@phdthesis{Schallau2024,
  author    = {Schallau, Juliane},
  title     = {"Maybe Happen Is Never Once" - temporalities of guilt in William Faulkner},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-62885},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-628858},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {iv, 171},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {This study focuses on William Faulkner, whose works explore the demise of the slavery-based Old South during the Civil War in a highly experimental narrative style. Central to this investigation is the analysis of the temporal dimensions of both individual and collective guilt, thus offering a new approach to the often-discussed problem of Faulkner's portrayal of social decay. The thesis examines how Faulkner re-narrates the legacy of the Old South as a guilt narrative and argues that Faulkner uses guilt in order to corroborate his concept of time and the idea of the continuity of the past. The focus of the analysis is on three of Faulkner's arguably most important novels: The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and Go Down, Moses. Each of these novels features a main character deeply overwhelmed by the crimes of the past, whether private, familial, or societal. As a result, guilt is explored both from a domestic as well as a social perspective. In order to show how Faulkner blends past and present by means of guilt, this work examines several methods and motifs borrowed from different fields and genres with which Faulkner narratively negotiates guilt. These include religious notions of original sin, the motif of the ancestral curse prevalent in the Southern Gothic genre, and the psychological concept of trauma. Each of these motifs emphasizes the temporal dimensions of guilt, which are the core of this study, and makes clear that guilt in Faulkner's work is primarily to be understood as a temporal rather than a moral problem.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{NiehusKettler2023,
  author    = {Niehus-Kettler, Melinda},
  title     = {Naturalising perceived otherness},
  series = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe},
  journal   = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe},
  isbn      = {978-3-8474-2679-0},
  issn      = {1866-8380},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-60133},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-601332},
  pages     = {20},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {This essay takes an Anglophone Cultural Studies approach to reflect on the interdependence among as well as the individual (implicit) impact of the elements constituting our (embodied) power structures. These are, e.g., bodily experience/s such as shame and fear, everyday and institutional discourses and practices, but also manifestations of differences and particularities that we transform into phenomena such as "norms", "binary systems" and "binary organisations". The analysis of seemingly cyclic "Othering processes" and patterns of violence shows how people who identify as trans*, inter*, or non-binary have to live through and embody epistemological, emotional, and/or physical violence. At the same time, the descriptions illustrate numberless potential forms of resistance and change.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Kluemper2021,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Kl{\"u}mper, Hannah},
  title     = {From Brock to Brett},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-62329},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-623293},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {110},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Diese Masterarbeit in der US-amerikanischen Kulturwissenschaft stellt die These auf, dass das Ph{\"a}nomen der rape culture ein soziokulturelles System gesellschaftlicher Machtstrukturen und kultureller Mythen darstellt. Basierend auf sogenannten Vergewaltigungsmythen konstituiert dieses System zudem eine Ideologie. Ziel der Arbeit ist es zu zeigen, wie diese Vergewaltigungsmythen instrumentalisiert werden, um (prim{\"a}r weiße, cis-m{\"a}nnliche) T{\"a}ter zu besch{\"u}tzen und stattdessen Betroffenen von sexualisierter Gewalt die Verantwortung zuzuweisen. So soll aufgezeigt werden, dass junge M{\"a}nner wie Brock Turner, die von patriarchalen Machtstrukturen profitieren, zu M{\"a}nnern wie Brett Kavanaugh aufwachsen, und dass diese nicht nur davon profitieren, dass die rape culture ihr {\"u}bergriffiges Verhalten entschuldigt, sondern dass sie zudem darauf gest{\"u}tzt an Machtpositionen gelangen, durch die sie als Entscheidungstr{\"a}ger diese der rape culture zugrundeliegenden Strukturen im Gegenzug aufrechterhalten k{\"o}nnen. Dabei konzentriert sich die Arbeit auf die Vergewaltigungsmythen des sogenannten Victim-Blamings und Shamings sowie der Viktimisierung von T{\"a}tern. Diese Mythen werden im Rahmen einer Analyse von Zeitungsartikeln aus dem 19. Jahrhundert herausgearbeitet und in das 21. Jahrhundert verfolgt. Basierend auf Mary Douglas' Theorie zu Reinheitsvorstellungen wird aufgezeigt, inwiefern sich nicht nur soziale Kategorien, n{\"a}mlich Geschlecht, race, sozio{\"o}konomischer Status und Alter, sondern auch die sexuelle Reinheit oder Unreinheit von Betroffenen auf die gesellschaftliche Bewertung von Vergewaltigungsf{\"a}llen auswirken. Dar{\"u}ber hinaus zeigt die Arbeit, wie weibliche K{\"o}rper als ideologisches Schlachtfeld f{\"u}r politische und gesellschaftliche Ver{\"a}nderungen in den USA fungieren, und dass empfundene Bedrohungen des patriarchalen Status Quo im {\"o}ffentlichen Diskurs als moralische Gefahren dargestellt werden, die von weiblichen K{\"o}rpern ausgehen. Die Arbeit argumentiert, dass die rape culture von (weißem cis-) m{\"a}nnlichem Anspruchsdenken auf weibliche K{\"o}rper, aber dar{\"u}ber hinaus auch auf Machtpositionen im patriarchalen System angetrieben wird. Sie zeigt auf, wie dieses System die rape culture instrumentalisiert, um seine zugrundeliegenden Strukturen aufrechtzuerhalten, die (cis) M{\"a}nner beg{\"u}nstigen und im Gegensatz (cis) Frauen sowie andere marginalisierte und nicht-heteronormative Gruppen benachteiligen. Dies wird anhand einer Analyse des Stanford-Vergewaltigungsfalls von 2016 sowie der Kavanaugh-Anh{\"o}rung von 2018 dargestellt.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Reinhardt2022,
  author    = {Reinhardt, Susanne},
  title     = {Assessing interactional competence},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-61942},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-619423},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {304},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {The development of speaking competence is widely regarded as a central aspect of second language (L2) learning. It may be questioned, however, if the currently predominant ways of conceptualising the term fully satisfy the complexity of the construct: Although there is growing recognition that language primarily constitutes a tool for communication and participation in social life, as yet it is rare for conceptualisations of speaking competence to incorporate the ability to inter-act and co-construct meaning with co-participants. Accordingly, skills allowing for the successful accomplishment of interactional tasks (such as orderly speaker change, and resolving hearing and understanding trouble) also remain largely unrepresented in language teaching and assessment. As fostering the ability to successfully use the L2 within social interaction should arguably be a main objective of language teaching, it appears pertinent to broaden the construct of speaking competence by incorporating interactional competence (IC). Despite there being a growing research interest in the conceptualisation and development of (L2) IC, much of the materials and instruments required for its teaching and assessment, and thus for fostering a broader understanding of speaking competence in the L2 classroom, still await development. This book introduces an approach to the identification of candidate criterial features for the assessment of EFL learners' L2 repair skills. Based on a corpus of video-recorded interaction between EFL learners, and following conversation-analytic and interactional-linguistic methodology as well as drawing on basic premises of research in the framework of Conversation Analysis for Second Language Acquisition, differences between (groups of) learners in terms of their L2 repair conduct are investigated through qualitative and inductive analyses. Candidate criterial features are derived from the analysis results. This book does not only contribute to the operationalisation of L2 IC (and of L2 repair skills in particular), but also lays groundwork for the construction of assessment scales and rubrics geared towards the evaluation of EFL learners' L2 interactional skills.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FreitagHildBitmannReinhardtetal.2023,
  author    = {Freitag-Hild, Britta and Bitmann, Anna and Reinhardt, Susanne and Roos, Jana},
  title     = {Verzahnung von Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik im Lehramtsstudium Englisch},
  series = {PSI-Potsdam: Ergebnisbericht zu den Aktivit{\"a}ten im Rahmen der Qualit{\"a}tsoffensive Lehrerbildung (2019-2023) (Potsdamer Beitr{\"a}ge zur Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung ; 3)},
  journal   = {PSI-Potsdam: Ergebnisbericht zu den Aktivit{\"a}ten im Rahmen der Qualit{\"a}tsoffensive Lehrerbildung (2019-2023) (Potsdamer Beitr{\"a}ge zur Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung ; 3)},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-568-2},
  issn      = {2626-3556},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-61788},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-617885},
  pages     = {239 -- 256},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt eine Lehrveranstaltungskooperation zur Verzahnung von Fachwissenschaften (Sprachwissenschaft) und Fachdidaktik im Lehramtsstudium Englisch an der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam vor. Die Kooperation besteht aus zwei Seminaren. W{\"a}hrend andere F{\"a}cher (u. a. Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften, Geschichte) bereits in der ersten Phase des PSI-Projekts Erkenntnisse zur Erfassung des erweiterten Fachwissens f{\"u}r den schulischen Kontext (eFWsK) vorgelegt haben, widmet sich die Englischdidaktik der Strukturierung des Professionswissens im Fach erst seit wenigen Jahren. Der Versuch, das eFWsK-Modell auf das Fach Englisch zu {\"u}bertragen, stellt die Disziplin aus diversen Gr{\"u}nden vor eine besondere Herausforderung. Am Beispiel zweier verzahnter Lehrveranstaltungen zur Entwicklung von Diagnosef{\"a}higkeiten angehender Lehrkr{\"a}fte zur Beurteilung von Sprechleistungen wird er{\"o}rtert, welches fachwissenschaftliche und fachdidaktische Wissen durch die Verzahnung der beiden Disziplinen erworben wird. Zugleich werden offene Fragen diskutiert, die sich aus der Kooperation mit Blick auf eine Systematisierung relevanter fachwissenschaftlicher Inhalte f{\"u}r das Lehramtsstudium ergeben. Im Ausblick wird er{\"o}rtert, warum eine Systematisierung des fachlichen Professionswissens mittels einer Delphi-Studie im Fach Englisch sinnvoll erscheint.},
  language  = {de}
}
@book{VanHalVanLoonMercelisetal.2023,
  author    = {Van Hal, Toon and Van Loon, Zanna and Mercelis, Wouter and Steckley, John and Peetermans, Andy and Van Rooy, Raf and Dionne, Fannie},
  title     = {Anchored in ink},
  editor    = {Van Loon, Zanna and Steckley, John and Van Hal, Toon and Peetermans, Andy},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-516-3},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-51306},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-513062},
  publisher      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {448},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {This book serves as a gateway to the Elementa grammaticae Huronicae, an eighteenth-century grammar of the Wendat ('Huron') language by Jesuit Pierre-Philippe Potier (1708-1781). The volume falls into three main parts. The first part introduces the grammar and some of its contexts, offering information about the Huron-Wendat and Wyandot, the early modern Jesuit mission in New France and the Jesuits' linguistic output. The heart of the volume is made up by its second part, a text edition of the Elementa. The third part presents some avenues of research by way of specific case studies.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{GnaedigSeidelSiehretal.2022,
  author    = {Gn{\"a}dig, Susanne and Seidel, Astrid and Siehr, Karl-Heinz and Wienecke, Maik},
  title     = {Das Tagespraktikum im Fokus - Eine Analyse aus fachdidaktischer Sicht},
  series = {Professionalisierung in Praxisphasen : Ergebnisse der Lehrerbildungsforschung an der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam (Potsdamer Beitr{\"a}ge zur Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung ; 2)},
  journal   = {Professionalisierung in Praxisphasen : Ergebnisse der Lehrerbildungsforschung an der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam (Potsdamer Beitr{\"a}ge zur Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung ; 2)},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-508-8},
  issn      = {2626-3556},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-57074},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-570742},
  pages     = {91 -- 121},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Die fachdidaktischen Tagespraktika (FTP) bilden ein Kernelement im Potsdamer Modell der Lehrerbildung, weist man ihnen doch eine „studienleitende Funktion" zu. Wie aber realisiert sich diese Funktion in den einzelnen F{\"a}chern an der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam und welche Folgen ergeben sich f{\"u}r die Ausbildung der Lehramtsstudierenden ? Zur Beantwortung dieser Frage wurde eine Analyse der Verankerung der FTP in allen Studienordnungen hinsichtlich qualitativer (Inhalte und Ziele, Pr{\"u}fungsformen, Belegungsvoraussetzungen) und quantitativer (Leistungspunkte, Semesterwochenstunden) Kriterien durchgef{\"u}hrt. Leitfadengest{\"u}tzte Interviews mit verantwortlichen Fachdidaktikerinnen und Fachdidaktikern dienten der Untersuchung der konkreten Umsetzung und der Relevanzzuschreibung. Ziel war es, durch das Zusammenf{\"u}hren beider Zug{\"a}nge - der realiter existierenden Curricula, der individualisierten Praktiken sowie der subjektiven {\"U}berzeugungen - ein Verst{\"a}ndnis eben jener „studienleitenden Funktion" zu erlangen und anschließend Diskussions- und Handlungsfelder f{\"u}r die Weiterentwicklung des FTP herauszuarbeiten.},
  language  = {de}
}
@misc{Egorova2022,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Egorova, Alisa},
  title     = {Hunting Down Animal Verbs},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-55770},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-557705},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {79},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Language change is an essential feature of human language, and it is therefore one of the focal areas of the scientific study of language. Language change is always tacitly at work in all languages of the world and at all levels of a given language, be it phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, etc. It has been suggested that it is precisely the capacity to constantly change and adjust that allows language to keep serving the communicative goals of its users, from ancient to modern times (Fauconnier \& Turner, 2003, p. 179). This thesis investigates an especially salient pattern of lexicogrammatical change, namely word-formation of verbs from animal nouns by zero-derivation, in the process of which such nouns as, for example, dog, horse, or beaver change their usage and meaning to produce animal verbs: to dog 'to follow someone persistently and with a malicious intent', to horse about/around 'to make fun of, to 'rag', to ridicule someone' and to beaver away 'to work at working with great enthusiasm' respectively. In the previous literature this pattern of language change has been termed verbal zoosemy (e.g. Kiełtyka, 2016), i.e. metaphorical construal of human actions by means of linguistic material from the domain of animals. The approach taken in this study is not to simply report on the objective changes in the morphology, syntactic distribution and meaning of such linguistic units before and after conversion, but to uncover the complexity of cognitive mechanisms which allow the speakers of English to reclassify such well-established nominal units as animal noun into verbs. It is assumed that the grammatical change in these lexical units is predicated on and triggered by preceding semantic change. Thus, the study is set in the framework of Cognitive Historical Semantics and employs the Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy Theory (CMMT) to untangle the intricacies of the semantic change making the grammatical change of animal nouns into verbs possible and acceptable in the minds of English speakers. To this end, this study employed the Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED Online) to compile a glossary of 96 denominal animal verbal forms tied to 209 verbal senses (most verbs in the dataset displayed polysemy). The data collected from the OED Online included not only the senses of the verbs, but also the date of the earliest recorded use of the verbal form with the given sense (regarded in the study as the date of conversion), the earliest usage examples for individual senses and morphologically or semantically related linguistic units from the lexical field of the respective parent noun which were amenable to explaining the observed instances of semantic change. Each instance of zoosemisation, i.e. of the creation of a separate metaphorical verbal sense, was then carefully analysed on the basis of the data collected and classified with the help of the CMMT. In the final stage, a comprehensive and systematic classification of the senses of animal verbs in accordance with the cognitive mechanisms of their creation (metaphor, metonymy, or a combination thereof) was produced together with a timeline of the first appearance of individual metaphorical senses of animal verbs recorded in the OED. The results show that animal verbs are produced through the interaction of conceptual metaphor and metonymy. Specifically, it was established that two major patterns of metaphor-metonymy interaction underpinning the process of verbal zoosemisation are metaphor from metonymy and metonymy from metaphor. In the former pattern, either an already existing metonymic animal verb is expanded to include the target domain PEOPLE, or the animal noun itself acts as a metonymic vehicle to a certain element of the idealised cognitive model of the given animal, which is metaphorically projected onto people. In the latter mechanism, a metaphorical projection of an animal term initially enters the lexicon in the form of a metaphorical animal noun referring to a human entity, and later in the course of language development it comes to metonymically stand for the action, which the given entity either performs or is involved in. Secondarily, it was observed that individual animal nouns can undergo multiple rounds of zoosemic conversion over time depending on the semantic frame in which the given linguistic unit undergoes denominal conversion, and that results in the polysemy of most animal verbs.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{BarthWeingartenOgden2021,
  author    = {Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar and Ogden, Richard},
  title     = {"Chunking" spoken language},
  series = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe},
  journal   = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1866-8380},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-53625},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-536259},
  pages     = {531 -- 548},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {In this introductory paper to the special issue on "Weak cesuras in talk-in-interaction", we aim to guide the reader into current work on the "chunking" of naturally occurring talk. It is conducted in the methodological frameworks of Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics - two approaches that consider the interactional aspect of humans talking with each other to be a crucial starting point for its analysis. In doing so, we will (1) lay out the background of this special issue (what is problematic about "chunking" talk-in-interaction, the characteristics of the methodological approach chosen by the contributors, the cesura model), (2) highlight what can be gained from such a revised understanding of "chunking" in talk-in-interaction by referring to previous work with this model as well as the findings of the contributions to this special issue, and (3) indicate further directions such work could take starting from papers in this special issue. We hope to induce a fruitful exchange on the phenomena discussed, across methodological divides.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{LeGallMboro2020,
  author    = {LeGall, Yann and Mboro, Mnyaka Sururu},
  title     = {Remembering the dismembered},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-50850},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-508502},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {viii, 346},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {This thesis - written in co-authorship with Tanzanian activist Mnyaka Sururu Mboro - examines different cases of repatriation of ancestral remains to African countries and communities through the prism of postcolonial memory studies. It follows the theft and displacement of prominent ancestors from East and Southern Africa (Sarah Baartman, Dawid Stuurman, Mtwa Mkwawa, Songea Mbano, King Hintsa and the victims of the Ovaherero and Nama genocides) and argues that efforts made for the repatriation of their remains have contributed to a transnational remembrance of colonial violence. Drawing from cultural studies theories such as "multidirectional memory", "rehumanisation" and "necropolitics", the thesis argues for a new conceptualisation or "re-membrance" in repatriation, through processes of reunion, empowerment, story-telling and belonging. Besides, the afterlives of the dead ancestors, who stand at the centre of political debates on justice and reparations, remind of their past struggles against colonial oppression. They are therefore "memento vita", fostering counter-discourses that recognize them as people and stories. This manuscript is accompanied by a "(web)site of memory" where some of the research findings are made available to a wider audience. This blog also hosts important sound material which appears in the thesis as interventions by external contributors. Through QR codes, both the written and the digital version are linked with each other to problematize the idea of a written monograph and bring a polyphonic perspective to those diverse, yet connected, histories.},
  language  = {en}
}