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Possibilities and Drawbacks of Using an Online Application for Semi-automatic Corpus Analysis to Investigate Discourse Markers and Alternative Fluency Variables
No full textTo overcome planning phases in spontaneous speech production, learners and native speakers use strategies such as (un)filled pauses, smallwords or discourse markers. Small scale studies in this vein have demonstrated that learners differ from native speakers in that they underuse smallwords and discourse markers, and rely on other fluency-enhancing strategies instead. In the present paper, we present a corpus-based study, which investigates fluency-enhancing strategies in four components of the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI; Gilquin et al. 2010), covering four learner English varieties, namely Spanish, German, Bulgarian and Japanese. We investigate 216 different fluencemes (i.e. fluency-enhancing features; Götz in Fluency in native and nonnative English speech, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2013) in 200 transcribed interviews with advanced learners of English. An online coding application, which was specially designed and programmed for this project, enables us to cover such a large amount of data. We report on the design, functionality and (dis-)advantages of the online application, the multilevel-coding system we implemented, and the methodological challenges we face in detail. We will also present the findings of one first pilot study where we exhibit considerable variation between and within learners of particular native languages concerning fluenceme frequencies, while distributional patterns of fluencemes are rather similar across varieties.Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/50110000165
Peter Mendelsund and David J. Alworth: The Look of the Book. Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature (2020)
No full textWestfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (1056
Hermeneutik und Germanistik – Ansätze, Voten, Diagnosen
No full textAngesichts der Diagnose einer Krise des Textverstehens fragt der Beitrag nach dem Sinn eines oberflächlichen Lesens und halben Verstehens. Die funktionale Analyse zeigt, dass prozedurales Wissen ökonomischer ist als der Umgang mit sinnbefrachteten Wissensfigurationen. Dennoch ist davon auszugehen, dass abstrakte Sinnkonstruktionen, die auf eine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit dem Text hindeuten, nach wie vor ihren Platz haben, in Anbetracht der Massenuniversität in der Lehre aber in den Hintergrund treten.In view of the diagnosis of a crisis of textual understanding, this article asks about the sense of shallow reading and half understanding. Functional analysis shows that procedural knowledge is more economical than dealing with meaning-laden knowledge figurations. Nevertheless, it can be assumed that abstract constructions of meaning, which indicate an intensive engagement with the text, still have their place, but in view of the mass university, they recede into the background in teaching.Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (1040
LREC 2018: Selected Papers
No full textLive blogs are an increasingly popular news format to cover breaking news and live events in online journalism. Online news websites around the world are using this medium to give their readers a minute by minute update on an event. Good summaries enhance the value of the live blogs for a reader, but are often not available. In this article, (a) we first define the task of summarizing a live blog, (b) study ways of automatically collecting corpora for live blog summarization, and (c) understand the complexity of the task by empirically evaluating well-known state-of-the-art unsupervised and supervised summarization systems on our new corpus. We show that live blog summarization poses new challenges in the field of news summarization, since frequency and positional signals cannot be used. We make our tools publicly available to reconstruct the corpus and to conduct our empirical experiments. This encourages the research community to build upon and replicate our results.Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659Technische Universität Darmstadt (3139
Images of Indigenous Australians in the Œuvre of German-Speaking Artists
No full textBorn near Frankfurt in September 1808, the painter and naturalist Ludwig Becker is suspected to have been one of the 1848 democrats in Mainz. He also may have had this mindset when he arrived in Tasmania in March 1851. Springing from this suspicion of revolutionary background is the thesis of Becker’s compassion for the indigenous people of Australia and
the notion that his portrayal of them happened with a realism and respect that imparted to the portrayed dignity and individualism. Furthermore, most scholars writing about Becker consider his portrayal of the indigenous Australians to be largely free of the cultural bias and the aura of racism of the time. However, we examine some of his portraits in the light of the ‘dying race’ trope, the policy of protectionism, and the Bourke and Wills expedition, the colonialist endeavour that ultimately led to Becker’s death. And we reached the conclusion that Becker’s images of indigenous Australians provide complex evidence of the profound effects of contemporary racism
Surveillance, Selfhood and Alienation in 21st-Century Dystopian Fiction
No full textIm digitalen Zeitalter nimmt Überwachung stetig zu durch die wachsende Existenz von Big Data, elektronischen Geräten und Wireless-Technologien. Gleichzeitig ist eine steigende Anzahl von Individuen hochgradig abhängig von Social Media und tief versunken in virtuellen Welten – mit sichtbaren Auswirkungen auf ihre Psyche, Wahrnehmung und Kommunikationsfähigkeit. Diese Abschlussarbeit untersucht bekannte Überwachungstheorien aus dem Forschungsfeld der Surveillance Studies und versucht diese in ein schlüssiges Gefüge zu integrieren, um Überwachung im digitalen Zeitalter und dessen Auswirkungen auf Individuen zu analysieren. Der Hauptteil dieser Arbeit wendet dieses Bezugssystem auf drei zeitgenössische digitale Dystopien an, welche keinesfalls bloß banale und weithergeholte Romane sind. Schon jetzt spiegeln diese in gewissem Maße unsere Realität wider und können als Vorwarnungen verstanden werden, die deutlich aufzeigen, was potenziell passieren könnte, wenn die Menschheit sich dazu entschließen sollte, die Privatsphäre gegen Bequemlichkeit, Beachtungsbedürfnisse, Selbstdarstellung sowie die von Technologiekonzernen propagierten Ideale der totalen Vernetzung und Transparenz einzutauschen
Images of Indigenous Australians in the Œuvre of German-Speaking Artists
No full textThe well-travelled, Düsseldorf-trained landscape painter Eugen von Guérard arrived in the colony of Victoria (Australia) in 1852. He was fired by a deep curiosity about the ‘new’ world and committed to a practice based on the empirical methodology and the rejection of racial hierarchies espoused by Alexander von Humboldt, all of which informed his first depiction of Aboriginal people in Australia. Over the following years, the contradictions on which Victoria’s colonial society was built played out in his art practice. The visual conceit of ‘noble savagery’, according to which Aboriginal presence was imagined in primordial, pre-contact landscapes, coexisted with works in which Aboriginal people were erased from portrayals of colonised territory. In response to his direct encounters with Aboriginal people – including a remarkable and significant exchange with the Gunditjmara artist, Johnny Dawson – as a travelling artist in the colonies, and informed by his friendships with the colony’s most enlightened ethnological thinkers, von Guérard produced a group of unconventional and enigmatic compositions that speak enduringly of the impacts of colonisation on the colonised and on the colonisers. In the visual archive they are rare records of co-presence and of the lived realities of First Nations people in the colony of Victoria in the 1850s and 60s
The Morph as a Minimal Linguistic Form
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This paper makes a terminological proposal: that the old term morph can be used for a minimal linguistic form. Many linguists (not only morphologists) need such a term, because we often refer to minimal linguistic forms, but the various terms used by linguists in roughly this meaning are either unclear or do not refer to forms. The term “morpheme” has three rather different meanings, and other terms such as “vocabulary item” are too abstract. The term “morph” can be used as the basis for defining other widely used terms such as “root”, “prefix”, and “suffix”, which are currently often defined as kinds of “morphemes”. It can also serve as the basis for a clearer definition of suppletion (involving suppletive morph sets) and morph variants, thus avoiding the confusions surrounding the term “allomorph(y)”.European Research Council
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/50110000078
Dale Beran (2019): It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
No full textHochschule Fresenius für Management, Wirtschaft & Medien GmbH (8971
Modes of Cognitive Perception of the World among Florentine Travelers to America between 1490 and 1530
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In fifteenth and sixteenth century Italy, even before the beginning of the Age of Discovery, numerous (travel) reports were written by commercial travellers to Asian countries, soon followed by those to the Americas and the African coastal regions. In Florence, which was a Renaissance center of cultural innovation and a financially powerful hub for the exchange of knowledge, ideas, techniques and strategies, reports from Florentine travelers received particular attention. These epistemic materializations transformed, in primary emplotments, newfound material reality and real-space travel events into codified knowledge. Once they arrived Europe and circulated among European scholars, these cultural materials were then stored in further processes of knowledge materialization. Such secondary emplotments, from 1492 on, refer to a (geographically and historically) global framework that enforces the generation and classification of knowledge. For these purposes reports from travelling authors who already use a humanist standard of knowledge—like the erudite Florentine travelers Vespucci and Verrazzano—are able to deliver precious epistemic material, that, beyond the requirements of power politics, will contribute to re-coding not only the European perspective on the world, but especially the knowledge of the others.Technische Universität Dresden (1019