Bernd Spillner

List of John Benjamins publications in which Bernd Spillner is involved.

Title

Error Analysis: A comprehensive bibliography

Bernd Spillner

Errors are information. In contrastive linguistics, they are thought to be caused by unconscious transfer of mother tongue structures to the system of the target language and give information about both systems. In the interlanguage hypothesis of second language acquisition, errors are indicative… read more

[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 12] 1991. xxxix, 552 pp.

Articles

Spillner, Bernd 2014 Interculturalité et traduction franco-allemande: des termes d’adresse aux conventions textuelles FORUM 12:1, pp. 165–181 | Article

Abstract/Résumé The article gives a contribution to the translation of texts containing intercultural differences. To this intent methods developped within comparative linguistics are proposed, taking account of the important notion of tertium comparationis. Examples are given for the address terms… read more

Spillner, Bernd 2012 Linguistic, intercultural and semiotic contrasts of obituaries Contrastive Media Analysis: Approaches to linguistic and cultural aspects of mass media communication, Hauser, Stefan and Martin Luginbühl (eds.), pp. 123–144 | Article

This paper is a contribution to contrastive textology of media discourse. After linguistic definitions of text type (Textsorte) and bimodal texts (constituted by verbal and non-verbal elements) the text type obituary is characterized as an advertisement in a daily newspaper announcing death of a… read more