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Possessive Processing in Bilingual Comprehension
No full textSecond language (L2) learners make gender errors with possessive pronouns. In production, these errors are modulated by the gender match between the possessor and possessee noun. We examined whether this so‐called match effect extends to L2 comprehension by attempting to replicate a recent study on gender predictions in first language (L1) German speakers (Stone, Veríssimo, et al., 2021). By comparing Spanish and English learners of L2 German whose languages have different possessive constraints, we were able to examine whether the match effect was modulated by the participants’ L1. A first experiment suggested that predictions and match effects were absent in setups with complex visual displays. A second experiment with simpler displays successfully elicited predictions and match effects, but their size was comparable in Spanish and English speakers, inconsistent with crosslinguistic influence. We interpret our results as evidence that processing difficulties with possessives result from memory interference that impacts both L1 and L2 comprehenders.A one‐page Accessible Summary of this article in non‐technical language is freely available in the Supporting Information online and at https://oasis‐database.org.</p
Changes in Time-Consciousness in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Century: a Response to Joe Davidson’s 'From the Future to the Past (and Back Again?): a Review of Aleida Assmann’s Is Time Out of Joint? On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime (2020)'
No full textUniversität Konstanz (3156
Forum: Digitization, Digital Humanities, and American Studies
No full textDigitization and the digital humanities (DH) continue to shape the field of American studies. This forum brings together ten international scholars who assess where we as (German) Americanists stand on digital scholarship, (inter)disciplinarity, data, and publishing. Some of the statements collected here were originally presented during a digital town hall meeting of the German Association of American Studies (GAAS) on April 1, 2022; others were written specifically for this forum. Together, they discuss how digitization impacts our work environments, the role DH methods play in American studies, and the production, use, and sustainability of research data in the humanities. Contributors define DH and its connection to literary and cultural studies and trace its history in German American studies and beyond. Several contributions shed light on the (in)accessibility of digital publishing and practices of data tracking. They critically flag neoliberal logics of exploitative research designs but also point to collaborative endeavors and open-access formats as useful tools to resist them. The statements reflect and resume the conversation initiated in April 2022 to chart a possible direction for American studies
Summative Assessment of Literary Competences in Autonomous Learning Environments
No full textAbstractThis article reports on the development of the literary portfolio as an alternative to standard written tests in summative assessment of literary competences in the English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. It is argued that traditional class tests put a too narrow focus on those aspects of literary competences that are more readily operationalized and thus lend themselves better to testing. This, however, may result in a negative washback on teaching. Building on, and operationalizing, the model of literary competence by Diehr and Surkamp (2015), the literary portfolio is designed to cover the various dimensions of this complex competence. At the same time, it tackles the problem that dealing with class readers often leaves students with little freedom to pursue their own (reading) interests or set priorities in working with the texts. The literary portfolio allows students to take responsibility for their own learning as they can choose a text from a shortlist, tasks to work on, and levels of cooperation with peers. As will be demonstrated in a case study carried out in an eighth‐grade intermediate‐level EFL classroom, the implementation of the literary portfolio entailed an innovative way of learning with literature in an autonomous learning environment.</p
An Introduction
No full textThe field of materiality and literature can be differenciated in two directions. Materiality of literature refers to book design, printing formats and typography. Materialty in literature, however, analyzes the way, ‘things that speak’ are integrated in fictional and non-fictional texts. The introduction reflects the international critical discussion of the field in the last years and situates the contributions of this number in it.Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (1043
Sociolinguistics Meets Medical Communication in a Travelling Exhibition
No full textVisual art is increasingly used to mediate scientific findings, engage and educate the public and as a part of the research process itself. However, work connecting sociolinguistics and art in this way is only just emerging. This paper presents a project at the intersection of sociolinguistics, art and Graphic Medicine. It discusses how art can be used for public engagement and how the process of creating art feeds into the research process: Drawings can ground the analysis in the big picture and show how themes that need to be analytically separated relate to each other. Identifying motifs highlights what does and does not get talked about. Trans‐mediating narratives into comics raises questions about the definition and structure of narratives, about tellability, shared knowledge and epistemic access. Overall, I suggest that sociolinguistics stands to gain from collaborating with artists in terms of public engagement and as an inspiration in the research process.Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Jahresstipendium für Promovierende aller FächerStudienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, PromotionsstipendiumArts and Humanities Research Council, PhD Studentshi
Argumentation und Narration im politischen Diskurs
No full textDer vorliegende Beitrag nimmt die Spezifik verschwörungstheoretischer Erzählungen in den Blick. Insbesondere in Auseinandersetzung mit den Begriffen ›Erzählung‹ und ›Topos‹ sowie im Anschluss an interdisziplinäre Forschungsansätze zu Verschwörungstheorien wird herausgearbeitet, dass Verschwörungstheorien grundsätzlich argumentativ aufgebaut sind. Am Beispiel des Videos »Gates kapert Deutschland!« von Ken Jebsen wird der Zusammenhang zwischen Erzählung und Argumentation in Verschwörungstheorien veranschaulicht.This paper examines the characteristics of conspiracy theory narratives. Discussing the linguistic concepts ›narration‹ and ›topos‹ as well as interdisciplinary research approaches to conspiracy theories, it is shown that conspiracy theories are generally argumentative. The connections between narration and argumentation in conspiracy theories are illustrated using the example of the video »Gates kapert Deutschland« by Ken Jebsen.Universität Trier (3163
Comparing Attitudes toward Caribbean, British, and American Accents in Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, and the United States
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This article compares the attitudes of respondents from Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, and the United States toward speakers from these countries and from Grenada. Analyses of mean values on the attitude dimensions of status and solidarity reveal striking similarities between the rankings of the stimuli by the three respondent groups, especially regarding the British and American stimuli and a Creole‐influenced Grenadian stimulus. Only the rankings by the Trinbagonian respondents differ slightly regarding the Caribbean stimuli. The results suggest that similar stereotypes might have influenced the evaluations of the British, American, and Creole‐influenced Grenadian speakers across all respondent groups, while the rankings by the Trinbagonian respondents might reflect the social connotations of the fine‐grained nuances of Caribbean (standardized) accents
Germanistische Wahlverwandtschaften
No full textÜber welche theoretischen und methodologischen Ressourcen verfügt ein (strukturalistisch sozialisierter) Linguist für die Analyse dessen, was einen literarischen Text ausmacht? Von zwei Gesichtspunkten her geht der Beitrag dieser Frage nach: Einmal von Eugenio Coserius textlinguistischer Reflexion der Besonderheiten von Literatur, mit dem Schwerpunkt auf geordneter Rekurrenz von Elementen in allen Ebenen, und zum anderen von den Theorien des US-Sprachphilosophen und Literaturkritikers Kenneth Burke. Illustriert werden die Deutungsverfahren an Beispielen aus Lyrik und Prosa.What are the theoretical and methodological resources of a linguist trained in structural methods, for the detection of those traits of text that are specifically literary traits? This question is approached from two angles: First from the angle of Eugenio Coseriu’s version of text linguistics (focussing on recurrent returns of units on all levels), and second by using theories and methods developed by the US-philosopher of language and literary critic Kenneth Burke. Some illustrations from poetry and prose are provided.Universität Siegen (3162