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In the context of the emergence of various online dictionaries and platforms that also address phraseological units, their usefulness is being questioned and their potential examined in order to illustrate new directions in the development of digital phraseography. The article shows special traits in the formation of lexicographical content in two selected online dictionaries, using the lemma “cat” as example.
One of the most memorable moments of Joe Biden’s inauguration as president of the USA was that of Amanda Gorman reciting her inaugural poem The Hill we Climb. The translation of this text led to a far-reaching controversy in the international media while at the same time raising a series of theoretical questions in the field of translation studies. The present paper intends to discuss certain theoretical issues such as the translator’s visibility and literary translation related to forms and relations of power by placing them in the context of the shift of theoretical paradigms in translation studies which started in the second half of the 20th century.
The present study shed some light on the socalled Türkenbüchlein (The Turks Booklet) by analyzing, in what extent, a literary work on the history, culture, and religion of the Turks a widely disseminated book in the 15th century, belonging to Georg from Hungary (also “Der Ungenannte Mühlbächer,” “Rumeser Student,” Captivus Septemcastrensis, c. 1422–3 July 1502), is still worth reading. Undoubtedly, it would be necessary to investigate what made the book so popular in the past and what could make it a bestseller today. The article reveals the story of the book`s creation and success, as well as, the multifaceted personality of the main character.
The article is devoted to a historical German settlement in present-day Slovakia, since the small German minority of the lumberjacks/woodcutters (Slovak. Huncokári) has received little attention. The urgency of the need for research is also pointed out, since there are only very few speakers of this dialect left. The article therefore informs about some background of the settlement history, the present state and about approaches for ethnological field research.
The book Dante und das Gedächtnis [Dante and Memory], published in 2021 by Schwabe Verlag Basel, is a complex interdisciplinary study addressing the issue of memory in the works of the medieval Italian writer and philosopher Dante Alighieri. The study is focused on a “historical approach”, but the investigation of the Commedia and Vita Nova makes use of narratological concepts as well. Monaco sets out to identify and interpret the reflections on memory present in Dante’s work.
The well-documented and systematized study comprises a lot of new information about the poet, politician, and exile Dante Alighieri
The article deals with the promotion of the German language abroad through Germany’s foreign cultural and educational policy. An important concern of the German intermediary organizations abroad is access to culture and education across geographic, political and social borders, but scientific and economic policy. interests, which benefit the needs of the German market, also play a major role. Regarding the fact that more and more skilled workers who are ultimately lacking in their countries of origin are migrating to Germany, the article questions whether it is always a so-called triple-win model.
The present article initially covers the meaning of Pomānǝ, a noun loaned from the Romanian language into certain idioms and collocations of the TransylvaninSaxon vernacular. It goes on to cover this loan word‘s constructions documented in the North-Transylvanian craft vocabulary, mainly hybrid formations, including their meaning and their type of word formation. The verb pomenin loaned from the Romanian language into the Transylvanian-Saxon vernacular is presented in its transitive, intransitive as well as reflexive usage in meaningful vernacular records and outlines its morphological integration into the Transylvanin-Saxon language. Both loan words come with etymological explanations. The vernacular records are taken from South Transylvanian and North Transylvanian specialist and vernacular literature as well as from the Transylvanian-Saxon Dictionary.
The stories about the Vaser Valley in the northern Romanian Forest Carpathians have not only fascinated the population of the region, but also famous writers who have always tried to collect the stories and tales from the historical region of the Vaser Valley. The best-known author of this region, who turned his lifelong work into this spectacular project, is the German-speaking ethnologist and writer, of Romanian origin, Anton-Joseph Ilk. His book Die mythische Welt des Wassertales includes a remarkable collection of legends and tales from this region, presented in their orally transmitted stories. The main themes of the stories naturally include customs and traditions, whereby certain values and principles were passed on not only to he children and grandchildren, but also to all succeeding generations.
The present contribution provides an analysis of Dirk Oschmann’s volume, Freiheit und Fremdheit. Kafkas Romane [Freedom and Foreignness. Kafka’s novels]. The main idea, already announced in the title, is followed throughout the entire volume. A corpus of texts consisting of Kafka’s three novels and some of his best short stories is analyzed (Die Verwandlung, Bericht für eine Akademie, and In der Strafkolonie). The selected texts are considered stories of internal or external displacement that address and depict freedom and foreignness mostly using spatial displacement. The method used is close reading, the author carefully interprets text passages, goes into details, nuances of meaning, and linguistic features of the Kafkaesque texts. The analysis draws on syntagms and statements made by characters who discuss these themes.
This paper is an attempt to peel out the core of historical and autobiographical reality in Klara Blumʼs poems, to show their militant character and ideological limits, and to analyze them as contemporary documents whose relevance lies less in the originality of their language than in the consistency of their historical and intellectual substance.
Cosmin, a twelve-year-old Roma boy from Transylvania, only goes to school for a short while. For his mother, it is more important, that he, the only male of a household with many mouths to feed, help her with work. But Cosmin’s teacher does not give up and proposes a bargain: If Cosmin’s mother lets her children go to school, she will get electricity from the school to be able to watch TV. Due to this arrangement, Cosmin returns to school for a few days, becomes a little thief and embarks on a journey that can become an opportunity for him. A kind of a bildungsroman, a coming of age novel focused on the ups and downs between two worlds on Romanian soil, that could not be more different from one another: the Romanian majority and the Roma minority. This article sets out to document life at the brink of society, with all of its facets.
A.E. Johann (1901-1996), relying on his experience of over sixty years of travelling around the world, left behind a wealth of literary and journalist material, in which he often addresses topics and issues related to the United States of America. This paper’s objective is to analyze the reflections and observations of this writer and journalist included in the travel report from the period of the Weimar Republic and entitled America. Untergang am Überfluß (1932) as compared with his later creative output of a more autobiographical nature and developed between 1989 to 1992 (Dies wilde Jahrhundert, 1989; Schön war die Welt. Erinnerungen an die großen Reisen, 1992). Thus, continuity and change in his perception and image of America will be investigated; moreover, at attempt will be made to answer the question to what extent this perception and image have evolved throughout six decades (or one should rather ask why this image hardly changes with the passage of time and the emergence of new circumstances). This once very popular writer, whose books were sold in high volume, for many years could not enjoy the attention and focus of literary scholars. Accordingly, this paper aims to expand the knowledge about him and boost the discussion on German (anti-) Americanism.
In his tale „Der Wortmann“, the Transylvanian-German author Traugott Teutsch tells the story of Peter Emerich, an influent man in his community, who is keen on getting rich and climbing up the social ladder, while preserving the image of an honest person. The article follows through different stages the evolution of his mindset up to the point where he repents of his past actions, tries to make amends for some of his mistakes and decides to lead an unselfish life of faithful service to the community. Guilt, repentance and redemption are some of the main topics followed in this article, which constituted also some of the founding stones of the Transylvanian-German collective mentality.
The German-speaking Saxon minority from Transylvania, a region in Romania, has almost disappeared due to the historical events after World War II and the fall of communism in December 1989. Therefore, the literary work that was created before 1990 is often considered to be a “lieu de mémoire”, a place of remembrance, for the Saxon culture. This article deals with the question whether Maria Haydl’s short stories can be considered as such or do they show too much influence of the politically imposed writing style in order to be authentic.
In comparison to the Transsylvanian-Saxon or to the German-speaking Bukowina literature the modernists exerted a more reduced influence on the literature of the Banat Swabians. Franz Xaver Kappus (1883-1966) influenced the literary modernists in the Western part of Romania especially through his expressionistic texts. He became famous thanks to his correspondence with Rainer Maria Rilke. The masterpiece Die lebenden Vierzehn (The Fourteeen Survivors) (1918) is swayed by a collective catastrophe and represents a certain kind of utopia, which anticipates the end of the world. A dread causing image with a peculiar unreality shapes the event. Kappus’ fantasy does not shrink back from images of dread and horror. As in the expressionistic literature any destruction of the harmonious beautiful principle comes about in dread. The grotesque features belong to the expressionistic character of the book. It is interesting that the dreadful and the grotesque show their demonic side and with it they destroy the familiar reality. Such a development demonstrates that Kappus follows a tradition to which also E. T. A. Hoffmann, Frank Wedekind, Franz Kafka or Georg Heym belong. There are also streaks of naturalism in the novel.
The novel “Wasserzeichen” was published at the Pop Publishing House in Ludwigsburg, Germany, in 2018. The destiny of the main character of the aforementioned literary work is undoubtedly linked to the Transylvanian city of Cluj-Napoca. After finishing high school in Brașov, the young Eginald – who is not the same as the author of the novel – arrives in Cluj-Napoca where he first goes to the Faculty of Protestant Theology, from which he is relegated; afterwards, he starts the courses of another faculty, but before finishing his studies he is arrested by the Securitate. The life story of the young Transylvanian Saxon turns out to be a troubled one – full of defining experiences for his existence. Due to the relationships with the people whom he meets there, the romantic entanglements, and the betrayals he experiences, he matures quickly. The 1st person narrator becomes a true man in this predestinate space.
Using the example of Herta Müller‘s novels written after her emigration into the Federal Republic of Germany, the article shows how digital tools can be used to classify the fragmented space that unfolds in the writings of the Nobel Prize winner into a clear model structure. Quantitative research methods are combined with a database-driven GIS analysis toolkit to illustrate the weighting of the fictionalized locations given their gravity centers and polarities. The series of maps show both the density and spread of the action places, as well as the meanings which are attached to the literary space.
Die Essayistik Herta Müllers
(2022)
The article follows the two volumes of essays The King Bows and Kills (2003) and Always the same snow and always the same uncle (2011) written by Herta Müller. Politics and aesthetics define the Nobel laureate’s writing, with her essays anchored in Romania’s recent history. They are of a political nature, offer retrospectives on their life in Romania beyond the Iron Curtain, insights into the dictatorial past, persecution by the secret service, the betrayal of closest friends, but also contain reflections on the role of the language, the preference for Romanian, on the use of “The King” in their fictional texts, explain their “alien gaze”. Always the same snow and always the same uncle focuses on the deportation of the Romanian Germans to the Ukraine, with the information serving as a companion work to the novel Hunger angel. The betrayal of closest friends is also discussed, whereby the insight into their files and the past of Oskar Pastior/Otto Stein’s files are used.
Inhalt
I. Literaturwissenschaft und Landeskunde
Markus FISCHER (Bukarest):
Blaublütige Dracula-Fantasie mit idyllischer Coda –
Dana Grigorceas dritter Roman Die nicht sterben ……………….….. 15
Grazziella PREDOIU (Temeswar):
Die Essayistik Herta Müllers…………………………………………………….. 34
Claudia SPIRIDON-ȘERBU (Kronstadt):
Herta Müllers fiktionalisierter Raum, mit Karten lesen –
ein Beispiel aus der Praxis………………………………………………….…..….. 50
Andreea DUMITRU (Hermannstadt):
Das Werden eines Schicksals. Die Stadt Klausenburg als Angelpunkt
einer Existenz in Eginald Schlattners Roman Wasserzeichen .…….70
Roxana NUBERT/ Ana-Maria DASCĂLU-ROMIȚAN (Temeswar):
Der Schriftsteller Franz Xaver Kappus als Vertreter der literarischen
Moderne im Banat…………………………………………………………………….… 84
Sunhild GALTER (Hermannstadt/Sibiu):
Maria Haydls Dichtung als Erinnerungsort siebenbürgisch-sächsischer Kultur? ……………………………………………………………………………..114
Lăcrămioara-Marilena POPA (Hermannstadt/Sibiu):
Das Türkenbüchlein des Ungenannten Mühlbächers – ein
vergessener Bestseller des Mittelalters – heute wieder aktuell? 126
Marius-Daniel STROIA (Hermannstadt/Sibiu):
Schuld und Erlösung in Traugott Teutschs Erzählung
„Der Wortmann“……………..…………………………………………………… 136
Ioana CRĂCIUN-FISCHER (Bukarest):
“Aus jeder Schwäche schmiede ich ein Schwert.” Jüdische Identität und weibliches Selbstbewusstsein in Klara blums Lyrik ………..155
Elẑbieta NOWIKIEWICZ (Polen):
Amerikabild (er) des Reiseberichterstatters und Reiseschriftstellers
A.E. Johann …………………………….……………………………………………… 172
Ana KARLSTEDT (Bukarest):
Fremdheitskonstruktionen in Karin Gündischs Roman COSMIN.
Von einem der auszog, das Leben zu lernen……………………………..193
Teodora ȚUGUI-CARABA (Hermannstadt/Sibiu):
Die mythische Erzählwelt des Wassertales nach Anton Joseph-Ilk: phantastische Gestalten und ihre Symolik………………………………….208
II. Sprach- und Übersetzungswissenschaft
Doris SAVA (Hermannstadt/Sibiu):
Nix für die Katz: Laienlexikografie………………………..……….…… 225
Sigrid HALDENWANG (Hermannstadt/Sibiu):
Das Substantiv Pomānǝ,die damit belegten Wortbildungskonstruktionen und das Verb pomenin in den siebenbürgisch-
sächsischen Mundarten …………………………………………………..…. 243
Ellen TICHY (Prishtina/ Berlin)/Blerta ISMAJLI (Prishtina):
Förderung der deutschen Sprache durch die Auswärtige Kultur-
und Bildungspolitik Deutschland: ein Triple-Win-Modell?….258
Ioana CONSTANTIN (Hermannstadt/Sibiu):
Übersetzen zwischen Kompetenz and Identität ………………. 278
Georg SCHUPPENER (Ústí nad Labem):
Sprache und Kultur der deutschen Holzfäller in den Kleinen
Karpaten…………………………………………………………………….…….. 293
Adeline-Alexandra BERDIE (Hermannstadt/Sibiu):
Mehrsprachigkeit in Mediasch. Ein Beitrag zur Linguistik
Landscape..…..……………………………………………………………………. 305
III. Bücherschau
Maria SASS (Hermannstadt/Sibiu):
Zum mittelalterlichen Dichter und Philosophen Dante
Aligheri (1265-1321)…..……………………………………………..…….… 315
Maria SASS (Hermannstadt/Sibiu):
Rezension…………………………….……………………………………………… 322
All three hitherto published novels by Dana Grigorcea do explicitly refer to Romania. Had her first novel been set in the Danube Delta and her second in Bucharest, so the plot of the recently released novel "Die nicht sterben" is located in the touristic town B. (= Buşteni) at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains. Based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula as literary pre-text, the plot of "Die nicht sterben" interweaves elements of Romanian history, Romanian contemporary events as well as elements of the family history of the first-person narrator. The present paper is focused especially on the female narrator’s bodily, erotic and flying fantasies. The social and moral revolt which manifests itself first and foremost in the vampiresses’ urge to impale, subsides in the end in uncritical idyllic and narcissistic self-reflection.
Germanistische Beiträge
(1993)
Die Zeitschrift Germanistische Beiträge (ISSN 1454–5144) veröffentlicht Beiträge und Rezensionen aus dem Fachbereich Germanistik und steht Fachleuten, Hochschullehrern und Doktoranden offen. Herausgegeben wird die Zeitschrift vom Lehrstuhl für Germanistik in Hermannstadt/Sibiu. Seit 2017 erscheint die Publikation unter der Schrimherrschaft des Zentrums für linguistische, literarische und kulturelle Forschung (Centrul de studii lingvistice, literare şi culturale CSLLC), das an der Philologischen Fakultät der Lucian-Blaga-Universität angesiedelt ist.
Der Klimawandel ist nicht die einzige drängende Zukunftsfrage, der sich die Menschheit stellen muss. Ein genauerer Blick in die Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts zeigt, dass etliche namhafte Literaten sich in ihren Werken mit der systemischen Transformation ökologischer Systeme durch den Menschen auseinandergesetzt haben.
"En tierras bajas" de Herta Müller: mirada crítica hacia las cicatrices de una infancia irrespirable
(2016)
A través de la mirada y la voz narrativa de una niña rumana, la escritora Herta Müller nos acerca con su ópera prima Niederungen (En tierras bajas) a las cicatrices aún hoy vivas de su propia infancia en un pequeño pueblo ubicado en la región de Timisoara en la época de la dictadura de Nicolae Ceaucescu. Este artículo pretende una aproximación crítica a la recurrente temática centrada en la denuncia del país dejado atrás por la escritora tras su experiencia de exilio a la entonces Alemania occidental en el año 1987. Un análisis crítico de esta primera obra publicada por Müller en lengua alemana nos acerca a la literatura intercultural de la escritora migrante rumano-alemana cuya calidad y trayectoria literaria la hizo merecedora en 2009 del Premio Nobel de Literatura.
Vom 31. Mai bis 2. Juni 2012 fand an der Universität Hildesheim unter dem Motto Zur Sprache.kɔm die 39. Jahrestagung des Fachverbandes Deutsch als Fremdsprache statt. Organisiert wurde sie zusammen mit dem Verband vom Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur und vom Institut für interkulturelle Kommunikation.
Die Themenschwerpunkte akzentuierten je unterschiedliche Aspekte des Lernens und Lehrens von Deutsch als fremder oder zweiter Sprache: Im Themenschwerpunkt (1) Sprachlernwege wurden Lernprozesse und -erfahrungen aus der Lernerperspektive sowie Konzepte durchgängiger Sprachförderung thematisch. Mit dem Themenschwerpunkt (2) Authentische Kommunikation rückte die Diskussion um die angemessene Auswahl und Bearbeitung von Lern- und Forschungsgegenständen bei der Bearbeitung interkultureller Kommunikation ins Zentrum. Über Verfahren des Unterrichtens und Lernens diskutierten die Teilnehmer/-innen des Themenschwerpunkts (3) Kreative Methoden. Der Themenschwerpunkt (4) Professionalisierung widmete sich neuen Konzepten der Aus- und Weiterbildung von Lehrenden im Bereich DaF und DaZ.::
The political, the urban, and the cosmopolitan : the 1970s generation in Romanian-German poetry
(2010)
This study is an introduction to the body of work produced by the German poets who were born during or after World War II in Romania and whose almost simultaneous debut lies in the relatively liberal period 1965 – 1971. Helped onto the Romanian-German literary scene by a propitious environment and informed by the socialist ideology they were born “into,” the poets born between 1942 and 1955 formed a remarkable generation unit which sought to significantly renew German-language literature in Romania. Rejecting identification with the insulary Romanian-German communities, the young poets strove to create a socially and politically relevant verse expressing an urban and cosmopolitan attitude. The growing nationalist rhetoric and isolationist stance of Romania's regime and the material and psychological hardships endured by its population through the 1970s and 80s forced the generation to revise its incipient enthusiasm for Romanian socialism. Increasingly, the poets' work came to depict the threatened existence of the German minority and the harsh general living conditions in Romania and to provide an alternative to the absurd official proclamations of a “golden age” under Ceauşescu, despite the poetry's growing reliance on obscuring literary techniques. The emigration of most of the generation members in the mid to late 1980s brought about the eventual unravelling of the generation unit and marks the end of my study. By following the evolution of three themes – social and political engagement, the German minority, and the urban environment – which define the poets as a generation throughout their literary careers in Romania, the analysis illuminates not only the generation's development from identification with Romanian socialism and rejection of the German minority to criticism of the country's policies and a renewed interest in the fate of the German community but also the changing possibilities and limits of literary expression under communism. In addition to providing an introduction to the body of work created by the 1970s generation in Romania, the study also expands the understanding of German literature in the 20th century by providing new material on literature written under totalitarianism and of intercultural German literature.
Sich mit Christa Wolf auf einen „Spaziergang durch ein Stück deutscher Künstlerlandschaft der letzten Jahrzehnte“ zu verabreden heißt, die Künstlerin von einer neuen, bisher unbekannten Seite kennenzulernen.
Als Autorin ist sie keine Unbekannte. Ihr Werk erfuhr internationale Anerkennung und eine umfassende Rezeption, was sich in zahlreichen Monographien und Einzeluntersuchungen niederschlug. In der Akademie der Künste in Berlin lagern nach Schenkungen von Gerhard Wolf und des Luchterhand Literaturverlags ungefähr 1000 Bände Archivmaterial mit Werkmanuskripten aller Schaffensperioden sowie zugehörige Materialien und Druckschriften, Privat- und Geschäftskorrespondenz sowie zahlreiche Leserbriefe und Rezensionen. Die Bibliothek der Akademie beinhaltet die gesamte Primär- und Sekundärliteratur sowie zahlreiche weitere Dokumente.2 So sind hier „Zeugnisse gelebten Lebens, künstlerischer Entwicklungen, menschlicher Beziehungen bewahrt, individuelle und Zeitgeschichte eingefangen“...
„Frauenlieder gehören zu den ältesten poetischen Zeugnissen, welche in die schriftliche Überlieferung der volkssprachlichen Dichtung im Mittelalter eingegangen sind, und schon allein aus diesem Grunde kommt ihnen eine herausragende kultur- und literarhistorische Bedeutung zu.“
Für die mittelalterlichen Lieder mit weiblichem lyrischem Ich finden sich diverse Definitionen die je nach Schwerpunkt und Sichtweise einen unterschiedlich großen Korpus an Liedern als Frauenlieder deklarieren. Für diese Arbeit habe ich versucht eine Definition zu finden, die minimal einschränkend ist und dabei keine wertenden und ästhetischen Kriterien ansetzt, die aus einem heutigen Verständnis geprägt sind. Dementsprechend basiert diese Arbeit auf der Minimaldefintion eines Frauenliedes nach Ingrid Kasten: „Es sind Lieder, deren lyrisches Subjekt eine Frau ist.“
Da explizit bei Ingrid Kasten von einem lyrischen Subjekt die Rede ist, also von der Person, die das Lied trägt, sind Gattungen wie das Tagelied oder die Pastourelle ausgeschlossen, da sie zwar weibliche Redeanteile stellen, diese allerdings keine eigenständige Meinung wiedergeben, sondern nur im Kontext des Liedes einen Dialog herstellen. Hierzu Angelica Rieger: „Zu der gattungsbedingt stark eingeschränkten Rollen der Frau in der pastorela kommt die Tatsache, daß die narrative Grundstruktur der Gattung der Frauenstimme nur im Zitat Raum läßt. Beides verhindert die Entwicklung eines selbstständigen weiblichen lyrischen Ichs innerhalb der Grenzen der Gattung. […] In jedem Fall beschränkt sich [bei der alba] die «voix féminine» auf die von der Gattung diktierte Rollenverteilung zwischen domna, amic und gaita.“
Um nun noch den Begriff der Gattung zu definieren, greife ich auf die allgemeine Definition des Duden zurück, dieser definiert Gattung als „Gesamtheit von [Arten von] Dingen, Einzelwesen, Formen, die in wesentlichen Eigenschaften übereinstimmen.“
Somit soll diese Arbeit klären, inwiefern die Frauenlieder der Troubadoure, der Trouvères, der Minnesänger und der galicisch-portugiesischen Troubadoure unter dem Gattungsbegriff „Frauenlied“ vereint werden können oder ob sich so viele verschiedene Formen von Liedern mit weiblichem lyrischen Subjekt finden lassen, dass lediglich von einem Überbegriff die Rede sein kann.
Previous studies suggest that the application of Controlled Language (CL) rules can significantly improve the readability, consistency, and machine-translatability of source text. One of the justifications for the application of CL rules is that they can have a similar impact on several target languages by reducing the post-editing effort required to bring Machine Translation (Ml’) output to acceptable quality. In certain situations, however, post-editing services may not always be a viable solution. Web-based information is often expected to be made available in real-time to ensure that its access is not restricted to certain users based on their locale. Uncertainties remain with regard to the actual usefulness of MT output for such users, as no empirical study has examined the impact of CL rules on the usefulness, comprehensibility, and acceptability of MT technical documents from a Web user's perspective. In this study, a two-phase approach is used to determine whether Controlled English rules can have a significant impact on these three variables. First, individual CL rules are evaluated within an experimental environment, which is loosely based on a test suite.Two documents are then published and subject to a randomised evaluation within the framework of an online experiment using a customer satisfaction questionnaire. The findings indicate that a limited number of CL rules have a similar impact on the comprehensibility of French and German output at the segment level. The results of the online experiment show that the application of certain CL rules has the potential to significantly improve the comprehensibility of German MT technical documentation. Our findings also show that the introduction of CL rules did not lead to any significant improvement of the comprehensibility, usefulness, and acceptability of French MT technical documentation.
The research reported in this thesis examines two main questions: firstly, which dictionary type, bilingual or monolingual, is most effective for intermediate learners of German for reading comprehension, and secondly, which features make monolingual dictionary definitions effective for these learners. These questions divide the thesis into two parts. The first part compares the effectiveness of the bilingual versus the monolingual dictionary, and the second part compares two different monolingual definition styles.
The research was originally motivated by the observation that Hong Kong Chinese intermediate learners of German prefer to use a German-English bilingual dictionary. Since the translations are presented in the learners' second language, the effectiveness of this bilingual dictionary is doubtful. On the other hand, the learners are reluctant to use the monolingual dictionary, recommended to them by their language teachers. Three investigations were conducted in order to gain more detailed knowledge about the learners' dictionary preference, and the effectiveness of the two dictionary types. The learners' dictionary preference was investigated by means of a survey of ninety-eight foreign language students. The effectiveness of the bilingual and monolingual dictionary for reading comprehension and incidental vocabulary learning was first measured experimentally. The think-aloud method was then used in order to discover factors which determine the effectiveness of the two dictionary types.
The results of the experiment revealed that the German-English bilingual dictionary was not significantly more effective for the learners than the monolingual dictionary. The only monolingual dictionary available for German at that time, however, is linguistically too difficult for this proficiency level. Because of these findings, the research turned to monolingual dictionary definitions with the aim of identifying features that make them accessible to intermediate learners. Based on findings from the first think-aloud study, and principles promoted as user-friendly in the lexicographic literature, new definitions were developed for the target words in the research. These new definitions were compared with those in the existing dictionary. A second think-aloud study was conducted in order to generate hypotheses about individual definition features. These hypotheses were then tested in the second experiment, which was conducted with eighty-six learners of German in Shanghai.
The investigations reveal several features that determine the effectiveness of monolingual definitions for intermediate learners. The findings have theoretical and pedagogical implications. In the theoretical field, some lexicographic principles were recommended that are, unlike previous principles, based on empirical insights into user needs. In the pedagogical field, the research findings provide an empirical basis for the evaluation and recommendation of suitable dictionaries to intermediate learners.
A model of dictionary effectiveness is proposed. This model could help to assess the effectiveness of different information categories in dictionaries for different proficiency levels and different activity contexts. It could also provide lexicographic principles for the design of dictionaries. This research contributes one component to the proposed model: criteria for the effectiveness of definition features for intermediate learners in the activity context of reading.
Towards a German grammar programme for post-leaving certificate students at Dublin City University
(1999)
With the introduction of the communicative method of language learning, overall standards of grammatical competence and performance among Irish second level students would appear to have been significantly reduced. As a consequence, learners who continue to study a given language at third level apparently no longer possess the knowledge which, under the grammar-translation methodology, further education institutions were able to build upon. This thesis examines the basis for the above perceptions, investigates the role of formal grammar instruction in the second language acquisition process and reports on a programme which was developed at Dublin City University (DCU) in order to ease, for Irish university students of German, the transition from a primarily memory-based approach to language acquisition to the analytical approach which is still being considered crucial to a university student's linguistic education. While the research was undertaken in response to locally existing difficulties, it may also be considered as a case study of more general interest, and as such serve as an exemplar to German departments in other universities as well as to other foreign language departments both within DCU or outside. The aim of the programme under investigation was to ease the transition on a socio-affective, cognitive and metacognitive level without lowering overall proficiency expectations and standards. Primary research was conducted among secondary school teachers, post-Leaving Certificate students on entry into DCU and among third level lecturers. The purpose of this research was to identify and define the programme’s content and progression. To this effect, the German junior and senior cycle syllabi at second level were also taken into consideration. The subsequent German grammar programme was implemented at DCU in the academic year 1996/7. While the programme would appear to have been judged favourably regarding some affective and cognitive-motivational aspects, results show mixed success rates for the other two factors under investigation, cognitive-analytical and metacognitive skills. Thus, some degree courses and some language combinations clearly benefited more from the programme than others. One of the conclusions drawn from this research suggests that unless certain changes are introduced prior to students’ entry into third level, university graduates are likely to remain well below the standards of accuracy and overall proficiency which were previously achieved.
Richard Wagner hatte ein gebrochenes Verhältnis zum Geld: Er benötigte viel, hatte aber meist so wenig, dass er auf Pump leben musste. Nicht selten war er auf der Flucht vor seinen Gläubigern. Die Erfindung des Geldes hielt er für einen Sündenfall, das Eigentum für die Wurzel allen Übels. Im »Ring des Nibelungen « spiegelt er im Mythos vom Fluch des Goldes die moderne Erfahrung der Macht des Geldes.
Grenzenloser Reichtum und schier unerschöpfliche Geldquellen – diese Träume sind der Stoff, aus dem unzählige Geschichten narratives Kapital schlagen. Der Mythos von König Midas oder die Comics mit Dagobert Duck gehören zu den prominentesten Vertretern solcher Erzählungen. Der Fortunatus hingegen, in dem ein Geld produzierender Zauberbeutel die Geschicke bestimmt, ist weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten. Dabei kann gerade dieser Roman, der 1509 in Augsburg anonym veröffentlicht wurde, in doppelter Hinsicht als ein Pionier der Literaturgeschichte gelten.