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[Nachrufe] Dr. Isa Kubach-Richter und Dr. Wolf Kubach *19.05.1934 / *07.10.1940 // † 24.01.2022
(2022)
Reduplicative words like chiffchaff or helter-skelter are part of ordinary language use yet most often found in substandard registers in which attitudinal and expressive meaning components are iconically foregrounded. In a rating experiment using nonwords that either conform to, or deviate from, conventional reduplicative patterns in German, the present study identified affective meaning dimensions, judgments of familiarity and esthetic evaluations of sound qualities associated with such words. In a subsequent recall test, we examined
the respective mnemonic potential of the different types of reduplication. Results suggest that, in the absence of semantic content, reduplicative forms are inherently associated with
several affective meaning associations that are generally considered positive. Two types of reduplicative patterns, namely full reduplication and [i-a]-vowel-alternating reduplication,
boost these positive effects to a particularly pronounced degree, leading to an increase in perceived euphony, funniness, familiarity, appreciation, and positive belittling (cuteness) and, at the same time, a decrease in arousal. These two types also turn out to be particularly memorable when compared both to other types of reduplication and to non-reduplicative structures. This study demonstrates that reduplicative morphology may in and of itself, that is, irrespective of the phonemic and the semantic content, contribute to the affective meaning and esthetic evaluation of words.
The article examines the Finnish branch of Chabad Lubavitch as a fundamentalist and charismatic movement that differs from other branches of ultra-Orthodox Judaism in its approaches to outreach to non-observant Jews. Whilst introducing the history of Chabad Lubavitch in Finland and drawing on historical and archival sources, the authors locate the movement in a contemporary context and draw on 101 semi-structured qualitative interviews of members of the Finnish Jewish communities, who either directly or indirectly have been in contact with representatives of Chabad Finland. The material is examined through the theoretical concept of ‘vicarious religion’. As the results of the article show, whilst Chabad very much adheres to certain fundamentalist approaches in Jewish religious practice, in Finland they follow a somewhat different approach. They strongly rely on people’s sense of Jewish identification and Jewish identity. Individuals in the community ‘consume’ Chabad’s activities vicariously, ‘belong without believing’ or ‘believe in belonging’ but do not feel the need to apply stricter religious observance. Whilst many of them are critical of Chabad and their activities, they do acknowledge that Chabad fills the ‘gaps’ in and outside the Jewish Community of Helsinki, predominantly by creating new activities for some of its members.
This paper focuses on the question of the representation of nasality as well as speakers’ awareness and perceptual use of phonetic nasalisation by examining surface nasalisation in two types of vowels in Bengali: underlying nasal vowels (CṼC) and nasalised vowels before a nasal consonant (CVN). A series of three cross-modal forced-choice experiments was used to investigate the hypothesis that only unpredictable nasalisation is stored and that this sparse representation governs how listeners interpret vowel nasality. Visual full-word targets were preceded by auditory primes consisting of CV segments of CVC words with nasal vowels ([tʃɑ̃] for [tʃɑ̃d] ‘moon’), oral vowels ([tʃɑ] for [tʃɑl] ‘unboiled rice’) or nasalised oral vowels ([tʃɑ̃(n)] for [tʃɑ̃n] ‘bath’) and reaction times and errors were measured. Some targets fully matched the prime while some matched surface or underlying representation only. Faster reaction times and fewer errors were observed after CṼC primes compared to both CVC and CVN primes. Furthermore, any surface nasality was most frequently matched to a CṼC target unless no such target was available. Both reaction times and error data indicate that nasal vowels are specified for nasality leading to faster recognition compared to underspecified oral vowels, which cannot be perfectly matched with incoming signals.
Sterben, Tod und Jenseits werden in der Medienlandschaft täglich behandelt. Bilderbücher und Graphic Novels werden mit diesen Themen häufig nicht in Verbindung gebracht, jedoch steigt die Anzahl an Veröffentlichungen. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, welche Bilder dargestellt werden. Wie wird die teils junge Zielgruppe berücksichtigt?
Anhand von Fallbeispielen aus Bilderbüchern und Graphic Novels zeigt Birte Svea Philippi auf, welche gemeinsame Bildideen die Autor*innen aufgreifen
Am 16. September 2021 fand ein digitaler AIWG Roundtable zur „Gesetzlichen Neuregelung des äußeren Erscheinungsbilds von Beamt_innen und seine Implikationen für Muslim_innen“ statt. Die beiden Impulse aus der muslimischen Zivilgesellschaft und der Rechtswissenschaft sowie die anschließende Diskussion haben eines schnell erkennen lassen: Niemand kann bisher mit Sicherheit sagen, wie die tatsächlichen und rechtlichen Konsequenzen für Muslim_innen aussehen werden. Aber auch wie es zu dem Gesetz kam, das Anfang des Jahres durch einen Regierungsentwurf angeregt wurde, ist ein Prozess, welcher viele Fragen aufwirft. Warum wurden hier so unterschiedliche Regelungsgegenstände wie Haarlänge, Barttracht und Tattoos einerseits und Kopftuch, Kippa, Kreuz und Dastar andererseits in einem einzigen Gesetz geregelt? Woher kam der Anstoß für diese umfassende Regelung? Und vor allem: Warum gab es keine öffentliche Debatte dazu?