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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - BOOK ED - Lazebna, Nataliia ED - Kumar, Dinesh T1 - Studies in Modern English N2 - The book "Studies in Modern English" interprets English-language communication in the humanitarian paradigm of knowledge within the linguistic and psycho-sociocultural study of speech activity prioritizing cognitive and communicative paradigms. Digital discourse as the formation of new semiotic phenomena has crowned the rapid scientific and technological progress. Researchers' scientific achievements represented in the book are systemic and valid in terms of evidence-based narratives, which reflect the transformational horizon of information theory, communication theory, and theory of linguodidactics in modern English verbal, creative and digital environments. The book represents an integrated approach to the study of modern English as an open synergetic system, which requires a description of the relationship between verbal and nonverbal notions in digital space. The book integrates such innovative perspectives as the interaction of natural English and programming languages, cyber aggression as a communicative pattern in English-language digital discourse, ethics, and democratization of modern English language, relevant developments in the field of English language as a Foreign Language, and other related issues. A complex focus of the book in the realm of modern English-language communication concerns verbal and nonverbal notions analyzed in the context of socio-cultural and digital communicative spaces. KW - English language KW - Englischunterricht KW - Ausländer KW - digital discourse KW - social and cultural studies KW - verbal and non-verbal communication KW - English as Foreign Language Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-282426 SN - 978-3-95826-198-3 SN - 978-3-95826-199-0 N1 - Parallel erschienen als Druckausgabe in Würzburg University Press, ISBN 978-3-95826-198-3, 23,80 EUR. 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 - Shtaltovna, Yuliya ED - Lazebna, Nataliia ED - Kumar, Dinesh T1 - Linguistic Democratization of the Modern English Language: Functional Parameters of English Youth Slang Neologisms T2 - Studies in Modern English N2 - No abstract available. KW - English youth slang KW - neologism Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296514 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 - Ali, Zuraina ED - Lazebna, Nataliia ED - Kumar, Dinesh T1 - A Case Study of the Basic Learners’ Struggles in Guessing from Context to Retain Words Learned T2 - Studies in Modern English N2 - Guessing meaning from context is a challenging strategy for Second Language Learners (SLLs). In using the strategy, research found that poor students or low proficiency learners struggled in their attempts to use it. Mainly, it was reported that it was due to their vocabulary knowledge was limited. In another aspect, retaining vocabulary learnt is also important. Such is essential since learning vocabulary does not mean knowing the definition only. Yet, learners must also be able to use the vocabulary as they engage in language skills such as reading, writing, speaking and listening. The study aims at finding the hindrances faced among poor students’ using contextual clues in retaining vocabulary. The study employed a case study to collect data from two basic students studying at a tertiary level. The study found that their hindrances in guessing meaning contexts were due to their being confused in guessing meaning when reading a sentence. Also, it was found that they were not able to find clues since they lacked vocabulary to guess correctly. The study implied that guessing meaning from context required sizeable vocabulary knowledge. Therefore, more training is necessary to assist basic learners in being successful in guessing from contexts. KW - contextual clues KW - basic learners KW - vocabulary KW - vocabulary retention KW - vocabulary knowledge Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296529 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 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 - THES A1 - Himmel, Marie-Christin T1 - Phonetic and phonological variability in the L1 and L2 of late bilinguals: The case of /r/ and /l/ T1 - Phonetische und phonologische Variabilität in der L1 und L2 von späten Bilingualen: Der Fall von /r/ und /l/ N2 - A large body of research has shown that a late bilingual’s L1 and L2 phonetic categories influence each other, yielding deviations from monolingual norms in the phonetics of both languages. Existing models of L2 sound acquisition (e.g., the Speech Learning Model; Flege, 1995, 2007) predict unified phonetic spaces which accommodate both L1 and L2 sound categories. Such connections between an L1 and an L2 are believed to lead to persistent non-nativelikeness in the L2, but also to divergence from the monolingual norm in the L1, as shown in numerous studies (e.g., Bergmann et al., 2016). In this dissertation, I focus on the differences in the sound patterns of a bilingual’s languages which do not only emerge in the precise phonetic realizations of L1 sounds but also in language-specific distributional patterns that determine the realization of these sound categories in different phonetic contexts. Previous work in L1 attrition is limited to a small set of phonetic properties (especially VOT, e.g., Flege, 1987), variables beyond L2 transfer which are known to give rise to variable realizations have been neglected. Thus, little is known as to whether bilinguals’ realizations of an L1 sound category in different phonetic contexts (e.g., position within a syllable) are subject to change in L1 attrition, and whether such changes arise due to long-term exposure to different distributional patterns of an equivalent L2 category. In this dissertation I address these gaps by exploring L1 attrition in the distributional and phonetic characteristics of liquids to shed light on the contribution of the L2 and the role of general phonetic and phonological variables to the processes that drive change in an L1. I investigate changes to phonetic properties and distributional patterns of rhoticity and /l/-allophony in the L1 of American-German late bilinguals, a language constellation which offers an instructive test case to investigate the causes of L1 attrition as well as the source from which changes due to L1 attrition emerge. Furthermore, changes to liquids can also shed light on the processes which drive sound change, gradience and variability due to various positional and phonetic factors (e.g., preceding vowel, syllable structure) in liquids across many native varieties of English. In particular, I explore the variable realization and distributional patterns of two sounds known to be subject to a considerable degree of gradience and variability, namely English /r/ and /l/, in American English-German late bilinguals. To that end, I present the results of a production study of 12 L2-dominant American English-German late bilinguals as well as a monolingual control group for each language. The speakers performed a variety of production tasks which were aimed to elicit the realization of (non)-rhoticity and /l/-(non-)allophony in both languages of the late bilinguals, English and German which were analyzed auditorily (/r/ only) and acoustically (/r/ and /l/). Although L1 attrition of rhotics and laterals has been investigated previously (e.g., de Leeuw, 2008; Ulbrich & Ordin, 2014), the effect of contextual variables on L1 attrition and whether such variables also shape L1 attrition remains unexplored. The results of the auditory analyses of postvocalic /r/ revealed that the late bilinguals showed non-convergence with monolingual (non-)rhoticity in both of their languages by vocalizing postvocalic /r/ more frequently in their L1 (English) and failing to entirely suppress rhoticity in their L2 (German) leading up to a higher degree of rhoticity in their L2. While the loss of rhoticity in the bilingual’s English was distributed along a spectrum of contextual constraints (e.g., type of pre-rhotic vowel and morpho-phonological environment) known to affect rhoticity in other English varieties, the non-targetlike productions of non-rhoticity (i.e., non-vocalized postvocalic /r/) in their L2, German, were not sensitive to the same contextual constraints. The acoustic analyses of the bilinguals’ rhotic productions in English and German differed from the monolinguals in the acoustic correlates of rhoticity in pre-rhotic vowels where they showed reduced anticipatory F3-lowering (i.e., less /r/-colored vowels). I take my results to indicate that the bilinguals operate in two separate phonological grammars which approximate the respective L1 norm but show an increase of variability along constraints already present in each grammar. In contrast, the bilinguals’ phonetic system seem shared between the two grammars. This leads to persistent L1-L2-interactions as the two grammars operate within the same phonetic space. Thus, the changes in L1 attrition are induced but not governed by the L2: Change to the L1 reflects constraints underlying the L1 as well as more general laws of phonetics and universal trajectories of language change. The lateral results revealed that just like in postvocalic /r/, the bilinguals showed non-convergence with the monolingual norm regarding the velarization of coda /l/ in both their languages. The changes to English laterals were sensitive to their positional context and more substantial for word-initial laterals than word-final laterals. Similarly, their German laterals were non-convergent with the monolinguals in two ways. Firstly, the bilinguals differed with regard to the acoustic specifications of their laterals, and secondly, the bilinguals failed to suppress the lateral allophony from their L1, leading to a non-targetlike allophonic pattern in their L2 laterals. I interpret the lateral results to lack evidence that the L1 allophonic rule was affected by the presence of an L2; nevertheless, L1 change emerged in the phonetic specifications of laterals. Furthermore, the bilinguals did not establish a nativelike allophonic pattern in their L2, leading to non-convergence in the allophonic distribution as well as the phonetic realization of German laterals. In this way, this dissertation provides evidence for L1 attrition in the distributional and the phonetic properties of liquids in the L1 of late bilinguals. In particular, the study presented in this dissertation provides evidence that L1 attrition is induced by the presence of a similar sound pattern in the L2. The pathway of attrition follows constraints not only underlyingly present in the L1 but also part of the universal laws of phonetics known to shape sound change. To explain these results, I draw from existing constraint grammars in phonological theory (such as Optimality Theory and Harmonic Grammar) to develop my Dynamic Constraints approach which allows the effects of external variables (e.g., L2 acquisition and its effect on the mind), and internal variables such as an increased likelihood of variability due to articulatory differences can be modeled using scaling factors which can interact with each other, the noise within the grammars, and the constraint weight itself. In this way, the model links previous findings on L1 attrition and its connections to diachronic and synchronic variability, offering insights into the links between the individual languages in a bilingual’s mind. N2 - Bis heute hat eine Vielzahl von Studien zum Spracherwerb im Erwachsenenalter gezeigt, dass sich die phonetischen Merkmale der Muttersprache (L1) und Zweitsprache (L2) gegenseitig beeinflussen. Durch den Einfluss der L1 auf die Lautbildung in der L2 weichen insbesondere späte L2-Lerner von der L1 Norm ab. Modelle zum Erwerb von Lautmerkmalen in einer Zweitsprache wie zum Beispiel das Speech Learning Model (SLM) von Flege (2007) erklären den starken Einfluss der L1 im Spracherwerb im Erwachsenenalter anhand einer Eingliederung des Lautsystems der L2 in den bereits bestehenden phonetischen Raum der L1. Die dadurch entstandene Verknüpfung zwischen der L1 und der L2 führten nicht nur zum Einfluss der L1 auf die L2, sondern wie durch das SLM vorgesagt und durch neuere Studien gezeigt (z.B. DeLeeuw, Mennen & Scobbie, 2004; Chang, 2012), auch zu Veränderungen der L1 Lautkategorien. Diese nähern sich hierbei an die Ziellaute der L2 an, ein Prozess der als Spracherosion bezeichnet wird. Über das genaue Fortschreiten und die Gesetzmäßigkeiten des Einflusses der L2 auf die L1 ist jedoch wenig bekannt. In der bisherigen Forschung wurden Veränderungen in der L1 durch Transfer von der L2 in die L1 erklärt; jedoch zeigt sich bei genauerer Betrachtung vorheriger Ergebnisse, dass die L2 allein nicht ausreicht, um die beobachteten Veränderungen vollständig zu erklären. In meiner Dissertation befasse ich mich mit Prozessen der Spracherosion, welche sich nicht nur in den konkreten phonetischen Realisierungen von Lauten der L1 später bilingualer Sprecher äußern, sondern auch in den Verteilungsmustern von konkreten positionsspezifischen Lautvarianten. Die Forschung zur Spracherosion in der L1 beschränkte sich bislang auf eine kleine Anzahl von phonetischen Merkmalen, insbesondere VOT (z.B. Flege, 1987), und erklärte Veränderungen vollständig über die Merkmaleigenschaften der L2. Im Gegensatz hierzu ist der Beitrag anderer Faktoren jenseits des L2-Transfers zur Spracherosion weitestgehend unerforscht. Daher ist aktuell wenig bekannt, ob zweisprachige Realisierungen einer L1-Lautkategorie in verschiedenen phonetischen Kontexten (z. B. Position innerhalb einer Silbe) ebenfalls von Erosionserscheinungen betroffen sein können. Ebenfalls ist der Grund für solche Veränderungen unbekannt. In meiner Dissertation schließe ich diese Lücke, indem ich untersuche, wie Veränderungsprozesse der Spracherosion in den Verteilungs- und phonetischen Merkmalen wirken. Zu diesem Zweck untersuche ich Veränderungen phonetischer Merkmale sowie der Verteilungsmuster von L1-Rhotizität und /l/-Allophonen bei späten Amerikanisch-Deutschen Bilingualen. Zu diesem Zweck präsentiere ich mein Ergebnis einer Produktionsstudie von zwölf L2-dominanten Amerikanisch-Deutsch-Spätsprachlern sowie einer einsprachigen Kontrollgruppe zur jeweiligen Sprache. Die Proband*innen führten eine Vielzahl von Produktionsaufgaben, die darauf abzielten, die (Nicht-) Rhotizität und /l/-Allophonie in beiden Sprachen (Englisch und Deutsch) zu evaluieren. Diese habe ich in dieser Arbeit auditiv analysiert (nur /r/) und akustisch (/r/ und /l/) ausgewertet. Obwohl der Verlust von Rhotischen und Lateralen in der L1 bereits untersucht wurde (z. B. de Leeuw, 2008; Ulbrich & Ordin, 2014), blieb der Effekt von linguistischen und nicht-linguistischen Variablen auf den Erstsprachverlust bisher unerforscht. Das Ergebnis der auditorischen Analyse von postvokalischen /r/ zeigt, dass die späten Bilingualen von monolingualen Sprechern beider Sprachen abweichen. Im Englischen realisierten die Bilingualen das postvokalische /r/ häufiger in der L2-ähnlichen (vokalisierten) Variante und zeigten Reste von konsonantischen Realisierungen in der eigentlich nicht-rhotischen L2. Während der Verlust der Rhotizität in der L1 der Bilingualen (Englisch) von kontextuellen Beschränkungen (z. B. Art des vorrhotischen Vokals und der morphophonologischen Struktur der Silbe) geprägt war und differentielle Verteilungen über die Kontexte hinweg zeigte, waren die Bilingualen in ihrer L2 (Deutsch) nicht empfänglich für kontextuelle Variation, wie es auch in monolingualen Sprechern des Deutschen erwartet wird. Die akustischen Analysen zeigen, dass rhotische Produktionen der zweisprachigen Sprecher im Englischen und Deutschen sich deutlich von denen der monolingualen Kontrollgruppen unterscheiden: Hier wichen die späten Bilingualen vor allem in der Produktion antizipatorischer Rhotizität ab und produzierten die vorrhotischen Vokale mit weniger rhotischer Färbung. Ich interpretiere meine Ergebnisse als Beleg, dass die bilingualen Sprecher in zwei getrennten phonologischen Grammatiken für ihre Sprache arbeiten, die jeweils der L1-Norm entsprechen, jedoch einen höheren Grad an Variabilität zeigen. Diese Variabilität entsteht jedoch nicht durch sprachübergreifenden Transfer, sondern ist beeinflusst von den grammatischen Gegebenheiten der L1. Die phonetische Analyse zeigte im Gegensatz dazu, dass die bilingualen in einem einzigen phonetischen Raum agieren, welchen sich beide Sprachen teilen und wodurch phonetische Wechselwirkungen zwischen beiden Sprachen entstehen. Somit werden die Veränderungen im Zuge der Spracherosion von der L2 induziert, aber nicht von ihr gesteuert. Die Änderungen der L1 zeigt Sprachveränderungen auf, denen die Grammatik der L1 zugrunde liegt, und sind weiterhin geprägt von allgemeinen Gesetzen der Phonetik und des Sprachwandels. Die Ergebnisse der Lateral-Analyse zeigen, dass genau wie in postvokalischen /r/ die zweisprachigen Sprecher nicht mit monolingualen Sprechern konvergent sind. Besonders in Bezug auf die Velarisierung von wortfinalen /l/ in beiden Sprachen unterscheidet sich die bilinguale Gruppe deutlich von Monolingualen. Die festgestellten Änderungen unterlagen hier positionsbedingten Beschränkungen und waren im wortinitialen /l/ deutlich stärker ausgeprägt als im wortfinalen /l/. Weiterhin zeigten die Bilingualen eine stark ausgeprägte Allophonie in beiden Sprachen. Die Ergebnisse der Untersuchungen zu Lateralen liefern jedoch keinen Beleg für einen gleichmäßigen Erosionsprozess, und waren stattdessen stark geprägt von der L1 sowie von universellen Gesetzmäßigkeiten der Lautbildung. Insofern zeigt meine Dissertation, dass Spracherosion nicht einheitlich auf einen Sprecher wirkt, sondern dass Spracherosion einem historischen Prozess des Lautwandels ähnelt, welcher universellen phonetischen und phonologischen Gesetzen folgt. Die Ergebnisse meiner Studie erkläre ich mithilfe von phonologischen Constraint-Grammatiken (insbesondere Optimality Theory und Harmonic Grammar), den ich Dynamic Constraints nenne. In diesem Ansatz modifiziere ich einen Algorhithmus, wodurch linguistische und nicht-linguistische Faktoren das Gewicht von Constraints und die zufällige Streuung von Gewichten beeinflussen können. Hierdurch ergibt sich die Möglichkeit, mit Dynamic Constraints bisherige Forschungsergebnisse im Bereich der Psycholinguistik mit Kenntnissen aus der historischen und sozialen Sprachforschung zu verbinden und einen Einblick in die Sprachsysteme von Bilingualen zu gewinnen. KW - Zweisprachigkeit KW - Phonetik KW - Erwachsener KW - bilingualism KW - phonetics KW - phonology KW - liquids KW - language attrition KW - Amerikanisches Englisch KW - Deutsch KW - Phonologie Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-239335 ER - TY - THES A1 - Domene Moreno, Christina T1 - Beyond transfer? The acquisition of an L3 phonology by Turkish-German bilinguals T1 - Der Phonologieerwerb im Englischen als Drittsprache durch türkisch-deutsch bilinguale Sprecher N2 - Der Erwerb des phonologischen Systems einer Drittsprache wurde bisher vor allem vor dem Hintergrund zweier Fragen betrachtet: (a) Welche Sprache oder Sprachen werden in die Zielsprache transferiert und (b) welche Rolle spielen inner- und außersprachliche Faktoren dabei? Hier sind grundsätzlich drei Szenarien denkbar, welche sich auch in den im Forschungsfeld vorherrschenden theoretischen Ansätzen wiederfinden. Bei einem bilingualen Sprecher, also einem Sprecher mit zwei Hintergrundsprachen, ist erstens der ausschließliche Transfer einer der Hintergrundsprachen möglich, wobei für die Vorhersage der Sprache, die am wahrscheinlichsten transferiert wird, verschiedene Parameter vorgeschlagen wurden, wie beispielsweise das typologische Verhältnis der Hintergrund- und Zielsprachen untereinander oder der Status einer der beiden Hintergrundsprachen als Erst- bzw. Zweitsprache. Weiterhin ist Transfer aus beiden Sprachen denkbar, bei dem ausschließlich „nützliche“, das heißt den Zielspracherwerb unterstützende Strukturen transferiert werden. Drittens kann gemischter Transfer, also der Transfer verschiedener Strukturen, aus beiden Hintergrundsprachen angenommen werden, der allerdings nicht unbedingt positiv ist, sondern stattdessen von vielfältigen Faktoren konditioniert wird. In anderen Worten wird hier die Möglichkeit angenommen, Strukturen aus beiden Hintergrundsprachen in die Zielsprache zu transferieren. Dieser letzte Ansatz entspricht am besten den bisherigen Forschungsergebnissen des Felds: Während sich bei Betrachtung verschiedener Sprachkombinationen und verschiedener (und verschiedenartiger) phonologischer Strukturen für sich genommen kein einheitliches Muster erkennen lässt, wird deutlich, dass gemischter Transfer möglich ist – dies kommt vor allem bei Studien zu graduellen phonetischen Phänomenen wie konkreter Vokalqualität oder Voice Onset Time zum Ausdruck. Bisherige Studien haben sich auf einzelne phonologische oder phonetische Phänomene beschränkt, anhand derer die entsprechenden Ansätze überprüft wurden. Bisher gibt es keine systematischen Untersuchungen mehrerer verschiedener Phänomene an denselben Sprechern. Da allerdings davon ausgegangen werden kann, dass phonologische Phänomene unterschiedliche strukturelle Eigenschaften haben, ist genau dies nötig. Um also die Mechanismen des gleichzeitigen Transfers mehrerer Sprachen auf eine Zielsprache, und somit auch die Interaktion der Hintergrundsprachen in Multilingualen besser zu verstehen, müssen mehrere phonologische Strukturen an denselben Sprechergruppen und mit denselben Methoden untersucht werden. Diese Forschungslücke will die vorliegende Arbeit schließen. Hierfür wurde der Erwerb des Lautsystems der Drittsprache Englisch durch türkisch-deutsch bilinguale Lerner untersucht. Es wurden phonologische Strukturen des Englischen zur Untersuchung ausgewählt, die entweder im Deutschen (aber nicht im Türkischen), im Türkischen (aber nicht im Deutschen), oder in keiner der beiden Hintergrundsprachen vorkommen. Diese Unterteilung sollte dazu dienen den potentiellen Einfluss der jeweiligen Hintergrundsprache auf die Zielsprache identifizieren zu können. In zwei Studien wurden jeweils die Perzeption und die Produktion der obengenannten Strukturen an türkisch-deutsch Bilingualen sowie an einer monolingual deutschen Kontrollgruppe getestet. Studie 1 testete junge Lerner des Englischen in den ersten Lernjahren, während Studie 2 Studierende der Englischen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft testete. Zusätzlich wurden extralinguistische Faktoren und biographische Details erhoben. In den beiden Studien sollte beantwortet werden, ob sich bilinguale und monolinguale Testpersonen in der Perzeption und/oder der Produktion der Zielstrukturen unterscheiden, ob diese Unterschiede durch Transfer aus den Hintergrundsprachen zu erklären sind und, falls dies nicht durchgehend der Fall ist, welche anderen strukturellen oder extralinguistischen Faktoren herangezogen werden können, um die Ergebnisse zu erklären. Zudem sollte geprüft werden, inwieweit Perzeption und Produktion zusammenhängen und welchen Effekt fortschreitender Spracherwerb hat. Die Ergebnisse der beiden Studien dieser Arbeit bestätigen die Vermutung, die anhand der Kombination aus verschiedenen vorausgehenden Studien getroffen wurden: Transfer findet ausgehend von beiden Hintergrundsprachen statt, er kann positiv und negativ sein, und er wird von strukturellen Faktoren konditioniert. So zeigte sich im Vergleich ein deutlicher Einfluss – sowohl positiv wie auch negativ – des Türkischen auf die Perzeption und Produktion des Englischen bei den bilingualen Sprechern, aber ebenso ein Einfluss des Deutschen. Weiterhin konnte der gleichzeitige Einfluss beider Hintergrundsprachen auf einzelne Strukturen belegt werden. Perzeption und Produktion stehen bei keiner der Sprechergruppen in einer direkten Korrelation, allerdings kann anhand der Ergebnisse Perzeption als einer der Faktoren angenommen werden, der einen Einfluss auf die Produktion der zielsprachlichen Struktur hat. Als weitere Faktoren konnten der Grad der Markiertheit der Struktur, ihre artikulatorische Komplexität sowie das Fehlen eines artikulatorischen Ankers identifiziert werden. Eine Verschiebung der Transferquellen fand zwischen den beiden Studien, also bedingt durch fortgeschrittenen Erwerb, nicht statt. Es konnte allerdings gezeigt werden, dass Nachteile, die aufgrund der Hintergrundsprachen den Sprechergruppen entstanden, in der älteren Gruppe häufig ausgeglichen werden konnten. Die Erklärungsansätze für das Autreten von CLI-Effekten waren abhängig von den Eigenschaften der einzelnen abgeprüften Strukturen und konnten nicht systematisch verallgemeinert werden. Dies bestätigte die wenig einheitlichen Einzelergebnisse vorhergehender Studien für die Perzeption und Produktion mehrerer verschiedener phonologischer Strukturen durch dieselben Sprechergruppen. So konnten methodische oder gruppeninterne Gründe für die sich widersprechenden Ergebnisse erstmals ausgeschlossen werden. Im vorletzten Kapitel dieser Arbeit werden darauf aufbauend alternative Gründe für die Ergebnisse erarbeitet. Hierfür wird das Konzept des komplexen verschachtelten (complex interlaced) eingeführt, das chaostheoretische Ansätze mit der Annahme einer hierarchischen Bit-Struktur verbindet. Die vorliegende Arbeit trägt zu aktuellen Debatten im Bereich der Drittsprachforschung insofern bei, als dass sie als erste mehrere phonologische „Einheiten“ (bits), also Phoneme, Allophone, Prozesse etc., an den gleichen Sprechern testet. Dadurch wurde deutlich, dass die konkrete Struktur phonologischer Systeme in den Mittelpunkt der Forschung zum Drittspracherwerb rücken muss, damit vorhandene Muster erkennbar werden können. Zudem wird vorgeschlagen, verstärkt auf Forschungsergebnisse und Theorien aus anderen Bereichen, wie beispielsweise dem Sprachwandel, der Varietätenlinguistik und der Kontaktlinguistik zurückzugreifen, um letztendlich Forschung am Drittspracherwerb für den theoretischen Erkenntnisgewinn nutzbar zu machen. N2 - Within the relatively new area of research on Third Language (L3) Acquisition, the subfield of phonology is growing, but still relatively understudied. Testing the current L3 models adopted from research on L3 syntax (see Rothman 2010, Bardel & Falk 2012, Flynn et al. 2004), the studies conducted in the area have mostly focused on the source and directionality of language transfer – both into the L3 and into the respective background languages – with some recent excursions into the role of extra-linguistic factors for multilingual learners (e.g., Wrembel 2015). The findings so far (mostly on production, with perception lagging behind) have been very diverse and, depending on the concrete study, can often be taken to give evidence for any of the prevalent models. This can be attributed to the wide range of different speaker and learner biographies as well as their language combinations and state of acquisition, but crucially the dilemma seems to be inherent in the (phonological) system in and of itself since viewing phonological interlanguage transfer as a one-dimensional and immediately transparent process based on direct correspondences between language systems does not seem to capture the complex nature of the phenomenon. In this doctoral thesis I investigate the acquisition of an additional phonological system by child and adult German heritage speakers of Turkish. Specifically, I explore how the learners deal with diverse phonological contrasts that promote positive contra negative transfer from their HL (Turkish) and their L2 (German), and how their perception and production is modulated by cognitive and affective variables. Moreover, I test contrasts that can be found neither in the HL nor in the L2 phonological system. The studies will shed light both on the question of how a new language is shaped and affected by different existing systems and on how two or more phonological grammars co-exist and/or interact in a speaker’s mind. I will argue that, rather than being regarded as simple full projection of language-specific property sets onto the target language, phonological transfer in multilinguals needs to be considered as a process of complex interactions and layers that are established on the level of individual phonological properties and abstract (typological) associations. KW - Englisch KW - Phonologie KW - Zweite Fremdsprache KW - Bilingualism KW - L3 acquisition KW - Zweisprachigkeit KW - Spracherwerb KW - Mehrsprachigkeit Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-231411 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Winter-Froemel, Esme T1 - Ulrich Detges (2. April 1958–7. Februar 2021) T2 - Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie N2 - Kein Abstract verfügbar. KW - Nachruf Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-250801 SN - 1865-9063 SN - 0049-8661 N1 - Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. VL - 137 IS - 4 SP - 1299 EP - 1302 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Goldschmitt, Stefanie T1 - Sandra Issel-Dombert, Sprachgeschichte als Textsortengeschichte. Zur Linguistik der Beschwerde am Beispiel der «cahiers de doléances» (Analecta Romanica, 89), Frankfurt am Main, Vittorio Klostermann, 2019, XVI + 480 p. JF - Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie N2 - Kein Abstract verfügbar. KW - Rezension Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-250823 SN - 1865-9063 SN - 0049-8661 N1 - Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. VL - 137 IS - 4 SP - 1216 EP - 1221 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 - 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 -