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Rezension zu Gondek, Anna / Jurasz, Alina / Szczęk, Joanna (Hrsg.) (2018): Einblicke und Rückblicke: Beiträge zur deutschen Phraseologie und Parömiologie aus intra- und interlingualer Sicht. Bd. I. [Phraseologie und Parömiologie, Bd. 33], Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren. 325 S. ISBN 978-3-8340-1854-0.
The current state of German studies is driving certain changes in degree programmes at Polish universities. Above all, students expect training in practical subjects. It is often noted that a change should take place in the field of German studies, in order to improve skills in the field of technical language and specialist communication. On the one hand, this would mean turning away from classic, canonical German studies. On the other hand, it would meet the expectations of future students. In this article we provide a critical overview of the curricular requirements regarding the technical language component of degree programmes at Polish universities. Degree programmes are analyzed in terms of the occurrence and content of the technical language component, and future developments are forecasted.
The article presents the image of Count Albert Joseph Hoditz (1706–1778) as depicted in European literature. The emphasis is not primarily on German-language literature; the study foregrounds the image of Count Hoditz in other European literatures. The investigation spans the period from the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century.
The paper contains an analysis of typologies and designations of diseases in three medical handbooks dating from the turn of the 18th century. These guides for non-experts inform readers how plant remedies help prevent and fight diseases. The classification in the books is based on the parts of the body affected by the disease. Frequently, neither the definitions nor the causes of the diseases correspond to those found in contemporary medical books.
The article presents a chronicle of the town of Kaaden (Kadaň) dating from the 16th century, currently held in Prague's Monastery of Our Lady of the Snows. It explores several aspects of Humanistic urban history writing, including the presence of the author in the text of the chronicle, the methodology of the author's historiographic work, and his choice and use of language (German, Latin). The study also presents this chronicle as an interesting and important source of information on writing practices in north-west Bohemia from a text-analytical perspective.
The article introduces the language of wine connoisseurs in all its forms and, based on a number of specific examples from different genres and various types of texts (specialist literature, catalogues, wine labels, etc.), aims to stimulate discussion on the circumstances which influence the level of specialization in connection with the choice of linguistic resources.
This paper is based on the principle that not only technical communication, i.e. the subject of technical linguistics, but also the relevant research paradigms are in constant flux. The focus of research has shifted from technical language as a system to the role of the communicators as well as the situational aspects of technical communication, and in recent years this research has become integrated into epistemologically-driven discourse linguistics. This paradigm shift is demonstrated using the example of the analysis of an international treaty text.
The paper is an analysis of the literal and the idiomatic use of the German word group '(jm.) (die/seine) Zähne zeigen' and of its Czech counterpart 'ukázat (někomu) (své) zoubky/zuby' (cf. 'to show (sb) one's teeth') in German and Czech electronic text corpora. Its aim is to find possible reasons for the translation of the German idiom in a novel by a single Czech word paraphrasing its meaning. Examples from the parallel corpora seem to support the assumption the reason could be the effort of the translator to prevent misinterpretation due to the difference in the frequency of the literal and the idiomatic use of the particular word group in the given languages.
The focus on communication in research on professional and scientific language somehow reflects the intention of John L. Austin's phrase "How to do things with words?" But a description based on the concept of communication ultimately also relies on linguistic idiosyncrasies. We will look at things the other way round and ask first "how to do (professional) things" and then look at the linguistic units used specifically for this purpose. Professionalism in this view takes very different forms for different types of actions ("practices"). Although reliability and professional authority are central features of all linguistic realizations to be considered, they are represented in very different ways. As a result, professionalism not only shows in the high degree of explicitness of technical prose typical for written scientific discussion. It is also reflected in the high degree of implicitness of speech that accompanies and constitutes practical action.
With the preservation of health an age-old concern for humanity, guides to healthy living based on humoral theory were among the earliest texts of medieval school medicine to be translated from Latin into the vernacular. Subject of this study is the development of a German technical language for dietetics from the late thirteenth to the late fifteenth century as evidenced in Hiltgart von Hürnheim's translation of the 'Secretum secretorum', the anonymous translation of the regimen in the 'Breslauer Arzneibuch', and the four independent translations of Konrad von Eichstätt's 'Regimen sanitatis'. Special emphasis is put on a number of 'termini technici' from humoral theory and the way the various translators tackled these terms.