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Am 19. Februar dieses Jahres feierte unser verehrter Kollege und Freund, Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Norbert Richard Wolf, ein großer Anhänger der Auslandsgermanistik, ein wirksamer und unermüdlicher spiritus movens in zahlreichen, die Grenzen der Tschechischen Republik überschreitenden wissenschaftlichen Projekten, seinen 70. Geburtstag.
Für mehrere Generationen von Germanisten ist der Name Zdeněk Masařík ein Begriff. Manche ehren ihn als einen anspruchsvollen, strengen, aber gerechten Lehrer, manche würdigen ihn als einen tüchtigen Wissenschaftler und großen tschechischen Sprachgermanisten und manche schätzen ihn als einen verlässlichen Kollegen, ausgezeichneten Sänger und guten Menschen. Beim zusammentreffen mit diesem energischen Mann will man nicht glauben, dass er in diesem Jahr seinen 85. Geburtstag feierte, denn man hat den Eindruck, seine Seele bleibt immer jung.
Zur Problematik der Konnektoren im Satz und im Text aus der Perspektive der Textverständlichkeit
(2013)
Linguistic analyses have shown that connectors perform various functions: besides connecting separate clauses, clauses within clause complexes, and other parts of a text, they can also play a major role in text comprehensibility. However, further examination of this issue requires a more precise delineation of the term "connector", which is understood in various ways. The article presents these various conceptions in tabular form and carries out a comparison. The author then moves on to examine how connectors can affect (or increase) the comprehensibility of a text. Here too it is difficult to reach clear conclusions, as various authors approach the issue from various perspectives. In order to present the full variety of connectors, the various approaches to connectors and their optimizing function are formulated as arguments in favour and against, which are summarized, compared and evaluated.
The article analyzes two early works by Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Das kleine Welttheater and Das Märchen der 672. Nacht. The author focuses on artistically perceptive characters: the poet and artist (in Das kleine Welttheater) and the "dilettante" (in Das Märchen der 672. Nacht). Using examples of the analyzed characters, the article attempts to define the features that are typical of the artist and the dilettante, explains the concepts of "pre-existence" and "existence" and gives an account of their importance in Hofmannsthal's work. The author characterizes the artistically perceptive characters on the basis of these concepts.
The research focuses on the narrative verbalization of mental reactions to the official announcement of 9 November 1989 stating that citizens of the GDR were henceforth permitted to travel to the West. This announcement differs from the type of unexpected information which is readily believable and comprehensible, to which we respond with interjections (change-of-state tokens: oh, ach, ach so) and certain formulations (das glaub ich, ich verstehe). Respondents from both East and West Berlin represented in the "Wende-Korpus" reacted from the cognitive perspective with mistrust and incomprehension, and from the emotional perspective with surprise, which was reflected both in syntactic structure and in the frequent use of metaphors. The report was more frequently interpreted as a joke than as a real event.
Und wieder Fachsprachen?
(2013)
This article focuses on the development of LSP research in Germany in order to determine desiderata and to establish priorities for further research projects. Since the 1960s lexicon and grammar of LSP have been described. As a result we now have extensive and mostly even statistically proved results in the fields of morphology, word formation and syntax. In the 1980s research was oriented to a pragmalinguistic description of texts, which made it possible to characterize texts in situational context. Since the 1990s cognitive linguistics has been given more priority, but the results achieved so far are not yet satisfactory. This leads to the question, which topics our attention should be devoted to. There are three groups of problems: Key problems of the theoretical description and systematization of LSP, LSP on conditions of digitalization and globalization, LSP in different contexts (scientific, technical, economic, cultural, administrative etc.).
The article characterizes the stylistic tendencies found in academic economic texts with a high degree of abstraction presenting economic theory from the end of the 18th century to the present day. At the centre of the author's attention are changes that are visible on the microstructural level of the text. In this connection, the author also describes quantitative methods that can be used in the diachronic analysis of academic texts.
