The article describes six basic colour terms and their connotations concerning love on the basis of love between a woman and a man by prism of Poles and Germans.The analysis covers selected expressions with a colour element ...

The article aims to introduce the formal development of the verb tun (“do, make”) in the German language, based on the corpuses of old (http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/indexe.htm), middle (https:// www.linguistics.ruhr-uni ...

In the culture of the ancient Germans, women were of high rank. This was especially true of the prophets. Some of them, for example Veleda, Völva, Valuvurg, were named after the Indo-European root *h2wel-. It meant active ...

Local memory is a type of common memory and originates from memory studies. It defines a group’s memory, as it is ascribed to specific members of a community, specific places and time. Social life documents are carriers ...

The object of the article is the novel Himmelskörper written by Tanja Dückers, the representative of the third post-war generation. The discourse in the family communication and memory space, the relation to family members ...

Works by Gertrud von le Fort belong with literary religious discourse and enter a debate between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.The writer sets her plots in the past, most frequently in the Middle Ages, which enables ...