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Language Mixing as a Persuasive Strategy in Oxford, MS Bodley 649. Medieval Worlds|Movement and Mobility & Ideologies of Translation, III - Volume 13. 2021 medieval worlds Volume 13. 2021|
No full textOne of the salient features of Oxford, MS Bodley 649, a fifteenth-century sermon collection, is its frequent switching from Latin to English – and back to Latin again. Building on Wenzel’s (1994) groundbreaking work on macaronic sermons, I discuss the rhetorical characteristics of English elements in MS Bodley 649, with the purpose of showing that language mixing in this collection is not random but rather one of the rhetorical devices that the author uses for persuasion. The English elements are frequently used to build grammatical cohesion through structural parallelism. Also, lexical and semantic cohesion are achieved via repetition of the same words in both languages or through English paraphrases of Latin scriptural content. Alliteration, another rhetorical device, often coincides with language switches within the sermons. I hope to show that, together with other rhetorical strategies, mixing English into Latin constitutes one means within an entire bundle of linguistic devices that all contribute to the persuasive purpose of the genre. As a preliminary finding of some work in progress, I report on the nature of the English words mixed into these highly scholastic and often allegorical sermons. The English elements within the sermons tend to provide content that is mundane, or objectionable (from the point of view of Christian conduct and goals), or even merely negative (if not repulsive). An important conclusion is that none of the rhetorical strategies that overlap with code-switching into English are used mechanically and systematically by the sermonist; the coincidence of the bundled persuasive features is never predictable. However, this does not mean that mixing English elements into Latin in MS Bodley 649 should be characterized as random. A persuasive sermon is not tamely predictable in its delivery; it must offer surprises as audience-engagement strategies. The most salient surprises in MS Bodley 649 are provided by the English elements
Evaluation of a NoSQL Database for Storing Big Geospatial Raster Data. GI_Forum|GI_Forum 2021, Volume 1|
No full textDatabase systems capable of efficiently storing geospatial data are widespread. However, recent developments in earth observation systems, remote sensing, mobile mapping, and crowd sourcing lead to large amounts of geospatial mass data that can hardly be handled efficiently with the existing solutions. Especially large geospatial raster data require novel concepts for well-organized data storage. A concept for storage of large geospatially and temporally referenced image data using the NoSQL graph database system Neo4j as a research subject of the project “RiverView®” is introduced. New strategies and access structures have been developed to ensure the persistence and performant access to image data in Neo4j. These strategies are compared with the up-and download performance of the widespread Rasdaman array database system
Religious Affiliations in Austria at the Provincial Level: Estimates for Vorarlberg, 2001-2018
No full textReligious affiliation is nowadays getting plenty of attention in Austria, in the public spherewith increased presence in the news and in the policy discourse. The aim of this study is toestimate the religious composition of the population of Vorarlberg in 2018, takingadvantage of available data, such as census information and statistics on components ofpopulation change. The latest census that collected data on religion was implemented in2001 and since then population counts have been relying on register data and did not collectdata on the religious affiliation of the Austrian population. Therefore, to study changes inthe religious composition of the population residing in Vorarlberg, it needs to be estimatedusing population projections following a methodology that was developed by Goujon et al.(2017) in a project to reconstruct (and project into the future) the population of Austria andVienna in 2016. The reconstruction shows that Vorarlberg follows similar trends as thoseobserved in Austria since 2001: 1) The share of Roman Catholics declines strongly, 2) thereis a strong increase in the population with no religious affiliation, and 3) the share ofMuslims has increased substantially which is the outcome of two main trends – fertility andmigration. The study of the origin (country of birth) of Muslims residing in Vorarlberg in2018 points at an increasing Austrian-born population, originating from parents or grandparentsborn predominantly in Turkey but also at a diversification as a result of the 2015refugee crisis
Rippl, Otto Josef
No full text* 22.9.1884 Wien, † 8.9.1952 Basel/CH. Organist, Komponist, Musikpädagoge
