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The present study is concerned with the syntactic flexibility of English idioms. It is argued that two aspects must be considered when explaining the syntactic behavior of idioms. First, the idiom in question must decomposable, meaning that the individual parts must have some independent meaning. Secondly, pragmatic factors and speakers' motivations must be taken into account. This corpus-based study and its results support a speaker-based grammar model. Furthermore, some syntactic constructions can be generally ruled out for idioms.
Textgemeinschaften : der "Gregorius" Hartmanns von Aue in mittelalterlichen Sammelhandschriften
(2013)
In der Handschriftenkultur des Mittelalters werden Texte in aller Regel in Sammelhandschriften tradiert und nicht – wie dies heutige Editionen meist suggerieren – separat. Die materiellen und medialen Qualitäten der allgegenwärtigen Sammelhandschriften können sich, so die grundlegende These der Dissertation, auf die Form und den Inhalt der jeweils niedergeschriebenen Texte auswirken. Aus diesem Grund können je spezifische Sammlungskontexte nicht nur das Bedeutungsspektrum einzelner Texte beeinflussen; auch Varianzen im Wortlaut eines Textes lassen sich mitunter durch die Interaktion mit mitüberlieferten Texten erklären.
Anhand der mittelalterlichen Bücher, die den „Gregorius“ Hartmanns von Aue enthalten, werden Sammelhandschriften als ein bedeutendes Medium der vormodernen Schriftkultur in den Fokus gerückt und die Effekte dieser Tradierungsform untersucht. Zudem werden verschiedene Lektüren vorgestellt, die sich dem „Gregorius“ und seinem Bedeutungspotenzial von den jeweiligen Manuskriptkontexten her nähern, diese in die Interpretation einbeziehen und neue Einsichten in einen der meistbeforschten Texte der deutschsprachigen Literatur ermöglichen.
In der Annäherung an die Begriffe Nähe und Distanz im Kontext von Zuschauer und Darstellungsobjekt bei der Rezeption von Tierfilmen erschließt sich ein mehrdimensionales wie theoretisch bislang nur in Ansätzen erfasstes Forschungsfeld.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird untersucht, wie sich Nähe und Distanz in der Rezeptionssituation begegnen und ausgestalten, mit welchen Kategorien sie möglicherweise fassbar werden und welche Konsequenzen dies für die mediale Erschließung bedeutet.
Außerdem gilt es zu fragen, welche Bedeutung den Kategorien Nähe und Distanz in der Mensch- Tier-Beziehung zukommt und wie sich diese auf die televisuelle Repräsentation von Tieren auswirkt. Es werden somit Fragen gestellt, deren Antworten sich einerseits aus der Betrachtung der vorherrschenden Lebenswelt ergeben, sich allerdings erst durch genauere Analyse medialer Darstellungsweisen und -strukturen greifen lassen. ...
Language and transnationalism : language discourse in transnational Salsa communities of practice
(2013)
Language ideologies in contemporary Western societies are characterised by a strong influence of the idea that one language ‘pertains’ to one culture. Yet, cultural developments of globalisation, such as migration, the construction of transnational networks or global mass media, question national frameworks of culture and language.
In this thesis, after reviewing the field of language ideology and discussing historical examples of the development of national language discourse, language ideologies in a transnational context are examined. Using ethnographic research methods and a discursive approach to interview data, concepts and ideas revolving around language of transnational Communities of Practice constituted through Salsa dancing are analysed. Due to its connections to the Latin American cultural space, the practice of Salsa dancing in non-Latin contexts intrinsically constructs transnational ties. Different Salsa Communities of Practice are studied in Sydney, Australia, and Frankfurt, Germany. Interestingly, different local communities show very different ideologies concerning the role of language, multilingualism, concepts of authenticity or influences of capitalist discourse. The cross-national approach allows studying the influence of different national discourses on the formation of local ideologies in transnational contexts.
Thus, next to scrutinising the traditional concept of a ‘language’ and its relevance in a transnational age, the theoretical aim of this study is to analyse the interaction of discourses from different realms – local, regional, national, transnational – in the formation of contemporary discourses on language. These construct new symbolic meanings of language that co-exist next to the national concept of the relationship of language and culture, so that a multiplication of language boundaries can be considered to be a characteristic trait of contemporary language discourse.
Die folgende wissenschaftliche Arbeit beschreibt die städtische Gewalt im Filmen, die in Mexiko Stadt gedreht wurden. Die Hauptstadt von Mexiko ist aufgrund seiner Gewalt auf der ganzen Welt sehr bekannt. Es handelt sich hierbei um unterschiedliche Typen von Gewalt, die in den Straßen dieser Stadt stattfindet. ...
La proliferación en las metrópolis globales de los llamados "barrios cerrados" o gated communities obedece a una interpretación de la ciudad en clave de amenaza. Una de sus consecuencias es la fragmentación del suelo público de modo tal, que junto a la presunta protección de algunos, acaba exponiéndose el desequilibrio y la interperie económica y social en las que habita el resto de ciudadanos. El análisis de la película La Zona (Plá, R. 2007) y el documental On the safe side (Wichmann, C. & Schmid, L.2010) pone de relieve los elementos esenciales que dan forma a este tipo de ocupación del territorio metropolitano creando dinámicas de exclusión, distanciamiento y alteridad. La comparación entre la ficción y la realidad documentada permite reflexionar sobre el futuro de las megalópolis y los modos de convivencia que puede llegar a generar la localización física del antagonismo entre la marginalidad y el elitismo.
The micro–blogging service Twitter can be used to publicly share information about events that used to be limited to a defined number of participants only. How does this affect different types of formal or semi–formal events, from the university seminar to the council meeting? This paper uses Goffman’s notion of involvement and Lindroth and Bergquist’s notions of alignment and glancing to describe the potential for conflict that this use of Twitter causes, and suggests approaches that may help to avoid or to alleviate conflicts.
This dissertation provides an analysis of Finnish prosody, with a focus on the sentence or phrase level. The thesis analyses Finnish as a phrase language. Thus, it accounts for prosodic variation through prosodic phrasing and explains intonational differences in terms of phrase tones.
Finnish intonation has traditionally been described in terms of accents associated with stressed syllables, i.e. similarly as prototypical intonation languages like English or German. However, accents are usually described as uniform instead of forming an inventory of contrasting accent types. The present thesis confirms the uniformity of Finnish tonal contours and explains it as based on realisations of tones associated with prosodic phrases instead of accents. Two levels of phrasing are discussed: Prosodic phrases (p-phrases) and intonational phrases (i-phrases). Most prominently, the p-phrase is marked by a high tone associated with its beginning and a low tone associated with its end; realisations of these tones form the rise-fall contours traditionally analysed as accents. The i-phrase is associated with a final tone that is either low or high and additionally marked by voice quality and final lengthening. While the tonal specifications of these phrases are thus predominantly invariant, variation arises from different distributions of phrases.
This analysis is based on three studies, two production experiments and one perception study. The first production study investigated systematic variation in information structure, first syllable vowel quantity and the target word's position in the sentence, while the second production experiment induced variation in information structure, first and second syllable type and number of syllables. In addition to fundamental frequency, the materials were analysed regarding duration, the occurrence of pauses and voice quality. The perception study investigated the interpretation of compound/noun phrase minimal pairs with manipulated fundamental frequency contours using a two-alternative forced-choice picture selection task. Additionally, a pilot perception study on variation in peak height and timing supported the assumption of uniform tonal contours.
As language rhythm relies partly on general acoustic properties, such as intensity and duration, mastering two languages with distinct rhythmic properties (i.e., stress position) may enhance musical rhythm perception. We investigated whether second language (L2) competence affects musical rhythm aptitude in Turkish early (TELG) and late learners (TLLG) of German in comparison to German monolingual speakers (GMC). To account for inter-individual differences, we measured participants’ short-term and working memory capacity, melodic aptitude, and time they spent listening to music. Both L2 speaker groups perceived rhythmic variations significantly better than monolinguals. No differences were found between early and late learners’ performances. Our findings suggest that mastering two languages with different rhythmic properties enhances musical rhythm perception, providing further evidence of cognitive share between language and music.