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Anhand einer vergleichenden Analyse von DaF-Lehrwerken aus dem Bereich "Wirtschaftsdeutsch" und "Berufsdeutsch" wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern sich gemeinsprachliche und fachsprachliche Lehrwerke voneinander unterscheiden. Dabei werden nicht nur Unterschiede bzw. Gemeinsamkeiten sichtbar gemacht, sondern auch Probleme aufgezeigt, die sich aus den besonderen Anforderungen an Fachsprachenlehrwerke ergeben. Die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung weisen darauf hin, dass sich fachsprachliche Lehrwerke zumeist vor allem idealtypisch von gemeinsprachlichen unterscheiden, in der konkreten Umsetzung sind die Unterschiede bisweilen marginal.
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.
German authors considered easy comprehensibility of their architecture books very important and therefore they included in them a number of explanatory terminological notes of varying complexity. These notes gradually evolved into elaborate terminological glossaries. This paper explores the terminology and its presentation, as well as the authors' motivation.
Der Beitrag setzt sich zum Ziel, auf eine verstärkt auftretende Entwicklungstendenz aufmerksam zu machen, die sich in Texten der Textsorte Einführung beobachten lässt. Die charakteristischen Ausprägungen dieser Tendenz lassen sich den Stilmustern 'Dialogisieren', 'Attraktiv machen' und 'Selbstdarstellen' zuordnen. Im Beitrag wird gezeigt, wie spezifische Inventare dieser drei Muster - abweichend von den stilistischen Konventionen der Wissenschaftssprache - eingesetzt werden bzw. eingesetzt werden können, um eine besondere Nähe-Beziehung zur Adressatengruppe der Studierenden zu gestalten. Dies wird an Einführungen aus dem Kommunikationsbereich der Linguistik illustriert. Anschließend wird die Frage aufgeworfen, ob diese Gestaltungstendenz ein Anzeichen eines sich anbahnenden Textsortenwandels sein könnte.
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.
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.
The article analyses three texts which address the same subject (the definition of the word Wort) and aims to demonstrate that it is not only the topic that plays a crucial role in creating the macrostructure and microstructure of a text, but also the communicative situation. The article explores what differences there are in the selection of linguistic means when the same content is being expressed in texts intended for communication at various levels of specialization, and which communication strategies the authors of the texts choose in connection with the text's genre, their intentions and (above all) the communicative situation.
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.
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.