This handbook, like its French and Spanish sister volumes, is intended to fill a significant gap in the range of dictionaries available today. It is a new and up-to- date guide to the language of the contemporary German quality press, concentrating on the specialised fields of vocabulary of commerce, the law, politics and economics. Based on a corpus which is therefore at the interface between technical language and the language of serious newspapers, Newspaper German contains, in essence, the vocabulary of the educated German in this area. The handbook will be of use to both English and German native speakers attempting to gain linguistic competence in the socio-political registers of the other languages. It will be of particular interest to those involved 'professionally', including students on Area Studies Courses - in Britain, the USA and Germany, - businessmen and women, journalists, translators and so on. Short examples are given (in German) for each word or phrase, with English translations of headwords.
'. . . an impressive and invaluable array of new, colourful, or challenging words . . . making this a dictionary to refresh the parts other compilations do not normally reach.' (Modern Language Review)
Readership: This vocabulary will be a useful tool and reference manual for both general reader and students who wish to understand and use contemporary German, as well as journalists, business people, translators and others who need to use the specialised registers of administration, commerce politics and economics.
Author: Professor of German, University of Durham.