Product Description: This book examines one of the allegedly unique features of human language: structure sensitivity. Its point of departure is the distinction between content and structural units, which are defined in psycholinguistic terms. The focus of the book is on structural representations, in particular their hierarchicalness and their branching direction...read more

Product Description: Amerikanisierung und Politikmarketing sind die Schlagwörter, wenn man die Modernisierung der bundesdeutschen Wahlkämpfe betrachtet. Was ist eingentlich modern an dem modernen Wahlkampf? In diesem Buch werden insbesondere Einblicke in die Techniken der modernen Wahlkampfgestaltung vorgestellt, wie z...read more

Product Description: Meaning does not reside in linguistic units but is constructed in the minds of the language users. Meaning construction is an on-line mental activity whereby speech participants create meanings on the basis of underspecified linguistic units...read more

Product Description: This volume contributes to the now one-century old question, ‘Is the link between forms and meanings in language essentially arbitrary, as Saussure put it, or is it on the contrary also considerably motivated?’ The greater part of the papers (Sections 1–3) analyze linguistic phenomena in which not arbitrary, but cognitively motivated links between form and meaning play a role...read more

Product Description: Design is one of the most fascinating cultural phenomena of the 20th century. This publication outlines the pioneer years of modern design history, tracing the development of the classic avantgarde design from 1880 to 1930 and showing 200 originals which have passed through the hands of Düsseldorf-based art dealer and collector Torsten Bröhan...read more

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Product Description: Architectural drawings, schedules, and specifications actually become legal documents, so it is imperative that architects follow standardized methods when producing them. Thomas Berg provides a comprehensive reference to the appropriate architectural symbols, graphics, lettering, and preferred materials used to promote reliability and consistency in producing contract documents...read more

Product Description: A revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Universiteat Braunschweig, 1985).