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The Gilded Age of Philanthropy
No full textKatrina Trask (1853-1922) is best known for founding—both financially and idealistically—Yaddo, the artist retreat located in Saratoga Springs, New York. Spencer and Katrina Trask’s sense of service and philanthropy was informed by her love for Arthurian legends and the medieval notion of patronage, wherein the wealthy fund and support artists and writers. Trask devoted her life to serving, so much so that her own literary career has become a footnote to her charity. She began her writing career after the loss of her four young children, and over the span of her lifetime wrote essays, plays, poetry, and novels—in addition to being a prolific chronicler of events. Historical and scholarly attention on Trask should be extended beyond references to her wealth to include her literary accomplishments, not as a mere footnote but rather as an independent aspect of her life worthy of its own critical attention. In this essay, I argue that the legends of King Arthur and Faust and the ethics associated therewith directly inform Katrina Trask’s literary works and the larger notion of service throughout her lifetime
Emerging Research in Australian Studies
No full text'Uptalk' is a frequent intonation pattern in Australian English (AusE) and has been thoroughly researched. Previous studies showed that 'uptalk', i. e., a raised pitch at the end of an intonation unit that is realized on declarative utterances, where a lowered pitch would be expected, may fulfill several interactional and more general functions in AusE. Among these are keeping a turn, expressing positive emotions, reducing the social distance between interlocutors, and establishing common ground. In this paper, the functions of uptalk in the speech of two AusE speakers, who recorded a podcast episode, are examined. The results coincide with prior findings. Notably, uptalk was used to express humor, jokes, or irony, which is an additional interactional function that has not yet been discussed in previous studies. In this study, an auditive impressionistic analysis was conducted. The findings need to be interpreted under the premise that they are based on a subjective research method. Since few researchers have investigated the connection between uptalk and humor, irony, and jokes, and because the scope of this study is limited, further research on the functionality of uptalk is needed. Lastly, this study demonstrated that using podcasts as data is a valid alternative to other methods
A Response to 'Katrina Trask: The Gilded Age of Philanthropy,' by Khristeena Lute
No full textA Response to “Katrina Trask: The Gilded Age of Philanthropy,” by Khristeena Lut
A Response to 'Experience, Exchange, and Education: The Hull House Women, an International Network, and Chicago’s Immigrant Population,' by Alice Bailey Cheylan
No full textA Response to “Experience, Exchange, and Education: The Hull House Women, an International Network, and Chicago’s Immigrant Population,” by Alice Bailey Cheyla
A Response to ''Grief became my friend, my work:' Mary Todd Lincoln’s Uneasy Union with Memory in LeAnne Howe’s 'Savage Conversations' (2019),' by Stefanie Schäfer
No full textA Response to “Grief became my friend, my work:” Mary Todd Lincoln’s Uneasy Union with Memory in LeAnne Howe’s Savage Conversations (2019), by Stefanie Schäfe
When (Inter)subjectification Ties Up with Grammaticalization and Related Changes: Van Olmen, Daniёl, Hubert Cuyckens & Lobke Ghesquière (eds.), Aspects of Grammaticalization. (Inter)Subjectification and Directionality (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 305.)
No full textIndividual Differences in Second Language Learning: The Road Ahead
No full textAcademic self-regulation is a key factor for motivation and learning achievement. Yet with the large range of individual factors, this is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. This study of L2 Technical English students at two German universities explored learners’ expectations and motivations, in particular regarding self-regulation and self-efficacy via the individual’s time investment in self-led study. In an initial survey, learners (N=1646) reported on their English skill levels and anticipated learning habits. Complementarily, the retrospective survey investigated learners’ (N=796) actual behavior during the course, their perceptions of language skill improvement, and their satisfaction. The initial survey indicates a clear understanding that time investment in self-regulated study will lead to greater improvement, an outcome confirmed in the retrospective survey. Additionally, students who invested more time in their coursework were more satisfied with their achievement, although most learners acknowledge they should have studied more. The results verify that learners recognize the nexus between self-regulation and language skill improvement, yet university students are not satisfied with their capacity to self-regulate their language learning strategies. While differences in students’ skill levels and academic self-efficacy result in divergent degrees of progress, students of all types report benefits to their language skills when motivated to self-regulated study.Technische Hochschule Nürnberg (3347
Hermeneutik heute? – Eine Rundfrage
No full textBrauchen wir eine neue Hermeneutik? – Diese Frage ist rhetorisch und scheint aktuell nur vernünftig zu sein. Doch genau dieser Anschein indiziert erneut jenes Dilemma, in dem sich die aktuelle Lektürepraxis befindet. In dem durch die Digitalisierung beschleunigten Wandel der Lektürepraxis bricht es regelrecht auf, denn in ihm erweist sich die Hermeneutik als ein für Kommunikation und Lektüre unabdingbares ethisches Projekt, das zugleich selbst von eben jener Diversifizierung betroffen ist, die durch die technologisch forcierte Rationalität in Gang gebracht wurde. So zeugt die philosophisch irritierende, germanistische bzw. allgemein literatur- und sprachwissenschaftliche Pluralisierung in vielen fach- oder teilfachspezifischen Hermeneutiken ebenso vom aktuellen Problem der Hermeneutik wie von ihrer Unabdingbarkeit. Die Forderung nach einer Neuen Hermeneutik setzt also zuerst die Diagnose voraus, wie und wo ihre Spielarten sich aktuell verorten, um danach jenen gemeinsamen Ort anzuvisieren, der die Hermeneutik gleichzeitig im ›Wir‹ der Fragestellung zusammenhält. Die dazu möglichen Diagnosen werden wiederum verschieden ausfallen. Doch erst in der Summe ermöglichen sie – so die These der Herausgeber*innen der Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik – einen Beitrag zur Vergewisserung über das aktuelle Verständnisproblem.Do we need a new hermeneutics? – This question is rhetorical and seems only reasonable at the moment. But it is precisely this appearance that once again indicates the dilemma in which current reading practice finds itself. In the transformation of reading practice accelerated by digitalization, it breaks open, for hermeneutics proves to be an ethical project that is indispensable for communication and reading, and at the same time is itself affected by the very diversification that was set in motion by a technologically forced rationality. Thus, the philosophically irritating, Germanistic or general literary and linguistic pluralization into many, subject- or sub-subject-specific hermeneutics bears witness to the current problem of hermeneutics as well as to its indispensability. The demand for a New Hermeneutics thus presupposes first of all a diagnosis of how and where its varieties are currently located, in order to then target the common site that simultaneously holds hermeneutics together in the ›we‹ of the question. The possible diagnoses will again be different. But only in their totality – according to the thesis of the editors of the Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik – will they contribute to a reassurance about the current problem of understanding.Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (1018
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Bede’s In Cantica Canticorum
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This article argues that Bede – like modern intersectional analysis – believed that identity categories cannot be disentangled or understood in isolation. In Bede’s commentary on the Song of Songs, skin color, gender, and religious identity intermix with metaphors of sexuality. These categories coalesce in a monumental lesson on how to read. Bede claims that reading the Song literally – perceiving Black skin, eroticism, gender confusion – means reading like a Jew and prevents readers from seeing the feminine, metaphorical level below the masculine, carnal level. This article suggests that intersectional analysis is akin to much medieval thought rather than being an anachronistic imposition on a historical text. Intersectional analysis can lay bare how medieval theologians saw identity categories as interwoven and interdependent, even while the theologians themselves entrenched hierarchies of race, gender, sexuality, and religious difference. For Bede, Christian interpretation is a continual process of moving from a literal outside (Black, masculine, carnal, sexual) to a metaphorical inside (beautiful, feminine, allegorical, chaste, reproductive). Once inside, however, we – like the bird passing through the hall – must return once again to the outside in an endless movement between layers that echoes theological processes of rumination and blurs the divide between the contemplative and the active life.Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (1040
Talcott Parsons: Politics, Economics and Morality
No full textFrom his 1940–1942 studies of Race, through his 1967 study of an “inter-sexed” person called Agnes, Garfinkel’s research was always politically engaged. When Garfinkel was Parsons’ PhD student at Harvard (1946–1952) and later during a period of collaboration with Parsons (1958–1964), both theorized culture as a domain of social interaction independent from social structure and resting on its own implicit social contract. This conception of culture grounded their respective “voluntaristic” and “reciprocity” based approaches to specifying assembly processes for making social categories in a way that put the empirical assembly of categories under a microscope and made social justice a scientific concern. Garfinkel emphasized the importance of social contract aspects of Parsons’ theory – adapted from Durkheim – and with his studies in ethnomethodology, planned to contribute an empirical foundation for aspects of Parsons’ position that were criticized for their abstraction. Nevertheless, important differences remained. Parsons’ model required assimilation and consensus, thus inadvertently enforcing existing inequalities. Garfinkel, by contrast, was deeply concerned with “structural problems” like inequality, and treated assimilationist positions as scientifically and ethically unsound. His research documented reciprocity as a pre-requisite for successful interaction, while treating “troubles” generated by inequality as an important key to understanding social order writ large.Universität Siegen (3162