Birgitta Meex
List of John Benjamins publications for which Birgitta Meex plays a role.
Articles
2020 Chapter 3. Patterns of path encoding in German Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions, Matsumoto, Yo and Kazuhiro Kawachi (eds.), pp. 63–104 | Chapter
This chapter proposes a classification of path encoding in motion events in German. It expands the framework that I developed for analyzing motion events in a narrow sense (Meex 2004) to motion events from a broader perspective including deictic, causative, and fictive motion. The chapter aims to… read more
2017 Attila Hildmann goes international: An explorative study on the localization of a German chef’s website for a US target audience The Journal of Internationalization and Localization 4:1, pp. 40–70 | Article
This study examines website localization practices against the background of a rising awareness of food culture and celebrity chef branding in a digitalized and globalized world. As part of a structured media campaign set up in 2014, the localization of Attila Hildmann’s official website… read more
2016 How to bridge the gap between translators and technical communicators? The importance of sharing knowledge to improve the localization process Localization and Interculturality, Wermuth, Maria-Cornelia and Priscilla Heynderickx (eds.), pp. 133–151 | Article
In this contribution, it will be shown which tasks within the process of the development of information products in the source language have high relevance for later translation, localization, and interculturality. Put differently, while focusing on intercultural issues we will outline the… read more
2004 Motion, Path, and Aspect: The Case of the German Path Adpositions Über and Durch Adpositions of Movement, Cuyckens, Hubert, Walter De Mulder and Tanja Mortelmans (eds.), pp. 299–322 | Article
Previous research has revealed that polysemy patterns observed in spatial adpositions may correlate systematically with differences in the aspectual perspective that the speaker takes on the spatial event as a whole. Given the close interaction in the sentential context of the spatial adposition,… read more
2001 The Spatial and Non-Spatial Senses of the German Preposition Über Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997, Cuyckens, Hubert and Britta E. Zawada (eds.), pp. 1 ff. | Article