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Starting from the current preoccupations of areal phraseology, this article presents directions and ways of researching the phraseological stock of the German language with regards to the particularities and to the area of circulation in dialects or in the standard variants of the German language.
Die deutsche Sprache hat schon in mittelhochdeutscher Zeit das Polnische beeinflusst. In der mittelhochdeutschen Zeit beginnt die Ostkolonisation der deutschen Siedler in Schlesien, daher dringen viele deutsche Wörter in die polnische Sprache vor. Eine sehr starke Beeinflussung des Polnischen durch das Deutsche beobachtet man im 19. Jahrhundert, in der Zeit der Industrialisierung in Europa und auch in Polen, obwohl Polen als selbstständiger Staat zu dieser Zeit nicht mehr existierte. Der geschlossene polnische Sprachraum wurde in drei Teile aufgeteilt: Der eine Teil gehörte zu Preußen, der andere Teil zu Österreich und der dritte Teil zu Russland. Der Einfluss der deutschen Sprache zeigt sich im 19. Jahrhundert im gleichen Maße in allen drei Teilungsgebieten Polens, weil der lexikalische Einfluss des Deutschen auf die polnische Sprachenvor allem im Bereich der Technik und Industrie zu Tage tritt. [...] Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts nach der Wiedererlangung der Unabhängigkeit durch Polen beginnt die Phase der Polonisierung der direkten deutschen Entlehnungen durch Lehnübersetzungen; dennoch haben wir es weiterhin mit dem lexikalischen Einfluss des Deutschen zu tun, der sich nun in Form von Lehnübersetzungen und -übertragungen zeigt.
Die älteste Olmützer Universitätsmatrikel ist eine spezifische anthroponymische Quelle, in die Namen der Universitätsstudenten eingetragen wurden. Die Studenten stammten meistens aus der Oberschichten – entweder der Schicht der Adeligen oder der Bürger. Das Bedürfnis nach Prestige war in diesen Schichten sicher groß, wahrscheinlich auch deswegen erscheinen im 17. Jahrhundert in der Universitätsmatrikel so viele Fälle der Mehrnamigkeit. Daneben spielte auch die Nachbenennung nach mehreren Vorfahren eine wichtige Rolle; unter den Studenten waren auch Adelige, was die Anzahl der Vornamen beeinflussen konnte. Da es sich um die Studenten an der von den Jesuiten gegründeten Universität handelte, war die Nachbenennung nach Heiligen ein weiterer wichtiger Grund für die Vergabe mehrerer Rufnamen. Ob auch barocke Freude an einer gewissen Namenfülle oder die Einbeziehung der Paten weitere Gründe für die Mehrnamigkeit in der Universitätsmatrikel waren, kann aufgrund dieser Quelle nicht belegt werden. Die Untersuchung der Rufnamen in der Matrikel hat gezeigt, wie die religiösen Verhältnisse die Namenvergabung beeinflussten. Im Vergleich zu den Untersuchungen der Rufnamen anhand der Olmützer Stadtbücher spiegelt sich in der Matrikel eine andere Tendenz in der Entwicklung der Olmützer Rufnamen wider: Neben den traditionellen Heiligennamen lateinischer, hebräischer und griechischer Herkunft wurden in der Zeit der Gegenreformation spanische Namen von Heiligen, die erst im 17. Jahrhundert heilig gesprochen wurden, immer beliebter.
"Concordia domi, foris pax" : zur sprichwörtlichen Mehrsprachigkeit der Rhetorik Helmut Schmidts
(2016)
In den zahlreichen Büchern Helmut Schmidts, die in Sammelbänden auch seine Interviews, Reden und Aufsätze enthalten, spielen fremdsprachliche Phraseologismen eigentlich nur eine kleine Rolle. Dieser Beitrag enthält im Prinzip alle aufgefundenen Belege, was deutlich zu erkennen gibt, dass Helmut Schmidt im Vergleich zu Otto von Bismarck und Willy Brandt seine lateinischen und englischen Sprachkenntnisse weniger unter Beweis stellt. Französisch fehlt wegen seiner Unkenntnis der ehemals so bedeutenden Diplomatensprache fast völlig, während sich die beiden aussagekräftigen lateinischen Sprichwörter "Concordia domi, foris pax" und "Salus publica suprema lex" als gewichtige Leitmotive der politischen Rhetorik Schmidts erweisen. Erwartungsgemäß vertritt die moderne lingua franca des Angloamerikanischen die Mehrsprachigkeit Schmidts am deutlichsten. Zusätzlich zu englischen Zwillingsformeln und Redensarten kommt es hier in der Tat zu einer Reihe von englischen und amerikanischen Sprichwörtern, die eine erhebliche kommunikative Funktion übernehmen. Zweifelsohne hätte Schmidt deutschsprachige Äquivalente finden können, doch will er offensichtlich seine Betrachtungen zur politischen Situation in Deutschland, Europa und der Welt durch angloamerikanische Sprichwortweisheiten international untermauern. Dafür gab es vormals Latein und Französisch, doch hat nuneinmal die englische Weltsprache diese Rolle im modernen Zeitalter übernommen.
Insgesamt zeigen die hier untersuchten Daten, dass die Bildung konversiver Idiome nach bestimmten Prinzipien, jedoch nicht nach produktiven Regeln erfolgt. Die meisten Faktoren, die an der konversiven Transformation in der Phraseologie beteiligt sind, sind konzeptueller Natur und führen zurück auf die semantisch-syntaktischen Eigenschaften des betreffenden Idioms. Aus der Sicht der Syntax ist es entscheidend, dass das betreffende Idiom über zwei aktive Valenzen verfügt. Normalerweise werden diese Valenzen semantisch mit dem Agens sowie mit dem Patiens gefüllt, seltener mit dem Agens und dem Adressaten oder Benefiziär. Syntaktisch gesehen hat das "linke" Mitglied des konversiven Idiom-Paares eine Subjekt-Valenz (entsprechend dem Agens) und eine Valenz des Dativobjekts (entsprechend dem Patiens oder dem Adressaten/Benefiziär).
Pastor Silber gehört zu den evangelischen Geistlichen seiner Zeit, die im Bereich ihrer Pfarrerpflichten nicht nur den gewöhnlichen, alltäglichen Schreibaufgaben nachgingen, sondern darüber hinaus sich der intensiven Produktion religiöser, aber auch teilweise weltlicher Texte widmeten, die sie auch drucken ließen. Obschon zerstreut in mehreren polnischen und deutschen Archiven und Bibliotheken lässt sich heutzutage sein gedrucktes Werk nachvollziehen. Es zeugt von seiner bemerkenswerten Produktivität. Seine gedruckten Werke repräsentieren vorwiegend die Textsorte Predigt, wobei die Subtextsorten Hochzeitspredigt und Leichenpredigt unter den Drucken quantitativ dominieren. Das umfangreichste (873 bedruckte Seiten), in der auf Kirchengeschichte und Ortsgeschichte bezogenen Fachliteratur häufig zitierte und für Forscher unterschiedlicher Disziplinen relevante Buch, das lange Zeit als verschollen galt, ist eine Predigtsammlung aus dem Jahre 1619, die – wie oben bereits erwähnt – 2016 bei der Bestandsaufnahme der deutschsprachigen Archivalien im Greiffenberger Pfarramt gefunden wurde.
Prosodie ist nach neuesten Untersuchungen das wichtigste Merkmal der deutschen Sprache und umfasst auditiv wahrnehmbare Merkmale wie Akzent, Rhythmus, Stimmfarbe, Melodie, Lautheit, Sprechgeschwindigkeit, Pausen usw. Die Funktionen, die durch die Prosodie im Deutschen erfüllt werden, sind sehr vielschichtig und tragen eindeutig zur besseren Verständlichkeit und zum reibungsloseren Verlauf der Kommunikation bei. In den letzten Jahren hat man zahlreiche Untersuchungen auf dem Gebiet phonetischer Fehlleistungen ausländischer Deutschlerner durchgeführt. Es zeigte sich rasch, dass die Fehler, die den kommunikativen Erfolg von Sprechakten am stärksten beeinträchtigen, in den Bereich der prosodischen Realisierung fallen.
Während der Begriff Sprachkontakt "die beteiligten Sprachen ins Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit" rückt, stehen bei dem – häufig in Abgrenzung dazu verwendeten – Terminus Mehrsprachigkeit "die Eigenschaften der Menschen, die diese Sprachen sprechen", oder die "Gruppen, in denen diese Sprachen gesprochen werden", im Mittelpunkt des Forschungsinteresses. "Sprachkontakt ist im Wesentlichen ein Ergebnis von Mehrsprachigkeit", und die Verwendung mehrerer Sprachen oder Varietäten führt auch zu "Veränderungen in den beteiligten Sprachsystemen". Wenn verschiedene Sprachen über einen längeren Zeitraum hinweg in einem bestimmten Gebiet verwendet werden, zeigen sie eine Tendenz zur gegenseitigen Beeinflussung auf verschiedenen sprachlichen Ebenen. Wenn Sprachen in Kontakt treten, beeinflussen sich nicht nur die jeweiligen Sprachsysteme, sondern auf vielfältige Weise auch verbale und nonverbale Diskursmuster.
Der vorliegende Band behandelt in 11 Beiträgen von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern aus Deutschland, Österreich, Polen, Russland, der Slowakei, Tschechien sowie den USA vielfältige Aspekte des Themenbereichs Mehrsprachigkeit und Sprachkontakt vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Das Spektrum reicht dabei von Untersuchungen zu Sprachkontakten in der spätmittelalterlichen religiösen Literatur, über Studien zu Idiomen und Sprichwörtern, bis zu den aktuellen (didaktischen) Aufgaben und Herausforderungen für den Unterricht in der Migrationsgesellschaft.
Understanding a sentence and integrating it into the discourse depends upon the identification of its focus, which, in spoken German, is marked by accentuation. In the case of written language, which lacks explicit cues to accent, readers have to draw on other kinds of information to determine the focus. We study the joint or interactive effects of two kinds of information that have no direct representation in print but have each been shown to be influential in the reader's text comprehension: (i) the (low-level) rhythmic-prosodic structure that is based on the distribution of lexically stressed syllables, and (ii) the (high-level) discourse context that is grounded in the memory of previous linguistic content. Systematically manipulating these factors, we examine the way readers resolve a syntactic ambiguity involving the scopally ambiguous focus operator auch (engl. “too”) in both oral (Experiment 1) and silent reading (Experiment 2). The results of both experiments attest that discourse context and local linguistic rhythm conspire to guide the syntactic and, concomitantly, the focus-structural analysis of ambiguous sentences. We argue that reading comprehension requires the (implicit) assignment of accents according to the focus structure and that, by establishing a prominence profile, the implicit prosodic rhythm directly affects accent assignment.
Smith (1968) argues that poems may end with formal changes which produce an experience of closure in the reader. I argue that formal changes do not directly cause an experience of closure. Instead, changes in poetic form always demand increased processing effort from the reader, whether they involve new forms, shifts from more to less regular form, or from less to more regular form. I use relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson 1995) to argue that the increased processing effort encourages the reader to formulate rich and relevant thoughts, including the thought "this poem has closure". Closure is thus the content of a thought rather than a type of experience. I further argue that "closure" is a term whose meaning cannot be fully understood, which makes the thought "this poem has closure" into a schematic belief of the kind which Sperber shows has great richness and productivity. This is one of the reasons that the thought "this poem has closure" achieves sufficient relevance to justify the effort put into processing the end of the poem.
The article addresses the question of who reports the dialogue in fictional texts featuring an unreliable narrator. Since no human being can remember and reproduce lengthy conversations accurately, some narrative theorists attribute direct speech representation to the author instead of the character narrator. This means that the speech of other characters may be reported reliably even if the narrator is totally unreliable. The narrator’s version of the events may then be contradicted by others, which allows the reader to perceive his biases. However, Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World illustrates the fact that direct speech reports, too, can be distorted by the narrator’s subjectivity, especially his emotions. In Ishiguro’s novel, the narrator’s grief and depression lead him to misremember and invent past conversations. Following Meir Sternberg, the article argues that the reliability of speech reporting in unreliable narration must be determined on a case-by-case basis. The text must signal that the narrator’s speech reporting is unreliable. In the absence of a signal, the reader is supposed to disregard any deviations from verbatim reproduction and to accept the transgression of the limits of human memory.
This article approaches literary translation from a contact-linguistic perspective and views translation as a language contact situation in which the translator "moves" between the source and target language. The study touches upon the possible linguistic effects of the source text on the translated text and relates the translation-mediated cross-linguistic influence to other language-contact situations. The study investigates the use of Finnish passive in a corpus of literary texts consisting of Finnish translations from Estonian and German and comparable non-translated Finnish literary texts. The translated texts are compared with non-translated ones by using corpus-linguistic tools, and the results are related to a previous contact-linguistic study on the use of the Finnish passive in spoken interviews of Finnish migrants in Estonia. The main objective is to test methodological tools that could be used for this kind of comparative purposes.
In addition, the study approaches the question whether translation as a type of language contact affects the use of the Finnish passive in a similar way as an oral language contact situation. All in all, the study shows that there are some features that differentiate the investigated literary translations from non-translated Finnish texts but the evidence is not unambiguous. The article discusses the possible reasons for the mainly non-conclusive results of the analysis and points out factors that should be taken into account in future studies, such as the size of the sub-corpora and the possibly biased text or genre specific stylistic characteristics. The methodology clearly has to be adjusted and more in-depth methods developed in order to acquire a fuller picture of the Finnish passive in literary texts and to confirm what is author, translator, genre or source-language specific in the use of the Finnish passive.
This article analyzes the representation of linguistic variation in the Finnish translations of four Swedish coming-of-age stories depicting migrant or minority perspectives: Mikael Niemi’s 2000 Popular Music from Vittula, Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s 2003 Ett öga rött, Marjaneh Bakhtiari’s 2005 Kalla det vad fan du vill, and Susanna Alakoski’s 2006 Svinalängorna. Through an analysis of speech and thought representation techniques and focalization, the article explores the role played by literature and translation in the materialization of dialects and sociolects as bounded entities. The paper argues that linguistic and social hybridity, on which the reception of minority and migrant literatures often focuses, is accompanied by the reification of new varieties conceived as authentic expressions of migrant and minority experience. Literature and translation are active agents in such processes, which are largely based on cultural, discursive, and cognitive constraints that condition the interpretation of each text.
C’est trop auch! the translation of contemporary French literature featuring urban youth slang
(2016)
The French post-colonial novel has recently been witnessing the emergence of urban youth language or français contemporain des cités (Goudaillier 2001). This linguistic variety allows underprivileged youths from multi-ethnic suburbs to rebel against authority by deliberately violating standard language norms. Its characteristics include frequent lexical input from immigrant languages, in particular Arabic and English, and the use of verlan at the morphological level, with the latter involving a form of back slang using syllabic inversion, which can be recurrently applied to heighten its coding function. In view of the social rejection of this ‘antilanguage’ (Halliday 1978), it has had difficulty penetrating into literature. However, this is now beginning to change, with urban youth discourse appearing in a number of novels, mostly by young ‘post-migration’ writers (Geiser 2008), such as Faïza Guène, Insa Sané and Rachid Djaïdani. While this language variety has mainly been dealt with by sociolinguists, some of the novels concerned are now crossing borders, and a multi-disciplinary approach to this phenomenon is now called for, combining linguistic, literary and translatological tools.
The transfer of this heterolingual genre does indeed raise a number of issues. For example, if we assume that translation is a cultural-political practice (Venuti 2008), what options do translators have to convey the resistant discourse of young immigrant slang users? How will the relationship between language use and social identity manifest itself in the target text? And how can a contrastive linguistic analysis of the features of urban youth language help to resolve translation problems? I will draw on a corpus of French and Dutch novels as well as some translations from French in an attempt to answer these questions.
Several translation scholars have recognised translation as a form of discourse mediation or discourse presentation (see, for example, Mossop 1998). In line with this, "universals" of translation have also been re-framed in the larger context of discourse mediation, as mediation universals rather than something strictly translationspecific (Ulrych 2009). In the present article, this line of enquiry is developed by comparing some of the alleged universals of translation, namely standardization and explicitation, with insights from literary and narratological studies on the nature of discourse presentation. The notion of reportive or interpretative interference (Sternberg 1982) and Fludernik’s (1993) claim that all represented discourse is typical and schematic in nature seem to bear curious resemblance to the notion of standardization or normalization, posited as a possible universal of translation (Mauranen & Kujamäki 2004). Drawing on the results of my earlier research (Kuusi 2011), I present examples of free indirect discourse (FID) used in Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment with their translations into Finnish. Analyzing the translations, I demonstrate how in
translations, the narratological and literary-theoretical notions of reportive interference and typification/schematization coincide with the translation-theoretical notions of explicitation and standardization.
The article deals with Finnish translations of varieties of spoken language in fiction from the late 19th century to the beginning of the 2000s. It presents the central findings of a comprehensive study on the changes and developments of translational norms in Finnish literature. The study is based on a corpus consisting of 200 literary works (the original and its translations are counted as one work), representing various genres: literary fiction, young-adult fiction, as well as genre fiction (romance and crime). During this 100-year period, the use of colloquial variants in translations has strongly increased, influenced by the changing literary and linguistic norms of original Finnish literature. The norms of different literary genres, however, vary, and rich, non-standard variation can be found in translated works from different periods.
This article is a linguistic study of David Bellos’ indirect translation of Ismail Kadare’s The File on H (1997), a novel first published in 1980-1981 in the Albanian literary review Nëntori, and translated into English on the basis of Jusuf Vrioni’s French version, Le Dossier H (1989). Also called "double", "mediated" or "second-hand", indirect translation is an understudied phenomenon, often criticised by scholars because of its greater distance to the original. Cay Dollerup (2000: 23), for example, argues that the grammatical structure of the mediating language (ML) obscures the distinctions made in the source language (SL), and that possible "mistakes" in the ML may be repeated in the target language (TL). Do fidelity and loyalty to the author become weakened in Bellos’ indirect translation? To what extent is such weakening discernible linguistically? And does this particular case of indirect translation reveal notable patterns or recurring types of linguistic shifts between ST and TT? Showing that some of the features specific to Kadare’s Albanian writing are tempered in the doubly-translated English text, yet highlighting that similar shifts occur in the three language directions involved, this article demonstrates that changes between ST and TT may occur in indirect translation regardless of the strategies adopted by MT – thus challenging the hypothesis that linguistic shifts in indirect translation follow a single or consistent pattern.
Thomas Mann’s Der Tod in Venedig (1912) owes much of its fame in English to a translation from 1928 by Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter. The novella however has in fact been translated many times – first by Burke (1924, with a revised edition following in 1970), and, after Lowe-Porter, by Luke (1988), Koelb (1994), Appelbaum (1995), Neugroschel (1998), Chase (1999), Heim (2004), Doege (2007) and Hansen & Hansen (2012). Most of these versions are neither known to readers nor discussed in academic literature. This paper, which comes as part of a larger study on linguistic creativity in Der Tod in Venedig, focuses on the use of neologisms by Mann and what happens to them in (re)translation. Relying on a digital corpus composed of the complete set of English retranslations and a corpus-based methodology, the paper argues that, despite the extended time period between the publications and different translation conditions, neologisms are treated uniformly by the translators. Mann’s coinages are nearly always obliterated through normalisation and, if preserved, demonstrate less creativity overall than in the ST, raising questions about the Retranslation Hypothesis (RH) which proposes that early TT versions tend to domesticate while later ones increasingly foreignise.
This special issue of the International Journal of Literary Linguistics offers seven state-of-the-art contributions on the current linguistic study of literary translation. Although the articles are based on similar data – literary source texts and their translations – they focus on diverse aspects of literary translation, study a range of linguistic phenomena and utilize different methodologies. In other words, it is an important goal of this special issue to illuminate the current diversity of possible approaches in the linguistic study of translated literary texts within the discipline of translation studies. At the same time, new theoretical and empirical insights are opened to the study of the linguistic phenomena chosen by the authors of the articles and their representation or use in literary texts and translations. The analyzed features range from neologisms to the category of passive and from spoken language features to the representation of speech and multilingualism in writing. Therefore, the articles in this issue are not only relevant for the study of literary translation or translation theory in general, but also for the disciplines of linguistics and literary studies – or most importantly, for the cross-disciplinary co-operation between these three fields of study.
The common theme that all these articles share is how the translation process shapes, transfers and changes the linguistic properties of literary texts as compared to their sources texts, other translations or non-translated literary texts in the same language and how this question can be approached in research. All articles provide new information about the forces that direct and affect translators’ textual choices and the previously formulated hypotheses about the functioning of such forces. The articles illustrate how translators may perform differently from authors and how translators’ and authors’ norms may diverge at different times and in different cultures. The question of how translation affects the linguistic properties of literary translations is approached from the viewpoint of previously proposed claims or hypotheses about translation. In the following, we will introduce these viewpoints for readers who are not familiar with the recent developments in translation studies. At the same time, we will shortly present the articles in this issue.
This article analyzes the dynamics of fictional dialogue in three short stories by the Finnish author Rosa Liksom. These stories are constructed almost entirely of dialogue, with minimal involvement on the part of the narrator. We adopt two different approaches to dialogue. First, we analyze dialogue from a micro level, as interaction between the characters within the storyworlds, then from a more holistic perspective, paying attention to how dialogue contributes to the rhetorical structure and ethical interpretation of the stories. We show that resorting mainly to dialogue as a narrative mode works as a way of depicting tensions between Liksom’s characters, and between them and the surrounding fictional world. This, in turn, engages the reader in an interpretative process to understand the story’s logic both within the fictional worlds and on the level of communication between the implied author and the authorial audience.
This article explores the uses and functions of dialogue in Frank McCourt’s memoir Angela’s Ashes. Taking conversational dialogue and fictional dialogue as points of comparison, the article argues that dialogue in autobiographical writing is essentially constructed, albeit not in the same way as fictional dialogue is. Dialogue as a means of dramatisation raises questions regarding factuality and fictionality. In McCourt’s memoir, dialogue is shown to serve numerous functions: characterisation and stereotyping; selfpositioning and indirect stance-marking; the creation of verisimilitude, humour and reader involvement.
This special issue is devoted to a cross-disciplinary investigation of a specific literary phenomenon, fictional dialogue. Fictional dialogue is used to refer to passages of character-character conversation within a literary text. More specifically, the articles of the issue deal with fictional dialogue as a narrative mode in prose fiction. The issue aims to engender an appreciation and a better understanding of the workings of dialogue by drawing on the insights and methods from both literary studies and linguistics. These methods include a rhetorical-ethical approach to narrative, cognitive and “natural” narratology, the study of everyday conversational storytelling, and Conversation Analysis (CA). Combining these methods helps us to understand that while dialogue is a central means to depict character-character relationships it also serves other levels of communication in a narrative and thus contributes to the reader's comprehension of the narrative design's rhetorical and ethical dimensions. The articles also suggest that while understanding dialogue depends partly on the reader’s experiences of real-life conversation, the interpretation of dialogue is determined by the overall design of a literary text and the historically changing conventions.
Metaphors we may not live by
(2016)
Metaphors We Live By created an immediate stir in 1980, and it continues to spur interest in cognitive linguistics, cognitive stylistics, and metaphor theory. This article uses both collocations and random samples of words used in conceptual metaphors to search for corpus evidence of the pervasiveness of conceptual metaphor that was unavailable to Lakoff and Johnson. Some metaphors, such as TIME IS MONEY, are pervasive in giant natural language corpora. Others, such as MORE IS UP, are frequent in clearly and consciously metaphorical forms, but relatively rare in the basic forms that would clearly show that we use metaphor to understand more abstract concepts in terms of concrete ones. Some, including ARGUMENT IS WAR, that Lakoff and Johnson discuss throughout their book, are poorly represented. Some gaps in evidence probably result from multiple ways of expressing a complex conceptual metaphors, but others suggest that intuitive plausibility is an insecure basis for argument.
Flashmob, App, E-Bike, Gendermainstreaming, bloggen, skypen, gefaked/gefakt, geliked/gelikt, Coffee-to-go, Latte macchiato, Gnocchi, Yallah, Shisha oder Sushi – die beherrschenden Fremdwörter aus Wissenschaft und Alltag der Gegenwartssprache im 21. Jahrhundert sind englischen Ursprungs, im letzten Jahrzehnt auch zunehmend aus anderen modernen europäischen und außereuropäischen Sprachen entlehnt. Die Entlehnungsbedingungen dieser Wörter unterscheiden sich damit grundsätzlich von den Gegebenheiten, die für die Integrationsentwicklungen bei Gräzismen und Latinismen sowie für Gallizismen bestimmend waren. Während die Fremdwörter aus den drei bis ins 20. Jahrhundert hinein wesentlichen Gebersprachen über Jahrhunderte hinweg in mehreren Phasen schrittweise Eingang in die deutsche Sprache fanden und dabei durch einen kontinuierlichen, wenn auch nicht immer widerspruchsfreien Prozess orthografischer Normierung begleitet wurden, erfolgte die Übernahme einer Vielzahl von Anglizismen und anderer Neologismen erheblich schneller im Rahmen umfassender Internationalisierung und Globalisierung von Sprache und Gesellschaft. Die entlehnten Wörter bezeichnen zum allergrößten Teil neue Phänomene, Wortbedeutungen oder Sachverhalte, sie sind Indizien für fundamentale gesellschaftliche Veränderungen, die einen grundlegenden Sprach- und schließlich auch Schreibwandel zur Folge haben. Im Gegensatz zum Umfeld früherer Entlehnungen bieten normierende Texte wie Grammatiken oder Wörterbücher daher zunächst noch keine orthografische Orientierung. Stattdessen gewinnt das Internet, bestimmt von professionellen wie auch informellen Schreibern, sowohl als Bezugsquelle von Informationen als auch als Orientierungsrahmen für die Schreibung neuer Wörter eine immer stärkere Bedeutung. Anglizismen spielen dabei eine Sonderrolle: Sie werden sowohl von englischen als auch von deutschen Quelltexten aus rezipiert und zum Teil in ihrem gebersprachlichen graphemischen Status übernommen, zum Teil modifiziert.
The article starts by giving a brief survey of the current state of German-Czech and Czech-German lexicography in the field of learners' dictionaries. It then continues with a metalexicographic examination of two translational dictionaries published since 2000. Attention focuses on the ways in which each team of authors addresses some basic metalexicographic problems in the introductory texts. The article then explores the methods of description used for fixed lexical phrases, which are critically analyzed (using as an example the dictionary entry for the lemma Kopf (head).
The First World War brought devastating consequences for German linguistics. Formerly one of the most prestigious foreign languages taught at schools and universities outside Germany, after the war German disappeared from almost all curricula abroad. Furthermore, it proved impossible to establish a structuralist school (such as the Prague school) in Germany. The article suggests that this was neither due to the long tradition of the Jungian grammarians nor due to the Nazis' official condemnation of structuralism as being incompatible with the ideology of the state. It is shown that such a development should instead be attributed to the so-called "Krieg der Geister" ("war of the intellect"), which remained present even after the military peace (1918) amid a feeling of national insecurity. The article concludes that such a nationalistic social and political environment proved to be fertile ground for Whorfianism, and the influence of the so-called 'Sprachinhaltsforschung' prevailed towards structuralism.
Der Band 'Standardvarietät des Deutschen' ist das Produkt einer gelungenen Parallelaktion: hervorgegangen aus zwei gleichzeitig geführten Seminaren an der Universität Regensburg und an der Karls-Universität Prag, versammelt er neun ausgewählte Aufsätze von Studierenden der Germanistik zum Problem der Standardvarietät des Deutschen aus soziolinguistischer Perspektive.
The article describes the role of German as a working language and official language of the European Union. It also focuses on issues associated with the notion of an 'overarching' language of general use: especially in the field of law, each language reflects the specific legal and administrative traditions of the society in which it developed, meaning that different languages frequently lack precise one-to-one equivalents for particular legal concepts. Finally, the author assesses the 'economic value' of several European languages as proposed by Ulrich Ammons, demonstrating that German plays a leading role in this regard.
In 2015, the last work of Günter Grass appeared: Vonne Endlichkait (On Finiteness). This offers the opportunity to recall the highly personal style of this great German author. The whole book can be described as an artistic triad, consisting of short prose pieces, poems and drawings, most of them dealing with old age and death. The following linguistic and literary aspects are dealt with: genres and text types, the semiotic relations between prose, poetry and drawings, allusions to poets and philosophers, the representation of spoken and dialect German, syntactic constructions, semantics, and especially metaphorical processes. Finally, the article discusses some stylistic features which are typical of Grass's writing.
When becoming integrated into the German vocabulary, foreign words reflect paradigmatic changes regarding orthography, grammar as well as semantics. In this context, German orthography is also highly determined by orthographic codification, which continues to influence the development of spelling to the present day. This study compares digital linguistically annotated corpora containing texts written by professional as well as non-professional writers; these corpora contain several billion foreign words (of Greek, Latin and French origin, and in the second part of the study of English/American and Italian origin), studied over a period of 20 years following the German orthographic reform of 1996. The results may potentially help the official regulations to adapt to the spelling practices observed – either by describing the rules more precisely or by proposing possible spelling variants or eliminating those which are not in common use. The study may also help to support correct lexicographic codification in dictionaries.
Kadınlar ve erkekler yapısal farklılıkları dışında birçok açıdan ayrılıklar göstermektedir. Bu ayrılıklar sadece fiziki görünüşte, giyimde, hareketlerde değil, genel olarak davranış, uygulama, düşünme, alışkanlıklar ve dil gibi alanlarda da görülebilmektedir. Ayrıca kadın ve erkeğe sahip oldukları biyolojik cinsiyetleri haricinde toplumsal roller de yüklenmektedir. Bu roller de kadın ve erkek arasında mevcut olan farklılıkların toplumsal açıdan etkileşime girmesini sağlamaktadır. Toplumsal etkileşimler kadınlarla erkeklerin dillerinde de gözlemlenebilmektedir. Dil, bu durumda biyolojik cinsiyet ve toplumsal rol etkileşimlerinin bir arada bulunduğu bir öğedir. Aynı dili konuşmalarına, dilin aynı sözcükleri ve kurallarını kullanmalarına rağmen, kadınların dilleri ile erkeklerin dilleri arasında farklılıklar bulunmaktadır. Genel olarak deskriptif - analitik yöntemle ilerleyecek olan bu çalışmanın amacı Türkiye'deki kadın dili araştırmalarına göz atmaktır. Çalışmanın kuramsal kısmında, Türkiye'de yapılmış olan kadın dili araştırmalarına değinilerek hangi durumda olduğunun gözden geçirilmesi düşünülmektedir. Dünyada kadın ve erkek dili ile ilgili çalışmalara 20. yüzyıl başlarında ağırlık verilmiştir. Bu çalışmalar sadece içeriksel değil, aynı zamanda sözlüksel, retorik ve sözdizimsel bağlamda da gerçekleştirilmiştir. Özellikle Almanya’da oldukça geniş bir araştırma alanı olan bu konunun, Türkiye'de bu kadar geniş çapta ele alınmadığı görülmektedir. Çalışmanın uygulama bölümünde medyadaki kadın dili ele alınacaktır. Bu kısımda medya metinleri değerlendirilerek söz konusu metinlerdeki kadın dili incelenecektir. Kadın dili değişkeninin görsel medyada hangi özellikleri ile ortaya çıktığı, ne şekilde gözlemlenebildiği gerek içeriksel, gerekse sözlüksel, retorik ve sözdizimsel bağlamda incelenecektir.
As relações multiculturais dentro de uma dada sociedade passam, necessariamente, por relações comunicacionais. Determinados grupos minoritários com histórico de imigração, dentro de uma sociedade totalizante, podem desenvolver modos de comunicação e expressão específicos que afetam, diretamente, a linguagem ...
Mehrsprachigkeit wird heute in vielen Kontexten diskutiert und unter verschiedenen Aspekten erforscht. Vor allem im Zuge der gegenwärtigen Migrationsbewegungen und der steigenden privaten und professionellen Mobilität wird unsere Gesellschaft immer häufiger vor neue Aufgaben und Herausforderungen gestellt. Dem Fremdsprachenunterricht kommt in diesem Kontext eine große Bedeutung zu.
Nach einer kurzen Einführung in die grundlegenden bildungspolitischen Ziele zur Förderung individueller bzw. gesellschaftlicher Mehrsprachigkeit auf europäischer Ebene wird in diesem Beitrag der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit die neuen Erkenntnisse der Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung sich im Zweitsprachunterricht effizient einsetzen lassen und zur Förderung einer mehrsprachigen Kompetenz beitragen können.
Im Zentrum von Jacques Derridas Aufsatz zu der Frage, was eine relevante Übersetzung sei, steht ein Zitat aus Shakespeares Kaufmann von Venedig. Was geschehen muss, wenn der Schuldner, der sein eigenes Fleisch als Pfand der Schuld angegeben hat, die Schuld nicht begleichen kann, das zeigt Shakespeares Drama mit einer überraschenden Wende.
Auch Bücher aus dem Bereich der Sprachwissenschaft können faszinieren. Bei Uwe Hinrichs' "MultiKultiDeutsch" (2013) handelt es sich um ein solches Buch, das sowohl Experten, die sich aus beruflichen Gründen mit der deutschen Sprache beschäftigen als auch Leser, die sich aus bloßem Interesse dieser Lektüre widmen, von der ersten Seite an zum Weiterlesen einlädt.
Die multilinguale Gesellschaft ist längst schon keine bloße Utopie mehr, in vielen Teilen Europas und der Welt existiert sie bereits oder bildet sich immer stärker heraus. In unserer sechsten Ausgabe der REAL haben wir uns dieses Themas angenommen und es von unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln und germanistischen Perspektiven aus betrachtet.
Anankastic relatives
(2016)
This dissertation investigates a semantic puzzle in German concerning certain sentences with an intensional transitive verb and a modalized relative clause modifying its indefinite object. In their unspecific reading, the modal inside the relative clause seems to lack a semantic contribution and the construal of the relative clause appears spuriously ambiguous between a restrictive and an appositive reading. However, as a thorough discussion of a wide range of data reveals, the embedded modal is actually anaphoric to the matrix attitude and does contribute to the sentence meaning. But then, precisely due to its anaphoricity, this semantic contribution is restricted and in some cases very subtle; in particular, the semantic phenomenon under scrutiny cannot be analyzed as an instance of modal concord. Rather, previous observations on related data involving epistmic anaphoric modals and anankastic conditionals turn out to indicate the direction for an adequate analysis of the relevant semantic observations. For the restrictive construal, a conservative account is developed containing a fine-grained Lewis-Kratzer-style modal semantics, but with a twist: the anaphoricity of the modal is taken care of by restricting the anaphoricity of the modal to the ordering source of the matrix verb; moreover, the embedded modal receives a historical modal base. In this way compositionality issues and problems of cross-identification are avoided. Finally, the non-restrictive construal is analyzed as an instance of modal subordination, exploiting the well-studied parallel between appositive relatives and discourse anaphora.
The Shared Task on Source and Target Extraction from Political Speeches (STEPS) first ran in 2014 and is organized by the Interest Group on German Sentiment Analysis (IGGSA). This volume presents the proceedings of the workshop of the second iteration of the shared task. The workshop was held at KONVENS 2016 at Ruhr-University Bochum on September 22, 2016.
As in the first edition of the shared task the main focus of STEPS was on fine-grained sentiment analysis and offered a full task as well as two subtasks for the extraction Subjective Expressions and/or their respective Sources and Targets.
In order to make the task more accessible, the annotation schema was revised for this year’s edition and an adjudicated gold standard was used for the evaluation. In contrast to the pilot task, this iteration provided training data for the participants, opening the Shared Task for systems based on machine learning approaches.
The gold standard1 as well as the evaluation tool2 have been made publicly available to the research community via the STEPS’ website.
We would like to thank the GSCL for their financial support in annotating the 2014 test data, which were available as training data in this iteration. A special thanks also goes to Stephanie Köser for her support on preparing and carrying out the annotation of this year’s test data. Finally, we would like to thank all the participants for their contributions and discussions at the workshop.
NLP4CMC III : 3rd workshop on natural language processing for computer-mediated communication
(2016)
The present paper reports the first results of the compilation and annotation of a blog corpus for German. The main aim of the project is the representation of the blog discourse structure and relations between its elements (blog posts, comments) and participants (bloggers, commentators). The data included in the corpus were manually collected from the scientific blog portal SciLogs. The feature catalogue for the corpus annotation includes three types of information which is directly or indirectly provided in the blog or can be construed by means of statistical analysis or computational tools. At this point, only directly available information (e.g., title of the blog post, name of the blogger etc.) has been annotated. We believe, our blog corpus can be of interest for the general study of blog structure or related research questions as well as for the development of NLP methods and techniques (e.g. for authorship detection).
The early acquisition of Greek compounds by two monolingual Greek girls aged between 1;8 and 3;0 years is studied in a usage-based theoretical framework. Special importance is attached to the morphological structure of Greek compound types occurring in child speech and child-directed speech. Greek nominal compound formation does not consist in the mere juxtaposition of words or roots, but involves stems as well as a compound marker. Major questions addressed are the transparency of compounds and productive nominal compound formation. Evidence for productivity of nominal compound formation has been found with only one of the two girls. In contrast to other languages, neoclassical nominal compounds by far exceed endocentric subordinative ones tokenwise in Greek child speech and child-directed speech providing evidence of entrenchment rather than productivity.
In a cross-linguistic comparison it is shown that, in spite of the fact that both Standard Modern Greek and German are rich in nominal compounds, their number is much more limited in Greek than in German child speech. An explanation for this apparent paradox is provided by an onomasiological approach to lexical typology based on a sample list of nominal compounds occurring in German child language and their Greek translational equivalents. It has been found that while use of nominal compounds is common in colloquial German including child-centered situations, it is more typical of Greek formal than colloquial registers.
Children’s interpretations of sentences containing focus particles do not seem adult-like until school age. This study investigates how German 4-year-old children comprehend sentences with the focus particle ‘nur’ (only) by using different tasks and controlling for the impact of general cognitive abilities on performance measures. Two sentence types with ‘only’ in either pre-subject or pre-object position were presented. Eye gaze data and verbal responses were collected via the visual world paradigm combined with a sentence-picture verification task. While the eye tracking data revealed an adult-like pattern of focus particle processing, the sentence-picture verification replicated previous findings of poor comprehension, especially for ‘only’ in pre-subject position. A second study focused on the impact of general cognitive abilities on the outcomes of the verification task. Working memory was related to children’s performance in both sentence types whereas inhibitory control was selectively related to the number of errors for sentences with ‘only’ in pre-subject position. These results suggest that children at the age of 4 years have the linguistic competence to correctly interpret sentences with focus particles, which–depending on specific task demands–may be masked by immature general cognitive abilities.