Selected publications
linguistics

English Dialect Dictionary Online
A New Departure in English Dialectology
Manfred Markus
Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905) is the most comprehensive English dialect dictionary ever written. Over the past ten years, it has been brought to life digitally as a freely available database resource, EDD Online .This book is a comprehensive user guide to EDD Online, showing how to get the most out of this unparalleled resource with step-by-step instructions.

Pathos in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art
Gabriella Mazzon
Pathos as Communicative Strategy in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art explores the strategies employed to trigger emotional responses in late-medieval dramatic texts from several Western European traditions, and juxtaposes these texts with artistic productions from the same areas, with an emphasis on Britain. The aim is to unravel the mechanisms through which pathos was produced and employed, mainly through the representation of pain and suffering, with mainly religious, but also political aims. The novelty of the book resides in its specific linguistic perspective, which highlights the recurrent use of words, structures and dialogic patterns in drama to reinforce messages on the salvific value of suffering, in synergy with visual messages produced in the same cultural milieu

Gesundheit & Sprache / Health & Language
InnTrans. Innsbrucker Beiträge zu Sprache, Kultur und Translation
Marietta Calderón Tichy / Reinhard Heuberger / Emil Chamson (Hrsg./eds)
Die Beiträge dieses Buches untersuchen die sprachliche Repräsentation von Gesundheit in aktuellen und historischen Ausprägungen. Die Beitragenden wenden zur linguistischen Analyse unterschiedliche Methoden und Zugänge an, wobei die Schwerpunkte auf Interaktionsforschung, Diskursanalyse und Lexikologie liegen. Das untersuchte Datenmaterial stamm

Tiere - Texte - Transformationen
Kritische Perspektiven der Human-Animal Studies
Reingard Spannring, Reinhard Heuberger, Gabriela Kompatscher, Andreas Oberprantacher, Karin Schachinger, Alejandro Boucabeille (eds.)
This volume aims to encourage subjecting post-humanist transformations to experiments both in thought and in practice. It combines new empirical and theoretical work by international authors in the research field of human-animal studies: along with examples of how the relationship between animals and humans was handled in the past and how it is presented and discussed in contemporary art and science, this volume also contains analyses of literary and philosophical texts and linguistic research. Other contributions provide information on the observable and potential social, scientific, and economic shifts in the relationship between humans and animals.
Link: http://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-2873-9/tiere-texte- transformationen
literary and cultural studies

Journal of Contemporary Drama in English
Special Issue: Theatre in the Digital Age
Dorothee Birke, Anja Hartl (eds.)
Selected papers of the 2024 CDE conference in Innsbruck (https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/anglistik/cde2024/) on the topic of “Theatre in the Digital Age” have been published in a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Drama in English (volume 13, number 1, 2025). The issue was edited by Dorothee Birke and Anja Hartl. The articles cover a broad range of examples of anglophone digital theatre and approach the digital from a variety of theoretical perspectives. More information can be found on the publisher’s website: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/jcde/13/1/html

The Unknown 1992: Literary Explorations Beyond Modernism
Ingo Berensmeyer, Dorothee Birke (eds.)
The Unknown 1922 revisits a selection of non-canonical and rarely read literary texts first published in 1922, the celebrated annus mirabilis of English modernism. Crime and fantasy novels, ‘middlebrow’ fiction, short stories, essays, plays and memoirs – these alternative works cast an interesting sidelight on well-known modernist classics. From Rose Macaulay to Aleister Crowley, from E. R. Eddison to Cicely Hamilton, and from Elizabeth Von Arnim to William Gerhardi, they offer an unusual and fascinating cross-section of the literary landscape of that memorable year. Download table of contents.