Gabriele Knappe
Biographic Data
| ID | 6308639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriele Knappe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriele |
| FAMILY NAME | Knappe |
| SIGNATURE | KNAPPE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bamberg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7464-9289 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Laura Pinnavaia. 2010. Sugar and Spice… Exploring Food and Drink Idioms in English
To say it right from the start: this book is a most welcome contribution to English (historical) phraseology. Its aim is to study the lexicographical treatment and actual usage, with regard to both quantity and quality, of 276 idioms 1 containing nouns from the semantic field of food and drink. To this aim, the study combines two major approaches to descriptive idiom studies, namely lexicography and corpus linguistics, with an eye on the needs of…
Phrasal and Phraseological Synonymy in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
This paper explores how phraseological units compete with monolexical units in the monumental Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (HTOED), primarily in its online version. By means of several case studies, the status and coverage of phraseological units is analysed both in the synonym lists (monolexical and phraseological synonymy) and in the lower-level category headings (lexicographic synonymy), where paraphrases and definitio…
Classical rhetoric in Anglo-Saxon England
This passage from The Wanderer demonstrates some of the rhetorical techniques which have been noted in Old English texts. Its most striking features are the rhetorical questions and the figure of anaphora which is produced by the repetition of ‘Hwær’. Another rhetorical element is the use of the theme (topos) of ubi sunt (‘where are...?’) to lament the loss of past joys. In classical antiquity, features such as these, which served to create effec…
On Rhetori and Grammar in the Hisperica famina
Phrasal and Phraseological Synonymy in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
This paper explores how phraseological units compete with monolexical units in the monumental Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (HTOED), primarily in its online version. By means of several case studies, the status and coverage of phraseological units is analysed both in the synonym lists (monolexical and phraseological synonymy) and in the lower-level category headings (lexicographic synonymy), where paraphrases and definitio…
On Rhetori and Grammar in the Hisperica famina
Classical rhetoric in Anglo-Saxon England
This passage from The Wanderer demonstrates some of the rhetorical techniques which have been noted in Old English texts. Its most striking features are the rhetorical questions and the figure of anaphora which is produced by the repetition of ‘Hwær’. Another rhetorical element is the use of the theme (topos) of ubi sunt (‘where are...?’) to lament the loss of past joys. In classical antiquity, features such as these, which served to create effec…
Phrasal and Phraseological Synonymy in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
This paper explores how phraseological units compete with monolexical units in the monumental Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (HTOED), primarily in its online version. By means of several case studies, the status and coverage of phraseological units is analysed both in the synonym lists (monolexical and phraseological synonymy) and in the lower-level category headings (lexicographic synonymy), where paraphrases and definitio…
Laura Pinnavaia. 2010. Sugar and Spice… Exploring Food and Drink Idioms in English
To say it right from the start: this book is a most welcome contribution to English (historical) phraseology. Its aim is to study the lexicographical treatment and actual usage, with regard to both quantity and quality, of 276 idioms 1 containing nouns from the semantic field of food and drink. To this aim, the study combines two major approaches to descriptive idiom studies, namely lexicography and corpus linguistics, with an eye on the needs of…
Computer Science (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Grammar (2 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (2 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (2 works) · Natural language processing (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · American English (1 work)