Field Studies: German Language, Media and Culture

The fifteen essays in this volume reflect the diversity of German studies in Britain and Ireland today.
The German language itself is the focus of four studies, covering historical aspects of German and Yiddish, language pedagogy and controversial contemporary issues, such as the rise of Anglicisms in German and the language of second- and third-generation immigrants. Traditional literary philology is also well represented in six essays on prose writers and dramatists from the nineteenth ce...