25 articles in this issue
Uršula Krevs Birk
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Tabula Gratulatoria
Neja Cop
Die vorliegende Bibliographie stellt eine Auswahl der Veröffentlichungen Siegfried Heusingers von 1975 bis heute dar. Auf Angabe zu den von Prof. Dr. Heusinger betreuten Diplomarbeiten wurde verzichtet.
Klaus-Dieter Baumann
One focus of interdisciplinary LSP text research lies in illustrating LSP intertextuality leading to specific LSP text networks. These are closely linked to the formation of specialist communication spaces where (non-)experts interact with each other, exc... see more
Stojan Bracic
The criterion for the classification of the German sentence forms is the number of explicitly expressed (verbal) statements. The sentence is to be understood as a hyperonym for all constructions between the capital letter at the beginning and the punctuat... see more
Darko Cuden
The German morpheme and lexeme frisch shows, in spite of its relatively sparse distribution in the German lexicon, a surprising diversity, which can be seen both on the morphological level (frisch can be an independent unit or part of a noun, verb, adject... see more
Csaba Földes
The study presents some principal linguistic features of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (DAZ) in Kazakhstan and analyses culturally relevant elements in intercultural media discourse. Within the framework of intercultural linguistics, the approach used h... see more
Albrecht Greule
The article deals with historical German syntax, in particular with the verbal system, its systematic recording on the basis of valence theory and its historical development from Old High German (OHG) to the present day German. The aim is to record both t... see more
Christina Janz
Language change in grammar is relatively slow. In most cases, grammatical change is associated with changes in lexical semantics. Both types of change can be interrelated. For example, a change in verb meaning can cause valence changes which can influence... see more
Ada Gruntar Jermol
Legislative acts are considered the most demanding types of legal texts. As normative texts, they express rules of conduct by ordering, prohibiting or granting certain actions or omissions. Although most of them have a clear macrostructure, their receptio... see more
Vida Jesenšek
The article has as its starting point the observation that the semantic-pragmatic presentation of phraseology in general and specialized dictionaries still tends to be inadequate. It tackles the question of how the complex semantics and pragmatics of phra... see more
The heterogeneity of language contacts between German and Slovenian in the past as well as at present can be seen in the frequency, intensity and diversity of contact phenomena. Centuries-long language contacts have left many evident signs. Over the past ... see more
Helena Kuster Kopac
Globally, highly specialized technical communication displays tendencies toward optimization — that is, toward faster and more efficient transfer of information or knowledge. Globalized conventions in producing technical texts are also manifested, among o... see more
Nedad Memic
This paper aims at discussing some prominent features of the German administrative language in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Austro-Hungarian period (1878-1918). After the occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary conducted comprehensive refor... see more
Sanela Mešic
This paper examines determinative compound nouns in legal German. These compounds are often of considerable length and comprise multi-word constituents. The research aims at identifying the components of the determinative compound nouns found in the Basic... see more
Anita Pavic Pintaric
This paper investigates phrasemes used for expressing space in the German and Croatian languages. Dimensions of space, which are determined according to grammatical, semantic and spatio-linguistic investigations, are considered. The phrasemes were collect... see more
Marija Mojca Peternel
The article tries to explain and compare the German newspapers which started to be published in the revolutionary year 1848/49 in areas where a Slovenian-speaking population was present. Since the year 1848/49 was marked by revolution and the newspapers a... see more
Teodor Petric
German modal particles (MP) are language-specific indexical signs which refer back to a given proposition or speech act. A German MP marks the utterance as a reactive turn in an enacted or presupposed dialogic structure. A subset of German MPs in declarat... see more
Heinz-Dieter Pohl
The close interaction of the two national languages in Carinthia is not only evident in onomastic heritage, but also in the popular culture, as well as in the language of food and gastronomy. Many food names have “migrated” from one language to the other ... see more
Janja Polajnar
The paper focuses on different forms of intertextuality in comments on online articles which are characteristic of this communicative practice. Comments can refer either to online articles or to comments of other users as well as to other verbal and non-v... see more
Alexander Rath
The Slovenian particle (and conjunction) pa is one of the most frequent lexemes of the Slovenian language. As it can express additive and contrastive relations and also has the function of a focus and modal particle, it can be considered as semantically h... see more
Aneta Stojic
As a specific type of multi-word expressions, collocations still pose a major challenge from a descriptive perspective, despite numerous existing studies. This is especially noticeable at the lexico-semantic level. These syntagmatic word combinations, whi... see more
Tanja Škerlavaj
In order to optimize communication the agents involved follow certain communication principles which are characteristic of social situations of a normative character and are culturally marked and genre-specific. Thus, authors of academic papers typically ... see more
Karmen Teržan Kopecky
Information is in itself an elementary form, which affects all aspects of life; this paper seeks to shed light on how the insights of quantum-physics and other related natural sciences can help us deepen our understanding of information. Quantum physics h... see more
Urška Valencic Arh
The article deals with the phraseological units called Gemeinplätze in children’s and youth literary works by the Austrian writer Christine Nöstlinger. The German term “Gemeinplatz” comes from the Latin locus communis or the English commonplace. Gemeinpla... see more