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Initially this paper describes the newest trends and tendencies of mobile usage of terminology databases. Additionally it presents the latest technical developments in this area. This is then followed by an overview about a research project, which investigates the concept, implementation and usage of a central terminology database application for mobile usage within a public sector institution in...
In his essay “On gesture” Giorgio Agamben argues that western society has lost its natural sense of gestures at the end of the 19th Century. This article examines the development of gestures from the 18th century onwards arguing that instead of a loss of the “natural gesture” one should consider the increasing interest in gestures in the 18th century already as an answer to the the threatening loss...
This article reflects on different approaches to multimodal communication in text linguistics. For some time text linguistics deals with multimodal texts, however, the communicative and functional complexity of language-image-texts could give a reason to establish a new discipline – image linguistics, which is based on texts linguistics and develops already existing text theory and analytical methods...
The phenomenon of intertextuality is so old as the literature, but the term was coined by Julia Kristeva in the 1960s. Vincent Leitsch expressed it 1983 in a such way: “The text is not an autonomous object, but a set of relations with other texts”. The purpose of my paper was to comparise Thomas Mann’s brillant debut as a novelist, Buddenbroks (1901), with the stream of realistic Norwegian novels...
In recent years, a canon of modern German literature has been widely discussed, particularly in the context of educational reforms. The discourse has taken place both in the public sphere of (print) media and within the fields of literary studies as well as teaching mehodology, with obvious interferences. Positions reach from demands to foster and revise a canon to its complete rejection as an educated...
August (2012) was the last, posthumous edition of the literary work of Christa Wolf. In the context of this prosaic text, in which, as Christa Wolf wrote in the letter form-dedicated to her husband, there were many recollections; there was an attempt to analyze the prosaic memory of Christa Wolf (Nachdenken über Christa T., Kindheitsmuster, August). By defining the poetry of reminiscence of Wolf’s...
The paper presents the research paradigm of paratext analysis. It demonstrates that with its help the book-like form of presenting literary texts will receive special attention. Paratext analysis generates new questions in cultural and media history of romanticism, but also important philological questions can be continued.
The paper deals with the concept of didactic approach to German Syntax from the point of view of students whose mother tongue is not German language. There exist many Grammars of German as foreign language (cf. Helbig/Buscha 2001). Nevertheless even in higher education of foreign students arise a lot of syntactic problems which need special treatment and specific explanation due to the lack of competence...
The aim of the article is to analyze Birgit Vanderbeke‘s and Bastienne Voss‘ writings, focusing on family as a social space characterized by violence. The male (the grandfather or the father) exists in this context as a figure influencing the proper functioning of family life destructively. Orders, bans, threats, as well as physical and psychical violence act as instruments of exercising power, whose...
In the article I attempt to analyze Kathrin Röggla’s “cinematic style” using a theory which assumes the simulation of media-related forms in literature (e.g. Philipp Löser’s works). Her literary style is characterized by features such as film metaphor (e.g. the “dual perception” phenomenon), editing seemingly unconnected scenes, citations from TV and interview recordings, and narration inspired by...
Einleitung und Moderation: Prof. Dr. Franciszek Grucza (Warszawa) Statements: Prof. Dr. Janusz Golec (Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie), Prof. Dr. Andrzej Kątny (Uniwersytet Gdański), Prof. Dr. Maria Katarzyna Lasatowicz (Uniwersytet Opolski), Prof. Dr. Beata Mikołajczyk (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu), Prof. Dr. Paweł Zimniak (Uniwersytet Zielonogórski), Prof. Dr. Jerzy...
Bluebeard belongs to one of the most popular figures in the literature since the 18th century. The sexual act is not only the way to demonstrate his fight against the women but it is also the way to manifest his faith in God: He regards the defloration as a sacrament because its brutality reminds him of the brutality of Christ’s death on the cross.
This paper attempts to provide a synthetic characteristic of the reception modes of Cathedral of Cologne predominating in poetry from c. 1800 to the early 20th century. The paper discusses the three basic reception modes of the Gothic – as a sacred place, as a natural style, as the German national style. The unfinished Cologne Cathedral was perceived after the Napoleonic wars as a symbol of the former...
Benn‘s manifold and excessive intertextuality can be interpreted as his way of writing modern poetry. In comparison with traditional “Erlebnislyrik” he achieves modernity through an alienation of the world using the terminology of positivist medicine in his expressionistic period. Later, face to the disoriented Weimar society he, like many contemporaries, is clinging to the old meanings and forms...
Mitgliedervollversammlung und Tagung des Verbandes Polnischer Germanisten Einblicke in die deutsche Sprache, Kultur und Literatur – Forschungsparadigmen und Anwendungsbereiche in Kraków (10.–12. Mai 2013) – Bericht
The primary aim of the paper is the analysis of the unpublished short story In Kattowitz written by Thomas Bernhard in 1964, most probably as a result of his visit to the then-communist Poland. The paper reconstructs the origins of Bernhard’s work and presents the image of Poland shown in the short story. Also the main motifs and specific stylistic properties of the work are analyzed. The author of...
Im Laufe der Krakauer Tagung des Verbandes Polnischer Germanisten fand am 11. Mai 2013 in der historischen Aula des Collegium Maius die feierliche Überreichung der Ehrenstatueten des Verbandes Polnischer Germanisten an Dr. Gisela Janetzke von der Humboldt-Stiftung und Prof. Dr. Heinz Vater aus Köln statt. Die beiden Wissenschaftler wurden für ihren hervorragenden Beitrag zur Intensivierung und zur...
The negative stereotypization of East European Jews by assimilated West European Jews had both social and ideological grounds, and resulted from viewing East European Jews as a group of alien identity, that is of dissimilar language, culture and customs. The aim of the paper is to characterize the negative stereotype of East European Jews on the basis of analysis of Nathan Birnbaum’s press articles...
Until 2005 just 3,9 percent of 172 294 known Nazi criminals have been sentencend. Just 1147 among them have been sentenced for homicide. It’s a disgrace. One may rightly say, Germany has become guilty for a second time. 30 percent of Germans thought of the Nuremberg Trials as being a relapse into barbarism. At least. 40 percent thought sentences were excessive. There’s one essential reason for law...
Hayden White takes the position that our knowledge of reality is not pure, but it has got a narrative character, which depends on the language. Also humanities, which in opposition to the natural sciences has been defined as verstehende (understanding ones) are in his opinion the subject to this rule. White tries to show his theories on the example of historical science, and strictly speaking on the...
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