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Hermeneutik und Germanistik – Ansätze, Voten, Diagnosen
No full textHermeneutik und Sprachwissenschaft sind ungleiche Schwestern mit noch nicht ausgeschöpftem gemeinsamem Potential. Weil Erkenntnis ohne Sprache nicht möglich ist, hat jede Wissenschaft eine hermeneutische Grundlage. Doch Hermeneutik ist eine Kunst (ars), die eher auf Subjektivität zielt; sie allein kann keine Wissenschaft begründen. Linguistik hingegen ist eine Wissenschaft (scientia), die eher auf Objektivität pocht. So könnte eine Sprachwissenschaft, die sprachliche Formen aus ihren interaktiven Funktionen erklärt, dem wissenschaftlichen Mangel hermeneutischer Ansätze abhelfen. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit sollte dabei den hermeneutischen Leistungen der Sprachbenutzerinnen und -benutzer geschenkt werden.Hermeneutics and linguistics are unequal sisters with a common potential that has not yet been exhausted. Because knowledge and cognition are not possible without language, every science has a hermeneutic basis. Hermeneutics, however, is an art (ars) that aims more at subjectivity; it alone cannot establish science. Linguistics, on the other hand, is a science (scientia) that rather insists on objectivity. Thus, a linguistics that explains linguistic forms from their interactive functions could remedy the scientific lack of hermeneutic approaches. Special attention should be paid to the hermeneutic performances of language users.Universität Duisburg-Essen (3149
Neither Design nor Chaos
No full textA clear bridge connecting the theory of spontaneous order and the issue of beauty in and for cities has not yet been developed. After a general exploration of the concept of beauty, this article builds an alternative idea of beauty, namely, beauty as spontaneity. In particular, it argues that beauty in the urban realm greatly depends on forms and orders that can hardly be comprehensively designed but rather emerge as the result of the freedom granted to multiple urban agents to express themselves in space. In this article the works of Jacobs and Romano are analysed and explored. Starting from some of their main ideas, the paper suggests certain planning and design tactics to nurture this kind of beauty and provides some essential ethical principles.ILS – Institut für Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung gGmbH (3451
Hermeneutik und Germanistik – Ansätze, Voten, Diagnosen
No full textLektüren des Ästhetischen bilden einen ›Paradefall‹ hermeneutischen Verstehens. Zugleich jedoch kommt der hermeneutische Zugriff gerade hier an seine Grenze, werden Lektüren des Ästhetischen zu dessen ›Härtefall‹. Die grundsätzliche Skepsis gegenüber einem hermeneutischen Zugriff ebenso wie gegenüber Interpretationen, die vorrangig ästhetische Aspekte fokussieren, ist daher in den letzten Jahrzehnten durchaus in Relation zu sehen. Vor diesem Hintergrund möchte die Skizze pointieren, inwiefern die derzeitige ›Rückkehr der Ästhetik‹ mit einem Perspektivwechsel korreliert ist, der auch eine Neujustierung hermeneutischen Verstehens einfordert.Readings of the aesthetic are a prime example of hermeneutic interpretation. By the same token however, these readings of the aesthetic are what puts the hermeneutic approach to the test and pushes it to its limit. For the last few decades, the general suspicions of hermeneutic approaches and of interpretations which mainly focus on aesthetic aspects should therefore be seen as interrelated. Against this backdrop, this outline wishes to draw special attention to the fact that the current ›comeback of aesthetics‹ comes with a change of perspective which also calls for hermeneutic interpretation to be recalibrated.Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (1020
The Aporia of EU Citizenship
No full textEU citizenship finds itself in but a deadlock. Certainly no longer being just a symbol of European integration but still far away from a meaningful status of its holders, Union citizenship fails to find its place in the legal landscape of the EU. Having sketched out the current state of EU citizenship and some of its outstanding problems, this article suggests to analyse Union citizenship anew and free from the constraints of legal methodology. In order to do that, this piece employs the works of Jacques Derrida and, on the background of his views on Europe, deconstructs EU citizenship unravelling its aporia.Universität Hamburg (1037
Germanistische Wahlverwandtschaften
No full textDer Name George Orwell fungiert insbesondere als Synonym für die fiktionale dystopische Vision in seinem Roman 1984 und kann in dieser Hinsicht als Kollektivsymbol aufgefasst werden. Ausgehend davon wird der Name auch in Plenardebatten des Bundestags (und damit im politischen Diskurs) strategisch verwendet. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die Orwell-Referenzen in den letzten Jahren eine deutlich steigende Tendenz aufweisen. Insbesondere lassen sich solche in Debatten um Datenschutz und Überwachung, aber auch um den Sprachgebrauch finden, in Verbindung mit Warnungs‑, Vorwurfs- und Zurückweisungshandlungen.The name George Orwell functions in particular as a synonym for the fictional dystopian vision he depicted in his novel 1984 and in this respect can be understood as a collective symbol. Proceeding from this, the name is also used strategically in plenary debates of the Bundestag (and thus in political discourse). It is apparent that references to Orwell have been on the rise for some years. In particular, they can be found in debates on data protection and surveillance, but also on the use of language in connection with acts of warning, reproach and rejection.Universität Siegen (3162
Variation in the Imperfective in Bahamian English
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The current study investigates variation in the marking of two aspectual subcategories of the imperfective in Bahamian English. First, it looks into variable auxiliary be use in progressive and future constructions, that is, the variation between full, contracted and zero be in non‐past V‐ing environments and related contexts. Second, the paper examines variable application of preverbal does/is/’s in non‐past habitual environments. The two variables were selected to represent the ‘informal’ and ‘anti‐formal’ group respectively, that is, one feature that classifies as a reduction of English structure and one direct transfer from the creole (Allsopp, 1996, pp. lvi–lvii). Thus, in addition to examining the linguistic constraints, the study will take a close look at the stylistic factors conditioning the variation, placing a special focus on the distribution of the non‐standardized variants over various registers as well as how speakers employ them to create linguistic styles
Mabel Bent as Photographer, Travel Writer, and Collector
No full textDespite a growing body of literature on women’s roles within the British Empire as settlers, teachers, nurses, missionaries, activists, and ‘adventuresses,’ their contribution to Victorian knowledge production remains underexamined. In particular, the labor of married women has often been subsumed under their husband’s work and, as a result, has largely gone unrecognized. Treating them as emblematic of a shadow archive of married women’s cultural production in the late 19th century, I interrogate Mabel Bent’s diaries, photographs, and ethnographic collecting strategies to show that she exercised epistemic power through the imperial practices of representation and appropriation. I locate her productive and reproductive work within a complex web of service relationships between herself, the British Empire, and her husband, and show that while Bent related ambiguously to her service, she exploited it to defy gender conventions without risking her reputation
Trees
No full textThis is a short story by Leanne Phillips inspired by the theme women and notions of service
'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' in Conversation
No full textIn this paper, I examine the ways in which Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby both critique and engage with materialism and consumerism as middlebrow texts. Bill Brown’s discussion of the power and meaning of “things” of literature (2003; 16-17) serves as a framework through which I analyze the double “thingness” of the middlebrow as depicted in these novels—that is, the simultaneous investment in and critique of consumer objects. To that end, I analyze both the print culture histories and content of Blondes (which is widely considered a middlebrow text in academic scholarship) in conversation with Gatsby (which is not always thought of as a middlebrow text). I argue that, rather than view middlebrow within a high/low brow paradigm, we should instead consider the ways in which the middlebrow operates with and within mass consumer culture as well as provides a critique of that culture. Because the American middlebrow has a distinct socioeconomic history, I demonstrate how these novels also grapple with the “thingness” of American identity and the Americanness of “things” by centering the protagonists’ engagement with material objects in the construction of their identities. Gatsby and Blondes demonstrate the middlebrow American quality of things through their narrative content, and the novels’ histories as print objects reflect their circulation as commercial things themselves.
This article challenges understandings of the “middlebrow” as a genre unto itself by examining the historical situatedness of the term and its evolving definitions. This article also invites renewed conversation around the middlebrow by proposing a new perspective and an alternative approach to the understanding of middlebrow literature. I argue that these novels present an ideal re-entry into discussion of the middlebrow because of their disparate print culture histories and the cultural capital (or lack thereof) they signify in the present day. This article thus traces the print histories of these two novels alongside analyses of their reception histories and critiques the concept of a middlebrow literature, turning again to contradictory definitions of the term to suggest a more fluid understanding of the middlebrow in scholarship should be able to account both for the continuing appeal of early twentieth-century middlebrow literature and the ways in which the middlebrow itself as an aspirational aesthetic and consumerist ethic has evolved and is ubiquitous in the twenty-first century
Images of Indigenous Australians in the Œuvre of German-Speaking Artists
No full textGerman photographer Carl (Charles) Walter photographed the Kulin residents of Coranderrk Aboriginal Station during the 1860s for international and intercolonial exhibitions. He was networked into German scientific circles, and his work circulated around the world. Yet today we may see a more complex network of encounters and attitudes recorded in his portraits of the diverse group of First Nations peoples then living at the settlement. Here I review changing ways of understanding colonial photography as context for the significance of Walter’s work in nineteenth-century Victoria. I briefly sketch his photographic career and networks and conclude by summarising his enduring value for descendants today. We can see Walter’s work and its deployment by First Nations descendants as a form of ‘visual citizenship’, and a way of creating relationships between people and the state through dynamic visual practices. The changing value of the images, from science to family portrait, demonstrates the fluidity of visual meaning