Publications
Nerlich, Brigitte. 2010. Bird flu hype. The spread of a disease outbreak through the media and Internet discussion groups. Journal of Language and Politics 9 (3) : 393–408.
Nerlich, Brigitte. 2007. The meanings of ‘risk’: a view from corpus linguistics. Discourse & Society 18 (2) : 163–181.
Nerlich, Brigitte. 2002. False friends: their origin and semantics in some selected languages. Journal of Pragmatics 34 (12) : 1833–1849.
Nerlich, Brigitte. 2002. Review of $When Voices Clash. A Study in Literary Pragmatics. Journal of Pragmatics 34 (1) : 63–67.
Nerlich, Brigitte. 2001. Ambiguities we live by: Towards a pragmatics of polysemy. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (1) : 1–20.
Nerlich, Brigitte. 2001. Serial metonymy: A study of reference-based polysemisation. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 2 (2) : 245–272.
Nerlich, Brigitte. 2000. Review of $Historische Semantik. [Historical semantics.] Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1 (1) : 151–160.
Nerlich, Brigitte. 2000. Review of $Semiotik/Semiotics: Ein Handbuch zu den zeichentheoretischen Grundlagen von Natur und Kultur. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (2) : 281–288.
Nerlich, Brigitte. 2000. Semantic fields and frames: Historical explorations of the interface between language, action, and cognition. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (2) : 125–150.
Nerlich, Brigitte. 1999. Review of $The Problem of Meaning. Behavioral and Cognitive Perspectives. Journal of Pragmatics 31 (3) : 441–448.
Nerlich, Brigitte. 1999. Review of $Pragmatics: Critical Concepts. Volume I: Dawn and Delineation. Journal of Pragmatics 31 (5) : 735–744.
Nerlich, Brigitte. 1996. Language, Action and Context. The early history of pragmatics in Europe and America 1780–1930. (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 80). John Benjamins.
Nerlich, Brigitte. 1994. Language, action and context: Linguistic pragmatics in Europe and America (1800-1950). Journal of Pragmatics 22 (5) : 439–463.
Nerlich, Brigitte. 1992. Semantic Theories in Europe, 1830–1930: From etymology to contextuality. (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 59). John Benjamins.
Nerlich, Brigitte. 1989. Elements for an integral theory of language change. Journal of Literary Semantics 17 (3) : 163–186.
Nerlich, Brigitte. 1989. The evolution of the concept of "linguistic evolution" in the 19th and 20th century. Lingua 77 (2) : 101–112.
Nerlich, Brigitte. 1988. A dynamic model of syntactic change. Journal of Literary Semantics 17 (2) : 73–90.