SelectedWordFieldsforEnglish&AmericanStudiesisintendedforGermanadvancedlearnersofEnglishwhowanttoexpandanddeveloptheirvocabularyskills.Focussingonwordfieldswhicharerelevanttoliterary,filmandmediastudies,ittriestobridgethegapbetweenthelexicalcontentofgenerallanguagecoursesandthemorespecificcommunicativeneedsofcoursesandlecturesinthesebranchesofEnglishandAmericanStudies.Designedasabookforquickreference,vocabularypracticeandawareness-raisingactivities,itcanbeusedeitherforself-studyorasmaterialfortheclassroom.AwordlistcoveringthewordfieldsBooks&Literature,Theatre&theStage,Press&Journalism,Television&RadioandFilm&Photographyoffersanoverviewofthemostimportantcollocationsoftheheadwordsandprovidesdefinitions,pronunciations,Germantranslations,etc.Thislistissupplementedbyvariouspracticematerialsrangingfromrathertraditionalfillinandtranslationexercises,forinstance,tolanguageawarenesstasksandtextsforclassroomdiscussion.Inadditionaselectionoftopicswhichareofgeneralinterestispresented.AmongotherthingstheseincludeproblemsofGerman-Englishtranslation,whichareillustratedbymeansofbilingualconcordancesanddetaileddescriptionsoftheunderlyingphenomena.ThekeystoalltheexercisesandtextscanbefoundontheCD-ROM,whichalsooffersanumberofadditionalmaterialssuchasanelectronicversionofthewordlistforadvancedqueries(e.g.searchesforGermanwords).