TY - JOUR A1 - Senaratne, Hansi A1 - Mühlbauer, Martin A1 - Kiefl, Ralph A1 - Cárdenas, Andrea A1 - Prathapan, Lallu A1 - Riedlinger, Torsten A1 - Biewer, Carolin A1 - Taubenböck, Hannes T1 - The Unseen — an investigative analysis of thematic and spatial coverage of news on the ongoing refugee crisis in West Africa JF - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information N2 - The fastest growing regional crisis is happening in West Africa today, with over 8 million people considered persons of concern. A culmination of identity politics, climate-driven disasters, and extreme poverty has led to this humanitarian crisis in the region and is exacerbated by a lack of political will and misplaced media attention. The current state of the art does not present sufficient investigations of the thematic and spatial coverage of news media of this crisis in this region. This paper studies the spatial coverage of this crisis as reported in the media, and the themes associated with those locations, based on a curated dataset. For the time frame 12 March to 15 September 2021, 2017 news articles related to the refugee crisis in West Africa were examined and manually coded based on (1) the geographical locations mentioned in each article; (2) the themes found in the articles in reference to a location (e.g., Relocation of people in Abuja). The dataset introduces a thematic dimension, as never achieved before, to the conflict-ridden areas in West Africa. A comparative analysis with UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) data showed that 96.8% of refugee-related locations in West Africa were not covered by news during the considered time frame. Contrastingly, 80.4% of locations mentioned in the news do not appear in the UNHCR repository. Most news articles published during this time frame reported on Development aid or Political statements. Linear multiple regression analysis showed GDP per capita and political stability to be among the most influential determinants of news coverage. KW - West African refugee crisis KW - news media reporting KW - spatio-thematic coverage Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-313607 SN - 2220-9964 VL - 12 IS - 4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ayala-Carrillo, Mariana A1 - Farfán, Michelle A1 - Cárdenas-Nielsen, Anahí A1 - Lemoine-Rodríguez, Richard T1 - Are wildfires in the wildland-urban interface increasing temperatures? A land surface temperature assessment in a semi-arid Mexican city JF - Land N2 - High rates of land conversion due to urbanization are causing fragmented and dispersed spatial patterns in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) worldwide. The occurrence of anthropogenic fires in the WUI represents an important environmental and social issue, threatening not only vegetated areas but also periurban inhabitants, as is the case in many Latin American cities. However, research has not focused on the dynamics of the local climate in the WUI. This study analyzes whether wildfires contribute to the increase in land surface temperature (LST) in the WUI of the metropolitan area of the city of Guanajuato (MACG), a semi-arid Mexican city. We estimated the pre- and post-fire LST for 2018–2021. Spatial clusters of high LST were detected using hot spot analysis and examined using ANOVA and Tukey’s post-hoc statistical tests to assess whether LST is related to the spatial distribution of wildfires during our study period. Our results indicate that the areas where the wildfires occurred, and their surroundings, show higher LST. This has negative implications for the local ecosystem and human population, which lacks adequate infrastructure and services to cope with the effects of rising temperatures. This is the first study assessing the increase in LST caused by wildfires in a WUI zone in Mexico. KW - fire KW - grassland KW - urban climate KW - burned area KW - periurban Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-297308 SN - 2073-445X VL - 11 IS - 12 ER - TY - JOUR ED - Bobineau, Julien ED - Dembruk, Sofina ED - Eibensteiner, Lukas ED - Goldmann, Julius ED - Hesselbach, Robert ED - Koch, Christian ED - Ravasio, Paola T1 - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik. Band 8 (2022) T2 - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - Die Zeitschrift promptus – Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik erscheint einmal jährlich und wird durch den gemeinnützigen Verein promptus e.V. herausgegeben. Sie richtet sich an alle Nachwuchswissenschaftler im Bereich der romanistischen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft sowie der Fachdidaktik und bietet diesen die Möglichkeit, in einem frühen Stadium ihrer akademischen Laufbahn qualitativ hochwertige Arbeiten zu publizieren. Zudem versteht sich die Zeitschrift als Impulsgeber für junge romanistische Forschung, ohne sich dabei thematisch zu beschränken. KW - Literaturwissenschaft KW - Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft KW - Sprachwissenschaft KW - Fachdidaktik KW - Romanistik Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329813 SN - 978-3-946101-08-6 SN - 2364-6705 SN - 2510-2613 VL - 8/2022 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schneider, Melanie T1 - « [C]’est absurde d’être bloqué sur une autoroute » – Das Motiv des Staus in der zeitgenössischen romanischen Literatur JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - Due to an ever-increasing number of automobiles on the roads, automobility fails more and more to fulfil its promise of free individual mobility, leading to traffic density and congestions of unprecedented proportions. However, those conditions seem to possess an aesthetic potential which we seek to analyze in terms of literature. Therefore, we are going to look on three novels from Romance-language areas: Julio Cortázar’s short story La autopista del sur (1966), Carlo Lucarelli’s novel Autosole (1998) and Grégoire Gauchet’s novel Les robinsons de l’autoroute (2018). First, we will analyze the nature of deceleration/congestion by referring to human geographer Tim Cresswell’s concept of friction. Second, we will examine recurring motifs linked to the deceleration/congestion in all novels before taking a closer look at Gauchet’s novel where the friction not only applies to traffic but also to human relationships. The aim is to look at different literary representations of an everyday experience like traffic congestion and to see how literature deals with such an occurrence. KW - traffic congestion KW - friction KW - motorway KW - immobility KW - car culture Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329807 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Nabi, Haifaa T1 - La Nausée : Salut par l’art ou par les autres ? JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - In this article dedicated to Jean-Paul Sartre’s first novel La Nausée, we analyze how the idea of conversion to art grows in the imagination of the hero, Antoine Roquentin. Furthermore we show that all the narrative actions in the novel are based on the hero’s communicational interaction with the other characters. This lonely person who complains in his diary about social exclusion, yet he converts to art not through his reflections, but through communica-ting with the other characters. Also, many critical studies on La Nausée have considered jazz music that the hero listens to in a café as the critical moment of his conversion. In our opinion this reflects juste one phase of a connected sequence of events through which the hero passes from a state of relational negativity and existential alienation to a state of openness, achieved again mainly by the virtue of other characters. KW - conversion to art KW - others KW - communication KW - writing KW - loneliness Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329799 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kreiner, Lea T1 - Das Genus im Sprachvergleich: Genuszuweisung bei substantivischen Lehnwörtern im Deutschen und Spanischen JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - This article examines principles of gender assignment in the German and Spanish language and in this way tries to answer the question of why loanwords are preferably assigned a particular gender and what criteria motivate this choice. After introducing some general aspects about gender as well as some important properties of the German and Spanish gender systems, this paper compares several formal (morphological and phonological) and semantic rules regarding gender assignment. Despite large structural differences between the languages, the comparison shows that the assignment rules prove to be in a sense cross-lingual, which do not only testify to the assumption but also the validity of an underlying system of rules. KW - gender assignment KW - loanwords KW - German KW - Spanish KW - contrastive linguistics Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329784 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Henk, Lars Thorben T1 - Édouard Louis’ «J’accuse». Ein spätmoderner Adept Zolas? JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - French history of literature is undoubtedly characterized by a tradition of social criticism portraying the working class’ misery that can be traced back at least to the 19th century. Among these depictions, Zola’s novels have a prominent position. This is, among other aspects, due to their pretended scientific foundation and their pretentious claims to be scientific studies. The contemporary author Édouard Louis situates himself in this tradition of Zola’s naturalism. This invites us to examine the interrelation between Zola and Louis more closely. Based on the common ground of scientific foundation, scientific ambition and social commitment pursued in their novels, it will be demonstrated that Louis is a late-modern Zola whose milieu and character descriptions follow in detail Zola’s constructions. KW - Zola KW - misery KW - literature KW - scientific novel KW - Louis Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329777 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Harjus, Jannis T1 - El aliento xeneize: Eine diskurslinguistische Analyse von Fangesängen der Anhänger des argentinischen Clubs Boca Juniors JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - In this contribution, chants of the followers of the Argentine football team Boca Juniors are analyzed with regard to possible identity constructions and othering. The results of the corpus-driven discourse-linguistic analysis demonstrate in particular metaphors and topoi that can be highlighted as a constitutive part of the discursive construction of a Boca Juniors supporters’ identity and the otherings of River Plate hinchas. Through the use of certain metaphors and determined lexical fields that clearly call for acts of violence, a masculine ethos is discursively constructed among Bocas own followers, which goes far beyond comparable insulting and cheering chants of comparable European football teams. KW - superclásico KW - linguistic discourse analysis KW - football chants KW - Argentinian Spanish KW - topoi Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329768 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haidacher, Bernhard T1 - The concept of confix in German, French, and Italian – a comparative study JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - Despite some critical voices, in German linguistics the concept of confix can meanwhile be considered as an established morpheme category. Schmidt (1987) introduced the term into German to describe bound morphemes that are lexical, but not inflectable. Since the 2000s, an increasing number of publications deal with the phenomenon and the term has begun to enter linguistic reference works as well. In French, the situation is completely different due to the structure of the language (poor in compounds and mostly post-determinative). Although the term and the concept have originall y been coined by the French structuralist André Martinet ([1961] \(^3\)1980 ), the denomination itself is barely present in Romance linguistics. French researchers usually take different approaches to discuss the phenomenon (e.g., neoclassical compounds, constructed lexemes). In Italian, the denominations confisso/ confissazione are first used by De Mauro (1999), who adopts both the term and concept directly from Martinet; moreover, they can be found in some contributions on word formation and lexicology (e.g., Adamo/Della Valle 2008). Nevertheless, the Italian termino-logy remains heterogeneous, with some researchers still using the terms prefissoide/suffissoide coined by Migliorini (1963). As I will show by comparing the languages in question, the terminology and the concept of confixes vary greatly between Romance and Germanic languages. KW - morphology KW - confixes KW - word-formation KW - theoretical and contrastive linguistics KW - German/French/Italian Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329756 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cristalli, Marco Antonio T1 - Ein Mann ohne Ehrgeiz, Konturen und Tatendrang – Parodierung von Männlichkeitsnormen in Jean-Philippe Toussaints Monsieur (1986) JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - The nameless protagonist of the postmodern novel Monsieur, written by Belgian author Jean-Philippe Toussaint, can be described as a rather strange man. He lacks ambition, a drive for action and seems to be unfit for daily life. He constantly fails to accomplish his predestined role as a real man, as for instance to pay the bill for dinner when dating a woman. The scope of the present paper is to analyse, on the one hand, how this novel deconstructs hegemonial concepts of masculinity but, on the other hand, is in itself also a parody of the latter. KW - Cultural Anthropology KW - literary minimalism KW - Masculinity Studies KW - Postmodernism Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329747 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brinkmann, Lisa Marie T1 - Zum Sprachkontakt Maya und Spanisch: Empirische Studien zur kontaktinduzierten Grammatikalisierung im Maya JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - The aim of this article is to document the outcomes of language contact between Yucatecan Maya and Mexican Spanish. In order to do so, two theories are applied to newly assembled data, gathered during a field study in 2019 in YucaThe aim of this article is to document the outcomes of language contact between Yucatecan Maya and Mexican Spanish. In order to do so, two theories are applied to newly assembled data, gathered during a field study in 2019 in Yucatán: The Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2011) and Heine/Kuteva’s contact-induced grammaticalization (2003). The village Xocén in which the field study was conducted is characterized by monolingualism in Maya as well as bilingualism in Spanish and Maya. Data was collected to investigate the influence of Spanish on Mayan morphology, especially on the use of the subjunctive. I propose that the data can best be explained by combining the Interface Hypothesis with Heine/Kutevas’s (2003) approach.tán: The Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2011) and Heine/Kuteva’s cThe aim of this article is to document the outcomes of language contact between Yucatecan Maya and Mexican Spanish. In order to do so, two theories are applied to newly assembled data, gathered during a field study in 2019 in Yucatán: The Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2011) and Heine/Kuteva’s contact-induced grammaticalization (2003). The village Xocén in which the field study was conducted is characterized by monolingualism in Maya as well as bilingualism in Spanish and Maya. Data was collected to investigate the influence of Spanish on Mayan morphology, especially on the use of the subjunctive. I propose that the data can best be explained by combining the Interface Hypothesis with Heine/Kutevas’s (2003) approach.ontact-induced grammaticalization (2003). The village Xocén in which the field study was conducted is characterized by monolingualism in Maya as well as bilingualism in Spanish and Maya. Data was collected to investigate the influence of Spanish on Mayan morphology, especially on the use of the subjunctive. I propose that the data can best be explained by combining the Interface Hypothesis with Heine/Kutevas’s (2003) approach. KW - Sprachkontakt KW - Yukatekisches Maya KW - mexikanisches Spanisch KW - Schnittstellenhypothese KW - kontaktinduzierte Grammatikalisierung Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329734 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 8 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Agbokhan, Serena A1 - Sandig, Anna A1 - Haas, Thea A1 - Valentin, Francesca A1 - Gasteiger, Annika A1 - von Keller, Anna A1 - Friedmann, Fiona A1 - Wicht, Rebecca A1 - Wintermeyer, Nina A1 - Hofmann, Anna-Lena A1 - Liebich, Alexander A1 - Bördlein, Sophie A1 - Lüderitz, Cathrin A1 - Philipp, Sonja A1 - Watermann, Anne A1 - Hercher, Anna ED - Nelson-Teutsch, Hannah T1 - Insights; N2 - The cluster of texts assembled here were imagined, crafted, and brought together as a collaborative writing project that emerged from the seminar titled "Words Matter Worlds: Activist Scholarship and Literary Praxis," which convened over the course of the 2021/22 winter semester as an offering of the American Studies department of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. Like the seminar that nurtured the considerations that evolve here, these contributions engage with how scholarly writing practices in general, and literary and cultural studies in particular, can remake the world. KW - Aktivist KW - Literaturwissenschaft KW - Amerikanistik KW - Feminist KW - Kreatives Schreiben KW - Activist Scholarship KW - Literary and Cultural Studies KW - American Studies Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-317007 SN - 978-3-945459-44-7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgärtner, Ingrid A1 - Kern, Manfred A1 - Leven, Karl-Heinz A1 - Toepfer, Regina T1 - Mittelalter erschließen JF - Das Mittelalter N2 - Research communication has been gaining public attention in recent years. Therefore, medievalists also need to focus on the transfer of their research topics to the public both within and outside the university. Based on current political demands calling for a change in communication culture, the article first of all deals theoretically with two different concepts of research communication, by distinguishing between forms of translation and those of popularization. Numerous public events, exhibitions, and cooperative projects with cities, schools, adult education centres, museums, and other educational institutions show that knowledge about the Middle Ages has been trans-mitted to interested laypersons for a long time. The authors see a particular challenge in the alterity of medieval culture, which at the same time provides an excellent opportunity for transferring research findings into society. The fascination with medieval materiality facilitates the transfer of knowledge by those disciplines that work with concrete objects, addressing issues of visuality and aesthetic experience. The article pinpoints conditions, strategies, and perspectives of successful research communication in medieval studies, and when focussing on cur-rent topics, the authors refer to concrete occasions and regional examples, showing why medieval research is still relevant today. KW - Wissenschaftskommunikation KW - Wissenschaftstransfer KW - Vermittlung KW - Übersetzung KW - Popularisierung Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-299110 UR - https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/mial/article/view/24310 SN - 0949-0345 VL - 26 IS - 1 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jetter, Tobias A1 - Ackermann, Zeno A1 - Snyder-Körber, MaryAnn ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Acknowledgements T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - cultural studies Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305790 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ackermann, Zeno A1 - Snyder-Körber, MaryAnn ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Series Foreword : JMU Cultural Studies – Strategies for Struggling with the Obvious T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - Kulturwissenschaften KW - Hall, Stuart KW - Globalisierung KW - Kulturwissenschaft KW - cultural studies KW - Nationale Traditionen KW - national traditions KW - Transnationalismus KW - transnationalism Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305801 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jetter, Tobias ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Introduction : Global Cultural Studies? T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - Kulturwissenschaften KW - Globalisierung KW - Kulturtheorie KW - Kulturpolitik KW - Sozialphilosophie KW - cultural studies KW - globalization KW - cultural theory KW - cultural politics KW - social philosophy Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305815 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Roy, Abhilasha ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Countercultures around the World: A Postcolonial Reading of Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - Kulturwissenschaften KW - Globalisierung KW - Gilroy, Paul: The Black Atlantic KW - Nationale Minderheiten KW - Rassismus KW - cultural studies KW - globalization KW - Gilroy, Paul: The Black Atlantic KW - minorities KW - racism Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305829 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Koch, Louisa ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Cultural Studies as a Question of Stance T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - Kulturwissenschaften KW - Internationalität KW - Alltagskultur KW - Williams, Raymond KW - Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty KW - cultural studies KW - internationalism KW - ordinary culture KW - Williams, Raymond KW - Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305845 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Khapai, YS Sochuiwon Priscilla ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Rethinking the Culture of Education with Raymond Williams T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - Kulturwissenschaften KW - Willams, Raymond KW - Alltagskultur KW - Bildung KW - Indien KW - cultural studies KW - Williams, Raymond KW - ordinary culture KW - education KW - India Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305854 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Chakraborty, Adreeta ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Political and Cultural Negotiations with Feminism in India: A Perspective T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - Kulturwissenschaften KW - Feminismus KW - Indien KW - Theorie KW - Praxis KW - cultural studies KW - feminism KW - India Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305866 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Heisters, Anne ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Women as Other? – Women and Other T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - Feminismus KW - Rassismus KW - Nationale Minderheiten KW - Sprachgebrauch KW - Medien KW - feminism KW - racism KW - minorities KW - discourses of gender and ethnicity KW - politics of representation Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305875 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Rishi, Tushar ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Marxism and Contemporary Cultural Studies T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - Kulturwissenschaften KW - Marxismus KW - Postmarxismus KW - Hall, Stuart KW - Indien KW - cultural studies KW - Marxist theory KW - post Marxism KW - Hall, Stuart KW - India Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305882 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Döring, Adrian ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - A New International T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - Kulturwissenschaften KW - Marxismus KW - Internationalität KW - Subjektivität KW - Widerstand KW - cultural studies KW - Marxist theory KW - internationalism KW - subjectivity KW - subversiveness Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305898 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Saundarya, ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Food Cultures: Dynamics of Caste, Gender, Religion, and Class in India T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - Kulturwissenschaften KW - Nahrung KW - Kaste KW - Geschlecht KW - Religion KW - cultural studies KW - food cultures KW - caste system KW - gender KW - religion Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305901 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schönfeld, Sophie ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Western Constructions of Disability and Local Systems of Knowledge: A Look at the Problematic Aspects of Intercultural Work T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - Behinderung KW - Pädagogik KW - Interkulturalität KW - Representation KW - Lokales Wissen KW - disability KW - education KW - intercultural pedagogy KW - politics of representation KW - local culture of knowledge Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305910 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Chaturvedi, Ridhi ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Female Suicidality and Its Cultural Aspects: Watching the “Living Dead” in Deepa Mehta’s Water T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - Film KW - Indien KW - Mehta, Deepa KW - Gewalt / Frau KW - Selbstmordgefährdung KW - Suizidalität KW - film analysis KW - India KW - Mehta, Deepa KW - suppression of women KW - suicidality Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305927 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wohlfahrt, Saskia ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Rethinking Cultural Studies: From the Role of the Intellectual to Transnational Feminism T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - Kulturwissenschaften KW - Feminismus KW - Internationalität KW - Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty KW - Wallace, Michele KW - cultural studies KW - feminism KW - transnationalism KW - Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty KW - Wallace, Michele Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305935 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mantraraj, Sudeeti Geeta ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Strategies for Survival and Resources for Resistance T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - Kulturwissenschaften KW - Indien KW - Williams, Raymond KW - Hall, Stuart KW - Jameson, Frederic KW - cultural studies KW - India KW - Williams, Raymond KW - Hall, Stuart KW - Jameson, Frederic Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305948 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jetter, Tobias ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Afterword : Engaged Scholarship in Practice; or: How to Look Back into the Future T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - Kulturwissenschaften KW - Globalisierung KW - Wiliams, Raymond KW - Hall, Stuart KW - Politische Ethik KW - cultural studies KW - globalization KW - Williams, Raymond KW - Hall, Stuart KW - moral elitism Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305953 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Contributors T2 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - No abstract available. KW - Contributors Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-313258 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - BOOK ED - Jetter, Tobias T1 - Global Cultural Studies? Engaged Scholarship between National and Transnational Frames N2 - Can cultural studies attend to the problems of our globalized world? Or is this project of “engaged scholarship” too deeply rooted in the parochial terrain of the national? This collection of essays – the first volume in the new JMU Cultural Studies publication series – attends to this vital yet difficult question. Based on joint seminars bringing together emerging scholars from Germany and India, the contributions confront “classic texts” from US-American, British, and Indian cultural studies with the specific concerns and contemporary perspectives of the authors. The collection thus tests the potentials of the tradition to speak to the transnational as well as the national environments of the very present. Emphasis is placed on Marxist and feminist legacies, which are then projected into the domains of contemporary disability, food, and film studies. T3 - JMU Cultural Studies - 1 KW - Globalisierung KW - Kulturwissenschaft KW - Kulturtheorie KW - Kulturpolitik KW - Sozialphilosophie KW - globalization KW - cultural studies KW - cultural theory KW - cultural politics KW - social philosophy Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305425 SN - 978-3-95826-206-5 SN - 978-3-95826-207-2 N1 - Parallel erschienen als Druckausgabe bei Würzburg University Press, ISBN 978-3-95826-206-5, 27,80 Euro. PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ET - 1. Auflage ER - TY - JOUR ED - Bobineau, Julien ED - Dembruk, Sofina ED - Eibensteiner, Lukas ED - Goldmann, Julius ED - Hesselbach, Robert ED - Koch, Christian ED - Ravasio, Paola T1 - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik. Band 7 (2021) T2 - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - Die Zeitschrift promptus – Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik erscheint einmal jährlich und wird durch den gemeinnützigen Verein promptus e.V. herausgegeben. Sie richtet sich an alle Nachwuchswissenschaftler im Bereich der romanistischen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft sowie der Fachdidaktik und bietet diesen die Möglichkeit, in einem frühen Stadium ihrer akademischen Laufbahn qualitativ hochwertige Arbeiten zu publizieren. Zudem versteht sich die Zeitschrift als Impulsgeber für junge romanistische Forschung, ohne sich dabei thematisch zu beschränken. KW - Literaturwissenschaft KW - Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft KW - Sprachwissenschaft KW - Fachdidaktik KW - Romanistik Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305711 SN - 978-3-946101-06-2 SN - 2364-6705 SN - 2510-2613 VL - 7/2021 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vatter, Christoph T1 - Interview mit Prof. Dr. Christoph Vatter JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - Interview mit Prof. Dr. Christoph Vatter KW - Interview Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305703 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Scholz, Janek T1 - Sérgio Zimbas Covid-19-Karikaturen im Kontext öffentlicher Gesundheitsfürsorge in Mosambik JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - The article deals with the educational comics of the Mozambican artist Sérgio Zimba, especially in the context of the current pandemic situation caused by Covid-19. First, comics from and comic research on Africa will be presented, especially in their repercussion within the German-language comics landscape. This will be followed by a discussion of the special situation in lusophone Africa, exemplified and illustrated by the works of the Mozambican cartoonist Sérgio Zimba. The article closes with a brief comparison of Zimba’s work with the cartoons of Sérgio Piçarra from Angola, to better classify the artist's work. KW - Lusitanistik KW - Luso-Afrika KW - Mosambik KW - Comic Studies KW - Covid-19 KW - Sérgio Zimba Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305692 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klamp, Yannic T1 - Alma und ánima in spanisch-zapotekischen Evangelisierungswerken: die Translation des Konzepts Seele im kolonialen Missionskontext (Neu-Spanien, 16.-18. Jh.) JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - The arrival of the Spanish in present-day Oaxaca, Mexico, led to manifold communicative challenges and was the origin of the first written documents in the local indigenous languages. This paper focuses on Spanish-Zapotec translations produced by Christian missionaries during the colonial period. In this context, it aims to investigate the expression of the concept of soul in their catechisms and confesionarios by analyzing chronologically how different authors apply the Spanish synonyms alma and ánima. On the one hand, we can observe some similar tendencies in central Mexican documents for the early colonial period so that we can assume that the corpus was influenced by Nahuatl translations. On the other hand, there is an independent development in Spanish-Zapotec translations not only regarding the target text but also the source text. KW - colonial Mexico KW - Spanish-Zapotec translations KW - missionary texts KW - catechisms KW - loanwords Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305681 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kneifel, Malte T1 - Futur-Formen und ihre Funktionen im Português Arcaico JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - This article aims to trace the development of different verb forms that express future tense of Old Portuguese from the 13th to the 15th century by analyzing a historical text corpus. During this period, Portuguese future tense could be expressed through one synthetical as well as two analytical morphological verb constructions. Adapting an analytic model formerly employed by the Mexican researcher Concepción Company Company for an investigation of similar future tense forms in Old Spanish, this article seeks to point out that the use of the different verb forms in Portuguese followed distinct functions regarding aspects of both information structure as well as modality. KW - historical linguistics KW - Portuguese future tense KW - Old Portuguese KW - modality KW - information structure Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305673 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Henk, Lars Thorben T1 - «We’re on the road to nowhere» – Felwine Sarrs narrativer Weg in die Afrotopie JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - According to the Senegalesian scholar Felwine Sarr who conceives an African utopia in his programmatic essay Afrotopia (2016), this Afrotopos has already germinated in contemporary African literature. However, it still needs to be enquired to what extent the narrated topos of the street in Sarr’s own anthology 105 Rue Carnot (2011) has already realized the Afrotopos. In order to respond to this question, we would like to mobilise Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, which elaborates on the interactions between truth production/knowledge, power and space, and permits us to conceive of «les lieux utopiques» (Foucault 2005: 40) as actually locatable on the map and real other places outside of all places (cf. Foucault 1994: 755). Thus, in the street, a different relationship between global North and South is founded, which becomes legible as an African «utopie localisée» (Foucault 2005: 41) that Sarr calls for in Afrotopia (2016). KW - utopia KW - heterotopia KW - street KW - space KW - power Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305662 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dittmann, Lara A. T1 - Sprach- und Kommunikationsnuancen in literarischen Interspeziesbegegnungen – Juan Ramón Jiménezʼ Platero y yo (1914/1917) und Thomas Manns Herr und Hund (1919) JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - The encounter with non-human animals has always been a major preoccupation in the (philosophical) quest of understanding the human (condition). Of course, they are not only present in literary texts, but also in other media such as music and art. We consider ourselves aware of their selves, natures and skills as well as their sensory perceptions. Indeed, the ways we interact with non-human animals in everyday life and in the fictional world, how we perceive, think and talk about them as well as how we communicate with them are often related to our own self-perceptions in the social collective and in social-historical discourse. If we take a closer look at literary interspecies relations, we can detect clear shades in language and communication. Based on the approaches of Human-Animal Studies, this article deals with those nuances regarding animal-human encounters in Juan Ramón Jiménez’ Platero y yo (1914/1917) and Thomas Mann's Herr und Hund (1919) in a comparative perspective. In addition to this, a special focus is placed on the effect these elements can have on (inter)acting literary subjects as well as on extra-textual recipients. KW - Human-Animal Studies KW - interspecies encounters KW - Platero y yo KW - Herr und Hund KW - animal-human relations Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305658 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - de Cringis, Patricia T1 - 100 Jahre Vokalschwächung in den tierras altas: historische Perspektiven eines (zu) wenig beachteten Aussprachemerkmal JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - This paper deals with the origin of the hundred-year old theory of tierras bajas and tierras altas, focusing on the description of vowel weakening within that theory developed in 1921 by Henríquez Ureña. I argue that the early conception of vowel weakening and its dialectal distribution has strongly influenced the kind of research we have been conducting about this phonetic feature to this day. The aim of this study therefore, is to sharpen our understanding of the former zeitgeist of research and to stimulate further big data-based studies on vowel weakening overcoming the traditional dialectal division of tierras bajas and tierras altas. KW - tierras bajas KW - tierras altas KW - Vokalschwächung KW - Andalucismo KW - Antiandalucismo Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305638 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Christmann, Tim T1 - Grenzerfahrung, Grenzüberschreitung, Grenzüberwindung: Das Falkland/Malvinas Malvinas-Trauma in Lola Arias’ Film Teatro de Guerra (2018) JF - promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik N2 - This article will examine the cinematic approach to the trauma of the Falklands/Malvinas War in Lola Ariasʼ film Teatro de Guerra (AR/ES, 2018). The armed conflict between Ar-gentina and Great Britain in 1982 can be understood as a traumatic liminal experience, whose artistic reception pushes conventional aesthetics to their limits and calls for innova-tive representational strategies. Based on a cultural studies approach to the Falklands/Mal-vinas War as a collective trauma, this contribution will highlight selected moments of aes-thetic border crossing in Teatro de Guerra, by which the film succeeds in transcending boundaries between former enemies of the war. KW - trauma KW - documentary film KW - cultural memory KW - Falklands War KW - Malvinas Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305577 SN - 2364-6705 VL - 7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kailich, Franziska T1 - The Introduction of English-induced neologisms in Spanish tweets: a case-study on covidiota JF - Frontiers in Communication N2 - This paper intends to trace the introduction of an English-induced, COVID-related neologism, covidiota, into the Spanish language. The study is based on a corpus of tweets, starting in March 2020. It examines several specific features which mark the word as a new, unfamiliar item, such as different ways of graphical highlighting, for example. On the other hand, the paper aims to detect possible indicators of an integration of covidiota into the Spanish language use in the tweet corpus compiled for this case study. KW - language contact KW - lexical innovation KW - semantic change KW - social media KW - verbal humor Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-274064 SN - 2297-900X VL - 7 ER - TY - BOOK ED - Pfeifer, Lena ED - Klingler, Molina ED - Nelson-Teutsch, Hannah T1 - Climate Changes Global Perspectives N2 - Climate Changes Global Perspectives brings together creative approaches to representing environmental crises in a globalized world, which originated in an eponymous symposium hosted virtually by the University of Würzburg in August of 2021. This volume, and the unruly texts that claim space here, are written not only to question and challenge standardized patterns of representation, but also to contribute to undisciplining the genres and practices of traditional academic writing by exploring alternative representational form(at)s. Climate Changes Global Perspectives is the first publication in the Challenges of Modernity series, which seeks to collect and make available projects of engaged scholarship in the humanities. T3 - Challenges of Modernity - I KW - Environment KW - Geisteswissenschaften KW - Klimaänderung KW - Klimakatastrophe KW - Kreatives Schreiben KW - Environmental Humanities KW - Literary and Cultural Studies KW - Engaged Humanities KW - Creative Writing KW - Climate Change Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-289501 SN - 978-3-95826-194-5 SN - 978-3-95826-195-2 SN - 2939-9912 SN - 2939-9920 N1 - Parallel erschienen als Druckausgabe bei Würzburg University Press, ISBN 978-3-95826-194-5, 27,80 Euro. PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Chetvertak, Іevgeniia ED - Lazebna, Nataliia ED - Kumar, Dinesh T1 - Cyber aggression in the stance of communicative approach T2 - Studies in Modern English N2 - The article deals with the notion of internet aggression (cyber aggression). It considers the mentioned term from both psychological and communicative approaches. The paper also provides detailed analyses of the cyber aggression in political discourse. The provided ex-amples are taken from the speeches of politicians during the time of Covid pandemic. The author also identifies several types of cyber aggression. KW - aggression KW - cyber aggression KW - xenophobia Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296152 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kumar, Dinesh ED - Lazebna, Nataliia ED - Kumar, Dinesh T1 - A Brief Historical and Present Perspective of ELT in India T2 - Studies in Modern English N2 - English language is being taught as a second foreign language in India. For most of the learners in India, English still a foreign language or target language. The study of this language is important to fulfill different kinds of academic and professional requirements. Still, there is a big gulf between demand and supply for which the failure of the system is largely responsible as its main emphasis on to adherence to the foreign curriculum. The government tries to impose this curriculum on English teachers, but, in fact, the curriculum is outdated. KW - learner KW - language KW - curriculum KW - foreign KW - majority Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296434 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kellen Ribeiro Weng, Ana A1 - De Toni, Plinio Marco ED - Lazebna, Nataliia ED - Kumar, Dinesh T1 - Differences and Similarities between the Fields of Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition T2 - Studies in Modern English N2 - No abstract available. KW - bilingualism KW - second language acquisition Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296447 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kushch, Elina ED - Lazebna, Nataliia ED - Kumar, Dinesh T1 - The aphoristic potential of presidential rhetoric of G. Bush Jr. T2 - Studies in Modern English N2 - This research paper concentrates on the analysis of the aphoristic potential of G. W. Bush’s presidential rhetoric. Aphorisms are the most ancient laconic forms of expressing original and completed thoughts which reveal the peculiarity of their authors’ world perception and worldview. From this perspective, these units can serve as the means of values codification. Repeatability and widespread use of aphorisms in various communications contribute to transmitting the values and ideas between the generations. Political aphorisms, which are a combination of aphoristic expressions from political communication and discourse, play an important role in this process. The authors of these expressions are not only politicians, but also philosophers, historians, writers, celebrities of different nationalities and generations. Presidential rhetoric is an integral and significant part of political discourse. The use of aphorisms as the means of codification of national and common human values in President G. W. Bush’s formal addresses and speeches is intentional. It makes them concise and original, influential and convincing. Aphoristic expressions denoting common human values show the ideas and beliefs of their authors, as well as the politician, about life, justice, equality, freedom, faith, family. Aphorisms defining national values become the means of updating concepts of democracy, unity and diversity, freedom and security, success, and opportunity to fulfill one’s potential in American society. The distinctive feature of G.W. Bush’s rhetoric is the frequent use of aphorisms whose authors are the Founding Fathers. KW - aphorism KW - common human values and national values KW - political discourse KW - presidential rhetoric Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296456 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Lazebna, Nataliia A1 - Prykhodko, Anatoliy ED - Lazebna, Nataliia ED - Kumar, Dinesh T1 - English-language Digital Discourse of Human-Machine Communication T2 - Studies in Modern English N2 - The paper focuses on digital discourse. This is a speech-intellectual product of innovative information technologies, a phenomenon, which needs further interdisciplinary and linguistic interpretation. The English-language digital discourse shows how linguistic verbal communication is mediated by digits and to what extent these Signum and Verbum unity reigns over the world. The paper analyzes the ways and methods of integrated and differential use of verbal and non-verbal sign systems in the English language as compared to programming languages, considering the types of synchronous changes in the socio-cultural dimension of the sign. This research describes the processes of signs transformation during their functioning in programming languages and in the English language, common and distinctive features in the arrangement of grammatical, lexical-semantic, and graphic means of (natural) English and (artificial) programming languages in their projection on different modes of communication in the system Human ↔ Machine. Programming languages are constituted by verbal means of the English language with additional use of its own semiotic resources, which testifies to their integrative linguistic and mathematical nature. The specific representation of ElDD conveys its reciprocal nature when the English language using its own tools combines them with the elements of the programming languages thus creating an effective toolkit for self-process KW - English-language digital discourse KW - linguistics KW - semiotics KW - digit KW - text processing KW - programming languages Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296468 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Lubbungu, Jive A1 - Moonga, Ireen A1 - Muyuni, Audrey A1 - Zimba, Samson ED - Lazebna, Nataliia ED - Kumar, Dinesh T1 - English Language Variation: Creation of Zambian English (ZamEnglish) T2 - Studies in Modern English N2 - In the present chapter, an attempt has been made to discuss the need to create Zambian English to address English language variations in Zambia. No language in the world can remain the same after interacting with other languages. The present chapter intends to propose and support the idea of using ‘Zambian English’ for both formal and informal business. Such a measure would create the communicative competence that the majority of the Zambians have always longed for. In Zambia, the purpose of using English language office is to deliberate day to day’s business. On the contrary, this has been found to be an obstacle to those who lack principles of command in the language usage, but are able to construct sentences for communicative purposes yet are deprived in international interactions. The views expressed in this chapter are those of the language experts who were engaged in a conver� sation with regard to the possibility of creating what would be known as Zambian English (ZamEnglish). KW - Zambian English KW - language variation KW - speech community Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296477 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Lut, Kateryna A1 - Starenkova, Hanna ED - Lazebna, Nataliia ED - Kumar, Dinesh T1 - The Relationship between Language, Culture, and Development of Society T2 - Studies in Modern English N2 - The paper analyses specific characteristics of language that influence the development of culture and societies. The problem of the connection between language and culture has occupied the minds of many famous scientists: some believe that language is a part of the culture as a whole; others think that language is only a form of cultural expression. Undoubtedly, language constitutes a vital component of the cultural background underlying social development. Language is an essential means of communication and interaction. However, language is at the same time sovereign about culture as a whole and can be separate from culture or compared to culture as an equal element (i.e., that language is neither a form nor a component of culture). KW - language KW - culture KW - expression KW - development KW - communication KW - interaction KW - component KW - social KW - connection KW - background Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296484 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Maniruzzaman, Md. ED - Lazebna, Nataliia ED - Kumar, Dinesh T1 - Blended Learning in the New Normal: EFL Student and Teacher Perceptions and Reactions T2 - Studies in Modern English N2 - To reopen educational institutions and return to the classroom, we all need to modify how we act to successfully face the challenges of the new normal resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and entailing our insights into and the after-effects of the pandemic. More specifically, the new normal might encompass online education we are getting used to during the pandemic and the age-old onsite education as well. Thoughtfully integrated, online and onsite learning combine to create blended learning. However, the pertinent literature reveals that English as a foreign language (EFL) students and teachers differently perceive and react to blended learning in diverse contexts. This study was designed to explore student and teacher perceptions of and reactions to blended learning in the Department of English, Jahangirnagar University in the new normal. Fifty undergraduates of EFL and eight teachers of the department participated in the study. To collect data from them, the Student Questionnaire and the Teacher Questionnaire were used. And the data were processed by applying the SPSS programme module. The findings revealed that the majority of the students and the teachers had mostly positive perceptions of blended learning, although the former did not have sufficient exposure to online learning and the latter lacked adequate insights into online teaching. Further, both the students and the teachers expressed mostly positive reactions to blended learning in the new normal, though the former deemed online examinations inadequately smooth and reliable, and the latter had insufficient experience of online instruction and assessment. The study categorically recommends reforming the curriculum, adopting relevant instructional strategies, developing suitable materials, customizing the assessment, integrating and installing technology, training the teachers, upskilling the students for blended learning, improving the infrastructure, and adjusting the management. KW - new normal KW - blended learning KW - undergraduates of EFL and teachers KW - perceptions KW - reactions Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296508 PB - Würzburg University Press CY - Würzburg ER -