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Die folgende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema des Wortschatzerwerbs im Bereich Englisch als Fremdsprache. Die Relevanz und Notwendigkeit des Erlernens von Vokabular ist für den erfolgreichen Fremdsprachenerwerb unumstritten. Sprachen bauen auf Wörtern, sprich Bedeutungsträgern, auf, die es erst zulassen in einer Sprache miteinander kommunizieren zu können. Die Kommunikation kann mit mangelndem und unausreichendem Wortschatz nur begrenzt stattfinden und Missverständnisse können hervortreten. Daher wird in dieser Arbeit in der Einleitung betont, wie wichtig es ist, den Wortschatz von Studierenden zu fördern und je nach Niveau und Altersstufe die richtigen Methoden zur Vermittlung auszuwählen. Die Arbeit liefert dabei explizit ein Beispiel der Umsetzung. Diese findet im universitären Kontext in einer Vorbereitungsklasse einer privaten Universität (Nişantaşı Universität) in Istanbul statt. Die Student*innen der Vorbereitungsklasse befinden sich auf dem Niveau B1 und erwerben Englisch als Fremdsprache. Ein Teil dieser Arbeit zeigt, wie der Wortschatz zu einem bestimmten Thema, hier Beschreibung von Persönlichkeit/ Aussehen, vermittelt werden kann und geht dabei auf Materialien und Arbeitsvorgänge im Unterricht ein. Es werden ein Vortest und ein Nachtest zum Thema durchgeführt, die die Erfolgsquote vor und nach der Vermittlung messen sollen. Ein zweiter Teil der Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Vergleich des im Englischen zusammengestellten Wortschatzes mit dem entsprechenden Wortschatz im Deutschen, um festzustellen, welche Gemeinsamkeiten und Diskrepanzen zwischen den beiden Sprachen existieren. Die Arbeit resultiert in einem Fazit, welches ein weiteres Mal die Relevanz von dem Wortschatzerwerb im Fremdsprachenunterricht betont.
İletişimin yeni medya aracılığı ile sesli ve görüntülü olarak yapılabiliyor olması eğitimde birçok kolaylığı beraberinde getirmektedir. Bu yeni iletişim ve eğitim şeklinin günden güne insanların hayatına daha çok girmesiyle uzaktan eğitimde nitelik kavramı ve didaktik uygulamaları tartışılmaktadır. COVID-19 pandemisinin ortaya çıkmasıyla eğitim ve öğretimin devamlılığını sağlamak için 2020 yılında birçok ülkede uzaktan eğitime geçilmiştir. Uzaktan eğitimin bu büyüklükteki bir kitleye daha önce uygulanmamış olması bazı olumsuzlukları da beraberinde getirmiştir. Yüz yüze eğitimden kısa bir süre içinde uzaktan eğitime geçiş yapılması gerek öğreticileri gerekse öğrenenleri birtakım yeniliklerle karşı karşıya bırakmıştır. Bu yeniliklerle birlikte çevrimiçi sesli ve görüntülü iletişim araçlarının eğitimde daha aktif olarak kullanılması söz konusu olmuştur. Birtakım sebeplerle eş zamanlı uzaktan eğitimde, iletişim araçlarının kapalı şekilde olmalarından faydalanılmıştır. Bu durum etkili bir iletişim ortamının gerçekleşmesini olumsuz yönde etkileyebilir. Mevcut çalışmada etkili bir eşzamanlı uzaktan eğitimde iletişimin önemi ve iletişimsel süreçleri etkileyen faktörler, ilgili alanyazın doğrultusunda ele alınmıştır. Çalışmada iletişim kavramı ve modelleri, sözlü ve sözsüz iletişim, eğitimde iletişim, yabancı dil eğitiminde iletişim ve uzaktan eğitimde iletişim gibi kavramlar üzerinde durularak, sesli ve görüntülü iletişim türlerinin uzaktan eğitim için iletişim anlamında taşıyacakları önem ve gereklilik tartışılmıştır.
Kovid 19 pandemi sürecinin başlamasıyla Türkiye'de üniversitelerdeki her bölüm, derslerini sahip oldukları uzaktan eğitim olanakları çerçevesinde sürdürmek zorunda kalmıştır. Beklenmeyen bu durum, eğitim sürecinde birçok öğretim alanında olduğu gibi Almanca öğretiminde de birçok problemi beraberinde getirmiştir. Bu bağlamda bu çalışmanın amacı pandemi sürecine bağlı olarak uzaktan eğitimin Almanca eğitimine etkilerini Kovid 19 pandemi süreci ve kısıtlamalara ilişkin genel görüşler, alınan eğitimin uzaktan olmasına ilişkin olumlu ve olumsuz görüşler, teknolojik donanım, öğretim etkinlikleri, materyal boyutu, etkileşim, ölçme ve değerlendirme boyutu ve uzaktan eğitim sürecine ilişkin öneriler olmak üzere sekiz tema altında, Almanca öğretmenliği lisans programında öğrenim görmekte olan öğrencilerin deneyimleri ve görüşleri doğrultusunda araştırmaktır. Bu amaca ulaşmak için nitel araştırma deseni kapsamında olgubilim yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Çalışmanın araştırma grubu Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Almanca Öğretmenliği lisans Programında öğrenim gören öğrencilerden oluşmaktadır. Almanca öğretmeni adaylarının uzaktan eğitime ilişkin görüşlerinin belirlenmesi amacıyla veri toplama tekniklerinden biri olan yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme tercih edilmiştir. Araştırmanın tüm verileri çevrimiçi ortamda videokonferans yoluyla yapılan görüşmelerden elde edilen verilerden oluşmaktadır. Görüşme tekniğiyle elde edilen verilerin analiz edilmesinde betimsel analiz kullanılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda genel olarak uzaktan eğitimin günlük yaşama ve eğitim hayatına olumsuz etkilerinin daha fazla olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Elde edilen bulgulardan Almanca öğretmenliği programındaki alan derslerinin uzaktan eğitime uygun olmadığı, uzaktan eğitim yönteminin 4 temel dil becerisini geliştirmede yeterli olmadığı; ancak uzaktan eğitim sürecinin az da olsa alıcı becerileri geliştirdiği; üretimsel becerileri ise geliştirmediği anlaşılmaktadır.
In der letzten Zeitwende haben sich viele Forscher den neuesten zeitgenössischen Sprachlernmethoden und Techniken für einen effektiveren Sprachunterricht gewidmet. Diese Veränderungstendenzen in Lehr- und Lernpädagogik erfordern in ihrer Umsetzung die individuelle Führung des Lerners. In diesem Zusammenhang entwickeln sich Konzepte der Beratungslehre. Unter diesem Aspekt wurde unter einer 12 Wochen langen, vielseitigen Forscher/Berater-Beobachtung im Studienjahr 2018-2019 eine Aktionsforschung in der Deutschlehrerausbildungsabteilung der Universität Trakya in Edirne durchgeführt. Beabsichtigt wurde dabei, eine institutionell eingerahmte, professionell konzipierte Sprachlernberatung mit Fokus Schreiben zu realisieren. Fernerhin wird in dieser Forschung der Problemfrage, ob DaF-Lerner durch eine individuelle Schreiblernberatung ihren Schreibprozess fördern können, nachgegangen. Die Schreiblernberatungen werden nach einem von der Forscherin eigenständig gestalteten Model durchgeführt. Die Datensammlungen verlaufen zweiteilig quantitativ und qualitativ. Die Resultate der Forschung zeigen, dass von der Sprachlernberatung profitiert wird, diesbezüglich Blockaden und Defizite beim Deutsch Schreiben behoben werden. In diesem weiterführenden Beitrag werden anhand eines Fallballspieles der Forschungsprozess und die Ergebnisse repräsentativ dargelegt.
Hitaplar gerek formal konuşmada gerekse informal dilde belirleyici bir özelliğe sahiptir. Hitaplar konuşmaya, yazmaya veya herhangi bir yazılı belgeye başlarken kullanılan ve göndericinin alıcıya yönelik bakış açısını belirten dilsel ifadelerdir. Hitap edilen kişi veya gruplar muhatap olarak adlandırılır. Selamlama ve hitap araştırmalarında, bir muhataba hitap ederken kullanılan dilsel araçlara hitap biçimleri denir. Dilsel hitap biçimleri, ad ve zamir kategorisine ayrılabilir. Ad kategorisindeki hitap türleri isimlerin, mesleki ve diğer unvanların kullanımını içerir. Hitapların zamir biçimleri kendilerini şahıs zamirlerinde gösterir. Zamirlerin bir alt sınıfı olarak, şahıs zamirleri gönderene veya kişilere atıfta bulunur. Dilsel iletişim hitaplar ile başlar. Herhangi bir konu hakkında birisiyle birdenbire konuşmaya başlamamak toplumsal uzlaşımın bir parçasıdır. Bu bağlamda hitaplar yaşamın her anında yer bulmaktadır. Bu makalede, Türk ve Alman dijital ortamlarda kadınların hitap ifadelerinin incelenmesi amaçlanmaktadır. İnternet günümüzde toplumun h er alanındaki insanların zorunlu bir alışkanlığı haline gelmiştir. Toplumdaki bireyler etkileşimlerini büyük oranda internet aracılığı ile gerçekleştirmekte, sosyal medyayı takip ederek merak ettikleri konular hakkında fikir sahibi olabilmektedirler. Toplumda, arasında kadınların da önemli bir yere sahip olduğu büyük bir kesim günün her anında sosyal medya üzerinden iletişim kurmakta, kurdukları her tür iletişimde farklı hitap türleri sergilemektedir. Bu çalışma, kullandıkları hitaplar açısından kadınların dilsel davranışlarını içermektedir. Bilindiği gibi kadınlar ve erkekler birçok açıdan ayrıdırlar. Kadın ve erkekler arasındaki bu farklılıklar kendine dijital ortamda da yer bulmaktadır. Makalenin birinci bölümünü oluşturan kuramsal kısımda, hitapların tanımından yola çıkılarak konunun ayrıntıları ortaya konacaktır. Çalışmanın uygulama bölümünde, Türkçe ve Almancadaki sosyal medya metinleri her iki dilde hitaplar açısından karşılaştırılarak incelenecektir. Elde edilen veriler kadınların iki dildeki hitap kullanımı bağlamında değerlendirilecektir. Bu değerlendirme sonucunda Türkçe ve Almancada kadın dilinin hitaplar açısından nasıl bir kullanım alanının olduğu görülecek, her iki dilde ne tür farklılıklar ve benzerliklerin gözlemlenebildiği sonucuna ulaşılacaktır. Çalışmada Türkçe ve Almanca hitaplar karşılaştırılacağından inceleme genel olarak kontrastif söylem analizi ve deskriptif-analitik yöntemler doğrultusunda karma bir yöntem ile yürütülecektir.
Als einer der wesentlichen und natürlichen Bestandteile der sprachlichen Kompetenz weisen Kollokationen sowohl in alltäglichen als auch in formellen Kommunikationssituationen einen elementaren Stellenwert auf. Für die Fremdsprachenlerner machen diese vorgeformten Mehrworteinheiten Produktionsschwierigkeiten aus, da sie in den meisten Fällen zahlreiche strukturelle und semantische Unterschiede zwischen Mutter- und zu lernender Fremdsprache aufweisen. Bei der Sprachproduktion neigen die Lerner häufig dazu, die Kollokationen in ihrer Muttersprache wörtlich in die Zielsprache zu übertragen, was vor allem im Falle von Divergenzen zu eventuellen Interferenzfehlern führen kann. Aus diesem Grund verdient die kontrastive Erfassung von Kollokationen in fremdsprachendidaktischer Diskussion ein besonderes Interesse. Ausgehend von diesen Diskussionen bezweckt die vorliegende Untersuchung primär, die somatischen Kollokationen im Deutschen und Türkischen im Rahmen der kontrastiven Phraseologie unter die Lupe zu nehmen und im Lichte dieser interlingualen Betrachtung die Äquivalenzbeziehungen zwischen beiden Sprachen in diesem lexikalischen Bereich darzulegen. Von den bei der Analyse beschriebenen Erkenntnissen sollen einige didaktische Folgerungen für türkische Deutschlerner abgeleitet werden.
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The Romanian folk poetry, especially the Romanian folk ballad raised the interest of German translators in the 19th century, who proved the size of their talent by translating the ballads in German and by popularizing them among the German readers in the country and abroad. The paper focuses on aspects of translation motifs of five German authors (W. von Kotzebue, C.F.W. Rudow, A. Franken, A. Forstenheim, Carmen Sylva) taking into account their life experiences, professional commitments and friendship for the Romanians. The study aims to highlight the principles and difficulties of translation as a result of the authors’ wish to translate the original text as accurately as possible and as close as possible to the spirit of the Romanian folk poetry.
After the events of 1989 pupils exit German language schools with a degree of German language proficiency which is much lower than research suggests it should be, given the amount of exposure to the language they had throughout their years of schooling. Generally, the only reason put forward for this relative lack of success in acquiring the language is the loss of the ethnic German population, which would have, on the one hand, provided the bulk of learners, and on the other hand, offered a rich linguistic environment to the few pupils of other ethnicities who are not native German speakers. In the present work I intend to challenge this mono-causal explanation by presenting the complexity of variables discussed in SLA research.
The present paper focuses on some aspects of the so called wooden language in the german newspaper published in Romania from the pre-revolutionary period, to be exact in the forms of expression of this language identified in the condolences messages on the death of the communist leaders Josef Wissarionowitsch Stalin and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, which were published in the newspaper Neuer Weg (NW) (1953 respectively 1965). The theoretical point of view hold by the author is that of sociolinguistics and pragmalinguistics. At first, the concept wooden language is defined and its most important structural features and means of utterance are identified, the socio-historical background, that encourages the existence of the analysed phenomenon is also explained. The results of the analysis are presented further: the form of expression of the “wooden” statements, their morpho-syntactic, semantic, pragmatic-stylistic structure. The paper contains some final remarks on general characteristics of the written press.
The present contribution is meant as an approach to the debate mentioned in the heading. It is important to find ways, to make on one side the learning and the cultivation of the German language attractive for the young people and on the other side to regain again the peoples’ conscious, here and there, for the centuries-long German culture and history. Teachers of both sexes as well as the students who are going to become teachers are the future multipliers par excellence. Due to a variety of integral pedagogical and linguistic didactical concepts –meant simultaneously for transmitting information, meeting, exchange and networking – there have to be found innovative ideas, precise proposals have to be worked out, which both also strengthen the social relevance of the local Institutions and German Departments respectively Faculties, which qualify teachers for the German language and providing in this way a contribution to the harmonization of the civil society.
The present article focuses on the organization of the “Transylvania” Summer Academy in Sibiu, which aims to stimulate, on the one hand, the promotion of German culture from Romania and Southeastern Europe, one the other hand, keeping the cultural exchanges alive. Apart from presenting a synopsis of German literature in Romania, from its origins up to the present, the article also highlights the perspectives of promoting German culture from Romania through national institutions or institutions in Germany.
The study deals with two texts from the year 1654 that belong to the administrative and judicial documents of The Romanian National Archives in Sibiu. The translation of these documents into Romanian is very important from a historical and linguistic point of view as it reveals to the Romanian reader major aspects regarding the history of Transylvania and the evolution of the German language in this area in the 17th century. The translational analysis goes from Antoine Berman’s ethnocentric vs. ethical theory to Julianne House’s theory of the „overt translation”, process in which the translator decides on a combination of elements from both theories.
The archives in Sibiu hold a large number of German documents of the town council with a great historical and cultural significance for the Romanian reading public. This is the reason why the selective translation of these records is more than welcome. This study deals with the difficulties encountered in the act of translation of some civil, administrative and criminal lawrecords of the town council in Sibiu between 1556 and 1705. The analyzed corpus consists of 20 texts from different periods translated into Romanian by the authors of this study. The registered difficulties are engendered on one side by the language particularities – old or worn out idioms, judicial language, dialectal influences, Latin words and phrases, an intricate structure of the sentences, the defective punctuation, abbreviations and graphic peculiarities of the actuary – and on the other side by the historical and cultural background of Transylvania in those times.
The motif of the „sun wedding“, which has its origin in ancient mythology, can also be found in the Romanian folk ballad The sun and the moon, where the action takes place around the conflict with etiological meaning of the love between brother and sister. So, the ballad tries to explain some natural phenomena and tries to answer the question, why the sun never meets the moon in its way across the sky. Masterpiece of Romanian folk poetry, the ballad of the sun wedding with the moon raised the interest of German translators, who proved the size of their talent by translating the ballad in German and by popularizing it among the German readers in the country and abroad. The present study analyses the variants of translation of five authors in different centuries (the 19th and the 20th century) and aims to highlight the difficulties, the solutions and the takeovers of the time, as a result of the authors’ wish to translate the original text as accurately as possible and as close as possible to the spirit of the Romanian folk poetry.
By focusing human factors by the phraseological nomination, it becomes possible to expose obvious cases as reflections of everyday collective observations, experiences and evaluations considering a certain behavior or action. The subject of this investigation is differently molded phraseological units that permit to be listed under the hypernym ‘THE END OF LIFE BY HUMAN BEINGS’. The execution follows up the role of the linguistic image by the constitution of a slice of reality and gives representative examples of the metaphorization of the concept ‚DECEASE‘ in German, Romanian and Swedish. Productive source domains for the conceptualization of this notion will be considered; this due to the insight that conceptual spheres give keys to thought models, values and ideals anchored in the language.
With the ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRM) the Romanian state guarantees all members of national minorities the right to preserve, develop and express their ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious identity.
The charter offers a catalogue of more than 100 activities; at least 35 should be chosen and put into practice by the member states, as is stated in the Declaration of Commitment.
The article analyses, using the example of “education”, which activities Romania has chosen in its first report on the implementation of ECRM (2010) and how the international commission of experts evaluate the application of the Charter in Romania in their inspection report (2012).
This study offers in its first part a brief description of the text genre, analysing the specific lexical and formal features as well as the specific text composition means. As wedding announcements haven’t been examined from a contrastive (German/Romanian)/intercultural point of view yet, it is relevant to mention some research directions and methods.
The Romanian National Archives in Sibiu keep a wide range of documents concerning the history of the Transylvanian Saxons and the every day life of the city of Sibiu. Although of major interest for historians, linguists and translators, these documents have not been fully studied so far. They represent valuable evidence of the evolution of the former German language spoken on the Transylvanian territory and, if translated into Romanian, could offer to the Romanian reader a new perspective on the Transylvanian Saxons’ history. This paper analyses, in the historic context of the time, the depositions of witnesses in a civil trial during the Austrian billeting in Sibiu in the 17th century and discusses the contents by observing the main structural characteristics of the text.
This paper deals with German and Serbian idioms which contain the numeral seven (germ. Sieben, serb. sedam) in order to determine and analyse the different types of equivalence that exist between these German and Serbian idiomatic expressions. It is also an aim of this paper to define the semantics of the numeral seven or sedam, as the similarities and differences between German and Serbian provide interesting results. The results of this paper are to the benefit of the students in German studies, but also students who study German as a foreign language.
This contribution examines the cooperation between Ludwigsburg University of Education, the Danube-Swabian Cultural Foundation and to a lesser extent the German Academic Exchange Service with respect to partnerships and projects developed with educational institutions in South-Eastern Europe. This is followed by a critical assessment of the achievements so far with some suggestions for improvements and further developments.
The paper shows that experiential education and modern approaches to teaching German as a foreign language (GFL) share a number of characteristics, suggesting that experiential education ought to be integrated in teacher training programs. Based on the feedback received from participants in the experiential education project organised in autumn 2013 by the department of “Pedagogy for Primary and Secondary Schools” at the Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, the paper demonstrates not only that important characteristics of experiential education and principles of modern GFL teaching coincide from a theoretical perspective, but also that this confluence can be experienced at an intuitive and practical level. The project is described in detail and recommended as a possible pilot for other networking projects on German-language teacher training in the Danubian regions.
In this paper there is offered an overview on the possibilities of the German teacher training and its importance in Hungary with a special focus on the German nationality in Hungary, which forms an additional area of the German teacher training. The teacher should not only teach namely German (nationality-) language and culture, but also initiate projects that strengthen the minority’s identity. Also the knowledge and skills tought in the German teacher training are discussed divided on areas.
This paper offers an overview of the presence of the german language and culture in Serbia. The focus lies on the region Vojvodina, as it has the greatest significance for the spread of the German language, culture and literature in Serbia, and there German as a foreign language is still strongly represented in schools. At the same time, it presents the status of the German teacher training in Serbia and discusses some perspectives in this domain.
The aim of the present paper is to describe the geographic diffusion of the family name Pfaff in Germany, starting from the telephone directory of 2005 and retracing the historic linguistic phenomena that led to the formation of this name. Pfaff (mhd. phaffe, md. paffe, nd. pape, southern German Pfaffe “priest” or “churchman”) is explained both as an agnomen and as the name of a profession. Our map represents an addition to the maps that have already appeared in dtv – Atlas Namenkunde (1999), Duden-Familiennamen (2005) and Deutscher Familiennamenatlas (2011), for it additionally and thoroughly renders not? only the geographic diffusion of the family name Pfaff in Germany but also in Transylvania, where the name also exists. [this surname also exists in Transylvania]. The type Pfaff (5056 telephone addresses) is spread all over Germany, but we notice two areas of high frequency: one, according to our expectations, in the southern part of the Benrath Line and on the right of the Germersheim Line, but also on the left of the latter, especially in the rectangle Koblenz – Kassel – Hof – Frankfurt and also in south-western Germany (in Schwarzwald –The Black Forest). The northern version Pape, approximately twice more frequent than Pfaff(e), did not adapt to standard German, due to the negative connotations of the appellative Pfaffe, Pfaffen, which appeared at the same time as the Church Reform in the 16th century. In some places in Transylvania, the surname Pfaff was replaced with the version Prediger. The appellative Pfaffe and the family name Pfaff (in the Saxon language – the Romanian “limba sãseascã”: faf, pfaf ) contributed to the formation of different rural toponyms in Transylvania. The surname Pfaff is spread not only in the German linguistic space, but also in areas where ethnic Germans live (France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, Poland, Romania, USA, Canada, Argentina). In Romania, there are very few Pfaff surnames in telephone books for the 2008-2009 period, due to the massive migration of the German ethnics to Germany after 1990.
This study indicates research areas from the perspective of the German and Romanian language phraseology, areas that are exemplified within the phraseosemantic field of „communication”. The analysis of the current state of research indicates the partial or complete lack of preoccupation, on the one hand, with the metaphorization process and the predominance of the conceptual metaphors in the two languages or the dominance of some components and their analysis from a cultural-specific point of view, and, on the other hand, with the systematization of morphosyntactic or semantic restrictions.
Starting from the peculiar presentation of the geographic spreading of the surname Lutsch in Germany (see the map), based on telephone books from 1995, the aim of the present paper is to reconstruct the history of this last name. Lutsch has its origin in the hypocoristic Lu(t)z(erm. Lud [wig]), it is a German surname specific to Transylvania, being spread especially in its south-western area. The fact that this surname is so rare today (Sibiu, Cindy, Apoldu de Sus, Slimnic, Sebeș, Gârbova, Pianu de Jos, Hunedoara, isolatedly and Brașov, Târgu Secuiesc, Bistrița) is due first of all to the settling of the German ethnics in The Federal Republic of Germany between 1970-1990. It is a coincidence that the name Lutsch can be found today especially in the south of Germany, overlapping with the spreading area of the surname Lutz, for the persons who have this surname do not represent the native population of Southern Germany, but the German emigrants from Transylvania.
The present paper focuses upon a translatological perspective of the cultureme theory, as initially presented by Els Oksaar and developed later by other linguists. By examining a few expressions from a novel of the Romanian-German writer Aglaja Veteranyi and their translations into Romanian, the paper illustrates the categories micro- and macro-cultureme.
The article presents 11 idiom workbooks (some of them displaying a comparative approach) of the 1990s as well as their underlying methodological-didactic concept. The workbooks examined, a number of which have been previously critically assessed by the phraseo-didactic literature, are presented in the chronological order of their publication.
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.
The paper presents the legal framework regulating the selection of alternative school textbooks for German language education in Romanian schools and compares the list of manuals recommended by the Ministry of Education for years 3–12 in 2015/16 with those currently used in practice by teachers. The 20 teachers surveyed for the current study were asked to indicate what textbooks they used in the classroom. Survey results were compared with the ministry-approved lists to check for concordances and discrepancies. Survey participants were further asked to give three reasons for their textbook selection and to indicate whether and to what purpose they used additional text-based resources in their teaching.
In the paper, all German surnames (63 different names) and also the Romanian ones (45 different names) are analyzed from a semantic and statistic perspective. These family names belong to the inhabitants of Petreºti/Sebeº who were the victims of the First World War, of the Second World War and of the communist régime. The names of these 216 people were taken from the commemorative plaques from the Lutheran Protestant Church and on the Heroes’ Monument placed in the yard of the city’s Orthodox Church.
The integration of Sibiu German Language and Literature Studies in European contexts. Lecture during the International Colloquium: Effective Speech in Early New High German: Syntactic and text stylistic aspects (6th of September 2013). The Colloquium was dedicated to Prof. Dr. Monika Hager-Rössing on her 80th birthday.
Vergangenheit und Gegenwart der deutschen Spracheinflüsse an der Germanistikabteilung in Osijek
(2014)
The paper describes the influence of German language on the language and literature in Osijek, Croatia and the way these influences are being researched and kept alive at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek. The German language and culture had a strong impact both on the language and the literature of Slawonia. The literary tradition is taught as a course about 18th and 19th ct literature in Slawonia, the linguistic aspect lives through publications and has the potential to be included in courses or to be used for further research.
The author starts from a study by Maria Fanache and Ilse Fels about Sibiu writers in the years of the „people’s democracy,” i.e. the period around 1960. The outlook and the stylistic structure were typical of socialist realism, while the criteria for the selection of the Romanian and German writers discussed were those of belles-letters adapted to propaganda purposes. The present paper rounds off the convenient aspects of the literature of the time with a series of aspects that had been kept silent or ignored for the sake of avoiding confrontation with certain factual contradictions which the socio-political changes of the „people’s democratic” dictatorship had brought about. In the summer of 1956, the state authorities considered a private literary meeting of over twenty persons an action meant to subvert the official ideology, an attempt to commit a conspiracy, and, later, some of those present came under investigation and served severe prison sentences.
This article is meant as a token of appreciation for the germanist, poet and translator Liana Corciu who taught for a long time at the University of Bucharest, German Department, then emigrated in the USA where she continued her work as a germanist and teacher of German and where she died in 2008. As a germanist she left us an original dissertation on the lyric poetry of Bertolt Brecht and a series of scientific articles, as a poet a number of thematically and stylistically very relevant poems, as a translator some valuable translations of literary texts from German into Romanian.
Translation exercises have always played an important role in teaching/learning foreign languages, ever since the Grammar-Translation method was developed. However, with the emergence of the communicative language teaching in the 70s which focussed on communicative competence as the ultimate goal of language learning, they were considered to be obsolete and inefficient. The present article suggests that the utility of translation – not only where teaching foreign languages is concerned, but also within the field of German studies – should be reassessed, showing that both ”pedagogical” as well as ”communicative” translation can support and improve the study of German language, literature and culture, increase students‘ awareness of both German language and their mother tongue and furthermore contribute to the enrichment of their general knowledge.
This paper proposes to analyse contrastively the phraseological expressions which include proper names in German and Romanian languages and also, to interpret them as cultural elements that generate problems when trying to translate them. It is intended to establish equivalence relations between the onimical expressions of the two languages, suggesting, where it will be the case, the translation strategies.
German language in Romania is being strongly influenced by Romanian, the majority language. In the field of secondary and higher education linguistic interferences that come from Romanian touch types or names of educational institutions, types of didactic activities, types of assessment and examination.
Occasionally the Transylvanian Saxon thesaurus deals with terminology related to certain domains of agriculture. The following article deals with livestock enclosures, fencing erected in the fields for livestock, especially for sheep. The selected case samples are native terms with explanatory compounds, in addition there are terms borrowed mainly from Romanian, less so from Hungarian. The borrowings can mostly be assigned to sheep farming. This branch of agriculture was not familiar to the medieval immigrants, so they were not used to sheep farming. The breeding and herding of sheep was usually left to the Romanian population, the Saxons did not engage in it, even though they owned sheep. The Saxons were more inclined to cattle and pig farming. The terms are mainly extracted from the Transylvanian-Saxon Dictionary (SSWB), the Northern Transylvanian dictionary (NSSWB) as well as other specialized literature.
The North Transylvanian linguist Friedrich Krauss has dealt with the Northern Transylvanian plant inventory in his work “Noesnerlaendish Plant Names” (1943) referring to the town of Bistritz and surroundings. The referenced popular names of the plants are rendered phonetically, the way the linguist heard (understood) them. I have selected 68 descriptive case samples of popular plantnames for my study and have grouped them according to certain criteria. These samples exemplify the fact that the cohabitation of Saxons, Romanians and Hungarians is reflected as well in the ethnographic plant naming phenomenon. They belong to the old Transylvanian vernacular names which the linguist and plantlover, Friedrich Krauss, has saved from oblivion.
The analyzed and translated text represents a judicial protocol of a witch trial from 1697. After a brief description of the general phenomenon of the witch hunt and it’s characteristics in 17th century Transylvania the text is discussed from a point of view of its translation. The most problematic aspects are found in the depositions of the witnesses, which abound in linguistic peculiarities, ranging from archaic structures to dialect. The translator faces a dilemma when having to decide whether to translate the archaic structures into archaic ones, thus preserving the stylistic personality of the text, or into modern Romanian, which would mean creating an “open translation”. In any case the translation should not neglect the informative and oral character of the source text.
The topic of this article relies on the assumption that books are unfortunately more and more driven to the wall while series products that are created for a short-term communication remain fashionable. The assessment of the forms and contents considered to be fashionable depends on ratings while the aesthetic criteria, authenticity and depth of the messages are simply ignored. The language and the style of both the printed and the visual media fashionable products are at a level just sufficient to convey messages with stereotyped expressions. Although easy to understand and relaxing, they remain a commodity for a specific audience, a substitute for the real world. For their readers, these series products provide a reading that is consistent with the life they live. Designs and linguistic structures of this trivial journalism are described in this paper.
The article discusses recent history developments in Central and Eastern Europe more than a quarter century after the political change of 1989 on the development of programs at former traditional departments of German studies, the training of teachers for German as a foreign language and the growing importance of German for specific purposes.
This article presents a new dimension of the lexical category of “false friends”. False friends are the result of complex phenomena, exceeding bilingualism, so that they are not to be explained solely within the context of the mother tongue or of the foreign language. Many false friendships, i.e. potential false friends, stem from socalled internationalisms. In this article I discuss, in a concrete manner, based on some examples of Greek words in German, the way in which false friendships build a triangle, going further than the limits of one language pair. The main purpose of the article is to show that the etymological condition, even if only optional in defining false friends, has a major role to play in the international lexical patrimony of European languages.
"Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand ..." : das Diminutiv im Überzetzungsvergleich Deutsch-Rumänisch
(2012)
The paper presents some aspects connected to the system of diminution in German and Romanian, by offering a comparative analysis of the German version of the fairy tale “Snow White” and six Romanian translations of the text. The focus lies on the ways in which the nouns in the text are marked as ‘diminutives’ in German (mainly by adding suffixes, the synthetic diminutives) and the equivalences suggested by the Romanian translators. Although the category ‘diminution’ is common to both languages, there are significant differences in the way it is linguistically expressed. A main part of the paper is devoted to these differences and their reflection in the text.
The present study intends to analyze the literary personality of the German-language writer and translator Alfred Margul-Sperber and his approach to Romanian folk poetry and Romanian folk ballads. Alfred Margul-Sperber is known as a classical German-language poet from Romania, as a discoverer and supporter of literary talent, but also as a brilliant translator. Impressions from his childhood and life experiences contributed to Alfred MargulSperber’s interest for Romanian poets and especially for Romanian folk poetry, which left its own mark on Sperber’s literary creation. The author was fascinated by its plurality of forms, its richness of rhymes, images and sounds. The masterpiece of Romanian folk poetry, “Mioriţa/The little Ewe”-ballad raised the interest of the multilingual translator who proved his outstanding talent by translating the original text into German as accurately as possible and remarkably close to the spirit of the Romanian folk poetry, thus popularizing it among the German readers at home and abroad.