

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