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Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Online

Ed. by Schierholz, Stefan J. / Wiegand, Herbert Ernst

One-time purchase of all content / One-time purchase of base content, subsequently annual update fee for new content.

  • A modern lexicographic online product
  • Annual updates with 3000 articles
  • Written by respected, international scholars
  • Numerous search criteria - for professional and scholarly searches
  • Bilingual user interface

Aims and Scope

The WSK Online is a new online database of specialized dictionaries covering all the major areas of linguistics and communication science. As a reference work, the dictionaries steer a course between semantic definition and encyclopedic knowledge, combining the best of both approaches.

Key features

  • Precise definitions

  • Thorough explanations

  • Synonyms and/or antonyms where applicable

  • Detailed bibliographic information

Researchers from around the world have joined the WSK Online project, ensuring that the lexicographic output adheres to the most rigorous academic standards. The editors are experts in their respective fields.

The articles are in German (with English translations of the terms and definitions) or in English (with German translations of the terms and definitions). The database covers the following subfields:

    • Grammar

      • Morphology: Christa Dürscheid / Stefan J. Schierholz

      • Syntax: Christa Dürscheid / Stefan J. Schierholz

    • Word Formation
      Peter O. Müller / Susan Olsen

    • Phonetics and Phonology
      Tracy Alan Hall / Bernd Pompino-Marschall

    • Graphemics
      Martin Neef / Rüdiger Weingarten

    • Text Linguistics and Stylistics
      Jannis Androutsopoulos / Stephan Habscheid

    • Language Technology and Computational Linguistics
      Ulrich Schmitz / Bernhard Schröder

    • Dialectology
      Heiko Girnth / Peter Rosenberg

    • Quantitative und Formal Linguistics
      Reinhard Köhler/ Peter Grzybek / Sven Naumann

    • Theories and Methods in Linguistics
      Bernd Kortmann

    • Lexicology and Phraseology
      Christiane Fellbaum / Ingo Warnke

    • Linguistic Typology
      Johannes Helmbrecht / Dagmar Jung

    • Cognitive Grammar
      Susanne Niemeier / Constanze Juchem-Grundmann.
      With Doris Schönefeld

    • Philosophy of Language
      Christoph Demmerling / Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer

    • Language Learning: First Language, Second Language,
      Foreign Language
      Jörg Kilian / Jutta Rymarczyk

When finished, the database project will contain some 20,000 entries. WSK Online is scheduled for completion in January 2018.

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