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Cooperative and Non-cooperative use of Pronouns in Texts from the Field of Physics and by Authors of Literature (Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann) from the Early Twentieth CenturyThe goal of this work is to test the hermeneutic potential of comparative analyses of grammatical phenomena in texts from a linguostylistic perspective. The stylistic profile of text can be highlighted by the identification of formal...
Semantic Aspects in Comparing German and Polish Phraseological UnitsThis paper explains that the traditional semasiological presentation of idioms in dictionaries is not useful to describe phraseological near synonyms called quasi-synonyms or asymmetric polysems. The onomasiological approach to phraseological units is a better way to find semantic differences between phraseological false friends in...
Teaching literature at the border. German-polisch InterregionalityThe article shows possibilities of a German-Polish border education. He starts from the conditions of learning German in Poland, provides short reflections on GFL teaching at the border, while referring to the border language teaching in general terms. This also calls for the inclusion of mother-tongue instruction in the German border...
Text types and language instructionThis article addresses the relationship between Textsortenlinguistik, the analysis of text types, and Textsortendidaktik, the didactics of text types, which, according to Portmann-Tselikas (2000: 831), „has not yet developed a sound concept for using types of texts“ in native and foreign language education. The new media and theoretical insights from fields as diverse...
Intercultural Communication, Dialogue and Conflict Studies: Some Remarks on the object of investigation, the finality of research and the methods of analysis of anthropocentric culturology.The paper presents the main issues of anthropocentric culturology as an autonomous scientific discipline which differentiate itself in the context of the Anthropocentric Theory of Languages and Cultures. It presents...
The digitization of reading and writing and their cultural impactWe had found ourselves in the “Gutenberg-Galaxy” before the digitalization made its rise. The development of the book printing by Johannes Gutenberg and developments based on it as well as the following industrialization of printing are decisive for the expansion of the cultural revolution. It has meanwhile been transformed, upgraded...
ModalitiesThe article deals with three dimensions of modality: (i) types of modality, (ii) modal relations, and (iii) modality forms. The first question concerns the totality of modal functions including those encoded by modal verbs both in deontic and in epistemic reading as well as grammatical and semi-grammatical modal signals. The second problem deals with various categorial interfaces and affinities...
The reasons for fighting against the loan words in GermanThe aim of this article is to show why it was fighted against the lexical borrowings in German, especially in 19th and 20th century. The author describes different reasons considered by the purists for eliminating loan words. The main role played here the national reasons.
„Deutschsein. Eine Aufklärungsschrift“. Zafer Şenocak’s Essays on Cultural Identity in a Country of ImmigrationThis article examines Zafer Senoçak’s collection of essays entitled „Deutschsein. Eine Aufklärungsschrift“ (2011). It is a significant voice in heated German debates on integration and migration as well as a critical comment on the discussions about national and cultural identity. Senoçak,...
Language – memory – architecture. Metonymic presence and metaphorical meaning in the novel Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (2001)By the example of the novel Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald, the present paper shows how architecture can inspire literature, being not only a subject of but also a structural model for literary texts. In Sebald’s literary depictions, topography, interiors, buildings and their plans...
Why sermons (no longer) hit home. How the Emergent Cyclical Levels of Existence Theory by Clare Graves (1914–1986) can be linguistically refined to make it useful for homileticsThe article is the first attempt to use the Emergent Cyclical Levels of Existence Theory (ECLET) by Clare W. Graves as well as its expansion by M. Küstenmacher / T. Haberer / W. T. Küstenmacher (cf. their book “Gott 9.0”, 2010)...
How much spoken language does a man need? Reflections about didactics of spoken language in philologics and language teachingThis paper deals with the need of establishing a prioritization of spoken language in foreign language teaching. It particularly concentrates on the tasks and challenges which it presents to philology. Due to the fact that this aspect has not been studied thoroughly yet it is...
„I don't speak Human". On the murdering of reality in works: Jelinek read with Bachmann.Both Bachmann and Jelinek hold that the underlying causes of the greatest crimes can be sought and represented in everyday acts of violence. The aim in this paper, however, is not to propose a thematic investigation of the doer/ victim opposition in the works of the two authors but rather to examine the writers’...
Who has drunk the blood of the sister? The vampirism in the dramatic fragment about a tenant by Georg TraklIn the article an attempt has been made to look for connections between the vampirism and the incest. Both of the phenomenons are determined by blood that expresses the unity of life, love and death. The untitled dramatic fragment by Georg Trakl is a text where the murder committed on a woman...
For a better understanding of languages and cultures in French language teaching policyThis survey article about the situation of language teaching policy in France in 2012 looks mainly at the changes introduced by the European language policy. The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages puts less emphasis on linguistic skills than on social-ethical goals and so furthers, at least in...
Glottodidactic Implications of the Anthropocentric Language TheoryThe article deals with the implications of the anthropocentric language theory by F. Grucza for foreign/second language teaching and learning process designing. In the first part the anthropocentric language theory is presented in connection with other modern linguistic approaches. The first part also touches upon the problem of the...
The regional varietz of German als a cultural phenomenon with examples of the Austrian GermanUntil recently the German language of Germany was the main language taught as a foreign language. Other varieties as e.g. the Austrian German were devaluated as regional or as a dialect. in this essay the author wants to underline that there is a tendency (as well in the European language politics as well...
Some remarks about the theory and method of comparativist imagology and of the study of strangeness in literary worksThe paper is an attempt to present my own complementary hermeneutic conceptions of the interpretation of strangeness in literary works comparativist imagology and the two concepts of strangeness, based on Paul Ricoeur's and Bernhard Waldenfels’s hermeneutic phenomenology, which I apply...
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