Wolfgang Viereck
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A linguistic picture of women's position in society
A discussion of English and Polish gender systems, generic words, forms of address, referring expressions and other topics, provides evidence that in these two languages males and females are not treated equally. The main concern of this book is linguistic sexism. The data indicate that speakers of both languages treat male as the norm, attribute less desirable qualities to the speech and behaviour of women, stereotype women more than men, or simply make women linguistically invisible members of society.
12/1986
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Black and White Speech in the Southern United States
This study compares the pronunciation of the stressed vowel nuclei of black and white southerners interviewed for the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States. The informants from Maryland (two pairs), Virginia (seven pairs), and North Carolina (seven pairs), were all interviewed in the period 1933-1939 by a single field worker, Guy S. Lowman, Jr., and were matched as closely as possible for age, education, social class, and geographical proximity. The principal findings of the study are that systematic differences exist between black and white speakers in the pronunciation of the stressed vowels, on the phonic or subphonemic level. This is the same type of variation that is used to characterize dialect differences in the United States. The differences in speech, however, while systematic, are not categorical : i.e., there are no speech features examined that exist solely for black or white speakers. Another finding was that regional variation in speech was less apparent for black speakers than for white speakers.
12/1986
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On Deixis in English and Polish
Deixis verges on the borderline of philosophy, semantics and pragmatics. Since no satisfactory theory of deixis has been proposed so far, this book gives a critical examination of the state of the art and suggests a solution within the framework of discourse analysis. The deictic systems of English and Polish are compared in termes of algorithms, which determine the distribution of demonstrative pronouns in the two languages. Many difficulties found in other approaches can be escaped through the application of algorithms accounting for the speaker's choices in his use of demonstratives during the discourse flow.
12/1987
Musique et danse
Wolfgang et moi
"Lorsque la cloche de la porte a tinté, un drôle de bonhomme est entré et a sifflé une envolée de notes flûtées. Intrigué, je les ai répétées et bientôt, en duo, nous avons chanté". Cela fait trois ans que Mozart est installé à Vienne lorsqu'il fait l'acquisition de Lorenz, un étourneau dont le chant le fascine. Bientôt, l'oiseau et le musicien vont partager des moments de complicité intense, au milieu des partitions et de l'univers fantasque du grand compositeur. Voici le récit poétique et coloré de cet incroyable épisode de la vie du musicien, qui mènera à la création de l'illustre opéra "La Flûte enchantée".
01/2021
Documentaires jeunesse
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mon nom est Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Je suis un musicien et un compositeur renommé dans le monde entier. J'ai connu la gloire alors que je n'étais qu'un enfant. Découvre mon périple musical, depuis mes débuts d'enfant prodige jusqu'au jour où je suis devenu l'un des compositeurs les plus célèbres de tous les temps.
10/2019
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Variation and Diachrony, with Early American English in Focus
This study of diachronic variation addresses two topics, the development of modal auxiliaries can (could), may (might), shall (should) and will (would), and the emergence of early American English as a new variety in the seventeenth century. Within the framework of socio-historical variation analysis, the author aims at accounting for diachronic change by examining the interplay of various linguistic and extra-linguistic factors in the light of evidence drawn from various corpora. The study concentrates on the language spoken and written in the New England area between 1620 and 1720, but to widen the scope in time and region, counterparts for comparison are found in the material included in the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts. The results indicate a gradual change (rather than a sudden re-structuring) in the system of the English modals from early stages on. Cumulative evidence is found for the rise of the forms can and will ; in early American English conservative (rather than innovative) tendencies characterize the development.
05/1991
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