Autorentext

Hanna Mahler holds an M.A. in English Linguistics and recently completed her doctorate. Apart from contrastive linguistics her research interest is in computer-mediated communication, especially on Reddit. She currently works at the University of Freiburg.

Klappentext

If there is one speculation about English and German that has pervaded scholarly work within contrastive linguistics as well as language teaching and translation handbooks for decades, it is probably the assumption of a more "verbal style" in English compared to German. Settling this question once and for all, the present book provides a comprehensive comparison of verbal style in English and German that pays due attention to language-internal variation by mode and register at the same time.