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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.
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.
The article presents in its first part approaches to the concept of text genres and some milestones in the evolution of text linguistics. The aim of this linguistics consists in the research of different ways of constructing texts, regardles of style and genre. Starting from the premise that some textual elements are indices for the text genres, the article exposes some observations regarding delimitations between text genres and research approaches from the intercultural and interdisciplinary perspective.
Life in Saxon and Romanian neighbourly communities in the common homeland of Transylvania is reflected in the vocabulary of the Transylvanian-Saxon vernaculars. This lingual contact results in “collective bilingualism”, a term used in the respective specialist literature. This contribution aims at the analysis of the loan verbs from a semantic viewpoint, at their classification according to their phonetic levelling to the vernacular phonetic system and at giving recapitulatory comments concerning the loan words’ integration process. The case examples are taken from the Transylvanian-Saxon Dictionary, from the North-Transylvanian-Saxon Dictonary and other specialist literature.
The present paper accumulates information and studies the etymology of the Romanian ethnonym “Aleman” and its versions, beginning from their geographical spread throughout Romania and Germany. The Romanian surnames “Aleman” and “Aloman” (highest prevalence in the area of Transylvania, in the Sibiu and Alba counties), as well as “Aliman”, “Alimănescu”, “Alaman” and “Alman” (highest prevalence in the areas of Muntenia, Oltenia and Dobrogea) do not come from the French term “allman” as their German equivalents “Allman”, “Allmang”, “Lallemand” do, which are concentrated in the Western Germany (in the Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate German federal districts), due to the fact that there are no correspondents to the surnames of the Transylvanian Saxons. Therefore, the origin of these Romanian surnames is more likely to relate to the Turkish term “aleman” (see Iordan, 1983, p. 25 and 23), which also refers to the Germanic tribe of alamans or alemans, having the same meaning of “German”. The geographical proliferation of the “Aleman” and “Aliman” versions of the term is specific to the East to West population migration phenomena. These versions are the only ones existent in today’s Germany. Thus the “Aleman” and “Aliman” surnames are to be found in strongly industrialized centers such as Munich, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Wiesbaden, Bielefeld, Hamburg and not in the area of the German-French frontier (see following map).
Based on the specific use of fixed expressions in everyday communication or in written messages, the paper presents modifications of reiterated discourse (suppresion, addition, substitution, permutation) that are illustrated by adapted common phrases and innovations of text types with formalized language.
In our “House Europe” the exchange of ideas is going on intensively and the multi-cultural societies are in continuous transformation. An interesting example for cultural transfer in a multi-lingual and multi-confessional society is the reception of the St. Martin’s Day combined with the lantern procession organized by the German schools in Transylvania. The schools with German teaching language in Romania became a practice area for intercultural communication. Since 1997, first grade students at German schools in Romania learn from a new reading primer. One of the reading passages, “Our Lantern Festival”, initiated the spreading of a feast which had not been popular before neither with the German speaking minority of the Transylvanian Saxons, nor with the Romanian majority. The Lantern Festival is closely linked to the celebration of St. Martin, who is a European figure of high symbolic power. We can allege that the cultural diversity is an additional value for Europe. In the era of globalization, when migration processes and cultural hybridization are getting more intense, the intercultural communication has to adjust its inherited paradigm to the contemporary dynamics and heterogeneity of cultures.
The present paper aims to analyse the linguistic forms and the discourse strategies used in the written press of the 1950’s in order to unmask the political class enemy and thus to support and validate the political power. The cited examples are taken from the newspaper Neuer Weg and the newspaper Scînteia, which report in many editions show trials of persons who are considered by the political authority to belong to the group of class opponents, those persons being presented in the journalistic texts as class enemy. The language use shows aggressiveness and virulence, schematized linguistic constructions and repetitions, while certain specific features can be identified at lexical, morphosyntactical and pragmatic level. The authoress takes the theoretical stance of sociolinguistics and pragmalinguistics in assessing language facts.
Referenz und Prominenz
(2017)
This article refers to a number of translators, who translate from German to Romanian and also to the bibliography of their translations Georg Aescht, Theochar Alexi, Verona Bratesch (Brateş), Maria Dima, Sextil-Iosif Puşcariu, Daniel Friedrich Rhein, Arnold Roth, Christian W. Schenk
The bilingual phraseography with German contains significant shortcomings regarding both the conceptional orientation of the dictionary and the structure of the dictionary articles. The present paper reflects upon the relevance of certain criteria that are decisive for the quality of a dictionary and aims at showing to what extent the description of the selected phraseologisms is adequate with regard to potential users and the specifics of phraseological phenomena.
The article deals with place names/toponyms in Slovene and German, two languages that were in contact since the 8th century. Local names of geographical features are endonyms and differ from the foreign names (exonyms) for the same feature. Since both languages existed at the same territory because of the political reasons, the Slovene ethnic territory was under a strong influence of German language. Because of that German has a lot of german exonyms for Slovene geographical features and the Slovene language has a lot exonyms for geographical features on german territory. For the bilingual region of Austria where a small Slovene minority lives the bilingual endonyms are typical. The pairs of German and Slovene bilingual toponyms were generated also for international regions. The author discusses the types of bilingual geographical names. The knowledge of such bilingual place names is relevant for many issues such as translation and intercultural linguistics.
The DACH concept is meant to offer both german teachers and german learners a theoretical approach for introducing information about german culture and civilization during language classes. It is based on the idea of pluricentricity, meaning that german language is definded on a cultural level by all places where it is spoken, considering Germany, Austria and Switzerland as it main centers. In the following article various course books and exam training materials are beign analysed with the intent to depict the way this concept is transfered from theory into practice.
The present article encompasses the bibliography of Prof. Horst Schuller, researcher, literature Historian and translator.
Erwin Wittstock (1899-1962), the writer of German expression from Romania, has created a monumental body of works (short stories and novels), which stem from German history and culture from Transylvania. The characters he created are projections of his own life. His novel Januar ’45 oder Die höhere Pflicht, reviewed in the present article from an intercultural point of view, is dedicated to the problem of deportation, a topic which was taboo in the communist regime. His work on the topic is shaped into a novel in Balzacian style, the author writing from the perspective of an eye witness. The problematic invites the description of power, of terror and of repression in totalitarian states. As member of the German community in Romania he depicts the Transylvanian multiethnic and multicultural society in his fiction. The elements of interculturality in his novel can be summarized as: social interethnic relations, imagology, respectively the outlining of the image of otherness, also on a linguistic level.
Nicht selten waren es im Übrigen dieselben Autoren, die zunächst mit heftig-expressiven Worten den Krieg herbeigeredet hatten; die ihn als existenzielles, ästhetisches und erotisches Überwältigungserlebnis feierten und die – zumal nach den blutigen Ernüchterungen von Langemarck und anderen Schlachterlebnissen in der Frühphase des Ersten Weltkriegs – sein Zerstörungswerk und die mit ihm verbundenen materiellen und ideellen Katastrophen entsetzt und erschüttert, leidenschaftlich und in messianisch-erlösungsgieriger Manier zu verbannen versuchten. Die sog. expressionistische Generation ist für diese "Ambivalenz" das immer wieder zitierte Beispiel; auch wenn der Terminus "Ambivalenz" in meiner Sicht für einen solchen Wandel vom Kriegstaumel zum Pazifismus eigentümlich euphemistisch klingt. Ich möchte im Folgenden an einigen Beispielen den rhetorischen und thematischen, den stilistischen und den analytischen Überschwang veranschaulichen, mit dem Autoren und Autorinnen vor, während und nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg die Gewalt der Zerstörung entweder ersehnten oder beklagten, bejubelten oder betrauerten (vgl. Buelens 2014). Das Spektrum von hierfür möglichen Autoren und Texten, Positionen und Publikationen ist viel zu groß, als dass die folgenden Überlegungen Anspruch auf Repräsentativität erheben könnten; mit der getroffenen Auswahl soll gleichwohl der hier interessierende Konnex zwischen Wortgewalt und Kriegserfahrung möglichst aussagekräftig vergegenwärtigt werden.
Die XII. Tagung des Verbandes der Deutschlehrer und Germanisten der Slowakei (SUNG), die vom 30. Juni – 02. Juli 2016 an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Comenius-Universität in Bratislava stattgefunden hat, widmete sich dem Verhältnis von Gewalt und Sprache. Die literaturwissenschaftlichen Beiträge dieses Hefts dokumentieren die Breite und zugleich auch die historische Bedeutung dieses Themas, dem durch das Gedenken an die sich jährende europäische "Urkatastrophe", den Ersten Weltkrieg, eine besondere Aktualität zukam.
Die soziokultivierte gewaltfreie Kommunikation bedeutet eine kultivierte Konfrontation der Selbstprojektionen der Kommunikationsteilnehmer. Soziokultivierte Kommunikation wird dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie korrekt ist. Das Wesen der Korrektheit jeder Kommunikation bildet die Proportionalität zwischen den Akkommodations- und Assimilationsprozessen. Diese Proportionalität bedeutet, dass alle beteiligten Kommunikationsteilnehmer über eine angemessene Egomobilität verfügen. Diese beruht auf dem Gleichgewicht zwischen Egozentrismus und Allozentrismus (vgl. Dolník 2009:76–78). Die einzelnen Kommunikanten bemühen sich nicht nur um die Durchsetzung der eigenen Selbstinterpretation (der eigenen Werte und Normen, Kommunikationsstile, Einstellungen, Gefühle, Verpflichtungen, Beziehungen, Überzeugungen, Verhaltensweisen, Erwartungen, Bedürfnisse usw.), sondern gleichermaßen um das Verständnis der Selbstinterpretation ihres Kommunikationspartners. Eine effiziente Kommunikation geht Hand in Hand mit der Problemlösungsstrategie der Konfliktbewältigung. Sie geht davon aus, dass jeder Konflikt ein Problem darstellt, das grundsätzlich lösbar ist und dessen gemeinsame Lösung den beiden Konfliktseiten Vorteile bringt.