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Este trabalho teve a intenção de investigar sobre o processo de tomada de decisão quanto às funções comunicativas das partículas modais (doravante PM), frente a diferentes contextos. Nesse sentido, aplicamos um questionário online em alemão. Para a coleta de dados foi solicitado a 62 participantes alemães nativos e não nativos que selecionassem dentre um conjunto de orações (contendo ou não PMs) as que proporcionariam interpretações adequadas para contextos pré-estabelecidos. Os resultados apontam que os participantes nativos tiveram maior facilidade em selecionar as opções esperadas nas tarefas apresentadas, porém as reflexões sobre as decisões tomadas foram desafiadoras para ambos os grupos. Portanto, a análise de dados indica deficiências na compreensão da função e complexidade modal das PMs. Assim, além de investigar as decisões tomadas pelos dois grupos, procuramos oferecer ferramentas para o ensino das PMs em aulas de alemão.
The article presents the first German-Czech handbook and textbook about forestry (written by Wenzel Elias Lenhardt). The text is of particular interest due to the language situation and the practical use of both German and Czech in the Bohemian Crown Lands during the 18th century. The paper also discusses several aspects of the handbook and textbook - including the author and the addressee from a pragmalinguistic perspective - and summarizes the results of an analysis of its textual characteristics, writing style, syntax and lexis.
Die Sprechfertigkeit ist ein Phänomen, das in fremdsprachlichen Lehr- und Lernprozessen sowohl al Mittel (Vermittlungssprache des Lehrenden) als auch als Zielfertigkeit (die es zu erreichen gilt) an Bedeutung gewinnt. Die Sprechfertigkeit, die zu den sprachlichen Fertigkeiten gehört, ist eine schwer zu entwickelnde Fähigkeit, deren Förderung im Unterricht psychologische und kognitive Mühe erfordert. In dieser Arbeit wird betont, dass es möglich ist, die Sprechfertigkeit im universitären Kontext im Rahmen der Deutschlehrerausbildung "so natürlich wie möglich, so künstlich wie nötig!" zu entwickeln; dies berücksichtigend wurde mit Beispielen erwähnt, dass das Rollenspiel und die Dramatisierungstechniken auf die Förderung der Sprechfertigkeit positiv einwirken. Diese Techniken tragen besonders dazu bei, dass der angehende Deutschlehrer einerseits seine eigene Sprechfertigkeit erweitert und andererseits methodisch-didaktische Vorbildimpulse bekommt, die er in seiner beruflichen Laufbahn als Lehrtechnik effektiv anwenden kann.
Üniversiteler bilginin üretildiği yerlerdir. Bu bilgiler paylaşıldıkça anlam kazanırlar. Küresel dünyada üniversitelerden beklenen, bu bilgi paylaşımının yoğun olmasıdır. Yabancı dil bilmek bu aşamada oldukça önemlidir. Akademisyenlerin bu bilgi ağına katılım etkinliği, yabancı dili sözlü ve yazılı etkin kullanabilmesine bağlıdır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, öğretim üyelerinin yabancı dil seviyelerinin demografik değişkenlere göre ölçülmesi ve yabancı dil kullanım amaçlarının betimlenmesidir. Çalışmaya 2015 yılında Trakya Üniversitesi'nde çalışan 269 öğretim üyesi katkı sağlamıştır. Öğretim üyelerinin yabancı dil seviyeleri 'Diller için Avrupa Ortak Öneriler Çerçevesi - Ortak Öneri Düzeyleri Genel Basamaklar Kümesi - A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 ve C2' aracılığı ile ölçülmüştür. Yabancı dil kullanım amaçları ise güvenilirlik oranı % 95 olan bir ölçme aracı ile ölçülmüştür. Betimsel bir yaklaşımla yürütülen çalışmada veriler yüzdelik olarak hesaplanmıştır. Verilerin analizi çalışmaya katılan öğretim üyelerinin yaklaşık üçte birinin B1 (%30,1) ve B2 (%30,1) seviyelerinde olduğunu göstermiştir. Ayrıca yabancı dili kullanma amaçları (akademik, eğitim-öğretim ve kişisel) arasında alımlamaya ve üretime yönelik becerilerde farklılıklar tespit edilmiştir.
Die Monographie über Körperhaltungen von Doris Schöps ist das Ergebnis eines Promotionsprojektes, das in der Arbeitsstelle für Semiotik der Technischen Universität Berlin durchgeführt worden ist. Sie ergänzt eine Reihe von semiotisch orientierten Dissertationen, die im gleichen Forschungskontext entstanden sind und die der lexikographischen Beschreibung emblematischer Gesten dienen. Die Verfasserin ließ sich in ihrem umfassenden Werk von diesem Ansatz der Gestenforschung inspirieren, wobei sie den Besonderheiten von Körperhaltungen Rechnung trägt, und ergänzt ihn um eine korpusanalytisch basierte Filmanalyse.
Bu çalışmada, tarih boyunca yapılmış çeviriler arasından, tarihin seyrine yön verenler içinde bulunan Septuaginta adlı Tevrat çevirisi ve Reşid taşının çevirisi irdelenmektedir. Çalışmanın amacı, çevirinin her zaman sadece işlev odaklı bir uygulamadan ibaret olmadığını; bilakis sosyoloji, siyaset, ekonomi, din gibi alanlarla etkileşim içerisinde bulunan ve insanlık tarihini belirleyebilecek ölçüde önemli bir etkinlik olabileceğini belirginleştirmektir. Çalışmada, ilgili çevirilerin tarihi olgular üzerindeki etkileri ortaya konmaktadır. Çalışma kapsamında irdelenen her bir çeviri etkinliği, ortaya çıkış nedenleri ve - özellikle de tarih akışının seyrini değiştirecek - etkileri bakımından ele alınıp yorumlanmaktadır.
The aim of this article is to compare migration as an intercultural confrontation and translation as a phenomenon creating a "Third Space" for cultural negotiation. In this frame it analyses what role interculturality plays in both areas and how these areas mutually reshape the other.
The study deals with how the deconstructive approaches that have triggered a new understanding in the field influence translation. In this context, the concept of interculturality brought both by translation and migration, should not be considered as a medium for harmonization and assimilation, but as a means of respect to the foreign that challenges the asymmetries and dominance between the powers. In this sense, the study will demonstrate how intercultural migration and translation enabling constructive and productive interaction can function as a dynamic potential for cultures.
Since translation and migration are two major restorative factors for intercultural communication, they create the mobility of people so of cultures which results in a reframing of the obsolete traditional perception of culture that relies on an isolated and homogenous culture model. This communication enables not only a new understanding of the other and a convergence of the cultures involved, but it also promotes a realisation of the self and its borders
In diesem Beitrag wurden deutsche Entlehnungen in der albanischen Mundart in Kosova untersucht, welche in verschiedenen semantischen Bereichen verwendet werden. Schriftliche Quellen zu diesen Germanismen fehlen völlig, daher wurden sie durch mündliche Befragung von Informanten inventarisiert. Den Schwerpunkt dieser Untersuchung bilden der Bekanntheitsgrad und die Akzeptanz dieser Lehnwörter. Die Befragung hat ergeben, dass die Lehnwörter in den hier untersuchten semantischen Bereichen durchschnittlich von über 70% der Befragten erkannt wurden. Im Allgemeinen konnten keine großen Unterschiede im Erkennungsgrad bei männlichen und weiblichen Befragten festgestellt werden, wohingegen bei der Variable Alter eine etwas größere Diskrepanz beobachtet wurde, was das Erkennen oder Nichterkennen der deutschen Entlehnungen anging.
On history in the present day. Laudatio to Lenka Vaňková.
This paper takes as its starting point several statements by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz on the role of the German language in literary and scholarly life during Leibniz's era. The languages of scholarship were Latin and French, and Leibniz himself published in both these languages. German was the language of practical life. Viewed from this perspective, it was almost inevitable that medieval and early modern medicine - not in the sense of academic theory, but as a practical activity - developed its own fully-fledged specialist language, which was largely based on the vernacular. In her studies of the language of historical medicine, Lenka Vaňková has shown how such vernacular language was (and potentially still is) able to function in specialist domains.
Vom 16. bis 18. März 2017 fand am Institut für Germanistik der Universität Wroclaw eine internationale sprachwissenschaftliche Konferenz statt. Die Tagung mit dem Rahmenthema 'Intra- und interlinguale Zugänge zur deutschen Phraseologie und Parömiologie' wurde vom Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Linguistik des Instituts für Germanistik der Universität Wroclaw in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Slawistik (FR Westslawistik) der Universität Leipzig veranstaltet.
Das im zweijährigen Turnus stattfindende International Symposium on Place Names (ISPN) wurde unter Leitung von Prof. Herman Breyer ausgerichtet.
In zahlreichen Vorträgen wurde herausgearbeitet, welche hohe Bedeutung die Namengebung für Straßen, Schulen und andere öffentliche Einrichtungen für die Identitätsstiftung besitzen kann. Ein weiterer Aspekt, der in vielfältiger Weise diskutiert wurde, ist die Relevanz von Toponymen als Teil des historischen Erbes.
The article presents two surgical texts written in Strasbourg around 1500. The author of the first text is Hieronymus Brunschwig, and the second is by Hans Gersdorff. Although Gersdorff's book is more like a teaching text, a set of normative instructions in the manner of (legally binding) municipal records, it was published under the name 'Feldbuch'. The publisher may have chosen this designation under the influence of texts named Feldbücher, originating in the Moravian-Silesian region, which were originally intended as manuals for barber surgeons working on battlefields
This paper takes as its starting point several statements by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz on the role of the German language in literary and scholarly life during Leibniz's era. The languages of scholarship were Latin and French, and Leibniz himself published in both these languages. German was the language of practical life. Viewed from this perspective, it was almost inevitable that medieval and early modern medicine - not in the sense of academic theory, but as a practical activity - developed its own fully-fledged specialist language, which was largely based on the vernacular. In her studies of the language of historical medicine, Lenka Vaňková has shown how such vernacular language was (and potentially still is) able to function in specialist domains
Due to its specific features, the German participle has numerous functions and uses in word-formation. As partially deverbalized adjectives, participles take on the syntactic role of an adjective while at the same time retaining the valency of a verb. The paper presents the various steps in an analysis using graded (partial) corpora. Drawing on research into the properties and functions of various participle forms, it explores their specific uses in texts.
The aim of this paper is to show that the users of social media and the members of various networks make great efforts to achieve as original, innovative and creative ways of expression as possible. In this respect, the social networking site called Facebook is no exception. However, what differs is the occasions on which the texts are created (in the form of contributions, postings, comments etc.), their particular language forms as well as their distance in relation to both private and public virtual communities. The corpus explored comprises the profiles of different Facebook-users who release their birthday wishes online
Sprache gehört zu den wesentlichen Aspekten der Interkulturalität. Zuerst wird eine kurze Einführung in die soziolinguistische Interkulturalitätsforschung gegeben, besonders in Hinblick auf interlinguale Strategien als Forschungsfeld. Als theoretischer Rahmen wird der Forschungsansatz des Sprachmanagements vorgestellt, mit dem die Konstruktionsprozesse sprachlicher Verständigung in interkulturellen Situationen auf verschiedenen Ebenen umfassend behandeln werden können. In der Fallstudie geht es um eine deutsch-polnischen Inszenierung von Familie Schroffenstein (Heinrich von Kleist). Die in dieser Inszenierung verwendeten alternativen Strategien wie rezeptive Zweisprachigkeit, Sprachaustausch oder Einbeziehung der weniger verbreiteten Partnersprache weisen neue Anwendungsmöglichkeiten für die deutsche Sprache im mehrsprachigen Kontext auf, die auch in der Forschung und Lehre der interkulturellen Germanistik berücksichtigt werden sollten.
Aufgrund soziokultureller Unterschiede im Bereich der Rechtsordnungen und demnach auch in den Terminologien kommen beim juristischen Übersetzen etliche Divergenzen zum Vorschein. Im Falle der Null- oder partiellen Äquivalenz zwischen den Termini der Ausgangs- und Zielsprache (AS und ZS) drohen nicht nur Missverständnisse zwischen den Parteien, sondern auch fatale Folgen. Um dem vorzubeugen, muss der Übersetzer als Kenner der Rechtsbegriffe und ihrer Rolle in den Rechtssystemen als Mediator nicht nur interlinguale, sondern v.a. interkulturelle Konflikte in Bezug auf das (Miss)Verstehen lösen. Die theoretischen Ansätze werden durch Erfahrungen aus einer weitläufigen Enquete unter sowohl Auftraggebern als auch unter beeidigten Übersetzern ergänzt
Köşker 2015 yılında yayımlanan "Yabancı Dil Öğretiminde Kültür Aktarımı: Fransız Dili Örneği" başlıklı makalesinde geçmişten günümüze süregelen hedeflerin aksine dil öğrenmenin temel amacının artık öğrenilen dili konuşan kişilerle yazılı veya sözlü iletişim kurabilmek olduğunu belirtmiş, ancak Zeuner (1997) gibi o da konuşma ve anlama üzerine kurulu yazılı ve sözlü iletişim yetisini kullanabilmek için sadece dilbilgisi kurallarını bilmenin yetmediğini, bunun yanı sıra etkileşime girilen kişilerin yaşadıkları topluma ilişkin kültürel değerler hakkında da bilgi sahibi olmak ve dili konuşanların sözel olmayan mesajlarını da anlamak gerektiğini vurgulamıştır. Köşker ve Zeuner'in bu görüşlerinden hareketle bu çalışmada Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı Talim ve Terbiye Kurulu Başkanlığının 2016-2017 öğretim yılından itibaren 5 (beş) yıl süreyle ders kitabı olarak kabul ettiği ve okullarda 2016-2017 eğitim-öğretim yılında yaygın olarak kullanılan Türkiye'de hazırlanmış ve basılmış olan Schritt für Schritt Deutsch Ortaöğretim A1.1 Düzeyi Almanca Ders Kitabı (Çelen Öztürk, 2016) içerdiği kültürel öğeler bakımından Tomková'nın (1992) ve Arıkan ve Saraç'ın (2010) geliştirmiş oldukları ölçütler doğrultusunda mercek altına alınmış ve veriler betimsel analiz yöntemi ile çözümlenerek, yorumlanmıştır. Veriler, Schritt für Schritt Deutsch Ortaöğretim A1.1 Düzeyi Almanca Ders Kitabında hedef dilin konuşulduğu ülkenin günlük yaşamına ve kültürüne ilişkin Türkçede 'Ülke Bilgisi' olarak karşılık bulan Landeskunde kavramı bağlamında coğrafi, tarihsel, sayısal, istatistiksel vs. gibi bilgilere yer verildiğini, bunun ötesinde öğrencilerin hedef dil kültürel öğeleri görmelerini ve duymalarını ve bu yolla zihinlerinde hayal edebilmelerini sağlayan ve kendi kültürü ile hedef dilin kültürünü karşılaştırabileceği ve empati kurabileceği düzenlemelere gidildiğini, ancak gerek 'Kültürlerarasılık' kavramı bağlamında yapılması öngörülen etkinliklerin gerekse ‘Ülke Bilgisi’ olarak karşılık bulan Landeskunde kavramı bağlamında sunulan coğrafi, tarihsel, sayısal, istatistiksel vs. gibi bilgilerin sayıca oldukça sınırlı olduğunu ortaya koymuştur. Araştırma kitapta yabancı olanı doğru anlayabilmek için mutlaka bilinmesi gereken hedef dilin konuşulduğu ülkeye has kültürel değerlere çok az değinildiğini ve erek dili konuşanların sözel olmayan mesajlarını da anlayabilme becerisini de geliştirecek türde düzenlemelere gidilmesi gerektiğini ortaya koymuştur.
This dissertation explores the linguistic identity changes of Chinese international students in Germany, and the relationship between their identity reconstruction and their multilingual competence. With the social turn (Block, 2003) of applied linguistics, research on study abroad has shown that student sojourners abroad encounter challenges not only to their language abilities, but also to their identities, which explains the vast individual differences in the measurable outcomes of student sojourns abroad. However, the realm of learners’ linguistic identity development in the English as a lingua franca (ELF) and multilingual contexts remains to be further explored, since most existing studies examined learners in the target language community. Guided by poststructuralist views and sociocultural theories, this study is designed with a view towards investigating the lived experience of Chinese international students at German universities.
Employing a qualitative approach, my research tracked seventeen Chinese students’ experiences of language learning and use in both their social lives and academic settings over one year. The empirical work combined semi-structured, in-depth interviews and emails. Three rounds of one-to-one interviews were conducted every 6 months and each round focused on students’ respective past, present and future. The grounded theory approach (Corbin & Strauss, 2015) was used in this study to analyse the data, aiming at generating theoretical explanations for phenomena through constant comparison.
The results of the category-based analysis offer a new lens on the intricate linguistic identity development of Chinese students in the study abroad context. The construction of their new identity facets is related to various contextual elements in experiences of their language learning and use. More importantly, learners’ identity changes related to the use of ELF is conceived as within a framework of multilingualism (Jenkins, 2015). In any given social interaction, learners’ linguistic identities are influenced by a combination of factors: perceived linguistic proficiency gap, power distribution,preferred communication styles, sensitivity to second/third language self-images and openness to new cultures. It is these factors, instead of the lingua franca context or
target language context per se, that come into play in the reformation of learners’
linguistic identities. Learners’ linguistic identity changes, together with their priority setting in studying abroad, are in turn interconnected with their multilingual competence development.
The findings of my study suggest theories for understanding learners’ linguistic identity development and the outcomes of their language learning in the study abroad context in the face of the complexity of individual experiences. My study also demonstrates the importance to foster learners’ “self-presentational competence” (Pellegrino Aveni, 2005: 145-146) so that they could successfully negotiate new subject positions when crossing the borders.
It has been noted (Perkins, 2009; Zwaan, 1999; Zwaan & Radvansky, 1998) that causality, character, location, and time are the four main aspects of narrative discourse, even if not attended to by listeners or readers in equal ways. For example, character is highly ranked, and the locational/spatial components have often been underestimated for English narratives (see Perkins, 2009, for a review). Relative to the ranking, there is no inherent reason why character needs to be highly ranked, and locational/spatial information is in fact important in English narrative discourse (Perkins, 2009). I instead suggest that there are linguistic and cultural factors in the ranking of these aspects of discourse. Specifically, I suggest that causality is (probably) the highest ranked component, in languages that have a ranking, with the other three elements being linked to causality more or less strongly, depending on linguistic and cultural factors; it is possible that some languages do not rank narrative elements or that some elements are ranked as highly as others. In English, the strongest link is between causality and character. However, this is not universal.
In a survey of fifty-eight languages from thirty language families, including an in-depth study of Hobongan, an Austronesian language spoken by approximately two thousand people on the island of Borneo that I am in the process of describing, it is found that there is a great deal of cross-linguistic variation, to the extent that it is possible that each logically possible combination of narrative elements is present in the world’s languages.
Organized by Sabine Schulte im Walde (University of Stuttgart) and Eva Smolka (University of Konstanz) as part of the 39th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) held at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany, the workshop aimed “to shed light on the interaction of constituent properties and compound transparency across languages and disciplines integrating linguistic, psycholinguistic, corpus-based and computational studies”. The workshop brought together researchers from linguistics, psycholinguistics, and natural language processing and comprised 11 contributed talks, framed by two invited talks by Gary Libben and Marco Marelli. Most of the slides are available from the workshop’s homepage at “http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/events/dgfs-mwe-17/program.html”.
Die Studie "Beziehung überschreibt Geschlecht. Zum Genderindex von Ruf- und Kosenamen" betrifft zum Teil den Beziehungstyp der Liebesbeziehung. Sie fragt danach, ob und wie die Geschlechtszugehörigkeit in Kosenamen - Namen, die eine Beziehung kodieren und Nähe signalisieren - markiert wird. Mit einem Genderindex, der auf Basis der statistisch relevanten phonologischen Unterschiede zwischen den 100 häufigsten Frauen- und Männerrufnamen der deutschen Bevölkerung gebildet wurde, reanalysiert sie eine vorhandene Erhebung von Kosenamen und kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass Kosenamen auf der Basis von Rufnamen deutlich weniger geschlechtsmarkiert sind als die zugrunde liegenden Rufnamen. Dies interpretiert sie vorrangig als Zeichen einer besonders persönlichen, individualisierenden und dabei auch genderabstraktiven Wahrnehmung der benannten Person.
Im Vordergrund der Publikation stehen Beiträge, die sich intensiv mit dem Phänomen der Kollokation beschäftigen. Der erste Teil der Sammlung konzentriert sich auf die intra- und interlingualen Aspekte der Kollokationen. Der zweite Teil wird den didaktischen Studien der Kollokationen gewidment, mit dem Akzent auf der Wichtigkeit der Integration fester Wortverbindungen in den DaF-Unterricht.
[Kollokationsforschung und Kollokationsdidaktik / Peter Ďurčo (Hg.). - Wien : LIT, 2016. - 236 Seiten. - (Studien zur Linguistik ; Band 22) ISBN 978-3-643-50784-6]
We analyze English and Greek nominal synthetic compounds like truck driver and truck driving from a syntactic perspective couched within Distributed Morphology. We derive the main differences between the two languages from the different morphosyntactic status of the non-head nouns, which are roots in Greek but categorized words in English.
In jüngerer Zeit finden in der Sprachwissenschaft nach einer langen Phase der Zurückhaltung kulturwissenschaftliche Orientierungen wieder vermehrt Aufmerksamkeit. Dabei bleiben allerdings zwei Bereiche nach wie vor im Hintergrund, deren Relevanz gleichwohl außer Frage steht: die Interkulturalität in der Linguistik und die kulturwissenschaftlich-interkulturelle Fremdsprachendidaktik. Hier bestehen weiterhin zahlreiche offene Forschungsfragen. Aus diesem Grunde widmet sich Band 11 der Aussiger Beiträge gerade solchen sprach- und kulturübergreifenden Fragestellungen. Mehrere der in diesem Band präsentierten Beiträge sind insbesondere auf fremdsprachendidaktische Fragestellungen ausgerichtet, die immer von den spezifischen Bedingungen des kulturellen und sprachlichen Umfeldes abhängen. Hieraus resultieren differenzierte und aktuelle Forschungsanliegen und praxisorientierte Anforderungsprofile, die so in die Reflexion eingebunden werden. Das vorliegende Heft will so Anstöße für weitere Untersuchungen im breiten Spannungsfeld interkultureller Fragestellungen geben.
Thema des vorliegenden Beitrags ist das interaktionale Potenzial des Scherzens in seiner Funktion als kooperativ entfaltete Handlung der Kritik. Im Fokus liegen speziell Kontexte, die als 'interkultureller Dialog' markiert sind und in denen sich die Interaktionsaufgabe stellt, an diskursiven 'kulturellen Grenzen' verständigungsorientiert zu arbeiten. Exemplarisch wird an einer Gesprächssequenz zwischen deutschen und ägyptischen Studierenden gezeigt, wie gerade im gemeinsamen Scherzen Konstruktionen kultureller Zugehörigkeit und Differenz kritisch-konstruktiv bearbeitbar werden, auch in beziehungsorganisatorisch schwierigen Situationen. Als entscheidend erweist sich die damit verbundene Initiierung "kulturellen Handelns". Grundlage der Untersuchung ist ein sprachwissenschaftlicher kritisch-diskursanalytischer Zugang zum Material ('Oldenburger Ansatz' der Kritischen Diskursanalyse), in dessen Rahmen diskurssemantische und interaktionsanalytische Perspektiven zusammengeführt werden.
In diesem Beitrag wird korpusbasiert, qualitativ und aus kontrastiver Sicht anhand ausgewählter Einzelbeispiele untersucht, welchen Beitrag die Frame-Semantik bei der Analyse konzeptueller Metaphern im aktuellen Migrationsdiskurs in der deutschen und italienischen Presse leisten kann. Sie macht es möglich, unterschiedliche Perspektivierungen bei der Betrachtung des Phänomens herauszukristallisieren, da semantische Frames ein facettenreiches Angebot für den Blickwinkel der Betrachtung bereitstellen. Auch Metaphern selbst besitzen diese Eigenschaft der Perspektivierung, vor allem auch solche, die charakteristisch für einen kulturspezifischen Kontext stehen. Zu den Möglichkeiten, die der Einsatz von Metaphern bietet, zählt vor allem der "Highlighting und Hiding"-Effekt (LAKOFF/JOHNSON 1980), indem Metaphern bestimmte Aspekte betonen oder verdunkeln. Um welche es sich dabei im Einzelnen handelt, hängt von mehreren Faktoren ab, wie zum Beispiel der politischen Orientierung von Journalisten oder Politikern oder der wirtschaftlichen Lage eines Landes.
In diesem Beitrag wird gezeigt, dass das Wort Volk seit einigen Jahren ein Schlüsselwort politischer Diskurse in Deutschland darstellt. Dies bedeutet im Sinne Wolf-Andreas LIEBERTs (2003) nicht nur, dass es von unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Akteuren verwendet wird, um gegensätzliche Ideale und Antworten auf die Frage nach der eigenen individuellen und kollektiven Identität zu formulieren, sondern auch selbst zum Gegenstand von Kontroversen und damit diskursbestimmend wird. Dass diese jüngere Entwicklung eine besondere ist, machen Analysen deutlich, die die Verwendung des Wortes in unterschiedlichen und hinsichtlich nationaler und sozialer Identitäten dynamischen Phasen der deutschen Geschichte in den Blick nehmen.
Der wissenschaftliche Artikel ist eine Textsorte, die weltweit und zahlreich von der scientific community produziert und rezipiert wird. Doch obwohl es sich um eine international bekannte und häufig verwendete Textsorte handelt, zeichnen sich wissenschaftliche Artikel je nach Herkunft und Sprache durch zahlreiche Unterschiede aus. In diesem Beitrag folgt auf eine kurze Darstellung von Unterschieden deutscher und tschechischer wissenschaftlicher Artikel eine kontrastive Betrachtung der Fußnoten innerhalb dieser Texte. Interessant ist diesbezüglich nicht nur, welche unterschiedlichen Typen von Fußnoten in deutschen und tschechischen wissenschaftlichen Artikeln Verwendung finden, sondern auch, inwiefern die sprachlichen Merkmale der Fußnoten denen der Texte selbst entsprechen bzw. von ihnen abweichen.
Mit dem Sammelband liegt endlich ein umfassender Versuch vor, "Verbale Aggression" systematisch und aus verschiedenen Perspektiven zu untersuchen. Auch wenn die "Multidisziplinäre[n] Zugänge zur verletzenden Macht der Sprache" zu drei Vierteln aus dem Bereich der Linguistik stammen, bieten die Beiträge doch ein facettenreiches Bild von einem Phänomen, das auch außerhalb der Wissenschaft breit diskutiert wird.
The 'Deutsche Referenzkorpus (DeReKo)' of the Mannheimer Institut für Deutsche Sprache currently contains over 28 billion words, and it is constantly being expanded. The sheer size of the corpus makes it impractical for researchers to analyze its entire content. On the other hand, the DeReKo offers the possibility of taking seriously the principle that every research project needs its own corpus - by acting as a 'reference corpus' that can be used in combination with special corpora. This paper addresses the question of whether a corpus should contain complete texts or only statistically relevant extracts; it also discusses the uses and necessity of 'small corpora'.
Vom 14. bis zum 16. September 2017 fanden am Institut für Germanistik der Universität Wrocław die VI. Linguistischen Treffen unter dem Titel 'Grenzen der Sprache, Grenzen der Sprachwissenschaft' statt. Die Treffen wurden vom Lehrstuhl für Deutsche Sprache und Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Linguistik veranstaltet
Gemeinsam mit dem Fach Germanistik an der Universität Stockholm richten die Fächer Germanistik und Translation Deutsch der Universität Helsinki in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Goethe-Institut Finnland und der Botschaft der Republik Österreich in Finnland vom 23. bis 25. August 2017 die siebente internationale Tagung zur kontrastiven Medienlinguistik aus. Der thematische Rahmen dieser Tagung lautet: Medienkulturen - Multimodalität und Intermedialität.
Die tschechische und die deutsche Wissenschaftssprache sind sich aufgrund der direkten geographischen Nachbarschaft und einer jahrhundertelangen Verbundenheit ähnlich. Dennoch bestehen Unterschiede, die im interkulturellen Kontakt zu Irritationen und Missverständnissen führen können. Agnes Goldhahn stellt kulturell bedingte Differenzen der sprachlichen Gestaltung tschechischer und deutscher Wissenschaftssprache am Beispiel Wissenschaftlicher Artikel aus dem Bereich der Linguistik vor. Neben einer Analyse des äußeren Textaufbaus geht sie auf die Sprachhandlung 'Textkommentierung' ein, was vor allem in den Bereichen der Personalität und Modalität große Unterschiede zwischen den tschechischen und den deutschen Texten offenbart.
[Goldhahn, Agnes: Tschechische und deutsche Wissenschaftssprache im Vergleich : wissenschaftliche Artikel der Linguistik / Agnes Goldhahn. - Berlin : Frank & Timme, [2017]. - 218 Seiten : Illustrationen. - (Forum für Fachsprachen-Forschung ; Band 133)
ISBN 978-3-7329-0332-0]
In order to achieve the goals of social commentary and moral judgement pursued in her novels, Jane Austen describes and evaluates different aspects of her characters’ personalities: social attitude, intellectual qualities and moral traits (Lodge 1966). Mansfield Park (1814) is one of her novels in which this moral awareness is most acute. In order to construct a community of shared values with her readers, Austen skilfully alternates different points of view as sources of evaluation. We propose an analysis of the first chapter of Mansfield Park that addresses this dialogic dimension by focusing on the resources of engagement, the subsystem of Appraisal Theory with which speakers/writers express their commitment to the truth of a proposition and their willingness to open the negotiation space to other voices (Martin & White 2005: 97).
The linguistic subtlety and complexity of Jane Austen’s writing is a challenge to translators, who must try to identify all the concurrent interpretation possibilities and reproduce them in the target language. In this article we compare the English source text with various translations into Spanish, Catalan and German. Our analysis focuses on the lexicogrammatical realisations of engagement such as verba dicendi, epistemic expressions, lexical choices with a distinct attitudinal load, and also on the development of narration – as far as that is possible in a study centering on the first chapter –, since it is often the case that narrator stance is modified as the text unfolds.
We discuss fragments of narrator discourse, direct speech and indirect/free indirect speech and consider the advantages of the framework to uncover changes in the evaluative dimension of meaning that affect the readings the translations will afford in their target society, from character building to the articulation of points of view.
Abrupt switches between different tenses (past-to-present, present-to-past) are known from oral narratives and medieval literature in Romance languages, but there is little consensus about their function and interpretation. In this study, we combine corpus-linguistic tools with experimental methods and quantitative analysis to shed light on the use of tense switches in a medieval Icelandic prose text (Hrafnkels saga freysgoða). Specifically, we part-of-speech tagged all words in Hrafnkels saga freysgoða and then determined where verbs exhibit tense switches. In a second step, we had 19 subjects mark all parts in the saga they consider climactic so as to study the overall as well as subject-specific correlations between climaxness and tense switches. In the vast majority of subjects, we observe the expected correlation, and for most of these it is significant. We discuss the findings with regard to their implications for tense switching as a performative device and the position of sagas on an orality-literacy continuum.
The present study investigates the representation of non-standardised varieties of English in literary prose texts. This is achieved by creating and annotating a corpus of literary texts from Scotland, West Africa, and Southeast Asia. The analysis addresses two major topics. Firstly, the extent of representation reveals clearly distinct feature profiles across regions, coupled with varying feature densities. Feature profiles are also relevant to individual characters, as certain traits such as social status, ethnicity, or age can be signalled by linguistic means. The second topic, accuracy of representation, compares the features observed in literary texts with descriptions of the actual varieties, and suggests that representations of varieties may differ from their real-life models in the sense that highly frequent features may be absent from texts, while less frequent but more emblematic ones, or even invented ones, may be used by authors to render a variety of English in their texts.
This paper discusses aspects of direct speech in James Joyce’s story "The Sisters". The story is often analyzed with special attention to the gaps and ellipses in the utterances, which are usually read as omissions, evasions, or uncomfortable silences, and thus as indicative of some transgressive behaviour of the dead priest who is at the centre of the dialogues. In this article we explore the hypothesis that the utterances in question show features that are quite common in natural spoken language and thus may also be read as literary techniques to create authentic oral discourse. This hypothesis is not intended to invalidate previous interpretations, but to introduce an additional aspect of interpretation that has been neglected so far. In the context of a literary work, features of natural spoken language acquire new meaning, and the very attempt to narrow the gap between literary and natural spoken language appears as inauthentic, ominous and as an artistic strategy to express the unspeakable. The story thus evokes suspicion and a feeling of eeriness while also offering narrative and linguistic information that allows for a more empathic assessment of the characters. We use quantitative methods of analysis and linguistic data from corpora of (authentic) spoken language to substantiate our hypothesis. As "The Sisters" is a rather short story and the present study is, in several respects, exploratory, our claims and hypotheses need to be confirmed and validated by more exhaustive research into Joyce’s major works.
In German, non-finite forms of verbs that are traditionally labelled as "nominalized infinitives", but are better categorized as gerunds, can show very unusual features. Although they carry a definitive article and therefore clearly seem to belong to the class of nouns, they still govern objects and adverbials in exactly the same way the verb does. It is therefore argued that in spite of the determiners, these forms are essentially verbal in nature. The syntactic functions they fulfil can be anything from subject or object to adverbial or attributive modifier, i. e. functions that are usually fulfilled by subordinate clauses. Since this is the same kind of behavior that converbs in languages like Turkish show, this leads to the suggestion that they can indeed be considered as a functionally similar to converbs.
Lexical categories and processes of category change. Perspectives for a constructionist approach
(2017)
This paper revisits the notions of lexical category and category change from a constructionist perspective. I distinguish between four processes of category change (affixal derivation, conversion, transposition and reanalysis) and demonstrate how these category-changing processes can be analyzed in the framework of Construction Grammar. More particularly, it will be claimed that lexical categories can be understood as abstract instances of constructions (i.e., form-function pairings) and category change will be assumed to be closely connected to the process of constructionalization, i.e., the creation of new form-meaning pairings. Furthermore, it will be shown that the constructionist approach offers the advantage of accounting for the variety of input categories (ranging from morphemes to multi-word units) as well as for some problematic characteristics related to certain types of category change, such as context-sensitivity, counterdirectionality and gradualness of the changes.
A phonestheme can be situated somewhere between a morpheme and a sound symbolic unit as well as between single-language and widespread appearance. Very often, phonesthemes are defined statistically. Consonant clusters like "gl-" appear in many words with certain aspects of meaning like "glint, glimmer, glitter". These cases seem to be restricted to individual languages or language families and resemble morphemes. A natural or iconic relationship between form and meaning is not obvious. Several authors, however, include sound symbolic phenomena with implicit natural features such as "i" for small things. This is a very widespread phenomenon and an example for some natural link between form and meaning. The article pleads for a two-fold definition and two types of phonesthemes. Further discussion takes into account the idea of an interrelation between increasing iconicity and higher diffusion as exemplified by the phonesthemes.
The article delineates the development of nominal synthetic compounding in the history of German. In particular, it is attested an enhancement of the morphological structure which correlates with a morphological intersection of determinative compounding happening from Early New High German onwards.
Am 25. und 26. November 2016 fand am Germanistischen Institut der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität die vom Autor dieses Berichts organisierte Tagung „Historische Wortbildung. Theorie – Methoden – Perspektiven“ statt. Dabei sollte vor allem die diachrone Wortbildungsforschung zum Deutschen Berücksichtigung finden, eine Forschungsrichtung also, die nach wie vor eine Forschungslücke darstellt. Die heute zur Verfügung stehenden synchronen Beschreibungen der Wortbildung früherer Sprachstufen sowie die Digitalisierung historischer Textbestände und deren Implementierung in komplexe Datenbanken (z. B. des Deutschen Textarchivs2, des Altdeutschen Referenzkorpus3, etc.) bieten der diachron-historischen Wortbildungsforschung neue Möglichkeiten, die es nun zu nutzen gilt.