TY - THES A1 - Chikezie, Aloysius Cheta T1 - THE VALUE OF WORK IN NIGERIA with Reference to Laborem Exercens T1 - DER WERT DER ARBEIT IN NIGERIA in Bezug auf Laborem exercens N2 - Work is seen by many thinkers as the fundamental dimension of man`s existence on earth. Through work, he provides his basic necessities on earth and co-operate with God in the work of creation. He received this mandate to work from the very beginning of creation by God. In carrying out this mandate, man every human being reflects the very action of the creator of the Universe. God worked and intended that man who is created in His image and likeness continues the work of creation by working. Even though Man suffers and sweats through work and yet, in spite of all this toil-perhaps in a sense because of it – work is a good thing for man. It is not only good in the sense that it is useful or something to enjoy; it is also good as being something worthy, that is to say something that corresponds to man's dignity that expresses this dignity and increases it. This project examines man as a creature called to work and born into work. It is true that through work, man provides himself and his family with the basic necessities of life and everyday needs for the reason he charges wages for his sweat. Work goes beyond and should exceed the boundaries of the material benefit that comes out of it to the satisfaction and fulfilment for the very purpose we should work. The modern society has attached so much importance to money and material possession, the question then is how do we go along working in the spirit of improvement and renewal of the earth? The modern man understands work only as a means of making his daily bread. For this reason, he engages himself in an occupation that he has little or no interest in. He ends up quarrelling everyday with the people that he or she is supposed to serve through work. The result is low work output and waste of talents and the society loses an opportunity for improvement as every creature is supposed to contribute uniquely. A good example is Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation with a population estimate of about over 170,000,000 people and the sixth Oil producing Nation. N2 - Diese Dissertation betrachet den Mensch als eine Kreatur, die zur Arbeit berufen und in die Arbeit hineingeboren ist. Es ist wahr, dass man durch die Arbeit sich um die Grundbedürfnissen dieses Lebens und um die täglichen Bedarf für selbst und die Familie sorgt, aus diesem Grund verlangt er Lohn für seine Arbeit. Wir alle wissen, wie wichtig das Geld für die Gestaltung des Lebens ist. Allerdings bin ich der Meinung, dass der Grund für die Arbeit die Grenze vom Lohn und vom materiellen Nutzen übersteigen sollte. Vielmehr sollte es bei der Arbeit um die Erfüllung und die Zufriedenheit gehen. In der modernen Gesellschaft, in der viel Wert aufs Geld und auf materiellen Besitz gelegt wird, ist es unbedingt notwendig, sich darüber Gedanken zu machen, wie ernst es den Menschen mit dem Auftrag Gottes die Erde zu erneuern und die Welt zu verbessern ist. Der moderne Mensch versteht den Grund für die Arbeit nur als ein Mittel um das tägliche Brot zu zu erarbeiten. Deshalb sucht er manchmal einen Beruf, für den er keine Interesse hat und am Ende ist er weder mit sich noch mit den anderen die ihre Leistung brauchen zufrieden. Diese Situation raubt der Gesellschaft die Gelegenheit einer Entwicklung, da jeder Mensch etwas dazu beitragen sollte. Ein gutes Beispiel ist Nigeria mit etwa 170.000.000 Einwohnern, dass sehr reich an Mineralöl ist. KW - Nigeria KW - Work KW - Value KW - Laborem KW - Exercens KW - Arbeit KW - Wertschätzung KW - Arbeit KW - Katholische Theologie Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-147592 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pordzik, Ralph T1 - George Orwell’s Imperial Bestiary: Totemism, Animal Agency and Cross-Species Interaction in “Shooting an Elephant”, Burmese Days and “Marrakech” JF - Anglia N2 - This essay argues that Orwell’s representation of animals as companion species offers a strikingly new, as-yet largely neglected view of animal agency and interiority in his work. In “Shooting an Elephant”, Burmese Days and “Marrakech”, the writer’s focus on the social reject is supplemented by a marked sense of community implying human tragedy yet framing it within precariously situated human-animal, colonial or urban-imperial transitions that visualise animals as agents of change and co-shaping species interdependent with the lives of the humans that utilize and domineer them. Animals are required whenever Orwell aspires to shift from isolation to communality, from the self-conscious outsider to the larger realm of ideas framing the world in which his characters strive to overstep the accepted lines of social performance and conformity. Read in and around disciplinary structures of rationalization, Orwell’s animals appear to secure themselves, quite paradoxically, a place within the normative anthropocentric framework excluding them. They extend beyond anthropomorphising or allegorical modes of description and open up bio-political perspectives within and across regimes of knowledge and empathy. Orwell’s writings thus present a challenge to the culturally accredited fantasy of human exceptionalism, collapsing any epistemic space between humans and animals and burying the idea of sustaining radical species distinction. KW - Georgre Orwell KW - Shooting an Elephant KW - Burmese Days KW - Marrakech Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-194200 SN - 1865-8938 SN - 0340-5222 N1 - This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively. VL - 135 IS - 3 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Huettner, Sabrina T1 - Nelson Pressley. American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice: Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, ix + 185 pp, $69.99. JF - Journal of Contemporary Drama in English N2 - No abstract available KW - Rezension Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-194210 SN - 2195-0164 SN - 2195-0156 N1 - This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively. VL - 5 IS - 1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Raphael-Hernandez, Heike T1 - Claudia Deetjen. Re-Imagining Nature’s Nation: Native American and Native Hawaiian Literature, Environment, and Empire. American Studies – A Monograph Series 267. Heidelberg: Winter, 2016, 236 pp., € 45.00. JF - Anglia N2 - No abstract available. KW - literature Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-195398 SN - 1865-8938 SN - 0340-5222 N1 - This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively. VL - 135 IS - 4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Apostolidis -Gkarpousis, Alexandros A1 - Koch, Christian T1 - Convergences et divergences dans les articles «Langage» de Louis de Jaucourt et «Langue» de Nicolas Beauzée. Une comparaison de deux articles de l’Encyclopédie de Diderot et D’Alembert JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - The two articles of «Langage» and «Langue», published in 1765 in the 9th volume of the great French Encyclopédie by Diderot and D’Alembert, treat some essential philosophical questions on the human ability of communication with linguistic signs. Nevertheless, as the two authors Jaucourt and Beauzée did not share completely identic points of view, the comparative lecture of both articles reveals a complementary perspective, particularly relating to the origin of language as a divine gift or humans’ creation for communicative needs. A further aspect of divergence concerns the textual composition of the article « Langage » as a structured informative text, and the article « Langue » as a long and freely composed writing including personal remarks by the author. The following article deals with the potential of approaches to the Encyclopédie in modern linguistics, concretely demonstrated in the comparative analysis of these two articles. KW - Encyclopédie KW - Lumières KW - philosophie du langage KW - Beauzée KW - Jaucourt Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172843 SN - 2510-2613 VL - 3 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schäfer, Elena T1 - Veo veo. ¿Qué ves? Durch Hör-Seh-Verstehen zu Mehrsprachigkeitskompetenz JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - Multilingualism is part of our everyday lives and has recently entered the medium of film. Based on the linguistic diversity of Spanish-speaking countries, the present paper explores multilingualism as a key competence of foreign language learning. Since film provides students with audiovisual access to multilingual situations, a selection of educational videos that form parts of German textbooks will be critically explored concerning the presentation of multilingual phenomena. The results will be discussed in order to contribute to the systematic acquisition of multilingual skills in the sense of language and cultural awareness during classroom learning. KW - Mehrsprachigkeit KW - Hör-Seh-Verstehen KW - Spanisch KW - Lehrwerkanalyse KW - Lernvideo Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172946 SN - 2510-2613 VL - 3 ER - TY - JOUR ED - Bobineau, Julien ED - Callsen, Berit ED - Gold, Martina ED - Goldmann, Julius ED - Hesselbach, Robert ED - Hornung, Christoph ED - Meisnitzer, Benjamin ED - Ravasio, Paola T1 - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik. Band 3 T2 - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - Die Zeitschrift promptus – Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik richtet sich an alle NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen im Bereich der romanistischen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft sowie der Fachdidaktik. Das Ziel der Zeitschrift ist die Förderung der romanistischen Forschung im Allgemeinen und des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses der Romanistik im Besonderen. Sie versteht sich damit als Impulsgeber für junge romanistische Forschung, ohne sich dabei thematisch zu beschränken. KW - Literaturwissenschaft KW - Zeitschrift KW - Romanistik KW - Sprachwissenschaft KW - wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172810 SN - 978-3-946101-02-4 SN - 2364-6705 SN - 2510-2613 VL - 3/2017 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Berneiser, Tobias T1 - Lissabonner Navigationen. Literarische Nautik und heterotopischer Stadtdiskurs in José Cardoso Pires’ Lisboa – Livro de Bordo JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - This article seeks to analyse urban representation in José Cardoso Pires’s Lisboa – Livro de Bordo (1997), a book dedicated to the author’s home city Lisbon, by focusing on its prevailing nautical and maritime imagery. This imagery as well as its tendency to design Lisbon as a city-ship shall be examined with regard to spatial construction in the Livro de Bordo. Urban sailing as well as the recurrent representations of the Portuguese capital’s spaces as heterotopias will be interpreted as approaches to subvert institutional and homogenic discourses on Lisbon. KW - José Cardoso Pires, Lisbon KW - heterotopia KW - urban discourse KW - urban semiotics Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172859 SN - 2510-2613 VL - 3 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hennemann, Anja T1 - «ainda é nova a música, i think» Zur Code-Alternation in portugiesischen online-Diskursen JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - The present paper is concerned with the use of English cognitive verbs like think, mean and guess as well as with fixed expressions that contain these verbs like guess what (?) or think about it in Portuguese online discourses. In the qualitative analysis of examples retrieved from the Corpus do Português (Web/Dialects) I mainly focus on the syntactic behavior of the expressions under survey, also comparing their use and function in the English language. In the final part of the paper I reflect about possible reasons of the employment of English elements in Portuguese conversation. KW - Code-switching KW - Portugiesisch KW - Englisch KW - online-Kommunikation KW - (nonce) borrowing Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172882 SN - 2510-2613 VL - 3 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Book, Bettina T1 - Komplementsätze im Spanischen JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - This paper discusses complementation strategies in Spanish, focusing on a specific construction most speakers are not aware of: the complementation clause preceded by the verb conocer. Not being a typical complement-taking verb, conocer surprises with a stable and persistent presence throughout the centuries, from Old Spanish to Modern Spanish. After giving an introduction into the field of complementation clauses and one of its main focus of study, grammatical mood, this study uses empirical data from the corpus programs CORDE, CREA and CORPES XXI to show the usage and prevalence of the construction in question. In doing so, this analysis gives a quantitative insight, exemplifying the results with several examples from all ages. KW - Syntax KW - Komplementsatz KW - Korpus KW - quantitativ KW - conocer Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172869 SN - 2510-2613 VL - 3 ER -