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Why everyone is the Smith of their own happiness: The origin of one german proverbThe article looks into the etymology of the German proverb Jeder ist seines Glückes Schmied (Every man is the smith of his own happiness = Every man is the architect of his own fortune). The analysis of the proverb is linked to Keller’s “Der Schmied seines Glückes”, where the phraseological unit in question is applied...
Some Remarks on the Generic Use of the German Definite Article from Cognitive Point of View.The German definite article is considered as one of the problematic areas by Polish learning German. The semantic description of that grammatical category as a language expression of the definiteness, for example in the case of the anaphoric or cataphoric use can be based on the textual context, but the generic...
Cognition-Emotion-Volition. Fritz Hermanns’ contribution to linguistic discourse analysisThe article discusses Hermanns’ three-dimensional concept of meaning. According to this concept, based on Bühler`s model of signs, meaning exhibits cognitive, emotive and volitive, i.e. deontic components. Lexical meanings have to be determined by means of linguistic discourse analysis since they are conceived...
In the footsteps of Nelly Sachs. Rosi Wosk's collection in the German Literature Archive in MarbachRosi Wosk, née Press, was a Hungarian Jew, a survivor of the Holocaust, who was transported in one of the white buses to Sweden after the liberation. She lived with her husband, Henry Wosk, a Polish Jew, and their son in Stockholm in an apartment next to Nelly Sachs, a German Jewish Nobel Prize winner...
The article looks further into the history of the idiom “zwischen zwei Feuer” and attempts to shed light on etymological processes the idiom has undergone. Known both in German and other European languages, the idiom is however of quite obscure origin, which is exemplified by Russian and German phraseology. Being historical, the study relies on structural-semantic, cultural and comparative analysis...
In the discussion about the pluricentric languages the term of a “standard language” sometimes appears. Lately we also differentiate between the written and the oral standard language. On the given examples I will show that the term “standard” is often misinterpreted, e.g. in the Duden, where Austrian terms are reported, but not German terms. That is why the term, in respect of dictionaries, should...
The article deals with the typological analysis of the Decalogue (Ten Commandments) in Ukrainian, German and Spanish. The analysis shows that an important element of the Decalogue is the negation, which reveals three morphological patterns of negation in the analysed languages – polynegation, mononegation and the transition type. Despite the presence of the negation, the Decalogue is not formed by...
The article presents a comparison of the court book of the former German speaking community of Markowa (Carpathian Voivodship) from the 16 century with other old German written rural court book of Eastern Poland (Krościenko Wyżne) and Silesian German language of this time because of the Silesian origin of the inhabitants of Markowa. There were many similiarities found.
Since the eighties of the last century, the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (Institute forthe German Language) explored in various ways the attitudes of the German populationtowards the national language in Germany. Aft er limited studies without statisticalrelevance, two representative surveys were conducted in 1997/98 and 2008/09. Th equestions asked concerned attitudes toward recent developments...
Wörterbuch der Kollokationen im Deutschen by Uwe Quasthoff (2011) is the first dictionary of collocations in the German language. The term “collocation” is used differently in different research traditions. The lexicographic approach to collocations, especially of pedagogical lexicography, assumes that collocations consist of two items: a base, which is semantically autonomous, and the collocate,...
The paper deals with the group of German idioms that contain in their structure focus-sensitive particles (Operatorpartikeln) or modal particles (Abtönungspartikeln) as their compulsory component. The aim is to investigate their syntactic and semantic properties. The analysed particles are zu, nur, auch, wohl, doch and ja. The idioms are selected from the dictionaries Das große Lexikon der sprichwörtlichen...
“Geht mal euren Phrasen nach, bis zu dem Punkt, wo sie verkörpert werden” is an often cited expression which encourages scientists to conduct etymological research on idioms. The research on phraseological motivation gives us an insight into various conceptions related to perceiving the world which are greatly documented by idioms. The community of a particular culture and the culture itself also...
The last few decades, due to increasingly modern technological solutions, have brought about the possibility of more detailed and in-depth explorations of human brain functioning and its properties. In the first part of the present article, the characteristics of the object of research in linguistics are presented, and in the second, the possibilities of its exploration are described. Special attention...
The Association of Exiles, where the significant role for several years has been played by Erika Steinbach, runs a certain image Policy, based on certain facts presented in media. One should mention, first of all “The Chart of Germans Exiled from Homeland”, which is the basis and the fundamental reference point for all documents of the Association and the initiative of the “Centre Against Expulsions”,...
The paper discusses the perspectives of intercultural linguistics as a new paradigm of German philology. Concepts of cultural standards are critizised and deficits of cultural contrastive analysis are demonstrated as shown by the example of code mixing. It is argued that interculturality is more than cultural contrastivity and more than transculturality and furthermore that for intercultural research...
Two opposing views exist on the structure of the mental lexicon and the usage of the regular and irregular inflection. According to the first one, all inflected forms are stored in the lexicon (Seidenberg/Joanisse 2005). The opposing view (Pinker/Ullman 2002) holds that regular forms are inflected by the application of morphological rules. Longitudinal data from four children are examined in the present...
Since about 20 years linguists attempt to apply the grammaticalisation concept to the description of pragmatic phenomena. In this context some linguists speak about ‘pragmatisation’ – a kind of language change, which concerns the linguistic codification of certain pragmatic contents. The term ‘pragmatisation’ suggests a new process, which runs in opposite direction to the development of grammatical...
The paper represents an attempt to find the inspiration for the discourse linguistics in the theory of thought collectives (Denkkollektiv) and thought styles (Denkstil) of Ludwik Fleck. In the first step the author presents the objectives and tasks of discourse linguistics. In the second step the author discusses the idea of thought styles (Denkstil) and their use for discourse linguistics.
Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit dem Einsatz persuasiver, akzeptanzwerbender Mittel in politischen Reden, speziell in Texten von NPD-Rednern. Aufgrund des gegebenen politischen Kontexts lassen sich zwei konträre Tendenzen beobachten: das Bemühen um eine gewisse sprachliche Anpassung an das Sprachverhalten anderer Parteien und das gleichzeitige Insistieren auf einer Strategie der Abgrenzung und Polarisierung...
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